Joe's Pub Celebrates 10th Anniversary from Sept. 23-29

From Sept - Dec 2008 Joe's Pub is featuring many of the artists and series that have cemented their reputation as the most influential music venue in New York.

JUST ADDED for the 10th Anniversary:
10/4 - Soulfyne Entertainment Presents: Change is Gonna Come: Soul Mafia, Jesse Boykins III, and The Untouchable DJ Drastic
10/6 - Tom Kitt and Friends: Part of the Ghostlight Series
10/13 - Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
10/22 - Cougar/ Young Blood Brass Band
11/11 - JD Souther with special guest April Smith
11/12 - Martha Redbone
12/1 + 12/2 - LaChanze
12/1 - Norm Lewis
12/16 - Artists in Music and Conversation: James LCD Murphy & Sam Lipsyte

10/29 + 10/30 CMA Songwriters Series Line-Up Announced!!
10/29 - BOB DIPIERO,  BRETT JAMES, HILLARY LINDSEY,  & CRAIG MORGAN
10/30 - BOB DIPIERO , CHRIS WALLIN, & RODNEY CLAWSON

FRAULEIN MARIA wins NY Dance Performance Award

10 FOR THE 10TH: 10 Free Shows for 10 Years of Joe's Pub

Registration Information: Joe's Pub 10th Anniversary Ticket Give-A-Way

As a part of Joe's Pub's 10th Anniversary Celebration free tickets are being offered for LITTLE COW on Saturday, 9/27 at 9:30 PM

10 tickets (5 pairs) will be available to the first people who email contest@joespub.com with the subject line: Little Cow Contest. Emails received without the correct subject line will not be considered. The deadline for entries is Tuesday 9/123 at 6PM. Winners will be contacted by email on Thursday 9/25 by 6PM.

MUSICA NUDA: MAGONI & SPINETTI, Tuesday, September 23 at 7:30 PM, $15

Musica Nuda refers to the art of stripping down a piece of music, regardless of genre, while preserving its intimate essence.  It's the art of valuing the often overlooked  "musical silence" and it's also the art of using humor to confront opposing extremes as evidenced by Magoni's ethereal voice and Spinetti's witty anachronistic acoustic bass. Click Here For Tickets!

GILBERTO GIL, Tuesday, September 23 at 9:30 PM, SOLD OUT, Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30PM, $75
 
Gilberto Gil has had a fundamental role in the constant modernization process of Brazilian popular music. A part of this scene for 43 years, he has developed one of the most relevant and renown careers as a singer, composer and guitar-player in this field. Gil has had his albums released abroad since 1978, the year of his successful performance at the Montreux Jazz Festival, in Switzerland, recorded live. Gil tours Europe, North America, Latin America and Japan annually with his contagious pop music in many languages, it is a music with a strong rhythmic appeal and melodic richness, as mixed as the people listening. With 50 albums released, Gilberto Gil has 12 gold records, 5 platinum albums, 7 Grammys and more than 4 million records sold. Click Here For Tickets on  9/24

PLASTIC PEOPLE OF THE UNIVERSE, WEDNESDAY, September 24 at 9:30 PM, $25

 
"A Velvets-Beefheart-Zappa stew with Czech lyrics, free jazz saxophone, grungy viola, crunchy guitar solos, etc., but what makes it unique is the applause. This audience knows that rock & roll can start a revolution and set you free: It happened."  -Steven Merritt, Time Out NY.

The music of the Plastic People is like nothing else; it's dark, rich composition spans musical influences from free jazz, hard rock, Slavic motifs, and '60's and '70's song-styling. Their music embodies a whole manner of thinking and way of life, and it demands that we reexamine the way we live our lives. 

MARLO MARRON W/ STUFFY SHMITT, September 25 at 7:00 PM, SOLD OUT

RACHAEL YAMAGATA Thursday, September 25 at 9:30 PM & 11:30PM, SOLD OUT

RACHEL UNTHANK W/ DEVON SPROULE, Friday, September 26 at 7:00 PM, $12

"Music as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate. They might not end up being the best-selling British all-girl group of all time, but they're well on their way to being the most charismatic and imaginative" -Paul Morley, The Observer, UK

Forging links between folk worlds old, new and other, Rachel Unthank has blown a bracing north-easterly gale through traditional English song, casting it in an endlessly inventive and playful new mould. Transcendent and grounded music folds around unsentimental old, new and imaginatively borrowed stories of booze, brawls, abuse, loss, fear, infantile death, depravity and sorrow. 

DAVE DOOBININ: THE BIRTH OF WONDER CD RELEASE, Friday, September 26 at 9:30 PM, $12

David Doobinin is a songwriter, first and foremost. On his third record "The Birth Of Wonder" he proves his immense capacity for empathy, organic emotion and the ability to perfectly capture a moment, set it to a melody and evoke something in people. David Doobinin is a wandering spirit, hopeless romantic, world traveler and artistic soul. He calls Coney Island his home, which is fitting for who he is as an artist and a man. Like Coney Island, bright and alive and rough around the edges, Dave Doobinin walks the board walk, his own minstrel show, lives next to a lighthouse, and hangs out at the freak show sometimes.

