Suzanne Vega, Bridget Everett and More to Perform This Week at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 10, 2014
Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its performances, November 12-23, 2014. Details below!
Wednesday, November 12 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM
$30
Since her 2004 debut, Nicole Henry has become one of the jazz world's most acclaimed vocalists, possessing a potent combination of dynamic vocal abilities, impeccable phrasing and powerful emotional resonance. Of her performances, The New York Times has said, "I had the sense of being in the presence of a pop-soul superwoman whose every gesture and inflection conveyed confidence and mastery... time and again she invested familiar songs with an extra fillip of conviction and made you reconsider the words." Her passionate, soulful voice and heart-felt charisma has earned her a 2013 Soul Train Award for "Best Traditional Jazz Performance," three Top-10 U.S. Billboard and HMV Japan jazz albums. Henry tells real stories through songs from the American Songbook, jazz, contemporary standards, blues and originals.
Thursday, November 13 at 7:30PM
$14
Dream-pop artist Nasimiyu brings her composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist zing to her forthcoming EP, dirt. The genre falls somewhere on the earthier, dirtier, brassier side of the indie pop spectrum. Nasimiyu came up in a half-Kenyan, half-Scandinavian household in Minneapolis, then rounded out her sound studying under street performers, voodoo practitioners, and marching band musicians for four years in New Orleans. She worked on dirt across several time zones with co-producers Andreas Gustafsson in Sweden and Ben Lorio in New Orleans. It features guest players Kalmia Traver of Rubblebucket, Mike Bass of Trombone Shorty and the New Orleans brass band, Naughty Professor.
Thursday, November 13 at 9:30PM
$28
Belgian artist Arno has been performing in Europe, often compared to Tom Waits and Serge Gainsbourg, for over two decades. With his rock band T.C. Matic, Arno is finally coming back to the United States. He alternatively laughs at himself, laughs at the world - with sometimes black-humor - or punches you in the face with his strong rock hits tinged of blues and electro. But he can also make you cry with songs like his hit "Les yeux de ma mère." His last album Future Vintage was produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey).
Friday and Saturday, November 14 and 15 at 7:30PM and 9:30PM
$40
Widely regarded as one of the most brilliant songwriters of her generation, Suzanne Vega emerged as a leading figure of the folk-music revival of the early 1980s when, accompanying herself on acoustic guitar, she sang what has been labeled contemporary folk or neo-folk songs of her own creation in Greenwich Village clubs. Since the release of her self-titled, critically acclaimed 1985 debut album, she has given sold-out concerts in many of the world's best-known halls. In performances devoid of outward drama that nevertheless convey deep emotion, Vega sings in a distinctive, clear vibrato-less voice that has been described as "a cool, dry sandpaper- brushed near-whisper" and as "plaintive but disarmingly powerful."
Sunday, November 16 at 7:30PM
$20
Dutch cabaret star Sven Ratzke returns to Joe's Pub with his latest show, Diva Diva's, celebrating great divas of the 1960's like Shirley Bassey. Ratzke is joined on stage by his long-time collaborator and music director, jazz pianist Charly Zastrau. Ratzke spends 48 weeks of the year touring all the biggest theaters, cabaret venues and festivals throughout Europe including the Edinburgh Festival; the Mexico City International Cabaret Festival. He has played 3 seasons at Cafe Sabarsky at Neue Gallerie in New York. Recently he took the title role in the first-ever Berlin production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, a role for which he received critical praise.
THE MEETING* HOSTED BY JUSTIN SAYRE
Sundays, November 16 & December 7 at 9:30PM
$20
The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, the acclaimed comedy/variety show, returns for the launch of its landmark 6th season. The Meeting* has been called "delicious and delightfully droll" by The New York Post, and "hilarious and sardonic" by The Village Voice. A recent story for Slate.com called the evening "so deliciously icy that it left me shivering with fear and delight." The Fall 2014 season opened with a tribute to Broadway and Hollywood star Julie Andrews (October 19), and continues with one to Warhol Superstar Candy Darling on November 16 and the 6th annual Holiday Spectacular on December 7. Tracy Stark serves as the show's Music Director. Special guests are to be announced.
