Seeger Sing-a-Long, Michael Cerveris, Joey Arias and More Set for Joe's Pub, 7/15-26
By: BWW News Desk Jul. 13, 2015
Joe's Pub at the Public has announced its nightly performances running July 15-26, 2015. Scroll down for details!
ESZTER BALINT: AIRLESS MIDNIGHT ALBUM RELEASE
Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30PM
$20
Singer/songwriter/actress extraordinaire Eszter Balint is set to release her long-overdue third album, Airless Midnight, on July 10. The lyrics are cohesive and support strong, if mysterious, narratives with a decisive cinematic feel. The accompanying tunes are varied and strategically eclectic in approach. There's more rock and punk influence here, which gives way to an eerie, calm spaciousness. These songs are artful, sophisticated yet earthy, there's guts and grit and beauty too; it's an eloquent expression of her life experiences.
WEIMAR NEW YORK, FEATURING PAUL CAPSIS
Wednesday, July 15 at 9:30PM
$25
Downtown impresario Earl Dax brings his celebrated Weimar New York back to Joe's Pub for one performance in advance of the show's 6th season at Bard SummerScape. Birthed at the Pub during the dog days of the second term of the Bush administration Weimar New York is a theatrical cabaret that uses the rubric of Weimar Germany to highlight unsettling parallels between the rise of fascism then and conservative political elements today. The show is hosted by Australian cabaret star Paul Capsis, best known to New York audiences for his star turn in the premiere, critically acclaimed season of "Absinthe" at the Spiegeltent near South Street Seaport. Performers include Rachel Mason, Enormvs Muñoz, The Pixie Harlots, Dorian Wood and Carol Lipnik with Matt Kanelos. The band features Mara Rosenbloom (musical director & piano), Ray Rizzo (drums) and Rene Hart (bass).
BARB JUNGR'S HARD RAIN: THE SONGS OF BOB DYLAN AND LEONARD COHEN
Thursday & Friday, July 16 & 17 at 7:00PM
$25
Barb Jungr returns to the songs of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen with the release of Hard Rain this July. Over the past few years the British chanteuse has been wowing critics and audiences alike at home and abroad with her insightful, intelligent interpretations of well-loved songs combined with her powerful and often witty performance style.
DORIAN WOOD / YIDDISH ART TRIO
Thursday, July 16 at 9:30PM
$15
Singer/composer Dorian Wood returns to New York to perform a rare solo show at Joe's Pub, fresh off two successful back-to-back European tours. He has brought his emotionally-charged performances to concert halls, museums, music venues and performance spaces throughout the US, Mexico and Europe, with a voice that channels the skill and ferocity of such auteurs as Scott Walker, Nina Simone and Tom Waits.
Since early 2009 the Yiddish Art Trio has set out to redefine the scope of contemporary Yiddish music. Deeply rooted in klezmer and Yiddish music, YAT uses traditional idioms to explore new forms and harmonies, vastly expanding klezmer's musical language. The musicians, recognized globally as authorities within their field, are known for their ability to harness the full range of tonal and expressive possibilities of their instruments, individually and as a trio.
Friday, July 17 at 9:30PM
$30
Acclaimed as one of today's finest narrative songwriters, Richard Shindell has a gift for using detail to illuminate his characters' motivations and actions. His band Not Far Now's nine new compositions (complimented by a pair of covers) are haunting vignettes that exist vividly beyond the song that documents them. Shindell gives the listener a window into these lives, but their story continues long after the window is shut.
Saturday, July 18 at 7:00PM
$18
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jumaane Smith presents an evening of jazz-influenced versions of your all-time favorite hits from artists like The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder and James Taylor, to Sam Smith, Bruno Mars and many more. Best known to audiences throughout the world as the lead trumpeter for international superstar Michael Buble for the past decade, singer and multi-instrumentalist Jumaane Smith is set to make his highly anticipated return to Joe's Pub. Smith's talent can be heard on many Grammy winning recordings and his collaborations range from pop idols to jazz legends, including: Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Santana, and others.
2SCOOPS: RE-U-NITED, STARRING ADAM ENRIGHT & AARON FUKSA
Saturday, July 18 at 9:30PM
$20
2SCOOPS: RE-U-NITED is a one-night-only concert event featuring the legendary, chart-topping, entirely fictional 90's R&B girl group 2Scoops. Long after cassingles and neon colors have gone out of style, these two ladies still love everything about the music of the 90's. Holding the world record for the most breakups of any group in history, they are finally back and both in attendance for a reunion. Join Dana and Deena for a night of all your favorite jams, dance moves, and the true story behind their tumultuous history. 2Scoops is written and performed by comedy duo Aaron Fuksa and Adam Enright.
