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Goodnight Moonshine is scheduled to take the stage at 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, at The Clifford Arts and Student Center, 42 Depot St., Unity.

The guitar and vocal duet combines the evocative voice and songwriting of Molly Venter, with Eben Pariser’s adventurous guitar playing. The result is folk music with a depth of improvisation and tonal subtlety usually reserved for jazz.

Venter is well known for her sublime singing in the prominent female-vocal-group Red Molly, while Eben cut his teeth as a street performer in New York City, playing guttural music of New Orleans with his band Roosevelt Dime.

Venter’s enviable voice has taken her career to highlights including Tønder Festival in Denmark, Kate Wolf Fest in California, and multiple placements on television and film. In Goodnight Moonshine she is in full force as a songwriter. Her trance-induced stream-of-consciousness writing style results in compositions that probe the depths of her inner experience. Her hit song “Hold It All,” recorded with Red Molly and performed regularly with Goodnight Moonshine, questions the meaning of life, and grapples with acceptance, with honesty and heart usually reserved for literary writers- which she also is- she writes a weekly column on Patreon.com.

Starting as a blues guitarist in his teens, Pariser’s imagination was quickly captured by classic jazz, which he studied at the Oberlin Conservatory. “Pariser’s harmonic sensibilities are wide, imaginative” (NPR), and his career has involved singing lead and playing bass with Roosevelt Dime, playing drums and being musical director of Red Molly- but it is his love of jazz and improvising on display in Goodnight Moonshine. A natural producer, he has eight studio records under his belt for himself and other artists, and recently launched the new record label, Equitone Records.

For tickets or more information visit goodnightmoonshine.com.