Carol Lipnik, Flamenco Festival, Gad Elmaleh and More Coming Up at Joe's Pub This Month
By: BWW News Desk Mar. 01, 2016
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances from March 2-13, 2016. Scroll down for details, or visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!
WALK ON THE WILD SIDE, A LOU REED BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE FT. JOE MCGINTY & THE LOSERS LOUNGE
Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00PM & 9:30PM
$25
Joe McGinty and The Losers Lounge are a NYC collective known for their wildly popular tribute shows to music legends. Started in small Lower East Side clubs in 1993, the Losers have grown into a unique performance experience that combines music, comedy and cabaret. Of all their epic shows, their send-up to Lou Reed in 2014 proved to be the most affecting. The invaluable New York legend had inspired everyone in the group in a personal way, small or large, and those shows became so much more than just performances. Because of that, the Losers have decided to make it an annual event, starting here. Every year, for Reed's birthday, the Losers will take a "Walk on the Wild Side."
Thursdays, March 3, 10 & 17 at 7:00PM
$16
Carol Lipnik - the spellbinding, darkly-humorous singer and songwriter recently called an "ethereal vocal phenomenon" by The New York Times - will mark her debut solo engagement at Joe's Pub. Lipnik, who blends folk music and art song with the classic nightclub tradition, will perform a concert celebrating her latest album Almost Back To Normal with an expanded musical palette featuring strings and percussion. In addition, she will premiere original musical compositions. Her music director and pianist Matt Kanelos will lead the band. The show is produced by TWEED TheaterWorks (Lypsinka) and DAX MGMT (Weimar New York, Joey Arias).
Thursday, March 3 at 9:30PM
$15
When Indianapolis sisters Lily and Madeleine first started making music together, it didn't cross their minds that they could make a living at it. Although they now find themselves in an acclaimed full-fledged career, what got them here has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with the spirit. When the two come together in ecstatic and seamless "blood harmony," it's a sound that continues to haunt long after the songs are sung, leaving an electrical charge behind like a sparkling tracer in the air. Lily & Madeleine however, are equally distinctive as soloists as they are as harmony singers. When they step out individually as vocalists, Lily's warm, smoky alto is the counterpoint to Madeleine's crystalline, bell-like soprano.
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ THE DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL
Friday, March 4 at 7:30PM
$30
Corey Glover, the two-time Grammy Award-winning lead singer of the legendary band Living Colour, performs a special one-night only intimate concert with friends including Dennis Diamond, as part of the Downtown Urban Arts Festival. Together, Glover and Diamond co-wrote the powerful anthem "Silence" from Glover's first solo album Hymns. Considered to be one of the greatest lead singers of our time, the multi-talented Glover is also a screen and stage actor and received acclaim for his role in Oliver Stone's Oscar-winning Best Picture Platoon and headlined as Judas in the national tour of Jesus Christ Superstar in 2006.
Friday, March 4 at 9:30PM
$15 Advance / $20 Doors
Bridget Barkan shows her chops with genre-bending shows that employ both her love of song, character building and storytelling. Not only a shape shifter with accents and body language, she is also a vocal chameleon seamlessly riffing her way through jazz, soul, R&B, folk, electronic and traditional musical theater songs. In addition to her own marquee shows and album releases, she performs with the band Slow Knights (Del Marquis, Xavier, Rod Thomas); appears regularly with fellow NYC-based artists Bright Light Bright Light, Lady Rizo, Murray Hill and Joey Arias; and has performed with The Scissor Sisters, Lily Allen, and recorded with legendary house DJ and producer Todd Terry.
Barkan is a member of the inaugural class of Pub Club, the Joe's Pub artist-development program and is a teaching artist with Carnegie Hall's Music Connections.
