Elizaveta, The Skivvies, KulturfestNYC Coming to Joe's Pub, 6/10-21
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 08, 2015
Joe's Pub at The Public just announced its upcoming performances, June 10-21, 2015. Visit us at www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows, or scroll down for more details!
GUESTS: KATJA BLICHFELD, JEANNIE GAFFIGAN, ALEXIS OKEOWO, ISABEL ROSE,
CAROLYN CASTIGLIA, MELINE TOUMANI + MORE
Wednesday, June 10 at 7PM
$20
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring their bestselling Australian literary salon, Women of Letters to New York as a monthly event and celebration of a diverse range of strong female talent. New York's best and brightest writers, entertainers and artists perform a reading of a letter they've written to the theme of the evening. Proceeds from Women of Letters shows are donated to charity, with over $500,000 being raised globally to date. NYC events benefit the New York Women's Foundation.
CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO: LET THE BELLS RING ON ALBUM RELEASE
Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30PM
$20
The Charlie Hunter Trio is a collaboration of musicians Charlie Hunter on 7-string, Bobby Previte on drums and Curtis Fowlkes on trombone. Coming to prominence in the early 90s, Hunter has recorded 17 albums. He plays custom-made seven and eight-string guitars, on which he simultaneously plays basslines, rhythm guitar and solos. Drummer, composer, bandleader and improviser Previte, a New Yorker since 1979, is known for his major contributions to NYC's legendary downtown experimental music scene. Fowlkes first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of John Lurie's the Lounge Lizards. In 1987, he and saxophonist Roy Nathanson, both members of the Lounge Lizards, founded The Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz.
THE LOSERS LOUNGE BATTLE OF THE BANDS: THE B-52'S VS. DEVO
Thursday, June 11 at 7PM
Friday, June 12 at 7PM & 9:30PM
Saturday, June 13 at 2PM, 6:30PM & 9PM
$25
The Losers Lounge returns to Joe's Pub with another run of shows with all of the incredible songs, great performances, irreverent antics and special guests that you've come to expect. This time around, the group is throwing down in an epic Battle of the Bands, pitting two great American rock bands against each other: Devo versus The B-52s!
LOVE RABBIT: THE MUSIC OF PAUL BRILL AND ELIZABETH ZIMAN
Thursday, June 11 at 9:30PM
$15
Elizabeth Ziman and Paul Brill have scored a wide variety of award-winning feature films and television specials, ranging from documentaries to romantic comedies, program themes, and even alongside bands like Daft Punk and Animal Collective. Ziman and Brill bring their recent compositions to life, accompanied by a wide range of collaborators and renowned instrumentalists. The two will also perform favorite selections from their song catalogs and will welcome a number of special guest performances.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE PERFORMS MARIANNE FAITHFULL: EXPOSED
Sunday, June 14 at 7:30PM
$15
Tammy Faye Starlite is back with a new piece, a panoramic retrospective that traces the evolution of the legend Marianne Faithfull from 1960s pop ingénue (As Tears Go By) through her drug addiction in the 1970s when she was a "heroine" of country-folk (The Day That Coke Came to Nashville) to her emergence as a respected artist, making music on her own terms within the 1980s, concurrent with the release of Broken English. She will be joined by two brilliant musicians providing bare, acoustic accompaniment: Barry Reynolds and Kevin Salem.
ELIZAVETA: MESSENGER ALBUM RELEASE
Sunday, June 14 at 9:30PM
$15
With her debut 2012 record Beatrix Runs (Universal Republic), American-born Russian chanteuse Elizaveta distinguished herself as the "5th Element" of pop by mixing opera with electronica, classical and soul. The singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist singlehandedly produced her 2014 EP Hero. The title track went viral and received hundreds of remixes across the web. After her critically acclaimed premiere at New York's Prototype Festival 2014, Elizaveta returns to Joe's Pub to launch her new album Messenger. Her new single 'Trap' (currently featured in a major Russian motion picture) came out May 18, 2015.
