Bridget Everett, Rev Billy, Tammy Faye/Lenny Kaye and More Set for This Week at Joe's Pub
By: BWW News Desk Nov. 18, 2014
Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its performances through the rest of November 2014. Visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows and scroll down for more!
Wednesday, November 19 at 7:00PM
$14
After a year of traveling and performing all over the country, singer/songwriter Shaina Taub, winner of the 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant, returns to New York to perform an evening of her original songs. Taub is currently writing scores for two new musicals, and her original soul-folk opera, The Daughters, was developed by the Yale Institute of Music Theatre, CAP21 Theater Company and featured in NYU's main stage season. As a performer, Taub has traveled the world in her multi-faceted capacities as a vocalist, actor and musician. She was Karen O's vocal standby and back-up singer in the psycho-opera, Stop the Virgens at St. Ann's Warehouse and the Sydney Opera House, and has performed on stages worldwide. She played Princess Mary in the critically acclaimed electropop opera, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, and is currently singing the songs of Tom Waits in American Repertory Theater's upcoming production of Shakespeare's The Tempest.
FREDERICKS BROWN / JENNAH BELL
Wednesday, November 19 at 9:30 PM
$15
Fredericks Brown is New Zealand-born duo vocalist Deva Mahal and keys player Stephanie Brown, who met in New York and unearthed a common passion for storytelling. Together their wide-ranging cultural heritage, with Mahal, daughter of legendary blues musician Taj Mahal, drawing on her rich soul and blues roots; and Brown, shimmering with sublime kiwi grooves, have made them famous for their live shows, rich harmonies and beautifully crafted songs. With influences that range from Nina Simone and Sly and the Family Stone, their new EP Glass House Mountains, is their most assured and powerful statement yet, full of passionate songwriting and soaring, spiritually-charged melodies.
Jennah Bell is a singer-songwriter whose ravenous musical curiosities inspired her own creative wonderland; her quirky songwriting and indefinability are a direct product of her Bay Area roots. Bell pulls from a colorful palette of folk, soul, R&B, hip?hop, and bluegrass. Bell, a Berklee School of Music graduate, released her first self-produced EP, the experimental Early Bird, and left Boston for New York City in 2011. Since then, she has performed on the 2012 BET Awards, released a 3-piece band session "Live at Mother" on Okayplayer.com, and played shows at SXSW, The Roots Picnic, Blue Note Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, and CMJ music festival. She is currently recording her next album.
MAGOS HERRERA & JAVIER LIMON: DAWN
Thursday, November 20 at 7:30PM
$20
Magos Herrera and Javier Limon had a chance encounter in a coffee shop, which led to an extraordinary musical adventure - a first encounter between two musicians destined to fall in love. Herrera, renowned Mexican-born jazz singer and resident of New York City, has worked with the best jazz musicians from around the world for many years, combining her Latin roots with the sound of contemporary American jazz, thus, positioning herself among a musical elite. Limón, is a laureate composer, guitarist and internationally recognized producer, known for his collaboration with Paco de Lucia, Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Avishai Cohen and Wynton Marsalis, among others. He has become an indispensable reference in the genre of Flamenco and future international music.
BRIDGETT EVERETT & THE TENDER MOMENTS
Friday, November 20 at 9:30PM
Sunday, December 14 at 10:00PM
$25
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed and completely sold out production of Rock Bottom, New York's downtown darling Bridget Everett returns to the Joe's Pub stage with her band, The Tender Moments. She has her trusty bottle(s) of chardonnay to sing all her favorite love songs and share the stories of the men that made her...feel? From tender moments to prison sex, come get inside her. The Tender Moments are Carmine Covelli, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz, Mike Jackson and Matt Ray.
Friday, November 21 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv/$20 Door
John Early is a New York-based comedian, actor and filmmaker. His solo show Literally Me returns to Joe's Pub with special guests Yazan and the Gates Family Band, Nicole Spiezio and Hamm Samwich. Early is an Artist in Residence and comedy curator at Ars Nova, where he hosts the monthly variety show Showgasm. He also co-hosts Crime & Punishment at Cake Shop with oft-collaborator Kate Berlant. Their live sketch show Hey has been performed at Union Hall, UCB and The Virgil. His play The Witchelor, co-written with Nicole Spiezio, has been performed at Ars Nova and Atlantic Stage 2. Television credits include 30 ROCK, Broad City and High Maintenance, the feature film Fort Tilden (SXSW Grand Jury Prize), and starred in several of his own shorts.
