Joe's Pub Presents Sonnyboy, Olof Arnalds And More
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.
OCT 8-10
Friday, October 8 at 7:30 PM; $25
"Critics, in their effusive praise, wrong-peg Hunter as a revivalist purist of the Sam Cooke/Jackie Wilson school, but his music takes in a wide range of influences, including '50s piano-based R&B, early Skatalites horn charts, an almost post-modern guitar deconstruction of Ike Turner or Hubert Sumlin, and the New Orleans R&B of Allen Toussaint, who guests on Hunter's "The Hard Way," the follow-up album to the 2006 Grammy-nominated "People Gonna Talk."" - LA Times
"James Hunter is one of the best voices, and best kept secrets, in British R'n'B and Soul. Check him out."- Van Morrison
SONNYBOY: THE BARFLY THEORY CD RELEASE
Friday, October 8 at 9:30 PM; $12 advance / $14 door
The official launch of Sonnyboy's new album 'The Barfly Theory'!
' ...one of the best unsigned bands to come out of Minneapolis since Prince and The Time' Rolling Stone Magazine
The BarFly Theory is an independently released album from the much acclaimed artist, Sonnyboy and is bound to set the soul music scene buzzing. Sonnyboy has a notable skill for writing and The BarFly Theory features a collection of songs that blend elements of jazz, pop & rock with melodies that soar about with raw musicianship. BarFly Theory has a more contemporary twist on the soulful sounds of previous Sonnyboy efforts and expresses messages of love, hate and empowerment, coupled with that ever prevalent Sonnyboy sense of humor!
Sonnyboy has been described as a modern day urban poet covering the emotions from joy to pain with an intensity that combines the key elements of black music of the past 50 years... from bebop to hip hop...jazz to pop, mixed with a Heavy Dose of pure soul and layered with some very funk driven rock'n'roll. Sonnyboy has a true organic sound all of his own!
VIVA DECONCINI'S DOWNTOWN CABARET feat TAYLOR MAC, MC MEL FRYE & MORE!
Presented by The Slipper Room in Exile
Friday, October 8 at 11:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door
The Slipper Room, NY's legendary lower east side burlesque and variety theater, is renovating and in the meantime, placing their wild, irreverent shows in wonderful places like Joe's Pub. This one features theater phenomenon Taylor Mac and guitar luminary Viva DeConcini and her fantastic band premiering new musical collaborations. The hilarious Mel Frye MC's, and there will be many, many Special Guests and mucho, mucho Amor!
MATTHEW MARTIN
Saturday, October 9 at 7:30 PM; $20
Matthew Martin is keeping Hollywood History alive and well conjuring the Late Greats of the Silver Screen!
As Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Katharine Hepburn, Miss Peggy Lee, and Ann Miller, Martin resurrects these iconic personalities in a tribute show with remembrance of their careers and new insight into their personalities. Martin recently starred as Baby Jane in a remake of the cult classic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? The film has garnered rave reviews from film festival critics and is to be in distribution next year.
ÓLÖF ARNALDS
Saturday, October 9 at 9:30 PM; $15
Ólöf Arnalds is an Icelandic singer and multi-instrumentalist. Classically educated on the violin and self-taught on viola, guitar and charango, Ólöf's most distinctive asset is, nonetheless, her voice. A voice of instantly captivating, spring water chasteness possessed of a magical, otherworldly quality that is simultaneously innocent yet ancient ("somewhere between a child and an old woman" according to no less an authority than Björk).
While she has been favorably compared with the likes of Vashti Bunyan, Judee Sill and Kate Bush, Ólöf's approach to making music remains highly individual: playful but intimate; accessible and uplifting, yet deeply personal and suffused with a timeless mystique that goes beyond the puckish inscrutability of her native tongue. Ólöf has also quickly proved herself as a magnetic, utterly self-assured stage performer, reliant as much on screwball humour, vaudevillian charm and even outright bawdiness, as much as the contrasting delicacy of her song delivery.
Recorded by Sigur Rós's Kjartan Sveinsson, directly to tape, Ólöf's 2007 debut, Við Og Við is an album of ingeniously adorned whole take performances, whose charged minimalism creates an inimitable world of its own. The album would duly accrue a sheaf of accolades at home, including Best Alternative Album at the Iceland Music Awards and a Record of the Year gong from Iceland's principal daily newspaper, Morgunblaðið. Upon its international release in 2009, it would elicit gushing notices from the likes of The New York Times, Vanity Fair, NME and SPIN and prompt MOJO to herald Ólöf as "Reykjavik's answer to Kate Bush." Time Out New York described her having "... the kind of voice that can silence a room, such is its sweetness", while Rolling Stone described her songs being "fragile as tiny china swans". Meanwhile, Paste magazine would dub Við Og Við "impossibly lovely" and vote it Number 38 in its Top 100 album list. Not to be outdone, eMusic named it among the 100 best albums of the decade.
Recorded throughout 2009, Ólöf's sophomore album, Innundir skinni was produced once again at Sundlaugin by Kjartan Sveinsson and co-produced by Davíð Þór Jónsson. The album boasts more extensive instrumentation and additional players than on Við Og Við but feels effortless; the additional musicians' performances woven into the body of the songs, never overpowering them, with Ólöf's typically empyrean vocals upfront and proud. The album includes both Ólöf's first recorded songs delivered in English and her first duets - with Ragnar Kjartansson (Crazy Car) and Björk (Surrender).
