Michael C. Hall & Todd Almond, Brasil Summerfest and More Coming Up at Joe's Pub This Summer
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 26, 2016
Joe's Pub at The Public has announced its nightly performances from tomorrow, July 27, through August 7, 2016. Scroll down for details, and visit www.joespub.com for a complete list of shows!
MAMADOU KELLY AND THE ALI FARKA TOURE ALLSTARS
Wednesday, July 27 at 7:30PM
$20
From Goundam and Niafunke, the heart of Mali's blues delta, virtuoso Mamadou Kelly is a fixture in two of the most famous groups in Malian musical history, Ali Farka Toure's All Stars and Afel Bocoum's AlkibaR. Kelly accompanied these greats on many of their world tours along with two other members of his group, Ban Kai Na. With their encyclopedic knowledge of Mali's music, Kelly and Ban Kai Na bring new sophistication to the sounds from Niafunke. They represent the contemporary expression of traditional West African sounds - smooth vocals and deceptively effortless musicianship quickly charming audiences. Kelly's broad smile belies a determined professional and his lyrical style combines with Ban Kai Na's virtuoso delivery to bring gracious hospitality to the concert stage.
MARIE-CLAIRE GIRAUD: ME AND THE BOYS
Wednesday, July 27 at 9:30PM
$15
Marie-claire's jazz band, me and the boys, combines golden age jazz, with elements of opera and hip-hop to bring the audience a sound like no other. Born in Dominica West Indies and raised in the Bronx, marie-claire's love for both cultures has influenced her to be an international performer, splitting her time between the locales. Marie-claire has performed all over the world, sharing the stage with notable artists including Jamaica's Bob Andy and Earl "Chinna" Smith, Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra in LA, and Will Calhoun in Columbia. She was classically trained with Raymond Buckingham, who recognized the rich and deep vocal timbre of her voice, discovering she is a rare operatic contralto. This discovery, in tandem with her extensive vocal training, led to her debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York Grand Opera Company in the role of Maddalena from Verdi's Rigoletto.
Thursday, July 28 at 7:30PM & 9:30PM
$20 Adv / $25 Door
Ghost Quartet is Dave Malloy's haunted song cycle about love, death and whisky. The show returns in a concert version, in preparation for its premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August. A camera breaks and four friends drink, in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries: a warped fairy tale about two sisters; a retelling of Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher; a purgatorial intermezzo about Scheherazade; and a contemporary fable about a subway murder. Murder ballads, doo-wop, jazz noise and raucous campfire drinking songs collide in this chamber musical from Malloy, composer of the Broadway-bound Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812. This concert will feature Malloy, Comet stars Brittain Ashford and Gelsey Bell and cellist Brent Arnold. The show is designed by Christopher Bowser and directed by Annie Tippe.
Friday, July 29 at 7:00PM
$17 Adv / $20 Door
Mekaal Hasan Band, founded by Hasan in 2000, features traditional music from the subcontinent in a progressive rock-jazz based musical style. The band achieved mainstream success from their recordings and live performances throughout the sub-continent and across the fusion world from 2004 onwards. The band won numerous awards for their intense live performances and became representative of a modern yet traditional style of South Asian music with roots in folk, classical and jazz. They also established literary roots in poetry and writings of Sufi sages and modern Punjabi poets like Amrita Pritam.
ANN LIV YOUNG: SHERRY SOLO CABARET
Friday and Saturday, July 29 & 30 at 9:30PM
$15
Ann Liv Young is a choreographer, performer, creative director, and sometimes Sherry. Young was born on the Outer Banks of North Carolina and has been creating performance work for over eight years. Her work has been presented at major venues and festivals in New York City and Europe such as MoMA PS1, Brooklyn Museum, American Realness, steirischer herbst, Kampnagel, Inkonst Malmö, Gessnerallee Zürich, Theatre de la Bastille, and Black Box Teater, among others. She was shortlisted for the 2013 Venice Biennale. Sherry, a character created by Young, has been branching out and breaking free of the churches and theaters of the bourgeoisie. She has her own truck, "Sherry Truck" which can be seen driving around giving Sherapy and pink lattes to the masses.
