Jane Lynch, Our Lady J, Birthday Sax and More Coming Up This Month at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Aug. 17, 2015
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its upcoming nightly performances, running August 19-30. Visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows or scroll down for details!
Sunday - Wednesday, August 16-19 at 7PM & 9:30PM
$25-75
Fresh from her iconic portrayal of Sue Sylvester on "Glee" and her Broadway debut as Miss Hannigan in "Annie," Jane Lynch returns to New York City to perform her new musical comedy "See Jane Sing." The show comes full circle for Jane as she debuted the act at 54 Below last year to rave reviews. Taking the stage at Joe's Pub for a four day run, Jane's show has evolved to include special guests like Kate Flannery of "The Office," who plays Jane's mischievous vocal partner, and Tim Davis, the talented former musical arranger on "Glee." The Emmy and Golden Globe winner also designed a fresh song list boasting delightful new takes on "If Wishes Were Rainbows", "Mr. Monotony", "Far From the Home I Love", and "Skeletons/Blood" from A Mighty Wind. Not your typical Broadway narrative, Lynch, accompanied by a five-piece band, builds the evening around her musical chops and comedic wit and charm.
OUR LADY J: GOSPEL FOR THE GODLESS
Thursday, August 20 at 7:30PM
$20
New York ex-pat Our Lady J paints the church pink with Gospel for the Godless, an exhilarating musical celebration of original songs penned by the Lady herself and accompanied by the Train-to-Kill Gospel Choir. Inspired by conventional Gospel music, this show is anything BUT traditional, promising to deliver you from your woes, sans the usual dogmatic baggage.
Thursday, August 20 at 9:30PM
$15
Shrive Alive is led by Jon Shriver (guitar) and features Fred Cash (bass), Alex Nolan (guitar) and Greg Gonzalez (drums). Shriver is inspired by classic rock guitar greats, largely Jimi Hendrix, along with blues and be-bop musicians. He has spent valuable time in Mississippi with Fat Possum Records, working with greats like R.L Burnside and T-Model Ford. His talents span beyond the stage and into the studio where he has produced for Nas, and was featured on guitar in the Michael Mann/Will Smith movie "Ali". Shriver has also worked as an engineer with many Hip Hop and R&B legends including Mary J. Blige, Notorious B.I.G., Jodeci and Wu-Tang Clan.
Bullfighter is Karl Sturk (vocals, guitar), John Haenle (bass, back-up vocals) and Mike Ciardi (drums). Though they connected initially over a young love of hardcore punk, the trio put other influences like The White Stripes, The Band and Neil Young to work in their music - gritty, driving rock with an emotional, lyrical core. Bullfighter has a forthcoming EP, due out in late summer.
HUMMING HOUSE W/ OPENER MATT SUCICH
Friday, August 21 at 7PM
$15
Humming House is a quintet that embodies modern day Nashville's blend of edgy, independent artistry with its legacies of folk, soul, and bluegrass. Formed out of informal Irish music jams and the songwriting of Justin Wade Tam, the five musicians have worked together on a sound that balances passion and energy with thoughtful arrangements. They've played major festivals and prestige music venues. They've released two studio albums and one live recording since 2011, the latest being Revelries.
Matt Sucich spent 2014 writing, performing, and recording the follow up to his self-produced 2012 full-length 'Layers.' His band was also with him. So was his producer & engineer Paul Loren. They immediately released a single in the spring of 2014, 'The Lonely Dreamer.'
TAJ WEEKES & ADOWA: LOVE, HERB, AND REGGAE
Friday, August 21 at 9:30PM
$14
Love, love, love. It really is all you need. That's what Taj Weekes believes. And love doesn't know boundaries. It's the heartbeat of life. It doesn't matter who you love, just as long as you do love. That's the message behind "Here I Stand" the first single from Taj Weekes & Adowa's fifth album, Love, Herb & Reggae.
Saturday, August 22 at 7:30PM
$15
EliaCiM is a singer, songwriter and musician, who was born in the Dominican Republic. Songwriting is EliaCiM's life and truest talent, which was realized by Sony / ATV Music Publishing in 2011. He has written for various artists, including: Luis Fonsi, Amaury Gutierrez and Samo, of Camila.
Saturday, August 22 at 9:30PM
$12 ADV / $15 DOORS
Your favorite 1980s soundtrack songs re-imagined by a German überfan and a saxophone quartet at his birthday party. Come rock out with Manheim Tuttlingen, his Frauleins and the Garden State Saxophone Quartet as they crank out his all-time favorite hits from Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Back to The Future, The Goonies, Sixteen Candles, The Neverending Story and more. Birthday Sax is created and performed by Tim Girrbach (Squirm and Germ) and directed/choreographed by Wendy Seyb (The Pee Wee Herman Show on Broadway / HBO, Murder For Two, The Toxic Avenger Musical).
