Gregg Kallor's most recent Carnegie Hall concert featured the world premiere of his nine-movement suite for solo piano, A SINGLE NOON – a musical tableau of New York life told through composition and improvisation. Five-time Grammy nominee Fred Hersch calls A SINGLE NOON "the work of an extraordinary pianist, a composer of great distinction and a true conceptualist... this ambitious and unique suite really takes us somewhere that is very deeply heartfelt and dazzlingly executed. This is 21st-century music that has clearly absorbed the past and looks to a bright and borderless musical future." Kallor is the recipient of a 2011 Aaron Copland Award for composition.

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Barbara Aliprantis embraces “universal themes” as she tells stories about her Greek-American immigrant childhood played out on the sidewalks and stoops of Brooklyn and The New Riverside Hotel on the Jersey Shore, bringing her full circle to her adult life in the bustling multi-ethnic NYC borough of Queens. A high-energy storyteller and special events producer, Barbara shares her stories with humor, insight and an open heart. www.barbaraaliprantis.com.

Robin Bady, the 2012 recipient of the J.J. Reneaux Emerging Artist Grant from the National Storytelling Network, is a “strong talent with a unique voice who tells every story with passion, conviction, and in-your-face urban flair.” She is founder of Shirazad’s Children (a multicultural storytelling ensemble), member of Bash the Trash Environmental Arts, and past president of the Storytelling Center of New York City. She performs in venues and festivals across the US and Europe.

Mike Fornatale grew up in the Northeastern corner of New Jersey. So whatever pictures just popped into your head, they're incorrect. But never mind that. Mike has played and/or sung with The Monks, Mark Lindsay, Arthur Lee and Love, and The Losers' Lounge. He's currently the lead singer in the newly-reformed Left Banke.

Leslie Goshko is a Manhattan Monologue Slam Champion, recipient of the NY Fringe Excellence Award, and host of the monthly storytelling series, “Sideshow Goshko” (Time Out NY "Critics' Pick"). Her stories and comedy writing have been featured on Sirius XM, WNYC, NY Metro "Funny Page", and her one-woman show, Vodka Shoes, played to rave reviews as part of the NY Frigid Festival. She’s also pretty proud to have performed in “Hairspray” on Broadway. http://www.ohmygoshko.com/

A native of Tennessee and the daughter of a Baptist preacher, Joy Kelly grew up with storytelling all around her. She began telling her own stories at the tender age of 10. The traditional tale “The Golden Arm” became a much-requested family favorite! Since then Joy has branched out performing in museums, schools and libraries in the New York City area as well as being a featured teller in the Clearwater Festival, Mohegan Festival and the Provincetown Playhouse in New York City.

Thomas Pryor’s work was published in The New York Times, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, New York Press, Our Town, The Westside Spirit, and A Prairie Home Companion. His blog, “Yorkville: Stoops to Nuts,” is listed in The New York Times. Thomas appeared on public radio’s “This American Life,” and has columns in NearSay.com & AskaNewYorker.com. He was featured in Public TV Ch 13’s Baseball: A New York Love Story.

The Tall Pines are a shack shakin’ Country /Soul band featuring Canadian singer Connie Lynn Petruk and her song writing partner Christmas Davis. Taking cues from the ruckus Nashville and Memphis scenes of the late 1960s and early 1970s, The Tall Pines debut album was featured as one of NPR’s Top Ten Best Albums of 2007. Campfire Songs album received praise from The New York Times, Vintage Guitar Magazine, The Village Voice and was featured on the iTunes Store’s “New and Noteworthy” front page for nearly the entire summer of 2009. Connie Lynn has performed and recorded with David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ronnie Spector, Joan Jett, and many more folks you know. The Tall Pines new EP “Hell Hounds” is out now on iTunes! http://www.thetallpines.com/

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"Maria Christina is a vocalist who creates intelligent and thoughtful music with heartfelt story-telling. Her songs are of poetry and musical landscapes that capture an audience from the very first note, bringing awareness to the capabilities of her voice. A night not to be missed!!" -- Dena DeRose

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"You will be hard pressed to find more adventurous and imaginative use of the trombone as an instrument of musical expression."—International Trombone Association Journal

