Ibeyi, Ryan Raftery, Kellylee Evans and More Among 'Rising Stars' at Joe's Pub This Winter
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 11, 2014
Since Joe's Pub at The Public opened its doors in 1998, it has been a stomping ground for both the masterful legends and powerful young voices of music and the performing arts.
This winter (November 2014-February 2015), Joe's welcomes a slate of emerging musicians, performers and artists including soulful French-Cuban twin sister duo Ibeyi, critically acclaimed performance artist Kalup Linzy, cabaret charmer Ali Grieb and more on the cusp of major careers. These artists, full lineup below, are the ones to watch.
Thursday, November 13 at 7:30 PM
$14
Dream-pop artist Nasimiyu brings her composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist zing to her forthcoming EP, "dirt." The genre falls somewhere on the earthier, dirtier, brassier side of the indie pop spectrum. Brought up in a half-Kenyan, half-Scandinavian household in Minneapolist, Nasimiyu went on to develop her sound under street performers, voodoo practitioners and a marching band for 4 years in New Orleans. Now a Brooklyn resident her work on the EP has been global, from Sweden to Louisiana, and demands attention as a safari of gossamer, hearty music and a background like none other.
Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
$20 adv / $25 door
Guatemalan-born Gaby Moreno's blend of blues, jazz soul and R&B has made her a rising star on the world music scene. She has been touring tirelessly for several years, most recently with Hugh Laurie, and other sold out dates in Canada, USA and Europe with artists as Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco and Van Dyke Parks. She shared the stage with Bono and Grammy Award-winners Angelique Kidjo and Lupe Fiasco. Moreno won Best New Artist at the 2013 Latin Grammys and the Grand Prize at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. This recognition earned her an invitation by Yoko Ono to unveil the John Lennon Educational Bus.
David Garza's been making his mark since the late '80s, when he emerged from the fertile Austin, Texas music scene with his inimitable blend of glam-rock, power pop, Latin folk, blues and even musique concrete. Through a couple of major-label albums and a trove of indie releases, he's embodied the troubadour, the guitar hero, the post-punk provocateur, the falsetto-wielding loverman, the effects-looping mad scientist, the griot-but always a storyteller, relentlessly seeking that human connection.
Tueaday, November 18 at 7:30 PM
$15
Daughters of the great Cuban percussionist Anga Diaz, the 19 years-old twin sisters of IBEYI quickly charmed the producer of Asa's albums. Lisa-Kaïndé plays the piano and sings, her voice evoking the greats. Her sister Naomi sings back-up vocals and plays percussion. The duo writes their own material in Spanish, French and English. Hailing their musical and personal influences from their father's culture, Yoruba, their name means "twins" in the Yoruban language. Their minimalist sound merges elements of their heritage with their natural love of modern music, forming something entirely new and unexpected that both intrigues and engages their audiences. With their self-titled debut album on the horizon the promise of greatness is certain to be fulfilled.
FREDERICKS BROWN / JENNAH BELL
Wednesday, November 19 at 9:30 PM
$15
Fredericks Brown is New Zealand-born vocalist Deva Mahal and keys player Stephanie Brown, who crossed paths in New York and unearthed a common passion for storytelling. Together their wide-ranging cultural heritage, with Mahal, daughter of legendary blues musician Taj Mahal, drawing on her rich organic soul and blues roots; and Brown, shimmering with sublime kiwi grooves have made them renowned for their energetic live shows, rich harmonies and beautifully crafted songs. With influences that range from Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone their new EP Glass House Mountains, is their most assured and powerful statement yet, full of passionate songwriting and soaring, spiritually-charged melodies.
Jennah Bell is a singer-songwriter whose ravenous musical curiosities inspired her own creative wonderland; her quirky songwriting and indefinability are a direct product of her Bay Area roots. Bell pulls from a colorful palette of folk, soul, R&B, hip?hop, and bluegrass. Bell, a Berklee School of Music graduate, released her first self-produced EP, the experimental Early Bird, and left Boston for New York City in 2011. Since then, she has performed on the 2012 BET Awards, released a 3-piece band session "Live at Mother" on Okayplayer.com, and played shows at SXSW, The Roots Picnic, Blue Note Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and CMJ music festival. She is currently recording her next album.
