Joe's Pub Welcomes Jake Wilson as Justin Bieber, Dominic Sinesio & More
By: Gabrielle Sierra Jan. 27, 2011
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.
FEB 21-25
JACKIE FIVE-0H!: A CELEBRATION OF JACKIE HOFFMAN'S FIRST 50TH BIRTHDAY
Mondays, January 3, 17 & February 14 & 21 at 7:30 PM; $30
Broadway's JACKIE HOFFMAN, acclaimed for her hysterical scene-stealing performances in such shows as Hairspray, Xanadu and currently as ‘Grandma' in The Addams Family, will bring her all-new solo show Jackie Five-Oh!: A Celebration of Jackie Hoffman's First 50th Birthday to Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette Street) beginning Monday, November 22 for four consecutive Monday evenings.
In the all-new Jackie Five-Oh!, the blisteringly funny, filter-free Hoffman muses on her own decay, as well as about her experiences playing ‘Grandma' and a host of other topics such as Haiti and Hollywood. Hoffman will also world premiere several new musical numbers, including two that she wrote for ‘Grandma'....if she were to have a solo number in The Addams Family, which of course she doesn't .....not that she's ever complained about that.
JAKE WILSON IS JUSTIN BIEBER
Monday, February 21 at 9:30 PM; $20
Pop music's biggest tween sensation, Justin Bieber, takes time out of his busy schedule for an exclusive, unplugged concert event at Joe's Pub. This is the perfect medicine for your Bieber Fever. Join Justin (and surprise special guests) for an acoustic version of his multi-platinum album "My World."
If you haven't yet heard of Jake Wilson, he's a pretty big deal. The creator and star of the musical web series "The Battery's Down," makes his solo concert debut tackling the role of the puberty-inducing Justin Bieber.
BUÍLLE w/ JOHN DOYLE
Tuesday, February 22 at 7:30 PM; $20
In 1994 John Doyle brought his brilliant and innovative guitar stylings to the nascent Irish super-group Solas, which soon took the folk and Celtic music worlds by storm. In the years since going out on his own, John has recorded two solo albums, including Wayward Son, which The Irish Edition hailed as "a contender for Album of the Year;" and has become a highly sought-after accompanist and session player for the likes of Joan Baez, Eileen Ivers, Tim O'Brien, Linda Thompson, Seamus Egan, Alison Brown and Kate Rusby; and has developed compelling duo performances, first with fiddler Liz Carroll and more recently with Solas' co-founding vocalist Karan Casey. Their new CD is Exiles Return.
From a musical family in Dublin, John was sixteen when he went on the road with Chanting House, a group which he formed with Susan McKeown and which eventually included such great players as Seamus Egan, Eileen Ivers, Donogh Hennessy, and Brian Doyle. The highly influential Solas followed, its success due in no small part to John's powerful rhythmic guitar. As a member of Solas, John performed internationally to sold out audiences and appeared on many television and radio programs, including NBC's The Today Show, A Prairie Home Companion, Mountain Stage, E-Town and World Cafe. As part of that critically acclaimed group, he also received three NAIRD awards and a Grammy nomination.
John has appeared on soundtracks for feature films The Brothers McMullan and Soldier, as well as PBS's Out of Ireland. He composed the music for the film Uncle Robert's Footsteps and the play Down the Flats.
Concertina virtuoso Niall Vallely enlists his brother Caoimhín on piano (yet another creative member of the legendary clan, so prominent in the Irish arts scene) and guitar powerhouse Paul Meehan to forge a new sound and to take Irish music onward to new frontiers.
Niall Vallely: Acclaimed throughout the world as one of Ireland's greatest concertina players, Niall Vallely began learning the instrument at the age of seven, taught by his parents Brian and Eithne Vallely, founders of the Armagh Pipers' Club. A founding member of Nomos, he has in recent years performed both in a solo capacity and with musicians such as Karan Casey, Tim O'Brien, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and Paddy Keenan. In 1999 he released his debut solo album Beyond Words, and in 2003 released Callan Bridge, a collaboration with his brother Cillian (of Lúnasa) on pipes.
Paul Meehan: A product of thriving Irish music scenes in Manchester, County Armagh, and Cork, Paul recorded three albums with the highly acclaimed North Cregg. He has also spent a number of years touring and recording with Dorsa, the Karan Casey Band, and Lúnasa. In recent years Paul has appeared on stage with the likes of Altan, At the Racket, Paddy Keenan, Tommy Peoples and Liz Carroll.
Caoimhín Vallely: Like his older brother Niall, pianist Caoimhín grew up in Armagh and began tin whistle lessons at the Armagh Pipers Club before moving to the fiddle. While still only seventeen, he joined the band Upstairs in a Tent, where he played alongside Brian Finnegan (formerly of the band Flook) and Kathryn Tickell. In Cork he co-founded North Cregg. Theater credits include a stint as musical director with the Belfast-based Dubblejoint and playing with Alan Kelly's dance show "Celtic Legends." His debut solo piano album Strayaway will be released shortly.
Together Buílle are, in the words of The Irish Times, "As fresh a breath that's blown through traditional and roots circles in a long, long time."
DOMINIC SINESIO: CD RELEASE
Tuesday, February 22 at 9:30 PM; $14 in advance / $17 at the door
Join us in celebrating singer-songwriter Dominic Sinesio's debut, full-length release, The Sea & The Sky, a bracing song cycle full of delicious arrangements and moving lyricism. An eclectic pop hybrid of rock, soul, jazz, and folk all fused together by contemporary acoustic guitar song craft. By turns grooving, haunting, delicate, and rocking.
