Public Service Announcement For Brooklyn
I have something I’ve been dying to tell all of you, but for those dashing out the door, I’ll stick to the important things:
* O DISCORDIA (w/ LP Funk)
Tues, Jan. 24th
8pm
FREE!!!
Freight train-hopping folk musicians!
“O Discordia is post-folk music with a orchestrated feel to it. We have been writing deep songs about love, liberty and sad endings lately and we have created a sound that conveys that old folk charm mixed with our generations angst and pain. This is the story of all my adventures, the ones I have had, drunk on trains with Tom and the ones I braved alone, burning in the summer sun hitch-hiking across the coast, O Discordia is the story of the dying embers of love and America found in a young man’s heart.”
Strangely enough, one of the musicians in this group is a kid named Tom Bennett. I met him last spring in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was planning him next round of boxcar riding antics. An article was written about that brief encounter, and it can be found online on a small literary website known as Phallacy.
Which brings me to this other point…
Organizing a music scene in New York City is a hard thing to do.
The three shows in the next week will bring the total of shows, since this whole thing started three months ago, to 15. There will be plenty of time for formalities once there’s publicity in the papers and DUMBO is abuzz with last week’s events, but for now I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who’s supported this project so far. The staff of the restaurant, the musicians who’ve lugged their equipment out. Everyone who’s ever come to one of our shows. The muscians performing tomorrow came all the way from Salt Lake City just to show their love. I’ve been given the honor of writing these emails and handing out my cell phone number, but the only reason any of this has happened so far is because of all of you.
At this time, when everything is still fragile and unsculpted, feedback and input is the most important. Whether it’s ideas for shows, suggestions about the space itself, new places/ways to promote, whatever. A group you know that might be interested in performing. Telling someone who might like what’s happening on a certain night. Times. Cover prices. Negative things, too, like “Stop text messaging my phone.” or “Make the attachments on the emails a reasonable size.” or “Keep the first-person(al) pleas out of my listings email, I didn’t sign up for that.” A cheap place to print postcards. I would’ve never figured out any of these things on my own, and appreciate every hint dropped in my direction.
So thank you all for realizing that this thing I’m lucky enough to be a part of isn’t mine or even really Bubby’s either. The performers, the audience, the restuarant, the neighborhood. It’s all off ours. If you have any ideas, thoughts, or accusations on how to make this project as a whole (or any minute detail) better, don’t hesitate to drop a hint to bubbysbrooklynbooking@gmail.com (just don’t replay to this email, though, as it makes it harder for me to keep track of).
I’ve made two out of the next three shows free with the above in mind. Same with the hyperlinks so you can preview the music. I have to charge for the other one, but… the next two shows are listed below:
* Anj.
Thursday, Jan. 26th
$5
“Anj will give breath to the feelings you wish you could speak. The young singer/songwriter/pianist plays her originals with a rawness and introspection that conveys a wisdom far beyond her years. Her unorthodox musical cocktail, containing the gutsy-ness of blues, the lyrical storytelling of folk, and the harmonies and structure of jazz, is reminiscent of songwriters such as Laura Nyro, Carole King and Janis Ian. But in her live concerts, which have been likened to a one-woman-play set to music, her orginality stands its ground.”
Anj (also known as “Andrea Granieri), also has music available on her MySpace.
* HELLGATE HARMONIE present: MOZART QUINQUAGESIMUSDUCENTESIMUSENNIAL!
Sunday, Jan. 29thP
1pm - 4pm
FREE!!
We’re being overly ambitious again… Come celebrate Mozart’s birthday with tons of his music played lovingly (any better suggestions for latinizing “250th”greatly appreciated). The orchestra will be performing during Bubby’s wildly popular brunch afternoon, so before, during, and after you’re enjoyed all the tasty things Bubby’s Brooklyn regularly offers on the weekend, expect a few new options to be added to the menu…
Main Courses:
12 Duets, KV 487
5 Divertimenti, KV Anh. 229
Canonic Adagio, KV 484d
Serenade in Eb Major, KV 375
Serenade in C minor, KV 388 (”Nachtmusik”)
Serenade in Bb Major, KV 361 (”Gran Partit[t]a”)
Special Treat - (Apocryphal and spurious works):
Divertimento in Eb Major, KV Anh C 17.01 (226)
Divertimento in Bb Major, KV Anh C 17.02 (227)
Partita in Eb Major, KV Anh C 17.03
Partita in F Major, KV Anh C 17.05
Come for the music… stay for the pie.
Joe Ahearn
Bubby’s Lounge Booking/Promotion
(646) 239-9288
P.S. Map has been resized to printable proportions…