Diane Birch, Henry Butler & More Set for Summer Residencies at Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub at The Public is proud to welcome seven different artist residencies this summer including sultry pop songstress DIANE BIRCH, New Orleans piano virtuoso Henry Butler, performance artist John Kelly, swinging jazz band THE HOT SARDINES, airhostess/comedienne PAM ANN, and more. Like its New York Voices commissioning program, these residencies are a central part of the venue's commitment to artist development and to providing space for new work. Last year Joe's Pub hosted 15 artist residencies and it's on track to reach that number again. Get to know more about the artists making a home at Joe's Pub:

SUMMER ARTIST RESIDENCIES AT JOE'S PUB:
SYMPHONIC SUNDAYS WITH MOTHER FALCON
Special Guests Include Kelli Scarr and Raul Midon
June 9 and 23 at 7:00 PM
June 30 at 9:30 PM
$15

This June Joe's Pub at The Public will kick off Symphonic Sundays, a new series that pairs Tony Trischka, Raul Midon and KELLI SCARR with the 16-piece orchestral pop outfit MOTHER FALCON. The series runs June 2, 9, 23 & 30, capping off with Mother Falcon's epic tribute to Radiohead's seminal album OK Computer played in its entirety. On June 9 singer-songwriter Kelli Scarr will take centerstage with Mother Falcon complimenting her ethereal vocal chops with a sweeping orchestral sound. Scarr has collaborated with Moby on the song "Wait For Me," was nominated for an EMMY Award and NPR Music compared her album Dangling Teeth to Neil Young's Harvest Moon. On June 23 Raul Midón will step up to the microphone backed by Mother Falcon to unleash his silky, soulful tenor and dazzling percussive guitar. Midón uses a syncopated, flamenco, and jazz-infused style in which bass, harmony, and melodic lines emanate from the fretboard. His signature improvisational mouth horn technique, in which he creates a bebop "trumpet" solo entirely with his lips, has earned him applause from audiences worldwide. It's a virtuosic performance, and one that reveals what has made Midón such an exciting artist to watch over the past few years. On June 30 Mother Falcon will cap off Symphonic Sundays and celebrate its critically acclaimed new release You Knew with an epic tribute to Radiohead's 1997, Grammy Award winning album OK Computer played in its entirety.

DIANE BIRCH
June 10, 17 at 9:30 PM
$12 Advance / $15 Door
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, Speak A Little Louder, due out later this year, 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.

Henry Butler'S NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH
June 9, 21 & August 11 at Noon
$15 Advance / $18 Door
Join Henry Butler for Sunday brunch at Joe's Pub -- June 9th, July 21st, and August 11th. Enjoy the music and stories of a man who is deeply connected with the music of New Orleans. The rise, swing, and rumble of his fingers channel sounds as diverse as that of his birthplace: jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues, and R&B. A ten-time Pinetop Perkins (formerly W. C. Handy) Best of Blues Instrumentalist Award nominee, Butler brings his vivid, inquisitive personality into every performance. Butler's impeccable skill and distinguished career have inspired countless audiences, making him the premier exponent of the New Orleans jazz and blues piano tradition.

PAM ANN: COCKPIT
June 12, 13, 14, 15 & 16 at 9:30 PM
$30
Pam Ann has toured with Cher and crewed private jets for Elton John. Now the most hilarious airhostess in the sky returns to Joe's Pub at The Public in her most daring comedy show yet. In her new show, the gutsy and glamorous, sixties-inspired Pam Ann takes aim at the numerous airline calamities making news today. From the grounding of Boeing 787's Dreamliner to Emirates Airlines' door blowing open at 37,000ft, all the deliciously alarming incidents that are plaguing the world's airline industry are discussed. This is Pam Ann's first stateside tour in four years, following sold-out tours in Australia and Europe. Pam Ann will poke fun at air travel, identify the individual quirks of some of the biggest international airlines (and their stereotypes) and mix in a generous dose of camp, humor and Mad Men-era glamour. Passengers embark on a journey from security check-in to boarding to landing. In Pam Ann: Cockpit, the comedienne will premiere her spoof appearance on the ABC-TV series, PAN AM. She will also present never-before-seen-in-the-USA footage from her latest airline news channel.

