FREE TICKETS FOR MEMBERS with RSVP. $20 for guests of members. Doors at 8. Music 9-11.

PIANO BAR is back with a very special duo night bringing together Sink into our velvety lounge for a soulful piano/vocals duo performance featuring DAVID LINARD + JACKIE WEST. These two solo artists are oft-collaborators and together recorded the million-streaming single Lemons.

ABOUT David Linard - an accompished songwriter and solo artist, David is a Brooklyn-based, silky, groovy piano player, and has visited L,V several times, with WAYNE TUCKER and solo.

ABOUT Jackie West is a baroque pop artist we've been dying to book. Check out her video for Amelia here.

Our monthly fete co-hosted by Everything Nice Records featuring a rotating cast of DJs playing exotic music. Featuring DJs JESS BONKERS & LEAH FISHMAN. Lounge, dance, chat, whatever. FREE for MEMBERS with RSVP (2025 dues must be paid), $20 advanced tix for guests of members. RSVP HERE

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One of the top regarded tenor sax players in NYC, Stacy Dillard brings his quartet to L,V. “A young saxophonist of serious promise" (Ben Ratliff, The New York Times), Stacy has caught the attention of many with his large and rich tone, developed ideas, accurate technique, work ethic, and patience.

“This MF can PLAY!" -Wynton Marsalis

“Stacy is a one-of-a-kind musician. Seriously." —Roy Hargrove

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Molly Tigre marries the rhythms and melodies of African music– especially the entrancing styles from Ethiopia and Mali- with a uniquely progressive and exploratory jazz sound. Memorably described as “Ethiopian funk drinks a progressive jazz cocktail at Miles Davis’ 1970’s loft party,” Molly Tigre’s polyrhythmic stew is music for the body and mind.

Our monthly fete co-hosted by Everything Nice Records featuring a rotating cast of DJs playing exotic music. Lounge, dance, chat, whatever. Free for members, $15 for guests of members. FREE for MEMBERS with RSVP (2025 dues must be paid), $15 advanced tix for guests of members. RSVP HERE

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19 year old trumpet prodigy Skylar Tang is about your blow your gd mind! Originally from the Bay Area, Tang has already toured Nationally and is currently attending Juillaird while gigging about NYC, where she’s creating a tremendous buzz among the city’s top players. We hear Freddie Hubbard, Roy Hargrove…but she’s got a compositional and performance voice all her own.

Our monthly fete co-hosted by Everything Nice Records featuring a rotating cast of DJs playing exotic music. Lounge, dance, chat, whatever. Free for members, $15 for guests of members. RSVP/TICKETS HERE

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Piano Bar is L,V’s reimagining of the lounge scene, where friends gather to relax, get cozy, and enjoy an intimate performance. Baum + Simone are a piano vocal duo that first teased us in November, but is back to do it again. Free for members, $15 for guests of members.

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As part of the legendary NYC venue the Jazz Gallery’s mentorship program, we’re proud to present a brilliant quartet performance by veteran alto saxophionist Jaleel Shaw (Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove) with rising star pianist Cameron Campbell (Samara Joy, Kendrick Scott, Marcus Gilmore).

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This duo of wild improvisers light fire to feeling. Pianist Brian Roy Haas is an internationally celebrated, award-winning pianist who has played with The Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Nolatet, Rebirth Brass Band, Les Claypool, Mike Dillon + Punkadelick, and Charlie Hunter. Vocalist Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg is an accomplished performance artist, curator, and healer driven by curiosity, song, and movement. Together they create transformative, mesmerizing music and dance on the spot. Free for members, $15 for member’s guests

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This duo of wild improvisers light fire to feeling. Pianist Brian Roy Haas is an internationally celebrated, award-winning pianist who has played with The Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Nolatet, Rebirth Brass Band, Les Claypool, Mike Dillon + Punkadelick, and Charlie Hunter. Vocalist Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg is an accomplished performance artist, curator, and healer driven by curiosity, song, and movement. Together they create transformative, mesmerizing music and dance on the spot. Free for members, $15 for member’s guests

We’re back! Co-hosted by Everything Nice Records, LL is a roaring fireplace, lounge vibes, and fantastical vinyl records spun for your enjoyment. Free for members with Eventbrite RSVP, $15 for guests of members

(guest tickets must be purchased by a member, and guests must arrive and leave with member)

Enter 2025 with friends, glamour and joy. DJ Andre Acosta will be spinning a vinyl-only set of funk, disco, and boogie records. The fireplace will be roaring, the dance floor friendly, and the vibes festive yet chill.

