Joe's Pub Announces New Events Through 10/11

Joe's Pub has recently added Lynn Loosier (8/12), Lindsay Mendez & the Marco Paguia Trio (8/26), Kate Havnevik (8/27), Carrie Manolakos (8/30), Jennifer Knapp (8/31), Johnnyswim w/ Special Guest Maya Azucena (9/11), Man in Black Burlesque: Because You're Mine, I Bump 'n' Grind (9/11), Heathers: The Musical (9/13), Happy Ending Music and Reading Series featuring Darin Strauss, Matthew Sharpe, Kristin Hersh & musical guest Anni Rossi (9/15), Girls Like Us feat. Melissa Hammans, Elizabeth Stanley, Carey Anderson & more! (9/19), Abigail Washburn (9/24), Portico Quartet (9/28) & Kim Richey w/ special guest Hannah Schneider (10/11). For more information about any show, please visit JOESPUB.COM.

JUST ADDED:

LYNN LOOSIER

Thursday, August 12 at 9:30 PM; $17

"Never stop singing, cause Girl, YOU CAN SING." - Patti LaBelle

Lynn Loosier is a redheaded, blue-eyed, soul singer, which may seem like an oxymoron to those who tend to judge the book by the cover, but just wait until she opens her mouth to sing... pure soul. Lynn has the natural and effortless ability to connect to each song's story and move an audience, whether performing as a gospel soloist with the NY Metro Mass Choir at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall or singing in the most intimate of spaces. In 2009 Lynn won "Top Dog Performer" at the famous Apollo Theater where she competed for one year against hundreds of people. David Finkle at Backstage Magazine sums up her versatile and raw style with this simple sentence, "Lynn is a saloon singer."

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BIBI TANGA - PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH NEW AFRICA LIVE

Friday, August 20 at 7:30 PM; $20

New Africa Live presents Bibi Tanga, a genre-bending original from the Central African Republic whose new album Dunya (Nat Geo Music) takes listeners on a wild, eclectic tour through the history and pre-history of funk, layering Afrobeat rhythms over electro-tinged soul and cosmopolitan trans-Atlantic grooves. Together with his band The Selenites, they forge a stunningly original new sound, and creates a space where Afro-futurism meets steampunk, Fela Kuti jams with Sidney Bechet, and Marcel Duchamp gets down to Chic.

New Africa Live is sponsored by New York Foundation of the Arts, a 501(c)3 organization.

Lady Rizo: unescorted

Fridays, August 20, Saturday, September 25, Fridays, October 22, November 19 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door

The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs.

But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of bawdy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but it's her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit.

Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. Even though she is venturing out solo, if you know Lady Rizo you won't be surprised if a couple special guests pop up.

BETTINA KOSTER / ADELE BERTEI

Saturday, August 21 at 9:00 PM; $17

"I love it when you put on an album, and it just kicks ass immediately. I love it even more when it continues to kick ass, and then when it's over, you feel compelled to listen to it again! That doesn't always happen, even with some of your personal favorite albums. Bettina Köster's Queen of Noise might not be my favorite album, but it certainly falls into the realm of the type of album I just described. It just kicks ass, and continues to kick ass! I mean, seriously; when something just rocks your lame ass, you know it instantly. For those who don't know who Bettina Köster is, she is the vocalist of the German all-girl band of awesomeness from the early '80s known as Malaria!" - Julie Finlay, popshifter

THE BUKOWSKI PROJECT: PERFORMED BY Ute Lemper AND HER BAND

Thursday, August 19 at 7:00 PM, Saturday, August 21 at 7:00 PM, Sunday, August 22 at 7:00 & 9:30 PM; $30

The Bukowski Project
performed by Ute Lemper and her band
adapted from selected poetry by Charles Bukowski
Special Thanks to Linda Bukowski and The Estate of Charles Bukowski

A journey through the poetry of Charles Bukowski from the books:
The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire
You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

Artistic idea and conception and music by Ute Lemper with additional composition and arrangements by Todd Turkisher & Vana Gierig.

BROADWAY IMPACT'S SUMMER SERIES W/ THE CAST OF MEMPHIS

Monday, August 23 at 7:00 PM; $25 / $100 VIP

Broadway Impact is overjoyed to present a night of music with cast members from the 2010 TONY Award winning best musical Memphis. Join us as we spend an evening downtown with this incredibly talented new company to benefit marriage equality efforts.

Randy Blair'S MONSTER BALLS

Monday, August 23 at 9:30 PM; $12

From the creator of the musicals Perez Hilton Saves the Universe! (Best Musical, 2008 New York International Fringe Festival) and Fat Camp (Best of Fest, 2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival) comes Randy Blair's Monster Balls - a Technicolor spectacle of face melting rock belting, inappropriate stand-up comedy, and all around dirty f***ing showbiz.

In this world of irreversible oil spills, mammoth sinkholes, clumsy terrorists, and Debbie Downer Mayan prophesies, it's easy to fall into the black vortex of hopelessness. Let Randy Blair's Monster Balls help you float.

MARIANNE DISSARD / CORDERO

Tuesday, August 24 at 7:00 PM; $17

Listed in the "50 French people making their mark on the USA" in France-Amérique, Tucson-based French chanteuse Marianne Dissard toured extensively and worldwide with her first album, the Calexico-produced "L'Entredeux" (Coup de Coeur from Académie Charles Cros, "Top Ten French albums of the Decade" on various sites...). Marianne showcased at SXSW 2010, where she blogged about the festival for the Huffington Post and released her "Paris One Takes" album (4 stars Venus "a brilliant album"). Her upcoming album, "L'Abandon", featuring Luke Doucet, Thøger Lund (Giant Sand), composer Christian Ravaglioli, Brian Lopez (Mostly Bears), will be released later this year, with its companion DVD, a remake of Warhol's "Lonesome Cowboys".

While Ani Cordero and husband Chris Verene (formerly of The Rock*A*Teens) are best known for their critically acclaimed, tension-laden independent rock, with De Donde Eres, the band has taken a side-route away from the anxious and angular sounds of En Este Momento or Lamb Lost in the City. De Donde Eres finds Cordero further exploring the rhythmic intricacies of Latin music while turning down the guitar amps for a much more quiet and inward set of songs. Ani's ever-nimble guitar patterns are threaded around Latin percussion, pulsing bass notes and bright horn lines as the band wrings a both-sides-of-the-border mystery out of gentle melodies that pay tribute to forebears such as Nick Drake, Belle and Sebastian, and Os Mutantes.

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com, by phone 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.