* Cover is given where known * There is a one-drinkminimum per set * Reservations for shows downstairs can only be made by phone:212-989-9319
Mixed Media by Nick Sprysenski All art is for sale. Please inquire
As her friends talked about applying for jobs with the exciting new Obama administration, Dr Faith realized she could not follow her calling to help her country, she would never pass the vetting. There was her arrest record, her part time job on the Penthouse phone sex line, her summer job as a stripper to put herself through graduate school at the London School of Economics, the recent lawsuit filed against her for the show now referred to as "the show formerly known as Prince" for trademark infringement by Franklincovey, owners of trademarks for 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
And that didn't even touch on the drugs - she had inhaled - everything.
Raised in a test site for cable television, Dr. Faith was bred to be a couch potato, but she knew that there had to be something more. Outrageous, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, follow her journey to Europe, China and the Middle East where she ends up a prisioner of love in Abu Dhabi.
Show starts at 6:30, doors open at 6:00. Cover $15 www.drink-blaspheme-f.com
Fine Wine and Moonshine – Le Nozze di Carlo Meets Dirty Mac and the Bumper Crop Boys
What happens when a 21st Century Italian American musician keeps one foot planted in the old country and one in the new? He stumbles between sophisticated, continental, Italian classics and pseudo-primitive jug band sounds. So sit back and sip fine Italian wine or Wild Turkey and enjoy this entertaining juxtaposition of music with both groups featuring the guitar playing of Gene “The Jammeister” Caprioglio. Gene will also sing in Italian and offer oenophilic commentary. The other performers will include Joel Darelius, Paule Diamond, Emily Fellner, Bob Goldberg, Josh Michael, Lionel Sanders, Doug Strich, Sam Williams (a.k.a. Dirty Mac) and Chris Zeig playing accordions, trumpets, banjos, washtub bass, mandolin and few other things and singing about wine, drinking, love and other stuff.
For more about Le Nozze di Carlo, checkout: www.cdroots.com
MARGARET DAWSON, acclaimed actress, storyteller, teacher, producer, holds an M.F.A. in Directing from The Mason Gross School of the Arts of Rutgers University. Tonight, she shares the prologue to her extraordinary tale, "Hecuba Remembers."
JIM HAWKINS, beloved Irish-American Storyteller/Actor/Musician and gifted teacher, charms audiences and lifts our spirits with his stories and songs, including memories of his childhood spent in the Midlands of Ireland and on the stoops and concrete sidewalks of Astoria, Queens. He'll reprise an excerpt from his recent "STORIES FROM THE STOOP."
DONNA MINKOWITZ, is a storyteller and writer whose work has appeared in Ms., New York magazine, New York Newsday, The Advocate, Out, and The Nation. This evening she'll share excerpts from her soon-to-be published book, THE MARVELOUS TOY, a magical-realist memoir combining facts from her life with fantasy and metaphor.
Cameos: Ken Corsbie, Dr. Joyce C. Duncan, Lonnie Harrington, Alan Kanen, Thelma R. Thomas
(Time permitting there will be an Open MIC)
"Storytelling is everyday conversation, teaching tool, survival technique and an ancient art..." Cover $7 (includes one house drink) http://www.barbaraaliprantis.org
Dayl Wise was drafted into the US Army in 1969 and served in Vietnam and Cambodia in 1970. He is a member of VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) and VFP (Veterans for Peace). He is one of the speakers of NY Veterans Speak Out, a group of veterans who talk to high school and college students about the experience of war. He lives and writes in The Bronx and Woodstock, New York with his wife, the poet Alison Koffler and Molly, a Labrador-pit bull mix.
Alison Koffler was three times the winner of the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO Award for poetry in 1993, 2000 and 2006. She was the recipi ent of the Poetry Teacher of the Year Award from Poets’ House and McGraw-Hill in 2003. Her poems have appeared in such publications as Iris: A Journal For Women, Heliotrope, Poetry in Performance, and Kalliope. An English and creative writing teacher, she currently works as an on-site teacher-consultant for the New York City Writing Project at Lehman College. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Here's a red state song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDBaiR2spsE
And here's a blue state song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj8ImOxVpxg
The String Messengers are: Frank York, lead vocals and fiddle; Mandola Joe York, bass vocals and various double-coursed pluckables; Jon York, middle fiddle (a.k.a. "vy-o-la"); Jeff York, electric guitar and effects; Ratzo "Hatzo" York, bass; and Uncle Murphy, guitar and vocals. Cover $10
Barbara Sfraga with CSQ’s Chris Sullivan, Michael T.A. Thompson
Their no-chords trio is an exploration of sounds and silence. “Medicine Woman of Jazz”, poet Golda Solomon provides the words
“On stage at the Cornelia Street Cafe, that intimate haunt in the heart of Greenwich Village that has fostered a vital alternative jazz scene in New York City, voicist Barbara Sfraga is lost in another song. Closing her eyes tightly while holding the microphone gingerly by the fingertips of both hands, she bobs and weaves to the surging flow generated by the telepathic rhythm tandem of bassist Chris Sullivan and drummer Michael Thompson (collectively known as Center Search Quest). Bending at the waist when digging for a low note, throwing her head back in rapture when chasing after a high note, she communes with the groove. Immersed in the moment, her fingers begin depressing invisible valves on the microphone as she freestyles her way through another wordless verse like a trumpeter riding the peak of a scorching solo. It’s Sfraga in full stream-of-consciousness stride, going out on a limb...again.” ~ Bill Milkowski Cover $15 (includes one house drink)
Arrive before 6 pm to sign up.
Featured : Janice Bishop.
