This Week at Barbes

Thu, 10 May 2012 19:55:00 GMT

BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com ========================================== CHICHA LIBRE's album CANIBALISMO now available from Barbès Records. CD Release party at 92 Y Tribeca May 19 <a href="http://www.barbesrecords.com/">http://www.barbesrecords.com/</a> ========================================== Thu 05/10 THE WEAL AND THE WOE The Weal and Woe is a New York-based country/Americana quartet. Their EP "The One To Blame," was recorded and co-produced by Emmy-nominated artist Rench (Gangstagrass). New York Music Daily writes, "The guy/girl close harmonies of guitarist Russell Scholl and bassist Barbara Ann have an unaffected southern charm, soaring over an early 1950s style backdrop with fiddle, lap steel and occasional resonator guitar. Ex-Moonlighter Mark Deffenbaugh's lap steel playing is absolutely off the hook." Rounded out by fiddler extraordinaire Jason Cade, the band plays a tasteful mix of classic and original country / roots music. 8:00pm Thu 05/10 LEAH PAUL Leah Pauls new album Bike Lane is a collection of composed music featuring ChrisSpeed (clarinet,) Jessica Pavone (viola,) Katie Young (bassoon,) and Leah Paul (flutes.) The pieces Leah has written for this group explore the lush range of textures and timbres these instruments have in common, while maintaining her rich melodic sensibilities. The inspiration for this album is the ever-merging scenes of classical, improvised, and rock music that are unique to New York City. It is composed chamber music channeling pop structure, with an improvisational spirit and feel. Leah will also be premiering a new woodwind quintet. 10:00pm Sat 05/12 THE RESTRICTOR The Restrictor started circa 2004 by sound and visual artist Damien Olsen and Kevin Rozza. Since then, many musicians have participated in various recording sessions helping The Restrictor to find its sound. With Angela "Danger" Chambers- ; flute and Vocals; Adam Dym- Bass Clarinet, saxaphone, Guitar; Kevin Rozza- Bass; Damien Olsen-Keys, Guitar Tim-Drums and persussion 6:00pm Fri 05/11 PERCY JONES AND THE MJ-12 Percy Jones and the MJ-12: an exciting improvisational trio. They take various starting points of jazz/rock fusion, psychedelia and ambient noise and develop them in unpredictable directions. Nothing sounds the same twice. Percy Jones (Brand X, Eno) fretless Bass, Stephen Moses (Alice Donut) Drums/Trombone, Aubrey Smith (Helden) Vocals/Keyboards. 10:00pm Fri 05/11 THE PRE-WAR PONIES 20's and 30's forgotten gems such as 'Pettin' In The Park', '(Give Me The) Moon Over Brooklyn', 'Pardon My Southern Accent', and 'The Gentleman Just Wouldn't Say Goodnight.'- with Daria Grace - vocals & baritone uke; J.Walter Hawkes - trombone, ukulele; Mike Neer - guitar; Russ Meissner - drums and Jim Whitney - bass. 8:00pm 10:00pm Sat 05/12 LES CHAUDS LAPINS Les Chauds Lapins (The Hot Rabbits..) are lead by New York's Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt and specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1930's and 40's. The group has re-arranged long-forgotten French classics for two banjo ukes and a string trio mixing the rootsiness of early American jazz with lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack. Prior to their re-incarnation as French entertainers, Meg Riechardt was better known as one fourth of Americana group The Roulette sisters and Kurt as a reed player and composer who co-led cult instru mental band the Ordinaires and recorded with such luminaries as They Might be Giants, Frank Black and Firewater. The music oscillates between romantic and quirky, French and American, retro and modern. They are backed by a string section composed of Karen Waltuch - violin; Andy Cotton - bass and Garo Yellin - cello 8:00pm Sat 05/12 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. 10:00pm Sun 05/13 BARBES CLASSICAL. Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present some of the best new talent in the classical music world. This month: NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS with MICHAEL BROWN Cellist Nicholas Canellakis teams up with pianist/composer Michael Brown for CAGs monthly installment of Barbès Classical: string-centric. The Duo plays Pärts Fratres, Bartóks Romanian Folk Dances, Faurés Apres un Reve and arrangements by Canellakis of Bulgarian Dances and John Brions Little People. Canellakis also performs Browns Suite for Solo Cello, a work inspired by Bach that was premiered by Canellakis at Bargemusic earlier this year. Nicholas Canellakis is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two, is a regular performer at Bargemusic and was a member of Carnegie Halls Ensemble ACJW. He has performed at Weill, Zankel, Merkin, Jordan and Disney Halls, the Kennedy Center and at the festivals of Santa Fe, Ravinia, <a href="mailto:Music@Menlo">Music@Menlo</a>, Mecklenburg, Moab, Sarasota, Verbier and Aspen. Michael Brown is the First Prize Winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. He made an acclaimed Weill Hall recital debut on April 10, performing a World Premiere by George Perle, his own Constellations & Toccata and works by Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Soler & Liszt. 7:00pm Sun 05/13 STEPHANE WREMBEL The French virtuoso guitarist first learned his craft with the manouche (the French Gypsies) but he has also gotten deep into American vernacular musical styles. He scored the theme song to Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" which he also performed live during the 2012 Academy Awards and he has been called a revelation by Rolling Stone. While his playing falls into the general umbrella of Gypsy Swing his weekly sets showcase his own compositions which owe as much to Django Reinhardt as they do Pink Floyd or middle eastern modes. 9:00pm Mon 05/14 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 05/14 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 05/15 RASKOLNIKOV Drummer Chris Stromquist's band (Slavic Soul Party, Kultur Shock) features Ben Holmes (trumpet), Ari Foldman-Cohen (guitar). Will Bernard (guitar), Tim Vaughan (trombone) and Chris Stromquist (drums) 7:00pm Tue 05/15 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 loc als 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. 9:00pm Wed 05/16 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. THE FAY VICTOR ENSEMBLE. The Ensemble performs combination of jazz, rock, free improvisation and modern classical music all original material written for the group by Fay Victor and Jochem van Dijk. Fay Victor - voice, compositions; Anders Nilsson - electric guitar, effects and Ken Filiano - double bass, effects. 8:00pm Wed 05/16 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 05/17 SAINTS & TZADIKS. Irish singer Susan McKeown and Klezmatics vocalist Lorin Sklamberg, who won Grammys for their work on The Klezmatics' Wonder Wheel draw from a common repertoire of Yiddish and Irish songs, accompanied by Erik Della Penna. 8:00pm Thu 05/17 CUDDLE MAGIC Cuddle Magic is an avant-folk band whose songs revolve around complex transformations of deceptively simple folk melodies and perpetually shifting rhythms. In spite of the ensemble's large size and wide-ranging instrumentation, their music is spacious and accessible. Subtle vocal interplay, inventive orchestration, and wry and surreal lyrics combine to create music at once dreamlike and powerfully direct. 10:00pm Fri 05/18 SAM DICKEY Sam Dickey is a guitarist and Ngoni player who speicalizes in the music of West Africa. Sam spent two years as a chld in Burkina Faso and returned as an adult to study with an array of African musicians including Toumani Diabate's in whose band he peformed for months whlie living in bamako, and Mamady Kouyate, of the Mandingo Ambassadors. 8:00pm Fri 05/18 SPOTTISWOODE Spottiswoode has been nominated for four Independent Music Awards, called a genius by The New Yorker and profiled on National Public Radio. His musical, Above Hells Kitchen, was staged at the 2010 New York Musical Theatre Festival. His short film, The Gentleman, played for several years on the Independent Film Channel. But he is most loved for his songs and performances. Spottiswoode has earned comparisons to Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Nick Cave and David Bowie. However, he is very much his own chameleon. Nothing short of transportive - Paste Magazine 9:30pm Fri 05/18 PINATALAND Pinataland's theatrical, darkly romantic music conjures lovelorn astronauts, murderous Mormons, and the atom bomb. Tonight they return to Barbes with their energetic stage show of historical mysteries, performing songs from their acclaimed fifth CD "Hymns for the Dreadful Night". With Robin Aigner and Doug Stone on vocals, Bill Gerstel on drums, Ross Bonadonna on bass, and Deni Bonet on violin. "America's best bet for singalong historical fiction." - NJ Star Ledger " 10:30pm Sat 05/19 WALT WHITMAN: TIME TRAVELER. May 19th marks the193rd Birthday of Brooklyns own Walt Whitman. Park Slope native, performer-broadcaster John Farrell will bring his acclaimed characterization of Walt Whitman to bear for a special reading of Whitmans masterpiece Song of Myself commencing at 4PM. (Free Birthday cake for the 1st ten guests!) 4:00pm Sat 05/19 OFF THE CLIFF with João Luiz Rezendo, guitar and cavaquinho - Keita Ogawa, percussion & prepared percussion. Clarice Assad, vocals, piano and bass. 8:00pm Sat 05/19 BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY Inspired by recordings of the late great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brook Martinez founded Brook's Qawwali Party in 2004 as an experiment. What would happen if New York jazz musicians were to play and improvise around the melodies of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? From this idea, Brook's Qawwali Party was born. BQP consists of fourteen musicians: five horns, three percussionists, guitar, acoustic bass, harmonium and three designated clappers. The exuberant sound of BQP has been enthusiastically welcomed in New York City and across the globe. 10:00pm Sun 05/20 CINE BARBES Presents: IVAN & IVANA. Directed by Jeff Daniel Silva | 80 minutes | 2011 After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans, along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant experience. Followed by a Q&A with director Jeff Daniel Silva. 5:00pm Sun 05/20 SUPHALA vs PEGASUS WARNING Suphala is one of the most versatile young tabla artists making music today. A protégé of the great tabla masters Ustad Allarakha and Ustad Zakir Hussain, Suphala is fluent in a diversity of musical traditions that inform her unique compositions and her highly improvisational performances, which made history in early 2005 when she traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan as the first musician to play in public since the fall of the Taliban. With three groundbreaking solo albums under her belt and a roster of high-profile collaborators including Norah Jones, Timbaland, Edie Brickell and Yoko Ono, Suphala continues to combine a deep understanding of the proud legacy of the tabla with a passionate commitment to expand the scope of its expression and to communicate it to the wider world. About Pegasus Warning: A superior creativ moniker developt, attributed to, and successfully executed by thee multi-disciplinary vocalist, percussionist, and producer Guillermo E. Brown to [entrap all influences] musical and otherwise/ in2 a boundary-less spaceship-diamond/hoofed-kingdom-of beauty. 8:00pm his playing falls into the general umbrella of Gypsy Swing his weekly sets showcase his own compositions which owe as much to Django Reinhardt as they do Pink Floyd or middle eastern modes. 9:00pm ============================================================== And thank you so much to all those who came to our anniversary celebrations - it was an amazing week. We are looking forward to the next ten years... ============================================================== Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

barb�s turns ten this week.

