The Suitcase Junket and Elsa Kennedy

The Suitcase Junket and Elsa Kennedy | Live at Cafe Wha? | Sunday, January 11th | 5PM Doors, 6PM Show

“A living, breathing, throat-singing, road-tested, avant-garde, one-man-band who is in a state of perpetual motion… gutsy, fuzzed-out, groove-laden psych rock.” – NPR

“Bluesy guitar riffs, tenacious melodies and a singing voice both weathered and nimble. You don’t need to witness his physics-defying performance to be captivated; the music stands on its own… astonishing.” – WBUR Boston

The Suitcase Junket — the touring project of the artist Matt Lorenz — developed in the tension between the grand and the solitary. Grand in imagery, sound, and staging. Solitary in thrift and self-reliance. NPR calls Lorenz a “master of musical imagination.” What instruments he requires, Lorenz builds from scratch and salvage. What parts five players would perform, he performs alone. The spectacle of the one-man show bears comparison to legends of showmanship, brilliance, madness, and invention. While audiences are captivated by that solitary form and the show itself, Lorenz, who homesteads in Western Massachusetts, is most serious about the songs. The world he writes into existence is crowded with characters, narratives, voices, imagery, sounds as wide and varied as mountain throat singers and roadhouse juke boxes, plus newsreels of the planet’s destruction and salvage. Lorenz’ most recent album The End is New was released at Renew Records / BMG. He is in the studio this winter, recording toward a new release.

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“‘A Weapon Is an Unhappy Tool,” a mood-juicing curiosity featuring jagged guitar emissions and the spoken-word vocals and evocative lyrical contributions of Elsa Kennedy, a Northern Kentucky native who sounds like Laurie Anderson after three shots of absinthe.’” – Cincinnati Magazine

Elsa Kennedy is a singer-songwriter, actress, and multimedia artist originally from a small town in Kentucky. A self-taught prodigy with a natural talent for singing and performance, she began performing at the age of ten.

As a prolific, renaissance artist, Elsa has developed a unique voice that blends her roots in “Weird America” with contemporary sounds and visions. An electric force of nature, she is forging a bold, boundary-defying wave of art and music.

Kennedy currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

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