Diane Birch, Alex Jacquemin, et. al Set for Joe's Pub Performances

Diane Birch, Alex Jacquemin and more are set for performances at Joe's Pub. The full schedule includes:

DIANE BIRCH
January 30 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm
$20
Singer-songwriter Diane Birch took half her lifetime, and traveled across the globe, to get to America, where she literally found her voice and made her remarkable debut, Bible Belt. Though only in her mid-twenties, Birch likes to think of herself as an “old soul,” and indeed there is a startling maturity in her singing and a veteran’s self-assurance in her writing. Now working on her follow-up album, which is due out in Spring 2012, Birch mixes piano-playing virtuosity with easy-going soul, and she can strike an uplifting groove on even the most melancholy tune. Her work bears hints of Laura Nyro (when she was hanging out with LaBelle) and early 70’s Karen Carpenter (when she was ruling the charts), while effortlessly incorporating New Orleans second-line rhythms, gospel fervor, doo-wop harmonies, country-blues guitar and classic AM radio-style melodies.

ALEX JACQUEMIN
January 31 at 7:30pm
$12
Alex Jacquemin is a modern jazz guitarist with a driving penchant for originality, daring and challenge. Born in France, he did not pick up his first guitar until the age of 16, but worked on his mastery of the instrument with such disciplined devotion that he was formally teaching others how to play by his fourth year... An ambitious player, composer, arranger and band leader, Alex brought his skills to the United States to delve deeper into shaping his own style and sound... His most profound progress in this direction can be heard on his completely original new double CD concept album, First and Last Light.

PAUL BRILL
January 31 at 9:30pm
$12
Paul Brill’s compositions for numerous award-winning films, TV series, and several acclaimed CDs of original and innovative songwriting prove that youthful adventures as an herbal smokes salesman, street performer, valet, corporate errand boy, and a marine biology instructor can serve the creative spirit well. He has been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards for his film work and recently collaborated with Rock legends U2, composing and producing a new string arrangement for an acoustic version of their classic hit, “Walk On,” which will be featured in the upcoming HBO film, Burma Soldier. He recently won the Best Music Award from the International Documentary Association (IDA) for his score for the film, “Better This World,” which also won Best Documentary at this year’s Gotham Awards. Brill brings his 10-piece band (whose members have performed and recorded with Radiohead, Wilco, David Bowie, St. Vincent, Jens Lekman and others) back to Joe’s Pub to celebrate the release of his new recording, “Breezy” (Scarlet Shame Records).

ON TAP
February 1 at 6:30pm
$15
New York’s hottest tap dancers and musicians come together for an electric night of improvisation and musical exploration. Actor and tap dancer Dulé Hill (“Psych”, Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk, Stickfly) hosts. The tap dancers include tap legends as well as the new generation of tap artists and ensembles breaking ground in tap and the musicians are some of the leading musicians working today.The performers have danced and played on and off-Broadway, in film and television, music videos, commercials, on stages across the US, and in numerous countries around the globe. Their credits include Stomp, City Center’s Cotton Club Parade, Riverdance, the Cannes Film Festival, Joyce Theater, and more.The dancers for On Tap include DeWitt Fleming, Karida Griffith, Lisa La Touche, Carson Murphy, Max Pollak, Joseph Webb, Nicholas Young, 2011 Bessie Award winners Michelle Dorrance and Caleb Teicher, and more!

GABE DIXON / LELIA BROUSSARD
February 1 at 9:00pm
$12
For Gabe Dixon, one is quite possibly the most liberating number. On his debut solo album, One Spark, Dixon flexes a newfound muscularity in tone and texture - delivering the most personal and rewarding music of his young career. For a decade, Dixon helmed the critically acclaimed The Gabe Dixon Band; originally formed as a quintet at the University of Miami and last heard on record as a trio on their 2008 self-titled release for Fantasy Records / Concord Music Group.Hot off the heels of an incredibly successful run of West Coast shows, the soulful indie/pop songstress Lelia Broussard is about to hit it big after claiming her spot in the top two of Rolling Stone’s ‘So You Want To Be A Rock And Roll Star’ contest. Hand-picked as one of the best unsigned artists in the nation by the editors of Rolling Stone and Atlantic Records, Lelia performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon shortly afterwards. Harry Nilsson famously sang, “One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.”

