Thursday Oct 4

SEÁN BARNA AND THE MONOGAMISTS

THE HEAD

MILO IN THE DOLDRUMS

$10 Backstage / Doors at 7:30

Seán Barna is a singer, songwriter, and drummer based in New York City and Washington, D.C. Employing a highly-visual lyrical panache and an atypically full-throated singing style, Barna's newest record, Cissy, a gasping, rapid-fire deconstruction of what it means to be a man. If Bukowski had frequented queer spaces and written songs for Patti Smith, those songs might sound like this. Camped out in 1809 Studios, a literal stone's throw from the Erie Canal, Seán and producer/studio owner Dave Drago set out to make a record, start to finish, in a few days, later adding a collaboration from Adam Duritz of the Counting Crows. Cissy is a measured, brutally observant deconstruction of masculinity, where the main players in the story - drag queens, mothers, queers, office workers, and wanderers - come together in the name of excess to achieve a well-worn life. Barna plays both drums and guitar on Cissy, but it is his rare poetic bravado and stream-of-consciousness vocal delivery - theatrical and pained but grounded and honest - that guides us, shines a light on our traumas, and invites us in for a drink.