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Saturday, March 5 at 7:00PM
$25
The art of flamenco and respect for tradition is reinvented by Rocío Márquez, a young artist from Huelva, who already caused a sensation in 2008 after winning the Lámpara Minera at the Festival del Cante de las Minas de la Unión. Marquez has made her name as a leading figure in the world's contemporary flamenco scene intertwining tradition with avant-garde to reclaim the concept of free song as it was advocated by the dearly departed Enrique Morente. She has been performing for more than three years now with Miguel Ángel Cortés as a duo. Their music belongs equally to the past and the future, and that makes it a must see and listen in the present day: always deep, always challenging and accessible, always alive.
DANIEL CASARES & ADAM BEN EZRA
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION W/ FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Saturday, March 5 at 9:30PM
$25
Spanish composer and guitarist Daniel Casares and Israeli double-bassist Adam Ben Ezra have created a project that combines their own renowned respective songs and new ones created especially for this occasion. From his home town, Tel Aviv, Ezra's YouTube videos collect millions of views and is regularly invited to perform all around the world, notably supporting the likes of fusion legends such as Richard Bona, Mike Stern and Victor Wooten. Casares has performed world-wide as well, including five consecutive US tours. He has worked with Portuguese fado singer Dulce Pontes, Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz or flamenco legend José Mercé. This concert will be the world premiere of Casares and Ezra's project.
OSCAR MICHEAUX'S WITHIN OUR GATES FT. LIVE ACCOMPANIMENT BY WILLIAM HOOKER
Sunday, March 6 at 7:00PM
Pre-show Discussion at 6:30PM
$15
Percussionist William Hooker plays live accompaniment soundtrack to a feature presentation of Oscar Micheaux's 1920 film Within Our Gates. Produced, written and directed by Micheaux, Within Our Gates is the oldest known surviving film made by an African-American director. William Hooker's body of uninterrupted work beginning in the mid-seventies defines him as one of the most important composers and players in jazz. As a bandleader, Hooker has fielded ensembles in an incredibly diverse array of configurations. Each collaboration has brought a serious investigation of his compositional agenda and the science of the modern drum kit. There will be a pre-show discussion with the artist.
NELIDA TIRADO
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH FLAMENCO FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Sunday, March 6 at 9:30PM
$25
Through her mother's desires to keep her connected to the roots of her native Bomba and Plena, Nelida Tirado stumbled upon flamenco accidentally. This performance, a passionate reflection of cultural identity, marks a challenging journey between bomba, salsa and flamenco "dancing between cultures." A celebration of her authentic self where music and dance transcend and blur lines of politics, race and identity, the show features original music by Roberto Castellon under musical direction by Gonzalo Grau.
HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY: SERIOUSLY ENTERTAINING
Monday, March 7 at 7:00PM
SOLD OUT
House of SpeakEasy celebrates the third anniversary of its flagship program Seriously Entertaining by bringing the literary series' 2016 spring season to Joe's Pub. Produced and hosted by its founders, award-winning historian Amanda Foreman and editor Lucas Wittmann, Seriously Entertaining presents highly-acclaimed writers from across the arts riffing 10 minutes on each show's given theme. The thrill and intimacy of these live literary performances palpably deepens the audience connection to each writer's work and life. Grappling with March's theme, It's Not You, will be Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson; best-selling novelist David Ebershoff (The Danish Girl); artist, activist and VICE contributing editor Molly Crabapple (Drawing Blood); and Vanity Fair editor and memoirist George Hodgman (Bettyville). The Tip of My Tongue literary quiz - a Seriously Entertaining hallmark - will be hosted by a mystery guest.
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH MUSICAL THEATRE FACTORY
Monday, March 7 at 9:30PM
$20
Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat is an electronic musical that tracks the rise and fall of history's most overlooked inventor, Nikola Tesla, as he goes from hopeful student to esteemed inventor to mad scientist. The show's modern style and score reflects Tesla's obsession with the future he desperately wanted to reach, contemporizing him as a pop-icon-slash-DJ whose sounds pushed the limits of what his audience could handle. Come hear the beat drop with writers Benjamin Halstead and Nikko Benson at this electric concert event!