Friday, November 21 at 9:30PM
$16 Adv/ $20 Door
Morley returns home to Joe's Pub with her unique globally-minded pop that expertly combines an earthiness, sensuality, intelligence and social consciousness. Come prepared to be moved. This show will feature a masterful lineup: Robin Macatangay on guitar, Allison Miller on drums, Teymur Phell on bass, Elio Villafranca on piano, Christelle Durandy on percussion and very special surprise guest.
LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE, VOL. 4: AFRO, LATIN & SOUL
FEATURING GEKO JONES
Friday, November 21 at 11:30PM
$20 Adv / $25 Door
Brown Girls Burlesque's Chicava HoneyChild, Essence Revealed, Bianca Dagga, Clementine Dandy and more return to Joe's for the last installment of their series Last Night A DJ Saved My Life. This time, they take you on a sensual excursion through diaspora of Latin America and Afro-Caribbean music and the intersections of Soul music with DJ Geko Jones. Jones is a Brooklyn-based nightlife personality known for his internationally diverse events. Pushing the Latin agenda in a worldwide tropical bass scene, he is founding member of both Dutty Artz Records and the now infamous Que Bajo party franchise with his partner Uproot Andy. His mixes span the tropical hemispheres and collage together heavy Afro-Latin percussion with Kuduro, Moombahton and hard club breaks.
THE ROSE OF NO MAN'S LAND featuring NELL ROBINSON, JIM NUNALLY & RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOT
Saturday, November 22 at 7:00PM
$25
The Rose Of No-Man's Land is an American family's musical journey with songs from the Revolutionary War to the present interwoven with 250 years of letters, stories and poetry from Nell Robinson's rural Alabama family. This uniquely crafted concert (also a PBS feature) showcases Robinson's lush vocal quality and artisan story telling. This presentation features two-time Grammy winner and folk icon Ramblin' Jack Elliott as well as award winning flat picker Jim Nunally (David Grisman Bluegrass Experience). The show has enjoyed enthusiastic responses from audiences at The Kennedy Center and other venues across the country. The show will feature an all-star band: Jim Nunally (guitar, vocals), Mike Witcher (slide guitar, dobro), Levon Henry (clarinet, soprano sax), Zach Harmon (percussion) and Andrew Conklin (string bass). Narration is by David Brancaccio.
COMPANY FREAK featuring ALFA ANDERSON, NORMA JEAN WRIGHT & VIVIAN REED
Saturday, November 22 at 9:30PM
$22
International dance music super band Company Freak is masterminded by producer-DJ-journalist Jason King. Company Freak's deep-pocket, sophisticated dance pop is a throwback to 1970s and 80s orchestral disco, soul and funk when groups like Chic, Change, Kool and the Gang, Boney M, Kid Creole and the Coconuts, and Midnight Star ruled the airwaves. Above all else a concept, the band is a revolving, multi-generational affiliation of awe-inspiring vocalists and musicians, anchored by King's original dance tracks, recorded around the world in New York, Lagos, Istanbul, Addis Ababa and Paris.
Engineered and mixed by Eric Broucek and Alex Nizich (LCD Soundsystem, Hercules and Love Affair), Company Freak's debut LP, Le Disco Social, was released in March on Opus Label and featured Shayna Steele (Rihanna, NBC's Smash) and Melissa Musique (Jessie J., Florence and the Machine) and King himself, alongside storied session musicians from bands like D-Train and Chic plus a return-to-form from R&B legend Vivian Reed. They will debut songs from their forthcoming EP, The Lux Life.
REVEREND BILLY & THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR: MONSANTO IS THE DEVIL
Sundays, November 23-December 21 at 2:00PM
$15
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 in fire and drought, freak storms and extinction... Reverend Billy is feeling a strange joy in these first days of apocalypse. We need to rededicate ourselves to the politicizing of survival, pitting our freedom against the financiers of climate change. The singing-activists return to Joe's after last year's performances in Chase Bank lobbies, and New York jails and courts. In 2013, we 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-working and sticky sweet. Honeybeelujah!
