Joe's Pub Announces Kendrick Scott Oracle, Marty Stuart & More

Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.

With impeccable sound and lights, the warm and intimate candlelit atmosphere of Joe's Pub is filled with plush velvet couches, softly glowing lucite tables and gorgeously understated architecture. Joe's Pub is open seven days a week, regularly hosting as many as three shows a day. Dinner and drink service is available during every performance; the venue offers a classic Italian dinner menu and a fully stocked bar.

JUST ADDED
JEFFERY AND COLE CASSEROLE: LIVE!

Saturday, August 20 at 11:30 PM; $15

Not since Rugrats Live! has a television show burst onto the theatrical stage with such public anticipation. People are going ape shit for Jeffery and Cole Casserole: Live! Come meet your favorite characters: Jeffery, Cole, Justine, the Old Show Queen, Albert the fidgety goose, and Becky. They're all live and in the flesh at Joe's Pub!

Come see the boys that TimeOut New York call a "perfect refreshment" and what USA Today calls " refreshing exuberance." Wow, thats a lot of refreshment! Don't be the only kid in the playground to miss Jeffery and Cole Casserole: Live!

THE LISPS: FUTURITY IN CONCERT

Friday, August 27 at 9:30 pm; $15

"A rebellion of sincerity in the sea of cold-shouldered, indie irony." - Paper Magazine

"Extraordinarily ambitious, engaging, and uplifting live music experience; a celebration of the sheer power of imagination and creativity that - through the meta-narrative of a grunt soldier writing a science-fiction masterpiece - can't help but pull its own curtain back on the imaginative scope and vision of the show's creators." - Ear Farm

"Melodramatic, witty, inventive & downright intoxicating. I was not fully prepared for the sheer genius that is FUTURITY." - The Music Slut

FUTURITY tells the story of Julian Munro, a young Union Soldier in the Civil War who is an aspiring inven-tor and science fiction visionary. Together with his brilliant mentor, the famous metaphysician Ada Lovelace, Julian escapes the horrors and monotony of his daily life by dreaming up a high-tech dystopian future. In their far-fetched visions they devise an omnipotent steam-powered Artificial Intelligence that is destined to end war and all of humanity's miseries. The show fuses traditional American folk, Brechtian choral elements, and The Lisps' own brand of eccentric indie rock into a unique and compelling portrait of war, human imagination, and technological hubris.

FUTURITY has music and lyrics by César Alvarez with The Lisps, Book by César Alvare and Molly Rice Featuring The Lisps: César Alvarez, Eric Farber, Sammy Tunis, Lorenzo Wolff along with Michael Cerveris, Chelsey Donn, Maya Ferrara, Grant O'Brien, Ben Simon, and Jillian Tully.

THE LISPS have been a mainstay of New York's indie-rock and anti-folk scenes for nearly five years and released their latest record, Country Doctor Museum, to a sold-out crowd at Joe's Pub in January of 2008. After 2 recordings, numerous national and regional tours, performances at SXSW, CMJ, and being named one of New York's "8 Bands to Watch" by The L magazine, the group took a five-month break to write new material. What emerged from that break was a full-fledged musical grown from The Lisps' unique approach to song and stagecraft.

AUG 29 - SEPT 1

KENDRICK SCOTT ORACLE

Sunday, August 29 at 7:30 PM

Kendrick Scott on Drums, John Ellis on Sax, Taylor Eigsti on Piano, Mike Moreno on Guitar and Harish Raghavan on Bass

Kendrick ‘KADS' Scott, born July 8, 1980, and raised in Houston, Texas, is an artist of incredible depth, talent, and determination. He has been featured in Terence Blanchard's band for the last six years and has appeared on the Grammy Award-winning and nominated recordings, A Tale of God's Will, and Flow, on which he contributed original compositions and orchestrations. Since arriving in New York City in 2003, Scott has appeared on more than 30 records as a sideman, and on the soundtracks to seven feature films. He is recognized as an endorser by Yamaha Corporation, Remo, Vater, Puresound, Sabian, Protechtor, Craviotto Snare Drums and Danmar Percussion.

