No need to leave Park Slope the next two nights as there are shows
worth your attention Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday, the July show of
The Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange will be held a Union Hall. Here's
what they say about tonight's bill: "This show with be an in-the-round evening lead
by Rebecca Pronsky and
featuring local artist Rod Alonzo, plus
southern belles Shannon Wurst
(from Fayetteville, Arkansas) and Rebecca Loebe (from Atlanta,
Georgia). The four 
songwriters will perform solo, each sharing a song,
then onto the next and so on, and back round again."
Brooklyn Songwriter's Exchange, Union Hall, 702 Union Street (just east
of 5th Avenue) Monday, July 20, 7:30PM doors, 8PM show, FREE
On Tuesday, Robbie Fulks and Jenny Scheinman return to Barbes for what
will your next to last chance of catching them together, probably
ever. Here's what Robbie has to say about this:
"Gimme just one more last chance! Jenny Scheinman and I did the 'last' of our Barbes (9th St. and 6th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn NY) duo
series a couple weeks ago. Turns out we jumped the gun. The other day
as we were sitting at her apartment, staring morosely at each other,
separated only by a moldering bowl of granola and a heaving sack of
amniotic fluid, it came to us of a sudden — before long one of us will
be living in another town and the other toting a howling homunculus in
a papoose and probably done with music altogether, and in the meantime,
here we sit with hands under buttocks, scanning each others' distended
stomachs, adrift in pointless envy of Ryan Adams. Why not 'put our
hands to good use,' to quote Arturo Gatti's trophy bride?
"To
summarize: fiddle and guitar, very pretty singing music, hipster
nightspot, no cover, all remaining Tuesdays in July at 7PM."
Robbie Fulks and Jenny Scheinman, Barbes, 376 9th Street (just east of
6th Avenue), Tuesday, July 21, 7PM, No cover but $10 suggested donation.
–Eliot Wagner