Neil Shah - Pianist/Vocalist/Composer

I’m playing a duo show with Dave on Friday, March 17—St. Patricks Day. The show is at Vox Pop, NYC’s only union, fair-trade coffee-house. The show will start at 9pm and probably go until 11, so we’ll cover a lot of material.
The modern poet, Charles Evans, will open up with his own set […]

This Monday (the 13th), I’m playing a lot of new material and a couple of songs from The Last Leaves at Kavehaz at 9pm. Musically, it’s a very different sound from the album and the old songs are sorta rearranged—for the better I think. The subdued sound of the album was good at the time, […]

The St. Nicks gig is now the Arlene Talley show. She sings the last set with the band everytime, tears it up, and the audience goes insane. George isn’t doing the gig anymore, and I’m not really sure why, but I miss his Ray Charles/Louis Armstrong impressions. The new drummer, Richard is great and just […]

The show at Kavehaz was pretty cool. I played piano and sang the whole set. Dave Little—who I met in Texas and now lives in Brooklyn—played electric guitar on about half the songs. He sounded amazing, especially for having learned the material a few days before the show. We did mostly new stuff, and even […]

Went to Philadelphia last Friday to see some the old gang. I mostly wanted to get down there to check out Jas’ recent paintings in the Seraphin Gallery. He’s an amazing artist and it’s always the best to see his work—it always blows my mind.
I drove back on Saturday to play at St. Nicks Pub […]