MIKE VIOLA AND KELLY JONES Mike's Birthday Show! Friday, September 26 at 11:30 PM, $15

Mike Viola is best known as a singer, songwriter and musical architect of the Candy Butchers, a highly regarded indie pop-rock band from New York that recorded three critically acclaimed albums for Sony, including 2003's fan favorite Hang on Mike. Viola's film work began a decade ago as the co-producer and lead singer of the title track That Thing You Do!, which went on to earn an Oscar® nomination for Best Original Song. With two albums under her belt and a third along the way, Washington-born singer-songwriter Kelly Jones has grown to surpass the boundaries of surface pop and country, creating a melding of Americana-Pop all her own.  Her last albums, Brave Heartache and Handle with Care, have brought her a wide-spread fanbase and a musical styling that continues to evolve into a more complex and diverse range of music and instrumentation, implemented both recorded and live. 

PIERCE TURNER, Saturday, September 27 at 7:00 PM, $23

"Easily one of Ireland's most important rock artists of the last twenty years" -Tony Clayton-lea, The Irish Times

Whether as a singer or songwriter or performer, Pierce Turner has a penchant for the unexpected and the unorthodox, re-writing the rules for all three endeavours. Sometimes he performs from behind his trusty keyboard backed by a solo instrument (sax, maybe, or violin or trombone!). Or he can be out front- of-house clambering over tables and ordering drinks from the bar. In the middle of a song! His albums to are equally mercurial, showing influences ranging from his Catholic Irish upbringing to the decadence of Lou Reed's New York, merging the upfront rock of The Byrds, The Beach Boys and The Who to deft touches of Irish trad, folk, jazz, techno, classical and choral harmonies. 

LITTLE COW, Saturday, September 27 at 9:30 PM, $15 in Advance; $20 at the Door

Little Cow is a wonderful mix of joy and melancholy, humour and lyricism. Gypsy-tinged ska/rock/funk pop songs performed by charismatic musicians. Little Cow creates real party music that makes your feet move and keeps your mind at work. The band was founded by László Kollár-Klemencz after the great success of his songs for the Little Yellow Cow animation series. The animation series won critical praise in animation festivals around the world. Click here for tickets!

FUTUREPROOF REDUX FEATURING KARSH KALE AND JOJO MAYER, Saturday, September 27 at 11:30 PM, $20 in Advance, $25 at the Door

For the 10th Anniversary of Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Karsh Kale teams up with "drum god" Jo Jo Mayer to bring back the legendary and consistently sold out late night series first held at Joe's Pub in early 1999: "Futureproof".   This groundbreaking platform for live electronica, breakbeat, drum and bass redefined the boundaries of electronic music in what Mayer described as an "endeavor in reverse engineering."   Nearly ten years later with seven albums between them, a non-stop worldwide touring schedule and an endless list of musical collaborators, Kale and Mayer reunite with an all-star cast of special guests with what will undoubtedly be a fierce night of live musical improvisation. 

LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND CD RELEASE PARTY, Sunday, September 28 at 7:30 PM, $18 in Advance, $22 at the Door

LJOVA AND KONTRABAND (formerly Ljova & the Vjola Contraband) is chamber-jam music for the "remix generation". As if by alchemy, Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms are given new meanings. Founded by the maverick film composer, arranger, and violist Lev 'LJOVA' Zhurbin, the band is hailed by Billboard magazine as "one of New York's fastest rising composers and instrumentalists." The ensemble also features his close collaborators on vocals, accordion, bass and percussion. Inspired by his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Osvaldo Golijov, the Kronos Quartet, the rapper Jay-Z and others, Ljova's compositions dazzle with intricate textures, odd rhythms and lilting melodies, creating music that is both fresh and timeless. Click Here For Tickets!

Isaac Mizrahi, Sunday, September 28 at 9:30 PM, $25
 
Isaac Mizrahi is back with his band, The Ben Waltzer Quintet, for a series of shows in June.  He'll chat, take your questions, sing, and may even do a jig (JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE JIG!)  Just come dammit.  He swears it'll be fun! Click Here For Tickets! Watch Here!

PT WALKLEY: CD PRE-RELEASE PARTY, Monday, September 29 at 7:00 PM, $15
 
PT Walkley is a multitasking musician from New York City.  As a film composer, he has scored four full-length features, including three for award-winning actor/director Ed Burns.  PT also fronts NYC rock band The Blue Jackets, who recently opened for Coldplay at Madison Square Garden.  His debut solo effort, PT Walkley and The Adventures of Track Rabbit,  turned plenty of heads when a Dewars Whisky commercial featured the album's ultra-catchy "Up The Walls". 

ALSO COMING UP AT JOE'S PUB:

9/30 - The Field and Joe's Pub Present: Economic Revitalization for Performing Artists
9/30 - Gloria Deluxe
9/30 - Sxip's Hour of Charm with Dayna Kurtz and Mamie Minch
10/1 - Carmen Consoli
10/2 - Brooke Waggoner with special guests The Pines
10/3 - Sanda Weigl
10/3 - Erin McKeown
10/3 - Mike Viola and Kelly Jones
10/4 - Susie Ibarra & Roberto Rodriguez: Electric Kulintang
10/4 - Erin McKeown
10/4 - Soul Mafia/Jesse Boykins
10/5 - Nora York: A Retrospective
10/5 - Isaac Mizrahi
10/6 - Judy Kuhn
10/6 - The Music of Ricky Ian Gordon
10/6 - Tom Kitt and Friends: Part of the Ghostlight Series with Billy Porter and Brooks Ashmanskas

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