Jessie Kilguss and the Steves will be performing 8 p.m., August 8 at Trash Bar in Brooklyn.
Kilguss is a singer, who has considerable acting experience. Here first acting job was as one of the “afflicted girls” in Nicholas Hytner’s screen adaptation of Arthur Miller classic, “The Crucible,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.
Later, Kilguss had the “life changing experience that sealed her fate as a singer” when she appeared on the London and Sydney stages with Marianne Faithfull.
Before launching her career in music, Kilguss worked as a classically trained actress who honed her acting skills at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and the prestigious Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Kilguss brings her background in drama to bear on her latest record, “Nocturnal Drifter,” the follow-up to her 2007 debut “Exotic Bird,” merging her new found gift for songwriting into a sound and musical persona that easily arrests.
Helping Kilguss keep the flow is gold record award winning production team Super Buddha. The duo of Charlie Nieland and Barb Morrison was first introduced to Kilguss by actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.
Kilguss has recently been showcasing her new tunes around NYC in various intimate venues with her band, The Steves, featuring Wayne Batchelor on bass, Rich Hinman on guitar, Rob Heath on drums and Dan Siegler on keyboards.
The singer currently resides in Brooklyn with her dog. Mr. Walter Peanuts and, after a few glasses of wine, will explain how her ex-boyfriend was arrested for floating a homemade revolutionary war era submarine too close to the QE2.
The Trash Bar is at 256 Grand Street between Driggs and Roebling in Williamsburg. For more, call 718-599-1000 or visit www.thetrashbar.com.
