ivy room presentsSUNDAY FEB 8TH—The Eli Conley QuartetBriget BoyleMadeline Tasquin—5pm doors / 6pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM | 21+—The Eli Conley Quartet—Eli Conley is a singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and activist based in Sacramento. His new band the Eli Conley Quartet is delighted to be making their Bay Area debut at Ivy Room!Eli makes country-tinged folk music for queer and trans people, justice seekers, and anyone who doesn’t fit in a box. As a queer transgender man from the South, his work tells stories that aren’t always reflected in roots music...
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ivy room presentsSUNDAY FEB 8TH—The Eli Conley QuartetBriget BoyleMadeline Tasquin—5pm doors / 6pm showAdvance Tickets Available / $20 Door—IVY ROOM | 21+—The Eli Conley Quartet—Eli Conley is a singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and activist based in Sacramento. His new band the Eli Conley Quartet is delighted to be making their Bay Area debut at Ivy Room!Eli makes country-tinged folk music for queer and trans people, justice seekers, and anyone who doesn’t fit in a box. As a queer transgender man from the South, his work tells stories that aren’t always reflected in roots music. His songs have a habit of making people cry.Eli founded Queer Country West Coast, a regular series featuring LGBTQ+ country and roots artists in California. He has opened for Carsie Blanton, Heather Mae, and Grammy-winner Kimya Dawson, and been featured in Newsweek, NPR's All Things Considered, HuffPost and the Advocate.The Eli Conley Quartet features some of Northern California's finest string players: Natalie Hagwood on cello (Dear Darling, Solabel), Tom Shewmake on mandolin (One Button Suit, SloCoast), and Benjamin Kopf on double bass (SloCoast, Solabel). This band of seasoned acoustic musicians weaves together textures that are at times hushed and intimate, at others soaring and dramatic, accompanied by soulful three-part vocal harmonies. At the heart of their sound is Eli's tender, heartfelt voice, urging us to stay open to our grief and our joy.Briget Boyle—With gritty, vulnerable lyrics, powerhouse vocals, and her vintage Gibson J45 ringing like a truth-telling bell, Briget Boyle brings the raw edge of ’90s rock into deeply human territory. Her songs confront grief, love, identity, and chaos with unflinching honesty. There’s no pretending here - just a voice, cutting through the noise, asking: Are you ready to feel this?Her songwriting doesn’t skim the surface. Mining her life for meaning, Briget crafts anthems out of heartbreak, resilience, and everything we’re usually too scared to say out loud. She doesn't hide the scars; she sings them. Her music is forged in the space between brokenness and transformation, shaped by years of collaboration, community, and the messy process of becoming.Born and raised in Los Angeles, Briget grew up inside the music industry. Her father, the late Tim Boyle, was a legendary recording engineer, and her early musical education took place in Hollywood’s scoring stages, where she contributed to sessions for Starship Troopers, Animaniacs, and Money Talks. By 12, she was writing songs of her own, eventually studying Music Performance & Composition at the College of Santa Fe.A chance encounter with Balkan folk music changed everything. Briget dove headfirst into traditional singing, performing with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Brass Menažeri Balkan Brass Band, and True Life Trio. That work expanded her voice—literally and metaphorically—and grounded her in community-driven music-making that continues to shape her sound today.Briget doesn’t sit still. She’s the founder of Waxsimile Productions (an independent label and creative production house), a sought-after vocal coach, a creative director, and a pillar of the Bay Area’s world and indie music scenes. Her work lives at the intersection of tradition and reinvention, voice and vulnerability, structure and soul.Her latest album, Heartbreak Residue, is a searing exploration of grief, love, and release—songs that don’t resolve neatly but stay with you like a conversation you can’t forget.Briget is not just making music. She’s making space—for the truth, for the breakdown, for the rebuild.Madeline Tasquin—Madeline Tasquin is an artist of the in-between — composing from the liminal space where grief meets beauty, where ancestral ache meets quantum physics, where the olive grove burns and the calendula blooms. Her new body of work lives in the superpositionality of it all — between the rational and the mysterious, the garden and the war zone, the hymn and the scream. Wordplay and raw testimony. Art-pop and folk. Poetry and fart jokes. A tapestry of harmonic entanglement stitched from complexity, tenderness, and the nerve to stay with what hurts.
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