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:03:00 GMT

<a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/anniversaryschedule.html">Barbès Turns Ten this week We will celebrate May 1st through 6th with over thirty different performers. </a> We opened on May Day of 2002. Ten years and more than seven thousand events later, we're still here, much to our surprise, and our delight. A million thanks to all of you: the musicians, friends and patrons who have made barbès what it is. We've had an amazing time, and are looking forward to another ten years - and thousands more performances. <a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/anniversaryschedule.html">Below is a listing of performers for this week </a> <tr valign=top> <td>Tue 05/01 <a href="http://www.concertartists.org/brasil_bio.htm">THE BRASIL GUITAR DUO</a> - 7:00pm. Virtuoso classical guitar from Sao Paulo. <a href="http://www.luciapulido.com/">LUCIA PULIDO</a> - 7:40pm. New Colombian music <a href="http://www.mtkontanis-music.com/home.html">MAVROTHI KONTANIS</a> - 8:30 Neo-traditional Greek Rembetika, Smirneyka and more. <a href="http://www.andystatman.org/The_Andy_Statman_Trio/Welcome.html">ANDY STATMAN</a> - 9:00pm Jewish music for clarinet and mandolin by one of the masters. <a href="http://www.slavicsoulparty.com/main.html">SLAVIC SOUL PARTY</a> - 10:00pm Balkan-American funk. </td> <td>Wed 05/02 <a href="http://www.thefourbags.com/">THE FOUR BAGS</a> - 7pm chamber music for the 21st century. Or any century really. <a href="http://michaelattias.com/">Michael Attias'RENKU </a> - 8:00pm Saxophonist, composer and original curator of our nights of the Ravished Limbs. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mattdarriau">MATT DARRIAU's YO LATEEF</a> </a>- 9:00pm A tribute to Yussef Lateef by Klezmatics & Paradox trio reeds player <a href="http://www.rayabrassband.com/">RAYA BRASS BAND</a> 10:00pm Balkan brass featuring Greg Squared and Matthew Fass. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/arts/music/10mand.html">THE MANDINGO AMBASSADORS</a> 11:00pm Mamady Kouyate's extraordinary Guinean band.</td> <td> Thu 05/02 <a href="http://www.michaelbrownmusic.com/">MICHAEL BROWN</a>. 7:00pm Classical pianist<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Coleman"> ANTHONY COLEMAN</a> 7:30pm The downtown composer plays a solo piano set. <a href="http://www.rachellegarniez.com/">RACHELLE GARNIEZ</a> - 8:00pm "The Diva with a difference" herself. <a href="http://catherinerussell.net/live/">CATHERINE RUSSELL</a> 8:40pm Our favorite Jazz, Blues and Soul singer. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/mamieminch">MAMIE MINCH</a>. 9:00pm NY's youngest old school blues singer and guitarist. <a href="http://www.hazmatmodine.com/">WADE SCHUMAN </a> 9:15pm Hazmat Modine's front man. <a href="http://www.joelforrester.com/">JOEL FORRESTER </a>9:30pm A solo piano set by the Microscopic Septet's co-leader.<a href="http://www.joelforrester.com/"> </a><a href="http://scottkettner.com/">SCOTT KETTNER & FRIENDS</a>10:30pm A set of Northeastern Brazil music by Nation Beat's drummer</td> Thu 05/03 Fri 05/04 <a href="http://www.banningeyre.com/">BANNING EYRE</a> 7:00pm A solo guitar set by the writer, guitarist and Afropop producer. <a href="http://www.erikfriedlander.com/">ERIK FRIEDLANDER</a> 8:00pm A solo set by the downtown cellist. <a href="http://www.parkerquartet.com/">THE PARKER STRING QUARTET </a>9:00pm Our favorite Quartet (who won last year's grammy) are back at barbes for the first time in 2 years. <a href="http://barbesrecords.com/LRDN.html">LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE</a> 10:00pm Celebrate their ten years of performance, with special guests the Parker string quartet. <a href="http://barbesrecords.com/Canibalismo.html">CHICHA LIBRE</a> 11:00pm Back from South America - get ready for a Psychedelic cumbia dance party. <a href="http://www.pattysounds.com">PATTY FARREL</a>,<a href="http://www.sarahalden.com/"> SARAH ALDEN</a> & <a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com">QUINCE MARCUM</a> sing old labor songs. Midnight Sat 05/05 <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/TP">A live broadcast of WFMU's Transpacific Paradise with Rob Weisberg & Irene Trudell. </a>6 to 9:00pm <a href="http://barbesrecords.com/lr_intro.html">LAS RUBIAS DEL NORTE</a> 6:00pm The longest running barbès band... <a href="http://chichalibre.com/">CHICHA LIBRE</a> 6:30pm showcase some of the material from their new CD: <a href="http://barbesrecords.com/Canibalismo.html">Canibalismo</a> <a href="http://www.barbesrecords.com/NationBeat.html">NATION BEAT</a> 7:20pm Maracatu drumming, New Orleans second line, Appalachian music and country-blues <a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com">QUINCE MARCUM </a>7:50 Greek Rembetika and American work songs. <a href="http://www.pierredegaillande.com/">PIERRE DE GAILLANDE </a>8:00pm Piere sings his translations of George Brassens songs with Bad Reputation. <a href="http://www.pierredegaillande.com/"> </a><a href="http://oneringzero.com/">ONE RING ZERO</a> 9:00pm Gypsy-klezmer circus-flea-cartoon-music meets lit and prog-rock. <a href="http://www.jacobgarchik.com/banda.html">BANDA DE LOS MUERTOS</a> 10:00pm NY's only Mexican Banda plays a repertoire from Sinaloa and beyond. Sun 05/06 <a href="http://barbesrecords.com/SandaWeigl.html"> SANDA WEIGL & SHOKO NAGAI</a> 7:00pm Love songs from Romania, Germany and elsewhere. <a href="http://www.michiwiancko.com/home.html">MICHI WIANCKO</a> 8:00pm The violinist plays a combination of classical piece and her own crossover compostions with a full band. <a href="http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=38812">ENDANGERED BLOOD</a> 9:00pm Jim Black/Trevor Dunn/Oscar Noriega and Chris Speed. <a href="http://www.smokeyhormel.com/">SMOKEY'S SECRET FAMILY</a> 10:00pm Smokey Hormel and friends' smoking tribute to early congolese music.<a href="http://www.stephanewrembel.com/"> STEPHANE WREMBEL</a>. 11:00pm The Gypsy Swing virtuoso plays his own compositions.   Barbes 376 9th st Park Slope Brooklyn <a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com">www.barbesbrooklyn.com</a> You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. 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This Week at Barbes

