Join us for a special performance at the Hamilton Studio featuring the music of Tom Waits, performed by jazz and opera singer Madeline McNeill. Experience the ambiance of a speakeasy with cocktail table seating, and wine and charcuterie offerings. An incredible band of musicians—Olivia Brownlee (guitar and banjo), Beth Rainey (piano), Andy Bennett (drums), Robert Folie (saxophone)—and burlesque dancer Miss Nickie B will serenade you with underground grit and heart-swelling lyricism, blending the irreverent with the reverent in songs like “Chocolate Jesus,” “Way Down in the Hole,” “Time,” “Martha,” and of course, “God’s Away on Business.”  
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 "I’ve always loved songs of adventure. Murder ballads, songs about shipwrecks and terrible acts of depravity and heroism. Erotic tales of seductions. Songs of romance, wild courage and mystery. Everyone has tried at one time or another to live inside a song. Songs where people died for love, songs of people on the run, songs of ghost ships or bank robberies. I’ve always wanted to live inside songs and never come back."

Tom Waits