Bringing a healthy dose of fun and funk across New York this December, Organ Fairchild and Hayley Jane Band will hit the road together for four co-bill shows.

A rapidly rising funk band that have been making waves since winning NYS Music’s March Madness in 2021, Organ Fairchild craft their organ-trio-meets-rock-band sound by synthesizing influences ranging from The Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers to Steely Dan, Soulive and Medeski Martin & Wood. Joe Bellanti (keys), Corey Kertzie (drums) and Dave Ruch (guitar) met in 1983 as members of Buffalo Grateful Dead cover band Wild Knights, and still play reunion shows to this day. When they’re on stage completely captivating an audience without a bass player and no singing, there is no confusing them for any other artist on today’s scene.

Hayley Jane is known for powerhouse vocals and potent, evocative lyrics with an unabashed freedom and wild movement on stage that leads folks to describe her as “a human guitar”, “an antenna”, and “an open channel”. The band engendering this aural amusement park for Jane’s oscillation between poised poet and feral forest freak is a wonder to hear. Guitarist Jackson Bower sends the collective energy soaring with lines and solos that somehow move you deeply and paralyze you for a moment, while Drummer Sam Lyons lifts you onto your toes and lights up your temporal lobe like a firework. Keys player Parker McQueeney has his keyboard sweating complexity while he interrogates each tune, squeezing it until it finally spills the goods and Bassist Forest Loomis Dulong, like an oak rooted in low frequencies complete with a tire swing and treehouse, finds the joy and play while maintaining strength and steadiness in the songs. The group’s debut album, Heavy in my Headstream, is out February 4, 2027.