This special evening at ISSUE hosted by Marc Ribot and Howard Wolfson benefits the Frantz Casséus Young Guitarists Program in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti with a program of works by and in tribute to the great composer and teacher. Marc Ribot, along with two other disciples of Casséus: Italian classical guitarist Alberto Mesirca and Haitian guitarist Marc Mathelier, pay tribute in separate sets. The evening also features Trio Blastphemy (Curtis Hasselbring, trombone; Ben Holmes, trumpet & flugelhorn; Marcus Rojas, tuba;), vocalists Melanie Charles and Barbara (Perlow) Simon (who sung on Casseus’ 1969 Haitiana recording reissued on Smithsonian Folkways) and Frantz’s great nephew DJ Greg Caz.

The event also celebrates the publication of a new book of with newly found compositions, Frantz Casséus Guitar Works, compiled by Marc Ribot and Alberto Mesirca and published by Zimmerman.

7PM: VIP Ticket ($50)

Exclusive performance by Marc Ribot & Alberto Mesirca
Reception with complimentary drinks and DJ Greg Caz
Reserved seating for 8pm Performance

8PM: General Admission ($25)

Performances by Marc Ribot, Alberto Mesirca, Marc Mathelier, Melanie Charles,
Barbara Simon, Trio Blastphemy

Before Marc Ribot made a name for himself as a pioneering force in NYC’s downtown music scene and as guitarist for luminaries like Tom Waits, Wilson Pickett and The Lounge Lizards, he began his guitar studies as a teenager with close family friend, the Father of Haitian classical guitar, Frantz Casséus.

After Haiti was devastated by earthquake in 2010, Ribot founded the Frantz Casséus Young Guitarists Program in Port-Au-Prince, using funds from his former mentor’s publishing, which he’d inherited after Casséus’ death in 1993. The program, run jointly by the Haitian Music Company, Caracol and the Holy Trinity Music School, offers a haven for creativity and stability to low-income students.

Read an article Marc wrote on Frantz Casséus in 2003 for BOMB Magazine: http://bombmagazine.org/article/2540/frantz-casseus

4. THE GLOBAL BEAT FESTIVAL

Date: Monday, June 16 through Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Brookfield Place New York, Winter Garden (220 Vesey Street at the Hudson River)
Tickets: free
Genre: various world music

This festival explores music from around the world befitting the stunning acoustics of the magnificent, 10-story glass-vaulted Winter Garden. Each night pairs two groups from different traditions: opening night the stage is shared by two superb singer-songwriters France’s Mélanie Pain (of Nouvelle Vague (official)) with Haitian-Canadian chanteuse Mélissa Laveaux; night two brings one of the world’s greatest living artists Jivan Gasparyan from Armenia for his final New York performance together with the distinctly creative Iranian artist Kayhan Kalhor. Night three couples the quirky indie rock of Pakistan’s Poor Rich Boy with Kiev’s visually and sonically theatrical punk-folk quartet DakhaBrakha and closing night brings Istanbul Live back to New York with Mercan Dede’s Sufi electronica together with the exceptional The Secret Trio.

Line up:
6/16: dakhabrakha / Poor Rich Boy (and the toothless winos)
6/17: Mercan Dede / The Secret Trio (artists of ISTANBULIVE VI)

5. Father Murphy (Italy)/Drunken Foreigner Band/Rind (LA)/TBA

Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Time: 8pm – 12am
Venue: Death By Audio (49 S. 2nd St @ Kent Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11211)
Ticket: $8
Genre: indie rock/psychedelic noise/free-style/punk

Father Murphy (Italy)  http://fathermurphy.bandcamp.com/
Father Murphy is the sound of the Catholic sense of Guilt.
A downward spiral aiming at the bottom of the hollow, and then digging even deeper.
Father Murphy over the years became one of the most mysterious and enigmatic musical entities coming out of Italy, part of that community that Simon Reynolds and Julian Cope started to call the new “Italian Occult Psychedelia”.

Drunken Foreigner Band  https://drunkenforeignerband.bandcamp.com/
Thai style jam punk played by drunk tourists.

Rind (LA)
http://rind.bandcamp.com/
http://rindsound.gandi.ws/rind
Rind is the solo music project of Lee Relvas

+1 more TBA

6. ALON NECHUSHTAN

Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Cornelia Street Cafe (29 Cornelia St., NY, NY 10014)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz

Alon Nechushtan, piano;  Donny McCaslin, tenor sax;  Duane Eubanks, trumpet;  Chris Lightcap, bass;  Nasheet Waits, drums

” A talent to watch, with a surfeit of ideas, an unbridled spirit and bold, two-fisted sense of Architecture” – (Down Beat magazine 2011)

“Pianist and composer Alon Nechushtan will be bringing to Cornelia Street Cafe a Quartet of fantastic improvisers with “a loose-tight chemistry placing a premium on group interplay and at the same time encouraging individual solo expression, playing music from the upcoming album Venture Bound” –Bill Milkowski

