Our monthly fete co-hosted by Everything Nice Records featuring a rotating cast of DJs playing exotic music. Lounge, dance, chat, whatever. Free for members, $15 for guests of members. RSVP/TICKETS HERE

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Piano Bar is L,V’s reimagining of the lounge scene, where friends gather to relax, get cozy, and enjoy an intimate performance. Baum + Simone are a piano vocal duo that first teased us in November, but is back to do it again. Free for members, $15 for guests of members.

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As part of the legendary NYC venue the Jazz Gallery’s mentorship program, we’re proud to present a brilliant quartet performance by veteran alto saxophionist Jaleel Shaw (Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, Pat Metheny, Roy Hargrove) with rising star pianist Cameron Campbell (Samara Joy, Kendrick Scott, Marcus Gilmore).

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This duo of wild improvisers light fire to feeling. Pianist Brian Roy Haas is an internationally celebrated, award-winning pianist who has played with The Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Nolatet, Rebirth Brass Band, Les Claypool, Mike Dillon + Punkadelick, and Charlie Hunter. Vocalist Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg is an accomplished performance artist, curator, and healer driven by curiosity, song, and movement. Together they create transformative, mesmerizing music and dance on the spot. Free for members, $15 for member’s guests

Night 1 Tickets!

This duo of wild improvisers light fire to feeling. Pianist Brian Roy Haas is an internationally celebrated, award-winning pianist who has played with The Funky Meters, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Nolatet, Rebirth Brass Band, Les Claypool, Mike Dillon + Punkadelick, and Charlie Hunter. Vocalist Elizabeth Cole Sonenberg is an accomplished performance artist, curator, and healer driven by curiosity, song, and movement. Together they create transformative, mesmerizing music and dance on the spot. Free for members, $15 for member’s guests

We’re back! Co-hosted by Everything Nice Records, LL is a roaring fireplace, lounge vibes, and fantastical vinyl records spun for your enjoyment. Free for members with Eventbrite RSVP, $15 for guests of members

(guest tickets must be purchased by a member, and guests must arrive and leave with member)

Enter 2025 with friends, glamour and joy. DJ Andre Acosta will be spinning a vinyl-only set of funk, disco, and boogie records. The fireplace will be roaring, the dance floor friendly, and the vibes festive yet chill.

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Attire: Disco / Vintage / Dressy / Glam / Fur

Co-hosted by Everything Nice Records, Lover’s Lounge is a member’s only night of exotic music spun on vinyl, chill vibes, dancefloor shakin’, and a roaring fireplace. RSVP Required.

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Get ready for a night of joy, soul, and gospel-influenced voices (think: The Impressions), when the Harlem Gospel Travelers roll into L,V. This absolutely incredible young group is signed to funk/soul label Colemine Records and is lighting it up on the road.

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Miramar plays new interpretations of golden-era boleros (romantic music originating in 1950s Cuba) mixed with soul. The band is part of the Nuevo Romantico movement and carry the torch of Balada Rockmántica or Bolero-Beat, a popular genre defined by its blend of traditional boleros, psychedelic funk, and rock. YOUTUBE | INSTA

Tickets can be purchased for both sets or the late set only. Both sets Visiting Members ($45), Active Members ($33.75), Gold Members ($22.50)

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Based in Sao Paulo and formed in 2017, Tagua Tagua is one of the most promising acts in Brazilian music nowadays, weaving tropical psychedelia, the principles of ye ye ye, and the influence of funk and soul

Piano Bar is our re-invention of the classic format, this time with reefer. Featuring the delightful Jeremy Baum of the Dirty Funk Contingency. Members only, no cover, RSVP required

Velma’s hedonistic reinvention of your grandma’s era hotel lounge piano bar! Chat it up with old and new friends or slither in with that certain someone. Featuring the brilliant David Linard, up from Brooklyn, who we know so well from The Bad Mothas and his own trio. Member’s Only, no cover, RSVP REQUIRED HERE |

7pm doors | Table Rezzies for Active and Gold Members | Open bar for GOLD members 7-8pm

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Perhaps most famous for his performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival as a member of Jimi Hendrix’s Gypsy Sun & Rainbows, Percussionist Juma Sultan was an integral part of the 1970s NYC Loft Jazz scene, and has collaborated with Jimi Hendrix, Sonny Simmons, Archie Shepp, Pharaoh Sanders, James “Blood” Ullmer, Dave Burell, Sam Rivers and many more.