Sunday, November 23 at 9:30 PM
$12
Rising cabaret star Ali Grieb is known for her irrepressible energy and riveting storytelling. Her magnetic charm and big band sound evoke the Golden Age while her song selections point to her edgy and often naughty brilliance. In her new show Sin Stops Here, Grieb tells hilarious and poignant tales -- true stories from her life -- that could only come from someone who grew up in the Deep South by way of South Jersey with a Bronx-born Jewish mother.
KALUP LINZY: PART OF CREATIVE CAPITAL'S 15th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 25 & 26 at 9:30PM
$20
Celebrating the release of his brand new album Art Jobs and Lullabies, Kalup Linzy will perform live, with a six piece band, selected material from the project, which is also a forthcoming 2015 visual sequel to his 2013 release Romantic Loner. The evening will also include music video interludes, skits and material from his previous albums Sweetberry Sonnet (2008), Sampled and LeftOva (2009) and Romantic Loner (2013). The evening will also feature special guests.
Monday, December 1 at 7:30 PM
$15 adv / $20 door
Imagine if Adele and Kanye West had a love child but Lauryn Hill and Coldplay raised her. That is the best way to describe LaJune's eclectic sound. Honored as the first female rapper to be inducted into BET's "106 & Park" Freestyle Rap Battles LaJune's potential is truly exciting. A Poughkeepsie native and recent Brooklynite, her ambitions of becoming a Rapper, Singer/Songwriter were her main motive to moving to the big city. Now with other performances on VHI, the World Famous Apollo Theater and many other iconic NYC venues under her belt this unmatched powerhouse is without a doubt a star on the rising.
BRIDGET BARKAN in DIRTY LAUNDRY
Saturday, December 6 at 11:30 PM
$15 Adv / $20 Door
Bridget Barkan, a native New Yorker who's been working since birth, literally, returns with her newest show. From child actress in commercials and on Sesame Street, to appearing in films like HBO's Everyday People, co-starring in Sherrybaby, Brian De Palma's Redacted, most recently alongside Phillip Seymour Hoffman in God's Pocket, a guest role on Steven Soderbergh's show "The Knick," and a recurring role as the one legged hooker on "Law & Order: SVU." On stage, Barkan has appeared in various Manhattan Theatre Club productions, she was in the original production of Dog Sees God, and a workshop of Spring Awakening. As a singer, Barkan has toured the world with pop/glam band the Scissor Sisters. She recorded, with legendary house DJ and producer Todd Terry, and released her own album Dear Stranger. Scissors Sisters' Ana Matronic joins her on this show, DJing sets before and after.
Wednesday, December 17 at 7:00 PM
$18
Compared to Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams and Neil Young, singer-songwriter Chris Pureka's birdsong voice and gritty lyrics combine an Appalachian folk flavor with the observations of bittersweet human interactions. Playing coffeehouses at 16, she has matured on the road and released five albums on her own label. Pureka's hypnotic lyrical odes to simple moments of a complicated life have become the staple of folk acoustic playlists for any Americana fan.
Friday, January 9 at 7:00 PM
$20
Singer-songwriter Kellylee Evans is a chameleon-like performer, whose natural charm and improvisational jazz vocal style have shined on her journey through jazz, soul, pop and hip-hop over the past decade. She has released two solo albums of original songs in Canada, earned two Juno Award nominations (winning "Best Jazz Vocal Album" for Nina, her impassioned tribute to Nina Simone), captivated French and Canadian fan bases and opened for such stars as John Legend, Dianne Reeves, Derek Trucks, George Benson and Willy Nelson. She is preparing her U.S. debut on Motéma Music, I Remember When, on which she puts her stamp on songs by hip-hop royalty Eminem, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dog, Kanye West and more. Evans will play first on a double bill with Dobet Gnahoré, singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast.
M.A.K.U. SOUNDSYSTEM / AURELIO
Saturday, January 10 at 11:30PM
$20
M.A.K.U. Soundsystem's highly energetic and distinctive sound, immigrant beat, is enriched with a variety of musical backgrounds culled from each of its members: hints of Colombian Folklore, Psychedelic-rock and Caribbean grooves. Lyrically, M.A.K.U talks about the realities of everyday people, encompassing love, hardships, culture and the immigrant experience, all with a positive, spiritual and sometimes humorous spin. M.A.K.U. released several albums with a fourth slated for early 2015. They have played globalFEST, Chicago World Music Festival, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, Concert of Colors, The Cedar, Small World Music Festival and Levitt Pavillion.