Janice Bishop, a resident of Manorville, has published poems in journals across the United States, in Canada, Ireland, Wales, and England. She has been a featured reader at Walt Whitman House, and radio host at Adelphi, Stony Brook, and L.I.U. As an actor she has appeared in Long Island productions of The Heiress, Picasso’s Desire Caught By The Tail, Kenneth Koch’s 1000 Avant-Garde Plays, and in NYC Klub Ka, The Blues Legend, Caryl Churchill’s Heart’s Desire, and as Tiresias in Burial At Thebes. Recent film Credits include, Parable and Saints Speak for Arcadia Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
Poet Kahlil Almustafa is known as the Peoples Poet, whether for a mass rally of hundreds of people, a nightclub, church, university or a backyard family reunion. almustafa is the 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and the author of four collections of poetry and his debut CD CounterIntelligence. In 2008, he was selected by the Hip-Hop Theater Festival as a grantee of the Future Aesthetics Artist Re-grant (FAAR), funded by the Ford Foundation. Kahlil recently completed the 100 Poems For 100 Days project where he wrote 100 poems in the first 100 days of Barack Obamas presidency. A true poet from Queens, New York, he uses poetry to engage with communities in critical dialogue.
Composer Chris Becker lives and works in Long Island City, Queens, New York, composing, arranging and recording music for a wide variety of solo and collaborative projects including music for dance, mixed-media installations, and film.
Cellist, pianist, composer and producer Lenae A. Harris began her music career at the age of six. Though classically trained in cello and piano, Lenae has performed with several artists including such diverse musical personalities as Beth Arentsen, Jeremy James, Maya Azucena, Stori James, Abby Dobson, Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers.
Cover $10 (includes one house drink)
From Soul and Reggae to traditional African and Vietnamese music - Blake is always exploring music that inspires him while staying true to himself.
Panoramic imagination -The New York Times Cover $10 www.michaelblake.net
Poet Kahlil Almustafa is known as the Peoples Poet, whether for a mass rally of hundreds of people, a nightclub, church, university or a backyard family reunion. almustafa is the 2002 Nuyorican Grand Slam Champion and the author of four collections of poetry and his debut CD CounterIntelligence. In 2008, he was selected by the Hip-Hop Theater Festival as a grantee of the Future Aesthetics Artist Re-grant (FAAR), funded by the Ford Foundation. Kahlil recently completed the 100 Poems For 100 Days project where he wrote 100 poems in the first 100 days of Barack Obamas presidency. He uses poetry to engage with communities in critical dialogue.
Gabriella Callender is a Singer, Songwriter and is the heart of Mahina Movement's music. Gabriella lives in Queens, New York but is just back from performing at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley, California She has performed on over 500 stages, from the Nuyorican Poets Cafe to Lincoln Center. Her music has been heard on WBAI radio, Manhattan News Network and Al Jazeers television. She currently working on her debut album Emma, expected to be out in January of 2010.
Matt Darriau - reeds (Paradox Trio, Klezmatics) Andy Laster - reeds (Julius Hemphill Sax Sextet) Frank London- trumpet & mutes (Klezmatics) Curtis Hasselbring - trombone (Jazz Passengers, Tom Harrell) Anthony Coleman - Piano, Hammond B3 organ (John Zorn, Marc Ribot) Joe Fitzgerald - bass (Gene Bertoncini, Fred Hersch) George Schuller - drums (Schulldogs)
"Of the many centennial tributes to Duke, this could be the most entertaining and forward thinking. Certainly it's the zaniest and very in your face... Ballin' The Jack revives [these tunes] in an ultra-modern way that makes them seem like they were just written.... A strong candidate for Jazz CD of the Year" - Michael G. Nastos, All-Music Guide
Can "downtown" players deliver classic jazz and swing tunes? The Big Head should quickly win over skeptics with the speed precision and boisterous energy brought to tunes like Benny Goodman's Seven Come Eleven ... their enthusiasm and beat quickly become contagious. -Jon Andrews DOWNBEAT Cover $10 www.myspace.com/ballinthematt , www.myspace.com/mattdarriau
Harold Norse (1916- 2009) was among the American expatriates who sought experience and creative insight in Europe during the 1950's and early 60's. He was one of the occupants of the Beat Hotel on Paris' Rue Gît-le- Cœur, where he first caught up with the Beat generation writers in 1960.
Norse, whose surname comes from an anagram of his mother's name in Russian, was born in Brooklyn on July 6, 1916. His mother was an unmarried Jewish immigrant from Russia, and though he never knew his father, Norse surmises that he was a German-American soldier. Harold took an interest in literature while in high school, and in 1934 attended Brooklyn College, where he became the first freshman to win the school's annual poetry contest.
Poets who will pay tribute to Norse include Ira Cohen, Max Blagg, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Steve Dalachinsky, Shelley Miller, Tom Walker, Judith Malina, George Wallace, and Angelo Verga. Cover $7 (includes one house drink)
The Songwriter's Beat Festival presents 24 of NY's best songwriters in 6 nights, from July 20 - July 25, 2009.
Now in its 9th year, The Songwriter's Beat is New York's most popular acoustic songwriters series, curated / hosted by singer-songwriter Valerie Ghent. The Songwriter's Beat features four songwriters of varying musical styles who are encouraged to try out their newest material and arrangements.
The Songwriter's Beat is delighted to share in the 32nd birthday celebration of the Cornelia Street Cafe!
Proceeds of the Songwriter's Beat Festival benefit "Feel the Music!" , a NYC nonprofit which brings music and art to children and families impacted by trauma.
Cover $10 songwritersbeat.com
Cover is given where known Many spoken words events are free There is always a one-drink minimum per set; times are door opening times
July 13-July 20, 2009 
