Joe's Pub Presents Sara Watkins Tonight, 6/21; Adrian Belew 6/22 & 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.

PAUL CURRERI & DEVON SPROULE
Monday, June 21 at 7:00 PM
Both internationally acclaimed as songwriters / guitarists, married Virginia-natives Paul Curreri & Devon Sproule have both recently released new records - Curreri's sixth, California ("13 intimate, luminously produced tracks" -- MOJO), and Sproule's fifth, Don't Hurry For Heaven! ("infectious Appalachian stomp with jazz shadings" - Uncut). Married yes, but the two actually rarely perform together, preferring to focus on their individual careers. So this is quite a treat indeed. Tonight's show will feature solo sets from both, along with a bonus set of duets. We trust this is going to be a particularly special evening. A visit to Youtube won't do you wrong. $12 in advance / $14 at the door

SARA WATKINS (of NICKEL CREEK)

Monday, June 21 at 9:30

You could say that Sara Watkins' solo debut has been a lifetime in the making. The 27-year-old singer-songwriter and fiddle player spent nearly two decades-all of her teenage and young adult life-as one-third of Nickel Creek, the Grammy Award-winning acoustic trio that used contemporary bluegrass as a starting point for its no-genre-barred sound. Along the way, she's hinted at her desire to do a project of her own and even organized some exploratory sessions in Los Angeles about six years ago. Now, with Nickel Creek on indefinite hiatus, she is releasing her self-titled solo disc, recorded in Los Angeles and Nashville and produced by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. It features an impressively wide range of backing players and old friends, including itinerant alt-country duo Gillian Welch and Dave Rawling, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas; fellow travelers from the bluegrass world like Tim O'Brien, Chris Eldridge, Ronnie McCoury and Rayna Gellert; and her Nickel Creek bandmates.

 

ADRIAN BELEW - ONE MAN ELECTRIC SHOW PAINTING WITH A GUITAR

Tuesday, June 22 at 7:00 PM

Painting with Guitar is Adrian Belew's latest live offering to compliment the rockin' Power Trio. It's a one-man show, but a very different one-man show. When most people think "one-man show" they think a guy with acoustic guitar sits quietly and sings his songs. This is anything but that. Although Adrian will sing some of his personal favorites, this is an electric guitar feast demonstrating the latest technology he's been working with and the new music it is helping create.

To start with Adrian will be playing his masterpiece guitar, the Parker Fly Adrian Belew Signature Model through an Apple laptop. The effect has been electrifying on his creative juices. Adrian has been writing material it would have been impossible to create only last year. During the show he plays some new pieces and improvises over live loops he creates. He is doing some of his most fiery guitar work in this show. To personalize things Adrian will answer questions from the audience. People love to talk about gear, past musical associations, the creative process, and many other subjects. The results are part illumination, part humorous.

Another recent technological leap forward has been the invention of a hand-held device called Tenori-On which has to be seen and heard to be appreciated. Adrian will perform some new music which includes the Tenori-On. In fact he has been careful to present a brand new more personalized show which highlights music not normally played with King Crimson or the Power Trio.

 

Last but not least, the fans have asked to see Adrian's paintings up close and so the stage is littered, I mean decorated, with half a dozen paintings most of which have been included in recent CD packages.

 

Painting with Guitar is a new, personal, up-close, improvised multi-media presentation of the best state-of-art music Adrian has to offer. It would be a shame to hear about it later when you could witness it in person now. $25

 

ANTOINE BLECK

Tuesday, June 22 at 9:30 PM

"my favorite French singer in NY" - Ron Delsener, (legendary concert promoter)

"handsome and talented" - Richard Johnson, Page Six

Antoine Bleck has a soft-spoken singing style, never overwhelming the music, always enhancing its mood and moment. His native French and occasional English lyrics range from blues, urban, to jazzy-pop... Antoine Bleck sings, speaks, whispers, and plays a rambunctious piano, evoking the vocal style of Yves Montand, even though he likes to be compared musically to Michael Franks, or Steely Dan. $20

