The Attractors-Loungin at the Lizard Lounge feat Juliet Hawkins

The Attractors return to the Lizard Lounge August 14th featuring Juliet Hawkins! $20 adv/$25 door Doors 8 The ATTRACTORS were created by Westbound Train trumpeter and Void Union co-founder RICH GRAIKO in 2011 as a way to pay homage to 1960’s era Jamaican and American instrumental groove music. Formerly the Brooklyn Attractors, the group’s core line-up underwent a major change in 2017 when bandleader Rich Graiko made the move from New York, back to his hometown of Boston. Despite this change the group continues to incorporate some of the top musicians in the Boston and New York reggae, Ska and Jazz scenes, on it’s recordings and live shows. Jamaican percussion legend LARRY McDONALD (Bob Marley, Taj Mahal, Gil Scot Heron, Lee Perry), guitarist ANDY BASSFORD (Toots & The Maytals, Monty Alexander, Burning Spear), Trombonist BUFORD O’SULLIVAN (easy Star Allstars, Scofflaws) and Pianist Key Stewart (Skatallites, Soulshot) are a few of the musicians who you might see playing with the group on a given night, as well as the most recent iteration of the core line up: Bassist THADDEUS MERRITT (Westbound Train, the Toasters), Drummer JESSE HAYES (Void Union, the Toasters), Saxophonist JC SKA COHEN (Westbound Train, Void Union) and Jazz Guitar extraordinaire CHRIS BROWN (Chris Brown quartet, Metallica). The group has released three full-length studio albums, Good Evil Alchemy, The Move, and Love Bombs (Jump-Up Records), as well as one live album, Live In NYC (Rarebreed Records), and are currently working on their fourth studio album. The Attractors Juliet Hawkins, a captivating vocalist and songwriter, raised on the east coast and residing now in Peru, Vermont, has spent more than a decade honing her craft—intertwining her personal journey of pain, pleasure, and radical self-acceptance into her original music all across the United States. With a rich, genre-bending style that encompasses RnB, country, swing, and soul, Juliet’s music resonates with a poetic and…