Lift Your Head Up
It’s a night of Rock and Indie Rock!
Astoria Music Collective presents:
Sponsored by Lizzy Guitars
•WHEN: Saturday, June 13th
8PM DOORS/ 8:30PM SHOW
•WHERE: The Shillelagh Tavern: 47-22 30th Ave, Astoria NYC 11103
21+, No Cover
And next weekend we’ve got shows Saturday and Sunday!
Saturday June 20 – Porch Stomp Music Festival – Governors Island NYC
Sunday June 21 – Irish Whiskey Bar, 28-48 31st Street, Astoria, NYC, 1pm-6pm.
Tonight! Saturday March 14th, Barbara is honored to play at Urban Vegan Roots with Plant Powered Disruptors. This is a variety show with music, uplifting art and stories, a place for activists and community! Plant Powered Disruptors always puts on an excellent and welcoming show! Show begins at 5pm – No cover, all ages!
Nate will be back for these upcoming shows in April:
FRIDAY APRIL 3, 2026 – 8:30 PM – ESPRESSO 77
THURSDAY APRIL 9, 2026 – 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM – COWGIRL SEAHORSE
FRIDAY APRIL 17, 2026 – 8:00 PM – HUTCH
We hope to see you soon!
Thank you so much to Plant Powered Disruptors and Urban Vegan Roots, our fellow performers Natalie Asport, Kiirstin Marilyn. Diana Rose, and 3Gan for such a beautiful evening! There is a new YouTube video today of the closing number and the amazing crowd singing along. There was a true sense of community and joy present, when we need it most. Lift Your Head Up!
The Repressions are so very honored to have won Best Original Song in the February Vegan Music Makers celebration, for their song “We Are the Strange Ones!”
Vegan Music Makers is a wonderful uplifting community founded in California by Geno Maurillo and Michael Blow. Find and follow the group on Facebook, and add these other artists to your playlist!
This means a lot, voted from a group of musical artists from all genres and walks of life, with the one common thread being a respect for animals and their freedom. Good company and very good music!
This Friday is going to be very special… The Dolphin Bookshop has a magic that surrounds you before you realize it. The Repressions will play in the stage/ seating/cafe area, with a beautiful bookshop to the right, more books and toys to the left, original art and color all around… It is not just “one” kind of place, and therefore inspiring and imperceptibly comfortable. No cover charge and all ages are welcome… The music begins at 7pm!
Art is completely unpredictable… and also requires a lot of careful planning and organization… So here have the next four invites now, we cannot wait to see you at these shows!
Last year Nate and Barbara celebrated New Year’s Eve with merriment and music, and a video for their song Bright Lights. They decided to make this a tradition, and this year the lyrics are on screen. Bright Lights is a journey of love and change, reconciling our natural selves in the modern world, and leaping into your life even when you cannot see.
Happy New Year Friends. Thank you for being here.
The Repressions are grateful to have played so many live shows in 2019, including the NYC Veggie Pride Parade in Union Square and Kingston Animalia Concert at BSP Kingston! Thank you to these terrific New York venues and events: The Local, Espresso 77, East Village Social, Irish Whiskey Bar, Union Square Park, Make Music New York, Jack Jones, Dolphin Bookshop & Cafe, Belvedere, LIC Bar, Kumon Awards Ceremony, Athens Square Park, RaR Bar, Shore Fest, Uke Hut, BSP Kingston, The Way Station, The Quays, Shillelagh Tavern, The Mad Donkey, and Marine Terrace. Special thanks to photographer Patrick Merino (he took the fine professional images here,) John Cavaliere and Zack Dash for filming, photographing and always being there, Ben Olson, The AR Community and Astoria Music Collective, our neighborhood musical family! There is much more to come in the new year!
Music: Thank You Charlotte Bronte (Extended Intro) by The Repressions
The Repressions are excited to be a part of this first Virtual Open Mic, hosted by Josh of the band MEDALS IN THE CHUTE. This will feature artists from all over the country, each performing one song in one video… We look forward to hearing new sounds and reaching new musical communities!
Youtube Premiere – 12/7/19
Featuring:
Ghost Bomb Survival — Forest — https://ghostbombsurvival.bandcamp.com/
Stephen Liu — Underwater — https://soundcloud.com/iamstephenliu
The Repressions — Starlight Golfcourse — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHBu…
Joseph Omeluk — Any Moment — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCytA…
Sundown Lane — Half Your Heart [prod. Whoami] — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgng…
Medals in the Chute — Sometimes I feel — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzD5…
Reflectivity — You Can’t Even Get Lost In This Town Anymore — https://soundcloud.com/reflectivitymusic
Dunderu — Instant Gratification — https://soundcloud.com/dundrik97
David the Second — Peace in the Willows — https://davidthesecond.bandcamp.com
Dena Monticone — See The Sun — https://open.spotify.com/artist/3mkd4…
Joshua Clemens (from Strange Heart) — The Captain —https://Strangeheartmusic.com
The Burning Machine — Night Song — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9He…
Colton Boening — Angel (cover of the Jack Johnson song) — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKET…
Sarah Donkin — Changing my Mind — https://twitter.com/sarahdonkin13
The Repressions Castle, to the mortal eye may look like a tiny NYC apartment, but it is a one stop art house… too bad the ideas come faster than the time it takes to finish them. Enjoy some new memes, comics and song lyric illustrations…
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