Joe's Pub Announces New Events 2/1-2/4

Joe's Pub has announced their line-up for February 1-4, which includes Tracy Bonham, Lia Ices, Todd Snider, David Garza, Pistolera & more.

TRACY BONHAM
Tuesday, February 1 at 7:30 PM
Tracy Bonham softens the edges yet remains as honest and raw as ever on Masts Of Manhatta, her first full-length album in five years

LIA ICES: CD RELEASE
Tuesday, February 1 at 9:30 PM
Lia Ices celebrates the release of her latest album of emotionally driven and experimental pop music

Benjamin Walker'S FIND THE FUNNY
Tuesdays, February 1 at 11:30 & March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7 at 9:30 PM
Star of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Benjamin Walker presents Find The Funny - a monthly event dedicated to showcasing new and innovative comics, writers, musicians, and performers

DAILEY & VINCENT
Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30 PM
Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent became the most heralded new act in bluegrass with their debut album Dailey & Vincent - earning them seven awards at the International Bluegrass Music Awards

TODD SNIDER, THE STORYTELLER
Wednesday, February 2 at 9:30 PM & Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 PM
"[Todd Snider] morphed from a wisecracking country-ish journeyman to the sharpest and funniest protest singer working today." - Blender

KARA SUZANNE: CHEAP DATES: VOLUME I
Thursday, February 3 at 9:30 PM
Americana and Sci-folk songstress Kara Suzanne launches Cheap Dates, Volume I featuring acclaimed troubadours Steve Lewis, Kenny Cambre and the Reverend John DeLore

DAVID GARZA
Friday, February 4 at 7:30 PM
American musician / artist David Garza was "indie" way before it was the standard for artists looking to see their artistic vision fully realized

PISTOLERA
Friday, February 4 at 9:30 PM
globalFEST 2008 alums Pistolera's accordion-driven melodies invite you to a dance party at the Brooklyn-Mexico border

For more information, photos, press tickets or artist contact information for the above upcoming shows, please read the full line up information below and send me an email. We've just added: Miguel (2/8 & 2/9), Bernie Worrell & SociaLybrium (2/11), Hannah Whitney (2/12), Justin Bond (2/13 & 2/20), Snake Plissken's Day Off: John Hughes vs. John Carpenter Burlesque (2/26), Andrea Gibson / Carlos Andres Gomez (3/3), The Left Banke (3/6), Trashcan Sinatras (3/13) & NEeMA (3/30). Click any of the links to go to the show's page on JOESPUB.COM.

FEB 1-4
TRACY BONHAM

Tuesday, February 1 at 7:30 PM; $17

Masts Of Manhatta, Tracy Bonham's first full-length album in five years, was released on July 13th by Engine Room Recordings. Produced by Bonham, the album was mixed by Tchad Blake (Tom Waits, Los Lobos, Lisa Germano) and features the Brooklyn-based Smokey's Roundup, a trio led by guitarist Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits, Beck, Norah Jones), as the backing band.

Masts Of Manhatta is deeply rooted in the places where Bonham resides and recorded the album - Brooklyn and Woodstock, NY. It reflects two circular journeys: one leading Bonham away from music only to return to it, renewed, and a second - her trek from city to country and back, creating a loop as she responds to the inexorable pull of the two disparate ways of life.

Tracy Bonham has continued to make great music and play all over the world for over a decade, although most may know her from her hit single Mother Mother which garnered two Grammy nominations and an MTV Video Award nomination in 1997. With a new record on deck (release TBA) in which Smokey's Roundup plays as backing band (Smokeyhormel.com), Bonham softens the edges yet remains as honest and raw as ever. Maintaining her lyrical humor with an ever evolving musical maturity, she uses her talents as a multi-instrumentalist on stage and in the studio.

LIA ICES: CD RELEASE

Tuesday, February 1 at 9:30 PM; $12

True to the ever-present dichotomies that serve as a source of inspiration for her, Lia Ices' emotionally driven and experimental pop music is both avant-garde and timeless. A natural yet refinEd Grace permeates her work: she is a piano herself. Dancing on a finely crafted line between the percussive qualities of her instrument, and the melodic elements within the rhythm of her voice, Ices' music reveals itself as epiphany. With such overt elegance as if from a bygone era, listening to her songs inspires a psychic time slip, and it's hard to know if you're wading in the warmest of memories or awed by the invention and glow of new surroundings.

Benjamin Walker'S FIND THE FUNNY
Tuesdays, February 1 at 11:30 & March 1, April 5, May 3, June 7 at 9:30 PM; $10
Benjamin Walker, the critically acclaimed star of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is presents and performs in Find The Funny - which he created and hosts. An event dedicated to providing performance opportunities to new and innovative comics, writers, musicians, and performers, FIND THE FUNNY is a monthly show that began downtown and has moved from venue to venue as it expanded and matured. Presented by BenRo Service and Inspire Entertainment, Find the Funny will take place on the first Tuesday of every month.

