Highline Ballroom Announces Monthly Schedule

JUST ANNOUNCED

· CéU - Sun. April 25 - DOORS @ 6PM
· THE REVEREND HORTON HEAT - Thurs. May 27 - DOORS @ 6PM
· DOUG STANHOPE - Fri. June 11 - DOORS @ 6PM

UPCOMING SHOWS - MARCH 1-31

EVERY SATURDAY LATE NIGHT at The Highline Ballroom:
The Rewind Show
with live performances and celebrity DJs
File Under: Rock, Dance, Electronic, Late Night
21 or over to enter
Doors at 10:30pm, Show at 11:00pm
$20 at door
RSVP to info@4kent.com
The Rewind Show is a vision we have had for as long as we have been in the business of night clubs and event planning. We are tired of the same concept that every night-club in NYC has been stuck with over the years and think that it's time to change the way to party! As we all know nothing can compare to a live performance and therefore we have created the Rewind Show! We want to bring an experience like no other by combining the live music of the 80's Rock & Roll era along with the best DJ's spinning the present hits. Every Saturday night, the Highline Ballroom will operate as a high-end night club to let people experience the Rewind Show.

Monday, March 1
AMBER RUBARTH
Opening: Kaiser Catel, Cara Salimando
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$12 adv, $15 at door
Take the timelessness of Patsy Cline. Mix in the insatiable curiosity of Socrates. Give it an edge, a roughness, refined in the spirit but raw in the performance, like someone singing in the shower. You'll start to have an idea of what makes up AMBER RUBARTH. Her musical hero Tom Waits helped choose "Washing Day" (co-written with Adam Levy of Norah Jones' Band) as 1ST PLACE in the INTERNATIONAL SONGWRITING COMPETITION for Lyrics. And her songs have generated OVER 1.3 MILLION PLAYS ON MYSPACE.

Tuesday, March 2
LITTLE BOOTS
Opening: Body Language, JDH & Dave P (FIXED)
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$17.50
Victoria Hesketh (born 1984), known professionally as Little Boots, is a British electronica musician. She sings, plays synthesizers, the Yamaha tenori-on and the stylophone. She was the former lead singer/synth player in Dead Disco. Her solo stage name comes from a nickname given to her by a friend after watching Caligula (the Latin name Caligula translates as "little boots").

Wednesday, March 3
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$25 adv, $30 at door
***SHOW MOVED FROM BB KING'S ON MARCH 4 TO HIGHLINE. ALL MARCH 4 BB KING'S TIX HONORED. REFUNDS AT POINT OF PURCHASE.***
Ireland's HOTHOUSE FLOWERS made a name for itself during the late '80s and early '90s with a passionate, bombastic fusion of rock & roll with the rootsy sounds of Irish folk and American gospel. The group received a glowing write-up in Rolling Stone before even landing a record deal, but that drawback was rectified when U2's Bono saw them performing on a late-night television show. A single on U2's label Mother got Hothouse Flowers signed to PolyGram. Their 1988 debut, People, cruised to the top of the Irish charts and peaked at number two in Britain. Their follow-ups, Home and Songs From the Rain, continued their success at home and abroad. Their fifth and latest studio album 'Into Your Heart' is out now.

Friday, March 5
SUPER DIAMOND
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
$22 adv, $25 at door
When your parents popped in a Neil Diamond tape on repeat during long interstate road trips, you reluctantly sang along. Never thought you'd turn out to be a Diamond fan now, right? But singing along to "Sweet Caroline" and "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show" is so addictive now, you'd do anything to see Neil on stage. A band out of San Francisco can put a rest to that Diamond thirst. Super Diamond delivers a high-octane Diamond tribute show that rocks!

Sunday, March 7
RJD2
Opening: Break Science, Happy Chichester
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
$17 adv, $19 at door
Rjd2's music is a collage of cut-and-paste hip-hop that combines disparate elements to make for soulful, moody portraits of the world.

