For this third annual iteration of this delightful showcase put on by Zan Strumfeld and Michael Gregg (of Zan and the Winter Folk) at the Troy Listening Room, they recruited Angelina Valente, Armbruster, Buggy Jive, Geoff Gordon, Sova (Sophia Subbayya Vastek), and Super 400. (They also performed themselves.) Each artist is expected to choose a pre-1920 newspaper article from Troy (which are generally creepy in some fashion or another) and create a song about it. All eight artists impressed in delightfully different ways.

Review by Rory Graham / Photos by Elissa Ebersold for Metroland Now

This is the beauty of the night, watching the artists take their unique perspectives and turn a bleak event into an engaging creation for audiences. For Buggy Jive, this took the form of a wildly catchy chorus, paired with spoken verses where he took on the persona of a noir detective film narrator, walking us through the events of the four (yes, four) attempted fires. He even treated us to the Law & Order theme as he introduced the detectives who would, unfortunately, fail to catch this foolish fire-setter. 

– Rory Graham for Metroland Now