MANGO AND TRAGEDY....AND BEER Comes to Dixon Place, 9/21

Dixon Place presents MANGO AND TRAGEDY....AND BEER, featuring The Genreless Cowboy Bob Katz, Country Music Star Laura Cantrell, and The Great Mango on Monday, September 21 at 7 PM.

If You Don't Show, Mango Juice Will Flow.... Bob Katz, the Mango-Totin' Rhyme-Floatin' Guitar Strokin' Genreless Cowboy and The Great Mango host a night of Multimedia Variety Genre-Bending Insanity featuring Country Music Star Laura Cantrell! And if you don't show, MANGO JUICE WILL FLOW....

Admission is FREE. Contact Dixon Place at 212-219-0736, by email contact@dixonplace.org, or online at www.dixonplace.org. The address is161A Chrystie Street between Rivington & Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002. For directions, visit www.dixonplace.org/html/dixon_place_directions.html.

Called "The Folk Punk Woody Allen", Bob Katz introduced a startling new voice with his award-winning debut album, "When Good Mangos Go Bad", produced by folk rock legend Pete Kennedy. Known for his genre-bending raucous singer-songwriter shows, Bob expanded into musical theater ("Quasimango, the Lunchbox of Notre Dame," work-in-progress, Dixon Place Lounge, St. John's Lutheran Church Theater, 2014), radio (The Real Radio Show, regular), and television (The Real Radio Show for TV; Finnish National Television MTV3). Bob Katz is Artistic Director/Host of Christopher Street Coffee House, a monthly, mash-up of song, spoken word, etc., with guests ranging from Dar Williams to Jeffrey Lewis.

Laura Cantrell is a country music artist based in New York City. Born in Nashville, TN, she has released five acclaimed albums, including her latest, "No Way There From Here," which made the AllMusic Best of 2014 Favorite Americana Albums list, and received glowing reviews from the Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, NY Times, Robert Christgau, etc. Cantrell has toured extensively in the United Kingdom, Europe and Ireland, and was a favorite of pioneering British disc jockey John Peel. Cantrell's music has been featured on NPR's "All Things Considered," "A Prairie Home Companion," "Mountain Stage," and the "Grand Ole Opry." She has appeared on the television programs "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," and the Sundance Channel's "Spectacle: Elvis Costello."Cantrell's long-running WFMU radio program, "The Radio Thrift Shop", was a NYC staple for 13 years.

The Great Mango. Enough said.

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