The Sway Machinery is playing a FREE show at Brooklyn Bowl!
8PM doors/9PM The Sway Machinery/10:30 Gato Loco

In honor of the Hanukkah, Leviticus Studio is hosting a Jewish Art Week. The night will involve art reception in a festive spirit, candle lighting and performance by Sway Machinery. Decorate a giant menorah built by Leviticus, eat a doughnut, and enjoy awesome music. $8 includes one free drink.

Jeremiah Lockwood heads west with the Sway Machinery for shows in Boulder, Denver, and San Fran!

Friday, August 26th – Boulder, CO
Saturday, August 27th, 8pm – The Mercury Cafe 2199 California Ave, Denver, CO
Sunday, August 28th, 8pm – Beat Box, 314 11th Street, San Francisco, CA. Also on the bill will be Brass Menažeri, San Francisco’s original and hottest Balkan Romani (“Gypsy”) Brass Band

Check the Sway Machinery Website for more info

Get your passports ready, the Sway Machinery will be performing at the Montreal Jewish Music Festival!

If you happen to be in Poland, check out former fellow Jeremiah Lockwood and The Sway Machinery. They will be performing in a 400 year old synagogue in Krakow Poland with special guest, Malian music giant . On Saturday, they’re taking to the streets, performing in the main square of Krakow’s Old City

Wednesday, June 29th 2011
Krakow Jewish Culture Festival – 8 PM
ul. Miodowa 24
Krakow
Poland

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
Ulica Szeroka
Krakow
Poland

For more information about the festival, click here.

This is the one and only NYC Sway Machinery Release Show!

The Sway Machinery featuring Khaira Arby at the Bell House is both an album release show and benefit for Mali, following the Sway Machinery’s recent time there. A percentage of the proceeds will go to benefit ASSADEC, a consortium of 300 women’s groups from small desert villages which provides AIDS information and instruction in the nomadic context. They are evolving into seeking capacity for micro finance of local women’s projects and other learning bases projects.

The Sway Machinery will release The House of Friendly Ghosts, Volume 1 March 8 on JDub Records (Pre-order is now available via the JDub Records Online Store). The band will begin their album release tour with this show in New York City and continue to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Denver.

The new album, which features Timbuktu vocal superstar Khaira Arby, is already garnering interest thanks to features on Nat Geo Music, AOL Spinner, and The Huffington Post.

Chronicling Sway Machinery founder and mastermind Jeremiah Lockwood and company’s journey to Mali’s “Festival in the Desert” and subsequent collaboration with Arby earlier this year, the album explores ideas of diaspora, pilgrimage and spiritualism by pulling together an array of content including Arby’s songs, Lockwood’s compositions and field recordings captured along the way. While at the remote festival gathering the band performed with numerous Tuareg ensembles and watched as its broad base of influences meshed with those of some of the region’s most crucial artists.

8PM Doors, 9PM show
$15 advance, $18 day of

Drawing lifeblood from the historic spaces of New York City’s past: the Eldridge Street Synagogue, one of the iconic buildings in the lower east side, lovingly restored and with a breath taking new stained glass window by Kiki Smith and Deborah Gans…soon to be the site of some serious getting down! Come hear Cohort I Six Points Fellow Jeremiah Lockwood and the Sway Machinery play for the first time since their fall tour!

And please follow this link and take a listen to the latest installment of Jeremiah Lockwood’s Nigun Project. This month’s piece features the wonderful Yula Be’eri, of Yula and the Extended Family, Nanuchka and Electro Morocco: http://www.forward.com/articles/132965/

Price: $20 adults; $15 with student ID