Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Come join us for a visit from Ruth Garbus, performing material off her new album, *Profound*! Brooklyn's Paco Cathcart opens the night. *Profound* is the title of Brattleboro, Vermont, singer-songwriter Ruth Garbus' third studio album for Orindal Records. Listeners of the songwriter's deeper catalog know Garbus' work not only for its minimal melancholy but for vibrant, literate lyrics that take stock of the sludge that fills our psyches and oceans. But on *Profound*, Garbus is admittedly happier. She is also more self-assured in her music and her place making it. On the opening track, aptly titled, "I Think I'm Ready Now," Garbus sings, "In the pink of your surroundings you can let go of shame / The lemon drops of failure all dissolve / And the sick of sweet pretending just a veil of gauze." Paco Cathcart (b. 1992) is a Colombian-American musician and writer from Brooklyn, New York who has performed and recorded under the moniker “The Cradle” since 2013. In that time they have toured extensively in the United States and internationally, and put out 20 or so wildly diverse full-length albums, as well as many more EPs and live tapes, self-released and on various indie labels. Almost entirely self-recorded, the Cradle catalogue reflects a porous, experimental approach to music making and a vast range of influences. As reverent as it is skeptical, Cathcart’s is quintessentially millennial music: Syncretic, cyborg, accidentally and inevitably.