Friday, March 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM to 11:15 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Black Editions Presents a celebration of the historic release of **Tommy Peltier**'s Echo Park album (Drag City) featuring a performance by Tommy Peltier (Vocals & MIDI Guitar) with his trio featuring Aaron MF Olson (Bass) and Jude Tedaldi (Cello). Also performing this evening, Indie pop magic from **Dear Nora (Duo)** featuring **Katy Davidson** with **Zach Burba**, and poet **Sophie Appel**. Just east of Hollywood, **Tommy Peltier** has made sweet music in the Echo Park hills for over sixty years. A jazzman first (notable for his group The Jazz Corps and their album featuring Roland Kirk), he recast himself in 1970, through his close creative and personal friendship with Judee Sill, as an LA troubadour, crafting a set of glitter-light pop tunes that somehow missed release ‘til now. Recorded ‘70-’76 all over town & mixed and mastered TODAY by Jim O’Rourke, Echo Park captures the smooth sounds, glamour an’ free spirits to be found just down the street from Tinseltown in its golden day. **Dear Nora** is an ever-evolving indie-pop band fronted by songwriter/producer Katy Davidson, and features a rotating cast of collaborators. Davidson was born in Arizona and has also lived in Oregon and California. The energy, intensity, and vastness of the western United States landscape imbue the songwriting and recordings. Dear Nora has existed in two distinct eras – 1999-2008 and 2017-present – with roughly a decade break in the middle (the “Lost Years”) in which Davidson fronted various side projects, and played session guitar/keyboards in the bands YACHT and Gossip. Dear Nora’s early music leans more pop-punk, DIY, confessional, youthful. The contemporary music leans more poetic, expansive, genre-bending, wise.The through-lines between Dear Nora’s two eras are: melodic hooks, vocal harmonies, and lyrics about time, space, capitalism, the internet, daily life vérité, ancient things, real vs. unreal or surreal, and all kinds of relationships. RIYL: Judee Sill, Arthur Russell, The Roches, Young Marble Giants, Joni Mitchell. **Sophie Appel** is a historical map archivist and poet that lives in Los Angeles.