Monday, November 17 at 7:00 PM
$20 adv / $25 door
Guatemalan-born Gaby Moreno's blend of blues, jazz soul and R&B has made her a rising star on the world music scene. She has been touring tirelessly for several years, most recently with Hugh Laurie, and other sold out dates in Canada, USA and Europe with artists as Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco and Van Dyke Parks. She shared the stage with Bono and Grammy Award-winners Angelique Kidjo and Lupe Fiasco. Moreno won Best New Artist at the 2013 Latin Grammys and the Grand Prize at the John Lennon Songwriting Contest. This recognition earned her an invitation by Yoko Ono to unveil the John Lennon Educational Bus.
David Garza's been making his mark since the late '80s, when he emerged from the fertile Austin music scene with his inimitable blend of glam-rock, power pop, Latin folk, blues and even musique concrete. Through a couple of major-label albums and a trove of indie releases, he's embodied the troubadour, the guitar hero, the post-punk provocateur, the falsetto-wielding lover man, the effects-looping mad scientist, the griot-but always a storyteller, relentlessly seeking that human connection.
A NIGHT WITH YEMEN BLUES: INSANIYA ALBUM RELEASE
Monday, November 17 at 9:30PM
$30-50
In 2010, singer and composer Ravid Kahalani founded the rare combination of top musicians we now call Yemen Blues. From the start, Yemen Blues created an original sound that became a new language in contemporary music. The intense musicians hail from NYC, Uruguay and Tel Aviv. The core members are Rony Iwryn, Itamar Doari, Itamar Borochov and Shanir Blumenkranz. Each member comes from a different background and brings their own sound and arrangements to Kahalani's compositions, resulting in a powerful energy that mixes Yemenite, West African and Jazz influences. The mambo and North African rhythms create a joyful and deep foundation, while the vocals remind the listener of ancient Arabic chants mixed with funk & blues. This evening is an opportunity to get to know Yemen Blues members in an intimate exclusive show celebrating their new album Insaniya and after-party with the band.
Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM
SOLD OUT
Daughters of the great Cuban percussionist Anga Diaz, the 19-year-old twin sisters of IBEYI quickly charmed the producer of Asa's albums. Lisa-Kaïndé plays the piano and sings, her voice evoking the greats. Her sister Naomi sings back-up vocals and plays percussion. The duo writes their own material in Spanish, French and English. Culling their musical and personal influences from their father's Yoruban culture, their name means "twins" in the Yoruban language. Their minimalist sound merges elements of their heritage with a natural love of modern music, forming something entirely new and unexpected that intrigues and engages their audiences. With their self-titled debut album on the horizon, the promise of greatness is certain to be fulfilled.
BRIDGETT EVERETT & THE TENDER MOMENTS
Tuesday, November 18 & Friday November 20 at 9:30PM
December 14 at 10:00PM
$25
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed and completely sold out production of Rock Bottom, New York's downtown darling Bridget Everett returns to the Joe's Pub stage with her band, The Tender Moments. She's also got her bottle(s) of chardonnay to sing all her favorite love songs and share the stories of the men that made her...feel? From tender moments to prison sex, come get inside her.
Wednesday, November 19 at 7:00PM
$14
After a year of traveling and performing all over the country, singer/songwriter Shaina Taub, winner of the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant, returns to New York to perform an evening of her original songs. Taub is currently writing scores for two new musicals, and her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was developed by the Yale Institute of Music Theatre, CAP21 Theater Company and featured in NYU's main stage season. As a performer, Taub has traveled the world in her multi-faceted capacities as a vocalist, actor and musician. She was Karen O's vocal standby and back-up singer in the psycho-opera, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House, and has performed on stages worldwide. She played Princess Mary in the critically acclaimed electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and is currently singing the songs of Tom Waits in American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
FREDERICKS BROWN / JENNAH BELL
Wednesday, November 19 at 9:30 PM
$15
Fredericks Brown is New Zealand-born vocalist Deva Mahal and keys player Stephanie Brown, who crossed paths in New York and unearthed a common passion for storytelling. Together their wide-ranging cultural heritage, with Mahal, daughter of legendary blues musician Taj Mahal, drawing on her rich organic soul and blues roots; and Brown, shimmering with sublime kiwi grooves have made them renowned for their energetic live shows, rich harmonies and beautifully crafted songs. With influences that range from Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone their new EP Glass House Mountains, is their most assured and powerful statement yet, full of passionate songwriting and soaring, spiritually-charged melodies.
