Sunday
Mar 19
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6:00PM
SEX SCENES
Polly Frost, host
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
LOU AND PETER BERRYMAN
Lou , accordion, vocals, songwriter;
Peter, 12 string guitar, vocals, lyrics
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Lou and Peter Berryman, authors of twelve recordings and three songbooks of original material, have performed together for
more than twenty years. Their whimsical and wonderfully accessible performances of their hilarious, quirky, yet oddly profound
songs leave audiences with cheeks aching from smiling.
louandpeter.com
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Monday
Mar 20
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6:00PM
NY QUARTERLY
Ted Jonathan, host
Tony Gloeggler;
Jackie Sheeler;
Douglas Treem
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
BIG BANG
Katie Down, curator
Trudy Silver, piano;
Scottie Davis, mime;
Laylage Courie, actor/singer;
Matt Moran, vibraphone
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8:30 - Trudy Silver (piano); Scottie Davis (mime)
Pianist/composer, Trudy Silver, and mime/actress Scottie Davis, interact in controlled
improvisations which reflect visual/aural
images of social and political realities.
Trudy Silver has been a pianist/composer/educator for 30 years and has
recorded and performed with Anthony
Braxton, Roy Campbell and Makanda Ken McIntyre to name a few. She is co-founder of
the 5C Cafe and Cultural Center in
Manhattan.
Scottie Davis was awarded Messina, Italy's 'Great Artist' award. As founder
and director of the Salt and Pepper
Mime Company, she is recognized as one of the leading African American mime artists in
the world.
9:30 - Laylage Courie (actor/singer); Matt Moran (vibraphone)
Performer, playwright and singer, Laylage Courie and percussionist, Matt Moran on
vibraphone will perform excerpts from
"Sequence from the Solstice," playing with Courie’s image-driven sea poems, Courie &
Moran make a moody, sexy sound-
world that’s part art-song, part improvisation: an extravagant reverie on Venus rising,
windward birds, glass fish, and drowned
men.
”Big Bang”, a new music and mixed media series
every third Monday of the month is the creative collision of musicians with
artists in spoken word, dance, visual art, video art, found words, theatre, etc. presenting
works in progress. The evenings will include two featured groups followed by a brief talk
back with the audience after each set. Every evening ends by inviting audience members to
join in an informal jam session for about 10 minutes.
Cover $10
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Tuesday
Mar 21
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6:00PM
WRITERS ROOM
Jill Dearman, host
David Evainer;
Marian Silliman;
Layren Yaffe;
Paul Gregory Himmelein
this month's theme : "Sex"
Readers:
David Evanier
"The Great Kisser"
(Novel Excerpt)
Marian Sillman
"Untitled"
(Novel Excerpt)
Lauren Yaffe
"Distant Home"
(Novel Excerpt)
Paul Gregory Himmelein
"Blood Oranges"
(Novel Excerpt)
DAVID EVANIER:
David Evanier's novel, The Great Kisser, will be published in the
fall. He is a recipient of the Aga Khan Fiction Prize and his work
has appeared in "Best American Short Stories." He is a former fiction
editor of The Paris Review. He has published three other novels: The
One-Star Jew, Red Love, and The Swinging Headhunter. His current book is Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin. He also wrote Making the
Wiseguys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story, and co-authored Who's Sorry
Now with Joe Pantoliano. He has written for The New York Times
Magazine, The Paris review, TriQuarterly, New American Writing,
Chelsea, Saint Ann's Review, The Antioch Review, Other Voices, River
Oak Review, Pequod, Beloit Fiction Journal, and many other journals.
MARIAN SILLMAN:
Marian Sillman graduated from Boston College, phi beta kappa with an
English Literature degree. Of her upcoming novel she says, "The plot
runs a little like Jack Kerouac in an age with very little beat, more
like loud clashes surrounded by some deafening silences, but
definitely an on the road type. It has the feel of a memoir but is
very much first person fiction, set in the present with memories
interrupting and juxtaposing time frames and context."
LAUREN YAFFE:
Lauren Yaffe holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. Her stories,
essays and poems have appeared in such publications as Cottonwood,
Alaska Quarterly, Calliope, Frigate, and most recently in the newly-
released anthology, Voices From The Spectrum: Parents…Of People With
Autism…Share Their Wisdom. She is currently working on an animation
screenplay about worms. That's right. Worms.
