Live Music this Saturday at John Slade Ely House

John Slade Ely House
Center for Contemporary Art
51 Trumbull St., New Haven, (203) 624-8055
Concert: The Secret Ink
Sat., Nov. 11, 2006, 7:30pm

Press release

The Secret Ink will perform at the John Slade Ely House Center for Contemporary Art on Saturday, November 11th at 7:30pm. The show is free and open to the public.

The Secret Ink are an ethereal chamber pop band from New Haven, CT. The group features female vocals, cello, violin, guitar, ebow, bass, and drums all of which appear in the live setting. The Secret Ink have combined passages of Bartok's concerto for orchestra with British Shoe-gaze pop. They also have recorded contemporary classical pieces for violin and ebow which have appeared in regional televsion commercials. They were recently featured on Connecticut's local National Public Radio affiliate.

Their self-titled debut was recorded in New Haven at Firehouse 12 and is available via Darla records and Rough Trade Shops in the U.K. They have been compared to Belle and Sebastian, the Velvet Underground, Bach, the Smiths, Clogs, and It's a Beautiful Day.