Yemen Blues, Treya Lam, and More Immigrant Voices Come to Joe's Pub This Summer

Joe's Pub at The Public and Village Alliance join forces to officially launch Joe's Pub @ Astor Place, a summer series comprised of three free outdoor concerts on the pedestrian plaza of Astor Place. The series includes the venue's annual showcase for the city-wide music festival Make Music New York on June 21, a Friday Night Cabaret on July 27 where funk rock legend Nona Hendryx will host her very own Black Tar Beach Party, and Astor Alive! on September 22. All events are free and open to the public.

"We are thrilled to officially partner with Village Alliance on this new neighborhood series," said Alex Knowlton, Associate Director of Joe's Pub. "Extending our stage to Astor Place with free programming is part of our fulfillment of The Public's mission to make art accessible to all people."

On June 21, Make Music New York, which has been an annual staple of Joe's Pub outdoor programming for over a decade, kicks things off with a lineup honoring Voices of Immigrant America. The featured artists are Women's Raga Massive, Treya Lam, Migguel Anggelo, Yemen Blues Duo (Ravid Kahalani and Omer Avital), Mohsen Namjoo and M.A.K.U. Soundsystem. For set times and more information, click here.

"Joe's Pub has been an integral part of curating performances at the new Astor Place plazas since they opened in 2016," said William Kelley, Executive Director of the Village Alliance, the non-profit organization that manages Astor Place. "Our continued partnership will ensure that high quality, inclusive arts programming is presented to the public free of charge."

For Friday Night Cabaret, Nona Hendryx continues her Joe's Pub Vanguard Residency, which celebrates an icon of American pop music, with Black Tar Beach Party on July 27. The Beach Party will be an outside-the-box cabaret show on the plaza, complete with funk music, bikinis and dancing. Further on, Astor Alive! welcomes fall to the Village on September 22 with a slate of multi-disciplinary programming for audience members of all ages. The lineup is to be announced.

THE VILLAGE ALLIANCE manages the new public plazas at Astor Place, the nexus point of a young, exciting, vibrant and artistic community where East and West Villages meet. For 25 years, the Village Alliance has been a leading advocate for the community, working with area businesses, residents, cultural and academic institutions to ensure that Greenwich Village and Astor Place continue to grow and succeed. Our mission is to create a cleaner, safer, greener, attractive and enjoyable neighborhood by providing supplemental sanitation and public safety services, graffiti removal, landscaping and beautification initiatives, economic development and community revitalization initiatives, business marketing and promotions, streetscape enhancements, public art, tourist information and free events.

Joe's Pub AT THE PUBLIC, named for Public Theater founder Joe Papp, 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 Pub presents the best in live music and performance nightly, continuing its commitment to diversity, production values, community and artistic freedom. The organization also offers opportunities like New York Voices, an artist commissioning program that provides musicians the resources and tools needed to develop original theater works; Joe's Pub Working Group, an artist development initiative; The Vanguard Award & Residency, a yearlong series that celebrates the career of a prolific and influential artist, who leads their own artistic community; and nationwide programming partnerships. Commissioned artists have included Mx Justin Vivian Bond, Bridget Everett, Daniel Alexander Jones, Ethan Lipton, Toshi Reagon, Allen Toussaint and more. The venue's food and beverage partner is the venerated Noho Hospitality Group, helmed by 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 is theater of, by, and for all people. Artist-driven, radically inclusive, and fundamentally democratic, The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation's first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Executive Director Patrick Willingham, The Public's wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, The Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City's five boroughs, Public Forum, Under the Radar, Public Studio, Public Works, Public Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe's Pub. Since premiering HAIR in 1967, The Public continues to create the canon of American Theater and is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony Award-winning musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Their programs and productions can also be seen regionally across the country and around the world. The Public has received 59 Tony Awards, 170 Obie Awards, 53 Drama Desk Awards, 54 Lortel Awards, 32 Outer Critic Circle Awards, 13 New York Drama Desk Awards, and 6 Pulitzer Prizes.

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