SEPTEMBER AT BARBES
Barbès is bar and performance space located in the Park slope section of Brooklyn. Our music is as varied as the borough itself and ranges from boogaloo to klezmer to avant garde, americana and classical music. Barbès is also host to screenings and readings.
This Month:
Rupa & The April Fishes - 09/03
Laura Cantrell - 09/25
Phyllis Chen - 09/12
William Parker & Cooper-Moore Duo - 09/17
Joel Forrester - 09/18
Mary Halvorson CD Release Party - 09/30
Marta Topferova - 09/30
and many more.
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Thu 09/02 8:00pm
SAL MANERI, FAMILY & FRIENDS
Featuring Mat Maneri, Ed Schuller & Andrew Green.
Hailed by the New York Times as “a disarming baritone” vocalist Sal Maneri has been performing professionally for over twenty years. A dedicated musician and educator, Maneri has played and recorded with Sir Roland Hanna, Richard Wyans, Paul West, Leroy Williams, Ed Locke and John Medeski.
Thu 09/02 10:00pm
RAYA BRASS BAND
Raya Brass Band gleefully mashes up the music of Eastern Europe with funky American dance grooves played by some of NYC's finest Balkan folk musicians. Greg Squared (clarinet), Ben Syversen (trumpet), Matthew Fass (accordion), Don Godwin (tuba) and EJ Fry (tupan).
Fri 09/03 8:00pm
ORAN ETKIN
Oran Ektin has performed around the world with musicians ranging from guitarist Mike Stern to rapper Wyclef Jean. Oran's latest album, Kelenia, features his working group with Malian Griot musicians as well as Lionel Loueke, John Benitez and a string quartet.
Fri 09/03 10:00pm $10
RUPA & THE APRIL FISHES
Rupa blends an alternative pop attitude with international spices, mixing in elements of Gypsy swing, Colombian cumbia, French chanson and Indian ragas. Time Out calls their sound global agit-pop".
Sat 09/04 8:00pm
SNEHASISH MOZUMDER
is among those few established musicians in India who has mastered the art of playing Mandolin, and has blended it perfectly into the style of Hindustani Indian Classical Music. He will be performing his trademark doubleneck mandolin along with Nick Gianni - Flute/Soprano/Bari Saxophone. Vin Scialla - Drums. Bopa King Carre - percussion. Jason Hogue - Upright Bass. Jason Lindner - keys, Sameer Gupta - tabla. Rick Bottari - keys.
Sat 09/04 10:00pm
BILL CARNEY'S JUG ADDICTS
Sans-Culottes founder and frontman Bill Carney has been leading various jug bands for over 23 years. His latest incarnation, the Brooklyn-based Jug Addicts, has earned a reputation for exciting live shows. Often a large formation, the Jug Addicts are characterized by their powerful, raucous approach to its jug band, old time, tin pan alley, early jazz and blues repertoire.
Sun 09/05 7:00pm
GINA LEISHMAN
sings the Gina Leishman songbook. Whether performing her own material or other people's, Gina has a way to make it her own. She is not only a wonderful composer and performer, she is also a rare singer capable of conveying the deepest emotion with utter precision, while never giving in to sentimentality. With Gina Leishman, Doug Wieselman, Charlie Burnham and Greg Cohen.
Sun 09/05 9:00pm
STEPHANE WREMBEL presents THE DJANGO EXPERIMENT
French virtuoso Guitarist Stephane Wrembel seems to have channeled both the technique and the fire of Django Reinhardt. He studied for years with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. His weekly sets will mix up the traditional Django repertoire along gypsy swing re-interpretations of standards. Every Sunday
Mon 09/06 9:00pm
CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbias. Back every Monday!
Chicha Libre plays a mixture of latin rhythms, surf music and psychedelic pop inspired by 1970's Peruvian music from the Amazon. The Brooklyn-based band mixes up covers of forgotten Chicha classics with French-tinged originals, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Greg Burrows - percussion; Joshua Camp - Hohner Electravox; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion.
Tue 09/07 7:00pm
JENNY SCHEINMAN
Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works with a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. When she is not touring the world, she can be found here most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup. After an abscence of two months, Jenny is back with Mary Halvorson & Ches Smith.