Jennah Bell is a singer-songwriter whose ravenous musical curiosities inspired her own creative wonderland; her quirky songwriting and indefinability are a direct product of her Bay Area roots. Bell pulls from a colorful palette of folk, soul, R&B, hip?hop, and bluegrass. Bell, a Berklee School of Music graduate, released her first self-produced EP, the experimental Early Bird, and left Boston for New York City in 2011. Since then, she has performed on the 2012 BET Awards, released a 3-piece band session "Live at Mother" on Okayplayer.com, and played shows at SXSW, The Roots Picnic, Blue Note Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and CMJ music festival. She is currently recording her next album.
MAGOS HERRERA & JAVIER LIMON: DAWN
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30PM
$20
Magos Herrera and Javier Limon had a chance encounter in a coffee shop, which led to an extraordinary musical adventure - a first encounter between two musicians destined to fall in love.
Herrera, renowned Mexican-born jazz singer and resident of New York City, has worked with the best jazz musicians from around the world for many years, combining her Latin roots with the sound of contemporary American jazz, thus, positioning herself among a musical elite. Limón, is a laureate composer, guitarist and internationally recognized producer, known for his collaboration with Paco de Lucia, Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Avishai Cohen and Wynton Marsalis, among others. He has become an indispensable reference in the genre of Flamenco and future international music.
Friday, November 21 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv/$20 Door
John Early is a New York-based comedian, actor and filmmaker. His solo show Literally Me returns to Joe's Pub with special guests Yazan and the Gates Family Band, Nicole Spiezio and Hamm Samwich. Early is an Artist in Residence and comedy curator at Ars Nova, where he hosts the monthly variety show Showgasm. He also co-hosts Crime & Punishment at Cake Shop with oft-collaborator Kate Berlant. Their live sketch show Hey has been performed at Union Hall, UCB and The Virgil. His play The Witchelor, co-written with Nicole Spiezio, has been performed at Ars Nova and Atlantic Stage 2. Television credits include 30 ROCK, Broad City and High Maintenance, the feature film Fort Tilden (SXSW Grand Jury Prize), and starred in several of his own shorts.
Friday, November 21 at 9:30PM
$16 Adv/ $20 Door
Morley returns home to Joe's Pub with her unique globally-minded pop that expertly combines an earthiness, sensuality, intelligence and social consciousness. Come prepared to be moved. This show will feature a masterful lineup: Robin Macatangay on guitar, Allison Miller on drums, Teymur Phell on bass, Elio Villafranca on piano, Christelle Durandy on percussion and very special surprise guest.
LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE, VOL. 4: AFRO, LATIN & SOUL
FEATURING GEKO JONES
Friday, November 21 at 11:30PM
$20 Adv / $25 Door
Brown Girls Burlesque's Chicava HoneyChild, Essence Revealed, Bianca Dagga, Clementine Dandy and more return to Joe's for the last installment of their series Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. This time, they take you on a sensual excursion through diaspora of Latin America and Afro-Caribbean music and the intersections of Soul music with DJ Geko Jones. Jones is a Brooklyn-based nightlife personality known for his internationally diverse events. Pushing the Latin agenda in a worldwide tropical bass scene, he is founding member of both Dutty Artz Records and the now infamous Que Bajo party franchise with his partner Uproot Andy. His mixes span the tropical hemispheres and collage together heavy Afro-Latin percussion with Kuduro, Moombahton and hard club breaks.
