CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ

CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ
29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1,9 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, F to West 4th St.

Contact: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services, 845-986-1677, jazzpromo@earthlink.net





This Weekend At Cornelia Street Cafe


Fri Jul 21
THE SONGWRITER'S BEAT FESTIVAL

(Sal Casabianca; Anna Dagmar; KP Devlin; Bill Grady; Albert Del Rio)

The Songwriter's Beat Festival presents 25 of NY's best songwriters in 5 days, including a reunion of the original Songwriter's Exchange.

All proceeds to benefit The World Foundation for Music and Healing .

Now in its 6th year, The Songwriter's Beat is New York’s most popular acoustic songwriter’s series, where songwriters are encouraged to perform new material in a supportive and intimate atmosphere.

Curated / hosted by Valerie Ghent, The Songwriter’s Beat features top up-and-coming songwriters. Each month four songwriters of varying musical styles perform original songs and are encouraged to try out their newest material and arrangements.

Founded in 2000 by Valerie Ghent, The Songwriter's Beat has presented over 200 (hailing from all over the globe: from the US, UK, Australia, South Africa and Japan!) and keeps growing!

The Songwriter's Beat welcomes songwriters from around the world, so if you are planning your trip to New York, allow time for The Songwriter's Beat!
9:00PM Valerie Ghent, host. Cover $10 songwritersbeat.com

Sat Jul 22
THE SONGWRITER'S BEAT FESTIVAL
(Thea Hopkins; Kelli Sae; Mark Vodery; Robin Macatangay; Elizabeth Withers)

The Songwriter's Beat Festival presents 25 of NY's best songwriters in 5 days, including a reunion of the original Songwriter's Exchange.

All proceeds to benefit The World Foundation for Music and Healing.

Now in its 6th year, The Songwriter's Beat is New York’s most popular acoustic songwriter’s series, where songwriters are encouraged to perform new material in a supportive and intimate atmosphere.

Curated / hosted by Valerie Ghent, The Songwriter’s Beat features top up-and-coming songwriters. Each month four songwriters of varying musical styles perform original songs and are encouraged to try out their newest material and arrangements.

Founded in 2000 by Valerie Ghent, The Songwriter's Beat has presented over 200 (hailing from all over the globe: from the US, UK, Australia, South Africa and Japan!) and keeps growing!

The Songwriter's Beat welcomes songwriters from around the world, so if you are planning your trip to New York, allow time for The Songwriter's Beat!
9:00PM Valerie Ghent, host. Cover $10 songwritersbeat.com

Sun Jul 23
TRIOS DAVID HANEY FEATURING JULIAN PRIESTER
(David Haney, piano; Julian Priester, trombone; Adam Lane, bass)
Pianist David Haney with TROMBONE LEGEND JULIAN PRIESTER!!! ONLY 2006 NYC APPEARANCE

Two CDs released The Music-The David Haney Trio (C.I.M.P.) For Sale, Five Million Cash- David Haney and Julian Priester (Cadence Jazz Records)

Four composers, four instrumentalists, four conversationists. Four unique voices, one special date. The Legendary Julian Priester has been a driving force in creating the jazz landscape. For fifty years Julian has been at the forefront of music creativity and his contributions are many. He has worked with an vast array of artists from Ray Charles and Diana Washington to Max Roach, Dave Holland, Herbie Hancock, etc., etc. etc. In 1999 Julian began touring and recording with pianist David Haney. They have toured throughout the U.S. and Europe and have three new CDs together for Cadence Jazz Records and C.I.M.P. Come see what the excitement is all about!

"an amazing depth of sound and texture... of echoing notes and subtle haunting effects. At times, Haney's dexterity can sound like piano for four hands, or more accurately music for piano and percussion, though never in overwhelming fashion; he frequently takes momentary pauses like a saxophonist's breath connecting short runs of notes. This is modern music in the minimalist vein, rarely swinging but proving that swing-ing is certainly not as essential as the improvising element to be a qualifier for jazz." Laurence Donohue-Greene, All About Jazz, New York
8:30PM Cover $12 www.davidhaney.org
Mon Jul 24
VIBES: TOM BECKHAM GROUP
(Tom Beckham, vibraphone; Chris Cheek, saxophones; Bryn Roberts, piano; Gary Wang, bass; Diego Voglino, drums)

8:30PM www.tombeckham.net
Tue Jul 25
SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