Kendrick Scott is one of the bright stars in an amazingly talented group of young drummers on the scene today. He remains a first call player for major artists because his humanity and compassion extends into the notes and phrases he chooses to play, which makes his playing consistently ring true as it springs forth from an ego-less, honest place. These deep roots, connected to his mentors, inspirations, peers, his parents and to the church, enable Scott to be present and in the moment, bringing to the table the wisdom of a veteran musician and the adventurousness of a perpetually curious young artist.

In the words of Terence Blanchard, "Kendrick is a true artist of the highest order. He is not bound by the conventional wisdom of the music world. I've noticed that he never says why, but rather why not. He is exactly what the music world needs: someone with the vision and courage to press forward and expand the world of music. I am blessed to have him around and look forward to seeing what he does every time we play." $15

MY THERAPIST SAID THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA (feat Jessica Almasy & DORIAN DAVIS)

Sunday, August 29 at 9:30 PM

It's been over a decade since their therapists told them to work out their neuroses on stage, resulting in a show that captured the imaginations of the more than 20 people there. Now NY Theatre vet Jessica Almasy and former MTV Hits star Dorian Davis reunite in this multi-media cabaret to finish the healing. $15

MARTY STUART

Monday, August 30 at 7:30 PM; $30

Marty Stuart is country music's renaissance man. He has scored six top-ten hits, one platinum and five gold albums, and four Grammy Awards. But his success proves the difficulty of gauging a career in charts alone. He has made lasting music as a front man and in collaboration with virtually every major roots music figure of his era, from Lester Flatt to Bob Dylan. Stuart has produced records for some of the most distinguished artists working today, and many famous names have chosen to record his songs. His energetic enthusiasm has gone outside music, yielding impressive work as a photographer, writer, collector and arts executive.

Carrie Manolakos

Monday, August 30 at 9:30 PM; $17

Carrie Manolakos is back in New York and is taking the city by storm. Tearing up the stage starring in the hit Broadway shows Wicked and Mamma Mia, she is ready to unleash her powerhouse vocals in her singer/songwriter debut at Joe's Pub. Carrie spins the musical influences of Alicia Keys, Sara Bareilles, and Carole King into a unique style all her own, blending pop, soul and folk moving her audiences with purity and heart. This Syracuse native integrates her vocal prowess, piano and guitar with a killer band for a night of music that will surely inspire.

JENNIFER KNAPP

Tuesday, August 31 at 7:30 & 9:30 PM; $20

Grammy nominated, Dove Award winning Jennifer Knapp returns from a seven year hiatus with a new album, Letting Go (Graylin/RED/Thirty Tigers) on May 11th 2010. Recorded in Nashville, Letting Go is produced by Paul Moak (Mat Kearney, Martha Wainwright, Amy Grant) and features ten intimate folk, country tinged rock songs showcasing her astonishing straightforwardness and spirituality. Knapp's impressive history includes selling over one million albums with her previous releases Kansas (debut 1998), Lay It Down (2000), and The Way I Am (2001). The Kansas-born musician toured the globe with artists such as Jars of Clay and was featured on 1999's Lilith Fair tour. Knapp received critical acclaim with The Los Angeles Times calling her "a rising star" and People Magazine describing her as "an uncommonly literate songwriter." Jennifer went on to win her first Dove Award in 1999 for Best New Artist, scored a Grammy nod in 2002 and another Dove nomination in 2003. With a considerable fan base, critical and commercial successes, Knapp walked away from it all at the height of her career. After seven years of soul searching and time spent in Australia, Knapp comes full circle in 2010 with a new album, new tour and a renewed love of music. This spring she will preview her new music on a co-headline tour with Derek Webb kicking off on March 5th in New York City. She will play on the re-vamped Lilith Fair tour, the first one in 10 years. Since Jennifer played on the last one in '99, being asked to play the re-launch is very special, a reminder of why Jennifer came back to her musical roots. www.jenniferknapp.com

GONZALO GRAU Y LA CLAVE SECRETA

Wednesday, September 1 at 7:30 PM; $14

Since its inception, 2009 Grammy Nominee Gonzalo Grau y La Clave Secreta has been at the forefront of Latin music, thinking outside the "music box" and beyond the prescribed formulas of the mainstream market. La Clave Secreta is not just salsa and certainly not just timba but a whole lot more. It is a mix of cultures and flavors with a message for serious listeners and rabid dancers alike.

