1. MOTHERLOVE: An Evening of Art & Music for Every Mother Counts
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Time: 6pm to 9pm
Venue: Life on Mars Gallery (56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, New York 11206, 718-417-3935)
Tickets: $50, $150 or donation
Genre: exhibition and concert
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm Life on Mars Gallery hosts an exhibition and concert to benefit Every Mother Counts, an organization dedicated to informing and mobilizing new audiences to take actions and raise funds that support maternal health programs around the world. The organization was founded by global maternal health advocate Christy Turlington Burns in 2010. For more information, go to everymothercounts.org.
MOTHERLOVE will feature a wine and small bites reception, an exhibition of paintings by Joan Snyder, Michael David, Karen Schwartz and Farrell Brickhouse plus some beautiful quilts in the Gee’s Bend aesthetic from artists Loretta P. Bennett and Mary Lee Bendolph. PLUS musical performances by Martha Wainwright with special guest Marilyn Carino.
Tickets for MOTHERLOVE are two-tiered:
For $50 you will have admission to the event, food and beverage reception and musical performances.
For $150 you will receive all of the above plus a beautiful signed and numbered print: artist Karen Schwartz has created this original 22″ x 30″ Giclee print, Untitled #9, printed on Arches fine art paper, in a signed and numbered edition of 99.
2. Guy Barash: Facts About Water
Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: contemporary music/electronics/chamber
In celebration of Guy Barash’s debut album, Facts About Water on the Innova label, Roulette presents a retrospective of this intriguing composer’s recent works. The pieces programmed represent highlights of Barash’s past three years of activity and projects currently in progress. As with those on the album, this evening’s works are drawn from many areas of Barash’s œuvre, including operatic, vocal, electronic, chamber, and multimedia with each exploring his central interests of music in time and space, such as the abstract phenomena of simultaneity, synchronicity, and geometry as manifested in different contexts and idioms.
3. Kickstarter Party for A is for Aye-Aye
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 10:30pm
Venue: Anthology Film Archives ()
Tickets: $5
Genre: jazz/improv
Help us cap off off our Kickstarter campaign for this project with food and wine provided by Madiba Restaurant and appearances by Art & Picture Collection Librarian Billy Parrott, and director Augusta Palmer.
Plus musical guests SoSaLa‘s Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi, Ladell Mclin, Robert Poss, Libby Shapiro, and Trigger Jack and the Machine Guns will be playing a short, smooth set! Tickets are only $5 at the door.
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4. 20>>21
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Time: 8:30pm – 10pm
Venue: Spectrum (121 Ludlow, Second Floor, New York, NY, 650-400-5100)
Ticket: $12
Genre: modern music
20>>21 present Rewind and Fast Fast-Forward with Michael Vincent Waller
20>>21 collaborates with today’s emerging composers to curate deep concert experiences. Repertoire for each concert is carefully selected by the members of the ensemble and by the concert’s featured composer. Each piece reflects the composer’s influences and inspirations, and draws connections between music of the 20th and 21st centuries. 20>>21 embraces a relaxed concert atmosphere, inviting audience members to learn and interact.
The members of 20>>21 are accomplished musicians who are passionate for sharing new music with new audiences. In each performance the ensemble explains the personal and musical significance of the pieces chosen. Following each concert, audience members are invited to meet the musicians and the featured composer to ask questions and share feedback.
Program:
Michael Vincent Waller – Per La Madre e La Nonna (2012) for string trio
Michael Vincent Waller – Variazioni per Quintetto* (2014) for flute, piano, and string trio
Morton Feldman – Four Instruments (1975) for violin, viola, cello and piano
Erik Satie – Choses vues a droite et a gauche (1914) for violin and piano
Kaija Saariaho – Mirrors (1997) for flute and cello
Anton Webern – Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 (1914) for cello and piano
Aaron Copland – Two Threnodies for Flute and String Trio (1971)
Avro Pärt – Fratres (1971) for viola and piano
*World Premiere
Itay Lantner, flute
Jessica Park, violin
Erin Wight, viola
Clara Kennedy, cello
Yael Manor, piano
5. HURRICANES OF LOVE, INVISIBLE CIRCLE, PLAYER 2 & vliegmasjien
Date: Thursday, May 22, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: Pleasure Jail (603 Bushwick Ave)
Ticket: t.b.a.
