Musician and lyricist Alfonso Velez, developed a loyal fan base the old fashioned way: playing live. For six years, his weekly Sunday basement residency in the West Village grew an audience and his original songs became setlist standards which have now lifted&nbsp;him onto the stage.Songs like&nbsp;A Year in a Night&nbsp;and&nbsp;Barcelona Birds&nbsp;and his beautifully unique interpretations of songs by Nina Simone, Harry Nielsen, and Dylan have won him performances on stages like Union Pool, The Bowery Electric,&nbsp;The Mercury Lounge,&nbsp;The Kennedy Center, 9:30 Club, La Flèche D’Or in Paris; sharing marquees with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, Korey Dane, Jesse Malin, Jakob Dylan, The Americans and many more. On-air appearances and interviews at WNYC's Soundcheck with John Schaeffer and songs like&nbsp;Hard Night Buddies&nbsp;used in advertising, have led him to soon debut the upcoming album&nbsp;Flamingoes&nbsp;At Eclipse.&nbsp;Velez creates a strangely distinct&nbsp;New York Sound,&nbsp;that nods to early and mid seventies records by Paul Simon and JJ Cale, but compliments contemporaries like Father John Misty, Michael Kiwanuka and War on Drugs. He's a narrator who throughout his wandering, both geographically and psychologically, writes lyrics that are reflective, funny, surreal, but always searching and probing for deeper meaning with style and gifted poetry.&nbsp;Whatever the reason for his national obscurity, he's converted even some of the most cynical and crossed armed New Yorkers. Velez will play a stripped&nbsp;back set; joined on stage by Teddy Pagano (Burlap to Cashmere) on drums. He is currently auditioning bassists.<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://3a7d0f07.streaklinks.com/Cm4n7yqmZjlW3eR0AQqB0uml/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Falfonsoveleznyc">INSTAGRAM</a>