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Cover $12 (includes one house drink)
“Nós Novo offers a worldly mix of sea shanties, Celtic reels and airs, Brazilian soul and jazz spirit, played via a mix of strings and percussion instruments and the soaring voice of singer Jo Lawry. More amazing than the boldness of the mix is the seamlessness with which it all comes together on the band’s lovely new debut album…” --Time Out New York Cover $10 (includes one house drink) www.jamesshipp.com
"...a wonderful new player on the jazz scene..."- MARIAN MCPARTLAND, host of NPR's PIANO JAZZ Cover $10 (includes one house drink) www.julianpollackmusic.com
$5 with student i.d. Cover $10 (includes one house drink) http://timfergusonmusic.com/calendar.html
$5 with student i.d. Cover $10 (includes one house drink) http://www.newschool.edu/jazz/subpage.aspx?id=10114
No theme, no judging, no contest, just great fun, and stories with heart
Featured Teller: Thomas Pryor
and Cameo slots (5/7 minute limit) for as many tellers time will allow!
Thomas Pryor's work has appeared in The New York Times, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, A Prairie Home Companion, New York Press, Underground Voices Magazine, Opium Magazine Online, Our Town and Ducts. His story, "Madame Butterfly Goes Down" is part of Thomas Beller's anthology, Lost and Found: Stories from New York. He's written his first book, Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts. His blog is listed in the “Blog Roll” of The New York Times and his weekly radio show is featured on the Centanni Broadcasting Network. Recently, Thomas appeared on Channel 13's TV series, "Baseball: A New York Love Story."
Cover $7 (includes one house drink) www.yorkvillestoopstonuts.blogspot.com/ , www.barbaraaliprantisstoryteller.blogspot.com/
"Funny and musical" Daily News "Knows and cares about the music" LA Times "Charming" San Francisco Chronicle Cover $10 (includes one house drink) http://www.michaellydon.com
STREAMING LINK: www.youtube.com/user/MichaelLydon?feature=mhum
Plus an open mic, all welcome. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
"Ideal Bread embraces the fierce originality and rigor of Lacy's original music and remake it in an utterly distinctive way. Four and a half stars." Peter Margasak Cover $10 (includes one house drink) www.myspace.com/idealbread , www.joshsinton.com
Jenny Allen’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue, Esquire, More, Huffington Post andGood Housekeeping. She is the author of a book of fables for grown-ups called The Long Chalkboard, illustrated by her husband, Jules Feiffer. She produces and performs stand-up comedy evenings in Manhattan, has appeared in Spalding Grey: Stories Left to Tell, and is a participating storyteller for The Moth. Her one-woman show I Got Sick Then I Got Better has been seen in theaters, hospitals, universities and at cancer conferences around the country. In 2010 she received the “It’s Always Something” award from Gilda’s Club NYC.
Sally McElwain works as a graphic designer for Maimonides Medical Center. She is the editor of "Saving Grace: Blessing for the Family Table" and the author of "To the Happy Couple: How to Create a Great Wedding Toast with Style!" both published by Chronicle Books.
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose poetry has appeared in several print and online journals including Measure, Unsplendid, American Arts Quarterly, Crannóg and The Flea. His chapbook, Aquinas Flinched, was published by Exot Books in New York. His booklength poem, Huncke, was published this year by Seven Towers, Dublin. He is currently working on a long poem on the life of the painter Chaim Soutine. Rick lives in northern New Jersey.
Cynthia Weiner's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Open City, The Sun, and Pushcart Prize XXX. Her story "Aftertaste" received a Special Mention in the upcoming Pushcart Prize collection. Cynthia is the Assistant Director of The Writers Studio where she teaches advanced fiction. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featured poets are
Emily Keller is a journalist, creative nonfiction writer and poet. She writes about New York City, relationships, social inequality, perceptions and seasons. She likes cats named Harriet, rice with ketchup and Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Native New Yorker Matthew Hupert is a multimedia artist, poet and fiction writer. He believes the primary role of the Artist is to be the stick that your Zen master smacks you in the head with. He has four chapbooks and marks the evening with the launch of his first full length poetry collection, Ism is a Retrovirus.