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"Dessen switches between voluptuous lyricism and digitally distorted splatter, and his shifts between those poles never feel forced or arbitrary. This is the trio's second album, and it sounds like the work of a gigging band.... These guys don't just play together-they're playing. This playfulness, as much as their fluid negotiations of Dessen's jagged rhythms and elaborate melodies, is the spoonful of sugar that make these rigorous improvisations go down easy." - DOWNBEAT (Oct. 2011), Bill Meyer

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Maryam Habibian (Playwright, Filmmaker, Artistic Director, Translator, Writer & Scholar): Maryam Habibian’s latest work is a feature documentary, The Mist, which follows her on a journey of discovery in the land of her birth, Iran. She has had an NEH-grant to study the iconic Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad and her relationship to the city of Tehran. The resulting documentary short, Forugh Farrokhzad: Young Revolutionary Poetess of Tehran, has been screened at the Library of Congress and many other venues. Other directorial credits include her multimedia play Forugh’s Reflecting Pool, which was subsequently published in the anthology, Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Olive Branch Press: Massachusetts, 2005).

Roger Sedarat is the author of Dear Regime: Letters to the Islamic Republic, which won Ohio UP's 2007 Hollis Summers' Prize, and Ghazal Games (Ohio UP, 2011). Under the pseudonym "Haji," he performs political poetry as well as translation. He teaches poetry and literary translation in the MFA Program at Queens College, CUNY.

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This is a wonderful contemporary jazz record. Bass guitarist Steve Swallow, drummer Adam Nussbaum and saxophonist Ohad Talmor combine slyly swinging jazz references with all kinds of eclectic inflections – notably through the tonal eloquence and sophistication of Talmor, who was born in Israel, raised in Switzerland and lives in Brooklyn. He studies the Indian bamboo flute, runs a nine-piece devoted to the music of Bruckner and often works with Lee Konitz. On the title track, Talmor’s Joe Lovano-like staccato phrasing turns into Konitz/Warne Marsh-like long-line figures, but some pieces are such slow, smoky swingers they almost stop, while others are curling note-texture examinations cushioned by Swallow’s purr. On Days of Old, Talmor’s tenor sounds as diaphanous as an alto, and there are haunted-house tiptoeings and a funky finale in which the saxophonist sounds as muscular as Michael Brecker. ***** 5 stars !-- John Fordham, UK Guardian

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Nelida Tirado recently hailed as “magnificent” from The New York Times is known for her intense grace and powerful style. She began her formal training at Ballet Hispanico of NY, training in classical ballet, graham, Spanish dance/ flamenco. At 19 she toured the US with Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles. She was a soloist and dance captain of Carlota Santana’s “Flamenco Vivo and an original member of the Metropolitan Opera’s Spanish Ballet in Franco Zeferelli’s production of “Carmen”. Her studies led her to Spain where performed in World Music Institue’s “Gypsy Caravan 1” with Antonio El Pipa and was soloist /dance captain of “Compania Maria Pages” performing throughout Europe, Asia and the Flamenco Festival USA 2001 and 2002. Upon arrival to the US, shes worked with Noche Flamenca, and was featured solo flamenco dancer in “Riverdance On Broadway”. She was awarded the BRIO award 2007 for artistic excellence from Bronx Council of the Arts and featured in Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” for 2007.

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Kiranavali Vidyasankar comes from one of the most prolific families in Carnatic music today. Grand-daughter of the famous Gotuvadyam Narayana Iyengar, Kiranavali had the unique opportunity of learning from three distinguished musicians - her father Chitravina Narasimhan, her brother Chitravina Ravikiran, and the late Sangita Kalanidhi T. Brinda. Kiranavali, herself is a highly respected and seasoned performer & scholar, performing at major venues in India and all over the world. Her music has won the respect and admiration of the connoisseurs, critics as well as the laymen.

"Kiranavali's pristine pure music, unfailingly melodious and resonant voice, and her neat presentation had all the ingredients of a high-class performance.” --The Hindu

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Tonight, John Morrison hosts Wyatt Cenac, Dan St. Germain, Harrison Greenbaum, Lee Camp, Andy de la Tour and Robin Fox.

"One of the city's best alt-comedy shows!" – The NY Post

"Critics' Pick!" – TimeOut NY

"Works for me." – Morrison

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