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- On account of Skunks.
Pamelia Stickney & Yuri Lemeshev
Doors 7:30PM | Show starts @ 8:00PM – $10 Donation SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
Savouring Schnittke, Gavrilin, Nascimento, Koltom and whatever else pops into their heads with the luxury of being in the same city, on the same stage at same time with their instruments along!
Charles Burnham Trio – Friday 02/05
$10 Donation SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
Charles Burnham Acoustic Trio with Brandon Ross, guitar, and Ben Goldberg on clarinet. Photo by Greg Cristman | www.gregCphotography.com
International Day of Jan – Saturday 02/06 EARLY SHOW
Show Starts @ 3:30PM – Donations SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
The annual memorial and benefit for musician and artist Jan Kotik. To his memory and for his family. Featuring performances by Babe the blue OX, Beekeeper, Chris Rael and IDA and other special guests.
Brandon Ross Phantom Station – Saturday 02/06
$10 Donation SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
Photo via Petra Cvelbar
"For Living Lovers" Brandon Ross & Stomu Takeishi – Friday 02/12
$10 Donation SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
Photo via B. Ross
Charles Burnham Trio – Saturday 02/13
$10 Donation SuggestedThe Owl Music Parlor 497 Rogers Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11225 @ Midwood St.
Charles Burnham Acoustic Trio with Brandon Ross, guitar, and Ben Goldberg on clarinet. Photo by Greg Cristman | www.gregCphotography.com
Deep Focus Live w/ Mitch Goldman (WKCR) – Thursday 02/18
$10 Donation Suggested
Deep Focus Live w/ Mitch Goldman (WKCR)
Paul Wilson – Friday 02/19
$10 Donation Suggested
Photo via Mats Bakken Photography
Paul Wilson – Saturday 02/20
$10 Donation Suggested
Photo via Mats Bakken Photography
Deep Focus Live w/ Mitch Goldman (WKCR) – Thursday 02/25
$10 Donation SuggestedDeep Focus Live w/ Mitch Goldman (WKCR) – Mitch in conversation with guitarist Vernon Reid from Living Color on 'dangerous guitar'.
Melvin Gibbs Solo – Friday 02/26
$10 Donation Suggested
Photo: Trudi Jackson
Melvin Gibbs Solo – Saturday 02/27
$10 Donation Suggested
Photo: Trudi Jackson
Roswell Rudd, Jamie Saft, Trevor Dunn, Balazs Pandi Record Release: Strength and Power (RareNoise Records) – Saturday 02/27
Doors 6:30 | Show @ 7pm – $10 Donation Suggested
Strength and Power (RareNoise Records)
So Brown 8pm // Jeremy Wilms Boca Tiger 9:30 – Thursday 03/03
$10 Donation Suggested
So Brown is a fierce Southern gender-bending rebel who blends blues and classical influences into sexy songs about life, death and women. So's debut album Point Legere, released in April 2014, was heralded as "Debut Album of the Year" by Innocent Words magazine, and So’s songs have been covered by such luminaries as Norah Jones.
J. Wilms Boca Tiger Trio plays saturnine yet uplifting covers and original anthems of Americana. Jeremy Wilms guitar, piano, and vocals. With Adam Roberts on bass and Dylan Fusillo on the trap kit.
Joanna Sternberg // Eli Smith // Ali Dineen & Eleonore Weill – Friday 03/04
Doors 7pm | Show @ 7:30 – $10 Donation Suggested
Acoustic original and traditional folk music and songs.
Ali Dineen and Eleonore Weill are a Brooklyn-based duo who perform original music, drawing from their personal stories, as well as folk music from their own backgrounds in American folk and Occitanian traditional music. Ali is a native New Yorker with a love for Spirituals, 1920s jazz and other folk traditions from around the world. Eleonore was born in Southern France and has studied and performed a wide range of musical traditions in voice and wooden recorder, from klezmer to Renaissance choral music. Together they are creating a set of songs that tell stories, through voice and visuals.
Eli Smith is a musician, writer, researcher and promoter of folk music living in Brooklyn, NY. Eli plays and sings traditional American songs and tunes on the banjo, guitar and harmonica. He is a Smithsonian Folkways recording artist and produces two folk festivals annually, the Brooklyn Folk Festival in the Spring and Washington Square Park Folk Festival in the Fall. He has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Newport Folk Festival and numerous other concert venues. Eli has recorded with his old time string band The Down Hill Strugglers, as well as with Peter Stampfel (of the Holy Modal Rounders/Fugs) and John Cohen (of the New Lost City Ramblers). The Down Hill Strugglers were featured on the soundtrack album to the Coen Brothers’ film “Inside Llewyn Davis,” produced by T Bone Burnett. The Down Hill Strugglers' website is www.DownHillStrugglers.com.
Brittany Anjou's Bi Tyrant (Jazz Edition) – Saturday 03/05
Doors 8pm | Show @ 8:30 – $10 Donation Suggested
Brittany Anjou presents originals, including the more vulnerable, introspective side of her Brooklyn based punk band, BI TYRANT, in a limited edition acoustic jazz piano trio arrangement with fellow tyrant Laura Cromwell on drums and Ari Folman-Cohen on acoustic upright.
BI TYRANT pays homage to The Shaggs, Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and 90s riot grrl anthems. Death metal choruses turn into comic spoken word free jazz rants inspired by domestic hell, craigslist creeps, wedding anxiety, homicidal dreams, Clueless, and fears of bad grades. Their debut EP, Six Inch Singles For Your Mom previews their upcoming full length album.
Maalem Hassan Ben Jaafer w/ Amino Belyamani & Samir Langus – Saturday 03/05
Show @ 10pm – $10 Donation Suggested
Traditional Gnawa music from Morocco.
The Big Bright w Glenn Patscha, Fiona McBain and Liz Tormes 8pm // Aaron Parks 5, 9:30 – Friday 03/11
$10 Donation Suggested
The Big Bright w Glenn Patscha, Fiona Mcbain and Liz Tormes – 8pm
Aaron Parks 5 with Jen Shyu, voice, Immanuel Wilkins, alto saxophone, Stomu Takeishi, bass, Ben Perowsky, drums and Aaron Parks, piano – 9:30pm
Levon Henry and Friends – Saturday 03/12
$10 Donation Suggested
Singer-songwriter/saxophonist Levon Henry leads an open forum for a of local musicians to present new music. Each artist will perform 1 or 2 selections and configurations will vary.
Levon Henry | Facebook | Bandcamp
Sean Sonderegger's Magically Inclined – Thursday 03/17
$10 Donation Suggested
Sean Sonderegger-tenor sax Kamala Sankaram-voice, Harvey Valdes-guitar, Greg Chudzik-Bass, Jeff Davis-drums.
"Magically Inclined is an outlet for Sean Sonderegger's unique songwriting, influenced by his experiences working and studying with Roy Nathanson, Adam Rudolph, Butch Morris, and Anthony Braxton. The group features Kamala Sankaram, Harvey Valdes, Greg Chudzik, and Jeff Davis, musician/composers with impressive resumes in creative music who are all band leaders and conceptualists in their own right."
seansonderegger.com
Zafer Tawil's Tarab Quartet; music from the Arab world – Friday 03/18
8pm $10 Donation Suggested
Zafer Tawil's Tarab Quartet: Zafer Tawil on vocal, qanun and ney; Sami Abu Shumayz vocal and violin & Nezih Antakli on tabla and Riq, and Bassist TBA
An accomplished Palestinian musician based in New York City, Zafer Tawil is a virtuoso on oud, violin, and qanoun, and is a master of Arabic percussion. He has performed with numerous musicians, ranging from the pop star Sting to avant-garde composer/performer Elliot Sharpe to masters of Arabic music such as Simon Shaheen, Chab Mami, Bassam Saba, and George Ziadeh, among many others. Zafer has composed music for a number of film soundtracks, most recently Jonathan Demme’s My Favorite American (not yet released), Rachel Getting Married, and the documentary Until When. He has held workshops on Arabic music at numerous universities throughout the United States.
CDs include “Mumtastic,” by Shusmo; Gaida Hinawi’s debut CD, “Levantine Indulgence”; and two CDs by Amir AlSaffar’s Two Rivers: “Two Rivers Musicians,” and the yet-to-be-released, “Enaana.”
Richard Julian, 8:30, Jared Samuel and Friends 10pm – Saturday 03/19
Doors 8pm – $10 Donation Suggested
Richard Julian – 8:30pm
Jared Samuel (Invisible Familiars, The GOASTT) and Friends – 10pm
Paul Steven Ray and Theresa Rosas – Sunday 03/20
Doors 8pm | 8:30pm – $10 Donation Suggested
Ben Goldberg – Thursday 03/24
$10 Donation Suggested
Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Nels Cline - guitar
Tom Rainey - drums
Erik Sanko Solo record release party for Puppet Boy – Friday 03/25
Door 8pm | Show 8:30 – $15 advance, $17 door 
Erik Sanko plays songs from his new release Puppet Boy. With special guest Oren Bloedow.
