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Barb�s celebrates its tenth year anniversary this May.

2012-04-02T08:30:53Z

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BARBES TURNS TEN THIS MAY.
May 1st through May 6th
The Brooklyn club will celebrate with the help many of its friends.

The Brooklyn bar and performance space, which opened in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn on May Day of 2002, has presented over seven thousand events in the past ten years. Barbès is thrilled to announce that after renewing its lease - and save an unforeseen natural or unnatural disaster - it should be busy presenting another few thousand shows in the next ten years.

Started by French expats Olivier Conan and Vincent Douglas at a time when Brooklyn had not yet fully experienced the cultural explosion it is now known for, Barbès’ original goal was to provide a space and a community for musicians – many of whom were based in Brooklyn and needed an alternative to Manhattan clubs which didn't always foster original or non-commercial projects.

Times have changed. The epicenter of New York’s creative energy has long since shifted to Brooklyn, and Barbès is proud to have been one of the participant in this transformation.

Barbès never focused on any particular type of music. As a result, it was named as one of the ten best jazz clubs in the country by Playboy magazine as well as the second best World Music venue nationwide by the readers of About.com. Barbès has also been an active presenter of classical music, improvised music, Americana, and just about any kind of quality music that will suit its small backroom.

The club has favored long running residencies which have contributed to developing such talent as Slavic Soul Party, Stephane Wrembel, Jenny Scheinman, Chicha Libre or The Mandingo Ambassadors - all of which have established flourishing careers outside of the club.

Slavic Soul Party has become the country’s pre-eminent neo Balkan brass band, Stephane Wrembel scored the theme song to Woody Allen’s last movie and played live at the Academy Awards, Chicha Libre has exported its psychedelic cumbia back to South America where it has found a large audience and Jenny Scheinman has made her mark as one of the most sought after jazz violinist in the country.

Other notable achievements by musicians who have long been associated with Barbès would include the Parker String Quartet, wihch was in residence at Barbès for most of 2008 and went on to win a grammy last year for best Chamber Music group as well as many of the artists on our associated record label, barbès Records, including Hazmat Modine, Pierre de Gaillande and Las Rubias del Norte.

To celebrate, a number of performers will take over our backroom from May 1st through may 6th - a precise schedule will be posted our website, the first week in April, but they will include: Rachelle Garniez, Anthony Coleman, Michael Attias, Andy Statman, Catherine Russell, Smokey Hormel, Matt Darriau, Erik Friedlander, Matt Munisteri, Michi Wiancko, Stephane Wrembel, The Parker String Quartet, Las Rubias del Norte, Banning Eyre, Chris Speed, Jim Black, Oscar Noriega, Banda de Los Muertos, Chicha Libre, Mavrothi Kontanis, The Roulette Sisters, Wade Schuman of Hazmat Modine, Slavic Soul Party, Lucia Pulido, Don Rauf, Scott Kettner, Rob Curto, One Ring Zero, Pierre de Gaillande, and more tba.

Other illustrious performers who have graced our stage, but will not be present, have included Ethan Lipton, Madeleine Peyroux, Les Primitifs du Futur, Guy Klucevsek, Eszter Balint, Opera on Tap, Gyan Riley, Marta Topferova, The Microscopic Septet, Bill Frisell, Brooklyn Qawwali Party, Rick Moody, David Del Tredici, Robbie Fullks, Frank London, Marc Ribot, The Wiyos, Seb Martel, Norah Jones, Red Barraat, Son de Madera, Sonagi Project, Alash, Gina Leishman, Nation Beat, Roy Nathanson, Bruce Cockburn, Alex Meixner, Greta Gertler, Sanda Weigl, Polka Madre, Danny Kalb, Sxip Shirey, Doug Wamble, Beat Circus and many, many more.

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Barbes
376 9th st
Park Slope Brooklyn
www.barbesbrooklyn.com

Contact: Olivier Conan - olivierconan@gmail.com

Hazmat Modine at Le Poisson Rouge with The Wiyos April 14th.

2012-04-01T17:09:40Z

HAZMAT MODINE PLAYS LE POISSON ROUGE WITH THE WIYOS
Saturday, April 14th, 7:00 - 10:00

HAZMAT MODINE plays tuba and harmonica-driven blues-infused Americana with borrowings from Eastern Europe and Africa. For the past seven years, the band has been touring extensively throughout Europe where their musical juxtapositions of African syncopation, 60's rock, R & B, and American roots traditions has proved immensely popular. Their recent CD, CICADA, was number one on the world music charts this past summer in Europe and includes collaborations with the Kronos Quartet, the Gangbe Brass Band from Benin, Natalie Merchant, Erik Della Penna, and Michael Farkas of The Wiyos. The CD was awarded the Charles Cros Grand Prize in France for best Blues record in 2011, and voted Number 2 for all of 2011 in the World Music Charts in Europe. One of HAZMAT MODINE was featured in the recent Oscar nominated Wim Wenders' movie PINA.