HONKY TONK PADRE
(Roger Fawcett)
ROGER FAWCETT has a long theatrical history. He made his debut as a teenager with the legendary William Bendix in The Gazebo and appeared in numerous other tours and productions from the 60's to the 80's on Broadway, Off Broadway and around the country. In mid-course, he entered a little seminary in Brooklyn and was ordained a priest in 1986. HONKY TONK PADRE is the story of an actor battling familiar and unfamiliar demons and his remarkable journey through alcohol, drugs, doubt and faith.
6:00PM Cover $6

SOUL OF THE BLUES FESTIVAL
(Roosevelt & Ira Lee; Julia Joseph; Oli Rockberger)
World-Class Summer Blues Festival to Return to Blues-Deprived Big Apple

Local promoter Bagel & Rat Entertainment is teaming with the Long Island-based Downstate New York Blues Association and Cornelia Street Cafe to stage New York City's second annual Soul of the Blues Festival this summer.

Julia Joseph (NYC) "balances delicate introspection with the raw energy of solid blues and soul." Traces of her heroes – Nina Simone, Phoebe Snow, Janis Joplin - inform a "voice that could awaken the dead and lull the living to sleep." Julia was named "Best Female Jazz Solo Artist" at the New York International Independent Music Festival in 2004.

Roosevelt and Ira Lee (Brooklyn) makes its debut tonight. This new project brings together the talents of legendary Williamsburg bluesman and poet Preacher Boy, Soul of the Blues veteran Will Scott, and Capitol Records/ Astralwerks recording artist Joe Magistro (aka Prophet Omega) on drums (currently in the studio with The Black Crowes). "The swampiest, nastiest, funkiest, thrumpiest blues trash out there..."

London-born jazz/gospel/R&B pianist, vocalist and songwriter Oli Rockberger brought down the house at Soul of the Blues back in February and we're delighted to have him and his band back. Oli combines astounding musicianship with soulful high spirits - truly a "scary talent."

From July 25-29, some of the most exciting and accomplished local, regional and even international blues and soul artists will tramp down the stairs to the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe stage. In that welcoming, intimate setting, New York audiences will get to experience the kind of great music the city's blues clubs used to present - before they almost all, in recent years, closed down or switched formats.

"We're really excited to be working with Downstate again on the Festival," says Bagel & Rat's Paul Cruz. "The [blues] scene on Long Island is hopping, but here in the city blues fans don't have much opportunity to experience this kind of live music any more... Downstate coming in with their great bands is just such a shot in the arm for the scene." Over one third of the bands at the Festival were booked through the Downstate NY Blues Association. This summer's festival will feature a broad range of talent, from the rhythmic country blues of Roosevelt & Ira Lee to the sweet soul sounds of Sam "Magic Man" Waymon (brother of the late Nina Simone); from New York's celebrated blues queen Pat Cisarano to the genre-smashing soul-jazz of British import Oli Rockberger; from the rough blues-rock of Andre & the Night Hounds and Sonny Hudson's wailing harmonica to the honeyed stylings of songstress Julia Joseph and the thumping Chicago blues of Breakaway. Altogether seventeen acts will perform over five days. (See http://souloftheblues.com for the full schedule.)
8:30PM Jon Sobel, host.
Wed Jul 26
SOLO PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

OVID’S METAMORPHOSES
(Todd Conner, playwright/performer)
Todd Conner performs his new translation and solo adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Storytelling stripped to the bare essentials, Conner’s Metamorphoses returns audiences to the very well-springs of the Western storytelling tradition. Conceiving, translating and adapting from Ovid, Conner reaches even further back than his ancient Roman source material to explore the poetic/bardic tradition from which Ovid drew his inspiration. With only his voice, body, a few props, a minimum of light, and a harp (learned specifically for this piece, for which he also composed accompaniment), Conner’s performance is a reminder that in our age of relentless over-mediation and mass-entertainment, it is the individual human being who must remain the essential medium of artistic expression.

Todd Conner, in addition to being a performer, is an award-winning playwright and accomplished director.

$10 for adults, $6 for students.
6:00PM Cover $10 www.mayasphereproject.com

SOUL OF THE BLUES FESTIVAL
(Tony Gallo Group; Tommy Keys; My Friend Ben)
World-Class Summer Blues Festival to Return to Blues-Deprived Big Apple

Local promoter Bagel & Rat Entertainment is teaming with the Long Island-based Downstate New York Blues Association and Cornelia Street Cafe to stage New York City's second annual Soul of the Blues Festival this summer.

