Drew Gasparini, Jeff LeBlanc & More Set for Joe's Pub this Week

This week at Joe's Pub at the Public, July 29-August 4, the lineup will feature: Adam Matta, Drew Gasparini, River Whyless, Amy G and more! Details below!

Adam Matta
July 29 at 7:30 PM
$12
Adam Matta is a beatboxer and vocal performance artist from New York City, whose musical style fuses elements of hip-hop, house, rock electronic, jazz, contemporary and Middle Eastern music, sometimes all in the same composition. He has performed with Bobby McFerrin, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, Akim Funk Buddha and Karsh Kale, and has appeared on NPR, WBAI, PBS, CUNY-TV, Showtime and WNYE. He was featured on The Carolina Chocolate Drops' Grammy-nominated Leaving Eden, in 2013, and with the Drops on The Hunger Games soundtrack. He is celebrating the release of new album, Gyroscope.

Drew Gasparini
July 29 at 9:30 PM
$20
Following the acclaimed release of his debut music theatre album in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, Drew Gasparini returns to Joe's Pub with highlights from "I Could Use a Drink." Featuring the usual suspects as well as fresh faces to Gasparini's work, the concert will feature works from Make Me Bad, Circles, Crazy Just Like Me, as well as a host of new material that will debut on July 29, 2013. "I Could Use a Drink" spent four weeks inside the iTunes top 100 Pop Albums, has received outstanding reviews in Australia and the UK.

JEFF LEBLANC
July 30 at 7:00 PM
SOLD OUT
Sirius/XM "Singer/Songwriter Discovery of the Year" nominee Jeff LeBlanc returns to Joe's Pub; this time to debut his long-awaited new album "My Own Way There"! Soon after his graduation from Sacred Heart University, his first single, "Until We Get It Right" entered into the rotation of Sirius/XM's The Coffee House, giving him enough exposure to headline a 60-date college tour where he was praised as "the new John Mayer." His sophomore effort, "Worth Holding On To," was self-released in 2011 and gained national attention by quickly rising to #3 on the iTunes Top 200 Singer/Songwriter Chart. The enthusiasm for the record and his frequent touring landed him support slots for household names like the Goo Goo Dolls, Lifehouse, Matt Nathanson and Chris Isaak as well as rising stars such as Ingrid Michaelson, Colbie Caillat and Eric Hutchinson.

DYLAN RYAN SAND
July 30 at 9:30 PM
$14
Featuring his volatile and dramatic trio Sand, Sky Bleached is Dylan Ryan's debut album under his own name, but the insistently exploratory Los Angeles-based drummer and composer isn't making a first impression. Ryan is bandstand veteran who's spent the past decade collaborating with an array of galvanizing musicians across a wide array of creative rock, jazz and alternative scenes in Chicago and Los Angeles. His last trip east was highlighted by a much lauded Winter Jazz Festival performance. Sand features Timothy Young, one of the busiest and most versatile guitarist's in Los Angeles. Recently Young has performed with the likes of David Sylvian, Rebecca Pidgeon, John Zorn, Beck, and Fiona Apple.

RIVER WHYLESS
With Special Guest Darlingside
July 31 at 7:00 PM
$14
River Whyless is named in spirit of its ongoing love affair with the natural world. Since its formation in 2009 the band has toured extensively, playing hundreds of shows from coast to coast and into Canada. Its debut album "A Stone, A Leaf, An Unfound Door" was recorded in the band's home studio in Asheville, NC and released in March of 2012. Its sound has been described as folk-rock, nature-pop, and baroque-folk, but in the end the members of River Whyless hope only to lend craft to their passions.---Under one roof in New England's Pioneer Valley, Darlingside came together with five songwriters, a mandolin, a cello and violin, guitars and drums, a chorus of voices, and a van named Chauncey. Holed up in their home between a cornfield and the Connecticut River, they forged a seamless, exhilarating sound at the intersection of rock, classical, and folk music. The band recently released their debut full-length album 'Pilot Machines' and are currently shaking rafters along the eastern seaboard with their vibrant live shows.