Following their Spring European tour, Hazmat Modine will be unveiling new material with special guests tba.

"HAZMAT MODINE manages to pull of the extraordinary feat of sounding at once familiar and at the same time unlike anything you've ever heard before. Their sound is joyously eclectic and comes across with extraordinary wit, style and verve. It's clearly steeped in American roots, but not enslaved by them, and encompasses a broad range of source material that provides an unusual amount of depth and nuance." Rick Webb

THE WIYOS CD RELEASE SHOW

Much like the crime driven street gang of New York they take their name from (The Whyos, circa 1870's), The Wiyos have ceaselessly metamorphosed their trade. Their Vaudeville-like performances reached its zenith in 2009 when they were featured in the BBC television documentary, “Folk America – Hollerers, Stompers and Old-Time Ramblers”. Later their modern interpretations of iconic blues artists like Blind Willie McTell led them to be hand picked by Bob Dylan as the opening act for his 28-date summer tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp. Today, Twist emerges with the band plugged in and the music turned up. They are an unruly, eclectic bunch and their music has something to say. This is not standard "you done me wrong" stuff. This is a mature band with concepts and ideas.

Their new albume, "Twist" is undoubtedly The Wiyos' strongest and boldest work to date. It is an original song cycle loosely based on L. Frank Baum's, The Wizard of Oz and Joseph Campbell's, The Hero’s Journey. The band's central writers Michael Farkas and Teddy Weber have taken their nine years of touring roots festivals, side show tents, strip clubs, coffee houses, theatres, backyard parties, performing arts centers, barn dances, churches and even stadiums and mashed it all together with their uncanny knack for merging and fusing numerous American musical styles. Preview performances of the new material have met with rave reviews.

"Simultaneously tear-jerking and disturbing, this new material invokes McCartney at his most melancholy, Lennon at his most acid-inflected, and Oz in all of its most surreal, Technicolour glory." -Backroadsmusic.co.uk, 2011

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(LE) POISSON ROUGE
158 Bleecker Street New York, NY 10012 call 212.505.FISH
http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/view/2959
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HAZMAT MODINE:
www.hazmatmodine.com
Title cut from recent CD CICADA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN9wyuZfexw
HAZMAT MODINE live at the BBC in London.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeiWUMpVdpQ
HAZMAT MODINE live in Germany with the Gangbe Brass Band from Benin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ePhKMshh4

THE WIYOS:
http://thewiyos.com/
The Wiyos Music: http://soundcloud.com/bandshellartists/sets/the-wiyos/
A recent video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_SSv-f1kc

Contact: info@barbesrecords.com

The First OMNIPHONIC FESTIVAL at 92Y Tribeca. Jan 6 & 7.

2011-12-15T20:07:07Z

THE FIRST EDITION OF OMNIPHONIC FESTIVAL

92Y Tribeca, Friday 01/06 and Saturday 01/07

Intended to reach out to musical omnivores, Omniphonic Festival brings together ten groups from around the world that all blur the line between traditional and non traditional music, heritage and borrowings from close and far away neighbors. Expect Greek son, American Chanson, Tuvan blues, Italo-carpathian anthems, Transglobal bluegrass and other everyday hybrids.

Admission is free for APAP badge holders

Monday Jan 6th:

8:00 pm
JAYME STONE
Two-time Juno-winning banjoist Jayme Stone makes music inspired by folk traditions from around the world. His latest album, Room of Wonders, explores music from Norway, Sweden, Bulgaria, Brazil, Italy and North America. The repertoire includes a movement from Bach’s French Suite, a Moorish sword-fighting dance and Stone’s lush, edgy originals.

9:00 pm
LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE
Their sound is a re-invention, a nostalgic throwback to a time and place mostly imagined where Peruvian waltzes, Andean huaynos and Cuban Guajiras mix with French opera, Cowboy tunes and Bollywood classics. The result plays like a dreamy soundtrack with classical harmonies set to a Latin beat.

10:00 pm
HAZMAT MODINE
The NY-based global blues band has been traveling the world for a few years now - collaborating with such people as varied as Benin's Gangbe Brass Band, the Kronos quartet, Natalie Merchant and Huun Huur Tu. They were recently awarded a French Charles Cros award and their music is featured in Wim Wenders' latest film about Pina Bausch.

11:00 pm
JOSE CONDE
The Cuban-American singer and composer remains as unpredictable as ever, borrowing sounds from South Africa, Brazil, Peru and urban America as well as rootsy rhythms and humor undeniably Cuban.