Oren Bloedow Easter Pageant – Saturday 03/26
$10 Donation Suggested
Small Beast at The Owl w/ Mark Eitzel and Cold Casper – Thursday 03/31
$10 Donation Suggested
Born in L.A. and raised in Harlem, 18 year-old Cold Casper makes his live debut, celebrating the release of his first album “Into the Evening Again.” In his previous incarnation as Solemn Diver, he contributed guitar loops and rhymes to Tritone, Taharqa, Thot Hunter as well as opening shows for Lydia Lunch and John Parish. His guitar playing evokes John Fahey and Tallest Man On Earth, and he says he’s influenced by Hank Williams and Bobby Charles, but also cites Deathgrips, Swans and Ratking as his favorite bands. Cold Casper says he wants his audience to “shut up and cry.” One of the most celebrated and idiosyncratic American songwriters of his generation, Mark Eitzel is best known as the leader of the iconic indie rock band American Music Club, who spun beautifully chaotic webs of guitar from Eitzel’s gloomy but compassionate studies of lost souls and alcohol; since striking out on his own, Eitzel has embraced a number of different musical approaches, while his witty but downcast lyrical style has remained constant. “…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Small Beast at The Owl with very special guest, LITTLE ANNIE // also, Blasco & And The Wiremen – Friday 04/01
Tickets $15 in Advance / $18 at Door
The last time Little Annie, tortured soul singer, painter, actor and author, stepped in front of a New York audience was at Town Hall in a tribute to Edith Piaf. “The most compelling of several oddballs was Little Annie.” wrote Stephen Holden in The New York Times. Debuting songs from her upcoming Tin Angel Records release “Trace” this will be a rare New York appearance for the dub diva who now makes her home in Miami. French singer, and general malcontent F. Blasco—aka Blasco Ballroom—arrived in Virginia at the end of the last century and together with Sparklehorse guitarist and trumpeter Paul “Watty” Watson made one of the all-time best records hardly anybody ever heard: “Film.” He recently told Watty he had some new songs and for the first time in years, the duo, with PW at the piano will be performing in New York. And The Wiremen is masterminded by sultry southern guitarist and singer Lynn Wright. Taking advantage of Watty’s foray to NYC, ATW will also be joined by multi-instrumentalist Jon Petrow and violinist Simon Goff. On their last European tour the Berliner Zeitung said they’d “provide the perfect soundtrack for a Quentin Tarantino movie.” Lynn worked with Alexander Hacke on the score for Fatih Akin’s “The Cut.” and in a previous life as James Hall’s guitarist. “…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Small Beast at The Owl w/ Thomas Truax and Joseph Keckler – Saturday 04/02
$10 Donation Suggested
Thomas Truax, who Time Out calls “The king of home-made instruments” is the world’s only Hornicator, Backbeater and Stringaling Virtuoso. Along with his drummer Mother Superior, he has spent the last 15 years traveling the world performing with his evolving “band” of bizarre self-made Harry Partch-esque instruments. His numerous collaborators have included Jarvis Cocker, Amanda Palmer, Richard Hawley and Duke Special. Currently based in London and Krefeld, Germany, this show will be Truax’s first NY show in over five years. Straddling the worlds of music, art, performance and theater, Joseph Keckler has garnered acclaim for his rich, versatile 3+ octave voice and sharp wit. In 2013 Dixon Place commissioned his most recent performance piece, I am an Opera. He was recently featured on BBC America’s The Nerdist and WNYC Soundcheck, and has appeared at venues including South by Southwest, Joe’s Pub, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Merkin Hall, and BAM. He has received residencies from MacDowell and Yaddo, as well as a Franklin Furnace Grant and a Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Work from New York Foundation for the Arts. The Village Voice named him “Best Downtown Performance Artist, 2013.” He is currently playing Chaliapin in Dave Malloy’s Preludes, running at Lincoln Center. “…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Small Beast at The Owl w/ Birdthrower, Valerie Kuehne and Gaudete – Thursday 04/07
$10 Donation Suggested
Renowned animal portraitist Phil Puleo, is the drummer and hammer-dulcimer player in Swans. Cop Shoot Cop keyboardist, soundtrack composer and JG Thirlwell collaborator and mad scientist Jim Coleman will play the hurdy-gurdy, melodica and a pile of analog modules never before wired up in public. Paul Wallfisch will step away from the piano to test what happens when he plugs in a bass. Birdthrower has crawled on hands and knees up Broadway from the Battery to Washington Heights. When he’s not crawling, he writes timelessly simple songs of love lost and found on his Teeny Genie and an acoustic guitar. Together, these four are Gaudete, named after Ted Hughes’ book-length poem he intended as a film. Gaudete just recorded 3 tracks for Martin Bisi’s 35th anniversary celebration. This is their world premiere performance. Valerie Kuehne is a cross-pollinated work of chaos. Fusing together music, performance art, narrative, and experimental curation, she has been told that, "if this music thing doesn’t work out, she’d probably make an awesome cult leader." (Boston Public Space).‘ Cello virtuoso, storyteller, performance artist, singer, curator at Panoply Performance Laboratory and all-around iconoclastic firecracker Valerie Kuehne is a mainstay of new music in New York. Ms. Kuehne’s work operates under principles of surprise, and investigates obsession, comedy, decay, forensic pathology, sex, hypnogogia, viscera, spirituality & death. She is one half of the duo Naked Roots Conducive, one third of the trio Prehistoric Horse, and a histrionic version of herself. Ms. Kuehne operates a blog of music reviews and performance philosophy (www.thesupercoda.com) and frequently releases albums that blur the line between comfort and discomfort (www.dreamzoo.bandcamp.com). http://www.valeriekuehne.com
“…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Small Beast at The Owl w/ John and Dan, Molecular and Joanna Wallfisch – Friday 04/08
$10 Donation Suggested
Molecular, a full-bore improvisational, not-too-many-tricks, just-get-that-thing-and-kick-it, line-up-shifting (hyphen-fetishist) outfit in nice clothing. This show's line-up:
Kizys-- Bass/Irregular Bass
Simonelli—borrowed from Enablers)—Gesturing Monkey/Words
Sparks--Buchla, The
Wallfisch-- Piano/Polyester
Wright-- Guitar/Ascot (and/or hat)
A recording of their set will be available for purchase after the show. Joanna Wallfisch is Paul’s second cousin thrice removed. Recently arrived on our shores from London, she has a clarity of voice matched with crystalline song craft reminiscent of Joni Mitchell and Bill Evans. Downbeat gave her debut album 4.5 out of 5 stars and the New York Times called her “sensitive and deep.” And for something completely different… Barbez guitarist Dan Kaufman and drummer John Bollinger make up the scintillatingly named and spectacular sounding duo John and Dan. “…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Small Beast at The Owl w/ C Gibbs's He Arrived By Helicopter and Lenny Kaye – Saturday 04/09
$10 Donation Suggested
Lenny Kaye, best known as Patti Smith’s guitar player of 40 years standing, has been playing G L O R I A since the 60’s. His Small Beast show at The Delancey brought an iconic guitar tone and glowingly relaxed stage presence to his encyclopedic song catalog and touching originals. Christian Gibbs - He Arrived By Helicopter!
….another project by Christian Gibbs, leaning more towards the improvisational sound textures of guitar processing and loops. Sometimes solo with a few amps or sometimes with a band. More instrumental than voice based. That said, there might be some occasional guttural noises emanating deep from the thorax in the form of something resembling language as we know it.
http://www.cgibbsreview.com
“…the music is generally superb and the show is guided by Wallfisch, who skillfully lends humor, piano chops and a set of his own husky and affecting songs to the evening. “ ~ The New Yorker
Sharief Hobley at 8 • • • Amino Belyamani & Brahim Fribgane 9:30 April 14
$10.00 suggested donation 9:30 pm
Singer/ Multi-Instrumentalist Sharief Hobley has worked with John Legend, Rufus Wainwright, Jaguar Wright, Chocolate Genius and many others.
Brahim Fribgane - Born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco, Brahim brings to his music the rich and varied musical styles he grew up with - North African, Gnawa, Berber, Arabic, Andulusian music, and any other styles he has encountered throughout his prolific career in New York. His oud style ranges from the clear, "singable" melodies of folkloric Berber songs to beautifully complex and soulful Arabic music, to the fusion of jazz, samba, reggae or Indian music. When Brahim picks up any of the numerous percussion instruments he favors, it's tough to sit still. And his singing voice is straightforward and honest... Brahim sings his songs, and you get the message. A remarkably creative and diverse musician, Brahim's music reflects his openness and appreciation of all cultures and their music.