Genre: electronica/nu folk/drone
THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INCREDIBLE SPIRITUAL GANGSTA EXPERIENCE! THIS IS THE UPSTAIRS AT THA SILENT BARN! BROOKLYN GET READY! THIS BE OFF THA MOUFUCKIN CHAIN!
HURRICANES OF LOVE – GANGSTA FOLK
INVISIBLE CIRCLE – SPIRITUAL DRONES, FIRST SET IN A LONG TIME
PLAYER 2 (RI) – INSANE ELECTRIC SOLO GUITAR ON TOUR WITH DA HURRICANE
vliegmasjien – ELECTRONICA FROM AMSTERDAM!
6. TECTONICS: Alvin Lucier’s “Criss Cross” with Stephen O’Malley & Oren Ambarchi / Eyvind Kang / Iancu Dumitrescu + more
Date: Friday, May 23, 2014
Time: 7pm – 10pm
Venue: The Issue Project Room (22 Boerum Place, Brooklyn, New York 11201)
Ticket: $20
Genre: contemporary music
Tectonics Festival New York opens with a special presentation of Alvin Lucier’s Criss Cross, featuring two pillars of experimental rock: Stephen O’Malley, a doom-metal legend of Sunn O)))) fame, and the celebrated guitarist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi. Originally premiered at Tectonics Glasgow in May 2013 and recently staged at Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, this is the duo’s first NY appearance.
7.Miles Davis Tribute
Date: Friday, May 23, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452)
Ticket: $10
Genre: fusion jazz
May 25th is Miles’ birthday so we are going to kick off the celebration Friday, May 23rd at ShapeShifter Lab. Well be performing your favorite Miles Davis cuts, circa 1970. (Bitches Brew, On the Corner, Live Evil and more!)
Featuring: Ari Folman Cohen – Electric Bass, David Freeman – Drums, Russel Kranes – Piano/Keyboard, Oren Neiman – Guitar, Tyler Sussman – Saxophone and special Guest: James Zollar – Trumpet.
8. Villa Delirium/Carol Lipnik
Date: Friday, May 23, 2014
Time: 8pm & 10pm
Venue: Jalopy Theatre and School of Music (315 Columbia Street Brooklyn, New York 11231)
Ticket: $10
Genre: folk songs of Germany, Ireland and the Balkans as well as murder ballads of the American South
The New York based Villa Delirium is a five piece ensemble whose uniquely ethereal sound has created a new Gothic folk music. Inspired by eerie traditional folk songs of Germany, Ireland and the Balkans as well as murder ballads of the American South, Villa Delirium writes and performs their own startling compositions, as well as a couple of choice covers including “Crystal Ship” by The Doors (sung in German and hailed as “Very Brechtian” by Doors’ drummer John Densmore) as well as Warren Zevon’s classic “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” done up as a haunting Celtic waltz.
From the tongue in cheek country waltz “Bar in Heaven,” to the hellfire rock n roll of “Turnin’ Up the Burners at Satan’s Steakhouse” to the wistfully nostalgic “Linden Trees,” Villa Delirium’s songs and truly unique instrumentation makes for deliciously macabre evening.
Villa Delirium is:
john von kruth – mandolin, guitar, banjo, penny whistle, voice
tine kindermann – saw, voice
kenny margolis – accordion, keyboards
doug wieselman – bass clarinet, clarinet
steve bear – pots, pans, boxes, various percussion
Carol Lipnik‘s music does more than evoke a shadow-world of mysterious, often misunderstood creatures, from sideshow freaks and b-movie monsters to love’s obsessive victims. It creates that world, bringing it into audible being through her stunningly versatile four-octave voice and expressive, impeccably crafted songs.
