Florist

Brooklyn-based indie folk band Florist plays the Club stage with support from Marc Merza and Imogen Rose.

Florist is a friendship project that was formed in the Catskill Mountains of Upstate, New York in 2013 by Emily Sprague, Jonnie Baker, and Rick Spataro. Felix Walworth of Told Slant has also been a frequent collaborator.

Marc Merza (born Marchael San Felix Merza, May 13, 1989) is a Filipino-American artist and musician based in Los Angeles, California. His recordings are at times improvisational and spontaneous, and other times, heavily crafted, sculpted and reworked. He has spent the past ten years performing and collaborating with other musicians in Brooklyn (New York), Oakland (California), Tokyo (Japan), Lisbon (Portugal), Manila (Philippines) and beyond. He often composes on guitar, clarinet and Kulintang (a Filipino gong set) to speak to others, but the use of tape loops, field recordings and electronic equipment are not foreign in Marc’s music.