Nancy Atlas w/ Nick Kessler opening

Nancy Atlas and her band of Journeymen have been dominating the East End Music scene or Long Island for quite some time. Known for her raw, live performances and stellar songwriting Nancy and her band, The Nancy Atlas Project, have opened for almost everyone under the sun. To name a few: Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Toots and the Maytals, Jimmy Buffett, Crosby, Stills and Nash… the list goes on and on. The reason is simple. When people want a solid act to open their show and get the crowd warmed up, they call  Nancy and her boys because they know they will deliver. Every time.
Nancy grew up with gypsy blood in Commack, NY. Eager to get the buck out of dodge she spent her entire college years abroad at both Cambridge University in England and Richmond College in London and Florence.  She majored in art history, fine art, drinking lots of wine and talking shit. There was a serious recession going on the year she graduated college so instead of becoming a mad advertising executive she walked down to Portabello Road, London, bought a guitar for 60 quid and never looked back. It was pouring buckets of English rain that day so they gave her a black plastic bag to cover her guitar as it didn’t come with a case. Nothing, it is said, can stop true desire.
Nancy now lives in Montauk, New York with her husband Thomas and her two sons, Cash and Levon, and her daughter Tallulah. When she is not writing a song or on stage rocking out, she can be found clamming with her kids, surfing with her kids, walking with her kids, reading with her kids or cartooning for her kids. On rainy days she lazily traces tour maps of Europe with her right hand while sipping her beloved PG Tibs English Tea and smiling out into the East End Mist.

Nick Kessler:

Nick Kessler is a singer/songwriter born and raised in New York City who has been playing guitar for twenty years. His major influences are the Grateful Dead, Eric Clapton, The Band, and The Beatles. Nick’s dynamic technique and musicianship stem from his cross-genre studies and performance experience in Jazz, Rock, Country, Bluegrass, and Pop.

Nick has played at venues large and small throughout New York, such as The Bitter End, Highline Ballroom, Rockwood Music Hall, Avoca NYC, The Raven, and Horns Hook Tavern. He is a regular featured summer performer at both Bird on a Roof and Marlena’s Pack Out in Montauk and Springs Tavern & Grill in East Hampton, where he covers a wide range of artists spanning several decades and genres. In addition to his professional work, Nick is currently writing and recording his first album. His single, High Takes, can be found on all music streaming platforms including Spotify and Apple Music.