The eleven tracks, which span a decade of song writing, were recorded for the first time between 2008 and 2010 with producer, Allen Towbin of Blue Maze , a NY recording and production shop. Originally just a five-song EP, "The Sea & The Sky" grew into a vivid tapestry in the tradition of album-oriented pop-rock as Sinesio's writing began to outpace the recording. The result is a sound that draws on rock, jazz, folk and soul - an amalgam of Steely Dan, Shuggie Otis, Joni Mitchell, and Stevie Wonder with inflections of Sting-all propelled by Sinesio's skillful and expressive acoustic guitar playing a la Dave Matthews and John Mayer.
The story of "The Sea & The Sky" is that of a man's journey to a better place, elegantly told with infectious grooves, moving ballads, and rocking anthems - a contemporary musical composite informed by a curious constellation of Prince's slinky soul-funk, the modal atmospheres of Pink Floyd, and the punch-in-the-gut drive of Led Zeppelin. While greatly influenced by a broad range of pop music's most evocative storytellers - from Paul Simon to Elvis Costello, Bjork to Burt Bacharach-Sinesio brings a fresh undercurrent to his brand of music track-by-track with a collage of encounters, conversations, and reflections.
The evening's special ensemble features performers from the album, including half of the NY nu-jazz sextet, Evil Giraffes on Mars: Ryan Slotnick (keys) , Doron Lev (drums), and Jamaal Sawyer (tenor sax ). Fellow singer-songwriters Mary Jennings and Denitia Odigie lend their talents on back-up vocals while Allen Towbin (guitar), Joe McDonough (trombone) and special guest Hagar Ben-Ari (bass) round out the group.
OUR HIT PARADE STARRING BRIDGET EVERETT, KENNY MELLMAN AND NEAL MEDLYN
Wednesdays, February 23 & March 30 at 9:30 PM; $20
Our Hit Parade is a live top-ten countdown show created by Tony nominee and Obie winner Kenny Mellman (Kiki & Herb), carnal chanteuse Bridget Everett (At Least It's Pink at Ars Nova), pop song opera impresario Neal Medlyn (Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable Symbol at P.S. 122), producer and MTV cameraman Brendan Kennedy, and writers Ada Calhoun and Peter Schjeldahl. The show is inspired by the musical sketch series "Your Hit Parade" that ran on radio and then television from 1935 to 1959. On that show, cast members performed the week's most popular songs as comically literal skits. In this show, the hosts and special guest stars from the local performance scene present their renditions of current popular hits live on stage!
HOLCOMBE WALLER: CD RELEASE
Thursday, February 24 at 9:00 PM; $17
"He's got the crazy-beautiful, four-octave voice of an androgynous seraph, but he's really a coffee-house troubadour from San Francisco and a classically trained pianist, a jazz saxophonist, and a visual artist." - Kate Sullivan, SPIN Magazine
"For melodic sweep, the prize goes to Holcombe Waller, whose self-released Extravagant Gesture is a small pop epic." - Ann Powers, Revolver Magazine
Holcombe Waller is a singer, composer and visual artist living in Portland, Oregon, and his new album "Into the Dark Unknown" will be celebrating its release February 22, 2011. Read more at holcombewaller.com.
LO FABER & AARON MAXWELL of God Street Wine
Friday, February 25 at 7:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door
Lo Faber and Aaron Maxwell, inspired by the God Street Wine reunions this past July to try playing together in an acoustic setting, appeared at their first gig in October 2010, a party for longtime fan Alexandra Rosenstein, which one Wino said "was like the re-birth of God Street Wine, and the beginning of a second chapter for those who witnessed the first volume. In addition to many old favorites re-worked for acoustic guitars and featuring the same gorgeous two-part harmony that defines the GSW sound, Lo & Aaron played some great covers...it almost feels like being a born-again Wino."
LADY RIZO: unescorted
Fridays February 25, March 18, May 20 & June 17 at 9:30 PM; $15 in advance / $20 at the door
"The brazen blonde belts out classics and pop tunes atop a piano" -- Women's Wear Daily
"Caburlesque artist Lady Rizo has, thankfully, upped the ante... throwing in enough hyperfemininity to blow your heart and go down on your mind." - Sharyn Jackson, Village Voice
"Lady Rizo and The Assettes brought down the house."- Men's Vogue
"Rizo's mischievous grin and banter hold the audience captive." - NY Press
"adorably louche"-- Time Out
"Lady Rizo bring(s) out the Broadway in this chart-topper" --Rolling Stone
The incomparable "cabaret star" (NY Magazine) Lady Rizo is back for an unchaperoned evening of song and decadence. You may have seen her here at Joe's Pub with her "glam bottom baring dance troupe the Assettes " (Village Voice), celebrating the billboard top ten in the monthly series Our Hit Parade, or midtown at the gothic Night Hotel co-hosting the weekly transnational lounge Foreign Affairs.
But here is your chance to have her all to yourself. Her seamless mix of baudy humor and elegance has been likened to Mae West but its her vocal chops that have garnered recent attention: collaborating with both Yo-Yo Ma & Moby on albums this year, singing selections of the American Songbook in front of the internationally acclaimed 36 -piece orchestra The Knights, and at MOMA for a sold out cabaret for the Kirchner Exhibit.
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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