Stoked for our first non-New Year’s Bella’s Bartok show since September 2021!

Live your fantasy and embrace the stranger side of life with Bella’s Bartok. A band known for raucous theatrical performances and an outspoken political message of finding hope in a world beset by cruel uncertainty. With utter joy, they seamlessly blend a rich cacophony and soul into their music, drawing influences from Punk to Pop, as well as System of a Down and Queen.

Let your freak flag fly high, fiercely, and free, throw your societal inhibitions to the wayside, and seek comfort in the warm sonic embrace of Bella’s Bartok. We are the night, and you are bound to boogie.

JJ Slater travelled to Taos, New Mexico, in 2022 to live in an artist community, though the others later described him as an “enigma”. Leaving before dawn to hike desert mountains or prune Juniper trees before returning for hours-long siestas, he holed up in his casita. He wrote “The Silver Key”, an album about an artist similarly hiding from life and its expectations, in a rural motel where they’d spent their childhood summers. Fully realized, the song cycle marries sinewy blues guitar, sensual backwoods crooning, and slick, bouncing grooves. He is currently touring the album, playing it from start to finish, live in 2025.

Tickets: https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/bella-s-bartok-2025-06-06-stone-church-brattleboro-e60b2f