Julian Fleisher, Russel Taylor and More Set For Joe's Pub, 5/14-25

Joe's Pub has announced their lineup of events for May 14-25. There is sure to be some thing for everyone - check out all the details below!

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JULIAN FLEISHER: CD RELEASE
Wednesday, May 14 at 7:00 PM
$20

Julian Fleisher's wide embrace of all corners of the pop songbook, his barn-burning Rather Big Band and a fresh and irreverent performance style garnered him rave reviews and comparisons to predecessors as diverse as Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Torme and Lenny Bruce. He is continually intersecting with other creative types as a producer, curator, and bringer-together of makers-of-things. As a young man in NYC, his love of singing unencumbered by the demands of a role led him out of the theater and into the nightclub.

Fleisher pulls focus on the art of songwriting on his latest album Finally, an understated selection of carefully curated songs. The album takes listeners on a more intimate and personal journey.

RUSSELL TAYLOR/ADISACRA
Wednesday, May 14 at 9:30PM
$15

Multi-faceted soul singer Russell Taylor unlocks a masterpiece in his latest (and third) album War of Hearts, set to release on his own Indigo Blue label. War of Hearts includes collaborations with Grammy Award-winning producer Needlz (Lil' Wayne, Bruno Mars, Drake, Lupe Fiasco), Tim Kvanosky of Tiny Hearts and Salakida Kali. In early 2014, Russell Taylor became the first to win VH1's coveted "You Oughta Know" distinction after beating over four hundred competitors in the network's first-ever crowd-sourced contest on Artists.VH1.com.

The self-professed nomad has poured out his heart and soul on the world stages, from London, Amsterdam and Paris to NYC and LA. He has performed with the likes of from Mary J. Blige, Jill Scott, India.Arie, Isaac Hayes and Patti LaBelle. Russell made his Broadway directorial debut in Gems for one night only in 2012. He has also directed plays including Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls at The New School as well as mentoring urban youths of color in the arts.

ADISACRA is an Afro-Soul Hip hop duo that has an emphasis on bringing back classic sounds. Their music is heavily influenced by the iconic sounds of the 90s into the 2000s. Comprised of two powerful talents, singer/songwriter Ria Boss and producer Abel Shifferaw, ADISACRA is bringing the classics back.

ELEPHANT REVIVAL
Thursday, May 15 at 7:30 & 9:30 PM
$15

Colorado-based five-piece Elephant Revival has a deep commitment to certain ideals: community, recognizing one's place in the flow of the natural world, harmony. Holding on to these ideals, they have weathered storms with aplomb, and in doing so, have produced their best album to date: These Changing Skies.?The group's shared values matched with the synergy of their disparate musical influences have created a cohesive tapestry, enhanced the more they play together, of music and lyrics. "It really is a natural confluence of our elemental influences," says bassist/multi-instrumentalist Dango Rose. Elephant Revival's worldview is connecting with fans; the band is a favorite at festivals such as Telluride Bluegrass, Vancouver Folk Festival and Old Settlers; and venues like Joe's Pub in NYC, The Ark in Ann Arbor and The Tractor Tavern in Seattle.

WALTER MARTIN
Friday, May 16 at 7:30 PM
$18

Walter Martin, of The Walkmen, found out his wife was pregnant with their first child just as the New York band was finishing their 2012 album Heaven. With fatherhood on the horizon, Martin felt it was time for a challenge. He had co-written songs for the band since they had formed in 2000, but now he just wanted to write something for himself. Standing in his kitchen the summer of 2012, surrounded by his young family and listening to their collection of 1950s rock 'n' roll records, he realized what that meant exactly. We're All Young Together is a sweet, funny, rough-around-the-edges family record, as he likens it, that is intended to entertain the little ones, while getting a laugh out of their parents. Inspired by early rock & roll, it is filled with the kind of innocent yet mischievous music that has long struck a chord with Martin. "I'm calling it family music because I want families to enjoy it together," explains Martin. "But to me it's just rock 'n' roll done the old-fashioned way."

THE HOT SARDINES
May 16 at 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT

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. This NYC-based outfit, which includes a tap dancer, has been called "consistently electrifying live" by Popmatters. The Sardine sound - wartime Paris via New Orleans, or the other way around - is strongly influenced by the straight-up, foot-stomping jazz Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt and Waller used to make. Reflecting a philosophy that hot jazz, Dixieland and Tin Pan Alley tunes are all pop music (and not delicate historical artifacts), pianist-bandleader Evan "Bibs" Palazzo and Paris-born singer Miz Elizabeth describe their band as "born in the 1920s, but raised in the '00s." The Sardines continue their monthly residency at Joe's Pub through July.

