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The Songwriter's Beat presents the 6th annual Songwriter's Beat Festival & Song Contest at the Cornelia Street Café(29 Cornelia Street), July 22-24, 2010. Proceeds benefit the nonprofit Feel the Music!, which brings music to children and families impacted by trauma. Showtimes are Thursday at 8:30PM and Friday and Saturday at 9PM. Tickets are $10 plus $7 food/drink minimum. For more information visit http://corneliastreetcafe.com or http://songwritersbeat.com

Duduka Da Fonseca Quintet featuring Anat Chen, Reeds; Vic Juris, Guitar; Helio Alves, piano; Leonardo Cioglia, acoustic bass; and Duduka Da Fonseca, Drums will play at Zinc Bar (82 West Third Street) on Tuesday, June 8; Wednesday, June 9 and Thursday, June 10. Sets are at 9:30 PM; 11PM and 1AM. http://www.zincbar.com/. For band information visit http://www.dudukadafonseca.net.

The National Jazz Museum's June line-up includes discussions with musical artists Paquito D'Rivera and Craig Harris for Harlem Speaks; a talk with a living literary legend, Peter Straub, at Jazz for Curious Readers; and our adult education series, Jazz for Curious Listeners, features instrumentalists Jeremy Pelt, Nicholas Payton and Orrin Evans taking the reins of discourse on jazz in the 21st century. For more information visit http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org/

The Alexandre Gallery, located on the 13th Floor of the Fuller Building (41 East 57th Street at Madison Avenue) presents an exhibition of Will Barnet's recent abstract paintings through June 18. Included in the show will be fourteen works on canvas that range in date from 2003 to 2010. To preview this exhibition online, please visit: http://alexandregallery.com/exhibitions/view/68.

The Center for the Arts in Natick (14 Summer Street) presents Twentieth Century, directed by Jenn Shea, June 4-13. Tickets are $18 ($16 for members/$9 for Seniors and Students). Showtimes are 8 PM Friday and Saturday with a matinee Sunday at 2PM. For more information visit http://www.natickarts.org/index.php

We Will Rock You Dutch cast members Pia Douwes, John Vooijs, Floortje Smit, Martin van der Starre, and Marjolein Teepen celebrated London's Eighth Anniversary with Queen musicians Brian May and Roger Taylor.

Soprano saxophonist/composer and former NASA artist Jane Ira Bloom brings her trio to Cornelia Street Cafe for the first time with long-time bandmates bassist Mark Helias and drummer Bobby Previte on Sunday, June 13 at 8:30 PM. Cover is $10. For information on the band visit www.janeirabloom.com.

With the new release of LANDMARC, tenor saxophonist Marc Mommaas will be performing at the Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia Street) with his long time collaborator Tony Moreno on drums including Nate Radley and Vic Juris on Guitars Wednesday, May 26 at 8:30 PM. Landmarc does not include bass and the charts specifically written for this setting have no written-in bass function. Cover is $10. More information www.mommaas.com.

Gabriele Tranchina with her latest release 'A Song Of Love's Color' on Jazzheads Records will host a party Sunday, June 13 at 8:30PM at Feinstein's at Loews Regency (540 Park Avenue). A Song of Love's Color features Gabriele Tranchina (voice, background vocals); Joe Vincent Tranchina (piano, composition, arrangements); Santi Debriano (bass); Bobby Sanabria (drums, percussion); Renato Thoms (percussion). Gabriele combines elements of Jazz, World Music, melodic and rhythmic diversity and an array of languages, drawing Gabriele's new and exciting sound into the spotlight. For more information visit http://www.gabrieletranchina.com/ or http://www.jazzheads.com/.

World Premiere of The Grass Was Never Greener by Jim Blanchette runs May 20 through May 30th at the new Write Act Eastside in residence at The Richmond Shepard Theatre (formerly The Vineyard Theatre), located at 309 East 26th Street. Show time is 8 pm Thursday through Saturdays with a 3 pm matinee on Sundays. Tickets are $15, $10 for seniors, students, unions and groups. For reservations call 212-684-2690. More information is available at http://www.jewelboxla.com/greener.htm

Circle X is hosting a party and performance on Saturday, June 12 at Atwater Village Theatre (3269 Casitas Ave) to send Casey Smith's award-winning solo show, Violators Will be Violated, to NYC this August for the New York Fringe Festival. Tickets available online at www.circlextheatre.org and at at the door. Pre-sale $18, $25 at the door. For more information about Violators Will be Violated visit www.violatorswillbeviolated.com.

