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 $10.00 includes a drink    http://www.owenlewispoet.com ,  http://www.kamilahaishamoon.org

Tonight marks the debut of a brand new band - "Kind Folk." This chordless quartet comprised of some of New York's most in-demand, up-and-coming improvisers will be performing a combination of new original music written for the group as well as songs by composers such as Kenny Wheeler, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman and others.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://kindfolk.bandcamp.com

“Visionary and powerful with tremendous vitality . . . Daniela Gioseffi is a gifted, graceful and moving writer.” — Galway Kinnell

“A vital international author, dedicated to planetary survival.” — Cecilia Ceriani, El Pais, Madrid

Signed copies of Waging Beauty will be available at a remarkably discounted price. And of course you will have ample opportunity to meet and greet Ms. Gioseffi — and hear her read.

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$10 cover includes one copy of Waging Beauty. (Additional copies can be purchased for the specially discounted event price of $10 ). Plus $10 food/drink minimum.

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Following a reading from this enchanting memoir-in-essays, the author will discuss her new work and the art of memoir-writing with author and memoirist, Benjamin Taylor. Afterward, join us for a book-signing and reception. Free & Open to the public.

ABOUT GUESSWORK: Having lost eight friends in ten years, Cooley retreats to a tiny medieval village in Italy with her husband to recover from la strage, or “the massacre.” There, in this sun­drenched paradise where bumblebees nest in the ancient cemetery and stray cats curl up on her bed, she examines what we all must confront one day, mortality. How do we grieve? How do we go on drinking our morning coffee, loving our life partners, stumbling though a world of such confusing, exquisite beauty?

Part memoir, part loving goodbye to an unconventional parent, Guesswork transforms a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release.

 No cover; cash bar    http://books.catapult.co/products/guesswork-a-reckoning-with-loss-by-martha-cooley

 $10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum 

Celebrating the release of their debut album, Planktonic Finales (Intakt), this new collaborative trio comprising three of NYC’s most distinctive musical voices reconvenes for an evening of spontaneous, communal musical Celebrating the release of their debut album, Planktonic Finales (Intakt), this new collaborative trio comprising three of NYC’s most distinctive musical voices reconvenes for an evening of spontaneous, communal musical invention.

"Fostering deep listening and uninhibited communication, the trio of Crump, Laubrock and Smythe seem to have synchronized around the same pulse."-- Downbeat

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.ingridlaubrock.com ,  http://www.stephancrump.com

Chris Dingman is among the most celebrated composers and vibraphonists of his generation. Hailed by the New York Times as a “dazzling” soloist and composer with a “fondness for airtight logic and burnished lyricism,” his progressive approach has earned him praise as “an extremely gifted young composer, bandleader, recording artist, and much sought-after sideman” (Jon Weber, NPR). In this exclusive performance he unveils new compositions for trio exploring sonic and textural possibilities of the vibraphone, featuring an impeccable rhythm section.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum 

Join Leslie Goshko (Huffington Post, Sideshow Goshko) as she presents this comedic musical-mystery show where day-drinking is glamorous and chain-smoking the norm. Play detective and receive clues from live musical performances, special guests, overly dramatic pauses, and more. And just when you think you have the case solved, there’s “one more thing”…there always is when you’re dealing with The Real Housewives of Columbo!

 $10.00 cover plus $10.00 minimum    http://www.facebook.com/ohmygoshko ,  http://sideshowgoshko.blogspot.com/

Jazz vocalist Aubrey Johnson presents her intricately and finely crafted compositions and arrangements with her fantastic New York-based band of four years.

The Boston Globe calls her a “formidable vocalist” and “adept improviser” and Downbeat magazine describes her voice as "ethereal" and "hauntingly intimate”.

 $10 cover plus $10 minimum    http://www.aubreyjohnsonmusic.com

 $10.00 includes a drink 

TJ Jarrett is a writer and software developer from Nashville, Tennessee. Her recent work has been published in Poetry Magazine, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Third Coast, VQR, West Branch and others. Her work has been anthologized in Language Lessons from Third Man Books and Best American Non-Required Reading 2015. Jarrett’s debut collection, Ain’t No Grave, was published with New Issues Press (2013) and her second, Zion, winner of the 2013 Crab Orchard Open Competition, was published by Southern Illinois University Press in the fall of 2014.

 $10.00 includes a drink    http://vleecker.com

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