PAM ANN'S FLY
Friday & Saturday, May 16 & 17 at 11:30 PM
$30

PAM ANN, the iconic international air hostess to the stars (and alter-ego of Australian writer and comedian Caroline Reid),is BACK with her new improv-based show FLY. Her most un-PC, filthiest, topical, funniest and most explosive show to date,FLY will take passengers on the flight of their lives from check-in to security, boarding and (hopefully) landing with filthy material guaranteed to make your toes curl and have you gagging for more.

With enough chutzpah and insider knowledge to rival a Qantas CEO, no one does airline satire quite like Pam Ann. First, Business or 'Cattle,' there is no part of air travel that Pam can't negotiate. She has an air hanger filled with airborne commentary on the quirks of some of the biggest international airlines, as well as stereotypes commonly held about flight attendants everywhere. Pam's genius mix of camp, culture, humor and Pucci-clad fabulousness has seen her crew Elton John's private jet, share a stage on a UK stadium tour with Cher, and count Madonna in her worldwide legion of cult-like fans.

THE CIVILIANS: LET ME ASCERTAIN YOU: F*CKING & DYING
Saturday, May 17 at 7:00 PM
$15

The Civilians, New York's award-winning investigative theater company, is back with Let Me Ascertain You: F*cking & Dying. Anyone familiar with The Civilians knows that they are a bit obsessed with sex and death. This one-night event will explore what happens when those fixations collide. Drawing inspiration from their past investigations into the porn industry, sexual deviancy, and dying and the afterlife, The Civilians dig even deeper to get people to open up about life's most carnal yet taboo topics.

This unique cabaret of original songs and monologues looks at the duality of human nature and our competing sex and death drives, or to get Freudian, Eros vs. Thanatos. The Civilians present real-life stories about our instinct for life, love and reproduction against our instinct toward death, aggression, and repulsion. Some of New York's hottest downtown performers and musicians will reveal tales of morbid curiosities and dirty secrets on the path to nirvana.

NATALIE IMANI
Saturday, May 17 at 9:30 PM
$15

Natalie Imani is a music industry jewel who is at the turning point of her musical career. With performances at The White House, Beyonce's recent Chime For Change concert, background vocals for John Legend, Neyo, Shaggy, Jennifer Hudson and more under her belt, Natalie is prepared to take Europe by storm this summer. Never one to shy away from performing, Natalie is excited to display her gift at her Single Release Performance to fans, family and friends with her first performance of the year! Special invited celebrity guests and surprises.

REVEREND BILLY & THE STOP-STOPPING CHOIR: THE HONEYBEELUJAH! SHOW
Sundays, May 18 - June 22 at 2:00 PM
$15

Reverend Billy & the Stop-Shopping Choir return to Joe's Pub for a two-month residency after last year's performances in Chase Bank lobbies, and New York jails and courts. In 2013, they were inspired by the extinction and resurrection of the Golden Toad. This year, the Honey Bee is the hero. The presence of the pesticides of "Big Ag" and the struggle by bees to survive, is inspiration for new songs, songs with lots of Bee-atitude, hard work and sticky sweetness. Honeybeelujah!

Reverend Billy and his singing-activists ask: What time is this? Time to party before the plague? Or is it more like the 20's between world wars? In 2014, stepping on stage amidst fire and drought, freak storms and extinction, there seems to be a strange joy in these first days of apocalypse. They seek to rededicate themselves and others to the politicizing of survival, pitting our freedom against the financiers of climate change.

PUBLIC FORUM: DRAMA CLUB - THE PEOPLE
Sunday, May 18 at 7:00 PM
SOLD OUT

Can radical writers change the world? In Glaspell's timely but little-known 1917 play, the editor of a struggling magazine has to decide whether to keep up the fight - with plenty of not-always-helpful input from his staff and his readers. The evening's special cast will be comprised entirely of our leading political journalists, including David Brooks (The New York Times), Ta-Nehisi Coates (The Atlantic), Michelle Goldberg (The Nation), Christopher Hayes (MSNBC), Hendrik Hertzberg (The New Yorker), Maria Hinojosa (NPR), Reihan Salam (National Review), Ben Smith (BuzzFeed), Bhaskar Sunkara (Jacobin), and more.