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:07:00 GMT

BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com ================================================================================ Sat 03/30 at 8:00pm SONAGI After their spectacular performance this past Satiurday, we decided to have the Korean drum ensemble back at barbès as soon as we could. The group is based in Korea and it is their first visit to the US. Don't miss them... ================================================================================ Every Friday, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, our special cocktail hour set. THE CROOKED TRIO plays straight and skewed standards with Oscar Noriega - drums; Brian Drye - piano; Ari Folman-Cohen - bass and a rotating cast of special guests. Fri 03/30 HEARTS & BONES A strange yet oddly compelling fusion of jazz, bluegrass, klezmer and rock, Hearts & Bones is bassist Dave Hertzbergs first project as a leader. The band combines his original compositions with Paul Simon covers and arrangements of traditional folk songs, and features Itai Kriss (flute), Alan Grubner (violin), Rick Snell (acoustic guitar), Dave Hertzberg (bass) and Joel Arnow (drums) 8:00pm Fri 03/30 JACK GRACE The Martini Cowboy brings us his urban take on Country music. "One of the city's most personable and skilled country stars" Time Out NY 10:00pm Sat 03/31 OURIDA Born and raised in Paris, the pianist and singer has spent the past few years between France, Brazil and Canada. Her trio was awa. rded the Grand Zebrock prize. " A ringmaster"! (Radio Nova). 7:00pm Sat 03/30 SONAGI After their spectacular performance this past Satiurday, we decided to have Sonagi back at barbès as soon as we could. The group is based in Korea and it is their first visit to the US. Sonagi Project is a group of 5 young musicians leaded by Chang Jae Hyo and based on Korean traditional music, creating a modern and original performance linked with the Shamanic ceremonies of the peninsula seen with contemporary eyes. Concerts are usually built around Jang-Gu (two-heads drums), gongs and Pansori (traditional way to sing in the animist chants), performed with an assumed liberty regarding the musical techniques and the forms of the ancient rhythm. 8:00pm Sat 03/31 Scott Kettner's ORGY IN RHYTHM The latest creative output of Nation Beat and Maracatu New York ringleader Scott Kettner is a funk infused brass band that performs infectiously live dance music from northeastern Brazil. This group travels between North and South America as if there were no borders or passports needed. Ranging from fresh originals to forró classics, this Brooklyn-based group throws a global dance party you wont forget. Scott Kettner: drums; Brian Drye: trombone; Rodrigo Ursaia: flute; Petr Cancura: saxophone and John Altieri: tuba. 10:00 Sun 04/01 THE DELOREAN SISTERS. The Sisters are all children of the 80s with souls as old as the resin in your grandpappys corn cob pipe. Together theyve taken to reimagining synth-pop hits and keytar karaoke staples as old timey, early 20th century Americana. Diane Wohland and Jessica Spiegel both play guitar and harmonize; Clive Thompson plays lead guitar and harmonica; Brian Braiker is on banjo, slide guitar and ukulele, and Gary Lowery sings, hollers, washboards, and tinkles the meanest triangle you ever did hear. Its Marty McFly with a washboard; Hank Williams in legwarmers. The Dust Bowl meets the Superbowl Shuffle. 7:00pm Sun 04/01 STEPHANE WREMBEL: 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. 9:00pm Mon 04/02 CUMBIAGRA Since their creation in the summer of 2008, Cumbiagra has been hosting legendary dance parties throughout New Yorks Lower East Side, Brooklyn, Mexico and beyond. Though Cumbiagra is largely inspired by the Colombian dance style known as cumbia, their music has developed into a synthesis of styles, drawing on the diversity of its members and the rich musical environment of the New York Metro area. George Saenz - accordion, trombone and vocals; Rafael Gomez - bass and vocals; Brian Lazarus - guitar and vocals and Brian Glashow - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 04/03 Barbès and Concert Artist Guild present a series of solo classical Piano. THE UPRIGHT PIANO BRIGADE. 4 X 2 . RACHEL CHRISTENSEN & RICHARD WEINERT The Upright Piano Brigade:continues with a special concert by two CAG employees, Rachel Christensen and Richard Weinert. Both are arts administrators by day and performers by night. Rachel Christensen, responsible for contracts and servicing at CAG, makes her second appearance on the series. She has twice been featured soloist with the Salt Lake Symphony and is a graduate of New York University. Her special guest on April 3, Richard Weinert, is CAGs president and a longtime amateur player. Ms. Christensen offers solo works by Handel, Chopin and Beethoven. Together the pair offers 4-hand works by Barber and Ravel. 7:00pm Tue 04/03 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. 9:00pm Wed 04/04 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. JUSTIN MULLENS THREAD COLLECTIVE. Founded in 2010, Thread Collective is a chamber group which plays all original music composed by people trying to figure out what to do with their lives. With Mazz Swift-Camlet - Violin; Pete Thompson - Guitar; Justin Mullens - trumpet/French Horn and Peter Hess - Clarinets. 8:00pm Wed 04/04 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 04/05 RACHELLE GARNIEZ Dubbed a"Master of Surprise" by Entertainment Weekly, Rachelle writes and performs darkly optimistic story-songs and accompanies herself on a variety of instruments including accordion, piano, claviola, guitar and plastic bells, "...leaving nothing behind but sweet wreckage." (The New Yorker). 8:00pm Thu 04/05 SONGS Three great improvisers share a kaleidoscopic trip through the melodies and rhythms of the Mediterranean. Marco Cappelli, guitars - Mauro Pagani, violin - Adam Rudolph - percussion. 10:00pm Thu 04/05 MARCO CAPPELLI'S SURF TRIO. Marco Cappelli (guitar); Ken Filiano (bass) and Harris Eisenstadt (drums) 11:00pm Fri 04/06 AKIKO PAVOLKA AND HOUSE OF ILLUSION Akiko Pavolka and House Of Illusion is Akiko Pavolka, voice and piano, Matt Renzi on saxophone, Nate Radley on guitar, Matt Pavolka on bass and Bill Campbell on drums. They will be playing new music from Akiko's soon to be released fifth album. 8:00pm Fri 04/06 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. 10:00pm Sat 04/07 SUELY MESQUITA Suely Mesquita has written more than 500 songs for top Brazilian recording artists including Fernanda Abreu, Zelia Duncan, Chico Cesar, Zeca Baleiro, and Moska. Her own albums, "Sexopuro" and "Microswing" have met with widespread critical acclaim in the Brazilian press. She makes her NYC debut at Barbes in a concert featuring new music with a band of top Jazz, Modern Classical, and Post-Punk musician 7:00pm Sat 04/07 BANNING EYRE Writer & Guitarist Banning Eyre has been specializing in all things African for over 15 years. As a guitarist, he has played with Thomas Mapfumo of Zimbabwe and has toured with Super Rail Band of Mali. His book - and its companion CD - In Griot Times, have won him much deserved praise as has his work for NPR. His mostly solo show will draw form various African sources (South Africa, Congo, Madagascar, Zimbabwe and Mali.) He will be joined by Abdoulaye Alhassane Toure. 8:00pm Sat 04/07 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. 10:00pm Sun 04/08 BARBES CLASSICAL. Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present some of the best new talent in the classical music world. This month: THE AMPHION STRING QUARTET The Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition and has been appointed to the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centers CMS Two program beginning with the 2013 - 14 season. Called exuberant by Time Out New York and a quartet which plays with precision, assertiveness and vigor by The New York Times, these are the most recent achievements in the ensembles ascendancy that began just two years ago at Yale University. Since then, the Quartet has appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, the La Jolla Music Societys Summerfest, on the Schneider Concert Series at the New School and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 7:00pm Sun 04/08 STEPHANE WREMBEL 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. 9:00pm Mon 04/09 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 04/09 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 04/10 DANIEL LEVIN QUARTET Daniel Levin is one of the outstanding cellists working in the vanguard arena (All About Jazz). In addition to the records he has made as a leader, Daniel has recorded as a collaborator or sideman with Billy Bang, Tim Berne, Anthony Braxton, Gerald Cleaver, Andrew Cyrille, Mark Dresser, Tony Malaby, Joe Morris, Joe McPhee, William Parker, and many others. WITH Daniel Levin - cello, Nate Wooley - trumpet, Matt Moran - vibes, Peter Bitenc - bassb 7:00pm Tue 04/10 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. 9:00pm Wed 04/11 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. 8:00pm Wed 4/11 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 04/12 DANIEL BELTON AND GOOD COMPANY: THE SOMA SONGS The Soma Songs project brings together a group of acclaimed artists and designers from performance, visual, sound, textile and film genres. Fusing digital dance, choreographic screen processes with architectural cinema and sound, the project develops an electro-shamanic ethos. "We trace our stories of architecture from the first attempts to capture and hold space with stone. " 7:00pm Thu 04/12 MARIA VOLONTE Winner of the Gardel Prize, a Latin Grammy nominee and member of the Tango Hall of Fame, Maria Volonte is an Argentine singer-songwriter celebrated for the intense passion and beauty of her songs as well as for her charisma and sensuality on stage. After conquering the world of tango with numerous award-winning CDs, Marias new work explores the fusion of Argentine music with other Latin American rhythms, jazz and the blues. 10:00pm Fri 04/13 OPERA ON TAP. Opera is fun. Most people don't seem to realize how much fun it really is. In order to prove it, Opera on Tap has taken its act to barrooms where they found out that beer on tap enhances the operatic experience. The company is made up of young singers and instrumentalists who relish the direct contact with audiences not inhibited in their reactions by the looming menace of giant chandeliers. 8:00pm Fri 04/13 CHIA'S DANCE PARTY. Martin Vejarano, leader of La Cumbiamba EneYe, has concocted a new project based on the sounds of traditional Colombian marching bands, but with enough of urban bastardazition and personal idiosyncracies to please a squadron of ethnomusicologists. The music is fun, driven and adventurous. It's very deeply rooted in Colombian music but not quaint, folkloric or exotic in anyway. With Ben Stapp - tuba; Alex Terrier - soprano saxophone; Justin Wood - alto sax and flute; Rafi Malkiel - Bombardino and Martín Vejarano - drums & composition 10:00pm Sat 04/14 LES CHAUDS LAPINS Les Chauds Lapins (The Hot Rabbits..) are lead by New York's Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt and specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1930's and 40's. The group has re-arranged long-forgotten French classics for two banjo ukes and a string trio mixing the rootsiness of early American jazz with lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack. Prior to their re-incarnation as French entertainers, Meg Riechardt was better known as one fourth of Americana group The Roulette sisters and Kurt as a reed player and composer who co-led cult instru mental band the Ordinaires and recorded with such luminaries as They Might be Giants, Frank Black and Firewater. The music oscillates between romantic and quirky, French and American, retro and modern. They are backed by a string section composed of Karen Waltuch - violin; Andy Cotton - bass and Garo Yellin - cello 8:00pm Sat 04/14 BROOKLYN QAWWALI PARTY Inspired by recordings of the late great Sufi singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Brook Martinez founded Brook's Qawwali Party in 2004 as an experiment. What would happen if New York jazz musicians were to play and improvise around the melodies of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan? From this idea, Brook's Qawwali Party was born. BQP consists of fourteen musicians: five horns, three percussionists, guitar, acoustic bass, harmonium and three designated clappers. The exuberant sound of BQP has been enthusiastically welcomed in New York City and across the globe. 10:00pm Sun 04/15 ANDREW DEMETRE | RADIO XUAR:The Unheard Music. New York-based cultural adventurer/writer/performer Andrew Demetre delivers an evocative, kinetic monologue and DJ set. A musical and spoken word journey to Xinjiang Province,Far Western China-the traditional lands of the Uyghur people. Alone on stage, armed with an iPod, Demetre bears witness, presenting rare and banned Uyghur music selections ranging from the deep traditional roots to Uyghur Pop-a captivating, at times poignant narrative spiced with music, legends, reflections and remembrances of his travels in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Radio XUAR:The Unheard Music pays homage to important Uyghur musical figures and their struggle to squeeze their expression through the tight filters of the CPC (Communist Party of China) while trying to keep their musical and cultural legacies, and sometimes themselves,alive. 8:00pm Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com ============================================================ Chicha Libre is hoping you can help fund their upcoming album: Canibalismo. Please visit our Kickstarter page at <a href="http://kck.st/GDsMOY">http://kck.st/GDsMOY</a> ============================================================ You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