Bridget Everett & THE TENDER MOMENTS
With Special Guest Dave Hill
July 31 at 9:30 PM
$22 Advance / $25 At the Door
Every month Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments bring their funny yet gut-wrenching and outrageous performance to Joe's Pub. Led by the singing tour de force Bridget Everett, "a mouthy, flesh-jiggling early Bette Midler" (New York Times), the band has sold-out venues nationally and instantly developed a cult-like following with their edgy, sexed-up, punk rock cabaret. Each performance is as explosive as it is unpredictable. Imagine Freddy Mercury, Richard Pryor and Sophie Tucker had a baby, and then you might be getting close...maybe. Bridget Everett & The Tender Moments are poised to release their debut album of original music in October 2013. Bridget has been called one of the Funniest People in New York by Time Out. Her film, theater and television credits include Inside Amy Schumer, Two Broke Girls, Jeffrey Cole Casserole, Jukebox Jackie and Our Hit Parade. Bridget has appeared at Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, HBO's Aspen United States Comedy Arts Festival, The Adelaide International Cabaret Festival, The San Francisco Sketchfest, and The New York Comedy Festival. @bridgeteverett

SUSAN WERNER
"Hayseed"
August 1 at 7:30 PM
$25
Susan's newest project contains twelve songs on the subject matter of farming, rural America, locavores, food safety, and the comic potential of herbicides. Werner grew up on a family farm in eastern Iowa, where her parents still farm-and in "Hayseed", she returns to the language and characters she knows best. She will tour with two sidemen and an array of farm props. The CD is slated for release Spring 2013.

ALASDAIR ROBERTS & FRIENDS
August 1 at 9:30 PM
$12 Advance / $15 At the Door
Alasdair Roberts has been based in Glasgow for the past ten years. His first releases consisted of home-made four-track recordings of his songs under the name Appendix Out. Appendix Out went on to release three albums on the Drag City label: "The Rye Bears a Poison" (1997), Daylight Saving (1999) and The Night Is Advancing (2001) with an ever-changing band line-up. Around the time of The Night Is Advancing, Alasdair was gradually becoming more and more immersed in the traditional song and balladry of the British Isles, resulting in the first release under his own name, the solo guitar-and-voice album of traditional songs The Crook of My Arm.

AMY LAVERE
With Will Sexton
August 2 at 7 PM
$14
Amy LaVere was born in Louisiana and moved around as a GM brat. The family eventually settled near Detroit, except her father, who continued to travel for work. The family structure eventually gave way. She and her sister rebelled, and one of the ways Amy did so was by joining a band at age 14. Rebellion is still a potent theme for her, and she continues to defy and test love's constraints, adding to the body count of the last album ("Killing Him") with "Red Banks," a sly turn on the blues/country yarn where the girl usually ends up getting it in the end. Stranger Me is the next step in the exciting evolution of Amy LaVere. - clearly more confident in her musical point of view, possessing more wisdom about what love is not and ready to embrace the ideal of the stranger, whatever its iteration.

AMY G
August 2 at 9:30 PM
$15 Advance / $20 At the Door
God knows what will happen when Amy G takes the stage. The ridiculously glamorous singer and clown deconstructs before your eyes in her daring and experimental new work, that gleefully defies categorization. Prepare to be seduced and surprised, touched and thrilled, as the sensational cabaret star, finally back from a world tour, touches down for a moment at home in NY. May contain traces of rollerskates, ukulele, and/or live chicken.

