Friday
Apr 04
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Kathi Georges, host
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The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Rick Mullin featured poet.
Rick Mullin is a journalist and painter whose poetry has been published in several print and online journals, including Relief, The New Formalist, Contemporary Sonnet, and The Barefoot Muse. His poem “Shrine to Satan” was nominated by Shit Creek Review for a Pushcart Prize in 2007. While Mullin writes almost exclusively in metrical verse form, he has a penchant for the unconventional. His new chapbook, Aquinas Flinched, for example, includes a three-part explication of The Theme from Shaft made up of a sonnet, a villanelle, and a segment of free verse. Mullin will read from Aquinas Flinched, which is published by Modern Metrics, New York, as well as from a work in progress,… which is something completely different.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
ALICE - CD RELEASE PARTY
Seth Fruiterman, vocals, accordion;
Kyle Saulnier, woodwinds;
Leena Gilbert , violin;
Amali Premawardhana, cello;
Michael MacAllister, guitars;
Moppa Elliot, bass;
Rohin Khemani , tabla, percussion
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With Seth's beautifully subtle soundscapes and Kyle's
infectious intensity, the two highly-caffeinated composers
have created Alice, a unique outlet for their original compositions as
well as their you've-never-heard-it-like-this covers. Drawing
from influences as varied as classical music, folk, jazz, rock,
pop, commercial jingles, and even video game music, Alice brings a seductive, singer-songwriter quality to all their
performances. Equally at home in both a complicated written arrangement and a spontaneous
group improvisation, it is a unique, genre-less sound that is alluring, accessible and organic.
Cover $10
www.myspace.com/alicethebandnyc
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Saturday
Apr 05
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6:00PM
THE LIAR SHOW
Andy Christie
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Seek Truth. Get a T-Shirt.
4 Storytellers, 3 True Stories, 1 Pack of Lies. Uncover the liar and win a prize worth its weight in fool's gold.
JAMERS BRALY - NPR; "Life In A Marital Institution"
J. KEITH VAN STRAATEN- "What's My Line? Onstage"; "Beat The Geeks"
OPHIRA EISENBERG - Comedy Central; US Weekly’s Fashion Police
PETER LUBELL - Producer, director NPR; Independent Film Channel
Host ANDY CHRISTIE - "I Wasn't Kidding"; NY Times
Cover $12
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
ANDREW RATHBUN QUARTET - CD RELEASE
Andrew Rathbun, saxophones;
Shane Endsley, trumpet;
John Hebert , bass;
Jeff Hirshfield , drums
Join Andrew Rathbun for the CD Release Celebration forAffairs of State his latest release on
SteepleChase which is an examination of the political climate in the US over the past seven years.
Andrew Rathbun's Affairs of State is a collection of demanding post-bop
pieces, full of tension. "We Have Nothing But Tears" is a haunting melody,
as is the elegant, sorrowful "5th Anniversary" (written on the fifth anniver-
sary of September 11, 2001). Rathbun and Haskins enrich one another's
playing in the richly textured "Paint Peelings," while "Break the Chains" is a
driving number, with the band progressing through all 12 keys in eight bars.
This is compelling music, regardless of whether or not a listener buys into
Rathbun's political views.
- ALLMUSICGUIDE
Andrew Rathbun is an artist who takes chances with his recordings. You
don't hear any paint-by-the-numbers jazz discs from him.
ALLABOUTJAZZ
http://www.andrewrathbun.com
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Sunday
Apr 06
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6:00PM
FRED ASTAIRE MEETS DR SEUSS
Poez
"After decades away a spoken word pioneer returns" New York Times
"A voice musician . . . a flow of words like a river . . . like a jazz instrument" New York Daily News
"Etonnant et imprevu" Le Figaro
Poez (Paul Mills), legendary Village street performer from our earliest days, came in from the cold at Cornelia Street in the '70's, disappeared to Chicago in the '80's and San Francisco in the '90's. He became a civil rights lawyer. He has now returned to New York, where he makes his home.
