Free week at Iota

This upcoming week of January 27 Iota will feature four days straight of no-cover shows! Here are four great reasons to brave the cold and stave off cabin fever this freezing week:

• Monday starts out strong at 8pm with five live performances for free by Jackson (of the Weathervanes), Todd Daniel (The Walkaways), Lauren Calve, Grant Skalak (James Francis) and Kenny Paul (from The Highballers)
• Tuesday Jan 28 White Russians galore ate Iota as it is showing the movie The Big Lebowski twice for free at 7pm and 9pm.
• Wednesday is always free open mic night at Iota with anyone getting to play two songs from 8pm to midnight. The night includes fives songs by guest performer Andrew Gaddy of These Future Saints, who is also playing at Galaxy Hut on Feb 17
• Thursday Jan 30 doesn't feature any live music, but instead features DJ Sam Snow spinning for no cover charge starting 8pm.

"Shutdown Reboot" Arcology free show at Iota

Tonight's a special night at Iota as there will be no cover in light of the government shutdown for the show starting at 7:30pm. This Friday, Oct 4 the Clarendon venue is hosting the band Arcology and later on DJ Sam Snow will keep the music going.

"Help Ben Tufts" concert at Iota

Derek Evry is organizing a concert September 10 at Iota to help out another local musician Ben Tufts. Ben is a drummer who has played in 20 some bands regularly, but had a large amount of musical instruments stolen from him in DC this past weekend. So to help out a friend and fellow musician, Derek is throwing a huge concert with tons of local talent to replace the lost equipment. RSVP and more info on Facebook here. There is about 20 live acts playing 10 minutes each at Iota starting at 7pm:

7:00 - Rachel Levitin
7:10 - Luciano Lima
7:20 - Tiger Gilliam
7:30 - Andres Gallego
7:40 - Jasmine Gillison
7:50 - Matthew Berry
8:00 - Mary Battiata
8:10 - Jackson Edwards
8:20 - Andrew Gaddy
8:30 - Lauren Calve
8:40 - Justin Trawick
8:50 - Laura Tsaggaris
9:00 - Derek Evry
9:10 to 9:30 - DJ Sam Snow
9:30 - theScapes
10:00 - StarFK Radium
10:30 - Colin Thompson Band
11:00 - The Beanstalk Library
11:30 - The Cowards Choir
12:00 - DJ Sam Snow (All Night)