Category Archives: Music

Music

Niall Connolly To Perform at Ceol at Noon Today

Beach
Niall Connolly, an  Irish singer/songwriter will be performing at Ceol on Smith Street today. He describes himself on his MySpace page as an "International Folk Hero for Hire."

His influences include: Leonard Cohen, Gillian Welch, Belle and Sebastian, John Steinbeck, Bob Dylan, J.J. Murphy, The Frank and Walters, The Sultans of Ping, Nirvana, Woody Guthrie, and everyone in between. Friends, Life, Geography, Public Transport, Public Houses, Cork City Library, Cork City, Crosshaven, New York City, The F Train, the Glashaboy River, Good Teachers, Talking, Kindness, News, Weather, Mood, and Girls.

Ceol is located at 191 Smith Street in Cobble Hill near the Bergen Street station of the F Train.

The Where and When

Noon to 3 p.m.
Ceol
191 Smith Street
Brooklyn

Music

Tomorrow: Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange at Union Hall

Onseat
It's a monthly thang: the Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange. And on Monday,
March 16th they present another free night of great songwriters,
featuring Jen Clapp, Ethan Lipton, and Rebecca Pronsky at Union Hall.  

Monday, March 16
702 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY
7:30PM
Free show.

It could be worth a trip to Union Hall on Monday because these performers are garnering quite a bit of buzz:

About Jenn Clpp:

“Masterful new album…graceful and often majestic.” – Kingston Daily Freeman
"Absolutely beautiful." – Dar Williams

About Ethan Lipton
"Hilarious,
dark, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once… songs that take the
mundane of life and twist it." – NPR's Weekend Edition
"A sardonic voice that offers an unlikely kind of comfort against the vagaries of everyday life." – Popmatters

About Rebecca Pronsky:
"Pronsky's tunes are literate, passionate, and wry." – Time Out NY
"Songbird. With a brutal, cutting lyricism and a jazz trained voice, Ms. Pronsky is an act worth catching." - Ithaca Times
Music

Daniel Smith: Most Recorded Bassonist in the World to Perform at Kitano

Swingin_bassoon
Park Slope's Daniel
Smith, the most recorded bassoonist in the world and in recent years one of a handful of players in the world to adapt the bassoon to
the jazz idiom, will be performing with his quartet
Bassoon and Beyond at the Kitano Jazz Club on Park Avenue .

According to his daughter, this promises to be an exciting event which will highlight the music from
his jazz albums, Blue Bassoon, The Swingin' Bassoon, and Bebop
Bassoon. There will be two sets, at 8 pm and 10 pm.

The Kitano is an upscale jazz club, recently selected
as one of the 100 best jazz clubs in the world…. and the best part is
there is NO cover charge! 

His daughter writes:

"If you are free this evening, it would be wonderful to see
you there! And if you know of other people who would like to attend, please
spread the word and bring friends, family and anyone who loves jazz. It will be
for most of you the first time ever to hear jazz bassoon performed
live, as well as an evening of wonderful music for your
enjoyment."


The Where and When

March 18th
Sets at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
The Kitano
66 Park Avenue at East 38th
Reservations: 212-885-7719Great American and Japanese food – no cover charge!
  
early diners 7PM receive preferred seating                                                           

                         
Music

March 16: Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange at Union Hall

Onseat
It's a montly thang: the Brooklyn Songwriters Exchange. And on Monday, March 16th they present another free night of great songwriters, featuring Jen Clapp, Ethan Lipton, and Rebecca Pronsky at Union Hall.  

All of the artists will be performing with full bands and Rebecca Pronsky
will be releasing her new EP "The Best Game in Town" at this show.

Monday, March 16

702 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY
7:30PM
Free show.