AUDIO IRIS: FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS FUNDRAISER FT. BLESSING OFFOR & EDDY ECHO
Saturday, July 30 at 7:00PM
$25 - $100
The first annual Audio Iris will be an unforgettable summer night of dinner, music and optimism featuring music from Blessing Offor and Eddy Echo, two emerging artists who share more than just a love for music, but a similar struggle against blinding conditions. Audio Iris is a celebration of the recent advances in the fight against blindness, and the future of medicine. 100% of the night's proceeds will be donated to The Foundation Fighting Blindness, allowing the world's brightest minds to continue the battle. Blessing Offor is a Brooklyn born multi-instrumentalist with a focus on pop, soul and R&B. Eddy Echo is a singer/songwriter using a stylistic.
Sunday, July 31 at 7:00PM
$25
Slaid Cleaves spins stories with a novelist's eye and a poet's heart. Twenty years into his career, the celebrated songwriter's Still Fighting the War spotlights an artist in peak form. Cleaves's seamless new collection delivers vivid snapshots as wildly cinematic as they are carefully chiseled. Dress William Faulkner with faded jeans and a worn six-string for a good idea. "Slaid's a craftsman," says Terri Hendrix, who sings harmony on "Texas Love Song." "He goes about his songs like a woodworker."
Sunday, July 31 at 9:30PM
$15 Advance / $20 Door
You might have caught a glimpse of Alexis & the Samurai's multi-instrumental exploits on HBO's Tremé and NBC's The Voice. However, it's the pair's off-screen efforts that have been earning them even better ratings. After losing everything in Hurricane Katrina, Alexis Marceaux has spent the last several years rebuilding his home and his career. The process has been hard-fought but fruitful, with appearances at Jazz Fest, Voodoo Music Experience, SXSW, the Kennedy Center and several tours of the US and Europe. More recently, Alexis & the Samurai's fanbase has grown through Marceaux's performances on The Voice. Alexis & the Samurai are due for an EP release in the coming months.
Ryan Raftery'S WATCH WHAT HAPPENS - LIVE ON STAGE!
Mondays, August 1, 8 and September 12 at 7:00PM
Wednesday, September 14 at 9:30PM
$30
Ryan Raftery, creator and star of the nationwide smash hit Anna Wintour musical Ryan Raftery is the Most Powerful Woman in Fashion, brings his newest show, Watch What Happens - Live On Stage! to Joe's Pub. This jukebox musical tells the (not-quite-true) story of a young Andy Cohen who moves to New York to pursue his two obsessions - television and Anderson Cooper. The show will feature cameos from The Real Housewives of Atlanta's NeNe Leakes, The Real Housewives of New Jersey's Teresa Giudice, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Kim Richards, and Mr. Cooper himself. One thing is certain...you're going to love Andy.
Monday, August 1 at 9:30PM
$20
Company Freak is a feeling. It's a recombinant, shifting enterprise: a revolving cast of legendary vocalists and session players from classic disco and funk bands of the 1970s along with some of the most astonishing singers and musicians currently lighting up the global dance music scenes. Company Freak's opulent dancefloor sound is unquestionably retro and groovy as well as state-of-the-art sleek. Their new EP, Lux Life, finds the band delving even deeper into an eclectic mix of planetary dancefloor sounds. Their songs have been remixed by award-winning international DJs like Opolopo, Justin Faust, Midnight Magic, DJ Spen, Eric Kupper, Jodie Harsh, Go Go Bizkitt! and many others.
THE O'CONNOR BAND, FEATURING MARK O'CONNOR
Tuesday, August 2 at 7:30PM
$20
The O'Connor Band, featuring Grammy Award-winning American fiddler Mark O'Connor, delivers beautiful and thoughtful original vocal songs, classic covers and sophisticated instrumentals. Their fresh, powerful, unprecedented sound has begun winning over fans of every style from bluegrass to indie folk to Americana. The O'Connor Band's debut album, Coming Home, will be released on Concord/Rounder Records in August 2016. The O'Connor Band is Mark O'Connor's newest undertaking, and features several of his family members including his wife Maggie, his son Forrest and Forrest's fiancée, Kate Lee. They are joined by national flatpick champion Joe Smart and Geoff Saunders.