Amino Belyamani - Born and raised in Casablanca, Morocco, Amino has been based in New York since 2009 as a full-time musician. Amino’s music reflects the diversity of his influences - complex african rhythms, arabic melodies, western classical music, jazz and electro-acoustic music. One can witness this richness in the various ensembles Amino leads and co-leads in New York - the critically acclaimed Dawn of Midi, the microtonal and hypnotic SSAHHA, the traditional Ewe ensemble from Ghana - Bedstuy Ewe, and the traditional gnawa music ensemble - Innov Gnawa. Amino has performed with world renowned artists such as Albert "Tootie" heath, Charlie Haden, Alfred Ladzekpo, Houman Pourmehdi, Hamid el Kasri, Hassan Hakmoun, Dimi Mint Abba, and many others.
Elysian Fields – Friday 04/15
8pm doors $15 advance / $18 at the door
Elysian Fields returns to The Owl with new songs and old friends. First concert of 2016! Doors at 8:00. Short opening set TBA.
RJ Miller April 16
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00 https://rjmiller.bandcamp.com/
RJ Miller Trio
RJ Miller - drums, samples & compositions
Ari Chersky - guitar & effects
Ross Gallagher - bass
"Electronic music comes in all sounds, colors, and textures, but drummer Ron Miller exploits the ambient side with chilled themes and moody soundscapes. The soul in the machine lies in the way Miller expertly juxtaposes his drum kit with piano, keyboards, and analog synthesizers through infectious melodies that move and groove. "
- Mark F. Turner (AAJ Best of 2013)
PLG Arts presents Osso with Katie Scheele April 17 2016
2 pm - free https://www.facebook.com/events/496655347185100/
PLG Arts Chamber Music Series Presents Osso at The Owl, 497 Rogers Ave, (Rogers and Midwood), Sunday, April 17th at 2pm.
Admission: $5 suggested donation
http://theowl.nyc/
PLG Arts Chamber Music will present an afternoon of music performed by Osso on Sunday, April 17th. They’ll be performing music by Mozart, John Adams and more, joined by Katie Scheele on oboe. This is the fifth concert in the PLG Arts Chamber Music series in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
Osso fuses the classical sensibilities of a string quartet with the pulse of pop culture. Their rhythmically driven rep and ambitious commissioning forge new territory within the classical tradition. With an exuberant commitment to collaboration, Osso has spent the past twelve years touring, performing, and recording with artists such as Jay-Z, Kanye West, John Legend, The National, My Brightest Diamond, and Sufjan Stevens. Their interpretation of Stevens' electronica album Enjoy Your Rabbit recomposes computer keystrokes into vibrant acoustic arrangements, welding the energy of indie rock and the nuance of chamber music to create explosive and enchanting new sounds.
Osso is Monica Davis, Brooke Quiggins, Kallie Ciechomski, and Maria Jeffers. http://asthmatickitty.com/artists/osso/
Katie Scheele is a versatile oboist who enjoys an active career in New York City playing all types of music from classical to pop to experimental jazz. She has worked with a myriad of artists including Frank Ocean, Anthony Braxton, Miguel Zenon, Gloria Estefan and many more. Katie is co-founder of the oboe trio Threeds and is on the faculty of Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. Katie lives in Prospect Lefferts Gardens with her husband and two young sons. http://katiescheele.com/
PLG Arts is delighted to include the Chamber Music series in its programming, which includes visual arts exhibitions, jazz performance, theater, author readings, and other expressions of creativity in local venues. The Chamber Music series is held at various venues in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and surrounding neighborhoods. PLG Arts is funded in part by Mathieu Eugene and the New York City Council.
The mission of PLG Arts is to promote the arts, support local artists, and build community through celebrating the vibrant creativity of the residents of Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and surrounding neighborhoods. For more information, go to plgarts.org.
Jamie Saft's New Zion Trio w. Cyro Baptista April 20
7:30 doors /8pm show $10 Donation Suggested
RareNoise Records presents a Record Release Event: - Jamie Saft's New Zion Trio w. Cyro Baptista
Elliott Sharp and Nora Krahl 8pm . ∞. Jordan McLean Birthday 9:30 pm
7:30 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Sharp and Krahl, both Berlin-based, visit The Owl for a set of improvisations on cello and electroacoustic guitar. Nora Krahl has worked with composers including Helmut Lachenmann, Martin Bresnick, Tristan Murail, and Johannes Kalitzke as well as performing with such ensembles as The Octopus, Zeitkratzer and Rabiator and with musicians including Joëlle Léandre, Jon Rose, Frank Gratkowski and Audrey Chen. E# leads bands and projects Carbon, Tectonics, and Terraplane and has composed for Hilary Hahn, JACK Quartet, Radiosinfonie Frankfurt, Zeitkratzer, Ensemble Modern, and the Bayerische Staatsoper. His collaborators have included Hubert Sumlin, Debbie Harry, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sonny Sharrock, Christian Marclay, and Cecil Taylor.
Musician Jordan McLean wishes to celebrate his birthday in the company of old and new friends. There will be casual socializing, light conversation about politics, travel, and the artistic/professional intersections of music. Some snacks will be provided. At a certain point not too far into the night we will hear some newish compositions for piano & strings and there could be a reading of a selection or two from McLean's new opera. Maybe he will play some horn too.
8pm: Mick McAuley with Dana Lyn and Patrick Doocey *&* 9:30pm: Bad Reputation
7:30 Doors $10 Donation Suggested
Mick McAuley with Dana Lyn and Patrick Doocey
Irish accordionist and singer Mick McAuley, long-time member of award-winning Irish music group Solas, presents an evening of traditional songs and tunes. He will be joined by P Doocey on guitar and Dana Lyn (Mother Octopus, Slim Bone Head Volt) on fiddle and piano. "Instrumental prowess and stirring vocals" - Irish Music Magazine
BAD REPUTATION, Pierre de Gaillande's latest musical venture, is a translation of the lyrics of iconic French poet/singer Georges Brassens into English. De Gaillande performs these songs with a talented, swinging group of musicians in the U.S.A. and abroad. Bad Reputation’s aim is to present the raunchy, hilarious, subversive, and wonderfully human songs of Georges Brassens to an English speaking audience, while staying true to the meticulous rhyme scheme and meaning of the original French.
Trash Mountain April 23
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Trash Mountain 4-23-16Hosted by Ivey Long
"I didn't know it existed behind my building when I moved into this apartment. But I could hear the rats and cats and squirrels and such scurrying around on it all night long. It was always in flux, sometimes it was completely gone with just a few scattered scraps, and sometimes it was huge and shocking to see. Trash Mountain was a feeding and breeding ground for all sorts of animal city life.Trash Mountain 4-23-16
I have no idea what happened to end Trash Mountain.
Trash Mountain reminds me to check my privilege.
And I want Trash Mountain to live on."
8pm: Eszter Balint (Ticket) ••• 9:30 Ed Pastorini – Thursday 04/28 (Donation)
$12 advance, $15 at door
eszterbalint.com
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Closed Apr 29
all night Come see us next week! Thank you.
Closed Apr 30
all night Come see us next week! Thank you.
Farah Nakhoul and April Centrone and special guest May 1
8pm doors $10 Donation Suggested
An evening of popular Lebanese folk music featuring vocalist visiting from Lebanon, Farah Nakhoul, percussionist April Centrone and special guest on oud, performing Feiruziyat and Rahbaniyat.
A Benefit for Jasper Johnson May 5
$20.00 8pm doors
Drummer Matt Johnson has played on some of the most critically acclaimed records in almost everyone’s collections.
Closed Friday May 6
come see us tomorrow!
Elysian FIelds Record Release May 7
8 pm
The New Album, Ghosts Of No, will be available at the show.
May 12th 8pm Brittany Anjou 9:30pm The Sides
doors 7:30, suggested donation $10.00
The Sides are Danton Boller, Jeremy Wilms and Shawn Baltazor.
Sylvie Courvoisier May 13
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Sylvie Courvoisier, Mark Feldman, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey www.sylviecourvoisier.com
A night with Ali Dineen and friends May 14
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
THursday May 19 - Closed.
come see us on other nights! thank you.
The Floodlight Revue with Levon Henry and Friends May 20
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
The Floodlight Revue No. 3, organized by Levon Henry, is a forum for music (& more) where ~10 artists will present ~10 minutes of new or in-progress work. The event is built around bringing artists together who are not familiar with each other’s work beforehand. There is no cover charge, just the existence of a bucket.
