Join multi instrumentalist Tracy Bonham at the Cornelia Street Cafe for new music from her upcoming release "Masts Of Manhattan" as well as old favorites and covers with new twists.
She has an amazing line up: Nicole Federici (viola, violin), Dan Cho (cello),
Mike DuClos (bass), and Konrad Meissner (drums). Tracy weaves in and out of alternative rock, where she is most commonly known, to bright moments of Classical, Eastern European, and Gypsy music in just a few brushstrokes. Tracy and her band will be joined by special guests Eric Mingus on bass and vocals along with ultra talented Catherine Sikora on saxophone. Eric Mingus, son of Charles, is an acclaimed composer, performer, recording artist, and poet, and has made several records with Catherine Sikora under the name Clockwork Mercury. Come join Tracy and her friends every first Wednesday of each month at 8:30 pm for the next four months, and watch collaborations unfold. Tickets are $15.
Tonight, Wednesday February 3 at 6 pm, the Cornelia Street Café will present "Spoken Word"-free range readings by Meera Nair, Janice Erlbaum, and Kyle Minor.
Janice Erlbaum is the author of HAVE YOU FOUND HER: A Memoir (Villard, Feb. ‘08), and GIRLBOMB: A Halfway Homeless Memoir (Villard, March ‘06).
Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil's Territory, a collection of short fiction, and co-editor of The Other Chekhov. His recent work appears in The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, and Plots with Guns, and in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2008 , guest edited by George Pelecanos (Houghton Mifflin, 2008).
Meera Nair grew up in India and came to the United States in 1997. She is the author of VIDEO: Stories, and a forthcoming novel from Pantheon, tentatively titled HARVEST. She recently had a story in the highly acclaimed anthology "Delhi Noir" from Akashic Books. Her collection VIDEO won the Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen a Best Fiction Book of the Year by The Washington Post and Book magazine and was the Editor's Choice at the San Francisco Chronicle. Her story was also selected for National Public Radio's Selected Shorts. Meera has won fiction fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2004 & 2008) and the MacDowell Artists' Colony. She lives in Queens, New York and teaches Creative Writing at New York University and in the MFA program at Brooklyn College.
Mira Ptacin will host the evening which will have a $7 cover.
For more information, visit http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com.