Monday - Saturday, June 15 - 20, various times
$18
Presented in collaboration with UJA-Federation, KulturfestNYC will take place in New York City in June of 2015. The Festival, commemorating the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene's Centennial Season, will feature theater, film, lectures, exhibits and music from around the world. Joe's Pub is proud to present the central music component of the festival with six nights of concerts.
Monday, June 15 at 7:00PM
(Israel) Vira Lozinsky, a recent Grand Prize winner of the International Jewish Music Competition in Amsterdam, is one of today's outstanding Yiddish singers. She blends her singing with a variety of musical styles from East European folk from Klezmer, Gypsy, Romanian and Russian, to South American Tangos. Her repertoire includes new material as well as Yiddish folk songs, songs of Bessarabian, Romanian and Polish Jewish poets, and classical and modern Yiddish poets.
Monday, June 15 at 9:00PM
(Japan) Jinta-la-Mvta is a musical group founded in 2004 by Ohkuma Wataru, clarinetist and bandleader of the groundbreaking Japanese experimental folk band Cicala Mvta, and his partner and drummer Kogure Miwazo. Wataru is one of the first Japanese artists to tackle the genre. He has a repertoire of dozens of Klezmer tunes through his distinct perspective, setting him apart among non-Jewish Klezmer musicians.
Tuesday, June 16 at 7:00PM
(Netherlands) Lucette van den Berg is one of the leading voices in the new generation of Yiddish singers. She's performed at theaters, concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America. Her debut compact disc Zing Shtil (2005) was highly praised by the critics. Van den Berg studied with author and composer Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, during which she was given new unpublished songs. Thusly, Van den Berg wrote the arrangements and recorded Friling, which was awarded third prize in the JPF Song Awards 2009.
Tuesday, June 16 at 9:00PM
(Germany/USA) Daniel Kahn, known for his band The Painted Bird, has brought his brand of "Yiddish Punk Cabaret" to rock clubs, theaters, festivals and shtetls from Berlin to Boston and Leningrad to Louisiana. Kahn mixes Klezmer, radical Yiddish song, political cabaret and punk folk music, all kept together by his amazing abilities as a songwriter, translator and performer. He is a consummate storyteller of outrageous incidents, poetically dark, tragically humorous and politically incorrect.
Ron Rifkin & Friends
Wednesday, June 17 at 7:00PM
(USA) Join Tony Award winner and celebrated Broadway, television and film actor Ron Rifkin in an evening of song with special friends including Joel Grey, Debra Monk and more. The musical director and pianist for this show is Zalmen Mlotek.
Wednesday, June 17 at 9:00PM
(Germany) Karsten Troyke is a singer, actor and speaker, best known as an interpreter of Yiddish song. A performer since youth, he takes after his father, a jazz manager, who had started a Jewish culture evening in the 1960s. Troyke's father presented Yiddish literature and Yiddish songs, played from records. Eventually, Troyke joined thee nights, replacing the records with himself singing Yiddish folksongs. He will joined by renowned violinist and composer Daniel Weltlinger, with Zalmen Mlotek on piano.
Thursday, June 18 at 7:00PM
(UK) Merlin & Polina Shepherd play a rare mix of music from several linked cultures. Maintaining the distinct styles, they incorporate improvisation with a unique approach and dynamic energy. They perform new and traditional music from Turkey, Greece, Romania, Russia and the Pale of Settlement Klezmer. A force in the Klezmer renaissance, Merlin is a clarinetist, educator and composer. Polina, a virtuosic vocalist, pianist and composer, blends traditional and new Yiddish and Russian song with Klezmer and southern Mediterranean music.
Thursday, June 18 at 9:00PM
(USA) Klezmer-rock band Golem was founded by Annette Ezekiel Kogan in 2000, and quickly became a leading re-interpreter and innovator of Yiddish and Eastern European music. Golem pushes tradition forward into the 21st century. Known for its virtuosic musicianship, theatricality, humor and wild energy, combined with a boundless love of tradition, Golem is clearly "not your grandparents' klezmer." (NPR)
Friday, June 19 at 7:00PM
(Mexico) Klezmerson is the brainchild of Mexican violist, pianist and composer Benjamin Shwartz who, in 2003, decided to experiment with old and new sounds and different flavors: Klezmer music from a Mexican point of view. Klezmerson combines melodies and rhythms from Europe's Jewish tradition with gypsy and Mexican influences, creating a peculiar fusion of rock, funk and jazz improvisations.
