1. Ménage
Date: Monday, August 18, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Mercury Lounge (217 East Houston St., New York, NY 10002)
Price: $10
Genre: power pop
Toronto-based, progressive, power-pop trio Ménage features three siblings, Basilio Fernando (guitar/vocals), Bela (keyboard/vocals), and Gabriel (drums/percussion) Ferreira. With family based in a small town in Portugal, the three Ferreira siblings combined their traditional roots with worldly experiences and those spent with their parents’ extensive vinyl collection during long Canadian winters, establishing the eclectic but accessible sound of Ménage.
Menage released the radio-friendly, anthemic track, “Our Time is Now,” an introduction to their forthcoming EP, the second in a series of four mini EP’s, due out October 14, 2014. This gleaned two nominations at the International Portuguese Music Awards in Massachusetts in March of 2014, as well as wins for Rock Song of the Year at the International Portuguese Music Awards (presented by guitarist Nuno Bettencourt (Rihanna, Extreme)). The song’s momentous feedback led to performances at Portugal Week 2014 alongside Deolinda (EMI Portugal) in Toronto, Portugal Day in NYC’s Central Park, and Portugal Day Montreal, Canada. Ménage was also requested to perform at Toronto’s Portuguese Walk of Ceremonies in the heart of the city’s downtown core, and received significant airplay on various college radio stations and specialty radio shows throughout the US.
2. JC4
Date: Monday, August 18, 2014
Time: 10pm
Venue: Whynot Jazz Room (14 Christopher Street, New York, New York 10014, 646- 756-4145)
Ticket: $10
Genre: jazz
Trombonist/composer/conductor JC Sanford is a musician of rare breadth, deeply rooted in the traditions of Jazz and Classical music, yet constantly pushing at their boundaries. Equally at home in many roles, Sanford works regularly as a composer, performer, arranger and conductor.
JC4 makes another rare Manhattan appearance at Whynot Jazz Room on Monday, August 18 at 10pm.
JC Sanford – trombone, tunes
Mike Baggetta – guitar
Dave Ambrosio – bass
Russ Meissner – drums
3. Zebedee Row & Skye Steele
Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Handy Liquor Bar (527 Broome St NY, NY 10013)
Price: $t.b.a.
Genre: folk
Zebedee Row and Skye Steele team up again to play some classic and original folk jams at Soho’s new Hotspot, The Handy Liquor Bar.
4. Alejandra Ribera
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Time: 9:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $15
Genre: singer-song writer/pop music
Confident, vulnerable, and sensual, Alejandra Ribera’s new cosmopolitan folk-pop album La Boca chronicles in polyglot fashion personal journies from Paris to Malaga, from Quebec to the moon. With harp and steel guitar, her choruses are catchy and songwriting is stellar.
“The three Bs are big in my life: Bjørk, Bette Midler, and Billy Connolly,” she says of her top influences.
Her sound, unmistakable as it is undefinable, has garnered the attention of her contemporaries. She was invited to sing “I Am Cuba” on the Skydiggers album She Comes Into the Room and performed alongside blues queen Jackie Richardson, Steven Page (ex-Barenaked Ladies), Teddy Thompson, the Art of Time Ensemble and Quartetto Gelato at Koerner and Massey Hall respectively.
Alejandra has recently interpreted her song “Night Swan” (translated into French by Jim Corcoran as “Le cygne…la nuit”) with Luc de la Rochelière at Studio 12 in Montreal for a special CBC/Radio-Canada series called RENDEZ-VOUS. Alejandra also appeared twice on the popular French Quebec music TV show “Belle et Bum”, at the Montreal Jazz Festival and participated in the Lhasa de Sela tribute held in Montreal, “Hommage à Lhasa”.
5. Food Will Win The War
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Pete’s Candy Store (709 Lorimer St, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Tickets: no cover
Genre: accordion-infused, violin-tinged glockenspiel rock
Food Will Win the War performs a special weekly series of concerts at Pete’s Candy Store every Wednesday in August 2014
Wednesday, August 20th – 10:00 PM
Wednesday, August 27th – 10:00 PM
Food Will Win the War is comprised of: Rob Ward (Lead Vocals and Guitar), Jeffrey Young(Violin and Vocals), Kyra Michelle (Vocals, French horn and Glockenspiel), Scott Stein(Keyboards, Vocals and Accordion), Matt Epstein (Bass), Dan Barman (Drums).
“…tastefully layered alt folk with a chamber rock slant… from uplifting danceable odes to dreamy melodic and drifting soundscapes.”
-Creative Loafing
6. Tomas Doncker BAND
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: Milk River (960 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York 11238)
Tickets: $15
Genre: blues, funk, afro-beat
Starting this Thursday, August 21, Milk River in association with True Groove Global SOUL presents a weekly Global Soul Celebration. Kicking off this collaboration will be the Tomas Doncker BAND in an evening of blues, funk, afro-beat featuring special guests. NO COVER NO MINIMUM (but please support Milk River as you can)
7. Dawoud
Date: Thursday, August 21, 2014
Time: 7pm
Venue: Namaste Bookshop (2 W 14th St, New York, New York 10011)
Tickets: $10
Genre: new age
Namaste will present Dawoud in a music meditation. Dawoud is a musician, composer, improviser, writer, author, and volunteer Islamic / Sufi Minister for the New York City Department of Corrections. He will lead a music meditation with live improvised music and poetry. Using a blend of acoustic and electronic sounds, and modern and ancient musical forms, Dawoud will open your spirit to a healing and instructive experience. Discover the value and spiritual benefits of mystic music in this unique and beautiful gathering.
The music offered during this session has never before been performed. Join us; allow the music to awaken something in you.
8. X
Date: Friday, August 22, 2014
Time: 8pm
Venue: CITY WINERY (155 Varick Street, between Spring & Vandam, NYC)
Ticket: contribution
Genre: punk rock
Three decades after the inception of X, one thing is clear: X was not only one of the most influential bands to crash out of the punk movement of the late ‘70s, but the band’s music continues to be sonically groundbreaking today. Songs written during the group’s inception are as relevant and inventive today as they were in 1977.
9. 1001 Nights: A Rock Opera
Date: Friday, August 22 through Saturday August 30, 2014
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: WOW Café Theatre (59-61 East 4th, New York, New York 10003)
Ticket: $18 (general admission), $15 students, seniors, poor artist, $10 via the “donate” button on our website www.TheKandake.com(as part of our fund-raising campaign)
Genre: rock opera w. Hip Hop, Rock and World Music
Scheherazade is no longer a Queen staving off execution by her cruel husband but a woman condemned to death by the criminal justice system.
1001 Nights: A Rock Opera features stories from the Middle East, North Africa, India, China and Greece and an original musical score consisting of Hip Hop, Rock and World Music.
We will explore what it means to be the “minority” in terms of ethnicity, religion, sex and sexual orientation within society particularly as it relates to the American prison-industry complex.
