Saturday April 26 2025
Doors 7 PM, music 7:30
Free admission, all donations to the musicians
rsvp@chromatic-studios.com
Spaghetti Eastern Music is the genre-leaping solo project of NYC & Hudson Valley-based guitarist/keyboardist Sal Cataldi. Spaghetti Eastern Music marries acid jazz-fueled guitar instrumentals with bare-bones acoustic ballads straight out of the Nick Drake school. Cataldi debuted the project with the critically-acclaimed 2016 album, “Sketches of Spam,” which has been followed with a number of EPs and singles. The New York Times says Cataldi “has a beat unmistakably his own” while Time Out New York praises his “the delicate guitar work and the hauntingly moody atmosphere he conjures.”
spaghettieasternmusic.bandcamp.com
Mark Donato lived his first 18 years in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, graduated to Pittsburgh, saved $1000 and moved to New York City, where he inherited a band. He spent the late 1980s, the ’90s and the early ’00s a grateful prisoner of New York’s Downtown music scene, then moved to a rural Upstate community. Lately he’s been playing music in the general vicinity of Woodstock, NY, famous for its dreadlocks and maple syrup.
His first three full-length CDs: Mark Donato Sings ‘I’m Flapping’ and other Favorites, The Old Joy, I Haven’t Wasted All this Time Alone, were released on the venerated Rag and Bone Shop label. His last two, A History of the Boys and Girls and the brand new Trespassing for Beginners, have been released by Lorenzo and Betty Music, a label run by cats, one dead and one living.