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Our member’s only, no-cover night of friend-makin’, lounge vibin’, and exotic music played on vinyl records spun clockwise by the angels from Everything Nice Records.

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A stalwart indie band for 25 years, husband/wife duo Mates of State have released 7 albums, played Letterman, Conan, This American Life, Coachella, toured the entire world, and in their spare time have raised 3 daughters. Their signature keys + drums + dual vocals will be joined at Velma by a backing band.

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Brooklyn's Super Yamba Quartet takes its cues from 70s/80s West-African Afrobeat and Psychedelic Funk - they look back to artists such as Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, El Rego and Gnonnas all masters of the classic Benin Afro-Funk. DJ Bailey was named one of "The Coolest DJs on the NYC Nightlife Scene" by Guest of a Guest, spinning retro, funky vinyl records all night long

We’re back again for the August edition of Lover’s Lounge, our no-cover, member’s only night of comraderie with the sisters from Everything Nice Records spinning vinyl records. RSVP REQUIRED HERE

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A modern jazz/jam/funk legend, Vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon has spent the last three decades playing with Les Claypool, Ani DiFranco, Galactic, Critters Buggin, Charlie Hunter, and Rickie Lee Jones, all the while innovating at a staggering pace as a band leader. Punkadelic features Dillon with organ giant Brian Haas (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey), and Nikki Glaspie on drums (Beyonce, Nth Power) and is an explosive trio that lives somewhere in the Zappa, Claypool, Galactic world of music.

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Funk legend Fred Thomas, bass player on James Brown's "Hot Pants" and "Papa Don't Take No Mess" returns for the dance party of the summer. DJ HARLAN spins vinyl all night

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This your chance to party like it's 1967 upstairs at The Mod House for a DAY PARTY! Our first ever collab with Catskills Cocktail Club + pizza made on the spot from The Dale, Saturday June 8 from 3-7pm. Vinyl DJ set by Outlier Music's own Josh Druckman. 

Free Entry for Active and Gold Members (use discount code via Eventbrite to RSVP for free)

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New Jazz Underground , an American trio, have been described as “an innovative and ultra creative collective striving to establish themselves as a defining voice for the genre of Jazz and beyond”. Their music signals a merging of traditional sensibilities in Jazz with the modern influence of swing, hip-hop, house/afro-beat, and afro-cuban music.

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Rising star comedian Stef Dag is bringing a cadre of comedians to Velma including Savannah DesOrmeaux | Gabby Bryan | Zack Signore | Joan Glackin | Gracie Canaan + DJ Nina Tarr! Stef hosts the “Hot & Single” web series. She has performed at The Stand, SF Sketch Fest, Union Hall, The Bell House, or at New York Comedy Festival, and written sketches for Michael Che & Colin Jost, Bill Hader, & Rebel Wilson

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Celebrate 420 at Love, Velma with a special full band performance by Kendra McKinley and a dance party with DJ DeeDee Dame of Wet Noise fame

Kendra McKinley is a captivating, addicting, groovy AF songwriter and performer who self describes as "music for smoking weed with your bra off." She released her brilliant debut LP last year and we are obsessed.

DeeDee Dame is best known for her work with Wet Noise, the queer dance party all about funk and she'll be DJing throughout the evening and into the wee hours

Lover’s Lounge is our member’s only, no cover lounge night featuring Everything Nice Records DJs playing vinyl all night. We offer an exclusive cocktails and cannabis menu ONLY available at Lover’s Lounge, with limited edition strains and more elaborate cocktails. Free RSVP here

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Led by founder, singer and songwriter Ngonda Badila, Lady Moon & the Eclipse is an Oakland-based, 7 piece band that does cosmic-tinged R&B/afrobeat-influenced rhythms with soaring vocals. They have toured with the likes of Thundercat, Kamasi Washington, Amanda Palmer, Maxi Priest, and Tank & the Bangas. "Neosoul with a cross-genre bent that manifests through Afrobeat, gospel and funk. The result is charmingly retro"- New York Times.

Lover's Lounge is our no-cover, member's only lounge night featuring all-vinyl DJ Prestige. It's a great place to meet new friends and chill to amazing music, outstanding cocktails, and an expanded cannabis menu. 
Free RSVP Required Here.