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Attire: Disco / Vintage / Dressy / Glam / Fur

Co-hosted by Everything Nice Records, Lover’s Lounge is a member’s only night of exotic music spun on vinyl, chill vibes, dancefloor shakin’, and a roaring fireplace. RSVP Required.

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Get ready for a night of joy, soul, and gospel-influenced voices (think: The Impressions), when the Harlem Gospel Travelers roll into L,V. This absolutely incredible young group is signed to funk/soul label Colemine Records and is lighting it up on the road.

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Miramar plays new interpretations of golden-era boleros (romantic music originating in 1950s Cuba) mixed with soul. The band is part of the Nuevo Romantico movement and carry the torch of Balada Rockmántica or Bolero-Beat, a popular genre defined by its blend of traditional boleros, psychedelic funk, and rock. YOUTUBE | INSTA

Tickets can be purchased for both sets or the late set only. Both sets Visiting Members ($45), Active Members ($33.75), Gold Members ($22.50)

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Based in Sao Paulo and formed in 2017, Tagua Tagua is one of the most promising acts in Brazilian music nowadays, weaving tropical psychedelia, the principles of ye ye ye, and the influence of funk and soul

Piano Bar is our re-invention of the classic format, this time with reefer. Featuring the delightful Jeremy Baum of the Dirty Funk Contingency. Members only, no cover, RSVP required

Velma’s hedonistic reinvention of your grandma’s era hotel lounge piano bar! Chat it up with old and new friends or slither in with that certain someone. Featuring the brilliant David Linard, up from Brooklyn, who we know so well from The Bad Mothas and his own trio. Member’s Only, no cover, RSVP REQUIRED HERE |

7pm doors | Table Rezzies for Active and Gold Members | Open bar for GOLD members 7-8pm

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Perhaps most famous for his performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival as a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, Percussionist Juma Sultan was an integral part of the 1970s NYC Loft Jazz scene, and has collaborated with Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Simmons, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders, James “Blood” Ullmer, Dave Burell, Sam Rivers and many more.

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Our member’s only, no-cover night of friend-makin’, lounge vibin’, and exotic music played on vinyl records spun clockwise by the angels from Everything Nice Records.

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A stalwart indie band for 25 years, husband/wife duo Mates of State have released 7 albums, played Letterman, Conan, This American Life, Coachella, toured the entire world, and in their spare time have raised 3 daughters. Their signature keys + drums + dual vocals will be joined at Velma by a backing band.

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Brooklyn's Super Yamba Quartet takes its cues from 70s/80s West-African Afrobeat and Psychedelic Funk - they look back to artists such as Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, El Rego and Gnonnas all masters of the classic Benin Afro-Funk. DJ Bailey was named one of "The Coolest DJs on the NYC Nightlife Scene" by Guest of a Guest, spinning retro, funky vinyl records all night long

We’re back again for the August edition of Lover’s Lounge, our no-cover, member’s only night of comraderie with the sisters from Everything Nice Records spinning vinyl records. RSVP REQUIRED HERE

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A modern jazz/jam/funk legend, Vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon has spent the last three decades playing with Les Claypool, Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Critters Buggin, Charlie Hunter, and Rickie Lee Jones, all the while innovating at a staggering pace as a band leader. Punkadelic features Dillon with organ giant Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), and Nikki Glaspie on drums (Beyonce, Nth Power) and is an explosive trio that lives somewhere in the Zappa, Claypool, Galactic world of music.

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Funk legend Fred Thomas, bass player on James Brown's "Hot Pants" and "Papa Don't Take No Mess" returns for the dance party of the summer. DJ HARLAN spins vinyl all night

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This your chance to party like it's 1967 upstairs at The Mod House for a DAY PARTY! Our first ever collab with Catskills Cocktail Club + pizza made on the spot from The Dale, Saturday June 8 from 3-7pm. Vinyl DJ set by Outlier Music's own Josh Druckman. 

Free Entry for Active and Gold Members (use discount code via Eventbrite to RSVP for free)

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New Jazz Underground , an American trio, have been described as “an innovative and ultra creative collective striving to establish themselves as a defining voice for the genre of Jazz and beyond”. Their music signals a merging of traditional sensibilities in Jazz with the modern influence of swing, hip-hop, house/afro-beat, and afro-cuban music.