As the world's most-renowned Garifuna musician and the first representative to the Honduran National Congress of African descent, Aurelio is a natural torchbearer. Danceable, infectious Afro-latin rhythms, soaring vocals and an irrepressible spirit combine to make Aurelio 'an emerging superstar of world music.
ERIN MARKEY'S A RIDE ON THE IRISH CREAM
Sunday, January 11 at 7:00 PM
$16
Erin Markey's A Ride On The Irish Cream is a darkly psychedelic story with music. In this work-in-progress performance, an original score and live band become the playing space for the thrills and terrors of a relationship between Reagan (Markey), a vainglorious self-made princess, and Irish Cream (Becca Blackwell), her family's pontoon boat/horse. They are in love, but when their relationship is tested by psoriasis, waterfalls, masculinity, sex for money, cloudy weather, moms and a fatally jealous best friend, the only way to stay together is to remember all the parts of themselves their bodies tried to forget. Words and lyrics are by Erin Markey with music by Emily Bate, Markey and Kenny Mellman. The show features Bate, Markey, Becca Blackwell, Julie LaMendola and Mellman.
I BEG YOUR PARTON: ADDIE SINGS DOLLY
Friday, January 16 at 7:00PM
$15
Once again Joe's Pub hosts Addie Brownlee and her beloved tribute to Dolly Parton, I Beg Your Parton?! Addie Sings Dolly, on Friday, January 16, 2015. Coming a few days before Parton's 69th birthday, the show focuses on the great songs that Parton has performed throughout her career - getting to the heart of what has made Parton such an icon. Fresh off a UK tour with Martha Wainwright, Addie Brownlee was a New Folk Finalist at the Kerrville Folk Festival this year.
Friday, January 16 at Midnight
$14
Born in Austin, Texas, and now based between London and Paris, Hailey Tuck was raised on a diet of 1930's jazz, vintage dresses and black and white movies. Her love of the old school incited her to move to France in search of 'la vie en rose' at the age of 18. Dressed straight out of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel with a captivating voice that sits somewhere between Billie Holiday, Regina Spektor and Ella Fitzgerald, Tuck enchants her audience with classics such as "My Funny Valentine," but also surprises with her unique take on tracks like The Zombies' "Tell Him No," Bob Dylan's 'Don't Think Twice' and 'Sunday Morning' by Maroon 5 - the latter a nod to her sister's long-time rock-star boyfriend James Valentine.
Monday, January 19 at 7:30PM
$20
Sky-Pony is a Brooklyn-based band led by Drama Desk Award-winner and Tony nominee Lauren Worsham (A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder) and her Obie Award-winning husband Kyle Jarrow. The eight-person group serves up lush, lyrical, often cheeky indie-pop with a healthy dose of theatrics. They incorporate costumes, choreography and projections into their high-energy live shows. Rock concert meets performance art meets burlesque, you might say.
RYAN RAFTERY IS THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN FASHION
Sundays and Wednesday, February 15, 18 & 22 at 7:00 PM
Tuesday, March 3 at 9:30 PM
She has sat at the top of a $300 billion industry for twenty-six years. Her power and influence cannot be denied. But when she places a reality star and a certain rapper on the cover of her magazine, the backlash is harsh and for the first time, her credibility is called into question. Through popular music and an astounding measure of creative license, "demented Rat Packer for the millennium" Ryan Raftery returns to Joe's Pub to tell the story of a fateful day in the life of the most powerful woman in fashion.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM daily at 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC. The Box Office window opens daily at 2PM.
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public opened in 1998 and plays a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. Joe's Pub consistently presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers unique opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works. Commissioned artists have included Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more. In 2011, the Pub received a top-to-bottom renovation, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe's Pub presents talent from all over the world as part of The Public's programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually.
ABOUT THE PUBLIC THEATER AT ASTOR PLACE Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public Theater is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. The Public continues the work of its visionary founder, Joe Papp, by acting as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force, and leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day. Creating theater for one of the largest and most diverse audience bases in New York City for nearly 60 years, today the Company engages audiences in a variety of venues-including its landmark downtown home at Astor Place, which houses five theaters and Joe's Pub; the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to its beloved, free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Unit, which tours Shakespearean productions for underserved audiences throughout New York City's five boroughs. The Public's wide range of programming includes free Shakespeare in the Park, the bedrock of the Company's dedication to making theater accessible to all, new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, and a range of artist and audience development initiatives including its Public Forum series, which brings together theater artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines for discussions that shed light on social issues explored in Public productions. The Public Theater is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities.
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