Joe's Pub Welcomes Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra 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.

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RICARDO GALLO'S TIERRA DE NADIE

Thursday, November 11 at 7:30 PM; $12 in advance / $15 at the door
...The emotional resonance invoked by the music is striking. So too is the structural and formal sophistication of the young keyboard player Ricardo Gallo's music. - James Nichols, All About Jazz

Ricardo Gallo's "Tierra de Nadie" performs original music conceived as a sort of imaginary musical folklore, a "No man's land" which is the intriguing basis for exploratory improvisations. Featuring Mark Helias on bass, Ray Anderson on trombone, Pheeroan akLaff on drums and Dan Blake on saxophones, pianist Ricardo Gallo aims for a vivid collective sound, rooting the music with lush compositions that picture a landscape of its own, providing a space in which contributing musicians can inhabit freely and also, that is devoid of flags.

Born in Bogotá, Colombia, Ricardo Gallo is active as a composer of contemporary concert music, and as a pianist performing jazz and improvised music. He leads different projects that relate aspects of Colombian folklore to contemporary musical expressions.

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MARTA GOMEZ

Saturday, November 13 at 7:00 PM; $17

From Cali, Colombia, singer-songwriter Marta Gomez crafts genuine songs with hooks that can transport even non-Spanish-speakers into the heart of her anthemic refrains and irresistible rhythms. Marta and her group perform a repertoire of original compositions based on a vast amount of rhythms from Latin America. On her songs, Marta mixes the joy of the Caribbean with the nostalgia of the Andes adding jazz and pop elements, taking the authenticity of South American indigenous folk music into a hip new realm. Her latest project, Musiquita, reflects the steady growth of an artist who, while deepening her art, maintains her own strong identity. On "Musiquita", Marta expands her vocal vocabulary, enlarging her unique sound to include percussive vocal improvisation and soaring vocals. Her arrangements have become more sure and years of worldwide concert touring have solidified the sound of her band. But it's Marta's unique voice, the quality and the simplicity that she draws from the bittersweet stories of the people of Latin America, that remains intact on "Musiquita".

 

ETHAN LIPTON & HIS ORCHESTRA

Saturday, November 13 at 9:00 PM; $15
"Hilarious, twisted, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once...songs that take the mundane of life and twist it."-NPR's Weekend Edition

"Sweet melodies, songs that are both intricate and immediate, hilarious moments, heartbreaking moments, a great band, and a charismatic performer up front to deliver it all." -Popmatters

"Ethan Lipton is to lounge lizardry what Peter Sellers's Inspector Clouseau is to policing, presenting his singular, funny-miserable take on life via jazzy, brass-festooned songs. It's good stuff."-Time Out NY

 

Dubbed ‘Best Lounge Act of 2009' by New York Magazine, Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra play an edgy brand of jazz/folk/alternative nosh with a chewy singer-songwriter center. With melancholy wit and a cockeyed worldview, sepia-toned frontman Lipton and band mates Eben Levy (guitar), Ian Riggs (bass) and Vito Dieterle(sax) deliver songs steeped in mixed-message sincerity and soul. The band has appeared at Celebrate Brooklyn, MASS MOCA, Bryant Park, the Camden Opera House, Tangier (LA), Vermont Arts Exchange, and has been featured on NPR and radio stations around the country.

 

ASTROGRASS FOR KIDS FAMILY MATINEE

Sunday, November 14 at NOON; $12 for Kids 12 and under, $15 for Adults

Brooklyn's own Astrograss brings its family show back to Joe's Pub on November 14. The 5-piece all-acoustic bluegrass band entertains children of all ages with its high energy take on bluegrass, old-time folk and Celtic music. The band gets kids and their parents dancing together, along with sing-a-longs, dance contests, and high-energy fiddle hoedowns. Their original songs cover topics like spelling, whether Pluto is a planet, bedtimes and the many neighborhoods of Brooklyn. Astrograss has been performing family shows since 2005, and since that time has played sold-out shows at Symphony Space, BAM Harvey Theatre and performed on the Family Stage at the legendary Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival for the past 4 years. In 2008, the band released its newest kids music CD "Let Me Stay Up All Night" with a sold-out matinee show at Joe's Pub. The band also released an EP of Shel Silverstein-inspired music in 2006, produced by legendary kids' music icon Dan Zanes.