Innove Gnawa May 21
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
The Microscopic Septet SUNDAY May 22 8pm
7:30 doors 15.00 USD
One of New York’s most elusive institutions, the Microscopic Septet has been creating ‘surrealistic swing’ for the last three and a half decades. In a rare public performance of the music they are about to go into the studio to record two days later, the Micros perform all the music from their forthcoming Cuneiform CD, I’ve Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me: The Micros Play The Blues, and at the same time, celebrate co-leader pianist Joel Forrester’s 70th birthday. Expect special guests and special music, and, as always, a good time to be had by all. “Ever since its cutting-edge debut, 1983’s Take The Z Train, there has been an air of mystery and mirth surrounding The Microscopic Septet. . .There’s a whole lot of quirk here, but it’s always on the joyous side. . . An eclectic bunch of kindred spirits still doing it against all odds.” ★★★★ (4 stars) Bill Milkowski (Downbeat Magazine) –OR – “seminal, brilliant post-modern jazz.” (Downbeat)
Ben Goldberg with Nels Cline and Tom Rainey May 26
7:30 doors /8pm show $10 Donation Suggested
Ben Goldberg - clarinet
Nels Cline - guitar
Tom Rainey - drums
Noe Socha solo and Jamie Saft solo May 27
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Jad Atoui May 28
8pm doors $10 Donation Suggested
Jad Atoui is a Lebanese music composer and electronic sounds experimentalist. Using his bio-sensors and field recordings he composes and performs music that fits styles of ambient, dub techno and glitch. The sonic feel in this body of work shifts from ambient to purely electronic, harsh yet hypnotizing sounds. His work has been featured in Pompidou Center (2012, Paris). As for performances, Jad Atoui performed with artists like John Zorn, Ikue Morie and Erik Friedlander.
Elizabeth & The Catapult June 2
Anna Wayland June 4
DUO WITH STEVE WOLF.
Ned Rothenberg, Karen Mantler Saturday, July 16
Hank Roberts June 10
7:30 doors /8pm show $10 Suggested Donation
with Dana Lyn, Mike McGinnis, Brian Drye, Jacob Sacks, and Vinnie Sperrazza.
Anthony Coleman solo June 11
7:30 doors /8pm show $10 Suggested Donation
Bring a bale of hay and a bucket of water onto the stage for the piano to eat and drink. The performer may then feed the piano or leave it to eat by itself (LaMonte Young - 1960)
At times it seems like this thing could breathe. But then its discrete spaces chop it into notes. It’s an ongoing drama. Sometimes, though, it all comes out just sounding like nice piano playing. But not always.
Songwriters Larry Gallagher and Colin McGrath Wednesday June 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
New York born, San Francisco based singer songwriter Larry Gallagher writes intelligent songs for the end of the world, although the world doesn't necessarily have to end for you to be able to enjoy them. www.larrygallagher.com Based in the Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, songwriter Colin McGrath mines the crossroads of American music from the Appalachian Mountains to Tin PanAlley. A storyteller with a tendency for the theatrical, McGrath inhabits his characters with his rugged, earthy voice and nuanced guitar playing. McGrath won first place in The Wildflower! Songwriting Competition, and The Belfast Nashville Songwriters Festival Competition. 
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Hubby Jenkins, Ilusha Tsinadze, and Julia Patinella, June 16
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Hubby Jenkins (http://www.hubbyjenkins.com) got his higher musical education started as a busker. He developed his guitar and vocal craft on the sidewalks and subway platforms of New York City, performing material by those venerable artists whose work he was quickly absorbing. An ambitiously itinerant musician, he took his show on the road, playing the streets, coffee shops, bars, and house parties of cities around the U.S. Since 2010 he has been an integral part of the Grammy award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops. Ilusha Tsinadze
Julia Patinella is a multilingual singer who currently resides between Seville, Spain and Brooklyn, NY. Through years of travel between Spain and Latin America, she developed as a Flamenco singer with a unique affinity for "Cantes de Ida y Vuleta" or "roundtrip songs" - subgenres born through the circular migrations of peoples between Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean. In her performances the singer brings forth an expansive repertoire rich in history and musical traditions that carry the raw emotions of protest, the longing for social and internal freedom, the eternal thirst for life, travel and music. 
Jeremy Mage 8pm // Richard Sear solo piano 9:30 pm Friday June 17 8pm
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
After half a million miles of inspiration on the road, New York City multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Mage brings home a set of intimate, funky, apocalyptic and hopeful songs. Mage played B-3 organ in gospel church and broke his nose in a mosh pit, and then years later he broke it again on a Steinway grand piano. In between, he studied with Baba Olatunji, Alan Ginsberg, James Hurt, Fred Frith, Yusef Lateef, Srinivasan in Varanasi, and Pupy Pedroso in Havana. He toured from Istanbul to Antigua with soul jazz artist Lizz Wright, afro beat queen Wunmi, and dub crew the Easy Star All Stars. Raised in the redwood splendor of the Santa Cruz Mountains, Brooklyn-based pianist Richard Sears is a rising force on the jazz scene who has distinguished himself as a fierce improviser and ambitious composer. His latest album “Skyline” (2015) came out on the Barcelona based label Fresh Sound Records, and the critically hailed trio session affirmed his status as a player of prodigious promise. For this program, Richard will be presenting improvisations, and original music. 
A night with Ali Dineen and friends June 18
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Ali Dineen and Eleanore Weill (Fada), are a Brooklyn-based duo who perform original music, drawing from their personal stories, as well as folk music from their own backgrounds in American folk and Occitanian traditional music. Ali is a native New Yorker with a love for Spirituals, 1920s jazz and other folk traditions from around the world. Eleonore was born in Southern France and has studied and performed a wide range of musical traditions in voice and wooden recorder, from klezmer to Renaissance choral music. Together they are creating a set of songs that tell stories through voice and visuals
Samoa Wilson
Charlie Burnham's Fundamentals 7:30 Janine Nichols' Semi Free 9pm June 23
7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Floodlight Revue with Levon Henry and Friends June 24th
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
The Floodlight Revue No. 3, organized by Levon Henry, is a forum for music (& more) where ~10 artists will present ~10 minutes of new or in-progress work. The event is built around bringing artists together who are not familiar with each other’s work beforehand. There is no cover charge, just the existence of a bucket.
Oren Bloedow and friends June 25
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
stay tuned
Judith Berkson's Liederkreis – June 30
Liederkreis is Judith Berkson on wurlitzer, piano, synth and effects. Liederkreis's first LP comes out this month on B. Walter Recordings, a singular mix of noise and song influenced by low-fi music, Robert Schumann and Asmus Tietchens.
Kenan Adwani and Edward Perez – July 1
7:30 $10 Donation Suggested
Kenan Adwani, Oud; Edward Perez, Bass
Anthony Burr solo clarinet // Ted Reichman solo Saturday July 2
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Horse Phalanx Trio Friday July 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Horse Phalanx Trio is Matt Mitchell, Kim Cass, and Kate Gentile. Named so as a result of the principals being members of the bands Snark Horse and Phalanx Ambassadors, this inaugural trio performance will feature explorations of selectors from the books of both bands, as well as some new sketches and snippets from all 3 members.
Tredici Baci / Evan Allen Trio Saturday July 9
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Tredici Bacci, a 14-piece group of musicians all under the age of 30, sounds, to the thoughtful listener, like a celebration. A celebration not of a genre of music, but rather of an era, and, more specifically, the aspects of an era which perhaps have been glossed over by conventional history. Tredici Bacci is celebrating the strange, somewhat seedy, schmaltzy and smooth aspects of 1960s-70s popular culture - our songs are cries in honor to the many artifacts which seem now to be the strange leavings of a recently liberated nation - nay, the sensuous oddities leftover from an entirely different world! Tredicci Bacci is a living homage to french pornography, to italian slasher films, to pop psychedelia! A musical shrine dedicated to bright colors! flugelhorns! sing-song and sexy dialogue! To the Mondo! Absurd romanticism! The sumptuous beauty of strings, to never-ending sambas, to the breakdown of western civilization! Up with Ennio! Up with Bacharach! Let our cries be heard and let no man nor woman forget that they were meant to be sexy! To be sultry! To cry tears of lost love over a backdrop of paisley and powder blue! Huzzah! 
Elliott Sharp plays Monk // Anthony Coleman Thursday July 14
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Dana Lyn's Mother Octopus // Perowsky, Berne and Mitchell Friday, July 15
Ned Rothenberg // Karen Mantler Trio July 16th
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ned Rothenberg Quartet with
Mark FELDMAN, violin
Tom Rainey, drums
SYLVIE COURVOISIER, piano
Smarts and whimsy intermingle freely and charmingly in the work of singer-songwriter Karen Mantler. Featuring Karen Mantler - piano and chromatic harmonica, Doug Wieselman – guitar and bass clarinet and Kato Hideki – bass. They will be playing the music from her most recent recording “Business Is Bad”.
