A Keepsake Christmas
Cozy up in Brooklyn or set your fireplace background on Zoom for a night of Christmas cheer. Keepsake House all-stars Alex Wong, corner club, Dylan Adler, Erika Ji, Jen Kwok, Morninglory, Sarah Kang, and TONIE join new Artists in Residence Alex Petti, Moyana Olivia and Robert Kuang to celebrate the holidays and wish you a happy new year. And for the first time—and possibly only time—both Keepsake House founders Jasmine Jang and Hailey Savage will perform in our most festive and star-studded show yet.
Note: All tickets benefit the From Story to Song crowdfunding campaign.
In-person tickets are highly limited. The exact address of the in-person show in Bushwick will be revealed only to ticket holders between 48 and 24 hours prior to the show. Closest subway stations to the location: Broadway Junction (A,C,J) and Bushwick-Aberdeen (L).
Doors: 7:30pm ET
Tickets:
In-person $45
Livestream $12
Note: Artists marked with a * will perform in person at the Bushwick location. Other featured artists will perform virtually via Zoom.
Alex Petti* (he/him)
Alex Petti is a Lebanese Irish-Catholic writer from Massachusetts who grew up as a pop punk rocker. Though his dreams of headlining Warped Tour have ended, the energy of the genre still infuses his music. He writes musical theater shows in the genres of punk, folk and rock, and is the front man of good thoughts, his NYC based rock band. Alex is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon, a composer in the BMI Advanced Musical Theatre Workshop, a 2022 Participant in the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project and a proud Dad to his cat, Sonia.
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Dylan Adler (he/him)
Dylan Adler is a comedian, actor, writer, and musician based in NYC. He's currently a writer on the Late Late Show with James Corden. He has performed for Comedy Central and the New York Comedy Festival as a "Comic to Watch". He's been featured in Vulture and Jezebel for his show "Rape Victims are Horny Too" with Kelly Bachman, which also made the final round of the Yes and Laughter Lab. He performed as a sketch actor on Maude Night at UCB and improv at the People's Improv Theatre. He is also the co-composer of the musical Good Morning New York that played Off-Broadway at the Player's Theatre.
Dylan has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Unmute Yourself, Foresight, and Show Yourself.
Erika Ji* (she/her)
Erika Ji is a cross-genre composer-storyteller. Her musical stories have been featured Off-Broadway and around the world by Broadway's Future Songbook at Lincoln Center, the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, the Nadia Boulanger Institute, and the Musical Theatre Factory at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Current projects include Yoko's Husband's Killer's Japanese Wife, Gloria (a musical commissioned by Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre), VISARE (an immersive circus experience + concept album, winner of the 2021 New Voices Project), and music directing for Virgin Voyages's ship-wide immersive show, Scarlet Night. As a conductor, pianist, and vocalist, Erika has performed on national TV for CBS Sunday Morning, at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco, and for house concerts across the country.
Erika has previously performed in the Keepsake House show From Story to Song (2021).
Jasmine Jang* (she/her) - accompanied by Sebastian Danalis on guitar
Jasmine Jang is a born and raised New York City-based singer/songwriter and the co-founder of Keepsake House. She is the artist of one full-length album and three EPs, the latest of which, “In Circles Now,” was released this October. Her songs have been described as genuine and ethereal, making their way onto Spotify editorial playlists including Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds: Indie. Her love and excitement for live music extends from the close-knit, conversational exchange between an artist and her audience, which she hopes she can fulfill not only with her own work, but with the community of artists at Keepsake House.
In addition to co-founding Keepsake House, Jasmine has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows From Story to Song (2021), Jay Miners: In Betweens Album Release Show, and Show Yourself.
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Jen Kwok (she/her)
Jen Kwok is a Chinese American writer/performer and the daughter of Vietnam War refugees. She grew up in the Mojave Desert and is based in NY’s Hudson Valley, where she is mom to toddler Wolfgang and goldendoodle Lucy. Jen is a multi-hyphenate creator with a musician’s soul, a healer’s heart and a comedian’s delivery. Her work ranges from acting on ABC’s “Quantico” to creating music for Peloton’s “Fitness Flipped” podcast, and writing “See Us Coming Together”, the title song performed for Sesame Street’s AAPI special and the 95th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Jen's latest EP is A Very Wolfgang Christmas!, featuring “A Tree in the House” and “I Don't Want Santa to Come"—songs based on her three-year-old’s favorite phrases about the holiday season!
Jen has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Unmute Yourself and Show Yourself.
Morninglory (she/her)
Accomplished vocalist, actor, and writer, Livvy Marcus performs atmospheric folk music under the name “Morninglory,” her legal middle name. Born and raised in southern Massachusetts, Livvy graduated with a bachelor of music from BW Conservatory in Ohio. Her debut album, “Livvy Marcus Eats Her Shoe,” was released on all platforms in March 2022. She hasn’t gone a day without chocolate since 2018 and would generally always rather be singing. Do you like dancing? Do you sometimes live in the liminal space between giggling and crying?
