The Microscopic Septet, Sully and the Benevolent Folk and More Set for Joe's Pub, Now thru 6/2
By: BWW News Desk May. 28, 2013
This week at Joe's Pub at the Public, May 28 - June 2, featured performers include: The New Yorker, Kim Smith, Freestyle Love Supreme, The Microscopic Septet, Morley, Jeffrey Steele, Sweet Electra, Times Square, NY Funny Songs Festival, Mother Falcon + Tony Trischka, and Sully and the Benevolent Folk. Details below!
May 28 at 7:00 PM
SOLD OUT
For his new book, "The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America," the New Yorker staff writer George Packer journeyed through the lives of American citizens, from a factory worker in the Rust Belt to Newt Gingrich and Jay-Z. Join Packer and the magazine's features director, Daniel Zalewski, for a conversation about the country's tumultuous present and its uncertain future.
Kim Smith: NOVA
May 28 at 9:30 PM
$15
Australian singer Kim Smith performs his debut electro-pop album, Nova, with an electronic band helmed by David Aaron Berger. Featuring the singles "Jealous," and "Never Ever," Nova's sound has been likened to the Pet Shop boys, George Michael, Kylie Minogue and Robyn. Kim Smith will be joined by David Aaron Berger, Stephanie Brown, Steve Dawson and guitarist & backing vocalist Silya. "A genuinely stunning debut single. Entirely enticing, utterly intoxicating and ferociously fabulous." -Fizzy Pop
May 29 at 7:30 & 9:30 PM
$22
FLS is a stage show like no other. Five performers take the crowd on a non-stop hip hop improv ride, spinning cues from the audience into instantaneous riffs and fully realized musical numbers. Confirmed line-up includes: Lin-Manuel Miranda,Anthony Veneziale, Chris Jackson, Arthur Lewis, Chris Sullivan, Directed by Thomas Kail.
May 30 at 7:30
$20
The music of The Microscopic Septet was the sound of jazz in 21st Century America: all of it, from Ellington to Ayler, bebop to Zorn, Dixieland to experimental, captured in a microcosm. It distills the essence of jazz as a popular music into a sound that swings, a music that is intelligent, sometimes smart-aleck, and always good clean fun.
May 30 at 9:30 PM
$15 in advance; $18 at the door
Join Morley and friends for an intimate evening of duets featuring some of Morley's musical and dance hero's. Watch her perform "Call Me" live at Joe's Pub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMuwm8FsODo. "Morley expertly combines an earthiness, sensuality, etherealness, intelligence and social consciousness, and melds it into sophisticated, globally-minded pop that would easily fit into your playlist amidst Sade, Joni Mitchell, Amadou & Mariam, Annie Lennox and Marvin Gaye...simultaneously gentle and urgent, humorous and sensual." -Bill Bragin
May 31 at 7:00 & 9:30 PM
June 1 at 7:00 PM
$22
Among his many accolades over the past few years, Jeffrey Steele has been named BMI Songwriter of the Year (2007 and 2003), and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) Songwriter of the Year (2006, 2005 and 2003). CMA has twice awarded him the coveted "Triple Play Award" for three No. 1 songs in a year (2010 & 2007). His country and A/C mega-hits include a string of chart toppers including: "Knee Deep", "Here," "My Wish," "The Cowboy In Me," "These Days", "Everyday", and the groundbreaking "What Hurts The Most," nominated for Best Country Song at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Additionally, he has won numerous BMI Country and Pop awards, was nominated for a Golden Globe and Critic's Choice Award for Best Original Song "I Thought I Lost You" for the Disney/Pixar animated feature BOLT, performed by Miley Cyrus and John Travolta, been named one of Billboard Magazine's top 5 writer's 8 years in a row, as well as Music Row Magazine's 2006 Songwriter of the Year Award. Steele was featured as an artist and writer on Colt Ford's song it's all off his latest Billboard no. 1 Country Album declaration of independence.
May 31 at 11:30 PM
$12 in advance; $15 at the door
Sweet Electra's debut album Lying To Be Sweet, released in 2002 by Nopal Beat and EMI Records has earned international success with its blend of acid cabaret, deep house, and trip-hop beats with elements of jazz and bossa nova. The album is influenced by Mexican rhythms of the 1950's, with lyrics in Portuguese, French, English, and Spanish. Sweet Electra has played sold-out shows throughout Mexico and abroad at various international music festivals. The group's second album, "CAMA" was released independently in 2006. Sweet Electra is Giovanni Escalera and Nardiz Cooke.