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE DOWNTOWN URBAN ARTS FESTIVAL
Tuesday, March 8 at 7:30PM
$20
Playwright/actor Joe Gulla tackles the issue of growing up as a gay Italian boy... in the Bronx! Smart, fun, funny and poignant, The Bronx Queen reveals why some people are destined to be nervous (ship)wrecks while others cling to the greatest life preserver of all: Art! (Dramamine not included!)
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday, March 8, 10 & 11 at 9:30PM
Sunday, March 13 at 7:00PM
Through June 2016
SOLD OUT
While Gad Elmaleh is arguably the most widely known and beloved comedian in Europe, he has now embarked on the newest chapter of his career: breaking through to the American audience. For this, he has crafted, Oh My Gad, a new stand-up show entirely in English, building upon the jokes that made him famous overseas and including new observations from his life in America.
Elmaleh debuted his first all English show in a sold-out ten-night run at Joe's Pub in Fall 2015, introducing his singular humor and insight to a new audience. During his current run, he will continue the enormous task of not just speaking a new language fluently, but of using it with the timing, nuance and syntax required for great stand-up comedy. Says The Guardian, "The chance to see Elmaleh spreading his wings in the U.S. is not one to be missed."
A SHOT OF RODGERS WITH A TWIST: CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF RICHARD RODGERS
Tuesday, March 8 at 11:30PM
$10
Under the guidance of two-time Tony Award Winner Sutton Foster, Broadway musical director Michael Rafter, and Ball State faculty members Johnna Tavianini and Bill Jenkins, A Shot of Rodgers with a Twist: Celebrating the Music of Richard Rodgers is the culmination of a cabaret course taught at Ball State University to the graduating BFA musical theatre class of 2016. The show will feature iconic music by Richard Rodgers and promises to be an unforgettable evening.
Guests: Sonia Manzano, Tracie Morris, Charla Lauriston, Celia Berk, Abeer Hoque & Jean Grae
Wednesday, March 9 at 7:30PM
$20
Every month, New York's best and brightest women come together for Women of Letters - a celebration of the lost art of letter writing. Expect laughter, tears, and camaraderie as host Sofija Stefanovic welcomes guests reading "A letter to the person I imagined I'd be". Together on stage for the first time ever will be actress, director and star of Sesame Street Sonia Manzano; poet, performer and professor Tracie Morris; comedian and writer for Why? With Hannibal Buress Charla Lauriston; singer Celia Berk; writer and author of The Lovers and the Leavers Abeer Hoque; and lyricist and hip hop artist Jean Grae.
Proceeds from Women of Letters shows are regularly donated to charity, with over $750,000 being raised globally to date. March 9th's proceeds will be donated to Millay Colony, on organization that helps to promote the vitality of the arts and the development of writers, visual artists, and composers by providing a retreat for creative work.
Wednesday, March 9 at 9:30PM
$15
Taking it name from Tengger, the sky god of Mongolian grassland, Tengger Cavalry was formed in 2009 by the bandleader Nature Ganganbaigal who blends overtone throat singing, Mongolian horsehead fiddle and other nomadic music tradition of Central Asia with heavy rock music, creating a unique music genre: Mongolian folk rock. In 2015, Tengger Cavalry's bandleader Nature moved to New York City from China and re-located the band with brand new American members, including Alex Abayev (bass), Yuri Liak (drum) and Robert McLaughlin (fiddle) and Nature Ganganbaigal (vocal & guitar).
AKIKO YANO TRIO, FEATURING WILL LEE & CHRIS PARKER
Friday, March 11 at 7:30PM
$35
Akiko Yano is back with her long time NY friends, virtuoso-musicians Will Lee (bass and vocals) and Chris Parker (drums), by popular demand. The New York Times calls Yano, "a world class songwriter with a clear, gentle, wide-ranging voice. She is also an accomplished, endearing performer who might be a Japanese Carole King, Joni Mitchell or Meredith Monk."