THE LOSERS LOUNGE PRESENTS
STEELY DAN VS. THE DOOBIE BROTHERS
February 2 at 7:00pm
February 3 at 7:00pm & 9:30pm
February 4 at 6:30pm & 9:00pm
$25
The Losers Lounge present “Steely Dan vs.The Doobie Brothers” in a battle of the bands! For the first time ever The Losers Lounge will tackle these two impressive catalogues. Featuring The Joe McGinty Seven and all of your favorite Losers Lounge performers, guests and characters. One weekend only, at Joe’s Pub! Loser's Lounge is a bi-monthly tribute show based in New York City where local talent pays homage to the pop music greats of the past. Loser's Lounge was started in 1993 by session keyboardist Joe McGinty (Psychedelic Furs, The Ramones, Ryan Adams) and psycho-cabaret singer Nick Danger. Since 1993, the Loser's Lounge has performed nearly 300 shows honoring 50 different artists, from ABBA to the Zombies, sometimes with the honorees present: Lee Hazlewood, Paul Williams and Denny Doherty (of the Mamas and Papas) all enthusiastically attended their own tribute nights.

THE TWO
February 2 at 9:30pm
$12
Seven years ago Ara Starck met David Jarre in Paris. She was a painter, he was a magician. Their meeting produced magic of another kind, crystallised today in The Two, a duo that weaves together its members’ atypical career paths, and melds their singularities in a shared intimacy. The starting point for The Two was the song “I Wanna Be With You Again” ,the first song they ever sang together, early 2009. From then on Ara and David shut themselves away from the world, at home and then in an empty studio, to sing, write and record, fine-tuning a work that involved no other musicians and no producer. On their debut album, Ara and David are seemingly rediscovering the magic of uncluttered melody, primary sound colours and simple words, all underlined with strength and elegance by their vocal harmony. As though improvised, The Two’s music speaks with a rare natural voice. All the songs are very direct and have the quality of enchanting rough sketches on which the voices of Ara and David imprint their singular charm, reflecting a shared melancholy and solitude. Whether they choose to sing in unison, or in Q&A, the songs tell the story of two people sharing a fascinating complicity, rich with a thousand affinities and an equal dose of turbulence.

CAROL LIPNIK & SPOOKARAMA / VILLA DILIRIUM
February 5 at 7:00pm
$15
Coney Island Siren Carol Lipnik's haunting 4-octave voice and her uniquely theatrical, poetic, genre-defying songs (many from the point of view of lovelorn beasts and freaks) are phantasmagorical, carnivalesque, gleefully macabre, and irresistibly compelling with shades of Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Lenya/Brecht/Weill, and the Creature From The Black Lagoon. Her band Spookarama (named after Coney's famed ramshackle spook-house ) is DrEd Scott on piano and keyboards, Tim Luntzel on upright bass, Dan Rieser on drums and percussion, and Rob Sudduth on saxophones. Carol has recorded five CDs on Mermaid Alley Music that are available on iTunes, Amazon, and CDBaby.

LACRYMOSA / SEA OF BEES
February at 9:30pm
$12
Lacrymosa is the solo-moniker of Caitlin Pasko. Hailing from Virginia Beach, VA, Pasko was taught classical piano from a young age, and quickly showed a preternatural genius for the instrument. Her mastery of impressionistic cadences and romantic conveyance of melody gave way, despite her rigorous background, to a songwriting ability beyond the pale of her peers. At twenty, she’s channeled the playful character of Regina Spektor and Feist in the creation of a stamp all her own, one steeped in the mystic literacy of Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush, capable of deep deliverance and nurture. In the stretch of time between recording her 2009 debut album Songs for the Ravens and the time when it was released one year later by small indie label Crossbill Records, Julie Ann Bee -- who records under the name Sea of Bees -- met the woman who would become her first girlfriend. The relationship and the release of the album were both huge steps forward for Julie, and it only accelerated in the fall of 2010, when Heavenly/Universal picked up Ravens for worldwide release. To keep up with the accolades and attention being sent her way as a result, she spent most of 2011 touring Europe and the U.S., including stops at the famed Glastonbury Festival, CMJ, and a whopping 12 shows at that year's SXSW.