 

CROOKED STILL

Sunday, November 14 at 7:30 PM; $22

Purveyors of the nu-folk, bluegrass movement, Crooked Still are equal parts ambassador and innovator as evidenced on their newest release Some Strange Country, released May 18th on Signature Sounds. The musical prowess of this defiantly non-traditional bluegrass quintet is on display as radically re-imagined traditional fare blends seamlessly alongside four original compositions and a surprising take on the Rolling Stones' "You Got The Silver". For their fourth studio effort, Crooked Still were snowed into the studio with Grammy award winning producer and engineer Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss and Union Station, Tim O'Brien, Dolly Parton) in Charlottesville, Virginia. The isolation left Little Room for distraction and fueled more ambitious collaboration - quasi-orchestral string arrangements, and unique vocal distortion techniques. Special guest vocalists include Ricky Skaggs, Tim O'Brien, Sarah Jarosz and Annalisa Tornfelt. On Some Strange Country, Crooked Still has honed in on their unique refraction of roots music, recording their most personal, visionary album yet. "The music is not just ‘alternative bluegrass' or whatever people used to call it," Brittany Haas remarks. "It's at another level now: artful, but still grounded in that funky, string band thing." Some Strange Country is expansive yet intimate - a powerful document of five distinct musical voices working in concert to explore and redefine their relationship to tradition.

 

Justin Bond

Sundays, October 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.

 

ALEJO APONTE & LATONERA

Monday, November 15 at 7:30 PM; $15

Alejo Aponte describes his new release with Latonera, "Gente", as "a cinematic record that tells the story of a man who wanders through the world discovering new roads, sounds, faces." The band's first studio project in three years brings together World Music, Afro Beat, organic urban music "and of course a lot of Colombian Spirit," he added.

 

"Gente" is born from a long musical journey that begins in the late 90's, when Alejo began to explore musical traditions from the Caribbean and from the south-eastern region of Colombia. This adventure complemented Aponte's apprenticeship with drummer Encarnacion Tovar "El Diablo De La Boquilla" ('The Devil from La Boquilla'); Aponte also traveled to Cuba to study Yoruba sonic traditions, and to Brazil's Bahia province to learn about different African-derived rhythms. Aponte always seeks to blend percussive instruments,

traditional string arrangements, vocals and electronic elements, as well as incorporating themes born from the streets and their common slang. According to one of Colombia's most revered musicologist, Alvaro Gonzalez "El Profe" ‘Gente' is an album that transits the concrete jungle of the present decade, in its music inhabits the sonic legacy that makes us unique, the present that makes us feel alive, and the vision of the future that will make us unforgettable"

 

NOMADIC MASSIVE

Monday, November 15 at 9:30 PM; $15

Nomadic Massive represents the future of Global Hip Hop, now. A solid association of 10 skilled musicians and artists, they form a socially engaged hip-hop consortium like no other, combining smart, sensuous, militant poetry with live instrumentation on drums, bass, guitars, trumpet and trombone. With members hailing from Argentina, France, Algeria, Haiti, Chile, Barbados and Grenada, Nomadic Massive's sound draws from a perpetually fresh source of melodies, scales and rhythms - ancient and new. The band recently released a killer new video for the track Moving Forward, the single from the band's new self-titled album.

 

JAY BRANNAN

Tuesday, November 16 at 7:30 PM; $15 in advance / $18 at the door

Jay Brannan is a NYC-based singer/songwriter, who also appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell's indie film sensation Shortbus. After his song "Soda Shop" from the film became the highest selling song on the soundtrack album (released by Bright Eyes' Team Love Records), Brannan went on to release his own full-length album, entitled goddamned, which made its debut as the No. 25 overall Top Album on iTunes.

 

Brannan has since toured multiple times around the world, including the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Brazil, South Africa, Israel, and Australia.

 

In 2009, Brannan released In Living Cover, a collection of 2 original songs & 7 covers, recorded from a bedroom in a Brooklyn apartment. The album climbed to the No. 1 spot on iTunes' Top Singer/Songwriter album charts, and blasted in to the No. 10 spot on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. Brannan continues to play live shows across the globe, and is now in the planning stages of his third studio album.

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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