This Week at Barbes Message

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 22:49:00 GMT

BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com Fri 03/23 KARINA COLIS. The mexican mulit-instrumentalist is better known as the drummer for the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, Jarana Beat and Chicha Libre - she's also an accomplished singer. She will perform an all acoustic set of mostly Latin American songs, accompanying herself on Jarana, and will be joined by guitarist Roman Rojas. 8:00pm Fri 03/23 BABY SODA They play an eclectic mix influenced by New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz and feel at home at the Village Vanguard or playing on the street. The band features members New Orleans band the Loose Marbles and alumni of Stephane Wrembel's Hot Club of NY. With Ben Polcer, Trumpet; Patrick Harison, Accordion; Jared Engel, Banjo; David Langlois, Washboard and Peter Ford, Washtub bass. 10:00pm Sat 03/24 ROBIN AIGNER & PARLOUR GAME. "Local folkie Aigner croons witty, vintage-sounding tunes with dashes of klezmer and swing"TIMEOUT NY. "A feast of historically-imbued, out-of-the-box steampunk imagination"LUCID CULTURE. Brooklyn's Robin Aigner (voice, uke, guitar, banjo) offers up a smorgasbord of engaging and emotive history vignettes that blend old-time, mid-century country-and-western and Eastern European music with bon mot and edgy sensibility. Rounding out the Parlour Game trio are Rima Fand (Luminescent Orchestrii, Church of Betty) on violin and vocals, and Larry Cook (Megan Palmer, Alex Battles) on upright bass and guitar. Special surprise guests! 6:00pm Sat 03/24 SONAGI. Sonagi Project is a group of 5 young musicians leaded by Chang Jae Hyo and based on Korean traditional music, creating a modern and original performance linked with the Shamanic ceremonies of the peninsula seen with contemporary eyes. Concerts are usually built around Jang-Gu (two-heads drums), gongs and Pansori (traditional way to sing in the animist chants), performed with an assumed liberty regarding the musical techniques and the forms of the ancient rhythms. 8:00pm Sat 03/24 PEOPLE'S CHAMP Peoples Champs play music for the mind, body and soul. Enamored with roots dance music from all over the world, they mix jazz, hip-hop, rock and soul from the USA, Latin America and Africa to create new hybrids. The result is a passionate sound that will move you. Literally. Led by trombonist/vocalist Alex Asher, Peoples Champs feature some of New Yorks top musicians, who also perform regularly with Slavic Soul Party!, Meta and the Cornerstones, Baye Kouyate, Jo Jo Kuo and his Afrobeat Collective, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Afrodesia, Nation Beat and many others. 10:00pm This Sunday: FATHER AND SON. No, you're not confused. Today is not Father's day. And it's not a religious thing either, but both bands tonight invovle bands which include a father - and a son. Sun 03/25 HAPPY PAPPY. Brandon Seabrook on electric guitar and banjo, Peter Cancura - tenor sax/clarinet and mandolin; Eli Rojas - drums and Marcus Rojas - tuba. 7:00pm Sun 03/25 HOT FUTURE FIVE According to French magazine La Nouvelle Louisiane, "Nostradomus correctly predicted that the future would belong to banjos and tubas. What he couldn't have seen was the damage they could do to the Grand Dixieland Repertoire in the hands of The Hot Future Five". A new swing band without a trace of nostalgic indulgence. With Frank Perowsky-clarinet; Tony Scher-banjo; Marcus Rojas-tuba and Ben Perowsky-drum. 9:00pm Mon 03/26 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 03/26 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 03/27 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. 9:00pm Tue 03/27 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. 9:00pm Wed 03/28 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. LISA MEZZACAPPA'S WILD WEST QUARTET. A new collaborative East-meets-West Coast endeavor assembled by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa featuring compositions by Mezzacappa and members of the group. old friends re-connecting and new musical sparks flying over some fun and freewheeling quartet music. "The work of San Francisco bassist-composer Lisa Mezzacappa demonstrates an admirable balance of grit and whimsy... " - Time Out New York. With Lisa Mezzacappa's Wild West Quartet; Matt Nelson, tenor sax; Jonathan Goldberger, guitar; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass and Jeff Davis, drums. 8:00pm Wed 03/28 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 Ambassade urs du Mandingue, being one of them - but is probably best known as the guitarist in 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 03/29 SANDA WEIGL"How did you get away with that?" Sanda sings songs of Brecht/Weill with Shoko Nagai - piano. Romanian-born Sanda Weigl has had a tumultuous career, first as a singer for the popular east-german rock band Team 4, then as an imprisoned dissident and finally as a New York -based musician who has collaborated with such luminaries as Robert Wilson and (the late) Pina Baush. She will be accompanied by pianist and accordionist Shoko Nagai. Romanian-born Sanda Weigl has had a tumultuous career, first as a singer for the popular east-german rock band Team 4, then as an imprisoned dissident and finally as a New York -based musician who has collaborated with such luminaries as Roberet Wilson and (the late) Pina Baush. She will be accompanied by pianist and accordionist Shoko Nagai. 8:00pm Thu 03/29 JANK! PARTY with Sxip Shirey and the Jank Boy 5. JANK! is fun, surprising, funky and unexpected. Born out of Brooklyn underground parties thrown by Gemini and Scorpio, JANK! is the best parts of dance music, from house party blues and soul to hip-hop and techno, re-imagined for brass and electronically exaggerated instruments.Featuring Sxip Shirey on mutant and bullhorn harmonicas, bass siren whistle, melodicotron, resophonic guitar and more, Ben Syversen on trumpet, Jeremy Gustin on drums, Don Godwin on Tuba and Xavier on vocals. 10:00pm Fri 03/30 HEARTS & BONES A strange yet oddly compelling fusion of jazz, bluegrass, klezmer and rock, Hearts & Bones is bassist Dave Hertzbergs first project as a leader. The band combines his original compositions with Paul Simon covers and arrangements of traditional folk songs, and features Itai Kriss (flute), Alan Grubner (violin), Rick Snell (acoustic guitar), Dave Hertzberg (bass) and Joel Arnow (drums) 8:00pm Fri 03/30 JACK GRACE The Martini Cowboy brings us his urban take on Country music. "One of the city's most personable and skilled country stars" Time Out NY 10:00pm Sat 03/31 OURIDA Born and raised in Paris, the pianist and singer has spent the past few years between France, Brazil and Canada. Her trio was awa. rded the Grand Zebrock prize. " A ringmaster"! (Radio Nova). 7:00pm Sat 03/31 Scott Kettner's ORGY IN RHYTHM The latest creative output of Nation Beat and Maracatu New York ringleader Scott Kettner is a funk infused brass band that performs infectiously live dance music from northeastern Brazil. This group travels between North and South America as if there were no borders or passports needed. Ranging from fresh originals to forró classics, this Brooklyn-based group throws a global dance party you wont forget. Scott Kettner: drums; Brian Drye: trombone; Rodrigo Ursaia: flute; Petr Cancura: saxophone and John Altieri: tuba. 8:00pm Sun 04/01 STEPHANE WREMBEL: 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. 9:00pm Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

Cine Barbes This Sunday at 5pm

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:23:00 GMT

CINE BARBES Ciné Barbès is a monthly film series dedicated to showcasing underexposed, visually ambitious and thought-provoking contemporary cinema. Questions, suggestions, and inquiries are welcome! Please contact curator Blandine Mercier-McGovern. This Sunday: RESURRECT DEAD: The Mystery of The Toynbee tiiles Q&A with director John Foy following the screening Suggested donation: $5 Beginning in the early 1980s, hundreds of tiles carrying this cryptic message were found embedded in the asphalt of city streets as far apart as New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Santiago, and Buenos Aires. Street art? A prank? A message from space? Filmmaker Jon Foy recounts how young artist Justin Duerr became fascinated with the strange plaques and, with two other "Toynbee tile" enthusiasts, Steve Weinik and Colin Smith, spent years trying to discover what they meant and who made them. The unlikely investigators uncovered increasingly bizarre clues: a newspaper article, a David Mamet play, a Jupiter colonization organization, and a Toynbee message that "hijacked" local news broadcasts. That the origins of a street tile can be so captivating is testament to both Duerrs passion and Foys filmmaking. Artfully constructed, RESURRECT DEAD thrusts us into the black hole of this fantastic mystery but also reflects on Duerr himself, and the personal connection he develops with finding an answer. *** "It's the thrill of the hunt that keeps 'Resurrect Dead' compelling." - Andy Webster, THE NEW YORK TIMES "An uncommonly sensitive and layered portrait of outsider-dom". - Eric Hynes, THE VILLAGE VOICE "The bizarre, yet utterly hypnotic love child of David Lynch and Errol Morris [...] easily one of the most unique and satisfying documentaries of the year". - Andrew Mack, TWITCH.COM "Enjoyably cryptic" -Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

