For six nights in June, Justin Vivian Bond, under the Musical Direction of Emmy Award-winning composer Lance Horne, will be casting a love spell at 54 below. Earn your merit badge on the ways of love by entering a midsummer night’s dreamscape of musical enchantment featuring a collection of songs with “LOVE” in the title made famous by a wide variety entertainers such as Lena Horne, Kate Bush, Cat Power, The Gossip, Bronski Beat and more.
*There is a $25 food and beverage minimum per show.
Silver Wells, an evening based on the newly released album of the same name, covers songs made famous by Ronee Blakley, Kate Bush, Leonard Cohen, Tracy Chapman, Joni Mitchell, Mark Eitzel and Brecht & Weill, among others. Silver Wells is inspired by, and takes it name from, Joan Didion’s 1970 novel Play It As It Lays. In the show, Bond chooses a group of songs that allow V to cover the book’s themes of nihilism, postmodernist identities, loss and the retrieval of memory.