THE MEETING* HOSTED BY JUSTIN SAYRE
Sunday, May 18 at 9:30 PM
$20

The Meeting* hosted by Justin Sayre, the acclaimed comedy/variety show, closes out its three month engagement with a celebration of pop superstar Janet Jackson. The Meeting* has been called "delicious and delightfully droll" by The New York Post, and "hilarious and sardonic" by The Village Voice. Slate.com called the evening "so deliciously icy that it left me shivering with fear and delight."

Justin Sayre, the show's creator, writer and host, serves as the Chairman of the Board of the International Order of Sodomites and brings his singular wit to essential business of the day through such regular features such as "Letters to the Chairman" and "New Rulings from the Board."

SUNDANCE INSTITUTE THEATRE PROGRAM PRESENTS
A WORK-IN-PROGRESS READING OF THE MADWOMAN IN THE VOLVO
Monday, May 19 at 7:00 PM
$15

Sandra Tsing Loh is developing a solo show based on her new memoir The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones (May 2014, W.W. Norton). Inspired by her darkly hilarious 2012 Atlantic Monthly Best American Essay The Bitch Is Back, The Madwoman in the Volvo charts Loh's roller-coaster ride into menopause while battling the pressures of the Sandwich Generation. The Madwoman in the Volvo was developed at the 2014 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab at MASS MoCA with continuing Post-Lab Support through its initiative with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Loh is a veteran public radio commentator who has previously starred in two original off-Broadway solo shows. Her last memoir was The New York Times Notable book Mother on Fire.

WILHELM BROS & CO
Monday, May 19 at 9:30 PM
$12

Wilhelm Bros. & Co. is a Minneapolis-based theater/music collaboration between brothers - theater artist Jeremy Wilhelm and composer/multi-instrumentalist David Wilhelm. They are currently performing in the critically acclaimed production Red-Eye to Havre de Grace from through June 1st at the New York Theatre Workshop.

Together, they perform original music and eclectic covers in the Twin Cities and sometimes in wigs and flannel shirts for a Gordon Lightfoot cover band - Lightfoot Comes Alive! The duo received a MAP Fund grant in 2012 for Clandestino, their multi-lingual examination of immigration policy set against the ICE raid of Agriprocessors, a Kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa.

David has toured internationally with Stephen Scott's Bowed Piano Ensemble, including the Visual Music Festival in Lanzarote, Spain. A recipient of the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, he studied flamenco guitar in Cádiz, Spain and performed with flamenco singers Juan Silva and José Millán. Jeremy directs and designs for Workhaus Collective and the Guthrie's BFA Actor Training program. He has directed, designed and developed plays for Carson Kreitzer, Victoria Stewart, Cory Hinkle, Deborah Stein, Jacquelyn Reingold, Bronwen Bittetti, Sylvan Oswald and Trista Baldwin, and worked with choreographers Karen Sherman and Morgan Thorson. He has worked with Thaddeus Phillips since 1992.

UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH PARSONS DANCE: BENEFIT EVENT
Tuesday, May 20 at 6:30 PM
$100-275

Join us for an intimate evening celebrating the launch of Parsons Dance Generation NOW Fellowship! Help raise funds for this exciting program while partying with the stunning Parsons dancers, David Parsons and Generation NOW's first choreographer Natalie Lomonte. Enjoy cocktails, appetizers, interactive performances and more! Don't miss this exclusive opportunity to see one of most entertaining modern dance companies in NYC from a different perspective-up close and personal.

CESAR ALVAREZ: THE UNIVERSE IS A SMALL HAT
Tuesday & Wednesday, May 20 & 21 at 9:30 PM
$15

The Universe is a Small Hat is a participatory electronic music theater work created by César Alvarez, which tells the story of a techno-Utopian space colony leaving Earth in order to form a new, more rational, civilization. The piece is designed as an entirely interactive and narrative game. Audience members are all enlisted as colonists and responsible for their own paths within the story. Through music, interpersonal engagement, tasks, systems and choices, Small Hat explores the roles we play and the space we occupy in society and the universe. This engagement is the first public performance of the music from this multi-disciplinary piece. The evening features musicians Eric Farber, Lorenzo Wolff, Chris Stromquist and more.

Alvarez is a Drama Desk-nominated composer, lyricist, performer and writer. His band, The Lisps, has released 4 albums and played hundreds of shows. Shows include, FUTURITY (A.R.T, Walker Art Center, Mass MoCA); The Foundry Theatre's Good Person of Szechwan (LaMaMa, Public Theater); Mac Wellman's 3 2's; or AFAR (Dixon Place). Developed by Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, Civilians R&D Group, PRELUDE and LMCC Process Space, The Universe is a Small Hat was made in collaboration with director Sarah Benson and creative technologist Ivan Safrin.