Tue 09/07 9:00pm and Every Tuesday.
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY. Fiery Gypsy brass, soulful Balkan anthems, and hip-grinding American funk: Slavic Soul Party! is just what it says. Brash and strong as slivovitz, these nine musicians have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City; their half-decade bacchanal is a destination for locals as well as brass and Balkan fans from around the globe. SSP!'s last four cds (Taketron, Teknochek Collision, Remixed, and Bigger) are all available from Barbès Records. John Carlson & Kenny Warren (trumpet), Peter Hess (sax/clarinet), Peter Stan (accordion), Tim Vaughn & Matt Musselman (trombone), Ron Caswell (tuba), Matt Moran and Chris Stromquist (snare/bubanj/Darabouka). $10.
Wed 09/08 8:00pm
STOCHASTIC BROOKLYN curated by Bethany Ryker. $10
SLEEPTHIEF
Rare performance featuring UK-based pianist, Liam Noble “The open soundworld made a fascinating contrast…characterised by remarkable tonal variation and great empathy with Noble's gritty piano textures, the music came into sharp focus when joined by Rainey's atmospheric drumming.” - The Times Ingrid Laubrock - sax, Liam Noble – piano and Tom Rainey drums.
Wed 09/08 10:00pm
THE MANDINGO AMBASSADORS. Every Wednesday
In the 1960's and 1970's, the government of Guinea engaged in a campaign known as Authenticité. It was a drive to create a new musical movement that would be specifically Guinean, but would include the modern wonders that were the electric guitar, the electric bass and the drumset. Musicians were given instruments and orchestras were formed. Surprisingly, the results proved mesmerizing and a myriad new bands were born. Many of them would go on to have a profound and lasting impact on African music. Mamady Kouyate was one of those pioneers. He played in various bands - his own band, Les Ambassadeurs du Mandingue, being one of them - but is probably best known as the guitarist in the the classic Bembeya Jazz National. Kouyate, who now lives in NY, has reformed the Mandingo Ambassadors, updating the sound of his youth, but keeping it very close to the standard of Authenticité. The new All-Star band includ es Ismael Kouyate - vocals; Mamady Kourouma - gu
itar; Oran Etkin - tenor sax & clarinets; Sylvain Leroux - flute, tambin and alto sax; Andy Algire - drums; Nick Cudahy - bass and Mamady Kouyate - guitar. “dazzling vocal and guitar patterns over a rhythm section that is like a perfect system” Ben Ratliff, NY Times.
Thu 09/09 8:00pm
STRING WIZARDS
An Evening of Rare Films and Live Performance.
Celebrating the Great String Instrumentalists of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s
THE WIZARD OF THE STRINGS is a half-hour film portrait of Roy Smeck (1900-1994), a star of 1920s vaudeville and master of the guitar, banjo, Hawaiian steel guitar, and ukulele. The film, which received an Academy Award nomination in 1986, will be introduced by its writer/producer, Alan Edelstein.
Followed by A SELECTION OF VINTAGE FILM CLIPS
Local film/video archivist Russell Scholl has dug deep into the vault to compile a selection of vintage jazz, pop and blues sights and sounds (Soundies, short musical subjects and more) (30 minutes)
PLUS SPECIAL MUSICAL GUEST / TBA
Fri 09/10 8:00pm
HOUSE OF STRIDE
Part performance-project, part-band, House of Stride From wanders from classic stride piano to old-school cabaret gems and re-imagined pop classics. With Allison Leyton-Brown - piano; Russ Meissner - drums; Jim Whitney - upright bass and special guest Daria Grace.
Fri 09/10 10:00pm
ROB CURTO'S FORRO DANCE PARTY
The band plays Northeastern Brazil’s traditional “forró pé de serra” performed with a style born out of New York City’s diverse and dynamic musical culture.
Sat 09/11 8:00pm
THE SOUNDS OF TARAAB. Music of Zanzibar.