Blue Spruce Theatre will present Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Once on this Island October 7-24, 2010 at the Arsenal Center for the Arts (321 Arsenal St., Watertown, MA). Show times are 7:30 pm on Thursdays; Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm; matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2pm. Tickets are $22-$25 (+$1.99 fee for credit cards) and are available by phone 1-800-838-3006. For more information visit http://www.bluesprucetheatre.org.

Storm King Art Center, sculpture park, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary with two special exhibitions opening on Saturday, June 5. 5+5: New Perspectives, comprising 12 new and recent works by ten artists, and The View from Here: Storm King at Fifty explores key aspects of Storm King's rich and varied history. Storm King's 2010 season is April 1 through November 14: Wednesday through Sunday, 10:00 am to 5:30 pm (open until 8:00 pm on Saturdays, May 29-September 4; until 5:00 pm daily, November 3-14). For more information visit www.stormkingartcenter.org.

The Jewish Museum's SummerNights program returns, presenting live world music in a concert setting on three Thursdays in July. Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys kick off SummerNights on July 1 followed by Ansambl Mastika on July 8, and The Sexteto Rodriguez Cuban-Jewish All Stars on July 15. The Jewish Museum is located at Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street, Manhattan. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm. Tickets for each concert are $15 for the general public; $12 for students and seniors; and $10 for Jewish Museum members. For further information regarding programs at The Jewish Museum, the public may call 212.423.3337 or visit www.thejewishmuseum.org.

American Museum of Natural History cancels 'The End of the Earth and Beyond' that was scheduled for Friday, June 4 at 7pm in the LeFrak Theater.

Half Straddle, experimental theater company, performs favorite songs from their recent productions in an all-girl band line-up at Union Hall in Park Slope, 702 Union Street at 5th Avenue on Thursday, June 10 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $8 at the door. The Half Straddle 'band' includes Chris Giarmo, Eliza Bent, Julia Sirna-Frest and special guests -- Kate Marvin and comedian and singer Glennis McMurray (from I EAT PANDAS) with music by Giarmo and lyrics by playwright/director Tina Satter. For more information visit http://unionhallny.com/calendar.php.

The Rick Springfield concert, scheduled at Sound Board for Friday, May 21st has been postponed. The rescheduled date is Friday, February 18, 2010 at 8pm. Previously purchased tickets will be honored on the rescheduled date, or ticketholders can contact Ticketmaster or their place of purchase for refunds.

ABTKids, an hour-long program designed for children and families, will present a performance of highlights from the Company's 2010 Spring Season on Saturday, June 5 at 11:30 AM at the Metropolitan Opera House (Broadway and 65th Street). Tickets are $25 and are available at the Metropolitan Opera House box office or by calling 212-362-6000. The Metropolitan Opera House is located at Broadway and 65th Street in New York City. For more information visit www.abt.org.

Vital Theatre Company has extended the production 'ISABELLE AND THE PRETTY-UGLY SPELL,' with music and lyrics by Steven Fisher, book by Joan Ross Sorkin and Steven Fisher and directed by Vic DiMonda, through June 27th at 45 Bleecker Street. Performances continue every Sunday at 1pm through June 27th. Tickets are $25. The show is appropriate for ages 3-12. For reservations visit www.vitaltheatre.org or call (212) 579-0528. 45 BLEECKER STREET is at the corner of Lafayette, in NOHO.

'27 Seconds,' a new exhibition that tells the story of the 1967 Apollo 1 tragedy when, during routine tests, a fire took the lives of astronauts Virgil 'Gus' Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, will open at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, located at Pier 86 (46th Street and 12th Avenue) in Manhattan, on Saturday, June 12th. The exhibition will run through November 21, 2010 and is free with the price of admission to the museum. For more information, visit www.intrepidmuseum.org.