Ex-boyfriend revivalist soft rock featuring Joy Dragland.
THU 10/1
Latin-tinged pop-noir & bluesy horror-folk.
A solo performance of songs with important meanings for me, and maybe you too.
FRI 10/2
The Lenny Molotov Band works the tantalizing border of early jazz and delta blues--with the complexity of the former and the aggression of the latter. Lenny's a virtuoso fingerpicker and his songs are literate, relevant and at times, humorous. Jake Engel on harmonica and Ray Sapirstein on trumpet are stellar soloists--but they can also harmonize like a horn section. J.D. Wood anchors the sometimes frenetic sound with his stand up bass.
SAT 10/3
SUN 10/4
MON 10/5
Pie in the Sky: All About Greenpoint’s Own Rooftop Farms
with Annie Novak
New York City is a Farmer's Paradise! Just as Annie Novak, one of the masterminds behind Greenpoint's Rooftop Farms, a 6,000 square foot organic farm picture-esquely plopped on top of a warehouse overlooking Midtown Manhattan. Her operation--founded in partnership with Ben Flanner, a neophyte to farming, and Goode Green, a green-roofing specialist--currently produces produce for a host of Brooklyn gourmandizers, including Anella and Marlow and Sons. They even run a farm stand featuring fresh picked produce every Sunday! Come hear how this urban Agronomist tells us the unlikely story of how she did it--and learn how you can too!
Annie Novak is the founder of field-to-fork education program Growing Chefs. Growing Chefs has partnered with Slow Foods, Edible Estates, Health Corps and schools across New York in farming, nutrition, and edible landscaping. A lifelong vegetarian, Annie began farming as an undergraduate while doing her thesis work on Fair Trade chocolate. She’s followed blueberries and cows through New Zealand, sheep and hops through Argentina, quinoa and llamas through Peru, cassava and fish through Fiji and the Cook Islands, and cacao through Costa Rica and Ghana. She is the Children’s Gardening Coordinator at The New York Botanical Garden and active with the New York City Greenmarket.
Mathias Tjønn is a Norwegian singer & tunesmith from across the ocean (Oslo, Norway). His music is seeped in acoustic folk traditions of both Norwegian, American and Brazilian origin, but often features grander arrangements of strings, woodwinds and vocal harmonies. Genre-wise he's thinking about calling it baroque-folk, but that's probably on the more pompous side of things so he's open to suggestions.
TUE 10/6
Ex-boyfriend revivalist soft rock featuring Joy Dragland.
Inspired by a diverse and magnetic borough that defies easy categorization, Josh Diamond & the Brooklyn Soul present an exciting mix of soulful rock, funk, fun and humorous story telling. Stirring together these varied ingredients, Josh Diamond and the Brooklyn Soul motivate & move people from all neighborhoods. Steven Garabedian-guitar, Chris Peifer-bass, Bill Wolf-drums, Sean Nowell-sax & flute, Elizabeth!-trombone, Josh Diamond-vocals, guitar & cowbell.
WED 10/7
Cassavettes mixes Beatlesque melodicism with Folk expanse and boozy Rock swagger...like Elvis Costello comparing divorce stories with Mojo Nixon over a half a hundred beers while the bar band plays Ryan Adams and Neil Young covers.
THU 10/8
featuring Mike Albo and Kate Cambor
Two sax giants back to back in a seriously fascinating set of all-original compositions which embraces both the avant-garde and the old school. Introducing the new album "Infinita" on Freshsound Records featuring Eric McPherson, Edward Perez, Perico Sambeat and Javier Vercher.
FRI 10/9
featuring Jen Hyde, Justin Taylor, Sandy Florian & Frank Sherlock
SAT 10/10
Beth Bachmann Book Release Celebration with Beth Bachmann, Nick Flynn & Alex Lemon
American Laundromat Records Presents Julie Peel celebrating the release of her debut album Near The Sun.
SUN 10/11
MON 10/12
TUE 10/13
Ex-boyfriend revivalist soft rock featuring Joy Dragland.
WED 10/14
THU 10/15
The original Singing Tramp performs his songs of mischief and mayhem with his four-piece orchestra (kazoo, banjo, pick and strap).
FRI 10/16
SAT 10/17
The End of the World is the ever-changing moniker of the music of Stefan Marolachakis and Benjamin Smith. Based in New York City, though often on the move, the two have developed a distinctive style of songwriting that has made them a well-known commodity in New York and beyond over the last five years.
SUN 10/18
Indie folk rock band from Atlanta, GA. If people changed colours like mood rings, then Little Tybee's audience would be dark blue and completely blissed out.
MON 10/19
OCD Lecture Series 7:30
Pretty, Vacant: A Slideshow of Abandoned New York
with Nathan Kensinger
New York is the most occupied city on Earth. Yet, abandoned buildings abound! Join photographer Nathan Kensinger for a picture show of some of the city’s feral properties, From the abandoned mansions of Admiral’s Row at the Brooklyn Navy Yard to beached ships littering Dead Horse Bay to the sweet interiors of the Dominos Sugar Factory. Finding an astonishing amount of beauty in the decay Mr. Kensinger’s pictures are an indelible record of a vanishing city.
Nathan Kensinger is a filmmaker, photographer, film festival programmer and location scout. His most recent documentary was Covered Tracks, and experimental documentary about the Freedom Tunnel on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. His most recent photo exhibit was Abandoned Brooklyn, at Union Docs in Williamsburg. . Additional photos can be seen on flickr and films at myspace.
Solo act with one guitar, sining melodic songs like a bird named Sinead O'Connor.
TUE 10/20
WED 10/21
THU 10/22
featuring Amy Sohn and Julie Klam
FRI 10/23
Paige Taggart, Sharon Dolin, Esther Smith & Patrick Lucy
SAT 10/24
SUN 10/25
They listen mostly to the Replacements, Black Flag and Bob Dylan bootlegs.
MON 10/26
TUE 10/27
Ex-boyfriend revivalist soft rock featuring Joy Dragland.
…this isn’t a retro SoCal folk rock date but a sweet contemporary folk rocker that tips it’s cap pleasingly in the direction of post Newport Dylan but only charts it’s own course. Avoiding genre clichés, this is a date that is sure to take up permanent residence on your car’s sun visor since it’s a nice antidote to one too many mornings.” -Midwest Record
WED 10/28
Wonderful music with guest performers!
THU 10/29
Mike Ellison, alumnus of the Berlin-based shit blues band the Cowboy Killers, singing traditionals and originals.
Georgia-reared, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Mary Bragg has been playing her Americana tunes around the country for five years, and just completed her second album, "Sugar", which Performing Songwriter Magazine calls "delectable folk-pop delivered in a crystalline voice reminiscent of Mindy Smith and Shawn Colvin." LMNOP.com says “this young lady sure knows how to deliver a tune.” Blurt Magazine says she's "assured, yet vulnerable." Her song “Let Me” received an honorable mention in the 2008 International Songwriting Competition, she was one of ten finalists in the 2009 Wildflower Festival Performing Songwriter Competition, and she appeared in the 2009 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival’s Emerging Artists showcase. She'll be joined by Jimmy Sullivan on bass, Kyle Sanna on electric guitar, and Jordan Perlson on drums at this October 29 show.
FRI 10/30
SAT 10/31