A little over 100 years ago, the Sultan of Zanzibar sent his court musicians abroad to study. They returned and 'Taraab' was born. A spicy blend of East African Rhythms, Arabic modalities, and Indian influences,'Taraab' is sung in Kiswahili and is popular in the coastal cities of Tanzania and Kenya. "The Sounds of Taraab" features vocalist Alsarah accompanied by oud master Haig Manookian, Ismail Butera on accordion and vocals, Michael Hess on violin and nai flute, and a duo percussion team of Tiye Giraud and Nicole Lecorgne
Sun 09/12 7:00pm
BARBES CLASSICAL.
Barbès resumes its collaboration with the Concert Artist Guild to present some of the best new talent in the classical music world, every third Sunday of the month:
PHYLLIS CHEN
The toy pianist celebrates the release of her second mini-album, Mesmers, featuring all original works for toy piano, bowls, music boxes and electronics. Praised by the New York Times for her “delightful quirkiness matched with interpretive sensitivity,” Phyllis is a pianist, toy pianist and multimedia artist who performs original multimedia compositions and works by contemporary composers. Phyllis will also start a monthly residency at barbès in January 2011.
Wed 09/15 8:00pm
STOCHASTIC BROOKLYN Every Wednesday curated by WFMU's Bethany Ryker. $10 per set
EXPOSED BLUES DUO. BARE CD RELEASE. The ExPosed Blues Duo is a music-rolling, audience-hollerin’, earth-shaking collaboration between vocalist Fay Victor and guitarist Anders Nillson.
09/16 8:00pm
BIKE LANE
Leah Paul's new project takes an acoustic departure from her band The Bridesmaids, with a quartet inspired by bike riding in Brooklyn and 20th century music. Her band features Chris Speed (clarinet,) Jessica Pavone (viola,) Katie Young (bassoon,) and Leah Paul on flutes.
Fri 09/17 7:30pm
WILLIAM PARKER & COOPER-MOORE DUO. $10
Fri 09/17 10:00pm
THE MOONLIGHTERS
Gorgeous vocal harmonies interwoven with guitar and ukulele, the Moonlighters are as comfortable with classic Hawaiian melodies as they are innovative with their original songwriting. With Bliss Blood - vocals and ukulele ; Cindy Ball - vocals and guitar, Peter Maness - bass; and Mark Deffenbaugh - steel guitar.
Sat 09/18 8:00pm
JOEL FORRESTER AND THE TRUTH
Joel Forrester is best known for leading the Microscopic Septet along with Phillip Johnston - as well as having written the theme to NPR's Fresh Air....He has also been leadinghis quintet (which can sometimes be a quartet) for number of years. The band plays Forrester's compositions which go from his quirky re-interpretation of Hard-Bop (which he learned directly from his one time teacher Thelonious Monk ) to cubist boogies and other pure idiosyncrasies.
Sat 09/18 10:00pm
SAMBATOWN!
Authentic Samba and Pagode from Rio with all the flavor and ginga (swing) necessary to keep your feet moving. It's the sounds of Rio in New York; a shortcut to Lapa (a traditionally musical Rio neighbohhood). It's the party within. Not to be missed if you want to exorcize the gloomy vibes of winter. With Ronaldo China - Cavaquinho/Vocals; Ze Mauricio - Percussion/Vocals; Humberto - Percussion/Vocals and Sapel - Percussion
Mon 09/20 7:00pm
THE BEN HOLMES TRIO
The Ben Holmes Trio (featuring Holmes on trumpet, Vinnie Sperrazza on drums and Matt Pavolka on bass) plays original music influenced by Mr. Holmes' experiences with Jazz, improvised and Eastern European music. Peter Margasak of Downbeat magazine has written that ".. the trio emphasizes melody, and Holmes, whether employing a plush, ballad style or a hurtling, rhythmically elaborate fluidity, maintains impressive composure and a full-bodied tone ... this is jazz through and through."
Tue 09/21 7:00pm
KLEZMER JUICE
Bandleader and clarinet player Gustavo Bulgach was born and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A part of the large and active Jewish community there, he learned Klezmer music from his family at a young age. Inspired by the religious and secular life of the Argentine community, Bulgach, who now lives in Los Angeles , has traveled around the globe, finding that Klezmer music is the “soundtrack of the Diaspora.
