The Lounge at Dixon Place Announces Summer Music Programs

The Lounge at Dixon Place is now open and serving classic, artisanal cocktails along with a wide array of exciting, eclectic music including cabaret, soulful Bluegrass, and a weekly Circuit Bending party on Wednesdays. Most of our music events are FREE and our lounge is a fun and cozy spot to meet anytime before a DP show or a night on the town. Check our website for new music events and join us for cocktails and tunes soon. We Serve You Right!

The New Dixon Place is located at 161A Chrystie Street (b/w Rivington & Delancey)
New York, NY 10002, 212-219-0736, www.dixonplace.org

CIRCUIT BENDING WEDNESDAYS
Every Wednesday from 7:30pm-9pm, FREE in the Lounge
Circuit Bending, a new music series where artist turn toys, electronics, and gadgets into far out musical instruments! It's like a science fair with cocktails! The series is curated by Craig Flanagan.

SPECIAL EVENT!
Thursday, April 1st at 7pm, FREE in the Lounge
Second Avenue Mountain Boys
While firmly anchored in the bluegrass tradition, the Second Avenue Mountain Boys bring a unique, new sound to the New York City bluegrass scene. The quartet channels traditional music icons like the Stanley Brothers, Mother Mabel Carter, and Bill Monroe, using their own exhilarating mix of haunting three part harmonies and ripping improvisational breaks. Group members Jon Buchalter (guitar, vocals), Bill Giles (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals), Leslie King (mandolin, guitar, vocals), and Banjo Mike Mulhollan add to the mix their many other diverse musical influences ranging from rock, country, gospel, and the blues to jazz, and ragtime. With their fresh blend of high energy and fast-paced acoustic playing, these four exceptional musicians are some of the most intriguing new contributors to urban traditionalism in NYC.

SPECIAL EVENT!
Thursday, April 1st at 9pm, FREE in the Lounge
Eli Bolin & AMAZING JELLIES
From Manhattan to McDonaldland, take a trip through the twisted, tuneful songbook of Eli Bolin, acclaimed songwriter for the Story Pirates.

CIRCUIT BENDING WEDNESDAYS
Wednesday, April 7th, from 7:30pm-9pm, FREE in the Lounge
AMANDA ERVIN
Known for her minimal but ferocious 555-chip oscillator/sequencer instruments, which she teaches in workshops at brooklyn's Third Ward, Amanda Ervin also performs in the vaudeville/electro band the The Drunkard's Wife. Tonight she will present a new instrument she's working on, and it might incorporate muscle wire.

VERY VERY SPECIAL EVENT!
Thursday, April 8th from 6pm - 9pm
GRAND OPENING OF THE LOUNGE AT DIXON PLACE
Join us as we officially celebrate the opening of our new Lounge! We'll have live music from Amour Obscur, special cocktails, & we'll announce the winner of our "Create The Dixon Cocktail Contest!" We've got neighbors, artists, curators, press, funders, friends coming and you're invited too! Celebrate and support the arts at the coziest lounge in town.

Every time you buy a drink, you are supporting emerging artists & their new work!
Open EVERY DAY at 6PM, the DP Lounge is the perfect place to meet friends before a DP show, a night on the town, or to just hang in the ‘hood. We're the friendliest, arty-est, & most welcoming new bar on the Lower East Side with one of the most creative cocktail menus in town. We treat you right every night!

CIRCUIT BENDING WEDNESDAYS
Wednesday, April 14th from 7:30pm -9pm, FREE in the Lounge
CRAIG FLANAGAN
The curator of our Circuit Bending series takes the stage on this special CB night! Electronica Caseira Craig Flanagan has been making instruments from contact mics, phone coils, and electric motors since 1978. He continues to do so, as you will see this evening.

CIRCUIT BENDING WEDNESDAYS
Wednesday, April 21st from 7:30pm-9pm, FREE in the Lounge
THREEP
Threep, fishers of sound, cast their nets into spectral seas and deep canyons of circuitry and code. Armed with bewildering array of Bakelite knobs, patch cables, software and custom made controllers and instruments they explore parallel worlds within sounds circuitry. Fusing field recordings and granular textures with analogue rhythms and hardware hacked sound ignoring the boundaries of conventional musical composition. While carefully crafting compositions in the studio with meticulous attention to detail, they take an entirely improvised approach to live performance, effortlessly navigating between the delicate and the brutal, minimalism and complexity. Threep is Chris Cousin and Stu Smith; co-directors of music / art collective Bathysphere.

SPECIAL EVENT!
Wednesday, April 21st at 9pm, $5 in the Lounge
VORENZO
Adam Luaces created VONRENZO as an environment to express his musical vision of unbridled emotional release. Lyrically clever with a tinge of dark humor, VONRENZO's shadowy sound has been compared to that of Chris Isaak, Jeff Buckley and Wilco.

Wednesday, May 5th at 9pm, $5 in the Lounge
Rebecca Hart
Rebecca Hart has a voice as low-down and gravelly as a flat tire on a '47 Studebaker halfway between Little Rock and Texarkana.

Wednesday, May 19th at 9pm, $5 in the Lounge
THE BENGSONS
A raucous vaudevillian cabaret, full of roaring music (from Tin Pan Alley to the Weimer Republic) by Abigail and Shaun Bengson.

For more information, visit http://www.dixonplace.org/

Photo credit: Leslie Strongwater