This Week at Barbes

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:15:00 GMT

BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com Thu 03/15 SASHA DOBSON Every Wednesday at 7pm. Sasha's talents have earned her accolades across generations and musical genres. While Dobson has emerged as an indie-folk favorite, she first developed her style as a darling of the jazz world. Her 2004 release "The Darkling Thrush" (Small's Records), was a tour-de-force jazz vocal record backed by a large ensemble filled with prodigies of the New York jazz scene After picking up a guitar, Dobson's musical tastes took a turn. And soon after, in 2006, she released "Modern Romance" (Secret Sun), a bossa nova-tinged collection of songs, many of which were written in collaboration with guitarists Richard Julian and Jesse Harris. Her song-writing skills broadened her collaborative abilities, attracted a new audience, and led to a reunion with an old musical partner in crime, Norah Jones. ...... Together Dobson and Jones have collaborated on numerous musical side projects over the years.. Time Magazine says Sasha's songs "go down as easily as a frozen marga ritas" 8:00pm Thu 03/15 JANK! PARTY with Sxip Shirey and the Jank Boy 5. JANK! is fun, surprising, funky and unexpected. Born out of Brooklyn underground parties thrown by Gemini and Scorpio, JANK! is the best parts of dance music, from house party blues and soul to hip-hop and techno, re-imagined for brass and electronically exaggerated instruments.Featuring Sxip Shirey on mutant and bullhorn harmonicas, bass siren whistle, melodicotron, resophonic guitar and more, Ben Syversen on trumpet, Jeremy Gustin on drums, Don Godwin on Tuba and Xavier on vocals. 10:00pm Fri 03/16 OPERA ON TAP Opera is fun. Most people don't seem to realize how much fun it really is. In order to prove it, Opera on Tap has taken its act to barrooms where they found out that beer on tap enhances the operatic experience. The company is made up of young singers and instrumentalists who relish the direct contact with audiences not inhibited in their reactions by the looming menace of giant chandeliers. 8:00pm Fri 03/16 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. 10:00pm Sat 03/17 THE HIGHLAND SHATNERS. Celtic Folk meets 60s Paisley Pop - an appropriately green-like appearance for on a certain Patrick's day. Bring your own coloring just in case. 6:30pm Sat 03/17 PERCY JONES AND MJ-12 An improvisational trio that takes various starting points of jazz/rock fusion, psychedelia and ambient noise and develop them in unpredictable directions. With Percy Jones (Brand X, Eno) fretless bass, Stephen Moses (Alice Donut) drums/trombone, Aubrey Smith (Helden) vocals/keyboards. 8:00pm Sat 03/17 LIFE IN A BLENDER For reason known only to a handful of Greek generals, Don Rauf was banished to Seattle a few years back. He keeps sneaking back into town though to blend his monstrous, polymorphous life forms in our private laboratory - much to our enjoyment. "This band has a bizarrely theatrical show (often involving tirades from a sheep-headed hand puppet named Rugged Rick) and a lighthearted surreal sensibility that's capable of amusing the surliest indie rocker." The New Yorker 10:00pm Sun 03/18 BABY SODA They play an eclectic mix influenced by New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz and feel at home at the Village Vanguard or playing on the street. The band features members New Orleans band the Loose Marbles and alumni of Stephane Wrembel's Hot Club of NY. With Ben Polcer, Trumpet; Patrick Harison, Accordion; Jared Engel, Banjo; David Langlois, Washboard and Peter Ford, Washtub bass. 9:00pm Mon 03/19 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 03/19 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion.9:30pm Tue 03/20 ALLISON MILLER TRIO Allison goes from playing with legendary songwriting vocalists Ani DiFranco, Brandi Carlile and Natalie Merchant, to touring with avant-garde saxophonist Marty Ehrlich and legendary organist Doctor Lonnie Smith. She approaches each of these musical situations with her own stylistic identity and a creative, fresh and energetic approach. Allison was chosen as Rising Star Drummer in Downbeats 53rd Annual Critics Poll. With Marty Ehrlich - reeds; Trevor Dunn - bass and Allison Miller - drums. 7:00pm Tue 03/20 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. 9:00pm Wed 03/21 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. HOME. Original compositions and re-interpretations of tunes from Mingus to Zorn. With Marika Hughes - cello; Mazz Swift - vlolin and Tanya Kalmanovich - viola. 8:00pm Wed 03/21 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 03/22 THE HORNS BAND The Horns Band is Matt Pavolka on bass and trombone, Shane Endsley on trumpet, Loren Stillman on alto saxophone, Jacob Garchik on trombone and Mark Ferber on drums. It is somewhat similar to Pavolka's other band except that it has horns. 8:00pm Thu 03/22 JANK! PARTY with Sxip Shirey and the Jank Boy 5. JANK! is fun, surprising, funky and unexpected. Born out of Brooklyn underground parties thrown by Gemini and Scorpio, JANK! is the best parts of dance music, from house party blues and soul to hip-hop and techno, re-imagined for brass and electronically exaggerated instruments.Featuring Sxip Shirey on mutant and bullhorn harmonicas, bass siren whistle, melodicotron, resophonic guitar and more, Ben Syversen on trumpet, Jeremy Gustin on drums, Don Godwin on Tuba and Xavier on vocals. 10:00pm Fri 03/23 ESZTER BALINT w/ Chris Cochrane. Jon Pareles of The New York Times has this to say about singer. songwriter and violinist Eszter Balint: "Miss Balint has her own film noir sensibility as a songwriter. She puts arty twists into back-alley Americana... but the cleverness is not the point. She slips inside her characters to project their restlessness and longing." In addition to two releases of her own, Eszter Balint has also appeared on recordings by Michael Gira's Angels of Light, Marc Ribot's Los Cubanos Postizos, and John Lurie's Marvin Pontiac's Greatest Hits among many others. Balint recently toured with Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog, featured as special guest on violin and vocals. Eszter Balint will be performing some of her brand new material during this residency, accompanied by one of New York's most inventive and fiercely passionate players, guitarist/composer/songwriter Chris Cochrane. 8:00pm Fri 03/23 ROBIN AIGNER & PARLOUR GAME. "Local folkie Aigner croons witty, vintage-sounding tunes with dashes of klezmer and swing"TIMEOUT NY. "A feast of historically-imbued, out-of-the-box steampunk imagination"LUCID CULTURE. Brooklyn's Robin Aigner (voice, uke, guitar, banjo) offers up a smorgasbord of engaging and emotive history vignettes that blend old-time, mid-century country-and-western and Eastern European music with bon mot and edgy sensibility. Rounding out the Parlour Game trio are Rima Fand (Luminescent Orchestrii, Church of Betty) on violin and vocals, and Larry Cook (Megan Palmer, Alex Battles) on upright bass and guitar. Special surprise guests! 6:00pm Sat 03/24 SONAGI. Sonagi Project is a group of 5 young musicians leaded by Chang Jae Hyo and based on Korean traditional music, creating a modern and original performance linked with the Shamanic ceremonies of the peninsula seen with contemporary eyes. Concerts are usually built around Jang-Gu (two-heads drums), gongs and Pansori (traditional way to sing in the animist chants), performed with an assumed liberty regarding the musical techniques and the forms of the ancient rhythms. 8:00pm Sat 03/24 PEOPLE'S CHAMP Peoples Champs play music for the mind, body and soul. Enamored with roots dance music from all over the world, they mix jazz, hip-hop, rock and soul from the USA, Latin America and Africa to create new hybrids. The result is a passionate sound that will move you. Literally. Led by trombonist/vocalist Alex Asher, Peoples Champs feature some of New Yorks top musicians, who also perform regularly with Slavic Soul Party!, Meta and the Cornerstones, Baye Kouyate, Jo Jo Kuo and his Afrobeat Collective, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Afrodesia, Nation Beat and many others. 10:00pm Sun 03/25 Sun 03/25 HOT FUTURE FIVE According to French magazine La Nouvelle Louisiane, "Nostradomus correctly predicted that the future would belong to banjos and tubas. What he couldn't have seen was the damage they could do to the Grand Dixieland Repertoire in the hands of The Hot Future Five". A new swing band without a trace of nostalgic indulgence. With Frank Perowsky-clarinet; Tony Scher-banjo; Marcus Rojas-tuba and Ben Perowsky-drum. 9:00pm Mon 03/26 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 03/26 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 03/27 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. 9:00pm Tue 03/27 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. 9:00pm Wed 03/28 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. LISA MEZZACAPPA'S WILD WEST QUARTET. A new collaborative East-meets-West Coast endeavor assembled by San Francisco bassist Lisa Mezzacappa featuring compositions by Mezzacappa and members of the group. old friends re-connecting and new musical sparks flying over some fun and freewheeling quartet music. "The work of San Francisco bassist-composer Lisa Mezzacappa demonstrates an admirable balance of grit and whimsy... " - Time Out New York. With Lisa Mezzacappa's Wild West Quartet; Matt Nelson, tenor sax; Jonathan Goldberger, guitar; Lisa Mezzacappa, bass and Jeff Davis, drums. 8:00pm Wed 03/28 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 Ambassade urs du Mandingue, being one of them - but is probably best known as the guitarist in 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 03/29 SANDA WEIGL Romanian-born Sanda Weigl has had a tumultuous career, first as a singer for the popular east-german rock band Team 4, then as an imprisoned dissident and finally as a New York -based musician who has collaborated with such luminaries as Roberet Wilson and (the late) Pina Baush. She will be accompanied by pianist and accordionist Shoko Nagai. 8:00pm Thu 03/29 JANK! PARTY with Sxip Shirey and the Jank Boy 5. JANK! is fun, surprising, funky and unexpected. Born out of Brooklyn underground parties thrown by Gemini and Scorpio, JANK! is the best parts of dance music, from house party blues and soul to hip-hop and techno, re-imagined for brass and electronically exaggerated instruments.Featuring Sxip Shirey on mutant and bullhorn harmonicas, bass siren whistle, melodicotron, resophonic guitar and more, Ben Syversen on trumpet, Jeremy Gustin on drums, Don Godwin on Tuba and Xavier on vocals. 10:00pm Fri 03/30 HEARTS & BONES A strange yet oddly compelling fusion of jazz, bluegrass, klezmer and rock, Hearts & Bones is bassist Dave Hertzbergs first project as a leader. The band combines his original compositions with Paul Simon covers and arrangements of traditional folk songs, and features Itai Kriss (flute), Alan Grubner (violin), Rick Snell (acoustic guitar), Dave Hertzberg (bass) and Joel Arnow (drums) 8:00pm Fri 03/30 JACK GRACE The Martini Cowboy brings us his urban take on Country music. "One of the city's most personable and skilled country stars" Time Out NY 10:00pm Sat 03/31 OURIDA Born and raised in Paris, the pianist and singer has spent the past few years between France, Brazil and Canada. Her trio was awa. rded the Grand Zebrock prize. " A ringmaster"! (Radio Nova). 7:00pm Sat 03/31 Scott Kettner's ORGY IN RHYTHM The latest creative output of Nation Beat and Maracatu New York ringleader Scott Kettner is a funk infused brass band that performs infectiously live dance music from northeastern Brazil. This group travels between North and South America as if there were no borders or passports needed. Ranging from fresh originals to forró classics, this Brooklyn-based group throws a global dance party you wont forget. Scott Kettner: drums; Brian Drye: trombone; Rodrigo Ursaia: flute; Petr Cancura: saxophone and John Altieri: tuba. 8:00pm Sun 04/01 STEPHANE WREMBEL: 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. 9:00pm Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