SONNET REPERTORY THEATRE'S 12TH ANNUAL BENEFIT & CABARET HONORING CELIA WATSON
Sunday, November 23 at 6:00PM
$75-200
Sonnet Repertory Theatre honors award-winning actress Celia Weston at their Twelfth Annual Benefit & Cabaret, featuring a host of award-winning and celebrated writers and performers, including Derrick Baskin, Kerry Butler, Brian Gallagher, Darius de Haas, Megan Hilty, Carol Kane, David Miller, David Rasche and Alfred Uhry. Contributing composers include Jason Robert Brown, Stephen Flaherty, Will Reynolds, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman and Ben Toth. Video tributes from Linda Lavin, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Eric Stonestreet and Alfre Woodard. The evening will be hosted by John Behlmann with music directed by Rick Hip-Flores and stage managed by Rachael Gass.
Sunday, November 23 at 9:30 PM
$12
Rising cabaret star Ali Grieb is known for her irrepressible energy and riveting storytelling. Her magnetic charm and big band sound evoke the Golden Age while her song selections point to her edgy and often naughty brilliance. In her new show Sin Stops Here, Grieb tells hilarious and poignant tales - true stories from her life - that could only come from someone who grew up in the Deep South by way of South Jersey with a Bronx-born Jewish mother.
MATUTO: AFRICAN SUITE CD RELEASE
Monday, November 24 at 7:30PM
$15 Adv/$20 Door
Pull the name of a country out of hat. Then compose a piece of music about it.
This playful assignment was the genesis of Matuto's EP Africa Suite (Motema Music, November 4, 2014). About to embark on a five-week, five-country African tour sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the five-member Appalachia-gone-Afro-Brazilian band decided to create tributes and love letters to the sounds they heard along the way, and the people who welcomed them. They divvied up the task by country, at random, but the results sound anything but. From young voices lifted in a song of thanks in Mozambique to hot 70s-era Ivorian beats, from palm wine music and village jams to beloved Cameroonian rhythms, Matuto dove into a sea of African sounds. The resulting songs brought all they experienced home, blending the band's signature sway and charm into shimmering, uplifting tracks.CHAMPAGNE JERRY: PART OF CREATIVE CAPITAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Monday, November 24 at 9:30PM
$15
Joe's Pub mainstay Champagne Jerry, also known as Neal Medlyn, is a rapper and performance artist who, along with his producer, Max Tannone, and his onstage entourage, the Champagne Club, aim to transform the world each time they perform. Medlyn received the Creative Capital award in 2013 for King, a performance art project centered on Michael Jackson. His frequent collaborator and friend Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz will join him for this show.
JOMAMA JONES & SAMORA PINDERHUGHES ARE FOUND: PART OF CREATIVE CAPITAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Tuesday, November 25 at 7PM
$20
Jomama Jones and Samora Pinderhughes are FOUND for one night only at Joe's Pub. Jomama Jones traces the song lines for a rite of reconnection crafted with the visionary Samora Pinderhughes. Their first collaboration, the pair will interpret a series of songs associated with Josephine Baker, Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Labelle, and Diana Ross, among others, and reveal a new composition. Jomama Jones was funded in Creative Capital's first award round in 2000.
KALUP LINZY" PART OF CREATIVE CAPITAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Tuesday, November 25 & Wednesday November 26 at 9:30PM
$20
Celebrating the release of his forthcoming album Art Jobs and Lullabies (2015), Kalup Linzy will perform live, with a six-piece band, selected material from the project, which is also the visual sequel to his 2013 release Romantic Loner (Linzy's Creative Capital-supported project, funded in 2008). The evening will also include music video interludes, skits and material from his previous albums Sweetberry Sonnet (2008), Sampled and LeftOva (2009), and Romantic Loner. The evening will also feature special guests.
DANNY HOCH & LISA KRON: PART OF CREATIVE CAPITAL'S 15TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
Wednesday, November 26 at 7:30PM
$20
Danny Hoch and Lisa Kron share the bill on this night, with each writer presenting excerpts of new work. Hoch, a 2006 Creative Capital awardee, shares parts of TAKING OVER, his heartbreakingly funny and devastating tour-de-force look at gentrification in New York City. The New York Times describes it as "... pulsing, seamless studies of character clashing with context, of people learning to sink or swim in suddenly unfamiliar waters."