MIGGUEL ANGGELO W/ CLAUDIA ACUÑA
Wednesday, May 21 at 7:30 PM
$ 15

Making his Joe's Pub debut, Brooklyn-based, Venezuelan-born Migguel Anggelo is a dynamic singer and dancer known for his electric stage performances. Cutting his teeth in the worlds of musical theater and opera, Anggelo brings the larger-than-life emotions of the stage to his more intimate shows. Backed by a string band, he performs works by Latin American greats like Agustin Lara and Astor Piazzolla, original compositions that explore topics like Frida Kahlo and dictatorship, and American pop, jazz, and opera standards that he recasts in his own signature style.

Anggelo is thrilled to welcome special guest and jazz great Claudia Acuña to this performance. The artist's most recent project, the forthcoming album LA CASA AZUL, produced by Mau Quiros and mixed by Grammy winner Felipe Tichauer, will be launched in 2014. The evening will also feature Musical Director Mau Quiros on piano.

ALLISON MOORER BLUES FOR DIXIE: SONGS FOR THE SOUTH
Thursday, May 22 at 7:00 PM
$18

Allison Moorer celebrates her roots with this show, performing new and old songs about the South. In the past three years, the Academy Award-nominated singer-songwriter has welcomed a son, recorded and toured as part of Steve Earle & The Dukes and Duchesses, and also wrote the song "Oklahoma Sky," which closed Miranda Lambert's 2011 hit album Four The Record. Moorer's seventh and latest studio album, Crows (2010), the follow up to her much-celebrated Buddy Miller-produced Mockingbird (2008), received worldwide critical acclaim. The Huffington Post proclaimed that she is "blessed with one of the best voices of her generation." Moorer has been featured on releases by Joan Baez, Kid Rock, Steve Earle, The Chieftains and Los Straightjackets. Moorer was also featured in The People Speak, a beautiful and moving documentary inspired by Howard Zinn's popular text A People's History of the United States. The film, presented by The History Channel, also featured Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Danny Glover, Matt Damon and more.

LADY RIZO
Thursday, May 22 at 9:30 PM
$25

The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs.

But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit.

Let her lashes beguile you as she interprets an irresistible mix of popular songs from all eras backed by some of the finest musicians in New York City. Even though she is venturing out solo, if you know Lady Rizo you won't be surprised if a couple special guests pop up.

BILL KIRCHEN
Friday, May 23 at 7:30 PM
$20

Grammy Award-nominated guitarist, singer and songwriter Bill Kirchen is one of the fortunate few who can step onto any stage, play those trademark licks that drove his seminal Commander Cody classic Hot Rod Lincoln into the Top Ten, and elicit instant recognition for a career that has spanned over 40 years and includes guitar work with Nick Lowe, Emmylou Harris, Doug Sahm, Elvis Costello and many more. Named "A Titan of the Telecaster" by Guitar Player Magazine, he celebrates an American musical tradition where rock 'n' roll and country music draws upon its origins in blues and bluegrass, Western swing from Texas and California honky-tonk.

Kirchen's latest, Seeds and Stems, takes a fresh approach to many of the songs that were planted at the beginning of an incredibly full career, songs that grew into classics and branched out across the variegated styles of Americana and roots rock 'n' roll.

RICKIE LEE JONES
Friday, May 23 at 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT

Two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones exploded onto the pop scene in 1978 and has made a career of fearlessly experimenting with her sound and persona. A cultural phenomenon, Rolling Stone Magazine put her on its cover twice in two years, and Saturday Night Live gave her an unprecedented three songs for her second appearance. Jones is both a character in the songs and the songwriter singing, defying convention with her sometimes brazen sexuality and the mixed bag of jazz, rock and what has come to be known as 'confessional' songwriter performances. Her second albumPirates is one of the seminal, most heralded recordings of pop music, with each song a cinematic journey through her breakdown and rise. Jones' live performances have reached a pinnacle of honesty and excellence. Her latest album The Devil You Know is produced by Ben Harper and reimagines the music of Jagger / Richards, Neil Young and more, and is planning to release an album of new music in 2014.

