$10 / $8 adv / 10pm doors / 10:30 start / standing
Voodoo Baby Aliens & Luiza Girardello are reuniting at The Lilypad after last month's brief picnic at The Boston Progressive Jazz Festival. This marks Voodoo's first time featuring three singers - Niké Vopalecka, Tiril Jackson, and Aviana Gedler, as well as the band's reunion with its co-founding member; saxophone legend and below-average carpenter - Juanito Saus. Voodoo is delivering a blend of material from their debut album, Masonic Brunch, and new songs. Luiza will not dog sit your dog, nor will she correct your resume. She will, however, speak to you in Portuguese... in different time signatures.
Voodoo Baby Aliens is a 12-piece Boston-based post-rock group composed of musicians from eight different countries and four different planets, none of which are Planet Earth 2.0, which has been legally owned and earnestly cherished by the band’s lead vocalist Mahya Hamedi for the past year. The band’s landlord, Pavle Zvekic, claims that Voodoo’s eclectic sound takes influences from genres such as post-rock, post-punk, indie rock, alternative rock, stoner, American minimalism, and his cat’s purrs.
The band includes members from Serbia, Macedonia, France, Spain, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the US. In essence, Voodoo Baby Aliens is the definitive antidote to the Austro-Hungarian post-pop depression.
The band released their debut album “Masonic Brunch” on December 13th , 2024.
Though raised in an artistic family, Luiza Girardello hesitated to pursue music professionally — until a pivotal period of her life reshaped everything. Amid a battle with cancer and a mental health crisis, she wrote her first original song between chemotherapy sessions, marking the moment she fully embraced music as both refuge and purpose.
Now a Berklee College of Music graduate (’23), Luiza has built a growing presence in the US and Brazil, performing in select cities while expanding her reach. Her 2024 New England Songwriting Contest win for “I See You” (Jazz/Blues) showcased her gift for merging intricate musicality with lyrical vulnerability. Her upcoming debut album — co-produced and arranged with João Vitor Costa Dias — features a dynamic rhythm section and string quartet, framing her songs as intimate yet expansive explorations of presence, resilience, and human connection.