Jay Brannan, Mike Daisey & More Set for Joe's Pub this Week

This week at Joe's Pub at the Public, September 3-8, will feature KINAN AZMEH, LOS HACHEROS, TELLY SAVALAS LIVE!, Mike Daisey, FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME, JAY BRANNAN, and Phyllis Chen.

KINAN AZMEH
September 3 at 7:30 PM
$20

Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh is the first Arab to win the first prize at the Nicolay Rubinstein international competition in Moscow1997. A graduate of the Juilliard School in New York, the High Institute of Music and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Damascus. He is currently working towards his music doctoral degree at the City University of New York. Kinan has appeared as soloist, composer and improviser worldwide including The Library of Congress, The Kennedy Center, Opera Bastille, Berlin's Philharmonie, The Mozarteum, Carnegie Hall, UN's General Assembly and the Damascus Opera for its opening concert. He has shared the stage and recorded with artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, Aynur and Zakir Hussein. Formed in 2006 in New York City, Kinan Azmeh & and his New York Quartet immediately gained recognition for their virtuosic and high energy performance, receiving praise from critics and audiences alike. With this New York ensemble, Azmeh strives to reach a balance between Jazz, classical music, and the music of his homeland, Syria. Azmeh's expressive clarinet meets Kyle Sanna's rustic guitar, soaring at times over the dynamic and volatile backdrop of John Hadfield's percussion and Josh Myers' double bass. The new album "Elastic City" was launched in a European and Middle-eastern tour in the summer of 2012.

LOS HACHEROS
September 3 at 9:30 PM
$12

Since joining forces in 2011, Los Hacheros have been setting dance floors aflame with their astounding live shows. Now with the release of their debut album, Pilon, they are ready to introduce to the world their revelatory new sound. Recorded live onto a classic 388 Tascam tape machine, Pilon captures a gritty soulfulness that has been absent far too long from modern latin music. Combining the raw emotion of Papote Jimenez's vocals, Eddie Venegas and Itai Kriss' powerful mambos, and Jacob Plasse's psychedelic tres guitar, Los Hacheros have a created a sound that is both unique and timeless. On Pilon,one hears echoes of legends such as Ray Barretto, Fania, and Arsenio Rodriguez, but with an immediacy and power that is unmistakably New York now.

TELLY SAVALAS LIVE!
September 4 at 9:30 PM
$20

Written by New York's Hunter Nelson and Directed by Taylor Negron (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) Telly Savalas Live! is a devilishly smart and hugely funny blast from America's hairy-chested past. Actor Tom DiMenna plays Telly Savalas, channeling the unmistakable chutzpah of the long dead Greek-American celebrity with pitch-perfect gravitas and impeccable comic timing. It's the resurrection nobody was expecting: 1970s Hollywood icon Telly Savalas has risen from the grave to give the cynical and overstimulated youth of today a good kick in the pants in "Telly Savalas Live!", a hilarious and surreal lounge act. This big, bald, improbably stylish ladies' man has moved beyond "Kojak," beyond the Dirty Dozen, beyond his instructional VHS series on no limit blackjack -- indeed beyond the land of the living entirely. He's been watching us very closely from the Other Side, and here's the verdict: We're doing it wrong. TV, movies, men's wear, haircuts, heavy petting -- You name it, we've blown it. Now, Telly will rise from the dead to personally administer his antidote to our perpetual state of cultural coitus interruptus (hint: it involves some angry sermonizing and several bizarre interpretations of classic pop songs and standards)!

Mike Daisey: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON
PLAYING THE HAND YOU'RE DEALT
September 5 at 7:00 PM
$25

Mike Daisey returns to The Public with a breathtakingly epic theatrical event: a story told over the course of a lunar month, a new monologue every night, in 29 unique consecutive performances. Each evening stands alone as a single episode, but together they create a living theatrical novel set against the secret history of New York City - a city that is loved and loathed and larger than life. From Pentecostal church services held in IKEA showrooms to Nikola Tesla's laboratories in the Lower East Side, from the infamous Mole People's convocations deep beneath the subway lines to the hidden and terrifying plans of Robert Moses, Daisey weaves a story of ordinary magic in a most extraordinary city. Night after night he will strive like Sheherazade to tell the largest story ever attempted in the American theater.

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME
September 5 at 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT

Freestyle Love Supreme is a stage show like no other. Five performers take the crowd on a non-stop hip hop improv ride, spinning cues from the audience into instantaneous riffs and fully realized musical numbers. Confirmed August line-up includes: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Veneziale, Chris Jackson, Arthur Lewis, Chris Sullivan and Bill Sherman.

Mike Daisey: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON
THE FOOL WHO WALKS THROUGH WALLS
September 6 at 7:00 PM
$25

Mike Daisey returns to The Public with a breathtakingly epic theatrical event: a story told over the course of a lunar month, a new monologue every night, in 29 unique consecutive performances. Each evening stands alone as a single episode, but together they create a living theatrical novel set against the secret history of New York City - a city that is loved and loathed and larger than life. From Pentecostal church services held in IKEA showrooms to Nikola Tesla's laboratories in the Lower East Side, from the infamous Mole People's convocations deep beneath the subway lines to the hidden and terrifying plans of Robert Moses, Daisey weaves a story of ordinary magic in a most extraordinary city. Night after night he will strive like Sheherazade to tell the largest story ever attempted in the American theater.