THE FILMS OF Wallace Shawn AND Andre Gregory:
Before and After Dinner
August 3 at 7 PM
$10
Andre Gregory: BEFORE AND AFTER DINNER is an exploration of the life and work of groundbreaking director, actor and artist André Gregory, directed by award-winning filmmaker Cindy Kleine (who is also his wife). A witty and often hilariously funny raconteur, Gregory looks back on a career that spanned decades, shattered boundaries and established him as a cultural icon. Bringing us back and forth in time, Gregory looks not only at his life, but at the nature of art, love and the creative process.

CREIGHTON IRONS AND Sean Mahoney
August 3 at 9:30 PM
$15
Irons and Mahoney are a New York City-based theater-rock songwriting team who are excited to return to the Joe's Pub stage. Fusing Iron's rock-folk piano style with Mahoney's country-funk guitar work makes for a traditional yet progressive rock and musical theater hybrid that leans heavily on tightly-voiced harmonies with an unrelenting pulse. Joined by friends from both the Broadway and downtown rock scene, they will be playing songs from their rock musical FACTORY GIRLS (called "A more militant version of Little Women" by Encore!'s Jack Viertel) as well as their expanding catalog.

Martha Graham CRACKER CABARET
August 3 at 11:30 PM
$20
After a sold out New York City debut at Joe's in January -- a show that the Village Voice deemed one of its 10 Best -- The Martha Graham Cracker Cabaret returns with a new show. This balls-to-the-wall drag cabaret is hosted by Martha Graham Cracker, who is, perhaps, the world's tallest and hairiest drag queen. Backed by a four-piece live band, Martha Graham Cracker, hailed as "The Drag Queen King" by the Philadelphia Inquirer, performs new arrangements and mashups of songs by artists ranging from Prince and Crowded House to Motley Crue and Nina Simone, and a bit of everything in between. Martha Graham Cracker is played by Dito van Reigersberg, co-founding co-artistic director of Philadelphia's Obie-winning Pig Iron Theatre Company. The character was born in van Reigersberg's East Village kitchen when he was attending the Martha Graham School of Dance.

THE FILMS OF Wallace Shawn AND Andre Gregory:
Vanya on 42nd Street
August 4 at 4 PM
$10
Over the course of three years, director Andre Gregory and a group of actors came together on a voluntary basis in order to better understand Chekhov's work through performance workshops. Staged and filmed entirely within the vacant shell of the then-abandoned New Amsterdam Theater on 42nd Street in New York City, they enacted the play rehearsal style on a bare stage with the actors in street clothes.

THE FILMS OF Wallace Shawn AND Andre Gregory:
My Dinner with Andre Sun
August 4 at 7 PM
$10
An extended conversation between two old friends over dinner: André Gregory, a renowned experimental theater director, and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, both of whom play themselves. The film is not a documentary, but a condensation of several real discussions fashioned into a dramatic exchange by Shawn and director Louis Malle. Gregory is an inquisitive, uninhibited wanderer, willing to travel to remote lands to take part in unusual foreign rituals, while Shawn is the cynical, realistic New Yorker, more concerned with the challenges and rewards of day-to-day city life.

RADNEY FOSTER
August 4 at 9:30 PM
$20
To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of his acclaimed album Del Rio, TX, 1959, singer-songwriter Radney Foster recently released Del Rio, Texas, Revisited: Unplugged and Lonesome. Foster crafts story songs with singular grit and grace. Twenty years ago, the contemporary country classic Del Rio, TX, 1959 showcased a songwriter in peak form with hits brassy, bruised and buoyant with blues. Two decades on, Foster's new Del Rio, TX Revisited: Unplugged and Lonesome reinvents his hallmark solo debut as an ambitious and haunting acoustic collection. In the last two decades Foster's songs have been made popular by stars like Keith Urban ("I'm In," "Raining on a Sunday"), Sara Evans ("A Real Fine Place to Start"), the Dixie Chicks ("Godspeed," "Never Say Die"), and Gary Allan ("Half of My Mistakes'). "These songs are still as real to me," Foster says. "They take on different meanings because it is 20 years later, but the stories still resonate."

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