Friday, June 19 at 9:00PM
(USA) NYC-based Isle of Klezbos approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women's Klezmer sextet has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Their repertoire includes neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies, Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking song, re-grooved standards and genre-defying originals.
Saturday, June 20 at 7:00PM
(Netherlands) Well known for her outstanding interpretations of traditional Yiddish songs, her beautiful voice and original compositions of Yiddish music, Niki Jacobs, aka Nikitov, proves that Yiddish music is still very much alive. Backed by the powerhouse acoustic band she's been working with for years, she will sing all her favorite pop-hits in Yiddish.
Saturday, June 20 at 11:30PM
(USA) Andy Statman, one of his generation's premier mandolinists and clarinetists, thinks of his compositions and performances as "spontaneous American-roots music and personal, prayerful hasidic music, by way of avant-garde jazz." This modest man takes for granted that a performer might embody several worlds in his art, and seems humbled by the fact that his music, like his story, is extraordinary.
Friday, June 19 at 11PM
$30
The Skivvies are Lauren Molina and Nick Cearley, an award-winning duo performing stripped down, eclectic covers and comedic, genre-hopping mashups. Not only is the music stripped down (cello, ukulele, glockenspiel, melodica) but the band literally strip down to their underwear to perform. Featured in People's Hottest Bodies Issue as the Most Playful performers, The Wall Street Journal calls them "highly original...smart...ingenious." Molina (Rock of Ages, Sweeney Todd, Candide) and Cearley (Pageant, A Midsummer Night's Dream, All Shook Up) started The Skivvies on YouTube, quickly becoming sensations. Their live show, featuring Tony-winning special guests, is wildly fun, packed with big voices, crazy harmonies, surprises, but no pants.
Saturday, June 20 at 9:30PM
$20
"I remember when I first read the words hanging in a frame on my Grandma Rosa's wall. The serenity prayer was something I couldn't understand until almost thirty years later, but now after experiencing some peaks and valleys of life, those words ring in my ears with clarity." Brian Blade has set those words to music for his first recording as a singer, guitarist and songwriter entitled, Mama Rosa. A revealing journey through 13 songs about loved ones, travel and a sense that these things that shape and inspire us have to be shared with others to complete a circle.
Sunday, June 21 at 7PM
$20
Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox unhinge the stars, sprinkling us with their wry wisdom and groovy guidance. From reading audience's astrological charts to reporting on the current celestial clime to unleashing the metaphysical power of the Zodiac to delving the kinky corners of the multiverse, Starsky + Cox regale showgoers, in words and music, with supernatural tales from the synchronistic road less taken. With musical director Matt Ray, Patrick Johnson and special guest Phoebe Legere.
ROW IN CONCERT: A NEW MUSICAL BY DAWN LANDES & DANIEL GOLDSTEIN
Sunday & Monday, June 21 & 22 at 9:30PM
Monday, June 22 at 7PM
$20
As part of New York Voices, the artist commissioning program of Joe's Pub at The Public, singer-songwriter Dawn Landes (music and lyrics) and director Daniel Goldstein (book) bring forth a new musical called ROW - the heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting story Tori Murden McClure, the first woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Telling parallel stories of McClure's journey across the ocean and through her life, ROW tells a heartbreaking and ultimately uplifting story of finding your heart in the middle of the ocean. This presentation is a concert of songs from the musical, performed by Landes with Xanthe Elbrick (Tori), Lauren Balthrop (Young Tori), Stephen Bogardus (Mac) and more.
For tickets, go online to joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM daily at 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM). NOTE: There is a $12 food / two (2) drink minimum per person per show, unless otherwise noted.
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