JP JOFRE HARD TANGO CHAMBER BAND
Sunday, July 19 at 7PM
$18
The JP Jofre Hard Tango Chamber Band is one of New York City's hottest in-demand ensembles. Started in 2008 by bandoneonist/composer JP Jofre, it focuses on his own works, as well as authentic interpretations of legendary composers such as Astor Piazzolla. Argentinian expatriate JP Jofre, highlighted several times by the New York Times, and praised by Lincoln Center, who called him "one of today's leading artists," has seen his reputation grow by leaps and bounds. Starting with his quintet's debut performance at Joe's Pub in 2008, JP has been invited to appear at many of the most prestigious concert series in the United States and abroad.
GOODFOLK ANNUAL TOSHI AND PETE SEEGER SING-A-LONG: PROTEST MUSIC
Sunday, July 19 at 9PM
FREE - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Featuring Martha Redbone, Dan Zanes, Toshi Reagon, Morley, Christelle Durandy, Imani Uzuri, Shelley Nicole and many more... This is a celebration of song and what can happen when people come together and sing about the things that are important to the existence of world in peace. This is the biggest Tool Toshi and Pete used to create good change in the world. In concert halls, on picket lines, at festivals, in schools, in front of a few or standing with thousands. Nothing happened without a song. GOODFolk is a music series created by Toshi Reagon in collaboration with Joe's Pub. We put great artist in a room together and let the magic unfold.
JACOB GARCHIK: PREMIERE OF YE OLDE
Monday, July 20 at 7:30PM
$15
Imagine a 2015 cover of the soundtrack to a 1970's remake of a 1930's movie about the Middle Ages. Featuring Jacob Garchik on ye olde trombone Mary Halvorson, Brandon Seabrook, Jonathan Goldberger on ye olde guitars and Vinnie Sperrazza on ye drums.
MICHAEL CERVERIS & LOOSE CATTLE / LYNN DRURY
Monday, July 20 at 9:30PM
$20
Loose Cattle was named after a country road sign. Like a night in a neglected pasture corralling cows, evenings with the Cattle are an unruly ramble through classic Carter Family and Louvin Brothers songs, new music about guns and gasoline, and mashups that mark Dolly Parton and Cee-Lo Green with the same branding iron. Michael Cerveris (Tony-winning actor and former Bob Mould sideman) and Kimberly Kaye (Garden State native and ex New Direxion trumpetress) are duo vocalists riding both Cerveris's original songs and crowd-pleasing covers with Gabriel Caplan (Naomi Shelton & Gospel Queens), Lorenzo Wolf (The Lisps) and Eddie Zweiback (Losers' Lounge).
Lynn Drury has been performing, in one arena or another, her entire life. She picked up the guitar at 26, never stopped. Her inspiration is her environment and since the mid-90s, her environs have been New Orleans. Her sultry, sweet songs turn funky. These days, Drury is part of the scenery - a regular at French Quarter Fest and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and playing just about everywhere in town.
LUCY ALIBAR: THROW ME ONTO THE BURNPILE AND LIGHT ME UP
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:00PM
$20
A lecherous goat, Pentecostals on the radio, a house full of dogs, cats, and Febreze and Daddy's .38 special. These are just some of the ingredients in a delicious and magical stew of stories about a singular childhood in Grady County, written and performed by Lucy Alibar, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of the hit film Beasts Of The Southern Wild. See a landscape you won't soon forget.
JOOJ (FT. SOOK-YIN LEE & ADAM LITOVITZ) / JESSE HARRIS
Tuesday, July 21 at 9:30PM
$12
JOOJ is multimedia artist S.Y. Lee and writer and film teacher A. Litovitz. Lee, a long-time collaborator of New York City based filmmaker, John Cameron Mitchell, starred in the acclaimed movie, Shortbus. The JOOJ sound is guided by principles of minimalism, melody, and experimentalism - torch-songs from an interior, expressionistic place. Their live performance is intimate: at turns cathartic and unhinged, yet grounded.
