Marta Gomez, Cole Escola, et al Set for Joe's Pub Performances in May

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. The following performers are set to make appearances May 17-20:

MARTA GOMEZ
Tuesday, May 17 at 7:30 PM; $17

Marta and her group perform a repertoire of original compositions based on a vast amount of rhythms from Latin America. On her songs, Marta mixes the joy of the Caribbean with the nostalgia of the Andes adding jazz and pop elements, taking the authenticity of South American indigenous folk music into a new realm.

In addition to performing music from her vast repertoire, Marta and her band will play brand new songs from her recently released studio album, El Corazon Y El Sombrero (the heart and the hat), which is an homage to poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

With more than 70 composed songs, This young singer-songwriter not only traverses a whole range of Colombian cumbias and bambucos, Argentine zambas, Chilean cuecas Bolivian carnavalitos and Peruvian festejos but she also writes the kind of melodies and refrains that translates across any language barrier. That may be the reason that lead Marta to share the stage with musicians of different genres such as Bonnie Raitt , John Mayer, Totó la Momposina and Mercedes Sosa.
Marta was also chosen to record Kris Kristofferson's "The Circle" on a tribute to this great American icon. Marta "lifted that song up to when it's supposed to be, to where it belongs" According to Kristofferson's own words. American writer John Sandford made a reference to that version of "the circle" on his novel "Dark of the moon" (2007).

In March 2003, Marta's song "Paula Ausente" based on the book "Paula" by Isabel Allende, won the The SIBL Project International songwriting contest as the best song inspired by a South American book. The song was included on a CD among others by artists such as Tom Waits and David Bowie. "Paula Ausente" was also included on the Putumayo Compilation "Women of the world: Acoustic"(2007) and included on the soundtrack of the HBO Latin America's series "Capadocia". Her song "La Ronda" was also included on the Putumayo compilation "Women of Latin America" (2004) and in 2005 Marta was chosen by "Fucsia", a Colombian magazine as one of the 5 Most representative women of her country.

With five albums under her belt, her self-released "Solo es vivir" was chosen by The Boston Globe as one of the 10 best albums of 2003 and her "Cantos de Agua Dulce" (2004 Chesky Records), was nominated for the Billboard Latin Music Awards as best Latin Jazz Album among Paco de Lucia's, Nestor Torres' and Gonzalo Rubalcaba's. Her album "Entre Cada Palabra" (2005 chesky records) placed Marta Gómez as "The Best National World-Music Act of 2006" by the Boston Phoenix.

Marta also tours regularly with beloved Israeli musician Idan Raichel.

Marta is nourished by the everyday stories, and from this nostalgia, songs emerge with a deep social and human content. In an interview on the National Public Radio, journalist Steve Inskeep said he admires Marta's capacity of "turning the bitter history of her native country into sweet music". www.martagomez.com

SLEEPY REBELS: CD RELEASE
Wednesday, May 18 at 7:30 PM; $17

The Sleepy Rebels are a NYC based band featuring siblings Erica and Bruce Driscoll (of Blondfire/Astaire) as lead vocalists and musicians along with producer, multi-instrumentalist, Jeremy Adelman (recently scored the 5 spot Hulu campaign with Alec Baldwin, Dennis Leary & Seth MacFarlane). The trio creates a sound that is warm, acoustic, and often string laden. Think somewhere along the lines of Simon & Garfunkel meeting up the string section from Eleanor Rigby. Live, the three musicians are accompanied by a string quartet.

Though they are a relatively new band, songs from their debut album, World Record, have already been featured in many ads (VW, 2 spots for JCPenney, Johnson & Johnson, Ritz), television shows (Private Practice), and films (Romanian Feature Weekend Cu-Mama). Most recently, JC Penny featured a remix of their song, Unbelievable to spearhead their entire Spring campaign which first aired on this year's Oscars. As a result of the exposure the band Myspace has received over 700,000 plays on their Myspace page since. In the following months, the song found its way to the #1 sold single on Amazon's Electronica category & #57 on the iTunes alternative charts. http://www.sleepyrebels.com/

HENRY WOLFE
Wednesday, May 18 at 9:30 PM; $14

Henry Wolfe (born Henry Wolfe Gummer, 1979) is a songwriter and singer living in Los Angeles. From 2004-2007 Henry fronted the New York-based indie rock group Bravo Silva before striking out on his own to pursue a solo career in the sunny climes of California. His first solo release, The Blue House EP , is an eclectic collection of modern, guitar-driven folk songs co- produced and recorded by Malachi DeLorenzo (Langhorne Slim). Soon after releasing The Blue House, Henry recorded an album of songs penned by Portland-based writer and satirist Peter Field. Entitled Wolfe Sings Field the album's distinctive instrumentation features arrangements for harp and string quartet by the Los Angeles composer Oliwa. Paired with Henry's hushed renditions of Field's darkly comic story-songs, the resulting genre might best be described as "gothic-baroque-folk."

