THE BASKETHOUSE is many things. It started as a weekly acoustic folk series at the Bitter End in NYC in 2006. It turned into a Song-a-Week podcast with 12 songwriters, a podcast that lasted for 6 months. It's a record label, whose first record is Drew Brody's self-titled CD, to be released in June of 2007.
And this summer, the Baskethouse Acoustic Folk Series is coming back to the Bitter End. Every Wednesday from 7-9, some of the best artists in NYC will perform their songs, as well as some folk-y covers, in order to pay homage to old great songs and give a context for new great songs. Each performer does two sets of 20 minutes, at the end we pass the basket around (hence: Baskethouse). Best of all, it's FREE, the only time the Bitter End is free.
The Baskethouse, in all it's forms, is about encouraging talented, emerging songwriters who have something to say.
DREW BRODY is a singer/songwriter/composer and a self-taught piano and guitar player. In addition to his solo work, he is the lead singer for the rock band M-LAB, plays piano with the Honky Tonk Happy Hour, and composes music for BannerNY Productions (including Outstanding Play at the Fringe Show 2005 Lightning Field).