12:00 pm
RED BARAAT
An Indian brass band rooted in Bhangra, funk, Go-go and jazz, Red Baraat has become a hit on the world scene, proving yet again that brass music has the power to move masses the way early rock and roll did.

Saturday January 7th.

8:00pm
BAD REPUTATION
Pierre de Gaillande sings George Brassens in English. A tribute and a re-creation of the universe of the French anarchist poet which has won the admiration of Brassens fans and new audiences.

9:00pm
FOLKLORE URBANO
Colombian composer Pablo Mayor meshes Colombian roots music with big band sounds and urban rhythms in ways that both showcase the singularity of the music - and makes people dance

10:00pm
LES CHAUDS LAPINS
Les Chauds Lapins (“the hot rabbits”) re-arranges long-forgotten French classics from the 20's and 40's for banjo-ukes, string trio, guitar and winds, mixing the rootsiness of early American jazz with the lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack.

11:00pm
MARCO CALLIARI
Montreal resident and former member of trash metal band Anonymus, Marco Calliari explores the music of the Italian diaspora with nods to Flamenco, Klezmer and circus music.

12:00pm
SLAVIC SOUL PARTY
After more than ten years of mashing Serbian rhytms, funk grooves, Gypsy accordion, and brass power, Slavic Soul Party! has become the godfather of American Balkan music - praised by the likes of Boban Markovic, Sufjan Stevens and Gogol Bordello.

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OMNIPHONIC FESTIVAL
92Y TRIBECA
Fri, Jan 6 & Sat, Jan 7, 2012, 8 pm
$15 admission
Free to APAP badge holders.
200 Hudson Street, below Canal.
http://www.92y.org/tribeca/omniphonic

Contact:
Olivierconan@gmail.com

Barbes & Electric Cowbell Take Manhattan 01/07/12

2011-11-29T15:24:40Z

BARBES and ELECTRIC COWBELL
TAKE MANHATTAN
at DROM
Jan 7th, 2011 7:00pm-11:00pm

With
Smokey Hormel, Chicha Libre,
Raya Brass band, Cheick Hamala Diabate,
No BS Brass! and DJ Geko Jones.

For the past few years, Barbès has been presenting a Manhattan showcase timed to coincide with the APAP conference - an annual rite which, every January, brings musicians from around the world to New York. This year, Barbès has teamed up with fellow brooklynites, label Electric Cowbell, to bring a particularly exciting roster to the always suspect borough of Manhattan.

Electric Cowbell is a new record label dedicated to release 45rpm seven inch vinyl of new talent (from the Debo Band, to Talibam!, Khaira Arby and Superhuman Happiness). Like barbès, the label doesn't believe distinctions of genre are always pertinent and promotes like-minded musicians who operate in mediums as varied as Funk, Afrobeat, Latin psychedelia, Balkan music or Second Line brass music.

Barbès is a Brooklyn club which, next spring, will be celebrating ten years of eclectic programming - from classical string quartets to Ukrainian polyphonies, Forro and American Qawwali.

This edition of our Manhattan invasion will feature the congolese musings of Smokey Hormel, the electric cumbias of Chicha LIbre, the improvisations of Malian griot Cheick Hamal Diabate, No BS! Brass' brand of funk, the Brooklyn Balkan hybrid that is Raya and the Pan-latin tropical sound of DJ Geko Jones.

8:00pm
NO BS! BRASS BAND
A powerful brass band from Richmond VA that infuses the spirit of New Orleans into its original East Coast modern funk. They draw inspiration from funk, jazz, klezmer, calypso, and Led Zeppelin and while most members have conservatory training, they strive for heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing.

8:45pm
CHEIKH HAMALA DIABATE
Cheick Hamala Diabate is a Malian griot and a master of the ngoni, a traditional instrument. He started his career at a young age playing with Malian musical greats, including Toumani Diabate (a first cousin), Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Toure and Salif Keita. Upon coming to the US, Cheick Hamala was intrigued by the resemblance between his ngoni and the American banjo, even sharing tunings and picking styles. He has since learned to play the banjo at a virtuosic level, including collaborations with Bela Fleck and Bob Carlin. Cheick’s album of banjo duets with Carlin, From Mali to America, was nominated for a grammy in 2007 for Best Traditional World Music Album.

