THE FATES NYC
with Mike Jacobs sitting in on guitar
Tinker Street Tavern, Woodstock NY · Saturday, November 14 · 8:30pm

The Fates have been making their music their way since 2012: a New York roots, rock and soul band built on blues, jazz and funk, with a book that runs from The Band to Albert King to Dylan. They’ve played Garcia’s at the Capitol Theatre, the Red Lion, Wolffer and Dinosaur BBQ, and they keep exactly two rules: do it for the music, and refer to rule one.

Sitting in this Saturday is Mike Jacobs, guitarist and frontman of the NYC rock band Evil Jake, who sold out Arlene’s Grocery twice this year.

Jacobs studied classical guitar at Yale under Ben Verdery and co-founded the power-pop band The Pasties alongside Sam Endicott of The Bravery. He has played with Vernon Reid of Living Colour, Pat Metheny and members of the New York Dolls, shared stages with The Strokes, the Charlie Daniels Band and Colin Hay of Men at Work, toured for the USO through Bosnia, Kosovo and Iceland, turned up in Jack Black’s School of Rock, and played guitar on a national Mountain Dew commercial with Macy Gray. He’s endorsed by Budda Amplification and Reverend Guitars, and he plays a Telecaster. Lycos Music called him “great instrumentation from this guitar virtuoso.” The Village Voice went with “allegedly quite fun.”

He’s no stranger to this room: Tinker Street Tavern in 2024, a summer run at the Woodstock Pub, opening for Marc Black at The Colony, and a guest DJ turn on WDST Radio Woodstock.