DAILEY & VINCENT

Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30 PM; $15

Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent became the most heralded new act in bluegrass as their debut album Dailey & Vincent (2008) and busy tour schedule introduced them to wildly appreciative audiences. The group took home seven awards at the 2008 International Bluegrass Music Awards Show, including Entertainer of the Year and Album of the Year. Brothers from Different Mothers presents the band at a level of synergy that only comes from constant live performing. It exudes the enthusiasm of a venture still fresh for all its participants. Jamie Dailey and Darrin Vincent have been bluegrass musicians throughout their careers and never depart from that core sensibility on Brothers from Different Mothers. But, like the earliest icons, they also push the bluegrass envelope. Best of all, they've found the closest thing to brotherhood - a true musical partnership.

TODD SNIDER, THE STORYTELLER

Wednesday, February 2 at 9:30 PM & Thursday, February 3 at 7:30 PM; $25

The Excitement Plan's laid- back groove and top- shelf lyrics are being called Snider's best work yet. "This music is sorta JJ Cale meets Jerry Jeff Walker sounding with words that would hopefully impress Shel Silverstein, Bobby Bare, Chuck Berry, Kris Kristofferson or Randy Newman," Snider said. With his contributions of stellar guitar, piano and harmonica, his musicianship shares the spotlight as easily as his treasured lyrics.

Snider is a vociferous musician whose fans know him to be quite the workhorse. His acclaimed 2006 release, The Devil You Know found the barefoot troubadour performing live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Night with David Letterman and the CD appeared on numerous year-end Top 10 lists including Spin, Blender and Rolling Stone. More recently, last year's Peace Queer EP--a concept record featuring all the peace, love and anarchy Snider is known for--inspired Blender to say he "morphed from a wisecracking country-ish journeyman to the sharpest and funniest protest singer working today." The EP spent five weeks at number one on the Americana chart and Spin Magazine dubbed him, "One of roots music's slyest, smartest songwriters."

KARA SUZANNE: CHEAP DATES: VOLUME I

Thursday, February 3 at 9:30 PM; $12

Americana and Sci-folk songstress Kara Suzanne launches Cheap Dates, Volume I, a salute to the ultimate duet. Along with what No Depression calls her 'turn on a dime' band, her dates for the night include acclaimed troubadours Steve Lewis, Kenny Cambre and the Reverend John DeLore as well as many surprise guests. Aside from rocking esteemed New York venues such as Irving Plaza and Gramercy Theater, Kara's debut album "Aumsville" won Album of the Year from the Independent Music Awards.

"Part sullen cowgirl, part seductive cabaret singer and all soulful folk-rock songstress... " - Jack Douglas (producer, engineer for John Lennon, Aerosmith, New York Dolls)

DAVID GARZA

Friday, February 4 at 7:30 PM; $12

"Thank the gods that David is still out there... Dream Delay is proof positive that a true artist is rarely at his best under the confinement of a marketing plan... Long may you run David Garza. Long may you run." - American Songwriter Magazine 2009

David Garza is an American Musician/Artist who was "indie" way before it was the standard for artists looking to see their artistic vision fully realized. Hailing from the Lone Star State, Garza has released almost 30 records from 1989-2010 and is readying a new full-length album for 2011. David has worked with the likes of Alejandro Escovedo, Rhett Miller, Jon Brion, and most recently Fiona Apple who was a guest vocalist on 2 tracks on his 2009 long player Dream Delay. David has created extensively in New York and considers it an honor to return to Joe's Pub and perform for his many fans and friends he's met along the way.

PISTOLERA

Friday, February 4 at 9:30 PM; $15

Pistolera's accordion-driven melodies invite you to a dance party at the Brooklyn-Mexico border. Fans around the world are dancing cumbias to the group's socially conscious songs--en español--about immigrants' rights, war, racism, feminism, and life on the border. Pistolera's two albums, Siempre Hay Salida (2006) and En Este Camino (2008), were produced by Grammy-winner Charlie Dos Santos. The band has toured in the U.S., Belgium, Holland, Portugal, and Mexico, and has shared the stage with Los Lobos, Lila Downs, The Mexican Institute of Sound, Kinky, Ely Guerra, Los Amigos Invisibles, Vieux Farka Toure, and Ozomatli, among others. Billboard Magazine said it was "...glorious and galvanzing. If this is homework, it gets and A."

"Pistolera melds the sass of indie rock with traditional Latin sounds to create compelling pop melodies, all of it sung entirely in Spanish." -Billboard Magazine

"...a foot-stomping sound that's one part ranchera and one part indie-pop." -The New Yorker

"Listening to Pistolera's self-released debut, "Siempre Hay Salida" ("There's Always a Way Out"), or watching lead singer and guitarist Sandra Lilia Velásquez stamp out a beat in her boots to bandmate Maria Elena's accordion melodies, you inevitably feel as though you've landed in the heart of Mexico. The blend of soulful ranchera, peppy cumbia, and Spanish lyrics evokes a feeling that's distinctly south of the border, yet not too far south."-The Boston Globe