9:30pm
SMOKEY'S SECRET FAMILY
Smokey Hormel’s résumé reads like a history of American popular music over the decades. He has worked closely with Beck, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond. His projects have included the Brazilian-influenced Smokey and Miho, as well as an ongoing tribute to Western swing. His latest endeavor is an idiosyncratic take on early Congolese rumba. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, African musicians looked to Cuba for inspiration. They recognized African roots in the music but were also captivated by its cosmopolitan aspect, which mirrored the evolution of their own culture. Using the electric guitar—fast becoming the symbol of urban culture—they forged a new hybrid that became an early soundtrack of decolonization. Hormel has hybridized the music further and taken it to the Americas for the second time. Keeping its pre-rock roots intact, he relies on a core sound of “wild guitars bursting through small amps afloat on a sea of hand drums and shakers."

10:10pm
CHICHA LIBRE
Chicha LIbre is a Brooklyn collective made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who mix up covers of Peruvian electric cumbia with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by the likes of Satie, Love and Joe Dassin. In the past year, the group has brought its music to Istanbul, Madrid, Berlin and Copenhagen, but has been especially welcome in South America where its mix of Tropical experimentation and psychedelia has proved extremely popular. Chicha Libre's second album is a psychedelic bender with a majority of original compositions and nods to Wagner and Los Mirlos. It will be released by Barbès Records and Crammed disc in April of 2012.

11:00pm
RAYA BRASS BAND.
Raya Brass Band gleefully mashes up the music of Eastern Europe with funky American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany (Gypsy) melodies played on reeds, trumpet, accordion, tuba and drums, Raya Brass Band slakes the thirst for something old and new at the same time, unusual and catchy, spiritedly 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).

11:30pm and In between sets
GEKO JONES
Geko Jones is a Brooklyn-based Puerto-lombian DJ and Producer. He is a founding member of both the New York Tropical and Que Bajo?! party franchises in New York. He is also a partner and co-owner of the Dutty Artz record label with producer Matt Shadetek and DJ /Rupture. His mixes span the tropical hemispheres and collage together globally sonic hours of dancefloor mayhem. Renowned by top DJ's and producers of the digital cumbia scene in Latin America and European bass-pundits alike, Jones is one of the select few DJ's pushing forward the Latin agenda in a world wide tropical bass scene. The past five years have found him sharing a booth or collaborating with a long roster of A-list globalistas like Uproot Andy, Radioclit, ZZK, Maluca, Dub War, Toy Selectah and more.

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Barbès & Electric Cowbell Takes Manhattan
Saturday December 7th
DROM
Doors open at 6:30pm
Admission $10
Free with APAP badges
Drom is located at 85 Ave. A in Manhattan
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/
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Contacts:
Olivier Conan (Barbès) 718-288-1761. Olivierconan@gmail.com
Jimmy thomson (Electric Cowbell): 347-439-8002. dimsum66@gmail.com

Chico Trujillo at Lollapalooza, LPR & MoMA

2011-07-19T12:18:26Z

CHICO TRUJILLO AT LOLLAPALOOZA, LE POISSON ROUGE & MoMA.
August 4th and 6th

After celebrating their tenth year anniversary with a series of concerts in Santiago, the Chilean Cumbia group seemed to have had their best year ever. Not only did they headline the first Chilean version of Lollaplallooza, but critics and audiences singled out their performance there as the most mesmerizing – and the most successful.

A two months European tour followed and now Chico Trujillo is coming to the US for just three dates.

On August 4th, they will appear at NYC’s Museum of Modern Art in the afternoon – and will play at Le Poisson Rouge in the evening.
They will then play Lollapalooza in Chicago on August 6th.

The group will also spend a couple of days at Daptone studio, working on a a new record to be released in 2012.

“Lollapalooza Chile has introduced me to a world-class party band: Chico Trujillo, a local favorite who had a huge crowd shouting along. Every party band needs a rhythm, and Aldo Asenjo, the band’s leader and singer, relies on cumbia, the beat heard in countless variations across Latin America. Cumbia often trots calmly, but Chico Trujillo’s version gallops, bounding along; now and then, the music switches into rumba, equally upbeat. Mr. Asenjo sings lyrics as chattery and percussive as some hip-hop, taking on the ups and downs of love and life, with his voice answered by chortling horns — did he borrow the arranging idea from ska bands? — and a tootling, circusy organ. Syncopation, momentum and a way of romping through pain — a party band needs them all, and Chico Trujillo has them.”
Jon Pareles. The New York times.

08/04 - 5:30pm - MoMA Nights
08/04 - 10:00pm - Le Poisson Rouge
08/06 - Lollapalooza

For further info, contact Olivierconan@gmail.com

Upright Piano Brigade at Barb�s. A new Solo Piano classical series.

2011-04-26T12:48:02Z

Barbès & CAG present
The Upright Piano Brigade
A New Solo Classical Piano Concert Series
Every Tuesday at 7:00pm May through July

Concert Artists Guild and Barbès have teamed up for a new series of Classical music: the Upright Piano Brigade, a weekly Tuesday evening piano series that runs May - July. The series features thirteen pianists including current CAG roster musicians and alumni. This all-piano series showcases Barbès' brand-new Sauter upright piano. All concerts are at 7:00 PM.