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BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com =============================================================== CHICHA LIBRE this Saturday. 10 to Midnight Special Weekend appearance. =============================================================== Fri 02/10 JEN CHAPIN Jen Chapins music plays urban folk story songs that search for community and shared meaning, powered by the funk, soul and improvisation of the city. Critics have hailed her work as brilliant.. soulfully poetic (NPR), thoughtful.. worth-savoring (People), addictive (Boston Globe), smart, observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). JazzTimes has called her a first-rate storyteller while Relix regards her as one of the freshest voices singing today." She has been featured on Late Nite with Conan OBrien, honored by the USA Songwriting Competition, appeared on stage with Bruce Springsteen, and opened up for Bruce Hornsby and the Neville Brothers. Her performances are powerful, spotlighting the world-class musicianship and rare chemistry of Grammy-nominated acoustic bassist/husband Stephan Crump and unflappable melodist (New York Times) guitarist Jamie Fox. 8:00pm Fri 02/10 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. Their new album, Ziguala is an attempt to imagine what a pop record would sound like had the global Latin influence which was so prevalent until the early 60's had continued its course without interruption. The tracks on the album 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, itself a Latin genre which uses a rock vocabulary. 10:00pm Sat 02/11 KOTORINO European waltzes, Latin Tango and rural Americana played on guitar, violin, tuba, bass clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, pump-organ, voice, banjo, drums, accordion, bass and musical saw . 8:00pm Sat 02/11 CHICHA LIBRE Psychedelic Cumbia. A rare weekend appearance by Monday regulars as they get ready for the release of their new album,Canibalismo, due out May 8th. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 10:00pm Sun 02/12 BARBES CLASSICAL. Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present some of the best new talent in the classical music world. This month: THE LINDEN STRING QUARTET. Described as truly riveting by MusicWeb International, the Linden String Quartet is a winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. The performance will include Ravels String Quartet in F, Schuberts Quartettsatz, Beethovens Op. 18, No. 4 and Dark Energy (2007) by Canadian composer Kelly Marie Murphy. 7:00pm Sun 02/12 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. 9:00pm Mon 02/13 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Fri 02/13 LLAMA. Psychedelic Salsa! Steeped in the salsa dura of the 1970's, Llama goes the trippy way with heavy ambient and psychedelic touches without ever losing its clave. A mixture of Peruvian, Colombian and New York musicians, Llama is part of the new wave of tropical music. Erik Baumann-Bongos; Juan Calderon-Guitar; Joy Hanson-Lead vocals; Megan Moncrief-Piano; Michael Rafalowich-Bass; Efrain Rozas-Director, Timbales; Yvonne Ubillus-Synthesizer; Oscar Rebolledo -Conga. 9:30pm Mon 02/13 DJ SULTÁN From Mexico City, DJ Sultan is one of the founding members of the Mexican electro-balkan combo La Internacional Sonora Balkanera; he has been spinning music since the late 90s, shaking audiences from Montreal to London and Mexico to Oaxaca with his peculiar blend of Balkan beat, funky groove, nortec vibes and Latin rock. Currently living in New York, DJ Sultán has performed at Obra Negra, the basement bar of the Mexican restaurant Casa Mezcal in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 10:30pm Tue 02/14 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. 9:00pm Wed 02/15 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. JIM BLACK MYSTERY. With Jim Black - drums; Chris Speed reeds & Ben Street - bass. Jim Black is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians bringing jazz into the 21st century. In addition to being one of the most influential drummers of our time, he is also the leader of one of the world's most forward-thinking bands, AlasNoAxis. 8:00pm Wed 02/15 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 02/16 MATT MUNISTERI A phenomenal guitarist and songwriter whose ongoing monthly Barbès residency is now close to ten years old. 8:00pm Thu 02/16 MARTA TOPFEROVA. "The Other Shore" CD release. Marta Topferova's musical journey is closely linked to her unique, cross-cultural roots. Growing up on both sides of the Atlantic, Topferova often traveled back and forth between her native Czech Republic and the Americas. Highly acclaimed for her previous albums of Latin-flavored music in Spanish, "The Other Shore" is Topferova's first collection of original songs in English. As always, her writing is both lyrical and uplifting, and these songs bring a new dimension to her artistry. The album features Ben Monder on electric guitar, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Adam Cruz on drums. "Topferova sings with an elegant longing in her voice" - New York Times 10:00pm Fri 02/17 A Screening of Cory McAbee's "STINGRAY SAM". In this surreal sci-fi musical western serial, a dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. McAbee is the same mad genius who masterminded the cult classic "The American Astronaut". Written and Directed by Cory McAbee; Music by The Billy Nayer Show; Narrated by David Hyde Pierce. "STINGRAY SAM leaves one begging for more..."- Dennis Harvey, Variety 8:00pm Fri 02/17 SERENA JOST Serena Jost is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter and cellist. She recently finished recording her new album, A Bird Will Sing, with Producer Anton Fier (Golden Palominos). The album features Serena's extraordinary band and some very special guests including Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) and will be released this Spring. TimeOut said of her music: "The term art songnormally tied to 19th-century concert musicusefully characterizes Josts carefully arranged pieces and succinct lyrics, neither quite rock nor folk." Serena is an original member of Rasputina, the well-corseted cello group, and appears tonight with Julian Maile on guitar plus some surprise guests. 9:00pm Fri 02/17 PINATALAND Pinataland's theatrical, darkly romantic music conjures lovelorn astronauts, murderous Mormons, and the atom bomb. Tonight they're bringing back their energetic stage show of historical mysteries, performing songs from their acclaimed fifth CD "Hymns for the Dreadful Night" with Robin Aigner and Doug Stone singing, Bill Gerstel on drums, Ross Bonadonna on bass, and Deni Bonet on violin and Josh Camp on piano. "America's best bet for singalong historical fiction." - The New Jersey Star Ledger. 10:30pm Sat 02/18 GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA Trumpeter/composer Brian Carpenter leads the Ghost Train Orchestra through radical new arrangements of strange and beautiful early American chamber jazz from bandleaders Alec Wilder, John Kirby, Raymond Scott, and Reginald Foresythe. Brian Carpenter (trumpet, harmonica), Mazz Swift (violin), Andy Laster (alto saxophone), Petr Cancura (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Dennis Lichtman (clarinet), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Ron Caswell (tuba), Avi Bortnick (guitar), Michael Bates (bass), Rob Garcia (drums). 8:00pm Sat 02/18 SMOKEY's ROUNDUP Smokey Hormel is probably best known for his works with Beck, Tom Waits and his Brazilian project with Miho Hatori. He's also been playing western swing for timequite some and his new project is inspired by the sounds of Milton Brown and his musical brownies and other Western Swing classics. With Smokey Hormel vocals and guitar; Charley Burnham - fiddle; Tim Luntzel - string bass; Andrew Borger - Drums. 10:00pm Sun 02/19 BYOV 2:00pm Sun 02/19 CINE BARBES - OUR NEW FILM SERIES. Curated by Blandine Mercier-McGovern. Every third Sunday of the month. This week: BEAUTIFUL DARLING. The Life and Time of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol's Superstar. Written and directed by James Rasin and featuring Cholé Sevigny and Patton Oswalt's voices. 5:00pm Sun 02/19 MAX JOHNSON TRIO. The trio will be performing the content of their upcoming album in its entirety. With Kirk Knuffke - Cornet; Max Johnson - Bass and Ziv Ravitz - Drums. Sun 02/19 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. 9:00pm Mon 02/20 BRAIN CLOUD Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 02/20 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 9:30pm Tue 02/21 Ryan Keberle and CATHARSIS Ryan Keberle's newest project brings together his love for the Blues, Latin Jazz, songwriting ala Duke Ellington, and group interaction inspired by Ornette Coleman's early piano-less quartets played by some of the most in-demand musicians of the 21st century. Ryan Keberle - Trombone, Compositions; Mike Rodriguez - Trumpet; Jorge Roeder - Bass; Eric Doob - Drums. 7:00pm Tue 02/21 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. 9:00pm Wed 02/2 SASHA DOBSON Every Wednesday at 7pm. Sasha's talents have earned her accolades across generations and musical genres. While Dobson has emerged as an indie-folk favorite, she first developed her style as a darling of the jazz world. Her 2004 release "The Darkling Thrush" (Small's Records), was a tour-de-force jazz vocal record backed by a large ensemble filled with prodigies of the New York jazz scene After picking up a guitar, Dobson's musical tastes took a turn. And soon after, in 2006, she released "Modern Romance" (Secret Sun), a bossa nova-tinged collection of songs, many of which were written in collaboration with guitarists Richard Julian and Jesse Harris. Her song-writing skills broadened her collaborative abilities, attracted a new audience, and led to a reunion with an old musical partner in crime, Norah Jones. ...... Together Dobson and Jones have collaborated on numerous musical side projects over the years.. Time Magazine says Sasha's songs "go down as easily as a frozen marga ritas" 7:00pm Wed 02/22 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. KIRK KNUFFKE. With Brian Drye; Jeff Davis and Mark Helias 8:00pm Wed 02/22 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 02/23 SHANE ENDSLEY AND THE MUSIC BAND Trumpeter Shane Endsley can most often be found playing with the Grammy nominated Quintet Kneebody in addition to sideman work with luminaries like Chris Speed, Ben Allison, and Charlie Hunter. His Music Band's release "Then the Other" was named as one of the year's ten best by the LA Times. 8:00pm Thu 02/23 CHORO TRIO Sao Paulo-based guitarist and composer Douglas Lora is one-half of the Brasil Guitar Duo, and a member of Caraivana. He is equally at ease playing Classical music as he is playing samba and choros. He will be joined by his brother Alexandre Lora on pandeiro, and virtuoso mandolin player Dudu Maia. A very rare NY appearance.Douglas Lora, Dudu Maia and Alexandre Lora 10:00pm Fri 02/24 CARIOCA Percussionist Zé Mauricio's choro project. 8:00pm Fri 02/24 THE ROULETTE SISTERS The Roulette Sisters have been turning heads and stopping traffic since forming in the cold winter of 2003. Noticing that their warm velvet harmonies and spicy hot licks were melting the snow outside, the sisters realized that they had started something not only weather-altering but soul-stirring as well. The sexy sisters play a hip-shaking blend of American country blues, traditional songs, popular tunes and old timey music from the first half of the 20th century. With Mamie Minch: resonator guitar, Meg Reichardt: electric guitar, Megan Burleyson: washboard, Karen Waltuch: Viola. 10:00pm Sat 02/25 LES TROIS COUPS From Lille, France, Les Trois Coups mix street theatre and musette-inspired traditional chanson. 7:00pm Sat 02/25 HEARTS & BONES A strange yet oddly compelling fusion of jazz, bluegrass, klezmer and rock, Hearts & Bones is bassist Dave Hertzbergs first project as a leader. The band combines his original compositions with Paul Simon covers and arrangements of traditional folk songs, and features Itai Kriss (flute), Alan Grubner (violin), Rick Snell (acoustic guitar), Dave Hertzberg (bass) and Joel Arnow (drums) 8:00pm Sat 02/25 PEOPLE'S CHAMP Peoples Champs play music for the mind, body and soul. Enamored with roots dance music from all over the world, they mix jazz, hip-hop, rock and soul from the USA, Latin America and Africa to create new hybrids. The result is a passionate sound that will move you. Literally. Led by trombonist/vocalist Alex Asher, Peoples Champs feature some of New Yorks top musicians, who also perform regularly with Slavic Soul Party!, Meta and the Cornerstones, Baye Kouyate, Jo Jo Kuo and his Afrobeat Collective, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds, Afrodesia, Nation Beat and many others. 10:00pm Sun 02/26 TRIO BLASTEPHEMY CD release! A brass band in miniature, Trio Blastphemy explores the edges of what you might expect from a brass ensemble. Repertoire includes pop songs, folk music, arrangements of works for guitar, and improvisation-driven originals. Featuring Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Ben Holmes (trumpet) and Marcus Rojas (tuba). This show celebrates the release of their debut recording. 7:00pm Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;

