Enjoy live music on Thursday Nights in the ca. 1883 Tavern at The Stewart House in Athens, NY. While you’re here, enjoy Happy Hour from 4 to 5pm (half off any beverage), and our Thursday Night Burger & Beer Special - Have a burger (regular, veggie, or special), and we'll include a beer of your choice.

Matt Munisteri is a singer, a songwriter, and a nationally recognized guitarist whose wide-ranging work in the Jazz and American Roots idioms has had this native New Yorker either touring nationally and internationally, or in the studios, for over two decades. Whether swinging out on songs both funny and poignant with his own bands; flying high with virtuosos like violinist Mark O’Connor; lighting up recordings by singer-songwriters like Loudon Wainwright or Kat Edmonson; pushing the boundaries with Steven Bernstein; or mining deep cuts from the American songbook with iconic jazz singers like “Little” Jimmy Scott and Catherine Russell, Munisteri is a forward-thinking traditionalist who’s always dazzling and down-to-earth, bluesy and rhapsodic - in short, reliably beyond category.

"One of New York’s top vintage guitar stylists” - Downbeat

"A present-day ironist with a pre-war heart” - The New Yorker

“Jazz musicians aren’t supposed to write lyrics that good…bands like this are why you move to New York” - The Village Voice

“Recalls a time when instrumental virtuosity, harmonic sophistication, bucolic storysongs, and a straightforward emotional delivery were not mutually exclusive” - Acoustic Guitar

http://www.mattmunisteri.com/