Joe's Pub Announces 'A Season of Songwriters'
By: Kelsey Denette Dec. 13, 2011
Joe's Pub has announced the following upcoming events.
For more information, follow the links below, or go to www.joespub.com.
FEATURING RIVERS RUTHERFORD, LESLIE SATCHER, TIM NICHOLS, AND BOB DIPIERO
December 18 at 6:30pm & 9:00pm
$40 Premium / $30 Reserved
Joe's Pub and the Country Music Association are proud to announce the continuation of the successful CMA (Country Music Association) Songwriter Series with some of Nashville’s finest songwriters. Bob DiPiero will return as host. The show features four successful songwriters from Nashville – Rivers Rutherford, Leslie Satcher, Tim Nichols, and Bob DiPiero.
JOEY & RORY FARMHOUSE CHRISTMAS
December 19 at 7:00pm
$30 Premium / $20 Reserved
A night of Christmas songs and stories from Joey and Rory’s farmhouse in Tennessee. Award-winning country music singing duo Joey and Rory bring their A Farmhouse Christmas album to the stage on their first ever Christmas tour this coming 2011 holiday season. The theme is right at home for the duo, as their personal lives are rooted in the 1870’s farmhouse that they live in the small community of Pottsville, TN. Expect a night of heart-touching stories and songs along with hysterical comedy fun all on one stage.
December 23 at 7:30pm
$12
NYC-based musician and theatremaker Rebecca Hart is happy to bring her particular blend of "folk, funk, and sultry rock" (L Magazine) back to the site of her "Live at Joe's Pub" EP on Xmas Eve Eve. Accompanied by the "band that brings a potent dose of downtown heat" (Time Out NY) and guest Burlesque Johnny, there will be all kinds of midwinter magic and comic moments both accidental and on purpose.
OUR Lady J: THE GOSPEL OF DOLLY
FEATURING TAYLOR MAC, Michael Arden, Andy Mientus, GEO WYETH, Todd Almond, KITTY HICCUPS
December 27 at 7:30pm & 9:30pm
$20
Our Lady J presents the 5th Annual "Gospel of Dolly," an evening of Dolly Parton's most beloved gospel music. Celebrated by Ms. Parton herself and accompanied by The Train-To-Kill Gospel Choir, Our Lady J sheds new meaning and light on Dolly's greatest hits, as well as her lesser known spiritual songs in this annual celebration of the Queen of Country. Special guests include Taylor Mac(Obie award winner for “Lily’s Revenge”), Michael Arden (Big River, The Times They Are A-Changin'), Andy Mientus (Spring Awakening, Shine!), Geo Wyeth (fka Novice Theory, Jive Grave), Todd Almond (ON THE LEVEE- T.O.N.Y.'s "Best of 2010"; GIRLFRIEND--BATCC Award), and Kitty Hiccups (reigning Queen of Miss'd America Pageant).
January 3 at 9:30pm
$12
Maria Neckam is a singer and songwriter from New York, who was born in Austria and in the Netherlands. When Maria moved to New York in 2005, she hit the music scene like lightning. Since then she has been working as one of the most innovative musicians on the scene. Her compositions are as diverse as life’s surprises, combining elements of Electronic Pop, Rock and Jazz as well as Indian and Contemporary Classical music. Maria is celebrating the release of her new album “Deeper” on Sunnyside Records at Joe's Pub.
MICHAEL SACKLER-BERNER & SIERRA NOBLE
January 4 at 9:30pm
$17
Born and raised in New York, based in Brooklyn, Michael Sackler-Berner is a singer-songwriter with roots in the past, and a sound very much in tune with the present. Surrounded by longtime collaborators of artists like Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Sackler-Berner's music is distinguished by the songwriting craft of that era, and by a contemporary rhythmic sensibility, anchored by some of the heaviest drummers of our time. Sackler-Berner's debut, MSB, features drummer Jim Keltner (Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, George Harrison) and his most recent recordings were produced by the Grammy winning Steve Jordan (Keith Richards, Alicia Keys, John Mayer) who accompanies on both bass and drums.
Sierra Noble breezes through celtic, bluegrass, jazz, world beat and other styles of music with stunning ease on her fiddle, her breadth of experience in in her 20 years of life is impressive. Her talent has taken her around the world to Asia, Europe and across North America. She amazes audiences with compelling contemporary performances which feature exceptional instrumentals, beautiful innovative vocals, and her infectious down to earth charm. This young musician is on her way to the top with the release of both her debut single "Possibility" to radio and her debut music video for the single charting in the Top 20 Countdown on CMT Canada (Country Music Television). and Top 10 on Much More Music.