Sunday, August 23 at 7:30PM
$25
One of Ireland's great raconteurs, Finbar Furey brings his rare talents to a world-wide stage and treats audiences to evenings of pure Irish magic, great music, good humor and his charm and sparkling wit. Not only is he an all-Ireland Uillean Pipe Champion and whistle player, the singer / songwriter plays 5-string banjo and guitar. Furey and his brother Eddie are old pros, recording for Transatlantic Records in the 60?s and achieving fame with the Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur.
DOM SALVADOR SEXTET: THE ART OF SAMBA JAZZ
Sunday, August 23 at 9:30PM
$20
Legendary Brazilian pianist, composer and arranger Dom Salvador won the 2012 Brazilian Music Award with his last album The Art of Samba Jazz (Salmarsi Records). Featuring 11 of his original compositions, many of which they will perform at Joe's Pub, their album is a homage to the Pre and Bossa-Nova periods of Rio de Janeiro. Samba Jazz is a combination of American Jazz and Samba. It goes back to the 1920's when Brazilian composers such as Pixinguinha, influenced by the New Orleans rhythms Dixieland and Fox Trot, was the first Brazilian composer to improvise. The 1940's brought more sophisticated melodies and the music was being orchestrated for bigger bands to perform in dance halls for Rio's growing middle class. It was the birth of Gafieira, a festive ballroom style dance music very popular in the 50's.
AMY SPANGER: THIS MUST BE THE PLACE
Monday, August 24 at 7:30PM
$20
Broadway gal Amy Spanger and her partner, musical whiz-kid Kris Kukul, are proud to present This Must Be the Place, an evening of rock, pop, music theater, country, R&B and candid storytelling. The show will feature some of the songs that put her on the map including "Don't Stop Believing" from Rock Of Ages, "Always True To You Darlin In My Fashion" from Kiss Me Kate, and "Come To Your Senses" from tick, tick... Boom! She'll also share some glamorous and not so glamorous tales as she reflects on the places she's lived and people she's lived with along the way including a budding schizophrenic, a pair of cocaine enthusiasts and a couple of husbands.
Monday, August 24 at 9:30PM
$20
Belter and bad decision expert Tori Scott returns for another evening of brassy songs and slurred autobiographical stories. In Thirsty!, her 11th solo show at Joe's Pub, she continues to evaluate her poor life choices, blame her mother, and celebrate her love of vodka. As a singer, she's graced the stages of 54 Below, the Laurie Beechman, the Metropolitan Room, and every gay bar on the Eastern Seaboard; as an actress, she's counted to 20 as a singing garbage woman on Sesame Street and dubbed the vocals of a singing hooker on HBO's Cathouse: The Musical; as a woman, she strives every day in every way to be a consummate lady and sometimes wonders if she actually still has a liver or not.
Tuesday, August 25 at 7:30PM
$15
Nick Garrie is renowned in psychedelic collectors' circles for his 1970 debut The Nightmare of J.B. Stanislas, a Baroque pop masterpiece effectively buried by nonexistent distribution and promotion. Born June 22, 1949, in Yorkshire, England, to a Russian father and Scottish mother, Garrie spent the majority of his adolescence at a French boarding school. He began writing songs while attending Warwick University, but his interests primarily lay in surrealist literature and poetry and he didn't mount a performing career until 1968, playing bars and restaurants while backpacking through the south of France.
Tuesday, August 25 at 9:30PM
$12
Medea's back and she's putting the pulse back in expulsion. Fresh off its run as a part of DC's Capital Fringe, GIRL VERSUS CORINTH is a "wildly ambitious" new musical returning to New York. The show synthesizes an electro-pop score, "slick choreography," feminist history, and the text of Euripides's Medea into a "beautifully produced" theatrical event that is "Design-wise... a marvel." Come hear Medea retell the events that make her infamous, and invoke the spirit of women who've found justice all their own. Words and music by Daniel Baird Jr, created in collaboration with and directed by Catie Sanderson Davis.
Wednesday, August 26 at 7:30PM
$16
The winner of this year's Davenport Songwriting Contest, Zoe Sarnak writes music that crosses genres, blending pop, rock, hip hop and soul. Her music has been featured by The Lilly Awards, New York Musical Theatre Festival and more, and in venues from Playwrights Horizons and New York Theatre Workshop to 54 Below and the Highline Ballroom. Join Zoe and some of her friends, including Laura Dreyfuss (Glee), Jay Armstrong Johnson (On the Town), Lauren Pritchard (Spring Awakening) and Kyle Scatliffe (Les Miserables) for a night you won't want to miss.
BRIDGET EVERETT & THE TENDER MOMENTS
Wednesday, August 26 at 9:30PM
$25
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed and completely sold out production of Rock Bottom, New York's downtown darling Bridget Everett returns the stage with her band, The Tender Moments, and a bottle of chardonnay to sing all her favorite love songs and share the stories of the men that made her...feel? From tender moments to prison sex, come get inside her.
