“Happy Ending gave us our first break, and we love playing there anytime. There’s always a challenge, and a challenge is always good.” Rick Moody, The Wingdale Community Singers
2018 Musical guests
AMANDA PALMER is a singer, songwriter, playwright, pianist, filmmaker, and blogger who simultaneously embraces and explodes traditional frameworks of music, theatre, and art. She first came to prominence as one half of the Boston-based punk cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls, earning global applause for their wide-ranging theatricality and inventive songcraft. Her solo career has proven equally brave and boundless, including such groundbreaking works as the fan-funded Theatre Is Evil, which made a top 10 debut on the SoundScan/Billboard 200 upon its 2012 release and remains the top-funded original music project on Kickstarter. In 2013 she presented “The Art of Asking” at the annual TED conference, which has since been viewed over 10 million times worldwide. The following year saw Palmer expand her philosophy into the New York Times best seller, The Art of Asking: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Let People Help. Since 2015, Palmer has used Patreon, a patronage subscription crowdfunding platform, to fund the creation of her art work while enabling her to collaborate with artists all over the world with over 11,000 patrons supporting her creations each month
2016 Musical guests
SUZANNE VEGA (bio and photos to come!)
2015 Musical guests
KYP MALONE is an artist living in New York. He plays in various musical projects including the bands Ice Balloons and TV on the Radio. He has ranked in the top ten of Peeple magazine’s “50 most beautiful people” for six years running, placing second in 2010 between someone unrecognizable due to having been dipped in florescent orange paint in first and the very idea of an objective hierarchy of beauty at third. He can’t look at bruised fruit without feeling a deep sense of dread. (photo by: Geneviève Jenkins)
2014 Musical guests
LUCIUS, dubbed by Rolling Stone as “the best band you may not have heard yet,” are a five-piece indie-pop band from Brooklyn. The quintet pairs the synchronous and powerful vocals of Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, who also play synth and keyboards, with guitars and percussion from Dan Molad, Peter Lalish and Andrew Burri. Together, they make music that evokes classic girl-group pop and iconic rock ’n’ roll with a modern twist, that belongs solely to Lucius
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EMILY WELLS is a performer, producer, singer and composer known for her varied use of classical and modern instrumentation as well as her deft approach to live sampling at shows. Classically trained as a violinist, she also plays drums, guitars, keys, and beat machines . 2013 included the release of “Pillowfight”, her side project collaboration with Dan the Automator and Kid Koala, contributions to the motion picture soundtrack of Park Chan-Wook’s “Stoker.” and “Mama: Acoustic recordings” an acoustic reworking of her full length album “Mama”. Wells has been touring extensively in Europe and the United States and is now finishing her latest full length record due out in 2015.
Between 9/03/2003 – 11/21/2012 the following musicians have played at The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series. I will add photos and bios for the rest, slowly, over the course of my entire life.
Aimee Mann
Alice B Talkless
Amy Miles
Amy Correia
Ana Egge
Andrew Vladeck
Anni Rossi
Barbara Broussal
Bari Koral
Block
Boni Joi and Tobi Joi
Brandon Wilde
Bronwen Exter
Buke & Gass
Chris Cubeta
Christina Courtin
Clare & The Reasons
Colin Stetson
Creaky Boards
Cynthia Hopkins
Dan Bern
Dan Zanes
Daniel Knox
Daniel Saltzstein
Dar Williams
Darin Strauss
Dave Doobinin
Dawn Landes
Dimitri Ehrlich
Doveman
Ed Pastorini
Elizabeth & the Catapult
Elvis Perkins
Emily Wells
Erik Della Penna
Gene Cawley
Glen Hansard
Gloria Deluxe
Hannah Marcus
Heather Eatman
Herbert Bergel
Holly Miranda
Howard Fishman
Ian Axel
Jamie Barnes
Jamie Leonhart
Jay Brannan
Jeffrey Lewis
Jennifer O’ Connor
Jessica Delfino
Jill Sobule
Jim White
John Lurie
John Wesley Harding
Jonathan Coulton
Jonathan Spottiswoode
Kaiser Cartel
Kaki King
Katell Keineg
Kelley McRae
Kid Gloves (John Wray’s band)
Kirven Blount & Justin Hagan
Kristin Hersh
Larkin Grimm
Life in a Blender
Lisa Loeb
Lizzie West
Lost in the Trees
Lucius
Luke Temple
Lys Guillorn
David Hornbuckle
Marcellus Hall
Mark Eitzel
Mark Geary
Marykate O Neil
Mason Dixon
Matthew Caws
Max Gabriel
Mike Errico
Mila Drumke
Milton
Moby
Morgan Taylor
My Brightest Diamond
Nina Katchadourian
One Ring Zero
Oren Bloedow of Elysian Fields
Paul Brill
Phosphorescent
Pinataland
Rachel Loshak
Rad Unicorn
Rebecca Moore
Rebecca Turner
Red Orange Morning
Rene Risque
Ruth Gerson
Sam Amidon
Sam Bisbee
Sandy Bell
Seafoxx
Sean Altman
Spielerfrau
Syd Straw
The Feverfew
The Grocery Concern
The Happy Ending
The Little Death
The Rosebuds
The Roulette Sisters
The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
The Walking Hellos
The Wingdale Community Singers
Thin Wild Mercury
Thomas Bartlett
Thomas Hopkins
Tom Cushman & Thomas Beller
Trevor Exter
Tristan Perich
Uncle Moon
Unpleasant Event Schedule
Vampire Weekend
Whitney Pastorek
