Cornelia Street Cafe Announces Their Upcoming Performers

In May 1977 three artists--Robin Hirsch, a writer and director; Charles McKenna, an actor; and Raphaela Pivetta, a visual artist--stumbled across a tiny storefront on Cornelia Street in the heart of Greenwich Village and thought it the perfect place to open a café. For two months they scraped and sanded, plumbed and plastered, and did the intricate dance one does with the authorities who live beyond the Village, and on the weekend of July 4, 1977, mirabile dictu, they opened the Cornelia Street Café.

This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe

Fri Jun 25th 9:00PM & 10:30PM
MALABY/MOTIAN/SANCHEZ/MONDER
(Tony Malaby, tenor and soprano saxophone; Paul Motian, drums; Angelica Sanchez, piano; Ben Monder, guitar)

"I asked Tony Malaby to setup something special for my last weekend at the cafe, and so he did! Four artists for whom the moment is more interesting than future or past, though deeply connected to both."
Poul Weis, music curator at the cafe 2003-2010
Cover $20 http://www.tonymalaby.com

Sat Jun 26th 6:00PM
THE LIAR SHOW

Seek Truth. Get a T-Shirt.
4 Storytellers, 3 True Stories, 1 Pack of Lies. Uncover the liar and win a prize worth its weight in fool's gold.

ELNA BAKER : NPR's The Moth Radio Hour

J. Keith van STRAATEN : What's My Line? Live Onstage

LESLIE GOSHKO : Manhattan Monologue Champion

TRACY ROWLAND : Emmy Award winning editor/producer
Andy Christie, host. Cover $15

Sat Jun 26 9:00PM & 10:30PM GLOBAL MOTION
(Nikolaj Hess, piano; Jay Anderson, bass; Tony Moreno, drums; Marc Mommaas, tenor saxophone)

Dutch tenor saxophonist Marc Mommaas (Sunnyside Recording Artist) and Danish pianist and co-leader Nikolaj Hess will be playing at the Corneliastreet cafe with the highly acclaimed group GLOBAL MOTION. This concert will feature compositions from Mommaas' and Hess' latest recording projects. Global Motion includes the stellar rhythm section Jay Anderson on Bass and Tony Moreno on drums. Stop by and start the year with fresh colors and new energy.
'Global Motion is always in stylistic motion, spanning bop, ECM-esque soundscapes and free-form chamber dreams.......' -
- Ed Enright - DOWNBEAT

- on Marc Mommaas:
‘A fearless improviser on both tenor and soprano, Mommaas has the ability and sense of spontaneous composition to start from almost nothing and build solos that were alive with energy and commitment, fairly bristling with power.....'
- ALL ABOUT JAZZ , John Kelman

Cover $12/$8 for students
Cover $10 http://www.mommaas.com

Sun Jun 27th 8:30PM
"HELLO-GOOD BYE"
TOM CHANG QUARTET/POUL WEIS GROUP
(Michael Attias, alto saxophone; Rob Garcia, drums; Sean Conly, bass; Tom Chang, guitar, compositions)
Tom Chang Quartet/Poul Weis Group

- two curators, two eras, one "Hello-Good Bye" PARTY!

Mon Jun 28th 8:30PM
21ST CENTURY SCHIZOID MUSIC PRESENTS: DU YUN

As a composer, she is Du Yun. As a performer, she is duYun. Lernanaen Hydra, Schizo-duYun, she embodies five Geminis. Whoever she is, tonight she is joined by two collaborators (who, like her, also walk on multiple sides) --- cool trumpeter Gareth Flowers and rock-steady electronic musician Phil Moffa, the brainchild from the acclaimed analogue hop beats, Vinyl Life.
Two sets: one tinkly smudge, one muted flamboyant. Perhaps they are of Kafka's Odradek, simply some stories with no clear purpose or apparent use. No matter. You decide.
Frank J. Oteri, host. Cover $10

Spoken Word

Fri Jun 25th 6:00PM
SON OF PONY; GAY PRIDE READING

(CAConrad)

The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.

Jackie has a special program planned for tonight

CAConrad is the recipient of The Gil Ott Book Award for The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2009). He is also the author of Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull Press, 2009), (Soma)tic Midge (Faux Press, 2008), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined (Factory School, 2010). The son of white trash asphyxiation, his childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. Visit him online.
Jackie Sheeler, host. Cover $7 http://www.CAConrad.blogspot.com

Sun Jun 27th 6:00PM
HYDROGEN JUKEBOX
(JACKIE SHEELER; JERSEY PETROLEUM)

Poetry-Music Reading Series with the Hydro Juke improv band, The Ne'er-do-wells.
Open mic-sign up (arrive early to make the list).

Jackie Sheeler is a NYC poetry institution in of herself. An award-winning poet and songwriter with two CDs and three books under her belt (so far), her next full-length collection, "Earthquake Came to Harlem," will be published by NY Quarterly Books in fall 2010. Once named the Poet Laureate of Rikers Island, Jackie performs widely, captivating audiences behind bars as well as in bars (among other places). She founded both the poetz.com website and beloved Pink Pony reading series at Cornelia Street Cafe. Occasional blogger and card-carrying activist, Jackie enjoys committing random acts of kindness and random acts of righteous indignation in equal measure.

Jersey Petroleum... yes, we know what you're thinking! These two gushing top-killers, poet-musicians John Stanford and Ron Bass, will engulf you with their gooey political and social satire, but promise to clean up after themselves. John Stanford wrote, directed and produced the short film Firofyfe, which has played on the film festival circuit. He is also a photographer, graphic artist and the leader of the imaginary band Modchik. Ron Bass is the author of The Velveeta Underground, a collection of short stories and one act plays.
Brant Lyon, host. Cover $7

Mon Jun 28th 6:00PM
SILKIE GIRL
(Kathleen Frazier)

Kathleen Frazier, Fellow this summer at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, reads from "Silkie Girl", magical historical fiction, told from the perspective of a ghost looking back on her amazing, however short, life here on earth.
Molly McGillicuddy is a fifteen year old Irish lass, wondering if she came from a silkie mother as she flees the poverty and cruelty of her early life for the promise of freedom in America, 1899. Instead she is met by a lecherous cousin and rescued by fellow travelers.

(A note: silkies are shapeshifters, seals that shed their skin to become human.)
Angelo Verga, host. Cover $7

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