Join us for a night of Comedy hosted by John F. O'Donnell, followed by live music from The Dust Engineers!


According to The Comedy Central Insider, "John F. O'Donnell is one of the more explosive comics in New York. On stage, he's like a tightly capped liter of soda filled with lit fireworks."

Originally conceived to create the fictional home recordings of a nonexistent South Dakotan teenager, The Dust Engineers are in reality a new Brooklyn/Queens-based band. "Ask Bobby Zimmerman about inventing a persona," laughs Zachary Meyer, singer and guitarist. "Sometimes romanticization is better than the real thing." After performing at a Bowery Poetry Club multimedia exhibition, Meyer decided to make The Dust Engineers more than a fantasy, and enlisted Sara Maeder (vocals, tambourine), Erik Rosenberg (guitar, vocals), Jared Harel (drums) and Ryan Egan (drums) to form the band in 2011. Employing twangy bottleneck slides, coed harmonies, and reckless 90s indulgence, their new EP "Bail" was recorded live in the studio rather than by multitracking to a metronome. "One foot on a skateboard and the other in stirrups," replies Meyer when asked about The Dust Engineers' singular sound that proves tough to classify. "We strive for this natural, collaborative writing process, and we let the original vision guide us. We've got an imagined desert muse."