Friday, March 12
AN EVENING WITH KELLER WILLIAMS
Doors at 8:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
$22.50 adv, $25 at door
Keller Williams has built a career on his uncanny ability to captivate a packed house-all by himself. He's been called a "one-man band." A "solo cult-hero." "Music's mad-scientist." All of which are clever labels for what seems to be an essential truth: On stage, Keller Williams works alone. For over 100 shows a year, Williams has proven himself to be a master of improvisational performance art. In his one-man show, he pads barefoot from guitar to bass to percussion stations, using looping effects-and enough instruments to stock a strip-mall music store-to layer sound atop sound until the stage swirls with a full-blown composition. While Keller has made liberal use of technology throughout his career, he knows that musicianship is ultimately a human undertaking. With a seemingly unquenchable thirst for all genres of music - bluegrass, jazz, and-who'd-a-thunk-it-hard rock - occasionally Williams puts unyielding faith in a backing band. Whether performing with solo or with Grateful Grass, Keller, Moseley, Droll and Sipe or Grunge Grass (just a few of his "band" projects), Keller Williams knows best how to please a music hungry crowd.

Tuesday, March 16
HABIB KOITE
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$25.00
Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa's most popular and recognized musicians. Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen Brothers and Sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."

Wednesday, March 17
SHERWOOD
Opening: Hot Chelle Rae, Black Gold, Reece
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$13.00 adv, $15 at door
Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa's most popular and recognized musicians. Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit, wisdom and musical entertainment at social gatherings and special events. Habib grew up surrounded by seventeen Brothers and Sisters, and developed his unique guitar style accompanying his griot mother. He inherited his passion for music from his paternal grandfather who played the kamele n'goni, a traditional four-stringed instrument associated with hunters from the Wassolou region of Mali. "Nobody really taught me to sing or to play the guitar," explains Habib, "I watched my parents, and it washed off on me."

Friday, March 19
PORTUGAL. THE MAN
Opening: Port O'Brien, The Dig
Doors at 7:00pm, Show at 9:00pm
$17.00 adv, $20 at door
For 2008's Censored Colors, Portugal. The Man spent two weeks in Seattle with their friends in Kay Kay and the Weathered Underground making an album Gourley says he wrote in tribute to the music of a youth spent tuned to oldies radio as his parents drove around Alaska. One of his earliest musical memories, finding a tape of Abbey Road in a box of his parents' cassettes, resulted in Censored Colors' second side where all the songs are strung together in an epic suite.

Tuesday, March 23
JONATHA BROOKE
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$25.50 adv, $30 at door
Singer/songwriter/guitarist Jonatha Brooke began issuing albums that merged folk and pop during the early 1990s, first as a member of a female duo named the Story and later as a solo artist. In 2002, Brooke performed a pair of songs on Disney's Return to Never Land soundtrack, contributing an original composition ("I'll Try") and a cover ("The Second Star to the Right"). Two years later, she performed a set of ten shows at the Public Theater in New York, the highlights of which were collected for the 2006 release of Live in New York, complete with a DVD of the concert. Careful What You Wish For followed in 2007, and Brooke subsequently delved into Woody Guthrie's lyric journals for her follow-up effort. Released in 2008, The Works paired her original music with Guthrie's previously unheard lyrics.

Friday, March 26
EDOARDO BENNATO
Presented by: Massimo Gallotta
Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 8:00pm
$25.50 adv, $30 at door
Italian Edoardo Bennato got involved in music in the early '70s after moving from Naples to Milan to study architecture at the age of 18. In 1973, his debut album, called Non Farti Cadere Le Braccia, was produced by Sandro Colombini, followed by 1974's I Buoni E I Cattivi and 1975's Lo Che Non Sono L'imperatore. In 1977, Edoardo Bennato became the first Italian artist to make video clips, debuting with "Il Grillo Parlante," "La Fata," and "Mangiafuoco" from his album Il Gatto E La Volpe, which is based on Pinoccio's fable. In June of 1978, the musician opened a new season of major music events in Naples, while playing at San Paolo stadium. Edoardo Bennato's performance at New York's Apollo theater in 1987, was released under the name of Edoardo Live. In 1990 the artist recorded along with singer Gianna Nannini a song called "Un' Estate Italiana," (An Italian Summer), inspired by the worldwide soccer championship.