Jack McBrearty graduated from Temple University's Ester-Boyer College of Music with a Bachelor of Science in Music.  Jack began playing rock guitar at the age of 11 through  both private instruction and self teachings.  While in college he expanded his musical knowledge through extensive theory and musical history studies.  Jack is an ASCAP member and plays in several prominent Philadelphia music projects including: The Mural & The Mint, Oh! Pears and Songs For Lonesome Hearts.  In addition to playing music, Jack McBrearty has coordinated the music for The Art Star Craft Bazaar for the past three years, gathering a total of twelve local bands to perform over the course of two days.

The DJ Jerks will be spinning rock & roll records between sets.

Music Line-Up:
Saturday
12pm The Spinning Leaves
1pm The Great Unknown
2pm Ron Gallo & Friends
3pm Oh! Pears
4pm Arc In Round
5pm North Lawrence Midnight Singers

Sunday
12pm Like A Fox
1pm Songs for Lonesome Hearts
2pm Pepi Ginsberg
3pm TBA
4pm Gildon Works
5pm The Invisible Friends

Band Info:

Songs For Lonesome Hearts

Songs For Lonesome Hearts is a community. Their songs reveal a fresh perspective on their city as well as stories of love, hope and want. The essence for any lonesome heart.

Pepi Ginsberg

Brooklyn-based Pepi Ginsberg began putting her poems to songs while living in Philadelphia where she moved to study writing at Penn.  She crossed paths and formed a partnership with Dr.Dog frontman Scott McMicken. Her first “studio” album, 2008’s acclaimed, RED (Park The Van), explores vintage psych-rock and folk and is the first album to show her live potential with a full band.  Not one to stay put artistically, Pepi decided to experiment with a wilder, fuller band sound for her follow-up, East is East. “I didn’t want to just strum a song anymore,” she says. “It’s funny, but theses days it grosses me out to accompany myself with traditional arrangements. I’ve been corrupted.”

Toy Soldiers (Ron Gallo & Friends)

Philly’s latest entry into big-band hipsteristic indie rock is a nine (and maybe sometimes 10 or 11) piece band fronted by Ron Gallo. The band recently finished recording their first album called Whisper Down The Lane. It’s a righteous collection of rootsy, jangly, scraggly, soulful indie inspired songs that bring to mind Shangri-La era Kinks, Nashville Skyline-era Dylan, Bright Eyes and the Black Keys, The Coasters and Carl Perkins. Rock it.  (Bruce Warren, WXPN)

Oh! Pears

Frontman, vocalist and songwriter Corey Duncan, with his crew of up to a dozen bandmates, is prepared to stun Philadelphia’s music scene with the release of Oh! Pears’ first album. The five-song Fill Your Lungs EP is a beautiful collection of songs—honest-to-goodness, fully composed—that bring the listener on an emotional journey.  (Philadelphia Weekly)

Arc In Round

Philadelphia 4-piece Arc in Round reflect a sonic sensibility garnered from endless hours of studio tracking, tweaking and sonic experimentation. The band spins out carefully crafted dark pop—taut yet spacey, noisy yet melodic. Humming bass, shuffling drums, glitchy keyboards and dissonant, pedal-treated guitar all melt together into an iridescent sheet of sonorous reduction, and you can still tap your foot to it.

Gildon Works

"Ethereal but physical, Gildon Works, hailing from Philadelphia, throws together a sound that lilts at times atmospheric, but is at its core intense, forceful and demanding. The songs are passionate, but finely crafted. Ambient noise rises and reverberates, like voices from a choir circling an empty cathedral, over songs punctuated with moments of clarity. Strong chords emerge on the first listen, but over time the songs reveal their structural and compositional intricacy, with rhythms layered and nested like Russian dolls." (JMZ)

Like A Fox

There is a place within modern music where a foundation of rock-solid songwriting can be married to progressive Technicolor production, resulting in both satisfaction for the soul and brilliant sonic candy for the ears.

The Invisible Friends

Super new young Philly band with druggy vocals.

The Great Unknown

photo by lisa schaffer - www.skylerbug.com

Philadelphia's The Great Unknown coaxes gentle, nuanced alt-country from the convergence of five voices, riding atop a plethora of stringed instruments that gracefully dance in and out between an amiable backroads shuffle. When it cuts loose, the quintet rocks convincingly, adding soundtracks of rowdy to postcards of roadside attractions." (Spencer Griffith, August 2009

The Spinning Leaves

"Spinning Leaves has proven to be an unmistakable part of the new folk phenomenon in Philadelphia and beyond. Their sound, for one, is a whistle at the start of a great sprint, the bell of human musical freedom: spurts of gang vocals, slide guitars, dulcimers, and foot stomps over America melodies."  (Levi Landis - Executive Director, Philadelphia Folksong Society)

North Lawrence Midnight Singers
"This young philly band knows the secret to straddling the classic/jam/indie divide: It's gotta be catchy, like sing-along-everybody-now-c'mon catchy. Peppy beats, twangy guitars and Jamie Olson's moonshine vocals help North Lawrence Midnight Singers hit you the same place the Wilburys or the Connells used to. " (Patrick Rapa, Philadelphia City Paper)