Henry recently completed his first full-length record of original material, entitled Linda Vista. Produced by Nico Aglietti and Aaron Older (Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros), the album is set to drop March 2011.

GIRLS IN TROUBLE: HALF YOU HALF ME CD RELEASE
Thursday, May 19 at 7:30 PM; $12

Inspired by storyteller-songwriters such as Leonard Cohen and Joanna Newsom, Alicia Jo Rabins' Girls In Trouble creates first-person songs based on obscure stories of Biblical women, investigating the hidden places where their complicated lives overlap with hers. On her new album, Half You Half Me (JDUB Records), available everywhere May 17, 2011, Rabins retains the emotional vulnerability and poetic focus of Girls in Trouble's self-titled debut while broadening the band's sound into eclectic, atmospheric landscapes.

Alicia Jo Rabins is a Brooklyn- based poet, songwriter, biblical scholar and violinist. Girls in Trouble began as a way to get out of writing her masters thesis and developed into a full band that has toured together across America and Europe. Alicia wrote Half You Half Me on an acoustic guitar in the tiny apartment she shares with husband/bassist Aaron Hartman (Old Time Relijun, K Records), who helped transform the album's songs into their full gorgeousness: intimate vocals surrounded by electric guitars, big drums, analog synths, and Alicia's intricate violin arrangements.

ERIN MCKEOWN
Thursday, May 19 at 9:30 PM; $20

"Airborne metaphors carry the songwriter Erin McKeown all the way through her fourth album, We Will Become Like Birds (Nettwerk). Her clear mezzo-soprano sounds perpetually optimistic, and so do the syncopated electric guitar parts she picks and plucks through the sparsely arranged but fully realized songs." - John Pareles, New York Times

From elegant pop to balls-out rock, sweet electronics to witty swing, Erin McKeown has packed a ton of music into her young career. With four studio albums, two EPs, and numerous soundtracks and compilations to her credit, as well as a recent album recorded Live at Joe's Pub, the songwriter and multi-instrumentalist hasn't stopped for a breather in the last 10 years. Along the way she has averaged 200 shows a year and garnered the praise of fans and critics alike.

Erin's latest studio album is "Hundreds of Lions", produced by Sam Kassirer and out now on Righteous Babe Records. "Live At Lincoln Hall", a concert film recorded to celebrate Erin's first decade in music, will be released in late spring 2011. McKeown is currently working on a book of poems, looking for ways to incorporate her love of sports into her career, and writing her next studio project- due in early 2012. She is also available for co-writing and album production work.

LO FABER & AARON MAXWELL OF GOD STREET WINE
Friday, May 20 at 7:00 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door

Lo Faber and Aaron Maxwell had so much fun during the God Street Wine reunion shows in July of 2010 and on Jam Cruise in early 2011, that they decided to keep playing together as an acoustic duo. The last time the duo played at Joe's Pub, they were joined by founding members of GSW, Dan Pifer and Jon Bevo, as well as Jason Crosby (who played with GSW in 1998-1999). The acoustic shows have given some classic GSW material a new voice, and you never know who will show up to sit in with Lo and Aaron.

LADY RIZO: unescorted
Fridays April 22 at 11:30, May 20 & June 17 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 baudy 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.

COLE ESCOLA
Fridays, May 20 & 27 at 11:30 PM; $15

Cole Escola, acclaimed for his inspired musical performances in Joe's Pub's recurring smash Our Hit Parade and Casserole Live, the live performance component of his hit television series, Jeffery & Cole Casserole, returns to Joe's Pub with a new solo show. With Cole's broad showmanship and sweetheart charm, his act will hearken back to a time when the great ladies of stage and screen dazzled the crowds in smoky rooms all over town. An exciting bill of standards, showtunes, Motown and original material brought to life by Cole's decidedly fresh perspective and raw energy under the direction of Ben Rimalower (Leslie Kritzer is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches) and featuring a band led by Bistro Award winner Ray Fellman.

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