

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Eli Conley Quartet • Briget Boyle • Madeline Tasquin
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Event Description**: The Eli Conley Quartet
—

Eli Conley is a singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and activist based in Sacramento. His new band the Eli Conley Quartet is delighted to be making their Bay Area debut at Ivy Room!

Eli makes country-tinged folk music for queer and trans people, justice seekers, and anyone who doesn’t fit in a box. As a queer transgender man from the South, his work tells stories that aren’t always reflected in roots music. His songs have a habit of making people cry.

Eli founded Queer Country West Coast, a regular series featuring LGBTQ+ country and roots artists in California. He has opened for Carsie Blanton, Heather Mae, and Grammy-winner Kimya Dawson, and been featured in Newsweek, NPR's All Things Considered, HuffPost and the Advocate.

The Eli Conley Quartet features some of Northern California's finest string players: Natalie Hagwood on cello (Dear Darling, Solabel), Tom Shewmake on mandolin (One Button Suit, SloCoast), and Benjamin Kopf on double bass (SloCoast, Solabel). This band of seasoned acoustic musicians weaves together textures that are at times hushed and intimate, at others soaring and dramatic, accompanied by soulful three-part vocal harmonies. At the heart of their sound is Eli's tender, heartfelt voice, urging us to stay open to our grief and our joy.

Briget Boyle
—

With gritty, vulnerable lyrics, powerhouse vocals, and her vintage Gibson J45 ringing like a truth-telling bell, Briget Boyle brings the raw edge of ’90s rock into deeply human territory. Her songs confront grief, love, identity, and chaos with unflinching honesty. There’s no pretending here - just a voice, cutting through the noise, asking: Are you ready to feel this?

Her songwriting doesn’t skim the surface. Mining her life for meaning, Briget crafts anthems out of heartbreak, resilience, and everything we’re usually too scared to say out loud. She doesn't hide the scars; she sings them. Her music is forged in the space between brokenness and transformation, shaped by years of collaboration, community, and the messy process of becoming.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Briget grew up inside the music industry. Her father, the late Tim Boyle, was a legendary recording engineer, and her early musical education took place in Hollywood’s scoring stages, where she contributed to sessions for Starship Troopers, Animaniacs, and Money Talks. By 12, she was writing songs of her own, eventually studying Music Performance &amp; Composition at the College of Santa Fe.

A chance encounter with Balkan folk music changed everything. Briget dove headfirst into traditional singing, performing with Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble, Brass Menažeri Balkan Brass Band, and True Life Trio. That work expanded her voice—literally and metaphorically—and grounded her in community-driven music-making that continues to shape her sound today.

Briget doesn’t sit still. She’s the founder of Waxsimile Productions (an independent label and creative production house), a sought-after vocal coach, a creative director, and a pillar of the Bay Area’s world and indie music scenes. Her work lives at the intersection of tradition and reinvention, voice and vulnerability, structure and soul.

Her latest album, Heartbreak Residue, is a searing exploration of grief, love, and release—songs that don’t resolve neatly but stay with you like a conversation you can’t forget.

Briget is not just making music. She’s making space—for the truth, for the breakdown, for the rebuild.

Madeline Tasquin
—

Madeline Tasquin is an artist of the in-between — composing from the liminal space where grief meets beauty, where ancestral ache meets quantum physics, where the olive grove burns and the calendula blooms. Her new body of work lives in the superpositionality of it all — between the rational and the mysterious, the garden and the war zone, the hymn and the scream. Wordplay and raw testimony. Art-pop and folk. Poetry and fart jokes. A tapestry of harmonic entanglement stitched from complexity, tenderness, and the nerve to stay with what hurts.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/albany/the-eli-conley-quartet-•-briget-boyle-•-madeline-tasquin/200029614828557
- **Event Categories**: music, entertainment, art, performances, literary-art, live-music, theatre, lgbt-pride, country-music-festivals
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://tickets.venuepilot.com/e/the-eli-conley-quartet-briget-boyle-madeline-tasquin-2026-02-08-ivy-room-albany-37ccf3?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=albany-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Albany
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Ivy Room
- **lat**: 37.8904
- **long**: -122.29927
- **full address**: Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706-1603, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Briget Boyle (https://allevents.in/org/briget-boyle/6201092)