ELIZA GILKYSON, John Gorka, LUCY KAPLANSKY
January 8 at 7:00pm
$30
Eliza Gilkyson is a politically minded, poetically gifted singer-songwriter, who has become one of the most respected musicians in roots, folk and Americana circles. The Grammy-nominated artist has appeared on NPR, Austin City Limits, Mountain Stage, etown, XM, Air America Radio and has toured with Richard Thompson, Patty Griffin and Mary Chapin Carpenter.
John Gorka is a world-renowned singer-songwriter who was raised in New Jersey and came out of New York City's Greenwich Village folk scene that produced such songwriters as Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin. His award-winning songs have been recorded and performed by such notable artists as Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith and Mary Black. John has recorded eleven solo albums, six on Red House Records.
Lucy Kaplansky is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, as well as a former clinical psychologist, whom the New Yorker has described as “a truly gifted performer with a bag full of enchanting songs.” She has recorded seven albums for Red House, two of which (Ten Year Night and Every Single Day) were awarded Best Pop Album of the Year by the Association for Independent Music. In 1998 Lucy teamed up with Dar Williams and Richard Shindell to form the supergroup Cry Cry Cry. The resulting album was an astonishing commercial and critical success, resulting in a national tour of sold-out concerts.
January 18 at 7:00pm
$15
Born in the rumbling cab of a stone truck and aged in the oak of Tennessees smoky night haunts, The Black Lillies have quickly risen to the forefront of the Americana scene. Founded by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Cruz Contreras (co-founder of Robinella and the CCstringband), The Black Lillies have created their own unique brand of country, roots, rock and blues via Appalachia. The group, formed in 2008, also includes electric guitar and pedal steel whiz Tom Pryor and drummer Jamie Cook, both formerly of the Everybodyfields, bassist Robert Richards, and vocalist Trisha Gene Brady.
The music of The Woes is a stew of Delta blues and early Country, of bluegrass and New Orleans marching band music, dished out by banjo, harmonica, accordion, french horn and organ. The five piece hails from New York City. At the center of their distinctive sound is frontman Osei Essed's inimitable voice and expert songwriting. The songs are alternately chant-like, rhythmically driving, lyrical, haunting; his voice is sweetly controlled or as frightening as (the early blues preacher) Blind Willie Johnson.
GRETCHEN PETERS
January 22 at 7:30pm
$15 Advance / $17 Door
In a career that's included Grammy nominations and a CMA win for Song of the Year, Gretchen Peters has earned no small amount of praise from the critics, but her biggest fans may be her fellow songwriters. Rodney Crowell, who duets with Peters on her new album, 'Hello Cruel World', Tom Russell, Janis Ian, and Darrell Scott have all fallen for her deeply moving music. The title of Gretchen Peters' new Hello Cruel World is a pun on the famed exit line - a joke that, like the lovely melodies and deliciously textured arrangements framing these 11 songs - sweetens this captivating music spun from a year of turmoil. The Grammy nominated singer-songwriter from Nashville calls Hello Cruel World her "most close-to-the-bone work, written at a time when I felt absolutely fearless about telling the truth." Peters and her guest Rodney Crowell sing, "life is still a beautiful disaster," on "Dark Angel." But Peters keeps the accent on the "beautiful" throughout her ninth disc, with both her poetic language and the spare, evocative sounds she created in the studio to support her organic story-telling.
Cover Me With Love: Toshi Plays BIGLovely Hits and Covers - January 26 at 9:00pm
Toshi Reagon & BIGLovely Rocks The House – January 27 at 9:00pm
Toshi Reagon with Special Guest Michael Arthur Draws Live – January 28 at 9:00pm
Toshi Reagon Sacred Music Show with Bernice Johnson Reagon – January 29 at 7:00pm
$25
Toshi Reagon has been described as "a talented, versatile singer, songwriter and musician with a profound ear for sonic Americana--from folk to funk, from blues to rock" by critic/blogger Eva Yaa Asantewaa (InfiniteBody). "She masters each of these genres with vocal strategies that easily spiral and swoop from the expressively sinuous to the hard-charging, a combination of warmth and mischief." Toshi has had the pleasure of working with Lenny Kravitz, Lizz Wright, Ani DiFranco, Carl Hancock Rux, Nona Hendryx, Pete Seeger, Chocolate Genius and many other amazing artists, including her favorite collaborator, her mom, Bernice Johnson Reagon. Yaa Asantewaa writes, "Toshi knows the power of song to focus, unite and mobilize people. If you've been lucky enough to be in Toshi's presence, you know you can't walk away from her without feeling better about yourself as a human being. She aims for nothing less." Toshi has been the recipient of a NYFA award for Music Composition, The Black Lily Music and Film Festival Award for Outstanding Performance. She is a National Women's History Month Honoree, and is the 2010 recipient of OutMusic's Heritage Award.
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.
LELIA BROUSSARD / GABE DIXON
February 1 at 9:00pm
$12
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.” 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.
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