June 1 at 9:30 PM
$20
Times Square tells the story of Nicky Marotta, a volatile street kid with dreams of becoming a musician, and Pamela Pearl, the withdrawn daughter of a wealthy City Commissioner. The two forge an unlikely bond, and through the alchemy of rock and roll, turn their lives inside out and recreate themselves as a proto-Riot Grrl punk duo called The Sleeze Sisters. Together, they find friendship, love, and music on the rough-and-tumble streets of pre-Disney Times Square. A new musical based on the cult classic 1980 film of the same name, TIMES SQUARE brings together veteran singer-songwriter Jill Sobule with her longtime collaborator Robin Eaton, Tony-nominated writer Jim Lewis and director Steve Cosson, Artistic Director of the acclaimed theater company The Civilians.
NY FUNNY SONGS FESTIVAL PRESENTS: ROB "BIG ROB" CANTRELL
& The NYFSF (W)Rap Party
June 1 at 12:00 AM
$12
The NY Funny Songs Fest (W)rap Party at Joe's Pub is a hip hop, rap and R&B comedy music extravaganza hosted by Rob "Big Rob" Cantrell featuring DJ Tiger Vs Cobra, Carolyn Castiglia, Emily Heller and mega loads of special guests. The audience can sign up for a chance to take the microphone and spit mad funny lyrics, win prizes, build an empire and get a chance to participate in next year's NY Funny Songs Fest. Cantrell is celebrating the release of his first all-comedy music CD,Dreams Never Die, and the first 25 entrants receive the CD for free. For the entire festival schedule, please visit www.nyfunnysongs.com.
SYMPHONIC SUNDAYS WITH MOTHER FALCON
FEATURING Tony Trischka
June 2 at 7:00 PM
$15
This June Joe's Pub at The Public will kick off Symphonic Sundays, a new series that pairs Tony Trischka, Raul Midon and KELLI SCARR with the 18-piece orchestral pop outfit MOTHER FALCON. The series runs June 2, 9, 23 & 30, capping off with Mother Falcon's epic tribute to Radiohead's seminal album OK Computer played in its entirety. Tonight, with fearless musical curiosity as the guiding force, Tony Trischka and Mother Falcon will explore a panorama of tunings, sounds, and traditions; tapping the creative potential of America's signature musical instrument. Trischka is perhaps the most influential banjo player in roots music. He is not only considered among the very best pickers, he is also one of the instrument's top teachers. For more than 35 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass and acoustic musicians. Mother Falcon joins an impressive list of artists that have collaborated with Trischka recently including Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Bill Evans, Bill Keith and Bruce Molsky. Mother Falcon are still coming down from a six-performance run at this year's SXSW, where they were cited as one of Bob Boilen's "15 Essential Moments From SXSW 2013" , and Stephen Thompson tapped them as his "favorite young band of the festival's opening night" on NPR's "All Things Considered".
June 2 at 9:30 PM
$20
Sully and the Benevolent Folk are the result of a musical experiment. Two years ago Sully bought a ukulele and set out to write 30 Songs in 30 Days. This arduous, yet fruitful process became known as The Ukulele Odyssey. After the 30 songs were written and recorded, they refused to be left alone and a group of 25 musicians and artists from many genres came together to bring each song to life. This group became The Benevolent Folk, a group of vagabond blues and folk musicians who united around the ukulele odyssey. Tonight Sully and the Benevolent Folk will celebrate the release of the debut album The Odd Sea.
Visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows or to purchase tickets, or call 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM) located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC Joe's Pub at The Public is one of New York City's most celebrated venues for emerging and established performance artists. Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub debuted 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 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. The diverse roster of programming featured at Joe's Pub includes top performers from Broadway, cabaret, dance, world, singer-songwriter, jazz, country and indie genres as well as New York Voices, its commissioning initiative, today's rising stars and GRAMMY Award winners. Joe's Pub also collaborates with other Public Theater programs to present events such as the Under the Radar Incoming series and the Public Forum lecture and debate series. The New York Times has praised Joe's Pub as at the "nexus" of "a downtown axis of clubs whose performers gleefully fuzz the boundaries between old and new, and between pop, rock, jazz, rhythm-and-blues, swing, country, world music and performance art." Its elegant neoclassical design, intimate atmosphere, and superior acoustics have consistently landed the venue on annual Best of New York lists. A top-to-bottom renovation was completed in 2011, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. http://www.joespub.com/; @joespub
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's Pub; 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. www.publictheater.org
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