Django A Go-Go, Isaac Oliver, Elizaveta and More Coming Up at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Jun. 01, 2015
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its upcoming performances, June 3 - 14, 2015. Scroll down or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows.
Wednesday, June 3 at 7:00PM
$20
Writer Isaac Oliver makes his Joe's Pub debut to celebrate the release of his book, Intimacy Idiot, a hilarious and heartfelt collection of true stories about sex, love, and connection in New York City. Oliver has been hailed as a "monstrous new talent" by New York Magazine and named one of The Advocate's "People to Watch in 2015." Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing after the show.
BABY DEE: I AM A STICK ALBUM RELEASE
Wednesday, June 3 at 9:30PM
$18
Baby Dee is an enchanting song writer, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and transgender street legend. Her infectious cackle and extraordinary talent on piano, harp, and accordion have caught her many musical admirers including Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Maxim Moston, and Andrew WK, all of whom have produced unique and magnificent albums for her. Mojo praises Baby Dee's performance and presence as a "redemptive, exquisite stab at accepting love's devastations."
SUSAN WERNER: LAST OF THE GOOD STRAIGHT GIRLS, 20TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
Thursday, June 4 at 7:00PM
$25
Susan Werner "is that rarest of things - a composer who not only adheres to the traditions of the Great American Songbook, but also who adds great new songs to that Songbook with each project she writes. She's one of the most exciting talents in the country," says Michael Feinstein. This evening Werner performs songs that effortlessly slide between folk, jazz and pop, all delivered with sassy wit and classic Midwestern charm.
STEPHANE WREMBEL'S DJANGO A GO-GO FESTIVAL
Friday, June 5:
Paris, Musette, & Django 1934, 7:00PM
Django's first period 1934-1939, 9:00PM
A Django-esque tribute to Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris, 11:00PM
Saturday, June 6:
Django's Second Period 1939-1946 7:00PM
Django's Last Period 1946-1953, 9:00PM
A Django-esque tribute to Woody Allen's Sweet and Lowdown, 11:00PM
Each performance: $30
Django A Go-Go is a festival celebrating the music of the great French guitar master, Django Reinhardt. The festival was created by NYC-based composer and guitarist Stephane Wrembel. Every other year, Wrembel and his band invite a group of extraordinary world-class musicians, all of them specialists in this particular genre, to participate in a two-week tour of the East Coast. The group discusses in chapters the artistic, political, and cultural periods in which Django proliferated. Wrembel and company will performs Reinhardt's music, as well as many of their own original compositions.
EMILY ASHER'S GARDEN PARTY: MEET ME IN THE MORNING CD RELEASE
Sunday, June 7 at 7:00PM
$14
Emily Asher, trombonist and singer "of buoyant charm" (The New York Times), celebrates the release of her second full-length album, Meet Me in the Morning. The album is a tail-shaking, joy-waking, romance-making, jazzy romp about self-inquiry, reckoning and illumination, featuring five original songs and five American standards. Joining Asher are Mike Davis on trumpet and vocals, Evan Artzen on alto sax and clarinet, Nick Russo on guitar and banjo, Dalton Ridenhour on piano, Rob Adkins on bass, and Jay Lepley on drums and vocals.
Sunday, June 7 at 9:30PM
$15
Emanuel and the Fear are a Brooklyn-based rock, psychedelic, folky mess of a band with strings and analog synths and stuff. Active since 2009, the band is currently preparing their 5th release, Primitive Smile, due this year. Bandleader Emanuel Ayvas prophesizes that he "is destined to join visionaries like Frank Zappa, Danny Elfman, and Devin Townsend on a list of the most daring and distinctive bandleaders of the last fifty years," and Vulturehound Magazine announces that "Emanuel and the Fear are here with the perfect antidote amid the sea of mindless indie bravado."
PENNY ARCADE: LONGING LASTS LONGER
Monday, June 8 at 7:00PM
$20
Penny Arcade and her long-time collaborator Steve Zehentner, continue their development of Longing Lasts Longer, a passionate rumination on love, longing and the loss of New York's cultural identity. Embedded into this rollicking landscape, a live-mixed soundscape of music grooves ranging from Al Green to John Lennon, jump, counterpunch and exalt, charting an emotional pathway for the audience and an inclusive anthem to personal happiness.
ADAM ENRIGHT & AARON FUKSA: 2SCOOPS
Monday, June 8 at 9:30PM
$20
Comedy duo Adam Enright & Aaron Fuksa present a one-night-only concert event featuring the legendary, chart-topping, entirely fictional 90's R&B girl group 2Scoops. Long after cassingles and neon colors have gone out of style, these two ladies still love everything about the music of the 90's. Holding the world record for the most breakups of any group in history, they are finally back and both in attendance for a reunion. Join Dana and Deena for a night of all your favorite jams, dance moves, and the true story behind their tumultuous history. 2Scoops is written and performed by Enright and Fuska.
SOPHIE AUSTER: DOGS AND MEN ALBUM RELEASE w/ OPENER MY BUBBA
Tuesday, June 9 at 7:30PM
$20
"If Tom Waits and Billie Holiday were to have a style child, singer-songwriter Sophie Auster would be it," writes Vogue, describing the unique blend of power and glamour that the singer-songwriter exudes. While those artists influenced her songwriting, Auster's music is wholly her own. The daughter of literary icons, Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, the younger Auster's talents skewed musical, beginning with her self-titled debut album at 18. While still attending Sarah Lawrence College, Auster spent her school vacations touring and performing across Europe and South America, eventually landing her on the cover of Spanish Rolling Stone in 2007. This show marks the release of her album, Dogs and Men (June 9, Out Loud Music).
My Bubba is a duo - My, from Sweden, and Bubba, from Iceland - that sings contemporary folk songs with love and ease. Known for their silky harmonies and alluring live performances (Roskilde Festival, Iceland Airwaves and support for Matthew E White and Damien Rice), their refreshing and sultry take on folk uses both exotic clap-dancing and ancient table harp. My Bubba's latest album Goes Abroader, produced by Noah Georgeson (Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom), mixes Scandinavian folk tradition with American and other more exotic influences. For their next release, they are collaborating with Shahzad Ismaily who has previously worked with Bonnie Prince Billy, Marc Ribot and Yoko Ono.
Tuesday, June 9 at 9:30PM
$14
Zion80 explores Jewish music - from Shlomo Carlebach to John Zorn and everything in between - through the lens of the revolutionary Afrobeat funk master, Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Led by Jon Madof (Rashanim, Matisyahu), the 11-piece band arranges Jewish melodies using the polyrhythmic intensity of Afrobeat, blended with the madness of the Downtown scene. Spiritual, grooving and endlessly exciting, this is essential Jewish music for the 21st century. This performance concludes their six-week residency.
GUESTS: KATJA BLICHFELD, ALEXIS OKEOWO, ISABEL ROSE, CAROLYN CASTIGLIA, MELINE TOUMANI + MORE
Wednesday, June 10 at 7PM
$20
Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring their bestselling Australian literary salon, Women of Letters to New York as a monthly event and celebration of a diverse range of strong female talent. New York's best and brightest writers, entertainers and artists perform a reading of a letter they've written to the theme of the evening. Proceeds from Women of Letters shows are donated to charity, with over $500,000 being raised globally to date. NYC events benefit the New York Women's Foundation.
CHARLIE HUNTER TRIO: LET THE BELLS RING ON ALBUM RELEASE
Wednesday, June 10 at 9:30PM
$20
The Charlie Hunter Trio is a collaboration of musicians Charlie Hunter on 7-string, Bobby Previte on drums and Curtis Fowlkes on trombone. First coming to prominence in the early 1990s, Hunter has recorded 17 albums. He plays custom-made seven and eight-string guitars, on which he simultaneously plays basslines, rhythm guitar and solos. Drummer, composer, bandleader and improviser Previte, a New Yorker since 1979, is known for his major contributions to NYC's legendary downtown experimental music scene. Fowlkes first came to prominence in the 1980s as a member of John Lurie's the Lounge Lizards. In 1987, he and saxophonist Roy Nathanson, both members of the Lounge Lizards, founded The Jazz Passengers, an eclectic group dedicated to putting entertainment and humor back into jazz.
THE LOSERS LOUNGE BATTLE OF THE BANDS: THE B-52'S VS. DEVO
Thursday, June 11 at 7PM
Friday, June 12 at 7PM & 9:30PM
Saturday, June 13 at 2PM, 6:30PM, & 9PM
$25
The Losers Lounge returns to Joe's Pub with another run of shows with all of the incredible songs, great performances, irreverent antics and special guests that you've come to expect. This time around, the group is throwing down in an epic Battle of the Bands, pitting two great American rock bands against each other: Devo versus The B-52s!
LOVE RABBIT: THE MUSIC OF PAUL BRILL AND ELIZABETH ZIMAN
Thursday, June 11 at 9:30PM
$15
Elizabeth Ziman and Paul Brill met sharing stages with their respective bands in 2010 and soon forged a successful writing partnership for film and television. Together, the two have scored a wide variety of award-winning feature films and television specials, ranging from documentaries to romantic comedies, program themes, and even a selection alongside the likes of Daft Punk and Animal Collective on a Fraggle Rock tribute compilation. Ziman and Brill will bring their recent compositions to life at Joe's Pub accompanied by a wide range of collaborators and renowned instrumentalists. The two will also perform favorite selections from their song catalogs and will welcome a number of special guest performances.
TAMMY FAYE STARLITE PERFORMS MARIANNE FAITHFULL: EXPOSED
Sunday, June 14 at 7:30PM
$15
Tammy Faye Starlite is back with her new piece, a panoramic retrospective that traces the evolution of the legend Marianne Faithfull from 1960s pop ingénue ("As Tears Go By") through her drug addiction in the 1970s when she was a "heroine" of country-folk ("The Day That Coke Came to Nashville") to her emergence as a respected artist, making music on her own terms within the 1980s, concurrent with the release of Broken English. She will be joined by two brilliant musicians providing bare, acoustic accompaniment: Barry Reynolds and Kevin Salem.
ELIZAVETA: MESSENGER ALBUM RELEASE
Sunday, June 14 at 9:30PM
$15
With her debut 2012 record Beatrix Runs (Universal Republic), Elizaveta distinguished herself as the "5th Element" of pop by mixing opera with electronica, classical and soul. The singer, producer and multi-instrumentalist went on to singlehandedly produce her 2014 EP Hero, the title track going viral and getting hundreds of remixes featured all across the web. The American-born Russian chanteuse had a very busy year in 2014 with singles charting both in USA and Russia, touring with a symphony orchestra, contributing to the soundtracks for shows like Scandal and The Affair, and being the voice of the Bard in the award-winning Dragon Age Inquisition game. After her critically acclaimed premiere at New York's Prototype Festival 2014, Elizaveta returns to Joe's Pub to launch her new album Messenger. Her new single 'Trap' (currently featured in a major Russian motion picture) is out May 18, 2015 worldwide.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM daily at 212-967-7555 or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM).
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'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.
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