"Mr. Grau's band doesn't play classicized salsa and timba. It plays the real thing, but with a heightened sense of composition. In one sense he's picking up the thread of the ambitious composers of salsa from the 1970s. He's keeping intact the jazz horn arrangements, Cuban tumbao bass lines and vocal choruses and improvising. In another sense he's trying to modernize and globalize. He infuses his work with specific rhythmic traditions and song forms, including Cuban danzón and Spanish flamenco ..." - Ben Ratliff, NY Times

"... pouring funk, hip-hop, Cuban rumba and South American folk into the timba cauldron, creating some of the hottest Latin dance music in town." - Bob Young, The Boston Herald

"The music opens up into new rooms over and over again, new colors and textures, wanders into timba breaks, piano montunos, spoken works pieces, driving horn lines. Glorious, this stuff. Highly Recommended." - Peter Watrous, Descarga.com

RUPA AND THE APRIL FISHES

Wednesday, September 1 at 9:30 PM

The members of Rupa & the April Fishes include:

Ed Baskerville (cello)

Marcus Cohen (trumpet)

Isabel Douglass (accordion)

Aaron Kierbel (drums)

Safa Shokrai (upright bass)

Pawel Walerowski (cello)

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Rupa & the April Fishes create music that defies easy categorization. Their debut album, eXtraOrdinary rendition, echoes with influences of French chanson, Argentinean tango, Gypsy swing, American folk, Latin cumbias, and even Indian ragas. Their raucous and inviting performances have earned them a wide following in San Francisco, and they were poised for international renown with the worldwide release of their album.

Slinky, fevered, hypnotic and intoxicating, the band is led by a young woman of Indian heritage whose nomadic upbringing and dual life as a musician and doctor has led her to explore issues of identity, borders, and the vagaries of life, love and death.

While she first started by playing straightforward singer-songwriter material in English, Rupa began to forge a new sound that was more representative of her complex identity, which she describes as a "mosaic". Rupa began writing in French. She also began playing solo in cafes until she joined up with cellist Ed Baskerville to form a duet. They played on the streets, in streetcars, art galleries, and other informal settings. Eventually, the band grew to include a rotating roster of some of the Bay Area's most talented young musicians. The name the April Fishes was inspired by the French term les poissons d'avril, which is related to the English term April Fools. In France on the first of April, people stick little paper fishes on unsuspecting people's backs.

The band's following has certainly grown and they moved from playing small settings to performing in front of sell-out crowds at some of San Francisco's most popular concert venues. Their concerts have earned renowned for their circus-like atmosphere at times featuring stilt-walkers, live painting and performance artists that channels a modern-day Moulin Rouge.

With its polyglot influences, the music of Rupa & the April Fishes reflects Rupa's interest in the arbitrary nature of borders and how they artificially create differences and divisions between people who are at core the same. The result reflects her hope for the future, a world with dissolving borders, where the essential humanness of any person or group can be heard or seen before labels and dividing lines are drawn. Rupa's music is a pastiche of sounds and impressions--undeniably full of heart--with subject matters ranging from love and loss in a time of uncertainty to stories of people in transition. $15

TICKETS

Online at joespub.com

Phone 212-967-7555,

In Person At The Public Theater Box Office (1 PM to 6 PM), or at the Joe's Pub Box Office from (6 PM to 10 PM) both located at 425 Lafayette Street, NYC

For table reservations please call 212-539-8778. Purchase of tickets does NOT guarantee a table reservation; you must call to reserve seats. Seating, as well as standing-room, is available only on a first-come, first-served basis for all shows without a dinner reservation. Two drink or $12 food minimum per person is standard.

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