Smithfield Bargain, Sean Cahill, Ellamae @ World Cafe

Come experience three great bands at World Cafe for the incredible price of Zero dollars: Sean Cahill will mesmerize you with his acoustic stylings as the Next Great American Novelist, Smithfield Bargain will pop-jazzify your evening, and Ellamae are coming all the way up from San Diego for you to hear them play, so you best be comin' round, ya hear?

Smithfield Bargain offers up a musical encounter that connects the listener with the flip of a switch to sounds that cut across different worlds and genres, culturally and temporally. Sri lends a sun-dappled contemporary voice laced with an old-time, gypsy sweetness honed from years of classical training in South Indian vocals and singing rather loudly in venues both appropriate and inappropriate. Daniel, otherwise one half of vibrant Los Angeles-based cello-guitar duo, the Brothers Landau, provides a guitar of multiple faces overflowing with rhythmic progressions and chords alternately complementary and conflicting, and rich, honeyed vocals that coax both grandmothers and teenage girls alike. David, otherwise the other half of the Brothers Landau, imparts a picturesque cello that relates sounds from deep within, ranging from strong and soulful to sweetly melancholic, warm and handsome tenor and bass vocals, and an uncanny knack for excavating sounds from unconventional objects that didn’t even know they had it in them.