 

BROADWAY IMPACT'S SUMMER SERIES KICK-OFF feat. The cast of NEXT TO NORMAL

Wednesday, June 23 at 7:00 PM

Celebrate NYC Pride week with Broadway Impact as we kick off our summer concert series to support equality. Cast members from the Tony Award and Pulitzer winning Broadway show, Next to Normal will perform a night of music at the inaugural show of the summer. Performers to include: Kyle Dean Massey, Jennifer Damiano, Adam Chanler- Berat, Jessica Phillips, Meghann Fahy, Brian Crum and more. $25 / $100 VIP

 

VILLAGERS

Wednesday, June 23 at 9:30 PM

From the very first seconds of Becoming a Jackal, he's got you. A faint drone of organ, joined by eerie strings and a cascade of piano that collectively casts a Hitchcock movie shadow before a hushed voice asks, "Have you got just a minute? / Are you easily led? / Let me show the backroom / Where I saw the dead / Dancing like children on a midsummer morn / And they asked me to join" - and then the music obliges by with a similar spectral sweep. ‘I Saw the Dead' is not just the album intro of 2010 to date but also a magnificent intro to the vivid narratives, gripping poetry and melodic depth of Conor J. O'Brien - or as he likes to call himself and his cohorts, Villagers. $12

 

PETER SALETT

Thursday, June 24 at 7:00 PM

"Salett stands apart because of his voice, a rich and burnished instrument he obviously cultivates as much as he does unforgettable melodies and sharply drawn narratives." The New Yorker

"Winsome pop poet" - New York Times

Longtime New Yorker Peter Salett happily returns to Joe's Pub. Salett has released five albums on his own Dusty Shoes Music label, and has become well known in the film world for both movie scoring and writing songs for movies. He wrote, arranged and performed songs for Universal Pictures' "Role Models"; and he wrote songs for characters to sing in Universal's "Forgetting Sarah Marshall", (Dracula puppet musical anyone?), executive produced by Judd Apatow. He co-scored the 2008 HBO documentary "Cat Dancers", which won the SXSW Special Jury Prize, and scored Cannes Film Festival selection "Down in the Valley", starring Edward Norton. Sweet Song Records has just released "The Carriage House Sessions", a duet record from Peter and Grammy nominated jazz pianist Larry Goldings. This January his song "Endless Orange Sky" was included on the "By the People, the Election of Barack Obama" soundtrack inspired by the HBO movie, along with songs by Bruce Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, and more. $17

MAIYSHA
Thursday, June 24 at 9:30 PM
"This songstress's soulful sound incorporates hip-hop, jazz and funk that is just as comfortable on the dance floor as at a backyard barbecue." - Newsweek

 

Grammy-nominated recording artist Maiysha is a striking up & coming figure in contemporary soul music. Her critically acclaimed debut album, This Much Is True:, marked the arrival of a striking up-and-coming figure in contemporary soul music. Her music is elegant and intelligent, hook-laden and envelope-pushing - with a touch of old-school classic style - the kind of new sound that landed her a remarkable 2009 Grammy nomination for her first single "Wanna Be" in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category.

If her music is uncommon, so is Maiysha's background; the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter is also a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, former schoolteacher, and successful model with the legendary FORD agency in New York. As she explains it, "My journey wasn't linear, but it couldn't have happened any other way."

In life as in music, Maiysha examines the dualities of striving and setbacks, strength and vulnerability, languor and urgency, sensuality and spirituality. "The whole thing has been incredible-finally finishing the album and seeing long-term goals become short-term possibilities," she says. "I can't wait for whatever comes next." What's next is a live album, Undercover, recorded at the legendary Blue Note Jazz Club in Manhattan. Inspired by the response to Maiysha's sexy re-working of Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" on ,This Much Is True: and the raw and electrifying live performances she has become known for, Undercover is due to be released in Spring 2010. $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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