Staycation New York Performances

“Staycation” at Brooklyn Paramount is less a getaway than a local survey of sound, staged inside New York’s ongoing concert revival. The bill hinges on an unusual naming collision: Lawrence Henry Gowan, the Canadian singer-keyboardist known for work with Styx and his solo catalog, shares the night with Lawrence, a New York pop-soul group built around tight vocal writing and band-forward grooves. Framed here in a Hip-Hop/R&B context, the pairing turns into a small study of identity and expectation. The earned irony is that a “staycation” becomes a trip between two Lawrences without leaving Brooklyn.