Cornelia Street Cafe Announces Their Weekend Events

Cornelia Street Cafe has announced their schedule of events for this weekend.  Located between West 4th and Bleeker Streets, Cornelia Street Cafe was from the beginning an artists' café. Within a month there were poetry readings and music performances; and then a tiny play written for the café; and fiction writers; and Eskimo poetry; and puppeteers; and a living portrait of James Joyce; and the Four Quartets and the entire Iliad; and mime shows on the street outside the café; and comedians; and fairy tales and storytellers and Punch and Judy shows.

Over the years it has presented an enormous variety of artists, from singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega to poet-senator Eugene McCarthy, from members of Monty Python to members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. It has offered a performance home to the Songwriters Exchange, the Writers Room, the Writers Studio, the Greek-American Writers Association, the Italian-American Writers Association, the New Works Project/Theatre, and many others.

For more information, visit: http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com.

This weekend's schedule is as follows:

Fri Mar 19 9:00PM & 10:30PM
SCIENSONIC EVENING OF NEW MUSIC WITH SCOTT ROBINSON
(Scott Robinson, saxophones, winds, theremin & sonic devices; Julian Thayer, bass; Marshall Allen, alto sax, flute & electronic valve instrument; Kevin Norton, vibraphone, drums & percussion; Pat O'Leary, bass, cello, sonic toys & devices; Sharon Robinson, flute & wind machine)

Scott Robinson celebrates 200 recordings, 25 years in New York and 50 years on Earth with the launching of ScienSonic Laboratories LLC, his new outlet for creative and far-reaching projects. ScienSonic Laboratories will have its first two exciting releases in hand and available on March 19. Live at Space Farms featuring Marshall Allen is a lavish 2-CD set in a special wallet, with Enhanced CD capability including text, video and photo gallery, recorded live with the amazing bell tower in a cow pasture at Space Farms. Cover is $15.

Sat Mar 20
9:00PM & 10:30PM HOT & COOL

NEC JAZZ 40TH: ANTHONY COLEMAN GROUP & JEREMY UDDEN'S PLAINVILLE
(Anthony Coleman, piano; Satoshi Takeshi, percussion; Ashley Paul, alto saxophone; Sean Comly, bass; Jeremy Udden, alto saxophone; Brad Shepik, guitar; Pete Rende, pump organ, rhodes; Rob Jost, bass; RJ Miller, drums)

9PM Hot & Cool
NEC Jazz 40th and the Cornelia Street Café present internationally acclaimed pianist/composer and Downtown music legend Anthony Coleman an NEC grad now on the NEC faculty. The All Music Guide calls Coleman "one of New York's finest avant-garde musicians," and here he's performing with percussionist Satoshi Takeshi, alto saxophonist Ashley Paul '01B.M., '07 MM, and bassist Sean Comly.

10:30PM Saxophonist/composer Jeremy Udden
The "gifted alto saxophonist and composer with the gorgeous tone" (JazzTimes) will perform music from his highly acclaimed new CD Plainville. Joining Udden are Brad Shepik (guitar), Pete Rende (pump organ/rhodes), Rob Jost (bass) and RJ Miller (drums). Udden has found a voice in a variety of contexts, including the Grammy nominated Either/Orchestra, throughout his two recordings as a leader for the Fresh Sound New Talent label, and on over 20 recordings as a sideman. http://www.jeremyudden.com/

Sun Mar 21
8:30PM HOT & COOL: NEC JAZZ 40TH: ANDRÉ MATOS
(André Matos, guitar; Noah Preminger, tenor saxophone; Sara Serpa, voice; Thomas Morgan, bass; Leo Genovese, piano; Ted Poor, drums)

8:30 & 10PM Hot & Cool
NEC Jazz 40th and the Cornelia Street Café present the brilliant young Portuguese guitarist André Matos '08 M.M. as he celebrates the release of his stellar new CD "Quare" featuring saxophonist Noah Preminger '08 B.M., vocalist Sara Serpa '08 M.M. along with bassist Thomas Morgan, pianist Leo Genovese and drummer Ted Poor.

Mon Mar 22

8:30PM 21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MUSIC PRESENTS: PHIL FRIED
(Phil Fried; Anna Brandsoy; Jill Dawe)
Phil Fried: composer, performer, improvisor, blogger, writer, humorist, educator - not necessarily in that order.
Phil comes from a noted musical family. His father, Louis Fried, was an original cast member in several Broadway shows including Brigadoon and Carousel. His cousin was the noted composer Isadore Freed. Second to music is Phil's passionate interest in literature. He has written several texts and librettos including the text for his opera, The Dungeon of Esmeralda, and an adaptation of Hemingway's short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." In 2006 he received a Centennial Commission from the Minnesota Orchestra. He was a 2008 McKnight Foundation Fellow grantee. Most recently Phil became the composer in residence and core member for Opera Bob, a new music collaborative in Minnesota.

Sun Mar 21 6:00PM
SLAPERING HOL PRESS
(Suzanne Cleary; Lynn Wagner; Sean Nevin; B. K. Fischer)

Slapering Hol Press Reading at Cornelia Street Café
Suzanne Cleary's third book, Beauty Mark, will be published next year by Carnegie Mellon University Press, which previously published her books Keeping Time and Trick Pear. Winner of a Pushcart Prize, she has recent poems in Poetry London and the 2009 edition of Best American Poetry.

Mon Mar 22 6:00PM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHOLEM ALEICHEM

(Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase; Isaiah Sheffer, artistic director of Symphony Space; George Guidall, a golden voice in the audiobook industry; Art Bailey, pianist and accordionist; Tanya Kalmanovitch, violist and violinist)
Tonight's occasion is the 150th birthday of one of the world's most beloved writers.
BEL KAUFMAN grew up in Russia, learned English at age twelve, and went on to a distinguished literary, academic, and teaching career. She has won many awards for her writing and public speaking, addressing educators and students here and abroad. She is the granddaughter of the celebrated Yiddish humorist Sholem Aleichem.