CLEAN FEED ANNUAL NYC FESTIVAL Runs May 7-9 at Cornelia Cafe

This weekend Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) will host the 5th Annual Clean Feed Annual NYC Festival.  Friday at 8:30 PM the Festival kicks off with Peter Van Huffel, voice with Peter Van Huffel alto and soprano saxophones; Samuel Blaser on trombone and Michael Bates, bass on Friday at 8:30 PM.  At 9:45 PM Ivo Perelman, Daniel Levin and Reuben Radding with "Soulstorm."  At 11:00 PM RED trio + Nate Wooley "RED trio" will perform.  The full list events are listed below and more information is available at http://www.cleanfeed-records.com/.  Tickets for Friday and Saturday night are $20 or $10 for one set.  Sunday tickets are $15 ($10 for one set). 

 

Fri May 07
8:30PM CLEAN FEED'S ANNUAL NYC FESTIVAL
8:30 Peter Van Huffel / Sophie Tassignon "Hufflignon"
Sophie Tassignon, voice; Peter Van Huffel, alto and soprano saxophones; Samuel Blaser, trombone; Michael Bates, bass
9:45 - Ivo Perelman / Daniel Levin / Reuben Radding "Soulstorm"
Ivo Perelman, tenor saxophone; Reuben Radding, double bass; Daniel Levin, cello

11:00 - RED trio + Nate Wooley "RED trio"
Rodrigo Pinheiro, piano; Hernani Faustino, double bass; Gabriel Ferrandini, drums; Nate Wooley, trumpet

Sat May 08
9:00PM CLEAN FEED'S ANNUAL NYC FESTIVAL
8:30 - Samuel Blaser Quartet "Pieces of Old Sky"
Samuel Blaser, trombone; Todd Neufeld, guitar; Eivind Opsvik, double bass; Billy Mintz, drums
9:45 - Marty Ehrlich Rites Quartet "Things Have Got to Change"
Marty Ehrlich, alto saxophone; James Zollar, trumpet; Erik Friedlander, cello; Michael Sarin, drums
11:00 - Tom Rainey Trio "Pool School"
Tom Rainey, drums; Mary Halvorson, guitar; Ingrid Laubrock, tenor saxophone

Sun May 09
8:30PM CLEAN FEED'S ANNUAL NYC FESTIVAL
8:30 - Tetterapadequ "And the Missing R"
Daniele Martini, tenor saxophone; Giovanni Di Domenico, piano; Gonçalo Almeida, double bass; João Lobo, drums
10:00 - Tony Malaby's Apparitions "Voladores"
Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophone; Sean Conly, double bass; Tom Rainey, drums; Satoshi Takeishi, drums, percussion
http://www.cleanfeed-records.com

Mon May 10
8:30PM COMPOSERS COLLABORATIVE: SERIAL UNDERGROUND
(Rachelle Garniez; Giancarlo Vulcano; Deborah Atherton; Ed Schmidt)
Serial Underground, "the subversive nightclub series" (Time Out NY)
Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes CCi's monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia Street Cafe - "... part of the ecology of urban night life." CCi artistic director, Jed Distler, curates the programs abetted by director Arnold Barkus and lighting designer David Lovett.
Tonight:
Rachelle Garniez -the diva with a difference ... and an accordion
Giancarlo Vulcano's Monologues for Minerals, a collaborative work with artist Julien Bismuth, first installment (music,theater).
Deborah Atherton - annual anti-Mother's Day tale (installment #2)
Ed Schmidt's residency, last call (theater).

Box office: 212.663.1967 (advance purchase discount available)
Admission at the door: $15 + one drink minimum
Jed Distler, host. http://www.composerscollab.org
Spoken Word

Fri May 07
6:00PM SON OF PONY

The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.

Featured Readers: ICE & Robert Gibbons

ICE is a New York based multi media artist. The producer, author, of a self named cd and dvd purchase on cd.baby.com and film baby.com with a strong focus on performance, she's a founding editor of Uphookpress, an annual judge and feature at Cuny college Poetry Festival, and she annually attends Juniper summer writers institute at UMass.

ROBERT GIBBONS is a unique spoken word artist who frequents many hot spots on the New York poetry scene. He has more than 15 years of teaching experience as a classroom teacher, and presently is a curriculum writer for the New York Junior Tennis League.
Kat Georges, host. Cover $7

Sat May 08
6:00PM ITALIAN-AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION
Italian American Writers Association, featured readers are: Michael La Sorsa Steffen & Nancy Carnevale, plus open mic, 5 minute limit.

Maria Lisella, host. Cover $7

Sun May 09
6:00PM WHITE SWALLOW READING SERIES:
(Deborah Landau; Timothy Liu; Brenda Shaughnessy)

The White Swallow Reading Series Celebrates Mothers Day
Does Your Mother Know?

Poetry Reading, featuring Deborah Landau, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Timothy Liu

Deborah Landau is the author of Orchidelirium, which won the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and Blue Dark (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press). Her poems have appeared in Triquarterly, The Paris Review, Tin House, The Kenyon Review, Poetry Daily, and The Best American Erotic Poems, among other publications. She co-hosts Open Book on Slate.com and is Director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU

Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream's Blown Fuse. His poems have been translated into nine languages, and his journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. An Associate Professor of English at William Paterson University and a member of the Core Faculty in Bennington College's Graduate Writing Seminars, Liu lives in Manhattan.

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of two books of poems: Interior with Sudden Joy and Human Dark with Sugar, which won the 2007 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. Her poems have been published in Bomb, Conjunctions, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and elsewhere.

Angelo Nikolopoulos is a retired high school teacher currently pursuing an MA at NYU's creative writing program, where he also serves as the managing editor of the Washington Square Review. He also works as a writing fellow at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and is the founder of The White Swallow reading series.
Angelo Nikolopoulos, host. Cover $7

Mon May 10
6:00PM POUL & ANGELO'S GREAT ADVENTURE
Poul Weis, our music coordiator, and Angelo Verga, our word conductor, on stage together as performers for the first time. Collaboration or parallel play? We have a feeling the saints will come marching in.
Cover $7