Kirsten Thien is on tour with @VKB Band alongside Rachelle Garniez and Amanda Homi. Promoting our new release: SECOND HAND MOON.

We continue the fun with our Quarterly Residency at The Muse in Rosendale, NY. A special place for live music and community. Just 50 meters from the bus stop and worth a trip from NYC!

VKB Band, also known as Vicki Kristina Barcelona, is a New York City based trio comprised of three deeply distinctive musicians, all acclaimed performing singer-songwriters with a wealth of collective experience.

Together, they merge their individual brands of magic, bedazzling audiences with their unexpected yet always respectful renditions of the songs of Tom Waits.

VKB’s mesmerizing alchemy comes alive in a blend of glorious three-part harmony and carefully crafted musical arrangements. The group utilizes a most unusual sonic palette, including percussion from all corners of the globe, an array of squeezeboxes, and a collection of melodic acoustic guitars, ukelele bass and banjo, throwing in the occasional bell and whistle for an added element of surprise.

Without compromising the ugly beauty of Waits’ characters and scenarios, his melodies and settings are restated in a feminine light, softer and sweeter perhaps, but nonetheless impactful.