Shermanology bring live vocals and house to Refuge's sound system Saturday afternoon

The Curaçao-born sibling duo headline a 4 p.m. start at the East Williamsburg audiophile club on Nov. 14, with Dennis Free and Rayzir.

There's a particular kind of Brooklyn Saturday where you walk into a warehouse in daylight and walk out after dark, and this weekend has one. Shermanology play Refuge on Saturday, Nov. 14, with Dennis Free and Rayzir on the bill, and the party starts at 4 p.m. Tickets are on DICE.

Plan your day around that start time. This is an afternoon-into-evening booking, not a 1 a.m. headline set, so the usual Brooklyn plan of a late dinner and then a cab doesn't apply.

Shermanology is Andy and Dorothy Sherman, a Curaçao-born, Netherlands-based sibling duo who both DJ, produce and sing. That last part sets them apart from most of the house acts on a club calendar. Their sets put live vocals over a mix of house, soul and funk-giz-and-kamcoco/41814), so at any moment you may get a voice over the record instead of only the record. The duo has passed 250 million Spotify streams and was named one of Spotify's Mint Artists to Watch. They run their own imprint, D'EAUPE, which put out the 2025 single "Beat of the Drum". Their collaborations include "Tell You What It Is" with Eats Everything and an edit of Fisher's "It's A Killa". They also recorded a Defected Black History Month mix in 2025.

They're no strangers to this borough, either. Their 2026 dates included We Belong Here in Brooklyn. This weekend they come east a week after a Los Angeles date on Nov. 6.

Then there's the room, which is half the reason to go. Refuge opened in September 2025 at 360 Ten Eyck Street in East Williamsburg. It sits inside a mid-19th-century industrial complex with 35-foot ceilings and holds about 500. Founders John Dimatteo and Craig "Shorty" Bernabeu spent seven years on the project, and they say they built the club around the sound system, not the other way around. That system is a 10-foot-tall, four-point analog REX rig that Bernabeu engineered, with every speaker, amp and processor hand-built.

A room built around its speakers, and a headliner who sings over the record.

The house rules fit the sound. Refuge has no bottle service, no velvet rope and no VIP section, and the club discourages phones. For a duo whose appeal is a human voice on top of a groove, that's about as good a setting as New York has: a room where people are actually listening.

Some practical notes. Doors and the 4 p.m. start make this an easy one to pair with an early dinner after. With roughly 500 people, Refuge stays close enough that you'll hear the vocals in the room, not just through the speakers. Buy on DICE ahead of time instead of counting on the door.

Go early, put the phone away, and let the Shermans do the singing.

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