Watch Conor Oberst join Alex Orange Drink at intimate NYC performance series

[BrooklynVegan Staff]

Alex Orange Drink (So So Glos, Bright Eyes‘ live band) and Michael Ian Cummings (Skaters, The Dead Trees) have launched an intimate new show series in NYC. The inaugural “Sunday Sessions” happened at Lower East Side bar VICTORIA! On Sunday (6/7), with Alex, Michael, Maya Luz and Rob Mastrianni all performing. They also welcomed a special guest, Conor Oberst, who was in NYC for Bright Eyes’ Forest Hills Stadium show the night before. He joined Alex on his track “Queen Victoria,” Bright Eyes’ “Victory City” and “Bells and Whistles,” and also did “Cape Canaveral,” “We Are Nowhere and It’s Now,” and “Land Locked Blues,” with Emma Ogier (who sang with the band at Forest Hills) and Harrison Whitford (a collaborator of Conor, Phoebe Bridgers, Matt Berninger and more) each joining them at points.

Alex told us:

We’re starting a Sunday acoustic series at Victoria for songwriters to play deep cuts, try out new material, anything really. Michael Ian Cummings and I have been throwing around this idea for a while, he finally got the ball rolling on it.

Miwi La Lupa is also doing a series at Victoria on the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month. Last night was the first of a very DIY impromptu get together. I played some songs off of my album victory lap (#23) which was written and recorded during cancer treatment in ‘23, the first in series of five albums recorded during that time.

Micheal played some songs off his masterful new album Godzilla. The great Maya Luz played beautiful songs and Rob Mastrianni blew minds. Conor joined me for a few songs that we wrote together and then he played a few more along with Harrison Whitford and Emma Ogier. It was very organic, it just kind of happened. It came together an hour before the show. We’re looking forward to having more community get togethers of this kind. People in a room in 3D. Positive energy.

Stay tuned for more of these shows, and watch attendee-taken video below.

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