You may saend in requests from his poetry menu to poez@poezthe poet.com:
CLASSIC
Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe
Because I Could Not Stop For Death Emily Dickinson
The Bells Edgar Allan Poe
Ecclesiastes The Bible
Eldorado Edgar Allan Poe
I Died For Beauty Emily Dickinson
If Rudyard Kipling
Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Not With A Club The Heart Is Broken Emily Dickinson
Ode To A Nightingale Percy Bysse Shelley
The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
Sea-Fever John Masefield
The Tyger William Blake
MODERN
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill Dylan Thomas
Footnote to Howl Allen Ginsburg
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T.S. Eliot
Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost
Sailing To Byzantium William Butler Yeats
Song of Myself 6 Walt Whitman
Song of the Open Road Walt Whitman
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Eve Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
HUMOR
Casey At The Bat Ernest L. Thayer
The Cremation of Sam McGee Robert Service
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll
ORIGINAL
Fred Astaire Meets Dr. Seuss
The Monotone
Never, Never, Never
Spontaneous Combustion
The Voice of the Invisible Guitar
Crack Wide The Black Threshhold
Secret Messages
The Perfect Cynic
To Be A Star
Love or Money
The Other Man
A Spy in the Kingdom of Silence
The Attack of the Taxicabs
B3D
I Wanna Sleep With A Genius
Mathematical Probability
Static Electricity
Paperback Novel
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
http://www.poezthepoet.com
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8:30PM
MIMA'AMAKIM
Jake Marmer, host
Jeremiah Lockwood ;
Steve Dalachinsky;
Jake Marmer;
Adam Shechter
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mima'amakim journal of jewish art Party: A Night of
Jewish Poetry & Music, ft. Jeremiah Lockwood (Sway Machinery), Steve
Dalachinsky, Jake Marmer, Adam Shechter, and more".
Cover $5
www.mimaamakim.org
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Monday
Apr 07
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6:00PM
MONOLOGUES & MADNESS
Tulis McCall, host
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An Evening of Original Monologues
No slamming, no judges, just great material, excellent actors and YOU
Come See These Amazing Daredevils
Perform Without a Net!!!
Eliza Bates, Deborah Carlson, Valerie David, Tiffany Esteb, David Goldman
Annette Guarrasi, Holli Harms, Taffy Jaffe, Julie Jin, Carl Kissin, Jennifer Loryn
Tulis McCall, Emily Mitchell, Niki Patton, Baz Snider, and Abbot Street.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
www.tulismccall.com
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8:30PM
AMRAM & CO
David Amram, piano, french horn, flutes, composition & surprises;
Kevin Twigg, drums, glockenspiel;
John de Witt, bass;
Adam Amram, percussion;
John Ventimiglia, actor
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"Welcome to 2008"
David Amram Quartet, with Kevin Twigg,
John Dewitt, Adam Amram , actor John Ventimiglia and surprise guests celebrating the publication of amram's new book,
"Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" classics of jazz, world music, spoken word and amram's compositions.
This series explores in his highly personable, generous and informal style the astonishing variety of David Amram's interests
and accomplishments--renowned composer of symphonic classical music, jazz compositions, improvisation, spoken word,
scat, he sits at the piano, schmoozes about music, about the greats, the beats, the obscure, the legendary; plays the French
horn, pulls out all kinds of instruments (flutes, drums, horns) gathered from his many circumnavigations of the globe, pulls in
guests drawn from just about every artistic walk of life.
Cover $10
www.davidamram.com
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Tuesday
Apr 08
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6:00PM
STORYTELLING
Barbara Aliprantis
Storytelling occurs the second Tuesday of every month.
Featured Teller: Bob "Bobaloo" Basey
Format: OPEN TELLING (6 to 7 minute limit), FOLLOWED by Featured Teller
Bob "Bobaloo" Basey, a life–long resident of Staten Island, began his storytelling career as a street performer over twenty years ago while living and studying in Rome. This storytelling troubadour plays flute, bells, drums and guitar and creates a unique blend of stories through song. When he's not presenting programs for the Board of Ed, performing in after school programs, or touring libraries throughout the five boroughs, Bobaloo can be seen traveling around the city making music, singing songs and spinning tales of fancy and stories from around the world. This past November Bobaloo was one of the featured tellers at the annual Ten Day Annual GIMISTORY Festival in the Cayman Islands.
Tonight Tracy Wright, Bob’s wife joins him center stage. Tracy’s day job, as Assistant Principal in an elementary school in Spanish Harlem, takes up much of her time nowadays, but she is a gifted musician/singer/songwriter and often accompanies Bob as he tells his stories and sings his songs. During the summer months, as THE GYPSY FLUTES, Bob and Tracy tour Renaissance Festivals, and travel to Europe telling stories and making music. Wait till you see this dynamic duo in action. They’ll have you singing, tapping your toes and having a GREAT time.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
MORRISON MOTEL
John Morrison, host
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John Morrison's monthly comedy quickie--some of the smartest, most politically savvy comedians in or passing
through NewYork make and unmake their bed here before some soon to be deported illegal third world alien comes in to clean
it all up . . .
Cover $10
www.myspace.com/morrisongod
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Wednesday Apr 09
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6:00PM
INTERCULTURAL POETRY SERIES
Andrey Gritsman and Laure-Anne Bosselaar , hosts
Vladimir Salimon;
Yuli Gugolev
Andrey writes : "Smashing event, two leading Moscow Russian poets are coming to visit, I'd like to do their readimg, some translations also. They are big guys." Andrey's not a small guy himself. The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming.
