Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure
July 13 @ 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Sportsmens presents
Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure
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Sunday, July 13, 2025 4pm $15.00
New York-based rock & roll quartet Clare Maloney & The Great Adventure are pushing out past the safe waters of their harbor and into the great unknown of the open ocean on their sophomore record. Flood, Fire & Honey takes the band and the listener on an electric rock odyssey where they encounter tremendous floods, fires and disorienting rearrangements, and find themselves asking the big existential questions. On the lead single and album opener, “The Flood” (released May 15, 2025), Maloney’s powerhouse, opera-trained vocals soar alongside an improvised vocal and guitar duet and a thundering rock sound. Recorded live in one take, the song sets the stage for the album’s sweeping tale of survival and renewal.
Born from a long dark night of the soul, Maloney reveals that Flood, Fire & Honey was inspired by her struggles with depression and self reckoning. “Floods and fires became powerful metaphors for the internal storms I was facing,” she shares. “They mirrored the destruction of everything I thought I knew about myself—and the painful but necessary process of sifting through the wreckage to understand what was worth rebuilding. The songs on this album became my way of expressing and making sense of that chaos, of finding beauty in the breakdown, and of charting a path to being a better, stronger, and more compassionate person.”
Since their first album (Daybreaker, 2022), the band has grown together. They wanted Flood, Fire, and Honey to convey this, so they booked five consecutive days at a studio, rented the apartment upstairs, and resolved to get everything (including two unfinished songs) recorded in that time. Isolated and working on a short deadline, the bandmates relied on each other for every aspect of the process. They brought prowess on their chosen devices: Clare Maloney and Nate De Brine on vocals and guitar; Caleb Estey on drums and vocals; and Russell Gottlieb on bass and banjos. Beyond that, they brought knowledge and determination, keeping an inner ear on the big picture and an outer ear on the fine details, and stayed devoted to the underlying emotional current of the art. When it came time to hit record, the band decided to record everything live to capture the magic of their live performance and the raw intensity of the new songs. The result is a thrilling five song concept album that traces the arc of the hero’s journey from the time the hero is faced with a devastating set back to their ultimate and triumphant return home, beaten but not defeated, worn but wiser.
The foursome developed their spellbinding live sound over the last few years by becoming a force on the touring circuit, playing 250+ shows and opening for legends like Pat Benatar, Los Lobos, The Wailers, and Kevin Bacon’s Bacon Brothers, Donna the Buffalo, Bailen and more. They will be releasing each song from Flood, Fire & Honey throughout the summer of 2025, one song at a time until the full album is out in fall 2025.