ECO-MUSIC BIG BAND: COLORS OF RESISTANCE
Thursday, August 27 at 7PM
$16
The Eco-Music Big Band is proud to debut Colors of Resistance - the joyful story of music that comes from the tradition of resistance to oppression. Fusing virtuosic radical jazz with hip hop, heavy metal, Latin rhythms, and blues forms, Eco-Music Big Band promises a one-of-a-kind experience that intends to propel the jazz idiom into the 21st century. Colors of Resistance program will be recorded this fall for the Eco-Music Big Band's first studio album.
OSEKRE & THE LUCKY BASTARDS / THE ACADEMY BLUES PROJECT
Thursday, August 27 at 9:30PM
$15
The music of Osekre and The Lucky Bastards is alive with treasuring every moment. They play a hybrid of Afropop and ska, punk, and reggae that is equally indebted to Osekre's Ghanaian heritage and the Brooklyn DIY/garage/indie scene that thrived in the late 2000s
The Academy Blues Project is a NYC-based powerhouse quintet led by singer and guitarist Mark Levy with Ben Easton (keys), Brian Barone (guitar),Trevor Brown (bass) and Jim Bloom (drums). The ABP's sound aligns with the great rock 'n' roll show bands. Their original music is comprised of wry, worldly songs that are as much about love and heartbreak as they are about witch hats, shipwrecks, sick women of Old New York, and mysteries of the Hollywood Hills. The band is currently recording their debut album just down the road from The Big Pink in Woodstock, New York.
PROFESSOR CUNNINGHAM & HIS OLD SCHOOL BAND W/ OPENER THE MARSH BROTHERS TRIO
Friday, August 28 at 7:00PM
$15
Take a growling horn section, a grooving and soulful rhythm section, a woodwind/vocalist frontman, add the soul of a New Orleans party, and you've got Professor Cunningham and his Old School. This 7-piece band performs the most swinging and grooving repertoire deeply steeped in the New Orleans tradition; from early jazz to early R&B- the likes of Sidney Bechet, Fats Waller, even Fats Domino!
Friday, August 28 at 9:30PM
$15
Welcome to El Caribefunk---an exotic fusion of Salsa, Funk, and Reggae, where undeniable rhythm and poetry express intense color and feeling and inspire "alegría." This band of Colombians has built a fervent underground following with 2.5 years of nearly non-stop touring in South America. They've headlined festivals with acts like Bomba Estereo and Herencia de Timbiqui, played live on Colombian National Radio, and performed on numerous national television programs including TeleAntioquia and RadioUno, but can still be found playing casually in the plaza after a show or jamming with street musicians. Whether or not you planned to, El Caribefunk's rhythm and positive energy will have you on your feet and dancing from the first note.
Listening to Ryan Tennis is like taking a road trip to a new place with an old friend. Songs range from soul-touching acoustic ballads to roots funk and soul to rollicking reggae covers, but under it all is a foundation of groove and warmth that keeps you moving forward. Tennis' sound has drawn comparisons to Paul Simon, Bill Withers and Ben Harper--surprising likenesses for an all-American college football player turned singer/songwriter.
Saturday, August 29 at 7:00PM
$18
Ever since his wild early days as a front man for The Lost Planet Airmen, Commander Cody has plowed his own path through the fields of the American music scene as one of its few truly unique and iconoclastic figures. His special blend of old-time rock n' roll, redneck, country, boogie-woogie and swing has virtually defined American roots music."
Saturday, August 29 at 9:30PM
$15
Ida Blue channels the spirit of Memphis Minnie, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Robert Johnson, Sister Wynona Carr and others in her second appearance at Joe's Pub. The first show, a tribute to Lady Day, was an absolute smash hit. Blue's performance garnered the full attention of NYC's music lovers and industry alike, and pulled multiple standing ovations from a full house that begged for more.
Sunday, August 30 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv / $20 Doors
Mekaal Hasan founded Mekaal Hasan Band in 2000, with the intent of featuring traditional music from the subcontinent in a progressive rock-jazz based musical style. The band achieved mainstream success in the sub-continent and across the fusion world from 2004 onwards with its recordings and live performances, leading the band to win numerous awards for their intense live performances and also establishing them as representative of a modern yet traditional style of South Asian music with roots in folk, classical and jazz and literary roots in poetry and writings of Sufi sages and modern Punjabi poets like Amrita Pritam.
Sunday, August 30 at 9:30PM
$20
A Texas native turned New Yorker, Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet and sad folk songs, tempered with a healthy dose of humor, around the globe since 2006. He also appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell's indie film sensation Shortbus, in which his song "Soda Shop" was the highest selling song on the film's soundtrack album (released by Bright Eyes' Team Love Records).
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7:00PM daily at 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM. There is a $12 food / two (2) drink minimum per person per show, unless otherwise noted.
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'sPub; 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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