Elysian Fields Wednesday July 20
7:30 Doors $15.00 in adv / $18 at door
NY cult heroes Elysian Fields return to The Owl with new songs for their only NYC show this Summer. Special guest multi-instrumentalist Dana Lyn. The new album, Ghosts Of No, will be available on vinyl and cd at the show.
www.elysianfields.bandcamp.com
Kris Davis and Ingrid Laubrock Thursday July 21
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Collaborators since 2008, Kris Davis and Ingrid Laubrock perform and work together in a variety of projects, most notably Paradoxical Frog with Tyshawn Sorey, Laubrock’s quintet Anti-house and Davis’ Capricorn Climber. Davis was name one of ’25 for the Future’ in the current issue of Downbeat magazine and Nate Chinen from the NY times says: "Over the last couple of years in New York one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis.” Ben Ratliff of the NY times has this to say about Laubrock: “Some jazz musicians find their style and move in lock, stock and barrel, making little refinements over the years but basically keeping their place. Ingrid Laubrock sounds happily unsettled. On tenor and soprano, she’s omnivorous and pointed, slouching and precise, humorous and austere (…) Ms. Laubrock encouraged constant sense of renewal.”
Tanya Kalmanovitch, Anthony Coleman & Ted Reichman Trio / The By and Bys July 7th
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The By & By is a new Boston band taking a fresh approach to American Roots music. Their electrifying stage performances summon the raw energy of Gospel and Blues music, the plaintive cry of Country music, and infuse it with a modern edge. Together, Leah Hennessy, Jacob Means, and Brad Barrett explore their relationship to traditional music through their experience as improvisers, drawing material from Methodist hymnals, the Carter Family, Muddy Waters and Blind Willie Johnson. Hennessy’s bluesy and jazz-inflected vocals anchor the creative and intricate counterpoint between Means's mandolin and Barrett's bass. The musical prowess of all three New England Conservatory graduates is apparent as they dance between time signatures while maintaining their allegiance to the groove. The resulting music is inventive and yet familiar, forging new territory for the American string band sound. Your ears will be reminded of similar projects like Crooked Still and Lake Street Dive. 
www.thebyandbymusic.com
Ed Pastorini and friends July 23
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Ted Reichman Trio // Birthing Hips Thursday, July 28
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Ted Reichman Trio features Wendy Eisenberg, guitar and Aaron Edgcomb, drums
S. Garner, T. Reichman, T. Lee // S Garner, C. Chen, A. Kidambi, D. Carter Friday, July 29
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
First Set:
Sue Garner, Ted Reichman, and Talice Lee.
Second Set:
Daniel Carter, Che Chen, Sue Garner, and Amirtha Kidambi
Not Art Records Showcase Saturday July 30
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Matthew Gantt solo (electronics) Secret Sibling Tyler Gilmore music for four double basses and electronics Kim Anderson
1 // Matthew Gantt (8:15)Post-digital sonic spaces
http://gantt.works/
2 // Secret Sibling (9:00)
Something like pop music from the prolific Michael Sachs (Little King).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
3 // Premiere of "Untitled" by Tyler Gilmore, featuring Tyler Gilmore - electronics, with Michael Sachs, Patrick Breiner (Battle Trance) - saxophones, Zach Nestel-Patt, Andrew Schiller, Shayna Dulberger, Dara Bloom - basses (9:45)
A textural sound piece for fifty-four feet of steel string.
4 // Tasha Abbott (10:30-11:15)
Following the steps of Linda Perhacs and Sibylle Baier, Tasha blends dreamy soundscapes with haunting vocals
https://tashaabbott.bandcamp.
Skunk Rabbit SUNDAY Jul 31
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Skunk Rabbit combines Jazz, New Orleans Funk and other styles into a delicious and nutritious, and pungent*, brew!
Jay Rodriguez Relativity Thurs Aug 4th
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Veteran Reed Man Jay Rodriguez in an Organ Trio Setting with his project Sounder.. Music for a deep summer night @ the Owl Featuring Groove Collective /Drummer Genji Siraisi and Soulful organ/ pianist Adam Klipple. Expect to be moved . Jay will premiere all new works just for the owl.
Lead Bubbles // Mattrey.Bordreuil.Ali
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Krystle Warren Aug 6th
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Paris- based, world class Singer-Songwriter Krystle Warren drops by for a rare intimate solo hang.
Steven Bernstein's Millenial Territory Orchestra Thursday August 11
7:30 Doors $12adv/$15 at door
Formed in the winter of 1999 for Tonic's legendary midnight shows, MTO has preached their music from the stages of Bonaroo all the way to Finland and now in Brooklyn. NPR's All Things Considered described Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra like this: 'MTO slides between the old and the new, taking musical cues from talented but little-known jazz bands from the 1920s and '30s that worked the juke joints and ballrooms of the Cotton Belt and the Midwest.' Indeed Bernstein and company embrace vintage sounds and tweak them through their very own post-modern filter. Classics like 'Viper Song' and 'Its Tight Jim' are reinvented to speak in the 21st century, without sacrificing any big band swing authenticity. More contemporary fair like The Beatles' 'All You Need Is Love' are treated as if they straight from Count Basie's repertoire. With Doug Wieselman, Peter Apfelbaum, Erik Lawrence, Charlie Burnham, Brian Drye, Ben Allison, Alison Miller and Steve Cardenas.
Closed for summer schedule 8/12
7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Closed for Summer Schedule 8/13
We'll be back with lots of music in September!
Jennifer Kimball// Brother Brothers//Alec Spiegelman August 18
Cassidy Andrews // John Ellis 8pm August 19
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
John Ellis
Cassidy Andrews picked up a guitar when a woman broke her heart for the first time at age 13. After a few years, she went on connect with audiences about all things melancholy, attempting to compensate for sad songs with jokes and charm. After playing venues varying from zoos to colleges, bars to music halls, cafes to living rooms, there's a comfort and love for creating music you feel from her performance. Besides songwriting, Andrews has perfected the art of juggling her guitar, coffee thermos, and MetroCard while SnapChatting blonde jokes aimed at herself. //
The gifted, versatile saxophonist/clarinetist/composer John Ellis occupies an imaginary (and extremely imaginative) space directly between the celebratory, welcoming spirit of New Orleans and the edgy, frantic streets of New York City.
The North Carolina native has established himself as one of New York’s premier tenor saxophonists, working with artists as diverse as John Patitucci, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Charlie Hunter, and Sting. Ellis has released nine albums as a leader, while his discography lists more than 100 album credits as a sideman.
Closed for Summer Schedule 8/20
We'll be back with lots of music in September!
Floodlight Revue August 26
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Levon Henry and Friends bring their excellent and ultra-diverse program of performances to The Owl.
Colin Fullerton and Lacy Rose Aug 27
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Closed for Summer Schedule 9/1
Closed for Summer Schedule 9/2
Closed for Summer Schedule 9/3
GAVAGAI 9/8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
About the Curators (whose recent collaboration at Carnegie Hall can be seen here): David Cieri is a true artist. Fearless on the piano, a combination of virtuosity, sensitivity and curiosity, he is constantly discovering new ways to express complex emotions through music that has served as the backbone of our films. - Ken Burns This is real music, not trapped by boxes, definitions and genres, but creating its own style. Cieri delivers beautiful moods…honest, imaginative, fearless. - John Zorn David Cieri began playing the violin at the age of three, but switched to the piano at the ripe old age of six. He has studied with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and with ECM recording artist Art Lande, and he has performed his original compositions at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Cieri’s film-scoring work includes Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (with Trent Reznor and Yo-Yo Ma, Florentine Films, in post-production), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Florentine Films, 2014), The Address (Florentine Films, 2014), Prohibition (with Wynton Marsalis, Florentine Films, 2011), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (Florentine Films, 2010) and the Emmy-winning National Parks (Florentine Films, 2008), Barak Goodman’s Emmy-nominated The Emperor of All Maladies (Ark Media, 2015), and a short directed by George Lucas for The Academy of Arts and Sciences called “The Heart of the Matter” (2014). His original score for Raymond De Felitta's Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story was listed for an Oscar nomination in 2013. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau's poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York. This Month's Guests: 
GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-pianist David Cieri and composer-improviser-bassistMike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians.
Closed for Summer Schedule 9/9
Open again Thursday September 19th.
Closed for Summer Schedule 9/10
Open again Thursday September 19th.
Levon Henry and Shrove 9/15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Levon Henry: Dog is a lazy word for wet cement. Experimental American roots music from saxophonist (and other times singer/songwriter) 
Shrove:Finding its name in the first movement of Stravinsky's ballet Petroushka, Shrove fuels its 20th century counterpoint with deep and elastic groove and colors it with the full sonic range of free improvisation.
