The Rabbit Box presents Joseph Decsimo and Elise Leavy

Wednesday, Sept. 9th // Doors 7pm // Show 8pm

GA Seated $20 adv. / $25 Door : https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/joseph-decosimo-elise-levy-2026-09-09-the-rabbit-box-theatre-seattle-8c1624

Fiddler, banjoist, and singer Joseph Decosimo has introduced audiences around the world to the beauty and vitality of traditional music from the Appalachian South. Decosimo draws on years of mentorship and community collaboration from his upbringing in Tennessee to his life in Durham, NC to create music that NPR All Songs Considered describes as “classic and current at the same time” and “pushing the sonic boundaries of old-time music ... gorgeous.” Fiery Gizzard, his 2025 Dear Life Records solo debut, reveals him as a powerful champion of traditional music – a sponge who soaks up as much as he squeezes out, a responsive artist who makes his genre accessible, and a magnet who can bring musicians of all sorts into his orbit with his same passion. He’s contributed to recordings by fellow Durham, NC projects Hiss Golden Messenger, Wye Oak, and Jake Xerxes Fussell, who compares Decosimo to “an astute jazz artist, with his perspective substantiated by a fundamental sense of melodic direction and delicate purpose.” Irish fiddle luminary Martin Hayes describes Decosimo’s trio recording Beehive Cathedral (Dear Life Records, 2024) as “grounded, subtle and refined.” He’s long been a key player in the US Old-time scene, winning a National Old-time banjo championship, a blue ribbon in the prestigious Clifftop fiddle contest, and leading the prize-winning Old-time band the Bucking Mules. /// “pushing the sonic boundaries of old-time music ... gorgeous” NPR Music All Songs Considered “an exceptional album” NPR Music “...warm, fuzzy, fabulous” ★★★★ MOJO “Decosimo wraps the plain-spoken melodies of pre-industrial America in layers of drone, giving them a spiritual resonance and mystery.” Aquarium Drunkard “There's no irony, no gloss – just an intuitive feel for time, tone and tune.” ★★★★ Songlines (Top of the World) “Come for the pastoral vibes and timeless hooks, and stick around for the Americana masterclass.” Bandcamp Daily (Essential Releases, Best of Country) “an energetic, enchanting, and often joyful set that feels both timeless and otherworldly” KLOF (Best Albums of 2025)

Armed with her father’s first guitar, a wry sense of humor and a startlingly cohesive and masterful tone to her writing, Elise Leavy writes and sings folk songs that sound like they came straight from Laurel Canyon in the 70's. Often likened to Joni Mitchell and Judee Sill, Elise says it must be the California seawater getting inside her head and heart from an early age. She has been writing songs since she was 8 years old. “I don’t really remember a time before I wrote songs and sang them for people- it’s just always been there…” Since graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music at the tender age of 19, she has taken to the road, having written over one hundred songs at age 27, and traveled the world singing them for the people. She was recently selected as a New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville New Folk Songwriting Competition, and for an official showcase at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance in Albany, NY. Take note because this young artist has arrived as a songwriting force. She sang harmonies on Eamon O’Leary’s record, titled “The Silver Sun”, as well as Alexa Wildish’s “After Love”, and sang harmonies and played accordion on Liv Greene’s most recent record, “Deep Feeler”. She has opened for the likes of Olivia Barton, Sam Amidon, The Brother Brothers, The Murphy Beds, and Nora Brown & Stephanie Coleman, and has shared bills with Viv and Riley, Liv Greene, KC Jones, Gina Leslie, and Chris Acker, as well as many more.