The Sauter piano company, based in Spaichingen, in Southern Germany has an impressive lineage going back to the earliest days of the piano: the company’s founder, Johann Grimm, worked as an apprentice at the Stein piano company in Vienna, and while there helped build two pianos for Beethoven. Grimm founded his own company in 1819, the company was inherited by his nephew, Carl Sauter, and has remained in the ownership of the Sauter family ever since.

Sauter Pianos is actively developing relationships with music venues and organizations that would benefit from the use of a good piano. As part of their program, they have donated an upright Sauter 122 Schulpiano to Barbès, enabling the venue to program solo pianists ranging from classcial, to Jazz and new composers.

On Tuesday, May 3, pianist and composer Michael Brown (First Prize, 2010 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition) kicks off the series, coupling an all-American first half with Debussy's Preludes Book II in the second half. The American set includes Gershwin Preludes and Songs, Bolcom’s Ghost Rags and Copland’s Blues. To close the set Brown pairs his own Homage to Copland with the second movement of Copland’s Piano Sonata.

The lineup for May also features Evan Shinners playing an all-Bach program on May 10; CAG alumna Tanya Bannister on May 17 in a program that includes Gubaidulina’s Chaconne, a Rachmaninoff Prelude, Janacek’s In the Mist, Chopin’s fourth Ballade & Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata; Gregg Kallor on May 24 performing works by Rachmaninoff, Chick Corea, Stravinsky, Louise Talma, Bartok & Gregg Kallor; andWilliam McNally on May 31. The full three-month schedule is listed below. Programming details will soon be announced.

The Upright Piano Brigade is the latest in a longstanding collaboration between Concert Artists Guild and Barbès. CAG’s Barbès Classical, the flagship series of the New Music/New Places initiative, began in 2006 with performances on the second Sunday of each month. Additionally, CAG has twice had artists-in-residence at Barbès—first with the Parker Quartet in the 2007-08 season (they have since gone on to win a grammy as best Chamber Group) and now with pianist/toy pianist/composer Phyllis Chen who’s second of three concerts there this Spring is on April 22.

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UPRIGHT PIANO BRIGADE - all concerts Tuesdays at 7:00 PM

MAY

3 MICHAEL BROWN
Hailed as a “vividly characterized” and “free-spirited” player by the New York Times, pianist and composer Michael Brown was recently awarded the First Prize and Victor and Sono Elmaleh Award in the 2010 Concert Artists Guild (CAG) Competition. He recently performed Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with Alan Gilbert and the Juilliard Orchestra in Alice Tully Hall.
He will be playing Copland Blues, Gershwin Preludes & Songs, Bolcom Ghost Rag, Brown Homage to Copland, Copland Sonata, Mvt. II; Debussy Preludes, Book II

10 EVAN SHINNERS
Juilliard pianist Evan Shinners is an emerging star in both classical and popular music. He made his orchestral debut with the Utah symphony at age 12, and in the past two seasons appeared at Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Avery Fisher Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Verizon Hall at the Kimell Center in Philadelphia, with tours of Ireland, Germany, parts of Asia and Canada. He was recently hailed by David Dubal as “the greatest Bach interpreter since Glenn Gould” and will, appropriately, be playing an all Bach program – Toccatas in E and D, the prelude and fugue in A, an early version of the triple concerto, a partita and a few smaller pieces not often heard.

17 TANYA BANNISTER
Lauded by The Washington Post for playing “…with intelligence, poetry and proportion,” pianist Tanya Bannister’s recent victories at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and the New Orleans International Piano Competition confirm her status among the leading pianists of her generation. Receiving further distinction as an “Artist to Watch” on the cover of the January 2007 issue of SYMPHONY Magazine, Ms. Bannister’s career has already brought her to many of the world’s great concert halls, with recitals at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Salle Cortot in Paris, Teatro Communale in Bologna, Tokyo’s Nikkei Hall, London’s Queen Elizabeth and Wigmore Halls and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.
She will be playing Sofia Gubaidulina Chaconne; Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23 Nr. 6; Jan Radzynski Mazurka; Chopin Ballade nr. 4; Leos Janacek In the Mist; Albeniz El Puerto; Beethoven Moonlight Sonata.

