TGIF and movies are the thing this weekend with The King’s Speech at the Pavilion and Blue Valentine and Somewhere at Cobble Hill. The Interminable Suicide of Daniel Kitson at St. Ann’s Warehouse is garnering great reviews. Click on read more for all the essential details.
Movies
This weekend at the Pavilion: True Grit, The Fighter, Narnia, Yogi Bear, The King’s Speech, Black Swan, The Dilemma
This weekend at BAM: True Grit, The Fighter, The King’s Speech, Black Swan
This weekend at Cobble Hill Cinema: Blue Valentine, Somewhere, Black Swan, The King’s Speech, True Grit
Music
Friday, January 14th at The Rock Shop at 8PM: The Snow
Friday, January 14th at Zora Space at 8PM: Lelo Nika Trio. Lelo Nika (Лело Ника) is a Serbian-born Romanian-Romani accordionist who lives in Denmark. He plays a mixture ofBalkan, jazz, and especially Romanian music. He originally comes from the multiethnic town of Nikolinci near Belgrade, Serbia, which has a large Romanian population. He moved with his family to Helsingør, Denmark in 1970 for 3 years, starting in 1979 he studied under Serbian accordionist Branimir Dokić. He is currently studying at the Malmö Academy of Music in Sweden and the Danish Accordion Academy and has twice won first prize at the World Accordion Championship.
Saturday, January 15th at Zora Space: Sotto Voce , the brand new concept/group/album from the extraordinarily gifted and wide-open mind of saxophonist/composer/songwriter Roy Nathanson. The group features his fellow Jazz Passengers Curtis Fowlkes and singing bassist Tim Kiah The album features six infectious new songs and/or stories by Nathanson, as well as an interpolation of Bobby Hebb’s mid-60s R&B/pop smash “Sunny” and a gorgeous reading of great Jazz composer Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s “The Inflated Tear” with new lyrics by Roy Nathanson.
Saturday, January 15th at The Bell House doors open at 7:30 PM: O’Death. Five guys, maybe three shirts between them, take to the stage. Theres a banjo, a fiddle, a drum set littered with gas cans, chains, and broken cymbals. Then they all start howling, stomping; its an anachronistic jug band party in a junkyard with sing-along hooks and weathered vocals from another time. Their fans, an ever-expanding congregation, sing along and follow the band with an almost religious fervor, and as vocalist Greg Jamies eyes roll back into his head theres a sense that something almost sinisterly spiritual has overtaken everyone in the room. This is the world of ODeath. — Billboard
Saturday, January 15th at The Rock Shop at 8PM: The Depreciation Guild.
Theater
This weekend at the Heights Players: Women Behind Bars. Campy, raunchy, good fun directed by Ted Thompson. Great acting. See it! Through January 23rd.
This weekend at St. Ann’s Warehouse: The Interminable Suicide of Daniel Kitson. From the NY Times: “Daniel Kitson’s sentences are like fast-growing mutant super-vines, sending out sticky tendrils that dig into your attention and snake themselves all over it. “Burgeoning” is a word often uttered by this shaggy British monologist in “The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church,” his one-man show at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn. “This burgeoning delay,” he might say, as well as the more expected “burgeoning friendship.” And (though I never thought I’d use this word in writing about a theater performance), burgeoning is the perfect description for Mr. Kitson’s irresistibly overgrown style>”