7. 2014 #OUTLIKETHAT Festival presents YALINIDREAM + JENDOG LONEWOLF and KIRYA TRABER

Date: Thursday, June 19, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (2474 Westchester Ave, Bronx, New York 10461, 718-918-2110)
Tickets: $15
Genre:  a unique blend of Hip Hop, Theater, Poetry, and Dance

This thrilling double bill of theater and performance: Above Street Level, brings a unique blend of Hip Hop, Theater, Poetry, and Dance by partners in art and love Jendog Lonewolf and YaliniDream as they bring forth stories of their respective communities– West Indian (Grand Caymanian), Indigenous (Blackfoot and Cherokee) and South Asian (Sri Lankan Tamil). Writer-performer Kirya Traber‘s Overheard is a daring new solo work where she embodies a diverse cast of characters on a subway ride across the city. Public and private collide as strangers encounter an unconventional individual who challenges their fundamental ideas of what it means to be female bodied, to be Black, and to be an artist.

ACCESSIBILITY & ACCOMMODATIONS:
Please email yalinidream@gmail.com for accommodations
* BAAD! has a wheelchair lift (please email to ensure staff is present during your arrival to operate lift)
* There are 12 stairs to the performance space

8. “A Solstice Summer of Indian Music” in Central Park, NYC with Camila Celin and Anupam Shobhakar on Sarod!

Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014
Time: 4pm – 8pm
Venue: Central Park /Central Park Conservancy (New York, New York 10022)
Tickets: free
Genre: Indian classical music

“A Solstice Summer of Indian Music” in Central Park, NYC!

Featuring Camila Celin and Anupam Shobhakar, two amazing Indian Classical musicians performing on Sarod.

Presented by HarmoNYom and Make Music New York, as part of the MMNY “World Music Tour” – Fete de la Musique (France/India in Central Park).

This incredible event will celebrate World Music Festival and World Peace Day.

4pm – Camila Celin on Sarod
Accompanied by Roshni Thompson on Tabla

5:30pm – Anupam Shobhakar on Sarod
Accompanied by Tejas Tope on Tabla

Location: Central Park/The Dairy Lawn
Mid-Park, 65 street (Entrance on West 59 Street and 6 Ave), NYC

Free – All Welcome

More info: http://makemusicny.org/summer-schedule/2014/features/world-tour/by-land/

9. CHAT LOGS Shea Summer Sesh w/ Beech Creeps+Ultrasphinx+Ballroom+Brat Pit

Date: Saturday, June 21, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Shea Stadium BK (20 Meadow St., Brooklyn, NY, 11206)
Tickets: $8
Genre: metal/noise/indie rock

Join Chat Logs
in summoning the summer solstice
with a surly Shea Stadium sesh

STARRING

Chat Logs
(the guy who won’t leave the party)
http://chatlogs.bandcamp.com/

Beech Creeps
(your uncle with his shirt off. mems Pterodactyl/Kyfe Hytz)
http://beechcreeps.bandcamp.com/

Ultrasphinx
(puffy buddies from Akron, OH that pack a punch)
http://ultrasphinx.bandcamp.com/

Ballroom
(new group w/ mems Degreaser/Total Abuse these dudes rule! Also, Australian)
http://ballroomny.bandcamp.com/

BRAT PIT
(dizzy vizzies)
www.facebook.com/entertheBRATPIT

10. 75 Dollar Bill w. special guests

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2014
Time: 8pm and 10pm
Venue: Troost (1011 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: Wood / Metal / Plastic. Pattern / Rhythm / Rock

Rick Brown was born in San Francisco, CA and is a clerical worker at a law school in NYC. And Che Chen was born in New Haven, CT and works for a cancer diagnostics company in Stonybrook, NY. They met via myspace and started playing together as 75 Dollar Bill approximately eight years later. Brown plays percussion and homemade horns and Chen plays electric guitar. Returning on trumpet, perc. and more is Rolyn Hu, and our new wrinkles will be courtesy of Steve Maing on second guitar.

11. Mick Rossi’s Anti-Matter

Date: Saturday, February 21, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $15
Genre: jazz/modern music

Mick Rossi’s Anti-Matter with Billy Drews, Ron Horton, Marcus Rojas, Kermit Driscoll and Michael Sarin.

Brooklyn pianist, composer, percussionist, conductor, leader and arranger Mick Rossi — currently on tour with Philip Glass — is known for his diverse work in the New York Downtown scene and beyond.  He has performed and recorded with artists Alex Acuña, Steven Bernstein, Mark Dresser, Billy Drewes, Dave Douglas, Mark Egan, Peter Erskine, Eric Friedlander, Philip Glass, Eddie Gomez, Gerry Hemingway, Ron Horton, Andy Laster, Pat Martino, Michael Pedicin, Jr., Michael Sarin and Cuong Vu, to name a few.

Rossi is a regular as leader and sideman on several different ensembles, including, among others, his “They Have A Word” Quintet, the Anti-Matter Band (Featuring Drewes, Horton, Sarin and Davilla), and the Kermit Driscoll Quartet.