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Eric Ziegenhagen: 10 p.m.

The Small Ponds (Caitlin Cary & Matt Douglas): 11 p.m.

Songs both joyous and sad, raucous and hushed.

Good food and drink, with six kinds of hot-chocolate bowls.

Tickets: $10

Dinner reservations guarantee seating: (773) 929-3680.

Uncommon Ground Wrigleyville (*not* Devon): 3800 N. Clark.

Menu and details at: http://www.uncommonground.com/pages/clark_home/19.php

Eric Ziegenhagen plays spare songs on a four-string nylon-string guitar slung across his lap--accompanied at this show by Elizabeth Lindau (violin) and John Saunders (saxophone).

About The Small Ponds:

Caitlin Cary has played the violin and written songs since she was little, but fell into music as a life when she joined the seminal alt.country band Whiskeytown as it was forming in Raleigh, where she was a graduate student in writing at N.C. State. Since then, she has released four solo recordings, formed a reknowned all-girl super-group called Tres Chicas, and made No Depression Magazine’s top 20 of the decade list with Begonias, an album of duets with Thad Cockrell.

Matt Douglas’s training began with woodwind instruments, and he graduated as a contemporary music performance major from NYU. From there, he headed to Hungary on a Fulbright scholarship as a student of folk music traditions. It was there that he first picked up a guitar and began to write songs, which led to the formation of innovative pop ensemble The Proclivities, who recently released their second LP. Douglas has also lent his talents to the recordings of artists such as Josh Ritter, Erin McKeown, Mark Erelli, and Laura Cortese.

Today, The Small Ponds are eagerly poised to share their songs with a wider audience. New, fast friends, Cary and Douglas are busy creating delightful new music based around their combined talents and their penchants for clear-headed, clear-spoken lyrics, precise, knowing arrangements, wide-ranging, emotionally packed songs—all brought to life by a tender vocal interplay that may inspire new entries to the dictionary definition of “duet.”