Nora York, singer, performance artist, and Joe’s Pub favorite, presents her new multimedia concert: Fables and Yarns. The concert will bring the post pop history painter, Jerry Kearns’ images to Joe’s Pubs’ big screen. Riffing off of Kearns’ images, York’s compositions will jump cut through American culture, as she fact checks rapid fire shifts in the narrative. Fables and Yarns will join the vision of these two iconic artists, as they, “keep an eye on things.”

York’s last two musical adventures, Water Water Everywhere, (commissioned by the Robert Rauschenburg Foundation, and presented at Joe’s Pub 2013) and Jump, (produced by the Public the Theater for the Under the Radar Festival, 2011) embraced Baroque and Classical operatic musical sources. York will return to her love of Rock and Roll, Country, and Gospel music for Fables and Yarns.

Joining York will be her Amazing Band with Jamie Lawrence, piano; Dave Hofstra, bass; Steve Tarshis, guitar; Peter Grant, drums; and Sherryl Marshall, voice

“Ingenious, radical, extravagant talent… The Avant-garde diva…This daring vocalist and conceptualist is able to turn her ruminations into fascinating musical explorations. York is sure to take it to parts un-dreamed of.” –The New Yorker

8. Lauren Lee “Space Jazz” Trio

Date: Thursday, July 10, 2014
Time: 8pm and 9:30pm
Venue: Choga (145 Bleecker St, New York, New York 10012
Tickets: $
Genre: jazz/improv

A midwestern transplant, Lauren Lee attributes her eclectic musical sensibilities to her rural roots and rapt fascination with harmony, rhythm, and “ear worms”. Her resume includes a diverse array of contemporary music. A graduate of NYU’s Graduate Program in Jazz Studies, she’s worked with some of the finest creative minds in the industry, including Gil Goldstein, Kenny Werner, Ralph Lalalma, Don Friedman, and Brian Lynch.

Concert Review: Lauren Lee Jazz Project – a boundary-pushing ensemble led by Lauren Lee, a highly skilled and very imaginative pianist and singer

9. Dream Seed

Date: Friday, July 11, 2014
Time: 7pm to 9pm
Venue: Havemeyer Park (New York, Williamsburg, New York 11249)
Tickets: $20
Genre: Shamanic chanting, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos…

Dream Seed is a two-hour sound bath hosted by members of Golden Drum and Didge Project. Shamanic chanting, mantras, overtone singing, Native American songs, indigenous music, didgeridoos, crystal singing bowls, bells, gongs, harmoniums, tuning forks and other overtone-emitting instruments are used to create an environment conducive to deep relaxation and inward investigation. Participants are led through guided meditations and sound healing practices designed to harmonize body, mind and spirit.

This month’s Dream Seed happens under the Full Moon in Capricorn.

In case of rain this event will be moved to Golden Drum

10. Falu

Date: Friday, July 11, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Rubin Museum (150 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011,  212-620-5000)
Ticket: $25
Genre: nu Hindi music

After sold out shows at the Rubin in 2011 and 2012, Falu is back at the Rubin by popular demand for a special Naked Soul concert featuring new, all-acoustic songs, and special guest Chris Washburne on trombone.

Falu is a classically trained Indian vocalist whose diverse musical repertoire captures both her traditional roots as well as her unique ability in combining Hindi music with an inventive rock.

11. Tara Kamangar – East of Melancholy: Piano Music from Russia to Iran

Date: Friday, July 11, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, ph: 212- 505-3474)
Ticket: $15
Genre: classical piano blending the best of Western and Middle-Eastern compositions

Praised by the London Evening Standard as a “huge talent” and by Gulf News as a “world-class musician who excels at blending the best of Western and Middle-Eastern compositions,” pianist Tara Kamangar’s repertoire ranges from Bach and Beethoven to rarely heard works by Iranian composers of the past century. She has premiered numerous piano works in renowned venues across the United States and Europe, including the U.S. premiere of Aminollah Hossein’s Concerto No. 2 to a capacity audience of over 3,000 at Oakland’s Paramount Theatre and the world premiere of Naji Hakim’s Esquisses Persanes pour Piano (Edition Schott) at the Shepherd School of Music. Other orchestral engagements have included Saint-Saëns’ Second Piano Concerto with conductor Loris Tjeknavorian and Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s Paganini Rhapsody with conductor Michael Morgan. An avid composer with a background in ethnomusicology, Tara wrote the original score for the prizewinning documentary “Fifi Howls from Happiness” (France/Iran), called one of the best films of 2013 by Le Monde, and has incorporated Kurdish folk music into her classical compositions.

Tara’s Delos release “East of Melancholy,” recorded at Skywalker Sound by producer and Grammy® winning engineer Leslie Ann Jones, juxtaposes works by Russian composers influenced by folk music from the Caucasus, with rarely performed pieces by Iranian, Armenian, and Tajik composers born in twentieth-century Iran. There has been a considerable interchange of musical inspiration in this region, given that much of the Caucasus was under Persian rule until as recently as the mid-nineteenth century. An honors graduate of Harvard University and London’s Royal Academy of Music, Tara resides in New York City.

12. 75 Dollar Bill w. special guests

Date: Saturday, July12, 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. There are guests: Returning on sax and percussion is Cheryl L. Kingan, on contrabass Andrew Lafkas and on viola Karen Waltuch. They’ve each ably helped us before but this is new, having all three together, and it’s the biggest gang we’ve stuffed into the Troost space yet! New stuff and old, 2 sets, at roughly 8:30 and 10:00. No cover, but we’ll pass a basket.

13. CSC Funk Band & The Dangles

Date: Saturday, July12, 2014
Time: 9pm
Venue: The Gutter (200 N. 14 St.,Brooklyn, New York 11211,718-387-3585)
Ticket: $5
Genre: funk/psychedelic/afro-beat

Spearheaded by Colin Langenus, the lead guitarist for prog-punk pioneers USA Is A Monster, CSC Funk Band celebrated its initial success by expanding the lineup to include players plucked from each point of the stylistic spectrum. Although initially concentrating on dancefloor-friendly funk jams, the embryonic group quickly grew out of its party-band britches by absorbing the diverse influence of i… See More

Allie – Drums/Percussion
Elizabeth Arce – Trombone
Wes Buckley – Alto Sax
Matt Clark (on tours) – Drums/Percussion
Dave Kadden – Oboe
Colin Langenus – Guitar
Jesse Lent – Bass
Jonny Mateo – Trombone
Matt Motel – Keyboard synth
Jimmy Thomson – Drums/Percussion