Suz Slezak Set for Valentine's Album Release Show Tonight at Rockwood Music Hall

David Wax Museum vocalist and fiddle wizard Suz Slezak will celebrate her debut solo album, Watching the Nighttime Come, with an album release show as part of her Valentine's Weekend "Sweet Love and Lullabies" tour at 7:00 p.m. tonight, February 13 at Rockwood Music Hall, 196 Allen St., New York, NY.

As a core member of the award-winning indie-folk band David Wax Museum, Suz Slezak is accustomed to the praise that comes with being part of a cutting edge ensemble which resides on practically everyone's "next big thing" list. WithWatching the Nighttime Come, Suz is ready to secure her own place in the spotlight and in the hearts of families everywhere.

For this special show, Suz Slezak has assembled an ensemble including David Waxand multi-instrumentalist Josh Kaufman (Watching the Nighttime Come'sproducer, who regularly performs with Josh Ritter and Trixie Whitley) to present all the songs from Watching the Nighttime Come, along with an array of originals that Suz regularly sings with David Wax Museum, such as "Wondrous Love," "Look What You've Done to Me," and "Let Me Rest," plus some of Suz's favorite selected covers.

Watching the Nighttime Come is at once a carefully balanced anthology of cultural gems and a collection of original songs. The track list includes a celebrated Mexican lullaby, a 16th century round, a Leonard Cohen favorite, and more. While the engine that pulls the album together is the refined intimacy and highly personalized delivery of Suz Slezak's exquisite voice, there are also contributions from guest artist David Wax, along with a fine cast of others in both performance and production.

Watching the Nighttime Come was born from Suz's desire to present a musical offering to her friends who are also young parents. It was conceived as a nocturnal serenade, not only for sleepy (and not so sleepy) children, but also as a compelling collection for parents to enjoy. Creativity took on an even more personal dimension when Suz became pregnant with daughter Calliope, who was born in November 2013.

Suz Slezak explains, "It's been a dream of mine to live a creative life that involves my family, art, travel, music. Making this album feels like an embodiment of so many pieces of that story."

Homeschooled by her father on a small farm in rural Virginia and steeped in an egalitarian and eclectic culture of creative music -- old time bluegrass, Irish fiddle, classical and folk -- Suz Slezak never imagined that she would someday become a professional musician. After graduating from Wellesley College, Suz encountered Harvard graduate and musician David Wax on the Boston folk music circuit. The two soon joined their unique perspectives to form David Wax Museum, which fuses traditional Mexican and American folk music into what the band playfully calls "Mexo-Americana." Wrote Entertainment Weekly's Ray Rahman, "If you're not familiar with DWM's sound, think something like Andrew Bird, with a Mexican folk bent and a couple of dashes of Magnetic Fields and Wilco-ishness via Boston (the city, not the band)."

Watching the Nighttime Come will be available on the David Wax Museum website, Amazon.com, iTunes, and other related digital outlets.

DETAILS:

Suz Slezak's (of David Wax Museum) 'Watching the Nighttime Come' Album Release Show

Valentine's Weekend "Sweet Love and Lullabies" Tour

WHEN: 7:00 p.m., Friday, February 13, 2015

WHERE: Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1, 196 Allen St., New York, NY 10002

TICKETS: $5 suggested donation

VISIT: www.rockwoodmusichall.com