HOWARD FISHMAN CD RELEASE: UNCOLLECTED STORIES
Wednesday, July 22 at 7PM
$15 Adv / $20 Doors
Howard Fishman celebrates the release of his eleventh recording, Uncollected Stories (Monkey Farm Records), featuring members of his live ensemble from across the span of his wide-ranging, genre-bashing career. Howard has been a mainstay at Joe's Pub from the very beginning, and his appearances here have always featured something a little extra special for the hometown crowd -- a new album release, a project debut, a work in progress. Our audiences have come to expect the unexpected at Howard's shows here, and he has never failed to deliver or surprise.
Wednesdays, July 22, August 12 & September 2 at 9:30PM
$15 Adv / $20 Doors
Pianist/singer/songwriter Diane Birch returns to Joe's Pub with a monthly residency to try out some new music, revisit her older work and have some fun. Birch marries darkness and light, pain and abandon on Speak A Little Louder (2013, S-Curve Records), her last album. A window into her complex and challenging journey into womanhood, the album documented with intense emotional honesty, indelible melodies and rousing hooks. Speak A Little Louder followed Birch's extraordinary 2009 debut, Bible Belt, which opened in the Billboard Top 100 and prompted comparisons to Laura Nyro and Karen Carpenter along with glowing reviews from The New York Times, NPR, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and more.
STELLA STARSKY: BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN BARONESS
Thursday, July 23 at 7PM
$20
Stella Starsky shines in her at-turns moving and side-splitting solo play that explores both the mundane and the mystical implications of modern womandom free from motherhood, whether by choice or chance. Starsky takes her audience from her humble beginnings as a donut-maker in small-town Massachusetts, through a Me-generation gambit of disco balls, body dysmorphia, designer dreams and debatable dates with destiny. With guest star Brian King and musical director Brett Every. Directed by Maria Silvaggi.
Thursday, July 23 at 9:30PM
$15
Gina Chavez is a multi-ethnic Latin pop songstress, blending the sounds of the Americas with tension and grace. Her latest album, Up.Rooted, invites us on a sonic journey to uncover her lost Latin roots and has been hailed by The Boston Globe as "an album as confident as it is refreshing," and featured on NPR, USA Today and La Prensa Grafica in El Salvador. The award-winning artist took home the Grand Prize in the 2014 John Lennon Songwriting Contest for "Siete-D," a song about her experience volunteering in a gang-dominated suburb of San Salvador where she founded Niñas Arriba, a college fund for young Latinas.
Sandra Lilia Velásquez and Sean Dixon, the Brooklyn-based duo behind SLV, embody a collision of worlds. Velásquez serves as frontwoman of lauded Latin outfit Pistolera, while Dixon plays drums in experimental electronic ensemble Zammuto; but together, they've carved out an exciting new path for themselves. SLV first emerged from the studio in 2013 with a debut EP, Dig Deeper, produced by heavyweight bassist Meshell Ndegeocello. Their full length debut, This Kind, is a down-tempo confection of 80s-inspired synthpop and new wave, with Velásquez showcasing her continued growth as a songwriter and dreamy vocals that recall Sade's smoky sensuality.
Friday, July 24 at 7:30PM
$20
The Jones Family Singers - an 11-member gospel collective comprised in part by seven siblings and their father - have been tearing up churches and festivals alike for over two decades. A follow-up to their powerhouse performance at globalFEST 2015, the Texas-based group returns to New York. "Modern practitioners of a long musical tradition...infusing their joyful, reverent songs with elements of vintage soul and R&B," said The Wall Street Journal. On a whirlwind spurred by their 2014 debut album The Spirit Speaks, the Jones Family Singers have performed at Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center, and festivals like Newport Folk Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Winnipeg Folk Festival and Monterey Jazz Festival with a two week tour of Russia. Beyond the nightclubs and festival stages, the group consistently makes good on their ministry, bringing their powerful music to prisons, interfaith events and community celebrations.
Friday, July 24 at 9:30PM
$35
JULIE FORDHAM: THE HITS, FAVORITES & REQUESTS
Friday, July 24 at 11:30PM
$35
English songbird Julia Fordham's remarkable singing and compositions make her a unique voice in more ways than one. Her first release in 1988,Happy Ever After, was an international hit. Fordham's smoky jazz bar low, dulcet voice, the warmth of her delivery and emotive compositions led to major success, with millions of her records selling around the world. This performance celebrates the 25th anniversary of her landmark albumPorcelain. Accompanied by her long-time pianist and album producer Grant Mitchell, they will perform the record in its entirety. Fordham will perform many of her hits as well as a few surprises along the way, and will take audience requests at the 11:30pm set.