Todd Almond WITH SPECIAL GUEST Michael C. Hall
Tuesday, August 2 at 9:30PM
$20
Todd Almond is a composer/performer who has spent the past three years creating and composing epic musical theater pieces. Some of his works for The Public Theater include The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and last summer's The Odyssey. Almond wrote original music for the Roundabout Theater's hit revival of Noises Off! and he has collaborated with many writers including Sarah Ruhl on Melancholy Play, Jenny Schwartz on the Lucille Lortel nominated musical Iowa, Marcus Gardley on On The Levee, Adam Bock and others. As a book writer, his musical Girlfriend has been produced around the country. As a music director/arranger Todd works frequently with Sherie Rene Scott, Laura Benanti, Judy Kuhn, Kelli O'Hara and Donna Murphy. This evening will be an intimate performance with Todd at the piano singing new songs, and some unexpected covers. This evening will also feature Michael C. Hall best known for his role as Dexter Morgan in Showtime's Dexter as well as the title roll in the recent revival in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
TONY Joe White: HOODOO ALBUM RELEASE
Wednesday, August 3 at 7:30PM
$25
Awash in danger, spiritual uncertainty and environmental fury, the lyrical concerns on Tony Joe White's latest album, Hoodoo, are matched by a particularly intense strain of White's trademark swamp funk. Hence the title's double-edged meaning: "hoodoo" refers to both the songs' ominous tone and the palpable vibe that filled the studio as the songs were cut. Cut mostly live to tape - vocals and all - much of Hoodoo consists of first takes. Culled from an initial stack of 17 or 18 tunes, the nine songs that comprise the album come alive in the haunting atmosphere and intensity of the stripped-down recording process.
SERGIO KRAKOWSKI: TALKING DRUMS, PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Wednesday, August 3 at 9:30PM
$15
Talking Drums is a multi-media project by Sergio Krakowski that breaks new ground in the realm of solo percussion expression. Krakowski developed his own self-taught technique on the Pandeiro (Brazilian tambourine) and found himself engaged in a successful international career. He moved to New York City in 2013 and since then he has performed at The Lincoln Center, 54 Below and the Umbria Winter Jazz Festival. Krakowski's goal for this project is to use technology to make the drum speak. There is strong artistic research as to what limit exists between rhythm and spoken language, and this piece aims to take you to an ancient time where the distance between those two things was nonexistent.
Thursday, August 4 at 7:00PM
$15 Adv / $20 Door
New York-based acts The Sway Machinery and Hydra launch a dynamic collaboration exploring familial intimacy alongside musical ritual. The groups mix rich vocals with robust musicianship and evocative performance in their musical exploration of zemiros, a genre of Jewish folk music sung at the table among families. Zemiros act both as source material and framework for exploring this ritual music which is at once humble and transcendental. Through the marriage of historical folksong, alongside a uniquely contemporary musical palette and performative aesthetic, a powerful project is born.
EL CARIBEFUNK / RYAN TENNIS & THE CLUBHOUSE BAND
Thursday, August 5 at 9:30PM
$15
El Caribefunk is an exotic fusion of salsa, funk and reggae, where undeniable rhythm and poetry express intense color and feeling and inspire "alegría." This band of Colombians has built a fervent underground following with two-and-a-half years of nearly non-stop touring in South America. El Caribefunk's rhythm and positive energy gets people dancing from the first note.
Listening to Ryan Tennis is like taking a road trip to a new place with an old friend. His songs range from soul-touching acoustic ballads to roots funk and soul to rollicking reggae covers, but groove and warmth belie it all, keeping his listener moving forward. His sound has drawn comparisons to Paul Simon, Bill Withers and Ben Harper - surprising likenesses for an all-American college football player turned singer-songwriter.
Friday, August 5 at 7:30PM
$15
Amy Leon is a 24-year-old musician, poet, writer and performer, transcendent beyond her years. She fuses original music and poetry to illuminate social inequality, blackness and what it is to be woman. Her debut show, Impossible to Love, is a work-in-progress play, written by and starring Leon, with music. Leon is a vessel for the beauty, the pain and humor that reflects all that is right and wrong in the world. This performance, co-created and directed by Kathy Najimy, is the very first production of the piece that will hopefully find its way to a longer New York City run.
AVA ROCHA: AVA PATRYA YNDIA, PRESENTED IN ASSOCATION WITH BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Friday, August 5 at 9:30PM
$15
Ava Rocha is a singer, songwriter and filmmaker. She has released two albums: Diurno was released in 2011 and her latest album Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema was released in March 2015. Rocha was awarded with APCA as Best New Artist and was indicated by Spotify as one of the 15 artists to be followed in 2016. Rocha, who lives in Rio and is 36 years old, evokes expressions from the 60's and 70's. This expression is reflected in Ava Patrya Yndia Yracema with a hint of tropicalism, with string arrangements, distorted guitars and experimental moments scattered throughout the album.
