Songwriter Series: Bern & the Brights + The Porchistas

Bern & the Brights is Bernadette Malavarca and Catherine McGowan. Mixing rhythmic loops, synths, ambient guitars, emotional vocals, and introspective lyrics, their music is a fusion of light and dark wave. Both vocalists and multi-instrumentalists, Malavarca and McGowan write, produce, record, and perform their music. Bern & the Brights have performed with notable acts such as Butch Walker, Rhett Miller, Mike Doughty, Nicole Atkins and have played at both on festivalstages as well as venues large and small.

The Porchistas are an energetic, indie smorgasboard of sound. They started as a bunch of friends writing and singing songs late into summer nights on their rickety porch on Forest Street in Montclair, New Jersey. That evolved to DIY house concerts and block parties that continue today.  They'll be joining us for a stripped back showcase not to be missed in the listening room.