24 GREGG KALLOR
Gregg Kallor has studied with Kenny Barron and Fred Hersch andhe graduated from Tufts University with a degree in American Studies.In March 2007, the Abby Whiteside Foundation presented Gregg Kallor's New York concert debut as pianist and composer in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. The performance featured the premiere of his Dickinson and Yeats song cycles (with mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala), and solo works by Ginastera, Scriabin, Bach and Rachmaninoff. Harris Goldsmith wrote: "It took but a few impeccably shaped phrases to make it plain that Kallor is a formidably well-trained technician and a master of stylish proportion as well... This superb recital debut truly established a new, important voice in our musical annals." He will be playing works by Rachmaninoff, Chick Corea, Stravinsky, Louise Talma, Bartok & Gregg Kallor.

31 WILLIAM McNALLY
A multifaceted musician, Mr. McNally has been widely recognized as a ragtime pianist and composer. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill recital hall and is a veteran of numerous summer festivals, including Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, and Mannes' International Keyboard Institute and Festival.

JUNE

7 JACOB GREENBERG

14 VANESSA PEREZ

21 YEGOR SHEVTSOV

28 ROBERTO HIDALGO

JULY

5 STEPHEN BUCK

12 RACHEL CHRISTENSEN

19 MARC PELOQUIN

26 CHING YUN HU

Barbès is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn. www.barbesbrooklyn.com.
The Upright Piano Brigade is every Tuesday in May, June and July at 7:00pm

Contact. Olivier. Olivierconan@gmail.com. 718 288 1761 (this number is not for listings)

Las Rubias del Norte @ LPR 03/16

2011-02-23T13:47:27Z

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE AT LE POISSON ROUGE with JAYME STONE.
Wednesday March 16th, 7:00pm

LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE was started eight years ago, when Allyssa Lamb and Emily Hurst decided to quit their classical choir and start a group of their own. The group’s sound quickly veered off its classical course, incorporating Boleros, Peruvian waltzes, Andean huaynos and Cuban Guajiras. The result plays like a dreamy soundtrack with classical harmonies set to a Latin beat. Their two first ...albums, Panamericana and Rumba Internationale, were praised by the New Yorker, NPR’s Weekend Edition and A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts.

Their third album, Ziguala, came out last spring and was a further exploration of the Latin roots of global pop music. From the 1930's through the 1950's, Latin music dominated popular music around the world. Mambos and rumbas found their way in the pop hits of Shanghai, Bollywood, Constantinople, Malaysia, Paris, Kinshasa and Japan. Then came Rock and Roll which would conquer the youth of the world - and nothing was ever the same.

Ziguala, is an attempt to imagine what a pop record would sound like had the Latin influence continued its course without interruption. The album uses electric instruments that defined the rock explosion of the 1960's - such as organs and electric guitars but its arrangements reveal a definite bias for the Latin music it is mostly inspired by.

Las Rubias del Norte is a seven piece combo which is fronted by two classically trained singers and backed by bongos, congas, bells, bass, cuatro, electric guitar, piano and organ. On the album, the band also makes use of a string quartet, vibes and marimba. The tracks are re-interpretations of songs from Spain, France, Peru, India, Mexico, Greece, Venezuela, Colombia and Naples. Ziguala is not so much a latin record as it is a pop record that uses a latin vocabulary. Think of it as the opposite of Rock en Español; a Latin genre which uses a rock vocabulary.

Las Rubias del Norte is particularly excited that their friends the Parker String Quartet, which is featured on two of the tracks, just won a Grammy for Best Chamber Group.

Las Rubias will be joined by Canadian artist Jayme Stone - a banjo player and composer who went on an eight-week trip to Mali looking for the origins of the Banjo. He ended up playing with Toumani Diabate, Mansa Sissoko and Bassekou Kouyate and the resulting album, Africa to Appalachia, iwon the 2009 Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.

Le Poisson Rouge is located at 158 Bleecker St. - http://lepoissonrouge.com/events/artist/3148
Admission is $15

Contact: Olivierconan@gmail.com

Barbes Takes Manhattan 01/08 at Drom

2010-12-17T08:53:50Z

BARBES TAKES MANHATTAN - Part Two.
DROM
Jan 8th, 2011 7:00pm-11:00pm

Timed to coincide with the APAP conference - an annual rite which brings musician from around the world to New York – Barbès takes part of its roster across the chilly waters of the East River to showcase some of its best talent. For the past eight years, the Brooklyn club and related label have become synonymous with adventurous eclecticism. On any typical night Barbès’ backroom will showcase a classical string quartet, Carpathian singers, an avant-garde theremin player, Brazilian Forro, Balkan Brass, a mandingo guitarist or Peruvian surf music. This year, Barbès will attempt to take Manhattan with a couple of Americans singing French swing classics, followed by the work of a French chanson icon sung in English, American Blues filtered through a giant global prism, Peruvian Chicha played a Franco-Venezuelan- American crew and a tribute to Qawwali great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan by a typical Brooklyn collective. Global music made local.