This Week at Barbes

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:28:00 GMT

BARBES CALENDAR Unless otherwise noted, all events carry a strongly suggested minimum donation of $10. Happiness: $1 off beer and $8 cocktails everyday until 7:00pm. www.Barbesbrooklyn.com =============================================================== Check out our new film series - CINE BARBES <a href="http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/cinebarbes.html">http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com/cinebarbes.html</a> Every third Sunday of the month at 5pm Feb 19th - BEAUTIFUL DARLING =============================================================== And a new SATURDAY MIDNIGHT SERIES. Check out our calendar for a new series of midnight shows on Saturdays. Thu 02/02 RACHELLE GARNIEZ Dubbed a"Master of Surprise" by Entertainment Weekly, Rachelle writes and performs darkly optimistic story-songs and accompanies herself on a variety of instruments including accordion, piano, claviola, guitar and plastic bells, "...leaving nothing behind but sweet wreckage." (The New Yorker). 8:00pm Thu 02/02 THE WARSAW VILLAGE BAND Based in Warsaw, WVB has been described as the Polish Pogues. Their understanding of Polish folk music runs deep, yet they have mangaed to re-invent a whole genre. Their village music is urban, modern and connected to history in a way that folk revivals almost never are. They don't rely on traditional purity or electronic mixes but on sheer musical energy combining lyricism and power in a totally idiosyncratic way. The group is in town from Poland working on an opera by Andy Teirstein, A Blessing on the Moon $10 10:00pm Every Friday, 5:00pm to 7:00pm, our special coctail hour set. THE CROOKED TRIO plays straight and skewed standards with Oscar Noriega - drums; Brian Drye - piano; Ari Folman-Cohen - bass and a rotating cast of special guests. Fri 02/03 PEDRO GIRAUDO SEXTET The Argentinean bassist has received much praise for his Jazz Orchestra - his last album got numerous awards and downbeat magazine wrote about it that it was "An opulent listening experience of modern, orchestral jazz, brimming with passionate improvisions, deliberate contrapuntal melodies and plush harmonies. His new project is pared down version of the orchestra. 8:00pm Fri 02/03 BABY SODA They play an eclectic mix influenced by New Orleans brass bands, jug music, southern gospel and hot jazz and feel at home at the Village Vanguard or playing on the street. The band features members New Orleans band the Loose banda Marbles and alumni of Stephane Wrembel's Hot Club of NY. With Ben Polcer, Trumpet; Patrick Harison, Accordion; Jared Engel, Banjo; David Langlois, Washboard and Peter Ford, Washtub bass. 10:00pm Sat 02/04 A special screening of : HIDE AND SEEK. Denmark. 20 minutes. directed by Jazbo Gross. Seven adults play a game of hide-and-seek in a garden on a hot summer day. Supported by Zentropa and Filmworkshop. The director will be there for a Q & A. 7:00pm Sat 02/04 VEVERITSE Veveritse Brass Band finds its inspiration in the drama of the Romany(Gypsy) music of the Balkans. With an eye to the powerful exactitude of these melodies, Veveritse makes room for play. With two trumpets, a saxophone, four mid-horns, a tuba and two drummers, they are ten deep, creating not a wall of sound, but a loud tapestry. Members of the band also play in other great NYC bands like Romashka, Hungry March Band, Zlatne Uste, The Woes, Ansambl Mastika, and Stagger Back Brass Band....not to mention the infamous and nefarious "Top Secret Attack Band"! Veveritse, with its theatrical bent, has scored various nights of films, played benefits, parties and numerous clubs. 8:00pm Sat 02/04 BANDA SINALOENSE DE LOS MUERTOS - New York's best (and 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. 10:00pm Sat 02/04 - Midnight ECHIDNA. Famous across the galaxy for their soothing, intoxicating, and hypnotic sound, Emily Geller, Kristina Vaskys, and Heather Cole use Rembetika, Macedonian, and Serbian songs to lure listeners towards their spume-flecked and reef-surrounded searocks. According to the Ming of Smrbia, "Echidna kicks some serious ass." Heather Cole-violin; Emily Geller-dumbek; Kristina Vaskys-guitar, vocals. Sun 02/05 ALON YAVNAI The pianist and composer has toured with Yo-Yo Ma, Nancy Wilson and Freddie Hubbard and is a member of Paquito D''Rivera's quintet. He also leds his own big band as well as smaller bands such as this one. With Alon Yavnai - piano ; Haggai Cohen-Milo - bass and Satoshi Takeishi - drums. "Mr. Yavnai is a unique and brilliant artist." - Yo-Yo Ma.. 7:00pm Sun 02/05 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. 9:00pm Mon 02/06 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Mon 02/06 DAYNA KURTZ. "With vocal comparisons to Nina Simone and a musical style that pulls from jazz, blues and country, singer/songwriter Dayna Kurtz has found her best success not in America but in Europe. Kurtz started out as a folkie, but has expanded her influences over the years, creating a sound that fits in best with an Americana umbrella." 9:00pm Mon 02/06 CHICHA LIBRE. Psychedelic Cumbia. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion.. 9:30pm Tue 02/07 Barbès and Concert Artist Guild present a series of solo classical Piano. THE UPRIGHT PIANO BRIGADE. SOEYON LEE & RAN DANK. First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Korean pianist Soyeon Lee has already been hailed by The New York Times as a pianist with "a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style," while The Washington Post has lauded her for her "stunning command of the keyboard. She will be joined by Ran Dank of whome the NY Times wrote "Mr. Dank is a player with technique, imagination, and powerhouse pianist" 7:00pm Tue 02/07 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. 9:00pm Wed 02/08 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. Josh Sinton's PINE BARREN & TRIO CAVEAT. Celebrating the release of two short albums packaged on a single CD (done under the auspices of Engine Records), Josh Sinton will perform "Pine Barren" as a solo work for baritone saxophone and bass clarinet at 8. Trio Caveat (Jonathan Moritz, Chris Welcome and James Ilgenfritz) will perform freeform improvisations in honor of their half of the CD entitled "Introspective Athletics" starting at 8:45. 8:00pm Wed 02/08 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 02/09 ANNA GARANO & MARC RIBOT Each guitarist will play a solo set followed by duets. Italian flamenco guitarist, Anna Garano, has studied contemporary music at the University of Trieste, Indian and Arabic music at the International Institute of Comparate Music of Venezia, and composition at the Rotterdam Conservatorium. In 1992 she traveled for the first time to Andalusia, Spain to study flamenco guitar, and over the years continued her studies under the guide of flamenco masters including Paco Serrano, Manolo Franco and Manolo Sanlucar. In 2007, Anna released the CD "Come il re di un paese piovoso", which includes her own compositions to the works of Baudelaire, Swiss poet Phillipe Jaccottet and Verlaine, arranged for her trio with singer Alessandra Chiurco and trumpet player Flavio Davanzo. Enigmatic guitarist Marc Ribot has released 6 very diverse solo guitar albums and his latest release, Silent Movies (Pi Recording 2010) has been described as a "down-in-mouth-near master piece" by the Village Voice and has landed on several Best of 2010 lists including the LA Times and critical praise across the board. His live solo performances are unpredictable events which may draw on all of these or none, creating a sonic matrix of memory, free improvisation, zeitgeist, extra-terrestrial radio signals, and much more...always leaving the listener on the edge of their seats. 7:00pm Thu 02/09 LES CHAUDS LAPINS Les Chauds Lapins (The Hot Rabbits..) are lead by New York's Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt and specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1930's and 40's. The group has re-arranged long-forgotten French classics for two banjo ukes and a string trio mixing the rootsiness of early American jazz with lushness of a Bernard Hermann film soundtrack. Prior to their re-incarnation as French entertainers, Meg Riechardt was better known as one fourth of Americana group The Roulette sisters and Kurt as a reed player and composer who co-led cult instru mental band the Ordinaires and recorded with such luminaries as They Might be Giants, Frank Black and Firewater. The music oscillates between romantic and quirky, French and American, retro and modern. They are backed by a string section composed of Karen Waltuch - violin; Andy Cotton - bass and Garo Yellin - cello. 