There are two fine shows right here in the neighborhood tomorrow
night.  They are pretty much mutually exclusive, but each promises to
be good in its own right.

Robbie Fulks and Jennie Scheinman:  After spending six months living in
Windsor Terrace and then returning to his home base of Chicago, Robbie comes back to his Brooklyn base of Barbes for another set with Jennie
Scheinman.  If you missed their run at Barbes this past spring, you owe
it to yourself to hear Robbie and Jennie play guitar and fiddle,
respectively, on a variety of country, blues and the like.  Since
Robbie has just finished a nine year in the making Michael Jackson
tribute album, you might even hear something from that too.  And as
Robbie notes on his website, you'll get half off of drinks if you find
Jennie a babysitter.

Robbie Fulks and Jennie Scheinman, Barbes, 376 9th St. (corner of 6th
Ave.), 7pm, $10 donation strongly suggested

Leslie Mendelson and Jim Boggia:  Part of the monthly Acoustically
Related series at Southpaw.  If you haven't already memorized what I've
written about her previously, I'll mention again that Leslie plays
piano, writes great melodic songs in the adult pop vein, knows how to
pull out an inspired cover at the right time and will leave you smiling.

Jim Boggia is a Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter.  You can call his
songs rock or pop or both.  Jim seems to know every song written over
the past 50 years and at times seems poised to play some or even all of
them in his set.  And his shows are not only great musically, they are
funny as well.

Acoustically Related, Southpaw, 125 Fifth Avenue (between St. Johns and
Sterling Places), 8pm doors, 8:30pm Leslie Mendelson; 9pm Jim Boggia;
$10

 –Eliot Wagner