PAUL GREGORY HIMMELEIN:
Bohemian Manifesto co-author, Paul Gregory Himmelein is the recipient
of a Ludwig Vogelstein Grant for fiction and a Hawthornden Fellowship
for fiction. His award-winning short story, “Misbegotten,” was
published last year in the Swedish anthology Love/Crazy along with
work by Christian Lacroix and Sonia Rykiel. He is completing his
first novel, Blood Oranges. It is set in the late 18th century and
uses only vocabulary presented in Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language (1755) and Francis Grose’s dictionary of slang, The Vulgar
Tongue (1785).
The Writers Room readings are supported by the Jerome Foundation,
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and
the National Endowment for the Arts.
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
HENDRIK MEURKENS - HELIO ALVES BRAZILIAN JAZZ DUO
Hendrik Meurkens, harmonica;
Helio Alves, piano
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HENDRIK MEURKENS - HELIO ALVES DUO
Hendrik Meurkens and Helio Alves have been playing together since 1994 when they
first toured Europe with the Hendrik Meurkens Samba Jazz Quartet. That same year,
they recorded their first CD, OCTOBER COLORS.
In the last decade Hendrik and Helio have become regular collaborators on a variety of
projects. They have toured and recorded repeatedly and their duo performances within
the context of the Samba Jazz Quartet eventually grew into a project of its own.
Equally at home with Brazilian music and Jazz, their repertoire includes choros, jazz
standards, their own originals and lots of Jobim.
www.hendrikmeurkens.com
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www.helioalvesmusic.com
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Wednesday Mar 22
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6:00PM
BEST NEW POETS
Gary Cohen, host
contributors to a recent anthology include JENNIFER CHANG,
CECILY PARKS, and
GARY JOSEPH COHEN.
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
SOUL OF THE BLUES
Jon Sobel, host
Dave Isaacs;
Jay Mankita;
Joe Phillips
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This special edition of Soul of the Blues features Dave Isaacs, Jay Mankita, Joe Phillips of
The Winstons ("Color Him Father").
SOUL OF THE BLUES, NYC's premiere *inexpensive*
live blues and soul music series, happens the fourth
Wednesday of every month at Cornelia Street Cafe.
for more information on the artists, please visit:
Dave Isaacs
Jay Mankita
Joe Williams
Cover $10
daveisaacs.com
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jaymankita.com
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Thursday
Mar 23
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6:00PM
JAZZ & POETRY
Les Lopes, host
Les Lopes, poet;
E J Antonio, poet;
Mark Taylor Quartet, jazz
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
GNU VOX VOCAL SERIES: DAVID DEVOE, JULIA HARDY & JO LAWRY
David Devoe, curator
David Devoe, voice;
Jo Lawry, voice;
Julie Hardy, voice;
Matt Clohesy, bass;
Randy Ingram, piano;
TBA, drums
This unique series features both emerging and established vocalists in styles ranging from
straight ahead, modern to avant-garde and free jazz. Each vocalist will present personal
material that showcases their abilities as interpreters, improvisers, composers and
arrangers. The Cornelia St. Cafe provides an intimate setting to hear these exceptional
artists at a reasonable price!
Cover $10
http://www.juliehardy.com
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http://www.daviddevoe.com
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Friday
Mar 24
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6:00PM
PINK PONY POETRY
Jackie Sheeler
Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
This week's featured reader is Corie Feiner.
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
http://www.poetz.com
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8:30PM
JOHN MCNEIL CELEBRATES NEW CD “EAST COAST COOL”
John McNeil, trumpet;
Allan Chase, baritone saxophone;
John Hebert, bass;
John Hollenbeck, drums
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"Critic’s Pick. Mr. McNeil wants to unlock the neat, airy, compressed feeling of the
Mulligan quartet; he wants to open it up to modern possibilities. And he wants the music
at least half planted on the ground…. the wonder of the record is its breezy transparency
…. And Mr. Chase, filling Mulligan’s role, does the most to seal the record’s connection to
what inspired it: he plays with balance and authority…"
— Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
“4-stars. Trumpeter and composer John McNeil is an original thinker. He's short on flash
but long on substance, with a disciplined command of harmony that doesn't squelch his
melodic intuition or loose phrasing. Plus, he's got one of the most lethal dry wits in or out
of jazz.”
— Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press
Join trumpeter/composer John McNeil and his Quartet — New Bop-channeling
saxophonist Allan Chase on baritone, vibrantly flexible bassist John
Hebert and virtuoso drummer/composer John Hollenbeck — as they
celebrate the release of McNeil’s new CD “East Coast
Cool” (OmniTone, January 2006) in concert on Friday, March 24 and
Saturday, March 25 at Cornelia Strret Cafe.
Hot on the heels of his previous two acclaimed OmniTone releases, “East Coast Cool”
represents McNeil's breakthrough merging of the classic "West Coast cool" sound of the
Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet with an edgier East Coast jazz sensibility.
The music of “East Coast Cool” is sophisticated, but there is a swinging simplicity and
sense of play that any listener will enjoy. McNeil’s group delights contemporary audiences
as the sounds of the Mulligan/ Baker Quartet thrilled audiences in the ’50s.
Cover $10
www.mcneiljazz.com
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www.omnitone.com
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Saturday
Mar 25
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6:00PM
POETICALLY INCORRECT - THE AMERICAN-CARIBBEAN WRITERS
Johnny "Chance" Acevedo
From the pavement to the rooftops, this soulful series (the 4th Saturday of every month) exemplifies spoken word at its best.
Cover $8
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
JOHN MCNEIL CELEBRATES NEW CD “EAST COAST COOL”
John McNeil, trumpet;
Allan Chase, baritone saxophone;
John Hebert, bass;
John Hollenbeck, drums
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"Critic’s Pick. Mr. McNeil wants to unlock the neat, airy, compressed feeling of the
Mulligan quartet; he wants to open it up to modern possibilities. And he wants the music
at least half planted on the ground…. the wonder of the record is its breezy transparency
…. And Mr. Chase, filling Mulligan’s role, does the most to seal the record’s connection to
what inspired it: he plays with balance and authority…"
— Ben Ratliff, The New York Times
“4-stars. Trumpeter and composer John McNeil is an original thinker. He's short on flash
but long on substance, with a disciplined command of harmony that doesn't squelch his
melodic intuition or loose phrasing. Plus, he's got one of the most lethal dry wits in or out
of jazz.”
— Mark Stryker, Detroit Free Press
Join trumpeter/composer John McNeil and his Quartet — New Bop-channeling
saxophonist Allan Chase on baritone, vibrantly flexible bassist John
Hebert and virtuoso drummer/composer John Hollenbeck — as they
celebrate the release of McNeil’s new CD “East Coast
Cool” (OmniTone, January 2006) in concert on Friday, March 24 and
Saturday, March 25 at Cornelia Strret Cafe.
Hot on the heels of his previous two acclaimed OmniTone releases, “East Coast Cool”
represents McNeil's breakthrough merging of the classic "West Coast cool" sound of the
Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet with an edgier East Coast jazz sensibility.
The music of “East Coast Cool” is sophisticated, but there is a swinging simplicity and
sense of play that any listener will enjoy. McNeil’s group delights contemporary audiences
as the sounds of the Mulligan/ Baker Quartet thrilled audiences in the ’50s.
Cover $10
www.mcneiljazz.com
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www.omnitone.com
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Sunday
Mar 26
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6:00PM
PROSE
Angelo Verga, host
Kathleen Frazer
Actress & fiction writer Frazer reads from her forthcoming book.
Kathleen Frazier
reads (solo) from her novel...
SOMNILOQUIES
Or What I Did on My Christmas Vacation
A coming of age story
of a teenage sleepwalker,
December 23-January 1, 1976,
Middletown, USA
Cover $6
(includes one house drink)
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8:30PM
KENDRA LOHMANN
Kendra Lohmann, vocals;
Jeremy Bacon, piano;
John Beal, bass;
Tim McLafferty, drums;
Alex 'Junkyard Dog' Harding, Special guest on baritone saxophone
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Brilliant young Danish jazz singer, Kendra Lohmann, meets up with some of the finest on the New York jazz scene.
Better known from the NuJazz/soul scene, with records released in Berlin and London, she will show her passionate roots as
a singer of jazz standards. Soulful, creative and powerful, Kendra's voice is a rare talent.
This is a night for Divas and Gentlemen, lipstick and cocktails....
Cover $8
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March 19-March 26, 2006 