Steve Bernstein's Universal Melody Brass Band 9/16
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Julia Patinella, Andreas Arnold, Raimundo Atal and Adam Malouf September 17
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Mirah with Kid In The Attic 9/22
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn has been creating incorruptible independent pop music since the late 1990’s. She has released over a dozen solo and collaborative recordings on K Records, Kill Rock Stars and various domestic and foreign independent labels. Defined by her graceful songwriting and adventuresome recordings, Pitchfork has praised her “incredible voice—a versatile coo that can flit from low, sultry tones to high, airy falsetto in one breath.” Mirah has always sought the creative company of unique collaborators, from multi-media artists and orchestral composers to dj’s, Baltic music enthusiasts, and entomologists. A partial list of some of her collaborators includes Phil Elverum (The Microphones/Mount Eerie), Merrill Garbus (tUnE-yArDs), Tara Jane O’Neil, Khaela Maricich (The Blow), Melanie Valera (Tender Forever), Jherek Bischoff, Lori Goldston, Britta Johnson and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. Mirah lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Ali Dineen & Joanna Sternberg
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ann & Bones // Robinson and Rohe 9/24
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Jean Rohe and Liam Robinson met a decade ago through their love of participatory music-making and American folk song. Their cowritten songs are inspired by the traditions they hold dear and shine with elegant vocal harmonies and detailed arrangements for guitar, banjo, and accordion. Whether in small clubs or on festival stages, Robinson & Rohe’s performances are intimate gatherings in which listeners are invited to share in the music-making. Acclaimed songwriters and performers in their own rights, they bring with them a wealth of creative experience: Liam was a cast member in the Tony Award-winning play, “Warhorse” and recently music directed the hit Off-Broadway folk opera “Hadestown” by songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. He routinely tours with the Becca Stevens Band. Jean’s songwriting has won accolades from the Independent Music Awards, ASCAP, and the Montreux Jazz Festival vocal contest. This year, her song “National Anthem: Arise! Arise!” was published in the latest edition of the popular songbook Rise Up Singing and she was a Troubadour finalist at the 2016 Telluride Bluegrass Festival. As a little girl Ann Weller was setting fairy-tales into music on her piano. Today she writes songs together with producer and guitarist Boris Meinhold and drummer Benny Glass. Her warm, fragile voice and her classically influenced piano style are enveloped in minimalistic drum grooves and a mystic-surf guitar. It shines through that the band is resident within the Berlin electronic club scene.
Pamelia Kurstin Theremin Workshop 9/25
12 Noon - 4
One 'hands-on' spot left at $85.00! Observer spots are $40.00. Email pameliakurstin@gmail.com to reserve (yak!)
Pamelia Kurstin & Susie Ibarra Duo 9/25
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Matt Kanelos // Marika Hughes Sept 30
7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Kira Divine Oct 1
8:30 pm $10 Donation Suggested
Kira Divine and special guest musicians curate a night full of Afrosoca musical vibes. Kira Divine will be performing a full set of original Soca and reggae music and covers LIVE in Flatbush, Brooklyn the heart of New York's Caribbean Community for the very first time! Please join Kira Divine and friends as they take you on a very special musical journey!
Show Canceled/ Closed Oct 6
Julia P was ging to play but she'll be in the studio… Good Luck Julia!!
Locobeach // Elizabeth and The Catapult Oct 7
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Locobeach plays psychedelic cumbia pop with a dash of Ennio Morricone. Dance music for you brain! Featuring members of Chicha Libre and Los Crema Paraiso. Elizabeth Ziman is a beautiful singer and writer. She and her amazing band are great friends of The Owl. 
SHARQ ATTACK Oct 8
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Marandi Hostetter, 5 string violin
Brian Prunka, oud
John Murchison, double bass
Philip Mayer, percussion
Elysian Fields and Secret Sibling Sunday Oct 9
7:00 Doors $15 adv/$18.00 at Door
Before heading once again to Europe in support of their latest record "Ghosts Of No", Downtown (when there still was a Downtown) cult heroes Elysian Fields play a special night of music, bringing their moody and artful sounds to The Owl. Their music is not easy to categorize, some call it art rock, some noir, dream wave jazz, or transgressive pop; Elysian Fields reflect the interior universes in the corners of the eye, and the bellows of the heart. Check out their latest music vid here, a pagan paean to nature - https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Tredici Bacci // The Actual Trio Oct 12
Tredici Bacci, a 14-piece group of musicians all under the age of 30, sounds, to the thoughtful listener, like a celebration. A celebration not of a genre of music, but rather of an era, and, more specifically, the aspects of an era which perhaps have been glossed over by conventional history. Tredici Bacci is celebrating the strange, somewhat seedy, schmaltzy and smooth aspects of 1960s-70s popular culture - our songs are cries in honor to the many artifacts which seem now to be the strange leavings of a recently liberated nation - nay, the sensuous oddities leftover from an entirely different world! Tredicci Bacci is a living homage to french pornography, to italian slasher films, to pop psychedelia! A musical shrine dedicated to bright colors! flugelhorns! sing-song and sexy dialogue! To the Mondo! Absurd romanticism! The sumptuous beauty of strings, to never-ending sambas, to the breakdown of western civilization! Up with Ennio! Up with Bacharach! Let our cries be heard and let no man nor woman forget that they were meant to be sexy! To be sultry! To cry tears of lost love over a backdrop of paisley and powder blue! Huzzah! Hailing from Berkeley, CA, guitarist Schott (T.J. Kirk, Junk Genius, Zorn, Waits), bassist Dan Seamans (New Klezmer Trio), and drummer John Hanes (Etta James, Chrome, Henry Kaiser) play original music that swings, falls apart, and then swings again. Their debut disc on Tzadik was praised: “With a bright and bold, slightly twangy sound, Schott grazes rock, blues, Thelonious Monk and James “Blood” Ulmer with lithe, original, single-note lines full of swing, surprise and humor. If you like swinging jazz guitar with a zany, eccentric bent, see this threesome.” Paul de Barros, Seattle Times
GAVAGAI 10/13
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
About the Curators (whose recent collaboration at Carnegie Hall can be seen here): David Cieri is a true artist. Fearless on the piano, a combination of virtuosity, sensitivity and curiosity, he is constantly discovering new ways to express complex emotions through music that has served as the backbone of our films. - Ken Burns This is real music, not trapped by boxes, definitions and genres, but creating its own style. Cieri delivers beautiful moods…honest, imaginative, fearless. - John Zorn David Cieri began playing the violin at the age of three, but switched to the piano at the ripe old age of six. He has studied with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and with ECM recording artist Art Lande, and he has performed his original compositions at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Cieri’s film-scoring work includes Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (with Trent Reznor and Yo-Yo Ma, Florentine Films, in post-production), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Florentine Films, 2014), The Address (Florentine Films, 2014), Prohibition (with Wynton Marsalis, Florentine Films, 2011), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (Florentine Films, 2010) and the Emmy-winning National Parks (Florentine Films, 2008), Barak Goodman’s Emmy-nominated The Emperor of All Maladies (Ark Media, 2015), and a short directed by George Lucas for The Academy of Arts and Sciences called “The Heart of the Matter” (2014). His original score for Raymond De Felitta's Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story was listed for an Oscar nomination in 2013. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau's poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York. This Month's Guests: Poets Janet Stewart and Andrew Seguin.GAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-pianist David Cieri and composer-improviser-bassistMike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians.
Charlie Burnham and Sky Steele// Brandon Ross//Gabriel Birnbaum Oct 14
Forgetter, Secret Lake and Phoebe Novak Oct 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
David Klinger of Forgetter has been playing piano-based art-songs in the DC rock scene for the last eight years. Harmonically focussed and at times painfully candid, he explores unique and succinct musical ideas with sincere emotion. http://dvdklngr.com/" Secret Lake is the latest manifestation of composer and songwriter Connor Duffy's musical output. Recommended for fans of John Fahey, Ennio Morricone, and Vince Guaraldi." Learn more about Phoebe Novak here: https://phoebenovak.bandcamp.com/)
Sylvie Courvoisier Trio with Kenny Wollesen & Drew Gress Oct 20
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
The Floodlight Revue with Levon Henry and Friends Oct 21
an evening of storytelling and puppetry w Ali Dineen and friends Oct 22
Open Ground w Roman Filiu Trio, Sam Harris Trio 10/23
8pm – Sam Harris - piano | Martin Nevin - bass | Craif Weinrib - drums Sam Harris grew up in Dallas, Texas. He studied classical piano with Janet Jones and competed regularly on the local and statewide level. While attending Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts, he discovered jazz and began taking lessons with local piano legend Bill Lohr. In 2004, he moved to New York, where he currently resides, and has since been busy performing in bands led by artists such as Ambrose Akinmusire, Ben Van Gelder, Logan Richardson, Roman Filiu, Gretchen Parlato, and Rudy Royston. He has appeared at venues and festivals in the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. In January 2014 he released his debut album, "Interludes," on Fresh Sound New Talent. 9pm – Curtis Macdonald - alto saxophone | David Bryant - piano | Craig Weinrib - drums Curtis (Robert) Macdonald is an alto saxophonist, composer and producer whose works blend composition, sound design and improvisation. He has received commissions from Aszure Barton & Artists, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Kate Weare Company, Hubbard Street Dance, Bayerisches Staatsballett (The Bavarian State Ballet), Larry Keigwin & Co. and The Juilliard School. In 2014, he was co-awarded the first Charles and Joan Gross Family Foundation Prize for his collaboration with Aszure Barton on the dance Awáa. Curtis has released three albums as a bandleader, authored a book on saxophone technique and is faculty at The New School for Jazz & Contemporary Music. Curtis is also a producer for Q2 Music at WQXR/WNYC and was honored to receive a Peabody Award in 2015. Curtis also works closely with the great American composer, multi-instrumentalist and 2016 Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill, as a member of his ensemble “Double-Up”.