9. Harlequin creature presents NY Launch of Issue 5
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2014
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Silent Barn (603 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11206)
Ticket: $8
Genre: readings and performances
Readings by Meghan Forbes, Nathan Earl Rose, Andrew Sargus Klein & udp editors Daniel Owen, Emmalea Russo + Michael Newton!
Performances by
*The Due Diligence
*Twins of El Dorado
*The Relatives
*The Shoe Ins
Harlequin Creature is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit founded in 2012 in the state of new york. each copy of every issue is typed on an old typewriter, covers are letter-pressed, and then hand bound. contents of issue 5 include poetry and prose, music, and photography. more about what we do at www.harlequincreature.org
Ugly Duckling Presse is a nonprofit collective publishing poetry, translation, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists. UDP was transformed from a 1990s zine into a Brooklyn-based small press by a volunteer editorial collective that has published more than 200 titles to date. UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking.
10. Greek Rebetiko Trio plus
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2014
Time: 7:15pm
Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Greek rebetiko music
The Greek Rebetiko Trio was formed in Boston by Dimitris Mann and Panos Tsigkos. They came together in Boston and became friends sharing their common passion for authentic Rebetiko music. They started performing in the fall of 2013 and soon became the most popular Greek band of the city. Since then, the band has performed more than thirty shows in various venues in and around Boston, including the “Grecian Echoes” radio show last March. On Saturday May 24th they will be performing at the DROM, with George Galanakis on guitar, Alex Trampas on upright bass and Kostas Milonas on percussion.
11. Lael Summer
Date: Saturday, May 24, 2014
Times: 12:30am
Venue: Blue Note (131 West 3rd St., New York, NY 10012, 212-475-8592)
Tickets: $10
Genre: funk
Lael Summer is an expressive and sultry singer/songwriter bringing a fresh pop twist to classic soul. Born and raised in NYC, Lael’s love of music was apparent early on. By the age of 2 she could sing every song from the Sound of Music; by age 10 she was taking voice lessons and had her first showcase where she brought the entire audience to tears with her rendition of Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful.’ At 14, she opened for Jon Anderson of Yes at B.B. King’s singing Cat Steven’s ‘Peace Train.’ Currently Lael is a senior in The University of Southern California’s elite Popular Music program. In her freshman year she opened for Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band with a smoldering version of Sly’s ‘Thank You’ and Joplin’s ‘Piece of My Heart.’ – See more at: http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=12108#sthash.LxLPyVqq.dpuf
Lael Summer is an expressive and sultry singer/songwriter bringing a fresh pop twist to classic soul. Born and raised in NYC, Lael’s love of music was apparent early on. By the age of 2 she could sing every song from the Sound of Music; by age 10 she was taking voice lessons and had her first showcase where she brought the entire audience to tears with her rendition of Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful.’ At 14, she opened for Jon Anderson of Yes at B.B. King’s singing Cat Steven’s ‘Peace Train.’ Currently Lael is a senior in The University of Southern California’s elite Popular Music program. In her freshman year she opened for Gary Sinise’s Lt. Dan Band with a smoldering version of Sly’s ‘Thank You’ and Joplin’s ‘Piece of My Heart.’ – See more at: http://www.bluenote.net/newyork/schedule/moreinfo.cgi?id=12108#sthash.LxLPyVqq.dpuf
12. Bern Nix /Cheryl Pyle
Date: Sunday, Sunday 25, 2014
Time: 6pm to 7pm
Venue: Downtown Music Gallery (13 Monroe Street, New York, NY 10002-7351, Phone: 212-473-0043)
Ticket: free
Genre: improv/jazz
Bern Nix on guitar (Ornette Coleman) and Cheryl Pyle on flute will play music in the moment. Is it jazz…Yes.
