On this, our last show till September, we are happy as heck to have Tom Shillue headline. The New York Times called Tom “Inspired”, and the New York Post said, simply, “Brilliant”. Backstage named him the Top New York Comic, saying “There isn’t anything Shillue can’t do”, and fans on the Comedy Central website voted Tom one of the top ten comedians in the country in their annual showdown. (Did we mention we're happy as heck to have him?) Joining Tom will be our good friend, Jane Condon, of "Last Comic Standing" and "The View" fame. VH1's Liam McEneaney will be here before he runs off to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and so - hopefully, finally - will Chicago's Thomas Middleditch (Second City, Baby Loves Candy). And let's not forget good friends and great comics Mike Drucker and Dan Cartwright. And there you have it, 90 minutes of fresh-baked hilarity, just for you.
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'50s detectives thwarted by MTA service changes. Psychic anarchists in a doomed romance. Frustrated feds seduced by runaway nanobots. The Psychasthenia Society presents an immersive program of satiric stories blended with remixed movie stills, live video, and electronic music. Featuring storyteller Jon Keith Brunelle and video artist Daniel Vatsky, straight from Williamsburg engagements at Galapagos Art Space and Monkey Town.

Jon Keith Brunelle, the founder of The Psychasthenia Society, calls his work laptop storytelling: rapid-fire digital slide shows comprising hundreds of vintage movie stills, remixed to form satiric new stories that he tells in live voiceover. Various editions of The Hammer Variations, Jon's remix of the movie Kiss Me Deadly, have been featured at Collective: Unconscious and P.S. 122, and in New York gallery events. The Nanolove Report, written by Jon and performed by The Psychasthenia Society, enjoyed a successful run at Collective: Unconscious.

As the visual coordinator of The Psychasthenia Society, Daniel Vatsky draws from his expertise as both an established video artist and a professional archival image researcher. His projections have graced the walls and screens of dozens of New York clubs and parties. Performance highlights include showings at the Museum of Modern Art, the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, and the Knitting Factory. Recent collaborations include work with multimedia performance artist Laurie Anderson and documentary filmmaker Ric Burns.
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�Her music is a hybrid of sounds--classic rock and pop, alternative, progressive and blues influences find their way into her intelligent, slightly off-kilter songs� In a perfect world, Klein would be a big star.�
- Mick Skidmore, Relix
www.ann-klein.com

Tabitha Fair is arguably one of the best singers the world over. Her stunning instrument transcends audiences with its dynamic nuances, and sparkling colors. Tabitha is often compared to divas Christina Aguilera, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. In fact, all of these artists have achieved great success with songs that were first demoed by Tabitha, who has long been a favorite studio singer for platinum songwriters. Tabitha�s illustrious career began with her own TV show (at age 13) called, Tabitha, and it was then that great things started to happen. After making her initial splash at the Grand Ole Opry, Tabitha quickly became one of Nashville�s top singers and often toured with many well-known artists including Amy Grant and Travis Tritt. Tabitha eventually moved to New York where the focus has been on her solo career- writing, performing and recording. Tabitha has performed live duets with Michael McDonald as well as the lead singer from Ambrosia � David Pack, and was featured at President Clinton�s second inauguration in Washington D.C. where she was accompanied by Bruce Hornsby on piano. By invitation, Tabitha was featured with Sting in a benefit performance for the Rainforest at Carnegie Hall. Miles Copeland honored Tabitha with an invitation to workshop with established songwriters and artists at a castle in France where she co-wrote a song with Carole King which was later placed in the movie, Sum of All Fears, featuring Tabitha�s vocal. Tabitha�s voice is currently heard on numerous national television commercials including V-8, Gillette Venus, Lays Potato Chips, and Hanes.
www.myspace.com/tabithafair

Alyson Palmer is a singer/songwriter and bass player, best known for being the tallest third of BETTY, the rock/pop band. In over two decades with that band, she and her music have appeared on television theme songs, films, Off-Broadway and in venues all over the world. With her beshert, Tony Salvatore by her side, she has a burgeoning solo career and the Tot Rock bands Tone Alley and Aly & The Village Family Band. She produces musical events, including Mamapalooza: The Festival For Moms Who Rock. The greatest things on earth to her are love and peanut butter.
www.myspace.com/alysonpalmer