The featured readings follow the fabulous Son of a Pony open reading at the cafe. Poet/convivial mistress of ceremonies Kat Georges hosts.
Doors open at 5:45 p.m.; the open reading begins at 6 p.m.
Admission is $7, which includes a free drink.
His quintet, Invocation, features a stellar not to be missed lineup of Vijay Iyer on Piano, Rudresh Mahanthappa on sax, Johannes Weidenmueller on bass and Dan Weiss on drums. The group will hit the studio the following week to record their sophomore album. With the musical results and subsequent accolades from their 2009 debut album, Things To Come, the music of Motherland Suite, promises to be at least as contagious and vibrant.
Motherland Suite draws upon the devotional qawwali music of Abbasi's Pakistani heritage. Qawwali is most commonly known in America through the body of work of the late great singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. For Invocation’s vibrant musical hybrid, Abbasi will attempt to tap into the essence of qawwali’s driving euphoric sound via instrumental jazz ensemble.
“Things To Come” is a group realization of a very ambitious batch of compositional notions. Abbasi is extremely successful in this pursuit. ” 4 1/2 Stars, DOWNBEAT
” Things To Come signals a new chapter in the evolution of a masterful musician and thinker. The music, though challenging, is steeped in emotion and imagination… captivating, fascinating and riveting.” - All About Jazz
Rez Abbasi makes NPR Best Of 2010 http://tinyurl.com/29ns8mf Cover $15 (includes one house drink) www.reztone.com
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek is a member of the world famous vocal quartet Anonymous 4, performing all over the world and recording many award winning CDs, including the Billboard chart-topping American Angels. She also has a reputation as a versatile and accomplished soloist,performing music from Bach to Babbitt. Recent solo work has included appearances with The Washington Bach Consort DC, the Bach Sinfonia DC, Carmel Bach Festival, The Folger Consort, Parthenia, and the premiere of new opera and concert works with Albany Symphony Orchestra´s contemporary music group Dogs of Desire. Jacqueline has also appeared as a soloist in the world premieres of Richard Einhorn’s new oratorio about Charles Darwin, The Origin, at SUNYOswego, and The Loathly Lady, a comic opera by Paul Richards and Wendy Steiner at the University of Pennsylvania.
British pianist Simon Mulligan celebrated his début aged 19 at London's Barbican Hall with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; a month later he recorded his first compact disc under the direction of Yehudi Menuhin. This led to a seven-year collaboration and friendship, culminating in what was to be Lord Menuhin's final concert in Dusseldorf, March 1999.
Described by The Times of London as 'the most abundantly gifted of pianists', Simon Mulligan performs and records internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. His most recent recordings include a disc of Beethoven sonatas and a live recital in Switzerland for Alexis Weissenberg’s Birthday. His first solo album for Sony Classical, “Piano” won great acclaim throughout Europe, South America and the Far East, and featured in various television, radio, and internet campaigns. He has made over twenty recordings for compact disc, including performances of Martinu's Triple Concerto (conducted by Menuhin), Rozsa’s Spellbound concerto with the BBC Symphony conducted by Slatkin, Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition, his own Suite for Piano and Orchestra, and the Nocturnes of Chopin. He has made four discs for the Nimbus label, including a première recording of music by pianist Alexis Weissenberg.
Amelia Campbell has been a working actor for over 20 years, on and off Broadway, in film and in television. Some favorites include “Our Country’s Good “ on Broadway(for which she was nominated for a Tony Award); the two hander “Tryst” at The Promenade, Abbie in “Desire Under the Elms” at ART; Hannah in “The Night of the Iguana” at BTF; “Philip Roth in Karthoum” with LAByrinth at the Public, and most recently, Hermia in “A Midsummer Nights Dream” at La Jolla Playhouse, and the Tim Blake Nelson film “Leaves Of Grass”. Amelia is honored to be participating in such a special evening. Cover $10 (includes one house drink) http://www.jacquelinehorner.com
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
December 12-December 19, 2010 
