1.Roberto’s Winds Jazz In Times Square Calendar of Events

Roberto’s Winds is happy to announce the Jazz in Times Square series is resuming this month, starting March 15th and going every Monday through April 26th.

Date: Monday, March 15th
Times/Artists: 8pm Ingrid Jensen Quartet and 10pm Joel Frahm Quartet
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s Limerick Bar (149 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) Ticket: $10-no minimum
Genre: Jazz

2. Habib Koite

Date: Tuesday, March 16th
Time: 8pm
Venue: Highline Ballroom (431 W 16th St.,New York, NY 10011,between 9th and 10th Ave, (212) 414-5994)
Ticket: $25
Genre: Mali, African Pop

Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa’s most popular and recognized musicians.

3. Le Poisson Rouge Presents:King Missile (Dog Fly Religion)

Date: Thursday, March 18th
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street & Thompson, NY, 212-505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: nu folk, anti-folk?, avantgarde?

Opening act: Mixel Pixel

This will be a new version of the original band featuring:
John S. Hall – vocals, Stephen “Dogbowl” Tunney (Dogbowl) – guitar, vocals, John Kruth (TriBeCastan) – mandolin, guitar, flute, green machine, vocals, Dave Dreiwitz (Ween) – bass, Billy Ficca (Television)– drums and special guests: Justin Kantor on cello and Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS) on soprano sax!!!

3.Scissormen

Date: Saturday, March 20th
Time/band: 8 pm Emil Menasche, 8:45pm Anodyne Blues Band, 9:50 Rockstellar, 10:45 Scissormen (two sets), 12:45 Violent Stones
Venue: The Delancey Bar & Nightclub (168 Delancy Street, 212-254-99200) Ticket: $10
Genre: Blues

More about Scissormen please read  Augusta Palmer’s pre-view.

4.Tango Casenave

Date: Saturday, March 20th
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at NYU (566 Laguardia Place at Washington Square South,
New York)
Tickets: $30, $35, WMI Friends $25, $30, students $18
Genre: Tango

Pianist and composer Gustavo Casenave, one of Uruguay’s most celebrated artists, directs a captivating evening of passionate and sensuous tango, tango-tap, new tango music, and live painting featuring leading New York-based artists.

5. Gaida & Levantine Indulgence – Album Release Show and Arabic Mother’s Day Special!

Date: Sunday March 21, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge
Tickets: $15 (advance), $20 (door)
Genre: Arabic, Middle Eastern
Vocalist Gaida is known for her original and highly personal style marked by great emotional intensity. The “Syrian Nightingale” “evokes the emotional storminess of legendary singers like Warda and Om Kalthoum,” but her remarkable abilities to improvise and expand on traditional Arabic maqams “suggest all new exotic possibilities.”
In her debut album Levantine Indulgence Gaida exposes her innermost emotions using her powerful yet refined and expressive voice. Each song is at its core about love, longing and caring.