Tony Salvatore has had the good fortune to perform with Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza), Angelique Kidjo, Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls), Jane Siberry, Kate Pierson (B-52's), Muzz Skillings (Living Colour), Taj Mahal; BETTY , Heather Greene , & Mary McBride. His first CD, an album of original instrumental acoustic guitar tunes entitled, NEFARIOSO, is avlbl at www.cdbaby.com/tonysalvatore. His upcoming self- produced album, CANNED ESSENCE will be avlbl online in 2008. Tony's guitar is featured on the theme song to Showtime's hottest series, The L Word; & his guitar & production skills provided music for a variety of cable & network shows & commercials. Tony is endorsed by Gibson Guitars , and Hot Hand Guitar Effects.
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Deedee Agee is working on a collection of autobiographical stories set in Greenwich Village in the 1950s and 60s, where she lived with her mother and father, the writer James Agee. She leads private workshops, has taught writing at the college level, and has also worked as a waitress, house painter, reproductive counselor, chef, software trainer at the United Nations and freelance writer. She was awarded a Geraldine R. Dodge Fellowship and membership in the Writer's Room of Boston. Her work has appeared in Doubletake Magazine as well as several anthologies, and she has read her work on NPR. Ms. Agee currently lives in Hingham, MA, in a 19th century parsonage with her husband, a Unitarian Universalist minister.

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"Pianist Daniel Kelly is original and adventurous." Howard Mandel, Author of Future Jazz

�Daniel Kelly is a pianist and composer who confidently splits the difference between murky history and sleek progressivism�
- Nate Chinen, New York Times
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More info on:
Bill Ware
Leif Arntzen or on myspace....
Miles Arntzen
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More chords! More harmony! More funny-sounding stuff!

Tired of going out to hear bands that have no chordal instrument and rely on one lousy sad-ass bass player who doesn't know any tunes to provide all the harmonic color? Well, now's your chance to cancel out those experiences with a tsunami of tone poems, a plethora of progressions, a virtual vat of voicings -- all produced by not one but TWO (2) chordal instruments! Plus a bass player who knows everything!
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Rafiq Bhatia is an East-African Indian American guitarist/composer seeking to synthesize a genre-bending musical lexicon informed by the traditions of his transmigratory heritage. A first-generation American, Bhatia is currently completing an interdisciplinary honors degree in economics and cognitive science at Oberlin College. He is also associated with the world-renowned Oberlin Conservatory, where his concept quickly caught the attention of prolific drummer Billy Hart (Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis). Besides apprenticing under Hart and Cleveland-based drummer Paul Samuels (Greg Osby), Bhatia is the artist-in-residence at The Feve, an Oberlin mainstay, where his group has attracted a loyal fan-base and critical acclaim for their weekly performances. He also frequently returns to New York, performing with the Rafiq Bhatia Collective and studying with Downbeat magazine's "Rising Star Jazz Pianist/Composer" Vijay Iyer.

"A contemporary mind with the true potential of the future, Rafiq Bhatia is definitely an artist to look forward to hearing."
--Billy Hart, legendary jazz drummer

cover: $13/$7 for students

www.rafiqbhatia.com   www.myspace.com/ninamoffitt ,  www.myspace.com/rafiqbhatiamusic

PAUL HECHT has assembled many literary events for the cafe. He has starred on Broadway opposite such actors as Rex Harrison and Maggie Smith. He received a Tony nomination for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and an Obie for Pirandello's Henry IV.

QUENTIN MARE was most recently seen on Broadway in Tom Stoppard's "Rock N Roll", "Coram Boy", "Julius Caesar" with Denzel Washington, "King Lear" with Christopher Plummer and "A Little Night Music" at the New York State Theatre. He'd like to dedicate his participation in this evening to the memory of actor and friend John Seitz, whose poetry readings in this venue were Mr. Mar�'s first introduction to Cornelia Street Caf�.

SONIA MANZANO has played Maria on Sesame Street for over thirty-five years. She has earned fifteen Emmys as a writer for that show and is now writing children's books. Visit her at www.soniamanzano.com.

CHARLOTTE PARRY has performed in a wide range of theater in New York including 'The Real Thing' and 'Coram Boy' on Broadway, 'Howard Katz' at the Roundabout, two seasons with the Sir Peter Hall Company at BAM and, most recently, 'Rainbow Kiss' at 59E59 and the world premiere of Albee's 'Me Myself and I'. Extensive West End and regional theater and TV in the UK, and a wide variety of audio book narrations.

CRISTIAN AMIGO is an award-winning composer (Guggenheim fellowship, Meet the Composer, among others) and guitarist living in New York City. His new CD Kingdom of Jones is on the innova Recordings label. For more information and sounds, please go to cristianamigo.com.

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www.soniamanzano.com ,  www.cristianamigo.com

Diane Lockward's second collection, What Feeds Us (Wind Publications), received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times and in such journals as Poet Lore, Beloit Poetry Journal, Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. A former high school English teacher, Diane now works as a poet-in-the-schools.
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