Kron is a critically acclaimed playwright (Well, 2.5 Minute Ride, In The Wake, The Ver**zon Play, and Fun Home) and performer (The Foundry Theatre's Good Person of Szechuan, Richard Move's Martha @... The 1963 Interview). She received the Creative Capital award in 2000 for Well, which ran at the Public Theater in 2004 and was listed among the year's best plays by The New York Times. Kron is a proud founding member of the OBIE- and Bessie-Award-winning collaborative theater company The Five Lesbian Brothers.
Friday, November 28 at 7:30PM
$18
Multi-faceted singer, entertainer and musician Jumaane Smith makes his highly anticipated Joe's Pub debut. While he is perhaps best known to the world as the lead trumpeter for Michael Bublé for the past decade, Smith comes to the Pub with the release of his critically acclaimed independent standards-filled debut album I Only Have Eyes For You. Smith's dynamic set will feature material from the recording in addition to new arrangements of classics by Louis Armstrong, Louis Prima, Joe Williams with Count Basie, Buble, adult contemporary hits like "You Are So Beautiful" and R&B tunes like "Just The Way You Are." The trumpeter's seven piece band incorporates elements of traditional Dixieland jazz, swing, blues, contemporary jazz, adult contemporary and soul.
Friday-Sunday, November 28-30 at 9:30PM
Thursday, December 4 & 18 at 11:30PM
Friday & Saturday, December 19 & 20 at 11:30PM
$30
Pam Ann's BAD AIR HOSTESS is a glamorous, heavy-drinking, drug-abusing, and fashion-obsessed international airhostess with more issues than Vogue. Pam Ann would rather flick the pages of fashion magazines in the galley, snort cocaine and scroll the Internet for 'love' than deal with her passengers. Pam Ann is destructive and reckless in her approach to life, always chasing the high but always left short of the runway. She says what other cabin crew would like to say and embraces terrorism! If you're easily offended or scared of flying this show is for you!
A TRIBUTE TO LORETTA LYNN WITH LENNY KAYE & TAMMY FAYE feat. THE LONESOME PRAIRIE DOGS
Saturday, November 29 at 7:30PM
$15
Music Row meets the Bowery as punk pioneer, noted author, musical archivist and all-around legend Lenny Kaye (The Patti Smith Group) and cabaret chanteuse/provocateuse Tammy Faye Starlite, along with the swinging rockabilly outfit, The Lonesome Prairie Dogs, perform the songs of Loretta Lynn with reverence, deference, and with...well, ok, maybe a touch of glittery camp. Call it country glam-punk, perhaps. Or whatever you want to call it. Down-home done downtown.
Saturday, November 29 at Midnight
$12 Adv/$15 Door
Dodo Orchestra is a unique retro-world-jazz ensemble that has enchanted audiences with their vivacious energy and a refined repertoire. This NYC-based miniature orchestra is composed of young and talented musicians of the new generation who are everything that is New York - sophistication, cosmopolitanism and the never-ending party. Inspired by beats and sounds from all over the world and moved by the timeless appeal of the bygone era, DODO embarks upon crossing times and places, performing with effortless originality gems of the French, German, Italian and Russian retro. With bold flair they fuse tango and samba, swing and chanson, balkanica and reggae, creating a delicious urban cocktail.
FLORENT GHYS: TÉLÉVISION ALBUM RELEASE feat. FOCI + LOCI, JAMES MOORE & ANDIE SPRINGER
Sunday, November 30 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv/$20 Door
Florent Ghys is releasing a new album of multi-track double basses and videos called Télévision on the label Cantaloupe (Bang on a Can). Ghys will be joined by video game artists Chris Burke (aka Glomag) and Tamara Yadao with their very unique duo Foci + Loci, and also by James Moore and Andie Springer, who have been called "model new-music citizens" by The New York Times, for some powerful violin/guitar duos.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7PM, daily at 212-967-7555, or visit in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM).
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public opened 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. Joe's Pub consistently presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers unique opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works. Commissioned artists have included Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more. In 2011, the Pub received a top-to-bottom renovation, leading to improved sightlines, expanded seating capacity and a new menu from acclaimed Chef Andrew Carmellini. With its intimate atmosphere and superior acoustics, Joe'sPub 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.
ABOUT THE PUBLIC THEATER AT ASTOR PLACE 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.
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