10:00pm Fri 02/10 JEN CHAPIN Jen Chapins music plays urban folk story songs that search for community and shared meaning, powered by the funk, soul and improvisation of the city. Critics have hailed her work as brilliant.. soulfully poetic (NPR), thoughtful.. worth-savoring (People), addictive (Boston Globe), smart, observant, lyrically deft, politically aware and emotionally intuitive (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). JazzTimes has called her a first-rate storyteller while Relix regards her as one of the freshest voices singing today." She has been featured on Late Nite with Conan OBrien, honored by the USA Songwriting Competition, appeared on stage with Bruce Springsteen, and opened up for Bruce Hornsby and the Neville Brothers. Her performances are powerful, spotlighting the world-class musicianship and rare chemistry of Grammy-nominated acoustic bassist/husband Stephan Crump and unflappable melodist (New York Times) guitarist Jamie Fox. 8:00pm Fri 02/10 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. Their new album, Ziguala is an attempt to imagine what a pop record would sound like had the global Latin influence which was so prevalent until the early 60's had continued its course without interruption. The tracks on the album 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, itself a Latin genre which uses a rock vocabulary. 10:00pm Sat 02/11 KOTORINO European waltzes, Latin Tango and rural Americana played on guitar, violin, tuba, bass clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, pump-organ, voice, banjo, drums, accordion, bass and musical saw . 8:00pm Sat 02/11 CHICHA LIBRE Psychedelic Cumbia. A rare weekend appearance by Monday regulars as they get ready for the release of their new album,Canibalismo, due out May 8th. 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 70s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by Satie and Ravel. With Karina Colis - percussion; Joshua Camp - keyboards; Olivier Conan - Cuatro & Vocals - Nicholas Cudahy - bass; Vincent Douglas - Guitar - Neil Ochoa - percussion. 10:00pm Sun 02/12 BARBES CLASSICAL. Barbès and the Concert Artist Guild present some of the best new talent in the classical music world. This month: THE LINDEN STRING QUARTET. Described as truly riveting by MusicWeb International, the Linden String Quartet is a winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. The performance will include Ravels String Quartet in F, Schuberts Quartettsatz, Beethovens Op. 18, No. 4 and Dark Energy (2007) by Canadian composer Kelly Marie Murphy. 7:00pm Sun 02/12 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. 9:00pm Mon 02/13 BRAIN CLOUD. Every Monday. "My brain is cloudy, my soul is upside-down... When I get that low-down feeling, I know the blues must be someplace around." (Bob Wills)The Brain Clouds brand of western swing draws from the New Orleans-meets-Texas, strings-meet-horns, jazz-meets-country sound that Bob Wills perfected on his mid-1940s Tiffany Transcriptions radio broadcasts. The Brain Cloud includes Dennis Lichtman (mandolin/fiddle/clarinet), Tamar Korn - of the Cangelosi Cards (vocals), Raphael McGregor (lap steel guitar), Skip Krevens (guitar), Andrew Hall (bass), and Kevin Dorn (drums), plus frequent guest appearances by Matt Munisteri (guitar) and Rob Hecht (fiddle). 7:00pm Fri 02/13 LLAMA. Psychedelic Salsa! Steeped in the salsa dura of the 1970's, Llama goes the trippy way with heavy ambient and psychedelic touches without ever losing its clave. A mixture of Peruvian, Colombian and New York musicians, Llama is part of the new wave of tropical music. Erik Baumann-Bongos; Juan Calderon-Guitar; Joy Hanson-Lead vocals; Megan Moncrief-Piano; Michael Rafalowich-Bass; Efrain Rozas-Director, Timbales; Yvonne Ubillus-Synthesizer; Oscar Rebolledo -Conga. 9:30pm Mon 02/13 DJ SULTÁN From Mexico City, DJ Sultan is one of the founding members of the Mexican electro-balkan combo La Internacional Sonora Balkanera; he has been spinning music since the late 90s, shaking audiences from Montreal to London and Mexico to Oaxaca with his peculiar blend of Balkan beat, funky groove, nortec vibes and Latin rock. Currently living in New York, DJ Sultán has performed at Obra Negra, the basement bar of the Mexican restaurant Casa Mezcal in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. 10:30pm Tue 02/14 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. 9:00pm Wed 02/15 THE PALIMPSESTIC SERIES, CURATED BY OSCAR NORIEGA. Every Wednesday. $10. JIM BLACK MYSTERY. With Jim Black - drums; Chris Speed reeds & Ben Street - bass. Jim Black is at the forefront of a new generation of musicians bringing jazz into the 21st century. In addition to being one of the most influential drummers of our time, he is also the leader of one of the world's most forward-thinking bands, AlasNoAxis. 8:00pm Wed 02/15 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 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 - guitar; 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. 10:00pm Thu 02/16 MATT MUNISTERI A phenomenal guitarist and songwriter whose ongoing monthly Barbès residency is now close to ten years old. 8:00pm Thu 02/16 MARTA TOPFEROVA. "The Other Shore" CD release. Marta Topferova's musical journey is closely linked to her unique, cross-cultural roots. Growing up on both sides of the Atlantic, Topferova often traveled back and forth between her native Czech Republic and the Americas. Highly acclaimed for her previous albums of Latin-flavored music in Spanish, "The Other Shore" is Topferova's first collection of original songs in English. As always, her writing is both lyrical and uplifting, and these songs bring a new dimension to her artistry. The album features Ben Monder on electric guitar, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Adam Cruz on drums. "Topferova sings with an elegant longing in her voice" - New York Times 10:00pm Fri 02/17 A Screening of Cory McAbee's "STINGRAY SAM". In this surreal sci-fi musical western serial, a dangerous mission reunites Stingray Sam with his long lost accomplice, The Quasar Kid. Follow these two space-convicts as they earn their freedom in exchange for the rescue of a young girl who is being held captive by the genetically designed figurehead of a very wealthy planet. McAbee is the same mad genius who masterminded the cult classic "The American Astronaut". Written and Directed by Cory McAbee; Music by The Billy Nayer Show; Narrated by David Hyde Pierce. "STINGRAY SAM leaves one begging for more..."- Dennis Harvey, Variety 8:00pm Fri 02/17 SERENA JOST Serena Jost is a Swiss-American singer-songwriter and cellist. She recently finished recording her new album, A Bird Will Sing, with Producer Anton Fier (Golden Palominos). The album features Serena's extraordinary band and some very special guests including Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) and will be released this Spring. TimeOut said of her music: "The term art songnormally tied to 19th-century concert musicusefully characterizes Josts carefully arranged pieces and succinct lyrics, neither quite rock nor folk." Serena is an original member of Rasputina, the well-corseted cello group, and appears tonight with Julian Maile on guitar plus some surprise guests. 9:00pm Fri 02/17 PINATALAND Pinataland's theatrical, darkly romantic music conjures lovelorn astronauts, murderous Mormons, and the atom bomb. Tonight they're bringing back their energetic stage show of historical mysteries, performing songs from their acclaimed fifth CD "Hymns for the Dreadful Night" with Robin Aigner and Doug Stone singing, Bill Gerstel on drums, Ross Bonadonna on bass, and Deni Bonet on violin and Josh Camp on piano. "America's best bet for singalong historical fiction." - The New Jersey Star Ledger. 10:30pm Sat 02/18 GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA Trumpeter/composer Brian Carpenter leads the Ghost Train Orchestra through radical new arrangements of strange and beautiful early American chamber jazz from bandleaders Alec Wilder, John Kirby, Raymond Scott, and Reginald Foresythe. Brian Carpenter (trumpet, harmonica), Mazz Swift (violin), Andy Laster (alto saxophone), Petr Cancura (tenor saxophone, clarinet), Dennis Lichtman (clarinet), Curtis Hasselbring (trombone), Ron Caswell (tuba), Avi Bortnick (guitar), Michael Bates (bass), Rob Garcia (drums). 8:00pm Sat 02/18 SMOKEY's ROUNDUP Smokey Hormel is probably best known for his works with Beck, Tom Waits and his Brazilian project with Miho Hatori. He's also been playing western swing for timequite some and his new project is inspired by the sounds of Milton Brown and his musical brownies and other Western Swing classics. With Smokey Hormel vocals and guitar; Charley Burnham - fiddle; Tim Luntzel - string bass; Andrew Borger - Drums. 10:00pm Sun 02/19 BYOV 2:00pm Sun 02/19 CINE BARBES - OUR NEW FILM SERIES. Curated by Blandine Mercier-McGovern. Every third Sunday of the month. This week: BEAUTIFUL DARLING. The Life and Time of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol's Superstar. Written and directed by James Rasin and featuring Cholé Sevigny and Patton Oswalt's voices. 5:00pm Sun 02/19 MAX JOHNSON TRIO. The trio will be performing the content of their upcoming album in its entirety. With Kirk Knuffke - Cornet; Max Johnson - Bass and Ziv Ravitz - Drums. Barbes is located at 376 9th st in Park Slope Brooklyn, corner of 6th avenue - www.Barbesbrooklyn.com You are receiving this email because you suscribed to this list - or because we think you did - If you didn't, you can follow the link below to unsuscribe. <<a href="http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt">http://barbesbrooklyn.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/u/Events/&gt</a>;