Morninglory has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Foresight and Lighting Sparks and is a 2022 Keepsake House Artist in Residence.
Website | Bandcamp | Instagram
Robert Kuang* (he/they)
Robert Kuang is a pianist and life coach, with a focus on decolonizing our creative expression, leadership development, and energy restoration. He grew up in Beijing, China, before immigrating to America at 9-years-old. He is a co-host of "I Feel Awful," a multi-lingual leadership podcast, and the creator of "Side by Side," an interview series highlighting insights and experiences of creatives, artists, healers, and warriors.
This is Robert’s first appearance as a Keepsake House 2023 Artist in Residence.
Sarah Kang* (she/her)
Sarah Kang is a Korean-American jazz/soul/R&B singer/songwriter based in New York City. Born in South Korea and raised in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Dallas, her music, much like her life experiences, crosses the borders of genre. Her inspiration comes from artists like Crush, Bruno Major, and H.E.R.; however, her earnest voice paired with soul sensibilities and thoughtful songwriting create a sound that is all her own. Her hope is that her music can encourage listeners to ask important questions and provide safe, cozy spaces to rest. Sarah’s debut full-length album, “how i remember,” was released in October and in November she released a holiday EP with Sam Ock called “Peppermint Tea.”
Sarah has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Sarah Kang, Foresight, Show Yourself, and Linguistics and is a 2022 Keepsake House Artist in Residence.
TONIE* (they/them)
TONIE is doing their very best to make you cry, in all the best ways. Their music is deeply autobiographical, taking on topics such as love and heartbreak, struggles with depression, and queer contemplations. TONIE wraps challenging conversations in luscious synths, driving guitars, and dynamic vocals that invite listeners to love themselves fully and bask in their feels.
The LA-native writes and produces each synth-pop track from the comfort of their skylit home studio in Brooklyn, NY—a perfect backdrop for the emotional vulnerability that colors their lyrics. Proudly Vietnamese American, nonbinary, and themselves!
TONIE has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows Show Yourself and Meet Cute Music and is the Music Director of From Story to Song (2021 & 2023). They will also be a Keepsake House Artist in Residence in 2023.
And introducing…
Ted & Hailey Savage (they/them)
Hailey Savage is the co-founder of Keepsake House, but in her spare time she often writes music with her dad, Ted. They have only performed twice before with a public audience, but there’s no time like Christmas to try again.
With special video performances by…
Alex Wong (he/him)
Alex Wong creates music to help people remember who they are and show themselves to the world. He has always had a complicated relationship with his own memories, unable to remember his own childhood birthday parties yet possessing many vivid, sensory memories from dreams, places he’d never been, and what seemed almost like isolated vignettes from another life. That dissonance led to the songs on his latest album, “The Elephant and the Seahorse.” As he looked closer at his memories from the past, he was forced to acknowledge that he had been “hiding” his identity as a second generation Chinese-American for much of his life. Memories of being told to downplay his ethnicity in school, social groups, or in the mostly-white music industry, assimilate to white culture, speak with no accent, and keep himself small rushed to the surface, along with waves of shame and anger for buying into this conditioning. A lot of deep questioning followed, which he chronicles for the first time in his song “Show Yourself.”
Alex is a Latin GRAMMY-nominated artist and producer known for his work with Delta Rae, Vienna Teng, Melissa Ferrick and Morgxn, among others. Alex’s music has been featured in movies including “The Last Song” and TV shows including “True Blood.” Alex has toured all over the world, performing at festivals like Coachella, Outside Lands, and Corona Capital, in arenas in Mexico City and theaters in Europe and Japan, and on NPR’s Mountain Stage.
Alex has previously performed in the Keepsake House shows From Story to Song (2021) and Foresight and is a 2022 Keepsake House Artist in Residence. He also co-produced and performed in the Show Yourself benefit residency.
corner club (they/them)
Indie-pop duo corner club writes and produces everything from their bedrooms in Manhattan, telling stories inspired by 3am city lights and pigeons squatting on the windowsills. Combining Sav's classical composition background and poetry scribbles with Mike's intimate acoustic and pop-funk guitar influences, their music fuses a wide palette of textures and soundscapes. Their debut EP, little love lullabies, released in February 2021, captures the dreamy warmth and melancholy of falling in and out of love.
corner club has previously performed in the show that became a prologue to Keepsake House, Hindsight, produced by Jasmine Jang and hosted by Hailey Savage
Moyana Olivia (she/they)
Moyana Olivia is passionate about making music that makes a difference. Moyana is a member of the Royal Family Music Group Collective in Minneapolis, a co-founder of the FRESHWTR project, and an alum of the 2022 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. She is currently majoring in Musicology at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois to study the ways in which Black artists engender social change, restoration, and transformation through music. Her work has been commissioned by the Edina High School Choir Department and featured by the Best Buy Corporation, The View, the National Women’s March Movement, the ACLU, Northwestern University’s Office of Undergraduate Research, KMOJ radio, and many film festivals across the United States.
This is Moyana’s first appearance as a Keepsake House 2023 Artist in Residence.