John Kelly: REBEL SONGS
June 16, 30, July 7 & 14 at 7:30 PM
$20
Visual artist, dancer, actor and downtown cabaret artist John Kelly will be performing 'Rebel Songs of a Range Queen', including songs by Kurt Weill, Charles Aznavour, Mr. Bungle, Jacques Brel, Holcombe Waller, The Good, The Bad, & The Queen, Joanna Newsome, The Clash, & The Shins. Fresh from a multiple character turn in Fassbinder's 'In A Year With 13 Moons' at Yale Rep, 2013 USA Artists Award winner John Kelly returns to Joe's Pub for a 4 performance residency, on the heels of his breakthrough debut concerts last fall (interrupted by Hurricane Sandy). 'Rebel Songs of a Range Queen' will display his 3-octave voice singing as a weathered, genre-traipsing punk altar boy, as the rebellious, orphaned sage. Music Director Benjamin Ickies will play accordion and piano, backed up by a brass section. Each concert will have a guest singer, including Carol Lipnik and Dudley Saunders. A portion of the proceeds will go to the ongoing Hurricane Sandy Relief.

Bridget Everett AND THE TENDER MOMENTS
June 16 & July 31 at 9:30 PM
$22 Advance / $25 Door
Bridget Everett is a singing tour de force known for her funny yet gut-wrencing, outrageous and unpredictable performances. With her band The Tender Moments, Bridget's played to sold out houses on both coasts and has been joined by guests ranging from Broadway icon Patti LuPone to Rock icon Flea. Bridget starred in the autobiographical musical "At Least It's Pink" co-written with Michael Patrick King (writer/director of "Sex In The City") and Kenny Mellman (Kiki and Herb)and created an evening of original music called "Bridget and Neal are F*cking and Adam Is Watching" with Neal Medlyn and Adam Horovitz (also her bassist/collaborator in The Tender Moments). Bridget's television credits include recurring appearances as "Shonda" in CBS's hit comedy "Two Broke Girls" and on Logo's "Jeffrey Cole Casserole." As a solo performer, Bridget's performed at Montreal's "Just For Laughs" Festival, HBO's Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival, The Adelaide International Cabaret Festival in Adelaide, Australia, The San Francisco Sketchfest, and The New York Comedy Festival. Most recently, Bridget completed a run of U.S. dates supporting the great Amy Schumer. Bridget Everett and the Tender Moments perform monthly at Joe's Pub and will be releasing an album of original music this Fall.

THE HOT SARDINES
July 3 & August 16 at 9:30 PM
$15
Take a blustery brass lineup, layer it over a rhythm section led by a Fats Waller-style stride-piano virtuoso, and tie the whole thing together with a magnetic, one-of-the-boys frontwoman whose voice recalls another era, and you have the Hot Sardines, an NYC outfit (with a tap dancer) that's been called "consistently electrifying live" (Popmatters). The Sardine sound - wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the other way around - is steeped in the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Waller used to make: Straight-up, foot-stomping jazz. Pianist-bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth (who owe their collaboration to meeting via Craigslist) describe their band as "born in the 1920s, but raised in the '00s," reflecting a philosophy that hot jazz, dixieland and Tin Pan Alley tunes are all pop music, not historical artifact to be handled with kid gloves. The Sardines started 2013 headlining the TCM Classic Cruise, are slated to play the Great GoogaMooga Festival, the Spiegeltent and the Blue Note Jazz festival, and continue to turn regular haunt The Standard Hotel into a "saloon in the sky" (The Wall Street Journal).