Sparkler // Gown of Entry Oct 27
Saxophonist/pianist/composer Peter Apfelbaum presents his newest band, Sparkler. This vocal-heavy and electronica-driven sextet offers the kind of densely layered, polyrhythmic music which Apfelbaum has long been known for with his world music big band, Hieroglyphics, but with generous helpings of silence and more of an emphasis on songs - songs which cover such subjects as the ambidextrous nature of the universe, lucky numbers, the continual disappearance of things and the secret oils that drive the grass.
Peter Apfelbaum (piano/organ/tenor sax/vocals)
Natalie Cressman (trombone/bass/vocals)
Jill Ryan (alto sax/flute/vocals)
Will Bernard (guitar)
Kyle Sanna (synths/guitar/bass)
Charlie Ferguson (drums/percussion/loops)
Jean Rohe, Anna Tivel and Jeffrey Martin Oct 28
Sounder w Jay Rodriguez Oct 29
Bulla En El Barrio November 4
BULLA EN EL BARRIO is a community and a space in New York City to explore at a deeper level the bullerengue tradition born in Colombia in the Urabá and Atlantic regions of the country. Bullerengue has evolved over the curse of 600 years, since Africans first arrival to what is now Colombia, to be what it is still today: A manifestation specially from Afro, indigenous, mixed race and marginalized communities to express themselves culturally, socially and spiritually through music and dance. Women’s leadership and their power to engage communities into creative processes also characterize bullerengue and this is why through our music, dance, the stories that these songs tell, and in general, through all our interactions with diverse audiences, Bulla En El Barrio also aims to encourage individuals and communities to explore ancestral practices and legacies that celebrate life and heritage
Osso Quartet Nov 5
8:00 Doors, Suggested Donation: $10.00
Osso fuses the classical sensibilities of a string quartet with the pulse of pop culture. Their rhythmically driven rep and ambitious commissioning forge new territory within the classical tradition. With an exuberant commitment to collaboration, Osso has spent the past twelve years touring, performing, and recording with artists such as JayZ, Kanye West, John Legend, The National, My Brightest Diamond, and Sufjan Stevens. Their interpretation of Stevens' electronica album Enjoy Your Rabbit recomposes computer keystrokes into vibrant acoustic arrangements, welding the energy of indie rock and the nuance of chamber music to create explosive and enchanting new sounds. Osso is Monica Davis, Brooke Quiggins, Kallie Ciechomski, and Maria Jeffers.
Open Ground w Luke Marantz Trio, Carmen Staaf and Michael Mayo 11/6
GAVAGAI 11/10
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
About the Curators (whose recent collaboration at Carnegie Hall can be seen here): David Cieri is a true artist. Fearless on the piano, a combination of virtuosity, sensitivity and curiosity, he is constantly discovering new ways to express complex emotions through music that has served as the backbone of our films. - Ken Burns This is real music, not trapped by boxes, definitions and genres, but creating its own style. Cieri delivers beautiful moods…honest, imaginative, fearless. - John Zorn David Cieri began playing the violin at the age of three, but switched to the piano at the ripe old age of six. He has studied with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and with ECM recording artist Art Lande, and he has performed his original compositions at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Cieri’s film-scoring work includes Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (with Trent Reznor and Yo-Yo Ma, Florentine Films, in post-production), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Florentine Films, 2014), The Address (Florentine Films, 2014), Prohibition (with Wynton Marsalis, Florentine Films, 2011), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (Florentine Films, 2010) and the Emmy-winning National Parks (Florentine Films, 2008), Barak Goodman’s Emmy-nominated The Emperor of All Maladies (Ark Media, 2015), and a short directed by George Lucas for The Academy of Arts and Sciences called “The Heart of the Matter” (2014). His original score for Raymond De Felitta's Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story was listed for an Oscar nomination in 2013. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau's poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York. This Month's Guests: Jay Deshpande, Major Jackson, Natasha TretheweyGAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-pianist David Cieri and composer-improviser-bassistMike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians.
Hot Future Five Frank Perowsky's Birthday Nov 11
Frank Perowsky - Clarinet
Michael Blake - Tenor Saxophone
Joe Cohn - Guitar/Banjo
Marcus Rojas - Tuba
Ben Perowsky - Drums
9:00 - Cake & Drinks
9:15pm Frank Perowsky Birthday Bop Session
Special guests TBA
An Afternoon In Gowanus - October 18th 2016
Jacob Sacks's 40Twenty Collective 11/12
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Jacob Garchik, Trombone
Jacob Sacks, Piano
David Ambrosio, Bass
Vinnie Sperraza, Drums
Gemma Ray November 16
7:30 Doors $15 Adv/ $18.00 at the Door
Berlin-based British artist Gemma Ray has been busy since her debut album in 2008 (The Leader, Bronzerat Records), calmly clocking up a cool reputation on the international independent scene. A self-styled musician/songwriter/producer, she skirts somewhere between pop-noir, sideways blues, gothic folk, 60s girl-group and cinematic soundscapes. MOJO magazine declared Gemma to be “one inspired music machine”, NME describe her as “untouchable”, and Paste magazine pronounced her to be “blazing her own silvertone trail”.
Air Ceremony // Brandon Lopez Trio Nov 17
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Air Ceremony
Dustin Carlson guitar and compositions
Adam Hopkins- Bass
Danny Gouker- trumpet
Eric Trudel-baritone sax
Mike Baggetta- guitar
Nathaniel Morgan- alto sax
Kate Gentile- drums
Dustin is a Brooklyn based composer and musician who has performed all over North America and Europe. The music of Air Ceremony is transcendental,visceral, powerful, spiritual, and ritualistic. It's about groove and the meditative aspects of dancing to drums, with pulses and waves of phrase that fly over them. Every instrument is either a drum or a voice. The musicians in this group are all unique creators of sound art.
http://dustincarlson.bandcamp.com/album/shakes-the-noise-of-wings
Crump Maneri and Lee // Anthony Coleman Nov 18
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Zafer Tawil and Innov Gnawa - November 19th
Open Ground w David Virelles, Solo //Frank Kimbrough, Solo 11/20
Chamber Music America’s Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project. Frank was a founding member and composer-in- residence of the Jazz Composers Collective (1992 – 2005). He has toured and recorded with the Maria Schneider Orchestra since 1993, and appears on her multi-Grammy winning album “Winter Morning Walks” with Dawn Upshaw and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, and on her collaboration with David Bowie as well as the recently released “The
Jamie Saft, Jaap Blonk and Damon Smith Nov 22
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Ali Dineen, Megg Farrell & The Four O'Clock Flowers.
The Four O'Clock Flowers are Ernie Vega with Samoa Wilson
Megg Farrell
Ali Dineen
Colin Fullerton and Lacy Rose Nov 26
8pm doors $10 suggested donation
Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey duo Nov 30
7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
I Stand WIth Standing Rock BENEFIT w/Aaron Dugan of Matisyahu, Elysian Fields, Plastic Passion, Jane, more Dec 1
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Aaron Dugan is a guitarist, composer and songwriter originally from Philadelphia who resides in Brooklyn. Dugan has performed and recorded with a wide variety of musicians and producers including Roots Tonic, Matisyahu, Anders Nilsson, Trevor Hall, Bootsy Collins, Amy Carrigan, John Zorn, Maya Dunietz, Mark Guiliana and Bill Laswell. Dugan has clinched two Gold Records as lead guitarist and composer on Matisyahu's Live at Stubb's and Youth, and has recorded two solo albums featuring his own compositions.
