Cape Francis, Bonomo, and Hannah Sumner
The Revolution Vol. 29
9:30pm doors • 10pm show
About
Much of the charm of a place like Brooklyn comes from discovering what secret events hide inside seemingly mundane brick buildings with colorful street art plastered on their walls. Wandering the streets of Brooklyn’s culturally booming neighborhoods you may ask yourself,
“What exclusive functions could I attend if I were lucky enough to be in-the-know?” -Soundigest
THE REVOLUTION is a performance series highlighting Brooklyn & Harlem based artists + musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture but who currently stand in the breeding ground of evolution within their genre.
This local musical movement empowers community, change, and activism through performance and unity amongst the arts. Once a month, three different artists showcasing three different genres have a chance to spread love, light, and awareness through their music and their stories. This series supports revolutionary artistry and how important music is to healing, in all aspects of life.
As a part of VOL. 29, The Revolution will feature three incredible live performances
from local artists:
Cape Francis, Bonomo, and Hannah Sumner
Tickets
The Artists
Cape Francis is the solo project of Kevin Olken Henthorn, former singer/songwriter of Stone Cold Fox. After the break up of a band that worked heavily in traditional pop structures and production, Henthorn started the new project as a way to break form and reconnect to a natural flow of instrumentation and storytelling.
Henthorn started playing guitar when he was 9 years old. He studied music with teachers ranging from classical to blues to metal, but by the time he was 15 he decided to commit solely to writing his own material. For Henthorn, writing was a way to learn and push his fundamentals and discovery became intrinsic to each new piece he wrote.
Cape Francis was meant as a way to return to that mentality, to re-approach a relationship with an instrument after years of feeling stuck in indie rock power-chords. The outcome is a new sound for Henthorn. It is centered around finger picked electric guitar, and surrounded by simple arrangements of percussion and synthesizers, Cape Francis pulls from folk and modern influences alike to bring the listener to a feel good place where familiarity and discovery are both at the forefront. His debut LP Falling Into Pieces, out on Sleep Well Records, examines the themes of closure, identify and moving past failure through these lenses.
In just a few years, Hannah Sumner has already established herself as one of New York’s finest alternative artists. As a producer, vocalist, and songwriter, the triple-threat has performed on a myriad of the city’s stages including sold-out shows at Barclays Center, National Sawdust, Perez Art Museum, Miami’s Art Basel, Le Poisson Rouge (LPR), Webster Hall, The American Irish Historical Society, and House of Yes.
“Hannah Sumner makes pop music of a remarkably atmospheric hue. Absorbing, cinematic scenes.” -Clash Magazine (UK)
Sumner’s, is stubbornly beautiful. Impressive in its graceful gathering of folk, minimalism, and pop, these drum-based tracks ferociously blast the soul’s inner blues while providing uplift in their very passion.” -The Deli Magazine
With her long list of her own performances and recordings, Sumner has also managed to expand into creating with a variety of well-known names such as, Bravo TV, Tori Burch, Nu Deco Ensemble in Miami, FL creating original compositions for Lululemon’s ‘Beats Per Moment’ tour, composer Ricardo Romaneiro (Terrence Malick, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra), producers J Chris Griffin (Madonna, Kelly Clarkson, John Legend, Kanye West), Avi Gunther (Snarky Puppy, Lalah Hathaway), Gazzo, Pool Cosby, Adam Neely, and Kastra, as well as pianists Julien Marchal and Ola Gjeilo.
