Abby Powledge: The Starting From Scratch Tour
About This Event
On The Starting From Scratch Tour, Abby Powledge brings a band-forward set built on direct songwriting and disciplined live repetition to Mercury Lounge. She is joined by Bridey Costello; both favor tight arrangements and clear vocal delivery over studio ornament, a fit for the club’s close-quarters focus on dynamics and lyrical detail.
About The Starting From Scratch Tour
“The Starting From Scratch Tour” arrives at Mercury Lounge as a rock/pop set built around Abby Powledge’s songwriting, where personal narrative and stagecraft share equal weight. The room’s scale matters here. Mercury Lounge has long served as a proving ground in New York City’s live-music ecology, a place where new material gets tested in public and scenes quietly take shape. The tour leans into that tradition, treating performance as a document in progress. One clear takeaway: the songs favor detail over spectacle.
About the Artists
Abby Powledge
Abby Powledge is a rock/pop artist whose work centers on direct songwriting and a band-forward sound. On *The Starting From Scratch Tour*, she brings that material to New York City’s Mercury Lounge, a room that rewards tight arrangements and clear vocal delivery.
Bridey Costello
Bridey Costello is a rock/pop performer who has appeared on New York City bills at Mercury Lounge, working in the close-quarters club tradition where arrangement and voice carry the room. She has shared stages with Abby Powledge, including dates tied to *Abby Powledge: The Starting From Scratch Tour*.