FREESTYLE LOVE SUPREME
September 6 at 9:30 PM
SOLD OUT

Freestyle Love Supreme is a stage show like no other. Five performers take the crowd on a non-stop hip hop improv ride, spinning cues from the audience into instantaneous riffs and fully realized musical numbers. Confirmed August line-up includes: Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anthony Veneziale, Chris Jackson, Arthur Lewis, Chris Sullivan and Bill Sherman.

JAY BRANNAN: EP RELEASE
September 6 at 11:30 PM
$20

NYC-based Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet & sad folk songs, with a healthy dose of cynical humor, around the globe since 2006. He also appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell's indie film sensation Shortbus, in which his song "Soda Shop" was the highest selling song on the film's soundtrack album (released by Bright Eyes' Team Love Records). From there, Brannan released a string of albums, all of which topped the iTunes Singer/Songwriter & Billboard Heatseekers charts: goddamned, produced by Will Golden (Meiko, Michelle Branch); In Living Cover, a collection of 2 originals & 7 covers, recorded from a bedroom in his friend's Brooklyn apartment; and Rob Me Blind, produced by the legendary David Kahne (Regina Spektor, The Bangles, Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson, Lana Del Rey, etc.) Brannan's touring has taken him multiple times around the world, through the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Brazil, South Africa, Israel, and Australia. This international touring is what inspired his newest release "Around the World in 80 Jays", an acoustic collection of 9 international cover songs covering 6 different languages, available September 3. Brannan is simultaneously writing & recording his next album of originals, and will be previewing some of the new material at limited engagements this Fall 2013.

Mike Daisey: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON
THE MAGICIAN AND THE FISH
September 7 at 7:00 PM
$25

Mike Daisey returns to The Public with a breathtakingly epic theatrical event: a story told over the course of a lunar month, a new monologue every night, in 29 unique consecutive performances. Each evening stands alone as a single episode, but together they create a living theatrical novel set against the secret history of New York City - a city that is loved and loathed and larger than life. From Pentecostal church services held in IKEA showrooms to Nikola Tesla's laboratories in the Lower East Side, from the infamous Mole People's convocations deep beneath the subway lines to the hidden and terrifying plans of Robert Moses, Daisey weaves a story of ordinary magic in a most extraordinary city. Night after night he will strive like Sheherazade to tell the largest story ever attempted in the American theater.

JAY BRANNAN: VOTE ON SETLIST
September 7 at 9:30 PM
$20

Vote on Jay's set list for this show here: http://jaybrannan.com/vote. NYC-based Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet & sad folk songs, with a healthy dose of cynical humor, around the globe since 2006. He also appeared as an actor in John Cameron Mitchell's indie film sensation Shortbus, in which his song "Soda Shop" was the highest selling song on the film's soundtrack album (released by Bright Eyes' Team Love Records). From there, Brannan released a string of albums, all of which topped the iTunes Singer/Songwriter & Billboard Heatseekers charts: goddamned, produced by Will Golden (Meiko, Michelle Branch); In Living Cover, a collection of 2 originals & 7 covers, recorded from a bedroom in his friend's Brooklyn apartment; and Rob Me Blind, produced by the legendary David Kahne (Regina Spektor, The Bangles, Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson, Lana Del Rey, etc.) Brannan's touring has taken him multiple times around the world, through the USA, Canada, the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, Norway, Greece, Brazil, South Africa, Israel, and Australia. This international touring is what inspired his newest release "Around the World in 80 Jays", an acoustic collection of 9 international cover songs covering 6 different languages, available September 3. Brannan is simultaneously writing & recording his next album of originals, and will be previewing some of the new material at limited engagements this Fall 2013.

Mike Daisey: ALL THE FACES OF THE MOON
SHE'S THE HIGH PRIESTESS TO YOU, JACK
September 8 at 7:00 PM
$25

Mike Daisey returns to The Public with a breathtakingly epic theatrical event: a story told over the course of a lunar month, a new monologue every night, in 29 unique consecutive performances. Each evening stands alone as a single episode, but together they create a living theatrical novel set against the secret history of New York City - a city that is loved and loathed and larger than life. From Pentecostal church services held in IKEA showrooms to Nikola Tesla's laboratories in the Lower East Side, from the infamous Mole People's convocations deep beneath the subway lines to the hidden and terrifying plans of Robert Moses, Daisey weaves a story of ordinary magic in a most extraordinary city. Night after night he will strive like Sheherazade to tell the largest story ever attempted in the American theater.

Phyllis Chen
September 8 at 9:30 PM
$15

In 2013, New York-based toy pianist Phyllis Chen releases "Little Things," her third solo toy piano album, on New Focus Recordings. Praised by the LA Times as "a dazzling delight," Phyllis's new album features a wide range of works written or dedicated to her in the last few years, as she continues to expand the range of the toy piano in a concert setting. Also an active composer, Ms. Chen's creative sensibility pervades these commissions, as her innovative approach to the toy piano emboldened the composers to experiment and imagine new worlds for this under-appreciated instrument.

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