LES CHAUDS LAPINS 7:30pm
Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt cover Charles Trenet songs and other jewels from the French 30's and 40's musical traditions accompanying themselves on banjo-ukes. Prior to their re-incarnation as French entertainers, Meg was better known as one third of the Roulette sisters and Kurt as a reed player and composer who co-led cult instrumental band the Ordinaires and recorded with such luminaries as They Might be Giants, Frank Black, Firewater, and Drink Me. They are backed by a string section composed of Karen Waltuch - violin; Ian Riggs- bass and Garo Yellin - Cello.

PIERRE DE GAILLANDE'S BAD REPUTATION 8:15
Georges Brassens songs revolutionized French Chanson in the 50's and 60's. He was an anarchist bard whose songs could be raunchy, polemic or poignant but always remained steeped in classic French poetry. He went on to become one the most emblematic French singer of the 20th century but his songs, unlike those of his friend Jacque Brel, never became known outside of France.
Franco-American singer and composer Pierre de Gaillande has translated a number of Brassens songs. He has stuck to the rhyming scheme and verse length of the original song and re-arranged the music with a great cinematic sensibility, using a combination of guitars, clarinets, lapsteel and charango. The result has been hailed on both side on the Atlantic and has even lead to a collaboration with Brassens' long time guitarist who has embrace the project.

CHICHA LIBRE 9:00pm
The Brooklyn band is at the forefront of a movement to revalorize chicha, the syncretic mix of rock, psychedelia, surf and cumbia that was popular in Peru in the 70's. As its name indicates, Chicha Libre takes liberties with the genre, adding touches of classical music, French pop as well as a general Brooklyn attitude - but keeping it all on the dance floor. The group has been featured on the show Weeds and on the Simpson's twentieth anniversary special. They have brought their eclectic psychedelic blend to Istanbul, London, Berlin, Portugal, Womex and Globalfest and, lucky them, will be in Colombia, Peru and Argentina this winter.

HAZMAT MODINE 9:45pm
Hazmat Modine plays the kind of Blues one might have found in a whorehouse in New Orleans had the city been built on the Black Sea. The band is driven by a pair of dueling harmonicas, backed by tuba, drums, guitars, and a horn section. Occasional guests play such exotic instruments as the Chinese mouth-organ, the bass sax and the normaphone. Hazmat has found an increasingly receptive audience in Europe where they have been nominated for a BBC award and tour a good part of the year. They just backed Natalie Merchant on a few songs on her latest album. Their long-awaited follow-up to Bahamut will be released this spring and will include collaborations with Natalie Merchant, Benin's extraordinary Gangbe Brass Band as well as the Kronos Quartet.

BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY 10:30
Paying tribute to one of the world's great vocalists, Brooklyn Qawwali Party formed to honor the legendary Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, reworking his thunderous songs for an eclectic, eleven-piece orchestra comprised of groundbreaking jazz musicians. Funky, smart, and loving, BQP captures the joyful spirit of this Pakistani folk music in a unique instrumental blend of jazz and Qawwali. With five horns, guitar, bass, harmonium, and three percussionists, this band's buoyant rhythm will be sure to get you on your feet and clapping.

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Barbès Takes Manhattan
Saturday December 8th.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Admission $10
Free with APAP badges
Drom is located at 85 Ave. A in Manhattan
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/
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Contact: Olivier Conan 718 288 1761. Olivierconan@gmail.com

Barb�s presents a Brassens Tribute at 92Y Tribeca. Dec 17, with p.d Gaillande, Sally Ellyson, Joel Favreau

2010-11-22T07:49:43Z

For Immediate Release

Barbès Records and Ugly Duckling Presse present

A TRIBUTE TO GEORGE BRASSENS
With PIERRE DE GAILLANDE'S BAD REPUTATION
and Special Guests JOEL FAVREAU, JEAN JACQUES FRANCHIN, SALLY ELLYSON (of HEM) and DAWN LANDES.

Friday December 17th, 8:00pm
92Y Tribeca

From the1950’s through the late 70’s, the late George Brassens redefined French Chanson. He was an anarchist bard whose songs could be raunchy, sometimes polemic, often poignant, and always steeped in the classic poetry of the likes of François Villon, Apollinaire or Aragon. Brassens went on to become one the most emblematic French singer of the 20th century, setting a new standard for every French songwriter that came after him, including Serge Gainsbourg and of course, Jacques Brel, his peer and good friend.

Franco-American singer and composer Pierre de Gaillande grew up in Paris and Southern California, listening, among other things, to his dad's extensive Brassens collection. Pierre went on to play in american indie bands - He moved to NY and played bass with the Morning Glories, played guitar with Vic Chestnut and toured Russia with his own band, Melomane. He has also worked as a film composer.