COUNT BASIC, FEATURING KELLI SAE
Saturday, August 6 at 7:00PM
$30
Peter Legat of Vienna, Austria is the mastermind and guitarist behind the band Count Basic. Add the incredible vocal power of Kelli Sae, a New York City native, and you have an earth-shaking combination of soul, funk, jazz and dance rhythms that are undeniably joyful and uplifting. On their latest release Sweet Spot, Legat and Sae have joined forces with Grammy Award-winning producers and songwriters Shannon Sanders and Drew Ramsey who produced hits for India Arie, John Legend, Heather Headley and more. Count Basic was inducted into the Wall of Fame in Austria in 2015. In 2008, they were also the winners of the Amadeus Award for their song and video "Visible Scars."
NEVER SLEEP ALONE, STARRING DR. ALEX SCHILLER
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH SPIEGELWORLD
Saturday, August 6 at 9:30PM
Friday and Saturday, August 19 and 27 at 9:30PM
$35 Players / $45 Voyeurs
When did you last make out with a complete stranger? Are you fulfilling your socio-sexual potential? What is an MBO? If you can't answer these questions, you urgently need a session with straight-talking sexual evangelist Dr. Alex Schiller. Put down the dating app and come to Joe's Pub for a wildly funny and seriously sexy live entertainment experience where the audience laughs, learns and literally hooks up with each other! After a recent sold-out engagement at Caesars Palace Las Vegas, Spiegelworld brings Dr. Alex's Never Sleep Alone back home to where it all began. Joe's Pub is the first stop on her salacious soul-saving world tour. You are never going to be as young and sexy as you are right now, so what are you going to do with it? Take Robin Leach's advice: "Shed your inhibitions, kiss that stranger beside you, and you'll enjoy the wildest night of theater imaginable."
BRITISH DEPENDENCY, FEATURING DJ HENRI
Saturday, August 6 at Midnight
$15
"How does so much sound come from three musicians?" is a question many have after experiencing a live British Dependency show. Hailing from Anguilla, the trio maximizes their Caribbean roots with their balance of drums, bass and guitar matched with lyrics of wisdom, curiosity, life and love. Theirs is a sound that is not easily categorized. The band lives by the mantra, "Creating music that reflects originality, talent, togetherness, bravery and wisdom. Our Music, Our Future, Our Independence." And with that they continue to push boundaries and open new roads of empowerment and forward-thinking while gaining new fans and friends around the world. DJ Henri will be spinning pre and post show.
Sunday, August 7 at 7:30PM
$15
Kilcool are three Irishmen bonded by architecture, Samuel Beckett and song. Hailing from the Hudson Valley, the band's latest release Brooklynesque is much loved by Woodstock and the folks in the rental department at Houst Hardware. The three Irishmen are Philip Marshall (lead vocals and guitar), Reuben Maher (guitar and programming) and Colm O'Leary (bass) with Georgia Marshall (background vocals).
Sunday, August 7 at 9:30PM
$20
PJ Morton, a New Orleans-native, became involved in music at a young age. In 2002, he won a Grammy Award for producing India.Arie's "Interested." In 2010, Morton joined Maroon 5 as a keyboardist and vocalist, while continuing to release solo work. It was his love for his native New Orleans that lEd Morton, in November 2015, to relocate home to Louisiana and jumpstart his latest venture, Morton Records. Vibe Magazine says, "The city of New Orleans has birthed the likes of many talented and legendary artists, especially in the jazz and hip-hop genres. But when it comes to vocalists, one of its "best kept secrets" comes to mind, PJ Morton."
For tickets, go to joespub.com, call 10AM-7:00PM daily at 212-967-7555, or visit 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 debuted 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. In 2013, Joe's Pub celebrates 15 years of the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. It received a top-to-bottom renovation in 2011, 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 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 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 musicalHamilton, and Danai Gurira's Eclipsed featuring Lupita Nyong'o. The Public has received 47 Tony Awards, 168 Obie Awards, 52 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Critics Awards, and five Pulitzer Prizes.
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