Joe's Pub Announces Abigail Washburn, Mark Olson & More

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

SEPT 24-26

ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Friday, September 24 at 7:30 PM; $20
"A daring, definite talent, whose feel for the folk idiom results in moving material. Soulful is the word" - Wall Street Journal

If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one's model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She-a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player-is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and entirely unique. Her 2008 release, Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet, featuring Béla Fleck, Ben Sollee and Casey Driessen, was embraced by music lovers and critics all over the world.

At Joe's Pub, Abigail Washburn will perform songs from her new record City of Refuge- a sublime marriage of old-time and indie-pop music with lush instrumentation, picked and sung modal melodies, catchy hooks, and achingly beautiful vocal arrangements.

MARK OLSON

Friday, September 24 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $17 at the door

Mark Olson is a founding member of The Jayhawks, the most acclaimed band to emerge out of the alt-country scene. He left the Jayhawks in 1996, after the release of the band's biggest-selling album, Tomorrow The Green Grass, but continued to record music with his new band, The Creekdippers, at his new home in the California desert.

In 2007 Mark released his first true solo album, The Salvation Blues. A deeply personal album, it also featured the long-awaited reunion with his former Jayhawks bandmate and writing partner, Gary Louris, on three songs.

In 2008 Mark and Gary got together and recorded an album Ready For The Flood, and toured the world extensively after its release for the better part of 2009.

Now it's 2010 and Mark's second solo album Many Colored Kite has just been released on Rykodisc!!!

RAVEN O: ONE NIGHT WITH YOU

Friday, September 24 at 11:30 PM; $20

"...the naked truth and it had the audience laughing and often close to tears." - Black Book
"...the piece amply displays the performer's talents as both story teller and song stylist..." - TheaterMania

Legendary NYC performer Raven O teams up with world renowned musician and composer Ben Allison for an encore performance of the critically acclaimed show "Raven O, One Night With You."

DAN TORRES w/ special guest CHARLOTTE SOMETIMES

Saturday, September 25 at 7:00 PM; $15

"Dan Torres' ability to silence a room with his hauntingly beautiful melodies and heart-wrenching lyrics simply indicates how personally his songs resonate to audience members, each clearly mesmerized by his voice and hanging on the next chord." - Christina Morelli, NYC Art Scene

Dan Torres is one of the hottest acts to grace the New York City music community. He is an artist with the ability to capture perfect words and human emotion, delicately tying them together for songs that move your body and soul. Known for an extreme vocal range that's been likened to the great Jeff Buckley, and scintillating rhythms, Torres has taKen Down the house at many of NYC's hip venues, scoring residencies at Rockwood Music Hall as well as playing to crowds at Bowery Ballroom, Highline Ballroom, Mercury Lounge, The Living Room and more. Joined by his band consisting of New York's finest musicians, Ryan Vaughn on drums/percussion, Patrick Firth on keys, and Brian Killeen on bass, Dan is quickly rising as a name to know in the scene. Impressing crowds with his talent comes as second nature to the brilliant singer-songwriter, but the delivery of his music paired with a touch of class and a genuine appreciation for his audience is what keeps eager fans coming back for more.

VH1 ‘You Oughta Know' artist, Charlotte Sometimes, released her debut album, Waves and The Both of Us (Geffen Records), in 2008. She was named one of the "100 Bands You Need To Know" by Alternative Press Magazine and The New York Times has said "Her style earns her instant attention." While promoting WATBOU, she toured with artists Gavin DeGraw, Pat Monahan, and Butch Walker, as well as participated in the 2008 Vans Warped Tour.

Lady Rizo: unescorted

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

"The brazen blonde belts out classics and pop tunes atop a piano" -- Women's Wear Daily

"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo has, thankfully, upped the ante... throwing in enough hyperfemininity to blow your heart and go down on your mind." - Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice

"Lady Rizo and The Assettes brought down the house."- Men's Vogue

"Rizo's mischievous grin and banter hold the audience captive." - NY Press

"adorably louche"-- Time Out

"Lady Rizo bring(s) out the Broadway in this chart-topper" --Rolling Stone

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.

ELEPHANT LARRY featuring ANDREW WK, JAKE & AMIR, AND MORE

Saturday, September 25 at 11:30 PM; $15

Elephant Larry & Friends

Elephant Larry (Village Voice's Best Sketch Comedy Group) teams up with some very special surprise guests at a very special venue for an extremely special night. Will you join us?

AMBER MARTIN: AMBER ALERT!

Sunday, September 26 at 7:30 PM; $15

"Amber has turned that Big Apple into a quivering pool of applesauce. Listening to her sing is like aural saline." -- Dina Martina

"Like watching Ruth Draper after she's come back from an acid trip during which she thought she was Janis Joplin... Fight for a ticket." -- Willamette Week

In the footsteps of comic character monologists such as Lily Tomlin, John Leguizamo, and Whoopi Goldberg, acclaimed comedic performance artist Amber Martin brings her award winning chops to Joes Pub. Created and performed by Martin, Amber Alert! is an intimately mind-altering hour of meticulously chosen musical and comedic vignettes from Amber's strange and fascinating toybox of characters.

Blending music, video, monologues, movement, and acid-capped comedy with a pristine, multi-octave range singing voice, Amber Alert! is Amber Martin's own serio-comic multiple-personality trip.

Noted as a performer of many faces and voices with boundless energy to burn, performer Amber Martin has left such celebrity audience members as Joyce Dewitt, Michael Stipe, Karen Black, Chuck Palanhuik, Todd Haynes, Dina Martina, John Cameron Mitchell, and Justin Bond howling in ecstasy. So put on your thinking caps for an old school downtown-style cocktail performance by one of the next sensations of thought-provoking musical comedy... Miss Amber Martin.

LITTLE ANNIE

Sunday, September 26 at 9:30 PM; $15

Little Annie aka Annie Bandez, a smokey contralto, raconteur and restless spirit has spent the last 30 years creating a body of work that would take much more space than available to list. Having stepped onto her first stage at the age of 16 the Chanteuse/lyricist, self-taught painter, multimedia artist, and ordain interfaith minister, her music like her life, has defied categorization, limitation, restrictions. Annie's has recorded with vanguard figures of late twentieth century music such as Kid Congo Powers, Adrian Sherwood, Wolfgang Press, Crass, the ON-U Sound Stable, Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Bim Sherman, Coil, Anthony Hegarty, Marc Almond and many fine others) A prolific songwriter she has written for the late Bim Sherman, Paul Oakenfold and most recently Living Color. She has authored three volumes of prose, appeared in numerous plays, theater pieces and films.

2007 saw the release of successful SONGS FROM THE COAL MINE CANARY produced by Antony (of The Johnsons) and Joe Buedenholzer (Backworld) for Dutro Jnana/Southern.

When Good Things Happen To Bad Pianos followed and saw the creative relationship between Annie's with Paul Wallfisch (who dubbed Annie as Queen of torture Soul) finally made legit and put on record. The duo have spent much of their 11 year collaboration touring extensively bringing European audiences to tears. Annie and Paul gave birth to their second album Genderful which has just been released by Southern Records in the UK and garnering much critical acclaim.

Annie and the wondrous Baby Dee are presently collaborating on material for a future release and will be performing together tonight at Joe's Pub.

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com, Phone 212-967-7555, 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.