For the past couple of years, Pierre also rediscovered his dad's record collection has taken on the impossible task of translating Brassens' songs, to pretty astonishing results. Sticking to the rhyming scheme and verse length of the original songs Pierre has re-arranged the music with a cinematic sensibility, using a combination of guitars, clarinets, lapsteel and charango.

The results sound nothing like a translated work. De Gaillande has managed the impossible - to translate not only the style, content and wit of the original, but also the musicality of the original recordings while using completely different arrangements. The best way to describe the project would be to compare it to the perfect movie adaptation of a book classic. Think Stanley Kubrick or Raoul Ruiz.

Earlier this year, Barbès Records released Pierre's CD of Georges Brassens songs. Now his translations are also being published in book form by literary publishing house Ugly Duckling Presse. To celebrate, UDP and Barbès Records , with the help of the cultural offices of the French Embassy, are joining forces to present a tribute concert to Brassens featuring the Bad Reputation band, Dawn Landes, Sally Ellyson (of the band HEM) and Brassens' guitarist, the legendary Joel Favreau, who will be playing the US for the very first time.

The addition of Joel Favreau to the bill is a dream come true for Pierre de Gaillande. Joel Favreau was Georges Brassens' faithful guitarist for the last fifteen years of the singer's life. His guitar lines provided a subtle yet omnipresent counterpoint to Brassens' melodies. While Joel tends to stay away from the adoring Brassens circles who have enshrined the master, he was so impressed by Pierre de Gaillande's work that he decided to lend his guitar to his project. Joel will also perform his own rendition of Brassens' music with accordionist Jean Jacques Franchin. This will be his first appearance in the US.

The evening should prove the perfect tribute to Georges Brassens: a faithful rendition of his iconoclastic spirit by performers as well-versed in iconoclasm as they are in tradition.

http://barbesrecords.com/brassens.html

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A Tribute to Georges Brassens at 92Y Tribeca
Fri, Dec 17, 2010, 8pm Doors, 9pm Show
$15 admission
Contact: Olivier Conan
Olivierconan@gmail.com - 718 288 1761
92Y Tribeca is located at 200 Hudson Street
www.92y.org
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Banda de Los Muertos celebrate Mexican Independence Day 09/18 at Littlefield with Cumbiagra

2010-09-10T14:51:31Z

For immediate release

Barb�s presents

A Special Mexican Independence Day Concert
At Littlefield
On Saturday 09/18

Featuring
BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS. New York's only Mexican Banda.
In the Mexican state of Sinaloa, brass bands (bandas) are part of every public celebration. In the 1940's, the pioneering Banda El Recodo started mixing up traditional brass band tunes with contemporary Mexican music - mostly ranchera - and soon transformed the idiom into a powerful new popular genre. In the 1990's, banda music experienced a renewal, especially among young Californian Mexicans, many of whom have family roots in Sinaloa. Banda music's popularity exploded in Mexico as well and has become the new urban music of choice. Banda de Los Muertos will be celebrating Cinco de Mayo with a selection of classic tunes to get dead drunk to, with a supergroup of sorts featuring alumni of Slavic Soul Party and other NY top players. With Oscar Noriega & Chris Speed - clarinets; Jakob Garchick - Sousaphone; Jim Black & Vinnie Sperrazza � percussion; Patrick Farrell & Rachel Drehman � ; Alto horn; Curtis Hasselbring & Brian Drye - trombones and many guest singers i ncluding Olivier Conan, Jean Carla Rodea, Rana Santacruz and many more tba.

Followed by
CUMBIAGRA
Go to any party Mexico, and besides Banda music, you will hear Cumbia. While not originally from Mexico, Cumbia became hugely popular there in the 1960�s with such acts as Mike Laure. Mexico has been at the forefront of the Cumbia wave that has swept Latin America in the past few years with its sonidero and, lately, its rebajada - the slowed down cumbia which, with its strong dub elements, has become a favorite of DJs. Cumbiagra started out playing the classic cumbias of Colombia and Mexico � with a heavy Mexcian twist, and has gone on to develop its own Mexilombian/Nuyorican mix- with Rafael Gomez on bass guitar and vocals, Gregorio �Goyo� Uribe on accordion and vocals, Brian �Lazaro� Lazarus on guitar and vocals Brian Glashow on percussion, and Hugo Moreno on trumpet

Littlefield is located at 622 Degraw between 3rd and 4th avenue, in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn. Union St. stop on the R train. Admission is $10

http://www.littlefieldnyc.com/
Contact: Olivierconan@gmail.com - 718 288 1761

Barb�s September Calendar of Events

2010-08-25T06:54:44Z

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