NYU TISCH NEW STUDIO ON BROADWAY
Saturday, May 24 at 7:00 PM
$15

This Memorial Day Weekend, treat yourself to a musical feast! In New Music, New Voices, New Studio on Broadway, the inaugural graduating class of NYU Tisch's New Studio on Broadway presents an evening of food, drink and song to celebrate the voices of our theater's future. Under the direction of Tony and Drama Desk Award-nominated actor and director of Broadway's Inspirational Voices, Michael McElroy, NSB's 27 hot-off-the-press graduates combine forces with writers from NYU's Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, and other emerging composers. BFA's in hand and ready to add that distinctive NSB flavor to these writers' new materials, prepare for a performance reveling in all things new: new songs, new faces and new talent.

NASIMIYU
Saturday, May 24 at 9:30 PM
$15

Dream-pop artist Nasimiyu brings her composer/producer/multi-instrumentalist zing to her forthcoming EP dirt. Her genre falls somewhere on the earthier, dirtier, brassier side of the indie pop spectrum. Think Talking Heads plus Etta James -- on a safari.

Nasimiyu came up in a half-Kenyan, half-Scandinavian household in Minneapolis. She rounded out her sound studying under street performers, voodoo practitioners and marching band musicians for four years in New Orleans. She now moves and shakes in eclectic artist circles in Brooklyn. Nasimiyu worked on dirt across several time zones with co-producers Andreas Gustafsson in Sweden and Ben Lorio in New Orleans. dirt features guest players Kalmia Traver of Rubblebucket, Mike Bass of Trombone Shorty and the New Orleans bass band, Naughty Professor. Although she played most of the instruments on the new album herself, Nasimiyu performs (and plays keyboards) live with a four-piece NYC-based band.

PLUTO
Saturday, May 24 at 11:30 PM
$14

Pluto is an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, whose soulful rhythm & blues sound has a pinch of a new age hipster vibe. He is set to put a stamp in the pop/urban music scene. The Toronto native has clinched rave reviews during the soft release of his debut EP as well as burgeoning fan base. With smooth undertones, a strong falsetto and killer songwriting skills, Pluto's ability to captivate an audience is paramount.

BILLIE WILLIAMS
Sunday, May 25 at 7:30 PM
$20

Billie Williams is celebrating the release of her new original single Lonely Night in Harlem inspired by life in her long-time Harlem neighborhood. Her rich repertoire of Blues and contemporary music earned her the nomination for Best Female Debut Artist in the BroadwayWorld.com Cabaret Awards for her 2012 show Fade to Blues at the Metropolitan Room. Billie's upcoming concert at Joe's Pub on May 25 will feature her exciting new original music as she debuts her new release and encores classic blues favorites.

ELI ZOLLER AND THE O, PIONEER BAND
Sunday, May 24 at 9:30 PM
$12

Composer and performer Eli Zoller and The O Pioneer Band bring you a musical yarn for the ages - a yarn spun right out of "the greatest campfire tale ever concocted" (The Village Voice). Rooted in folk-bluegrass melody and elemental storytelling, Zoller's rural-tinged orchestrations are a singular and beautiful artistic outpouring not to be missed.

Featuring: George Salazar (Here Lies Love), Brian Charles Johnson (American Idiot), Haven Burton (Legally Blonde),Libby Winters (American Idiot), Victoria Huston-Elem (Addams Family), Ben Clark (Circus in Winter), Molly McAdoo(Miko & the Musket) and Colin McAdoo (Soul Doctor).

Visit us at joespub.com for a complete list of shows.

Tickets can be purchased online at joespub.com, by calling 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC.

Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public debuted in 1998 and plays a vital role in The Public's mission of supporting young artists while providing established artists with an intimate space to perform and develop new work. In 2013, Joe's Pub celebrates 15 years of the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. It received a top-to-bottom renovation in 2011, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe's Pub presents talent from all over the world as part of The Public's programming downtown at its Astor Place home, hosting approximately 800 shows and serving over 100,000 audience members annually.

Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public Theater is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. The Public continues the work of its visionary founder, Joe Papp, by acting as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force, and leading and framing dialogue on some of the most important issues of our day. Creating theater for one of the largest and most diverse audience bases in New York City for nearly 60 years, today the Company engages audiences in a variety of venues-including its landmark downtown home at Astor Place, which houses five theaters and Joe's Pub; the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, home to its beloved, free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Unit, which tours Shakespearean productions for underserved audiences throughout New York City's five boroughs. The Public's wide range of programming includes free Shakespeare in the Park, the bedrock of the Company's dedication to making theater accessible to all, new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, and a range of artist and audience development initiatives including its Public Forum series, which brings together theater artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines for discussions that shed light on social issues explored in Public productions. The Public Theater is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities.