The Perch Cafe may not be the easiest place for 100 people to gather to hear acoustic music but it was the site of one heck of a show on Saturday night.

Perch is a long skinny restaurant. In the front there are tables, in the middle a bar and in the back there’s a tiny performance space and seating area.

Twenty people would fit comfortably back there and it’s a great place for poetry readings and kid’s concerts where a small group can lounge around and let there kids run wild.

About 100 people packed the house for a night of music by the leaders of Park Slope’s new teenage acoustic music scene. Boy oh boy is there talent in our midst.

I won’t brag, but Henry Crawford performing solo grabs an audience by its neck—and heart—and won’t let go. Last night he was a tad tired after his earlier Union Hall show with his band Mighty Handful but his performance of original songs and a smattering of covers was hard to shake. Go man go. Knockout song: Uptown Drunks.

Kane Dulaney Balser, performing with a terrific bass player and his brother Luca Balser, just breaks your heart with the beauty and craft of his self-penned songs, his voice, and his virtuosic guitar playing. Knockout song: Bright Angel Trail

Calamus, a trio with two guitars and an upright bass plays a mesh of country, swing, bossa nova and folk rock that was really fun and original. Knockout song: Act Like You Didn’t

Closing the night, was the event’s organizer Lily Konigsberg playing with her Elliott Smith influenced duo Window Sign Language. She commands the stage with a restrained and quiet vocal power that’s razor sharp. She never pushes and yet holds the audience in her thrall with her ultra-melodic, wise and introspective tunes. Knockout song: The Slowest Song. Watch out for them in 2008.

Watch out for all of these kids this year. There will definitely be more of these acoustic shows.