What do you get when you mix the vocals of Cat Power, the sounds of Beirut and a hint of Eastern European tradition? You get Olenka and the Autumn Lovers. The London-based band will be performing at Aeolian Hall tomorrow evening to entertain and raise money for their upcoming full-length album.

“The concert is a way of generating funds for and promoting our next album,” says lead vocalist and guitarist, Olenka Krakus. “To record an album alone can cost between $2,000-$4,000 and after all the touch-ups, editing, distributing it can be $7,000-$8,000 — this is what we’re looking at.”

KEEPIN’ THE MUSIC ALIVE. Olenka and the Autumn Lovers, along with other Canadian talents Woodpigeon and Katie Stelmanis, will take to the Aeolian Hall stage tomorrow. (Corey Stanford/Gazette)

Hosted by Open House Arts Collective, the concert is headlined by Olenka and the Autumn Lovers and openers are Calgary’s Woodpigeon and Toronto-based musician Katie Stelmanis.

Woodpigeon is a musical collective lead by Mark Hamilton that has been compared to multi-member group Broken Social Scene. Stelmanis, who is gearing up to play the well-known South by Southwest Festival next month, has an indie-pop sound that incorporates keyboard, synthesizers and opera-like vocals.

Both acts should be a good match for the headliner, who are no stranger to the Canadian indie music scene.

In 2008, Olenka and the Autumn Lovers released three albums including Warsaw Girl, a six-song EP of loosely arranged tracks, a self-titled full-length album and their most recent, Papillonette, a six-song EP of classic folk and country inspired tracks.

“This September, in-and-around the beginning of the school year, I would like to release our second full-length album,” Olenka says.

She also says some of the new tracks will be performed at Aeolian tomorrow night.

Despite being a local band, Olenka and friends have not restricted their talent to the southwestern Ontario — they have travelled across Canada promoting their sound and entertaining the ears of many.

Over the past year their talent brought them to music festivals including the London Ontario Live Arts Festival, North by Northeast and the Home County Folk Festival.

“In the next few months we’ll be playing at North by Northeast and OH! Fest around the tail end of April,” Olenka says of future performances.

The band’s concert tomorrow comes at just the right time to relieve students of some post-midterm anxiety — provided they haven’t jumped on the early bus or train ride home.

The show is Friday, Feb. 12 at the Aeolian Hall located at 795 Dundas St. two blocks east of Adelaide. Tickets can be purchased for $13 in advance at Grooves Records, the Village Idiot or online at www.ticketscene.ca. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets will be sold at the doors for $15.