Fall and Winter 2011-2012 schedule of concerts, Music-Theater and Spoken Word Announced for Target Free Thursdays.
An exciting range of performances, including jazz, world, vocal, classical, country/bluegrass, and rock music, a commissioned cartoon musical theater premiere, a 30-piece circus punk marching band, a celebration of the music of British art-pop icon Kate Bush, and an evening of new poetry, highlight the fall/winter schedule of Target Free Thursdays events at the David Rubenstein Atrium, the second full season of the popular, free series that regularly features "sell-out" crowds. All performances are at 8:30 p.m. at the Atrium located at Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets.
Launched in November 2009, Target Free Thursdays offers free public performances by a wide-range of artists every Thursday night throughout the year at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, a vibrant new public facility on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Curated by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., Target Free Thursdays performances feature national and International Artists as well as local artists. The series also features artists from Lincoln Center's resident organizations including The Juilliard School, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Chamber Music Society, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts among others, along with artists curated by community-based partners. The series presents a diverse cross-section of musical genres, including pop, Latin, rock, soul, country, jazz, world, classical and new music, as well as spoken word, multi-media and dance performances. Additional 2011-2012 performances will be announced as they are added to the schedule
ADMISSION IS FREE. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. The David Rubenstein Atrium is located on Manhattan's Upper Westside at Broadway between 62nd and 63rd Streets. The ‘wichcraft cafe, serving food and drinks, is open. For more information, visit www.LincolnCenter.org/Atrium.
TARGET FREE THURSDAYS at David Rubenstein ATRIUM AT LINCOLN CENTER
FALL/WINTER 2011-2012
Programs and artists subject to change
Thursday, September 1 at 8:30 pm
CHARLES YANG
Presented in collaboration with The Juilliard School
Charles Yang has performed in venues ranging from Carnegie Hall to the Forbidden City in Beijing. As a composer and songwriter, violinist, electric violinist, guitarist, keyboardist and vocalist, Yang has won numerous awards including 1st prize at the Lennox International Young Artist Competition, and winner of the Academy Violin Competition at the Aspen Music Festival and School. On June 9th of 2005, the Mayor of Austin, Texas presented Mr. Yang with his own Charles Yang Day. For more information about the artist visit: http://www.charlesyangmusic.com/
Thursday, September 8 at 8:30 pm
K. PAGE STUART AND THE SLEEPWALKER'S PARADE
The exhilarating band, Sleepwalker's Parade, is fronted by adventurous vocalist K. Page Stuart who plays outside conventional notions of genre, reshaping familiar sounds in radical ways. Before forming the Sleepwalker's Parade, K. Page studied experimental voice with Meredith Monk, served as artist in residence at HERE Arts Center, and performed with downtown luminaries such as Antony of Antony and The Johnson's and toy instrument impresario, Rebecca Moore. This formidable band has performed on the downtown arts scene, and recently at the Judson Church presented by Movement Research, Brooklyn Academy Of Music's BAMcafé, and at the Gershwin Hotel in collaboration with award winning poet Cornelius Eady. K. Page Stuart and the Sleepwalker's Parade offer a daring sonic exploration of raw emotional lyrics exploring The Edges light and darkness in society and human nature. For more information about the artist visit: www.sleepwalkersparade.net/store/ep__k_page_stuart_and_sleepwalkers_parade
Thursday, September 15 at 8:30 pm
IKEBE SHAKEDOWN
"The band takes signature Afrobeat elements-big unison horns, slinky bass lines, tight little guitar licks-and blends them with tasty grooves culled from '70s-style horn-driven funk," writes WNYC Radio about the New York City-based band, whose recently released, self-titled album plays with elements of
cinematic soul, Afro-funk, deep disco, and boogaloo in all the right ways. Most of the rhythm section met at Bard College, and the band rounded-out and officially formed when everyone settled in Brooklyn in 2008. From there, Ikebe has emerged as a compelling voice on the progressive local scene. After a run of dates around NYC, the band recorded their debut 7" single and the EP, Hard Steppin', which was released on Colemine Records in 2009, receiving high praise from critics and fans alike. After spending a few years together the group, named after a favorite Nigerian boogie record (and pronounced "ee-KAY-bay"), delivers a driving set of tunes featuring a mighty horn section anchored by tight, deep-pocketed grooves. "Ikebe Shakedown re-creates the kind of vibrant vintage funk that sends crate-digging DJs into spasms of joy," according to Time Out New York. For more information on the artists visit: www.ikebeshakedown.com/band/
Thursday, September 22 at 8:30 pm
AMBER RUBARTH
Presented in collaboration with NewSong Music
This self-taught and self-made artist began performing at age 21. Through word of mouth and tours in the U.S., Europe, and Japan, Amber's songs received more than 1.6 million plays on MySpace. She has shared the stage with such greats as Loudon Wainwright III, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Colin Hay, Martin Sexton and Lisa Loeb. Rubarth now composes for films as well, most recently collaborating with Paul Brill on the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival winner Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. She is also one half of Brooklyn's buzz band The Paper Raincoat, an iTunes Indie Spotlightfavorite. Recent Grand Prize winner of this year's NPR "Mountain Stage NewSong Contest," Amber Rubarth is a singer/songwriter who has attracted enthusiastic praise from NPR's All Songs Considered, The Huffington Post, BBC Radio, and Acoustic Guitar Magazine. She is currently appearing in a Sun Studio Session now airing nation-wide on PBS and has also appeared on One Tree Hill. For more information about the artist visit: www.amberrubarth.com
Thursday, September 29 at 8:30 pm
KAUMAKAIWA KANAKA'OLE
Since birth, Kaumakaiwa has dedicated his life to his family's practice and passion-the art of hula. As a ‘olapa (dancer) of H?lau O Kekuhi for more than fifteen years, the 27-year-old has studied and performed all aspects of hula, oli, and haku mele, drawing on seven generations and beyond in practices that have been maintained within a traditional family lifestyle dedicated to hula and the Hawaiian culture. Accompanied by a passionate, unmatched love of his culture and drawing on his lineage, Kaumakaiwa is blazing a new trail in the 21st century, while paying homage to those who have come before him, a theme that resonates with his newly-released third album. Kaumakaiwa Kanaka‘ole is the voice of Hawai'i's new generation. Following his appearance at globalFEST 2011, The New York Times praised Kaumakaiwa's "chameleonic vocals. He vaulted through various registers and timbres, from bass to witchy contralto rasp to sweet soprano (his "skinny girl" voice, he said), a traditionalist tour de force." For more information about the artist visit: http://mountainapplecompany/kaumakawai/
Thursday, October 6 at 8:30 pm
UP FROM THE STACKS
A musical theater piece by Ben Katchor and Mark Mulcahy
Presented in collaboration with the New York Public Library
Set in The New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street and in the environs of Times Square circa 1970, Up From the Stacks is the story of Lincoln Cabinée, a college student working part-time as a page, retrieving books for readers from the Library's collection of 43 million items. This routine evening job inadvertently thrusts young Cabinée into the treacherous crossroads of scholarly obsession and the businesses of amusement and vIce That then flourished in the 42nd Street area. The intellectual life of the city and the happiness of a young man hang in the balance. Katchor and Mulcahy have previously collaborated on The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or The Friends of Dr. Rushower. The Rosenbach Company and A Checkroom Romance (previously seen at David Rubenstein Atrium) For more information about the artist visit: www.katchor.com
Co-commissioned by the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at The New York Public Library, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for Target Free Thursdays at the David Rubenstein Atrium.
