I just heard from Sweet Bitters about a couple of shows coming up. One is this weekend at Pete’s Candy Store in Williamsburg.

Just wanted to let you know that the 7th Avenue-singin’ Sweet Bitters will be at Williamsburg’s Pete’s Candy Store this Sat. night at 9 p.m…and at Park Slope’s Bar 4 (7th ave. and 15th st.) at 8 p.m. on Friday, May 30. Hope to meet you sometime soon!

Here are the blurbs on their Myspace page:

Sweet Bitters is a harmony-based acoustic duo serving up tasty,
flavorful folk-pop. Or pop-folk. Whatever. Sweet Bitters was created by
two Brooklyn-based singer-songwriters, Sharon and Nina, who started
blending their voices and said to themselves, "This harmony thing is
fun." Sharon liked singing on Nina’s songs and Nina liked singing on
Sharon’s songs. And they sounded sweet — but not too sweet. A little
bit of bitter thrown in was just right.

"When she’s at the top of her game, Sharon Goldman is one of the
world’s foremost pop tunesmiths, alongside Aimee Mann and Elvis
Costello. Nina Schmir first made a mark in the New York scene as one of
the superb harmony singers in Aimee Van Dyne’s band. Since that group
broke up, she’s been plying her solo work, acoustic songs imbued
equally with devious wit and haunting intensity. The duo’s layers of
harmonies on this album are often wrenchingly beautiful. Each
songwriter contributes two songs to this effort."

—Alan Young, Lucid Culture

 

"They have a song called "Falling Into Place" that’s about a late
afternoon walk up Seventh Avenue in the winter. It’s real pretty. One
of the few songs I know about Seventh Avenue."

—Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn