Errico and More Come To Joe's Pub This Week

Coming up this week at Joe's Pub is  a wide variety of shows  from Melissa Errico to Youssou N'dour.

Upcoming Shows include:

CAP21
Tuesday, April 22 at 7:00 PM, $12

CAP21 presents a showcase of pop, rock and country tunes by its 3rd Year students. CAP21 is a not-for-profit theatre dedicated to the creation of new work, the development of new talent, and the building of new audiences. The CAP21 Conservatory was founded in 1993 by Frank and Eliza Ventura as a response to the need for in depth acting training in musical theatre.

 
LEAH SIEGEL
Tuesday, April 22 at 9:30 PM, $12

"As soon as I heard Little Mule, I looked at (Producer) Kim, and it was like goosebump time. Because you don't hear that special thing hitting you over the head immediately, all that often. You know?" - Vin Scelsa, (Host WFUV 90.7FM, Idiot's Delight)

Leah Siegel, New York City singer-songwriter, is a seamless powerhouse of contradictions: at once hopelessly raw and yet elegantly composed, bombastic while intimate, contemporary and classic. She is blessed with a voice that whispers in your ear one moment and rips the roof off the next.

 
Melissa Errico Lullabies and Wildflowers CD Release
Wednesday, April 23 & 24 at 7:30 PM, $20

"The Voice of Enchantment" -The New York Times
The Velour Music Group will release Melissa Errico's new album 'Lullabies & Wildflowers' on April 29th. These two concerts celebrate the release of the CD which was produced and arranged by Rob Mathes.  On this occasion Mathes makes a rare appearance as Melissa's musical director and pianist.

FERRAS
Wednesday, April 23 at 9:30 PM, $15

Ferras (pronounced Fer-AHSS) approaches a big pop hook the way a Formula One driver approaches a straightaway: he floors it. At each turn on the 25-year-old's debut album – the sensual Take My Lips, the anthemic Liberation Day, the tour de force title track, Aliens and Rainbows, and the soon to be hit single, Hollywood's Not America, to name but a few – it's evident a daring young artist has arrived.

PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER Free Macaroons Show
Thursday, April 24 at 9:30 PM, $15

Blending a psychedelic sensibility and a pan-Mediterranean sensuality, Basya Schechter leads her band, Pharaoh's Daughter, through Doors-like improvisations, liturgical chants with Middle Eastern, and spiritual stylings filtered through percussion, flute, strings, oud, saz, bass, rhodes and electronica.

BLK JKS
Thursday, April 24 at 11:30 PM, $15

"South African mindbenders BLK JKS create a multivalent, 360-degree view of Johannesburg Now: Afro-jazz riffs segue into tribal rhythms, which swagger through street-level sociology before exploding into hardcore bursts of noise, kwaai kwaito beats, and addictive rock hooks. Prepare yourself for a dizzy blend of up close, freaked-out, kind of-not-quite-like-anything-you've-heard-before music." -Time Out New York

Johannesburg's psychedelic rock outfit BLK JKS have turned it all the way on for their first stateside visit. Fresh from recording sessions at Electric Lady studios, these young lions come with the sound of urban Africa now: forward bounce, agile changes and deep dub set against haunting, debonair vocals—this is fractured pop music filtered through free jazz, angular feedback, digital noise and the urban

YOUSSOU N'DOUR Foundation Benefit
Friday, April 25 at 7:00 PM, $500
Often hailed as "The Voice of Africa" Youssou N'Dour is a Grammy-award winning performer endowed with remarkable range, poise and prodigious musical intelligence. Youssou absorbs the entire Senegalese musical spectrum in his work, and often filters this through the lens of genre-defying rock or pop music from outside Senegalese culture. Youssou's music is electric, spiritual and high-energy and has been praised globally.

HASSAN HAKMOUN / DJ U-CEF
Friday, Aoril 25 at 9:30 PM, $15 advance; $18 at door
Composer, Producer and Drummer Karsh Kale's musical collaborations at the Futureproof parties in the in the early days of Joe's Pub are legendary. These shows consistently sold out and paved the way for the launching of a career that in less than five years is marked by the release of three critically acclaimed albums, performances in almost every major city in over four continents, countless remixes and collaborations with everyone from Paul Oakenfold to Zakir Hussain.

KARSH KALE
Friday, April 25 at 11:30 PM, $20

Composer, Producer and Drummer Karsh Kale's musical collaborations at the Futureproof parties in the in the early days of Joe's Pub are legendary. These shows consistently sold out and paved the way for the launching of a career that in less than five years is marked by the release of three critically acclaimed albums, performances in almost every major city in over four continents, countless remixes and collaborations with everyone from Paul Oakenfold to Zakir Hussain.

RACHELLE GARNIEZ AND THE FOURTUNATE FEW
Saturday, April 26 at 9:30, $12
"..a certified free spirit...with a richly compelling voice and a wild imagination" - The New Yorker

Born in New York City, Rachelle Garniez enjoys a diverse career as a performer, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist. She formed her own band, the Fortunate Few, in 1997 and, up to 2008, has released three CDs of original songs independently on her label, Real Cool Records (named in honor of Chester Himes).

MBAYE DIEYE FAYE
Saturday, April 26 at 11:30 PM, $40

Considered as one of the greatest percussionist in Senegal, Mbaye Dieye Faye makes his Joe's Pub debut with special guests.  Born in a modest family of "Griots"- a tradition with roots deep in singing traditional praise songs, Mbaye Dieye Faye was inexorably predestinated to a musical career.  Mbaye Dieye Faye is first know as the sideman and percussionist of  his companion  Youssou N'Dour well known as the "King of  "Mbalax" in Senegal.  Later Mbaye also found success as  a singer and in the bands Dakar Star and Super Etoile.

GROOVELILY
Sunday, April 27 at 7:30 PM, $20

"Their music, sensual, glib, romantic and raucous, delights throughout with its varied and eclectic musical vocabulary traversing rock, blues, Broadway, folk and jazz, even a passing nod to Kurt Weill, but mostly defined by its originality and independence." - CurtainUp

New York City trio GrooveLily inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz, and pop. Intelligent original songs with no shortage of wit connect lush musical textures and soaring vocals with the blazing six-string electric violin of Valerie Vigoda, the lightning-fingered piano of Brendan Milburn, and the joyful drums of Gene Lewin.

VEDA HILLE
Sunday, April 27 at 9:30 PM, $12

"...a new batch of songs that pulsate with life… a fierce and uncompromising performance… this unlikely collaboration between the 20th century modernist and 19th century Romantic. Few musicians and lyricists, no matter what genre, have such a vibrant array of skills". - Concert review of songs from Veda's upcoming release, This Riot Life. Alexander Varty, Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Feb. 1, 2007

Veda Hille has been acclaimed as one of Canada's finest singer/songwriter/composers. Veda has crafted a repertoire of songs that address an encyclopedic diversity of topics and explored the nooks and crannies of human experience from ecstasy to despair.

Mike Daisey How Theater Failed America
Monday, April 28 at 7:00 PM, $20

"Absolutely hilarious...one of the finest solo performers of his generation." - The New York Times

Master storyteller Mike Daisey sinks his razor-sharp wit into a subject he knows well: the American theater, from the sublimely crass to the genuinely ugly. From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to "successful" working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Daisey takes stock of the dystopian State of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year.

GRIFFIN HOUSE CD Release with SONS OF WILLIAM Presented in association with WFUV
Monday, April 28 at 9:30 PM, $12 (SOLD OUT)

The most intriguing new talent that youve likely never heard of words frequently used to describe up and coming musical artist, Griffin House. At just 25 years old, Griffin's breakout talent reveals a wealth of soulfulness and sincerity well beyond his years.

Two brothers who are looking for a band name choose the name Sons of William in honor of their father, Bill, who has been the main musical influence in their lives. It's perfect. But it doesn't just stop at the name. The songs are tight, the music is beautiful, and the performance is flawless.

Joe's Pub is located at 425 Lafayette Street between East 4th and Astor Place.

Tickets: 212-967-7555
Tickets can also be purchased in person at the Public Theater Box Office
Hours: Tues-Sat from 1-7:30pm, Sun & Mon from 1-6pm.
All events are subject to change without notice.

Dinner Reservations: 212-539-8778.
Dinner reservations are strongly recommended; seating, as well as standing, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation.

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