Two outstanding Russian Poets from Moscow: Vladimir Salimon and Yuli Gugolev
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
AMANDA MONACO GROUP
Amanda Monaco, guitar;
Michael Attias, alto & baritone saxophone;
Sean Conly, bass;
Jordan Perlson, drums
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Playing guitar has led Amanda Monaco to perform at the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Birdland,
Tonic, Joe’s Pub, and the JVC Jazz Festival, as well as other venues in the United States and Europe. Amanda has recorded
several CDs as both a leader and a sideman, and has shared the stage with musicians such as Milt Hinton, Steve Wilson,
Michael Blake, and Harvie S. As an educator, Amanda has served on the faculty of Berklee College of Music, New School
University, and the National Guitar Workshop and is the author of Jazz Guitar for the Absolute Beginner (Alfred Publishing). A
former student of Ted Dunbar, Amanda received a B.M. degree from William Paterson University in 1996, and will graduate in
2008 with a M.A. from The City College of New York. Tonight’s concert will feature new compositions in anticipation of the
group’s upcoming recording date for LateSet Records.
"Playfully restive compositions" - The New York Times
"A cliché-free, inventive player" - Jazz Times
www.amandamonaco.com
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Thursday
Apr 10
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6:00PM
POETRY
Angelo Verga, host
Samantha Barrow;
Elizabeth Haukaas;
Jon Keith Brunelle
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Samantha Barrow lives in New York writing poems, stories and lots of post cards. She is known to tour this country on her motorcycle giving performances and teaching Erotic Poetry Workshops to Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
Jon Keith Brunelle calls his work laptop storytelling: rapid-fire
digital slide shows comprising hundreds of vintage movie stills,
remixed to form satiric new stories that he tells in live voiceover.
His work has been featured at P.S. 122, Galapagos Art Space, Monkey
Town, and in New York gallery events. Jon is the founder of The
Psychasthenia Society, which produces full-evening multimedia story
shows in collaboration with video artists and laptop musicians.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
www.SamanthaBarrow.com
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www.psychasthenia.com
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8:30PM
GNU VOX: SEUNG-HEE HAN CD RELEASE
David Devoe, host
Seung-Hee Han, voice;
Matt Renzi, tenor saxophone and bass clarinet;
Pete Rende, piano and pump organ;
Kevin Thomas, bass;
RJ Miller, drums
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Seung-Hee is a Korean-born, NYC based jazz vocalist and composer. She
has studied and performed in the East Coast and South Korea with
American jazz greats such as Jerry Bergonzi, George Garzone, Dominique
Eade, Ran Blake and John McNeil to name a few, while receiving notable
reviews such as 'a unique voice' by the Boston Globe and 'a pioneer in
jazz voice' by MMJAZZ, the most renowned Korean jazz magazine among
many. She will be celebrating the release of her new album 'WAITING'
by SoRieN Productions with her quintet performing her original
compositions and arrangements of others in Korean as well as in
English infused with 21st century jazz and her Korean heritage. Check
out her web site, www.Seung-Hee.com
Cover $10
www.seung-hee.com
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Friday
Apr 11
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6:00PM
SON OF PONY
Roxanne Hoffman, host
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The Friday night legendary open mic poetry series.
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featured readers Maria Sassi and SWAPAN BASU.
Originally from the Bronx, MARIA SASSI, recently
became West Hartford's Poet Laureate. She has
conducted poetry workshops at The University of
Hartford for nine years and has studied with Richard
Wilbur. Her collection ROOTED WITH STARS, now in it's
second printing, is in the Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library at Yale. Other publications
include WHAT I SEE, a folio of poems about art, a
poetry video, FIVE OCEAN POEMS and a verse play,
DREAMS AND LOVES OF THE SEPTRE FAMILY.
DR. SWAPAN BASU is originally from Kolkata, India
and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry in US. He started
writing poetry few years ago to motivate students.
He received a silver bowel and medallion from
International Society of Poetry in 2004. He was
influenced by the 1913 Nobel Poet Rabindra Nath
Tagore, also from Kolkata, and translated few poems
that can be sung in original tunes.
Cover $7
(includes one house drink)
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9:00PM & 10:30PM
TONY MORENO QUINTET
Tony Malaby, saxophones;
Ralph Alessi, trumpet;
Jurgen Friedrich, piano;
John Hebert, bass;
Tony Moreno, drums
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Drummer Tony Moreno leads this Quintet featuring John Hebert on bass, Tony Malaby on saxophones, Ralph Alessi
on trumpet and Jurgen Friedrich on piano and keyboards. The rhythm section, Friedrich-Hebert-Moreno has performed and
recorded together for a number of years. Their fifth recording, and second for Pirouet Records, will be out in the Spring.
www.tonymalaby.com
www.ralphalessi.com
www.johnhebert.com
www.juergenfriedrich.net
www.pirouetrecords.com/home/artists.php?artist=ART3044
Cover $10
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April 04-April 11, 2008 