Joy Askew, Tyrone Cotton, Julia Patinella Dec 2
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Originally from the UK, Joy Askew has made New York City her home for over 30 years. Not only a singer/songwriter she has played and sung in bands with such luminary artists as Joe Jackson, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Jack Bruce and Rodney Crowell and in 1986 appeared in Laurie Anderson's quintessential movie “Home Of The Brave”. Inspired by memories of growing up in the North of England, Joy has recorded her 5th album of original songs "Queen Victoria", with The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band from Yorkshire. "Queen Victoria" also features duets with Joe Jackson and Brit singers James Maddock and Adam Masterson. December 2nd show will be with a small brass band including Steven Bernstein and Marcus Rojas and Rhythm section Aaron Comess and Graham Maby. Tyrone Cotton’s music begins with folk blues, reaches outward to soul and rock and roll, landing firmly in the now. The influences of Dylan, Mississippi John Hurt, Hendrix and Jerry Garcia roll behind a lyrical power that Cotton first discovered in Langston Hughes. “Hughes worked hard and worked to a degree of excellence… he can take you to different worlds all historically accurate. I find him courageous. He wasn’t afraid to be honest about where he was coming from.” In nearly 30 years of music making, Cotton has stayed close to his home of Louisville KY, making regular trips to New York City and Austin Texas to play. He has shared bills with James Hunter, Johnny Winter, Eric McFadden, and The Blind Boys Of Alabama. Ty’s first recording in 2005 featured Steve Ferguson of NRBQ, and he is currently finishing a new recording with the team of Josh Kaufman and Ray Rizzo, two longtime collaborators with music credits that include Bob Weir, Trixie Whitley, Josh Ritter and Dawn Landes. Recorded in Woodstock NY by Dan Goodwin at his IsOkOn Studio, the album features Stir Fried’s Vin Warner on bass and guest vocals by Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie “Prince” Billy. Julia Patinella
Richard Sears Trio // Ted Reichman solo Dec 3
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Dana Lyn and Kyle Sanna
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Birgid Volens 7:30 // Hannah Read and Rachel Ries 8:30 Weds, Dec 7
7:00 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Through a landscape of sounds, Birgid Volens shapes a world of sensations and emotions where everyone becomes resonance. She is part of and inspired by the experimental flow of aurélien réal (France). Improvisation on written lines : Born and raised in Scotland, and now based in Brooklyn, NY, Hannah Read is a versatile musician widely recognized on the International stage. She is known for her fiddle playing, songwriting, composing and was recently described as one of “the finest singers of the day” in the UK’s MOJO magazine. Hannah spent her childhood between Edinburgh and the Isle of Eigg (a remote island off the west coast of Scotland) followed by musical studies in Paris and Boston. These very different places and landscapes have shaped and influenced her sound, which can be clearly heard through her original music. With one solo album - ‘Wrapped in Lace’ - and another to be released in 2017, Hannah is also involved in projects both sides of the Atlantic, including the critically acclaimed British supergroup ‘Songs of Separation’. She records and plays regularly with many New York based bands and musicians including Ember Isles, Jefferson Hamer and John Fatum. ≠ ≠ ≠ Rachel Ries, hailing from the prairies of middle America, crafts sly and compassionate songs for the crooked-hearted. With an electric guitar and piano; a clear voice and steady hand; she deftly pulls listeners in with disarming candor and holds them there with smart and tender poetry. Her most recent record, Ghost of a Gardener, features a duet with Gregory Alan Isakov, members of Cuddle Magic & RVSQ and earned her an interview on NPR's Weekend Edition. Rachel has also recorded, collaborated and toured extensively with Anaïs Mitchell, the brilliant mind behind Hadestown.
voice, piano, synths, guitar, flute
GAVAGAI 12/08/16
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
About the Curators (whose recent collaboration at Carnegie Hall can be seen here): David Cieri is a true artist. Fearless on the piano, a combination of virtuosity, sensitivity and curiosity, he is constantly discovering new ways to express complex emotions through music that has served as the backbone of our films. - Ken Burns This is real music, not trapped by boxes, definitions and genres, but creating its own style. Cieri delivers beautiful moods…honest, imaginative, fearless. - John Zorn David Cieri began playing the violin at the age of three, but switched to the piano at the ripe old age of six. He has studied with members of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and with ECM recording artist Art Lande, and he has performed his original compositions at such venues as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. Cieri’s film-scoring work includes Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War (with Trent Reznor and Yo-Yo Ma, Florentine Films, in post-production), The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (Florentine Films, 2014), The Address (Florentine Films, 2014), Prohibition (with Wynton Marsalis, Florentine Films, 2011), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (Florentine Films, 2010) and the Emmy-winning National Parks (Florentine Films, 2008), Barak Goodman’s Emmy-nominated The Emperor of All Maladies (Ark Media, 2015), and a short directed by George Lucas for The Academy of Arts and Sciences called “The Heart of the Matter” (2014). His original score for Raymond De Felitta's Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story was listed for an Oscar nomination in 2013. Danielle Blau’s Rhyme and Reason: Poets and Philosophers on the Questions that Matter is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. She won first place for her poetry in the 2015 multi-genre Narrative 30 Below Contest, and her chapbook mere eye was selected for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Award and published in 2013 with an introduction by D.A. Powell. Blau's poems, short stories, articles, and interviews have also appeared and are forthcoming in such publications as The Atlantic online, The Baffler, Black Clock, The Harvard Review, The Literary Review, Narrative Magazine, The New Yorker’s book blog, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The Saint Ann’s Review, The Wolf, and the Argos Books poetry anthology Why I Am Not a Painter. A graduate of Brown University with an honors degree in philosophy, and of NYU with an MFA in poetry, she teaches at the City University of New York. This Month's Guests: Jerriod Avant, Susan WheelerGAVAGAI is a monthly performance series curated and hosted by poet Danielle Blau that brings you poetry and fiction readings scored with original live music by composer-improviser-pianist David Cieri and composer-improviser-bassistMike Brown, with other skilled improvisers (horn-players, cellists, violinists, vocalists, who knows?) often dropping in onstage as surprise guest-musicians.
President For Life 8pm Tasha Abbott Dec 9
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
President For Life is Oren Bloedow, Anthony Coleman, Simon Hanes and Kate Gentile "Tasha Abbott is a Singer-Songwriter, California raised and East coast living. She spends most of her time with her band, NO SWOON, but occasionally pops out on her own for some psych-folk tunes. Following the steps of Linda Perhacs and Sibylle Baier, Tasha blends dreamy soundscapes with haunting vocals. 
Sex Mob Dec 10
Sex Mob are Steven Bernstein, Slide Trumpet Briggan Krauss, Alto Saxophone Tony Scherr, Bass & Kenny Wollesen, Drums more info at: http://royalpotatofamily.com/artists/steven-bernstein/
Music of Elliott Goldkind Dec 11
Elliott Goldkind has composed music for diverse media, ranging from orchestral and chamber music to film, television, and commercials. Elliott’s classical/concert music has been performed throughout the United States and Western Europe. His film scoring work has led to collaborations with Jeff Buckley, David Mamet and many talented young directors. Elliott received his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. At the UW-Madison, he helped revive the UW-Madison Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group that is dedicated to performing the music of Wisconsin students/composers. He is a MacDowell Colony fellow and the recipient of New York University’s Langley Fellowship. Elliott was a founding member of the not-too-legendary New York rock bands “Bones Jones and the Jones Tones,” “Hodgepodge Lodge,” and “Freak of Nature.” Like too many others, Elliott is a native New Yorker living in Los Angeles.
Stephanie Richards Dec 14
Cassidy Andrews Emily Wolfe & Alex Arkin Dec 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Cassidy Andrews picked up a guitar when a woman broke her heart for the first time at age 13. After a few years, she went on connect with audiences about all things melancholy, attempting to compensate for sad songs with jokes and charm. After playing venues varying from zoos to colleges, bars to music halls, cafes to living rooms, there's a comfort and love for creating music you feel from her performance. Besides songwriting, Andrews has perfected the art of juggling her guitar, coffee thermos, and MetroCard while SnapChatting blonde jokes aimed at herself. // ALEX AKIN is a singer and actress based in New York City. Originally from San Francisco, she graduated from the University of Michigan with a BFA in Musical Theatre and has now been living in NYC for 4 years. She's performed across New York City in various concerts, workshops, festivals and shows. She's very excited to be performing alongside her very talented songwriter friends! www.alexakin.com
Hank Roberts & Friends Dec 15
7:30 Doors $10.00 Suggested Donation
Floodlight Revue Dec 17
Jennifer Charles and Jamie Saft's 'Low Standards' Dec 18
7:30 Doors
Low Standards is a night of American Songbook Classics interpreted by Jamie Saft and Jennifer Charles. Jamie Saft is the notorious pianist and multi-instrumentalist who has played with everyone from John Zorn to the Bad Brains. Jennifer Charles is the singer-songwriter best known as half of Elysian Fields. .
Closed for Holidays 12/22
I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight Dec 23
With Glenn Patscha, Fiona McBain, Tony Leone, Adam Minkoff, Oren Bloedow, David Mansfield, Dan Littleton, Liz Mitchell, Joy Askew, Ali Dineen, Savannah Gordon, Steve Bernstein, Matt Darriau, Brian Drye, Tim Byrnes, Katie Scheele and More.
Closed for Holidays 12/24
Closed for Holidays 12/29
The Crimson Ragdolls, Eva Salina and Peter Stan Dec 30
Closed for Holidays 12/31
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