It's her spontaneity and charm, as much as two albums of sublime song craft and ineffable, unforced Icelandic charisma, which make Ólöf Arnalds such a uniquely appealing musician into whose confidence we listeners can't help but want to be taken.
Saturday, October 9 at 11:30 PM $15 adv / $18 door
Morgan Karr (Broadway's "Spring Awakening" and the recently acclaimed and sold out hit engagement of "Veritas") returns to Joe's Pub on Saturday, October 9, 2010 at 11:30PM for a night of funkified pop songs and thrilling new music. The concert will be musically supervised by Matt Hinkley and produced by John Johnson and Kaitlin Fine in association with Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records.
After two sold-out engagements, Morgan Karr returns to Joe's leading a rocking full band with his powerhouse vocals. This evening will mark Karr's debut as a singer/songwriter, as well as feature his signature unique twist on hits by OneRepublic, Hanson, Eric Hutchinson and others.
Tickets for the Joe's Pub event are general admission and available at the door for $18.00 or in advance for $15.00. There is a two drink minimum or $12 food minimum per person. Tickets can be purchased 24 hours a day online at joespub.com. Between the hours of 10am and 9pm, tickets can be purchased by phone at 212-967-7555. Between the hours of 11am and 5pm tickets can be purchased and dinner reservations can be made simultaneously by calling 212-539-8778. You may buy tickets in person at The Public Theater box office, located at 425 Lafayette Street from 1:00 pm to 6:00pm on Sundays and Mondays and 1:00pm to 7:30pm from Tuesday through Saturday.
The multi-talented Morgan Karr comes to Joe's Pub fresh from his win in the famed series "Amateur Night at The Apollo Theater" (to watch a clip of Morgan's award winning performance: CLICK HERE). He has performed two previous sold-out shows at Joe's Pub, featuring music by the Rascal Flatts, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, Ben Folds, Jason Mraz, Luther Vandross, and Brian McKnight.
An accomplished actor/singer/songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee, Morgan Karr's musical influences range from Gospel to Country to Rock. His first professional performance was in a production of Oliver! at nine years old. Since then, Karr has recorded vocals on two Grammy® nominated CD's, made his Broadway debut in the 8-time Tony Award winning musical Spring Awakening, and continues to record new music in NYC and Nashville.
Morgan Karr is a graduate of Northwestern University, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Theatre with a certificate in Musical Theatre. He currently lives and works in NYC, and spends time in LA and Nashville.
For more information and media on Morgan Karr please go to www.morgankarr.com or visit www.JoesPub.com.
OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH BENEFIT: IMAGINE HOPE AN EVENING OF COMEDY AND MUSIC FEATURING GIULIA ROZZI, ADAM K PROJEKT AND VERY SPECIAL GUESTS
Sunday, October 10 at 6:30, doors at 6:00 PM; $25
10.10.10: Imagine Hope is an evening of music and comedy with all proceeds benefiting the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund in memory of Susan Kwartowitz. The evening will feature an array of comedians and musicians and be an opportunity to raise awareness for the cause and promote education. For more details, please visit www.1010fund.org
FALL IN ITH Justin Bond
feat Musical Director Lance Horne & Special Guest Meow Meow
Sundays, October 10 & 31, November 7, 14, 21, December 5 at 9:30 PM; $20
"Justin Bond is a trans-Atlantic cabaret messiah" - Time Out London
Recently described as "A bar of gold in the new depression" by Hilton Als in the New Yorker, singer, songwriter and Tony-nominated performance artist Justin Bond is an Obie, Bessie and Ethyl Eichelberger Award winner and was named one of the top 40 favorite New Yorkers by Time Out New York and was listed by Time Out London as one of England's 50 Funniest People. His debut EP Pink Slip was released in July 2009. In 2008, he won rave reviews for his GLAAD nominated show Lustre which premiered at PS122 in the East Village and then went on to tour the UK with stops in Manchester, England as part of the It's Queer Up North Arts Festival and in a critically acclaimed run at London's Soho Theatre. Also in 2008, Justin appeared at The Southbank Center in London in the title role of Sinderella an original musical written by Martyn Jacques of The Tiger Lillies. In 2007, he premiered Justin Bond is Close To You, a reinterpretation of the classic Carpenter's album Close To You performed in its entirety as part of Joe's Pub in the Park in Central Park and subsequently presented by The Sydney Opera House in Australia. He regularly Emcees the performance series Weimar New York which has played in such varied locations as the SFMOMA, The Speigeltent, and Joe's Pub at The Public Theater in New York.
As one-half of the Performance duo Kiki and Herb, Justin has toured the world headlining at Carnegie Hall, The Sydney Opera House, London's Queen Elizabeth Hall and starred in successful runs on Broadway and off-Broadway. Kiki and Herb have released two cds, Do You Hear What We Hear?, Kiki and Herb Will Die For You at Carnegie Hall and a DVD Kiki and Herb Live at the Knitting Factory.
Film credits include a starring role in John Cameron Mitchell's feature Shortbus, Charles Hermann-Wurmfeld's Fancy's Persuasion as well as Imaginary Heroes and Jon Moritsugu's Mod Fuck Explosion. In 2006 Bond completed his MA Scenography at Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. Justin credits his career as a queer performer to Kate Bornstein who cast him as Herculine Barbin in her ground-breaking play Hidden: A Gender in 1991.
TICKETS
Online at joespub.com
Phone 212-967-7555,
In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC
For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.
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