THE ROSE OF NO MAN'S LAND featuring NELL ROBINSON, JIM NUNALLY & RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT
Saturday, November 22 at 7:00PM
$25
The Rose Of No-Man's Land is an American family's musical journey with songs from the Revolutionary War to the present interwoven with 250 years of letters, stories and poetry from Nell Robinson's rural Alabama family. This uniquely crafted concert (also a PBS feature) showcases Robinson's lush vocal quality and artisan story telling. This presentation features two-time Grammy winner and folk icon Ramblin' Jack Elliott as well as award winning flat picker Jim Nunally (David Grisman Bluegrass Experience). The show has enjoyed enthusiastic responses from audiences at The Kennedy Center and other venues across the country. The show will feature an all-star band: Jim Nunally (guitar, vocals), Mike Witcher (slide guitar, dobro), Levon Henry (clarinet, soprano sax), Zach Harmon (percussion) and Andrew Conklin (string bass). Narration is by David Brancaccio.
COMPANY FREAK featuring ALFA ANDERSON, NORMA JEAN WRIGHT & VIVIAN REED
Saturday, November 22 at 9:30PM
$22
International dance music super band Company Freak is masterminded by producer-DJ-journalist Jason King. Company Freak's deep-pocket, sophisticated dance pop is a throwback to 1970s and 80s orchestral disco, soul and funk when groups like Chic, Change, Kool and the Gang, Boney M, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and Midnight Star ruled the airwaves. Above all else a concept, the band is a revolving, multi-generational affiliation of awe-inspiring vocalists and musicians, anchored by King's original dance tracks, recorded around the world in New York, Lagos, Istanbul, Addis Ababa and Paris.
Engineered and mixed by Eric Broucek and Alex Nizich (LCD Soundsystem, Hercules and Love Affair), Company Freak's debut LP, Le Disco Social, was released in March on Opus Label and featured Shayna Steele (Rihanna, NBC's Smash) and Melissa Musique (Jessie J., Florence and the Machine) and King himself, alongside storied session musicians from bands like D-Train and Chic plus a return-to-form from R&B legend Vivian Reed. They will debut songs from their forthcoming EP, The Lux Life.
REVEREND BILLY & THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR: MONSANTO IS THE DEVIL
Sunday, November 23 at 2:00PM
$15
What time is this? Time to party before the plague? Or is it more like the 20's between world wars? In 2014, stepping on stage in fire and drought, freak storms and extinction... Reverend Billy is feeling a strange joy in these first days of apocalypse. We need to rededicate ourselves to the politicizing of survival, pitting our freedom against the financiers of climate change. The singing-activists return to Joe's after last year's performances in Chase Bank lobbies, and New York jails and courts. In 2013, we were inspired by the extinction and resurrection of the Golden Toad. This year, the Honey Bee is the hero. The presence of the pesticides of "Big Ag" and the struggle by bees to survive, is inspiration for new songs, songs with lots of Bee-atitude, hard-working and sticky sweet. Honeybeelujah!
SONNET REPERTORY THEATRE'S 12TH ANNUAL BENEFIT & CABARET HONORING CELIA WATSON
Sunday, November 23 at 6:00PM
$75-200
Sonnet Repertory Theatre honors award-winning actress Celia Weston at their Twelfth Annual Benefit & Cabaret, featuring a host of award-winning and celebrated writers and performers, including Derrick Baskin, Kerry Butler, Brian Gallagher, Darius de Haas, Megan Hilty, Carol Kane, David Miller, David Rasche and Alfred Uhry. Contributing composers include Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Flaherty, Will Reynolds, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman and Ben Toth. Video tributes from Linda Lavin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Alfre Woodard. The evening will be hosted by John Behlmann with music directed by Rick Hip-Flores and stage managed by Rachael Gass.
Sunday, November 23 at 9:30 PM
$12
Rising cabaret star Ali Grieb is known for her irrepressible energy and riveting storytelling. Her magnetic charm and big band sound evoke the Golden Age while her song selections point to her edgy and often naughty brilliance. In her new show Sin Stops Here, Grieb tells hilarious and poignant tales -- true stories from her life -- that could only come from someone who grew up in the Deep South by way of South Jersey with a Bronx-born Jewish mother.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com or 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'sPub 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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