Esoteric Lounge Music Now: Ruth Mascelli & Mary Hanson Scott

Ruth Mascelli and Mary Hanson Scott live at The Parkside Lounge. Opening set from Eve Essex.

Nov 4 2025

Doors at 7pm / Show at 7:30pm

Early Bird $10  / Advance $15 / Door $20

Ruth Mascelli (of Special Interest) and saxophonist Mary Hanson Scott celebrate the release of their collaborative record Esoteric Lounge Music Now. A night of cosmic drones and Lynchian torch songs from depths of the unconscious. Opening set from Eve Essex.
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Ruth Mascelli pairs slinking, synth-fuelled transcendence with crooning, existential balladry. Softening the edges of the industrial textures he provides as one quarter of the notorious synth punk band Special Interest, Mascelli’s solo performances present a carefully constructed sequence of electronic mood pieces and melted torch songs infused with a desolate cosmic romanticism.

Mary Hanson Scott is a musician and composer based in Minneapolis. She has performed at Drone Not Drones in Minneapolis, International Noise Conference in Miami, Big Ears Festival in Knoxville (with Green Ribbon), basements, plant stores, galleries, churches, and more. She spent many years in the New Orleans experimental music scene while developing a reedy, textural, psychedelic sound. Mary has studied at the Deep Listening Institute and her work explores the interplay between sound, the body, the earth, and the cosmos.

Eve Essex is a composer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in New York City. She performs with voice, woodwinds and electronics, harnessing elements of distorted pop, avant-jazz, chamber music and drone.

21+ 

Accessibility Information:
The bar is on the ground floor. The performance venue and accessible bathrooms are accessed via a portable ramp (1.5 steps). All tickets are general admission first come first serve, but if you have accessibility needs and need a seat, need to be close to the stage, or will be coming in a wheelchair, please let us know at checkout and we will have a spot reserved for you.  Strobe lighting and fog may be used in this performance.