Saturday, July 25 at 7:30PM
$15
"You'll survive all of this if it kills you," Django Haskins sings on "Ghosts of Ferriday" on The Old Ceremony's new Yep Roc release Sprinter. Haskins knows a thing or two about endurance. Since its formation in 2004, The Old Ceremony has built a unique body of recordings that evoke a distinctive musical and lyrical sensibility, while tapping into a rich, unmistakably Southern vein of melodic songcraft and vivid storytelling. In the process, the iconoclastic Durham, North Carolina quintet has won a loyal fan base that's embraced the band's lush, emotionally resonant albums and charismatic, elegantly mounted live shows.
Saturday, July 25 at 9:30PM
$20
Jay Brannan has been writing and performing his own sweet and sad folk songs, tempered with wit since 2006. Brannan has released a string of albums, all of which topped the iTunes Singer-Songwriter & Billboard Heatseekers charts: goddamned, produced by Will Golden (Meiko, Michelle Branch); In Living Cover; and Rob Me Blind, produced by the legendary David Kahne (Regina Spektor, The Bangles, Paul McCartney, Kelly Clarkson, Lana Del Rey, etc). Brannan has toured the world extensively, including North America, Europe, Brazil, South Africa, Israel and Australia. His 2013 EP release Around the World in 80 Jays, nine cover songs spanning six languages, was inspired by those travels. Brannan put out Always, Then, & Now, an album of acoustic originals, in 2014.
ORCHESTRA HOLISTIC FT. HOLISTIC AND EVAANZ
Saturday, July 25 at Midnight
$15
Orchestra Holistic is a collective of musicians established for symphonic excellence in the performance of Hip-Hop and R&B. The core of the group consist of famed hip-hop trio Holistic and renowned French songstress Evaanz. The composition of the music is a symphonic blend of production incorporating the classical spirit of the orchestra and the grittiness of the boom-bap. The foundation of musicians hailing from a wide array of experience and education lend to the fundamental execution of a brand new musical experience for the audience.
RACHEL MASON: THE LIVES OF HAMILTON FISH IN CONCERT
Sunday, July 26 at 7:00PM
$15
Rachel Mason will be performing songs from her acclaimed indie rock opera film, The Lives of Hamilton Fish. Described by the New Yorker as a "Cinematic Rock Opera Performance," the songs weave together a portrait of an uncanny, but true coincidence-- two men, both named Hamilton Fish died a day apart and were immortalized on a single front page of a newspaper- The Evening Star of Peekskill, January 16, 1936.
JOEY ARIAS & PAUL CAPSIS: ROCK & ROLL FANTASY
Sunday, July 26 at 9:30PM
$35
Two international cabaret icons take the stage at Joe's Pub for one thrilling night of Rock & Roll!! Joey Arias is well-known to audiences at the Pub for his sold-out series of residencies, including The Joey Arias Experience which featured Arias' interpretations of classic rock from like the likes of Led Zeppelin, Cream and more. Rock & Roll Fantasy sees Arias returning to this material as he welcomes Australian superstar Paul Capsis. Down Under Capsis is well-known not only for his cabaret shows, but for his extensive work in stage, television and film. He last appeared in New York as the star vocalist in the critically acclaimed debut season of "Absinthe" at Spiegelworld.
For tickets, go online at 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.
ABOUT JOE'S PUB AT THE PUBLIC Named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, Joe's Pub at The Public opened 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. Joe's Pubconsistently presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers unique opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works. Commissioned artists have included Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Bridget Everett, Allen Toussaint and more. In 2011, the Pub received a top-to-bottom renovation, 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.
ABOUT THE PUBLIC THEATER AT ASTOR PLACE Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham,The Public Theater is the only theater in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary and experimental pieces in equal measure. 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 its beloved, 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, new and experimental stagings at The Public at Astor Place, and a range of artist and audience development initiatives including its Public Forum series, which brings together theater artists and professionals from a variety of disciplines for discussions that shed light on social issues explored in Public productions. The Public Theater is located on property owned by the City of New York and receives annual support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. The LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust provides leadership support for The Public Theater's year-round activities.
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