Wed 09/15 8:00pm
STOCHASTIC BROOKLYN Every Wednesday curated Bethany Ryker. $10
CHRISTOPHER HOFFMAN’S SAD COMPANION.
DEBUT CD RELEASE
Christopher Hoffman – cello, bass & compositions with Christina Courtin – violin/voice, Ryan Scott - guitar, Frank LoCrasto – Rhodes and Bill Campbell – drums.
Thu 09/23 10:00pm
LJOVA AND KONTRABAND
Eastern-European and Gypsy melodies, Latin rhythms, Jazz-inspired improvisations, and deeply rooted Classical forms are given new meanings in original compositions with a nostalgic gaze towards the past. Founded by maverick film composer, arranger, and violist Lev 'LJOVA' Zhurbin --- hailed by Billboard magazine as "one of New York's fastest rising composers and instrumentalists" -- the ensemble also features his close collaborators on vocals, accordion, bass and percussion. Inspired by his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Osvaldo Golijov, the Kronos Quartet, the rapper Jay-Z and others, Ljova's compositions dazzle with intricate textures, odd rhythms and lilting melodies, creating music that is both fresh and timeless.
Fri 09/24 10:00pm
HOWARD FISHMAN
draws from folk and jazz sources such as Django Reinhardt, Charley Patton and Ralph Stanley and filters them through the gritty sensibility of a latter day Lou Reed.
Sat 09/25 8:00pm
Russell Scholl presents a special screening.
NOW LET US PRAISE FAMOUS WOMEN
Local film/video archivist Russell Scholl returns with a program of musical performances from the past. Tonight the spotlight is on women, and will include vintage Country, Jazz, Pop, Blues and Gospel performances by great American women of the 20th century. Included will be rare musical short subjects, Soundies, television and film appearances. Live music by Laura Cantrell follows.
Sat 09/25 10:00pm
LAURA CANTRELL
The WFMU DJ and country singer has been called "the most vital new country voice in decades" by The Independent. She has just released her first album in three years, "Trains and Boats and Planes", a digital download with songs about travel and the heartache of separation and loss. Laura's fans include the late BBC DJ John Peel, who described her album "Not the Tremblin’ Kind" as "my favorite record of the last ten years and possibly my life," and Elvis Costello who claimed that "If Kitty Wells made Rubber Soul, it would sound like Laura Cantrell".
Tue 09/28 7:00pm
JENNY SCHEINMAN
Violinist/composer Jenny Scheinman works with a variety of performers including Norah Jones, Bill Frisell, Madeleine Peyroux and Jimmy Dale Gilmore. When she is not touring the world, she can be found here most Tuesdays with an almost infinite variety of lineup.
Thu 10/30 8:00pm
MARTA TOPFEROVA
Marta Topferova is a multi-lingual singer/songwriter that has been heavily influenced by Latin American folk music. Her songs are rooted in rhythms such as the Cuban son, Venezuelan vals and the Argentinean cueca, and her Latin quartet is comprised of Venezuelan cuatro, tres, accordion, bass and percussion and some of the tastiest players in New York. The BBC has called her "a leading light of the nueva canción movement of today" and her five releases demonstrate that she is not only a gifted singer, but a prolific composer. Marta has toured around Europe, the US, Thailand and Argentina, and periodically loves to bring her various projects to Barbés. Marta Topferova - vocals, maracas, cuatro, guitar; Aaron Halva - tres & accordion; Pedro Giraudo - bass & vocals; Neil Ochoa - percussion.
Thu 10/30 10:00pm
MARY HALVORSON QUINTET
Record release concert for the quintet's debut album, Saturn Sings, on Firehouse 12 Records. The success of her acclaimed 2008 debut, Dragon’s Head (Firehouse 12 Records), led critics to call Ms. Halvorson “probably the most original jazz guitarist to emerge this decade” (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader). With Jon Irabagon- saxophone; Kirk Knuffke- cornet; Mary Halvorson- guitar; John Hebert- bass and Ches Smith- drums. $10
Barbès is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn
All shows carry a $10 suggested donation unless otherwise specified.
www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Contact: Olivier Conan.
Olivierconan@gmail.com
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