1. Sanda Weigl

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $15
Genre: protest and revolutionary songs from all over the world

Sanda Weigl returns to the Pub with her new program of protest and revolutionary songs from all over the world. Romanian born singing-sensation Sanda Weigl blends gypsy music, cabaret and jazz, reflecting her own life story in every moment of her performance.

As outspoken politically as she is uncompromising musically, Sanda first achieved fame as a teen-age member of Team 4, East Germany’s most popular rock band of the 1960s. After publicly denouncing communism and Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was banned from performing and sentenced to two years in an East Berlin prison; then, expelled to the West where she was free to continue crafting her art.
Since relocating to New York in the early nineties, Sanda has performed her singular interpretations to critical acclaim throughout the United States, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Austria, Israel, and an especially triumphant series of concerts in her native Romania.

2. Hal Wilner and Philip Glass

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $20
Genre: poetry and piano

Hal Wilner and Philip Glass play for Allen Ginsberg Hal Willner (reading from the poetry of Allen Ginsberg) Philip Glass (piano)

3. Mariel Roberts (presented by Issue Project)

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: Our Lady of Lebanon Cathedral (113 Remsen St, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music/cello music

Mariel Roberts premieres new works for solo cello by Andy Akiho, Sean Friar, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, and Daniel Wohl.

New York-based cellist Mariel Roberts is quickly gaining recognition as a deeply dedicated interpreter and performer of contemporary music. She holds degrees from both the Eastman School and the Manhattan School of Music, where she specialized in contemporary performance practice while studying with Alan Harris and Fred Sherry. Mariel performs internationally as a member of the Mivos String Quartet, and has performed with a variety of other ensembles in venues around the world as an advocate of living composers, including Signal, Wet Ink Ensemble, the Eastman Broadband, and NouveauClassical. Furthermore, she has been a resident artist at the Darmstadt New Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Aldeborough Music Festival, a participant in the Bang on a Can Festival, and the Lucerne Summer Festival led by Pierre Boulez.

4. Henry Grimes Trio

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Stone (is located at the corner of Avenue C and 2nd Street)
Ticket: $20
Genre: jazz/improve

Henry Grimes (acoustic bass, violin, poetry) Dave Burrell (piano) Tyshawn Sorey (drums) Since his astonishing return to the music world in 2003 after 35 years away, HENRY GRIMES has played nearly 500 concerts in 28 countries, including many festivals. He studied at Juilliard and in his youth played/toured/recorded with Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Don Cherry, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Roy Haynes, Steve Lacy, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner… This was followed by a long period of hard times when Henry did not have a musical instrument, so he took up the pen and wrote poetry instead. Now, in the present era, his bandmates have included Rashied Ali, Marshall Allen, Fred Anderson, Amiri Baraka (again), Marilyn Crispell, Andrew Cyrille, Bill Dixon, Dave Douglas, Paul Dunmall, Edward “Kidd” Jordan, Nathaniel Mackey, Roscoe Mitchell, David Murray, William Parker, Marc Ribot, Wadada Leo Smith, Sekou Sundiata, Cecil Taylor (again), Edwin Torres, and many more. Mr. Grimes is the author of the poetry compilation “Signs Along the Road” (introduction by Marc Ribot).

5. Tom Chang Quartet

Date: Thursday, September 27, 2012
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014)
Ticket: $1
Genre:  jazz

NY Jazz Guitarist Tom Chang has performed and or recorded with Greg Osby, Joey Calderazzo, Rich Perry, as well as pop icons the Supremes, Luther Vandross and Southern Indian Percussion Master Subash Chandran. This newly formed quartet will be presenting new material from each member. Tom Chang, guitar & compositions;  Jason Rigby, tenor saxophone;  Sam Trapchak, bass;  Jeff Davis, drums

6. Food Will Win The War w. Rosco Bandana

Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $12
Genre: indie/folk rock

Food Will Win the War is accordion-infused, violin-tinged glockenspiel rock. Their new album, A False Sense of Warmth, features appearances by Judah Dadone (Freelance Whales) on synthesizers and was produced by Jeremy Sklarsky (Weather Vanes, Freelance Whales) and mastered by Sarah Register (Wincing the Night Away, The Shins, Talking Through Tin Cans, The Morning Benders).

Rosco Bandana is a Gulfport based band whose act includes blues/americana style music blended with modern folk and a hint of gypsy fanfare. The band formed recently and has been shaking up the local music scene with their energetic live performances.

7. Sarah Plum

8. NASS GNAWA

Date: Sunday, September 30, 2012
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: Jazz with Middle-Eastern, Israeli & Jewish influences