About Jenn Clpp:
“Masterful new album…graceful and often majestic.” – Kingston Daily Freeman
"Absolutely beautiful." – Dar Williams

About Ethan Lipton
"Hilarious,
dark, sophisticated, schleppy and sad all at once… songs that take the
mundane of life and twist it." – NPR's Weekend Edition
"A sardonic voice that offers an unlikely kind of comfort against the vagaries of everyday life." – Popmatters

About Rebecca Pronsky:
"Pronsky's tunes are literate, passionate, and wry." – Time Out NY
"Songbird. With a brutal, cutting lyricism and a jazz trained voice, Ms. Pronsky is an act worth catching." - Ithaca Times
Music

Bell House Ticket Giveaway: The Whitest Kids U Know

 March_ax
Someone from The Bell House got in touch to say that they wanted to give away tickets to OTBKB readers to a live show by The Whitest Kids U Know.

They sounded familiar but I thought it was a band.

Turns out its a sketch comedy group with a hit television show on IFC. We don't get cable so sue me.

Why am I doing this? I'm not really sure but I like the word "free."

I've never seen their act so I can't say whether they're funny or not. I just figured maybe some OTBKB readers are into the show.

For the uninitiated, TWKUK is made up of Trevor, Zach, Sam, Darren and Timmy and they take on the culture's fascination with celebs, infomercials, office culture and potty hurmor.

From the sounds of it they are debauched and depraved. Want free tickets? Don't bring the kid.

Pertinent facts: The third season of the the show is currently on IFC on Tuesdays at 10 pm. They are on the road for their first ever World Tour. They've got a movie coming out called Miss March.

Here's
a link to venue website if you could please include as well, the show
is taking place @ The Bell House, Thursday, Feb. 26, 8:00 p.m. Tickets
– $15, 18+ (http://www.thebellhouseny.com/calendar.php)

There are also tickets for tonight's show.

louise_crawford(at)yahoo(dot)com

 

Music

Feb 11: Music to Watch Stan Brakhage Films By

At Issue Project Room of course. 8 pm at the American Can Factory. 232 Third Street near Third Avenue.

The Text of Light group was formed in 1999 with the idea to perform
improvised music to the films of Stan Brakhage and other members of the
American Cinema avante garde of the 1950s-60s (Brakhage's film 'The
Text of Light' was the premiere performance and namesake of the group).

The original premise was to improvise (not 'illustrate') to films from
the American Avante-Garde (50s-60s etc), an under-known period of
American filmic poetics.

Lee Ranaldo and Alan Licht
(guitars/devices), Christian Marclay and DJ Olive (turntables), William
Hooker (drums/perc), Ulrich Krieger (sax/electronics), and most
recently Tim Barnes (drums/perc) are in the group.

The group has performed Brahkage's The Text of Light, Dog Star Man, Anticipation of the
Night, Songs; Harry Smith's
Mahagonny outtakes, Oz-The Approach to the Emerald City, and Late
Superimpositions.

On Wednesday February 11th they are performing with the group, Slouching Towards Gemorrah, with Matt Heyner o No Neck Blues Band, Malkuth and bassist for Thurston Moore teams up with Jim Thomson
drummer of Bio Ritmo, Gwar, 

Music

Songs from the Hudson River: Joy Askew and Pulse at Barbes on 2/13

Kindred_spiritst
 One set at 8:00pm:

Joy Askew and Pulse present Songs from the Hudson River. Pulse is a New
York-based composers' federation dedicated to music that bursts through
categories, unconstrained by convention.

Members Joseph C Phillips,
Darcy James Argue, Jamie Begian, JC Sanford, Joshua Shneider and Yumiko
Sunami have chosen as their latest project a song cycle in honor of the
Hudson River Quadricentennial Celebration going on throughout 2009.

Songs from the Hudson River features singer Joy Askew with a 6-person
Pulse chamber ensemble in a dynamic melding of singer-songwriter and
classical chamber music sensibilities. Each original song is inspired
by historical, fictional, and contemporary life and communities on and
around the Hudson River. Joy Askew is an accomplished singer-songwriter
who has performed with Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Joe Jackson,
Jack Bruce and others, and also leads her own band.

For more information please visit pulsecomposers.typepad.com

Barbes
9th Street and 6th Avenue in Brooklyn
(F train to 7th Ave)
www.barbesbrooklyn.com