Friday, March 11 at 11:30PM
$15
Sheron's recent debut EP "Ghost Hopes" is a short sneak peek into the singer/storyteller interpretation of pop music. From rumbling traditional Tuvan throat-singing and soaring tenor melodies, an Egyptian oud and a string ensemble, or just a simple acoustic guitar, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist uses his vast, colorful palette to weave intricate designs into what he, smiling lightly, calls "audiofilms".
Lunifred Benjamin's newest single is called "Internet Porn-Era Poet's Nightmare." Despite the jarring title, it is a considerate tune, largely about the damage to one's capacity for sensitivity and healthy sexuality after growing up in the era of ubiquitous, aggressive pornography. Thoughtful and raw lyricism mix with soulful string and woodwind-accented pop songwriting. San Francisco's Turntable Kitchen has called Lunifred Benjamin a "wild & poetic troubadour" with a "distinctive croon." You can hear Bowie and Dylan in the past. Sufjan and Longstreth in the present. And hopefully plenty more Lunifred in the future.
Saturday, March 12 at 11:30PM
$15
Lulacruza is an electronic folk duo operating at the junction of the modern and the ancient, blending shamanic and ritualistic influences with folk and electronic music. Lulacruza is Alejandra Ortiz from Colombia and Luis Maurette of Argentina. Ortiz serves as songbird and plays native instruments from a wide spectrum of cultures, while Maurette complements with electronic processing and sequencing, as well as percussion and charango. Pablo Paz (Argentina) on bass, electronics and percussion recently joined Lulacruza.
MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND: MX AMERICA
Saturday & Sunday, March 12 & 13 at 9:00PM
$25
In Mx America, Mx Justin Vivian Bond explores "ways of seeing and being seen." As the single finalist in a pageant, v expects to be judged in such categories as presentation, economic status, mental health, family values and talent all while creating an elegantly formidable evening of beauty and delight. "My friend Billy's father once said you could measure the depth of a person's tragedy by the amount of distance between how they see themselves and how they're seen by others. As an American and as a trans-person I find this hypothesis to be really interesting," said Mx Bond. Central to this exploration is v's long-term obsession with supermodel model Karen Graham, the face of Estee Lauder cosmetics from 1972-1985.
Mx America is a solo show incorporating video, spoken word, original music, plus a few cheap jokes Mx Bond bought off a drunk queen in San Francisco. In tandem, v will present a visual art component - My Model/My Self, a solo exhibition of watercolors, sculptural installation, video and performance installation - at Participant, Inc. on March 13, 2016.
For tickets, go online at joespub.com, call 10AM-7:00PM daily at 212-967-7555, or in person at The Public Theater Box Office, 425 Lafayette Street, NYC (Opens daily at 2PM). There is a $12 food / two (2) drink minimum per person per show, unless otherwise noted.
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 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'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.
The Public Theater, under the leadership of Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare, the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. Celebrating his 10th anniversary season at The Public, Eustis has created new community-based initiatives designed to engage audiences like Public Lab, Public Studio, Public Forum, Public Works, and a remount of the Mobile Shakespeare Unit. 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 free Shakespeare in the Park; and the Mobile Shakespeare 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; Public Works, an expanding initiative that is designed to cultivate new connections and new models of engagement with artists, audiences and the community each year; and audience and artist development initiatives that range from Emerging Writers Group and to the Public Forum series. The Public is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and in October 2012 the landmark building downtown at Astor Place was revitalized to physically manifest the Company's core mission of sparking new dialogues and increasing accessibility for artists and audiences, by dramatically opening up the building to the street and community, and transforming the lobby into a public piazza for artists, students, and audiences. The Public is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning Fun Home and Lin-Manuel Miranda's acclaimed American musical Hamilton. The Public has received 47 Tony Awards, 167 Obie Awards, 52 Drama Desk Awards, 48 Lortel Awards, 31 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics Awards, and four Pulitzer Prizes.
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