Joe's Pub Announces Joe Sib 5/18, Fyfe Dangerfield 5/19 & 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.

JUST ANNOUNCED

PIERCE TURNER w/ Scorchio Quartet & special guest Philip Glass

Friday, April 30 7:00 PM

A portion of the star studded 2010 Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall will be reproduced on the stage of Joe's Pub this coming April 30th when Irish musician Pierce Turner sings again with New York's Scorchio Quartet a permanent fixture at the benefit along with Philip Glass and Patty Smith and the Patty Smith Band. Other performers of note this year were Iggy Pop and Regina Spektor. Turner and Miss Spektor played Piano four hand for the show's finale.

Pierce Turner, Irelands former solo performer of the year performs regularly with a string quartet and percussion while accompanying himself on guitar and Piano. In a feature article New York Magazine called him " New York's great undiscovered gem" At the Carnegie Hall concert he also performed a duet with Philip Glass on synthesizer. In their review of the show, Rolling Stone said "Early in the night, composer Phillip Glass introduced Irish singer Pierce Turner, who sat at the grand piano and performed the soaring, Bowie-reminiscent "Yogi with a Broken Heart"

Jon Pareles in the New York Times said "Pierce Turner, a piano playing Irish songwriter with tinges of opera and Joni Mitchell sang his "Yogi with a Broken Heart" joined by Mr. Philip Glass on keyboard."

Philip Glass has written several arrangements for Turner's songs and also Produced his first solo album for Beggars banquet/BMG Records in 1986. They plan to record the new song from the Carnegie Hall concert "Yogi with a Broken Heart" this Spring-with the purpose of its inclusion on Pierce Turner's forthcoming album.

Mr Turner's live performances have been highly praised for his boisterous aplomb, sensitivity, and knack of Irish story telling.

The Penguin book "The Rough Guide to Irish Music" had this to say about Turner. "There is no one in the whole wide world of music quite like Pierce Turner; a unique visionary, the owner of a voice that drips emotion, a consummate lyricist and the creator of tunes which are both complex and accessible" - Geoff Wallis

*newsflash-Pierce Turner at Joe's Pub New York with the Scorchio Quartet Fri April 30th at 7pm
Rolling Stone review of Tibet house benefit @ Carnegie Hall "Early in the night, composer Phillip Glass introduced Irish singer Pierce Turner, who sat at the grand piano and performed the soaring, Bowie-reminiscent "Yogi with a Broken Heart."

NY Times review of the same event
"A piano playing Irish songwriter with tinges of opera and Joni Mitchell sang his "Yogi with a Broken Heart" joined by Mr. Philip Glass on keyboard."$23

MAY 18 - MAY 20

PT WALKLEY

Tuesday, May 18 at 7:00 PM

Having recently opened for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden and the Sold Out WRXP Weezer concert at The Hammerstein, composed music for several acclaimed Ed Burn's feature films and scored national ad campaigns, PT Walkley is bringing his full musical experience back to Joe's Pub. His current CD, titled Mr. Macy Wakes Alone, has already earned Walkley airplay on taste making online radio station East Village Radio and an interview with Matt Pinfield and Leslie Fram on New York City's 101.9 RXP. $12

JOE SIB

Tuesday, May 18 at 9:30 PM

"Sib's boundless earnestness about the identity-shaping possibility of music charged his part-memoir, part-comedy, part-backyard-barbecue-yarn about what happens when the old days never quite go away. ‘California Calling' isn't so much a performance as it is a solid hour to get comfortable and let Sib--a coiled spring of joy when it comes to these topics--riff on stream-of-consciousness tales of teenage n'er-do-welling...The abiding take from "California Calling" is that the rush of youthful discovery doesn't have to dissipate with adult life." -LA Times

Joe Sib's "California Calling: A Story of Growing Up Punk Rock" is a 70-minute "broken word" roller coaster ride delivered by a man with enough energy and passion to power an entire city. Armed with only a microphone and 45 digital slides, Sib's story is personal, funny, relatable and brutally honest. He gives "California Calling" a compelling visual edge by performing his entire show in front of photographs from punk photographers Murray Bowles, Edward Culver and Lisa Johnson. $15

FYFE DANGERFIELD

Wednesday, May 19 at 7:00 PM

Fyfe Dangerfield of UK band Guillemots, launches his solo career with amazing album Fly Yellow Moon. A collection of songs that were written over a 12-month period in snatched moments after soundchecks, before nights out, and after moments of unmitigated lovestruck bliss. $15

JENNY SCHEINMAN & ROBBIE FULKS
Wednesday, May 19 at 9:30 PM

Robbie Fulks is a country singer, flatpicker, and writer. He was born in Pennsylvania, raised in North Carolina, educated somewhat in New York City, and has since lived in Illinois. As a member of Special Consensus he was nominated for a bluegrass Grammy. He has had nine solo records released on various labels; his tenth, featuring 13 reinterpreted Michael Jackson songs, is coming out this spring. Performance credits include NPR's Fresh Air, PBS's Austin City Limits, NBC's Late Night w/ Conan O'Brien, and WSM's Grand Ole Opry; writing credits include GQ, Blender, Da Capo Press's Best Music Writing, and Athaneum's An Atheist's Guide to Christmas; artists who have covered him include Rosie Flores, Sam Bush, Old 97's, and Silkworm.

Singer/songwriter/violinist Jenny Scheinman hails from a homestead on the western edge of the continent, but has spent the last decade in Brooklyn. She has collaborated with many influential contemporary American musicians (Bill Frisell, Lucinda Williams, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Rodney Crowell, Nels Cline, Jason Moran, Lou Reed) and has six critically acclaimed solo recordings.

Together the two have developed a rockingly tight & shockingly loose duo featuring selections from their collective songbooks plus stray fiddle tunes and curveball covers. $20

BRENDan James

Thursdays, May 20 & 27 at 7:00 PM

"BrenDan James has a voice that will change the world." - Carly Simon

With his warm, rich tenor and emotionally powerful songs, BrenDan James announces himself as an artist-to-watch on his dazzling debut album The Day Is Brave. Rooted in the classic singer/songwriter tradition, with its introspective lyrics and unforgettable melodies, the album is 11 tracks of stunning songcraft: elegant, earthy, and displaying a total lack of artifice that is rare in the pop world these days. $12

LUCIA PULIDO ENSEMBLE

Thursday, May 20 at 9:30 PM

With one of the richest voices on the international Latin musical scene today, Lucia Pulido has mined the musical traditions of her native Colombia and the Latin American countries in an ongoing search for a distinct, experimental style. The New York Times says that, "Ms. Pulido holds on to the rawness of the original melodies while giving them a sophisticated new context." Her ensemble pays homage to the "chirimía", one of the many types of Colombian street bands, using traditional genres such as cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos of the ColombIan Eastern Plains as the point of departure for creative musical excursions. Pulido's vocal sophistication is enhanced in genres such as herding songs (cantos de vaquería), funeral laments (alabaos) and harvest chants (cantos de zafra) which give the singer the liberty to explore her voice fully. $15

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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