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: banner
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/ec593eea9269b18a1a207efa49fdea94f4c30c73628354691aa6d8878db0c891-rimg-w1080-h1080-dcfdfdfd-gmir?v=1770110216
- **Alt text**: thumbnail
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/68b5e43cb69c00204bc577855f602e2e576a25567c065817f43cc03dcbf7d619-rimg-w300-h300-dcfdfdfd-gmir?v=1770110217

## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 08 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Ivy Room, 860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706-1603, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Briget Boyle
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** music, entertainment, art, performances, literary-art, live-music, theatre, lgbt-pride, country-music-festivals
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Eli Conley Quartet • Briget Boyle • Madeline Tasquin ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

## Structured Data (JSON-LD)

```json
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "MusicEvent",
        "name": "The Eli Conley Quartet • Briget Boyle • Madeline Tasquin",
        "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/ec593eea9269b18a1a207efa49fdea94f4c30c73628354691aa6d8878db0c891-rimg-w1080-h1080-dcfdfdfd-gmir?v=1770110216",
        "startDate": "2026-02-08",
        "url": "https://allevents.in/albany/the-eli-conley-quartet-•-briget-boyle-•-madeline-tasquin/200029614828557",
        "location": {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "Ivy Room",
            "address": {
                "@type": "PostalAddress",
                "streetAddress": "860 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706-1603, United States",
                "addressLocality": "Albany",
                "addressRegion": "CA",
                "addressCountry": "US"
            },
            "geo": {
                "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
                "latitude": "37.8904",
                "longitude": "-122.29927"
            }
        },
        "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
        "description": "The Eli Conley Quartet\n—\n\nEli Conley is a singer-songwriter, teaching artist, and activist based in Sacramento. His new band the Eli Conley Quartet is delighted to be making their Bay Area debut at Ivy Room!\n\nEli makes country-tinged folk music for queer and trans people, justice seekers, and anyone",
        "organizer": [
            {
                "@type": "Organization",
                "name": "Briget Boyle",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/org/briget-boyle/6201092",
                "description": "Briget Boyle is a singer-songwriter based in Oakland, CA. With training in fields as diverse as African drum and dance, Balkan folk singing, Swedish massage, and theatre tech, Briget is an engaging and complex performer who brings a lifetime of discovery and struggle to her music.\n\nBriget began singing backup for her mother, Karen Tobin, at the age of 7, and working for her father Tim Boyle in Hollywood’s film scoring studios at the age of 14. It was at that age that she found her creative voice and began writing songs. Love, loss, loneliness–she experienced those foundational triumphs and tragedies throughout her formative years and they kept her writing through high school and into college.\n\nBriget’s musical development was supercharged in college by her discovery of Balkan music. This style that had nothing to do with her own would eventually claim her musicianship for a time. Briget first attended the Balkan Music and Dance workshop in Mendocino, CA, in 2003 and became hooked on the music she found there. Shortly thereafter, Briget moved to Oakland to sing with Kitka Eastern European Women’s Vocal Ensemble, one of the most respected American groups performing Balkan folk music today. She performed with Kitka for eight years, and was also lead singer and percussionist for the Balkan band Brass Menažeri for nine years.\n\nShe currently performs with True Life Trio, an innovative vocal ensemble that explores music from the Balkans and the Americas. The trio sings traditional music as well as original arrangements and compositions. They have just been commissioned by the East Bay Community Foundation to create a new work entitled Like Never and Like Always, which will premiere in November 2014.\n\nAs True Life Trio begins to expand its creative boundaries, Briget is also reclaiming her own style as a solo artist, taking her diverse life experiences and musical influences and weaving them seamlessly into poignant vignettes. You can see yourself in the stories she tells of following the wrong person down what you already know is the wrong road; of trying to connect with someone who has always been too far away; of feeling the first meaningful touch from someone who will one day love you the most."
            }
        ]
    }
]
```