From July 25-29, some of the most exciting and accomplished local, regional and even international blues and soul artists will tramp down the stairs to the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe stage. In that welcoming, intimate setting, New York audiences will get to experience the kind of great music the city's blues clubs used to present - before they almost all, in recent years, closed down or switched formats.

"We're really excited to be working with Downstate again on the Festival," says Bagel & Rat's Paul Cruz. "The [blues] scene on Long Island is hopping, but here in the city blues fans don't have much opportunity to experience this kind of live music any more... Downstate coming in with their great bands is just such a shot in the arm for the scene." Over one third of the bands at the Festival were booked through the Downstate NY Blues Association. This summer's festival will feature a broad range of talent, from the rhythmic country blues of Roosevelt & Ira Lee to the sweet soul sounds of Sam "Magic Man" Waymon (brother of the late Nina Simone); from New York's celebrated blues queen Pat Cisarano to the genre-smashing soul-jazz of British import Oli Rockberger; from the rough blues-rock of Andre & the Night Hounds and Sonny Hudson's wailing harmonica to the honeyed stylings of songstress Julia Joseph and the thumping Chicago blues of Breakaway. Altogether seventeen acts will perform over five days. (See http://souloftheblues.com for the full schedule.)
8:30PM Jon Sobel, host.
Thu Jul 27
SOLO PERFORMANCE

CONFESS\CONFUSE

FOUR MICRO-MUSIC-THEATRE-WORKS
(Margaret Benczak, soprano; Mary Kay McGarvey, soprano; Raymond Sage, baritone; Natalia Paruz, musical saw; Mat Fieldes, string bass; Bruce Trinkley, piano)

Three solo operas (and a fourth for all three singers) music by BRUCE TRINKLEY, words by JASON CHARNESKY, directed by RICHARD EDELMAN

Three singers, four confessions, and the confusion of the heart's passions laid open. Margaret Benczak, last seen as Carmilla in La Mama's breakthrough production; Broadway's Raymond Sage; and Brooklyn Queens Conservatory of Music's Mary Kay McGarvey present four dramatic scenes of characters haunted by ghosts and baffled by passion. These performers present a musical, dramatic tour de force as they create an array of unforgettable characters: a chat-room stalker, a lonely farmer's wife, the richest woman in America, and two British tourists lost in Greece Think of a five act opera compressed to fifteen minutes of intense revelation, times four. Richard Edelman directs. "If Puccini had a night job in the jazz cabarets of Berlin he might have written pieces as funky and lyrical as Bruce Trinkley's micro-music-theatre works."
6:00PM

SOUL OF THE BLUES FESTIVAL
(The One 2 Many Band; Halley DeVestern; Joe Vicino and the Smokedaddys)
World-Class Summer Blues Festival to Return to Blues-Deprived Big Apple

Local promoter Bagel & Rat Entertainment is teaming with the Long Island-based Downstate New York Blues Association and Cornelia Street Cafe to stage New York City's second annual Soul of the Blues Festival this summer.

From July 25-29, some of the most exciting and accomplished local, regional and even international blues and soul artists will tramp down the stairs to the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe stage. In that welcoming, intimate setting, New York audiences will get to experience the kind of great music the city's blues clubs used to present - before they almost all, in recent years, closed down or switched formats.

"We're really excited to be working with Downstate again on the Festival," says Bagel & Rat's Paul Cruz. "The [blues] scene on Long Island is hopping, but here in the city blues fans don't have much opportunity to experience this kind of live music any more... Downstate coming in with their great bands is just such a shot in the arm for the scene." Over one third of the bands at the Festival were booked through the Downstate NY Blues Association. This summer's festival will feature a broad range of talent, from the rhythmic country blues of Roosevelt & Ira Lee to the sweet soul sounds of Sam "Magic Man" Waymon (brother of the late Nina Simone); from New York's celebrated blues queen Pat Cisarano to the genre-smashing soul-jazz of British import Oli Rockberger; from the rough blues-rock of Andre & the Night Hounds and Sonny Hudson's wailing harmonica to the honeyed stylings of songstress Julia Joseph and the thumping Chicago blues of Breakaway. Altogether seventeen acts will perform over five days. (See http://souloftheblues.com for the full schedule.)
8:30PM Jon Sobel, host.
Fri Jul 28
SOUL OF THE BLUES FESTIVAL
(Sam Magic Man Waymon and the; Sonny Hudson and the Essential; Pat Cisarano; Dare Ya Blues Band)
World-Class Summer Blues Festival to Return to Blues-Deprived Big Apple

Local promoter Bagel & Rat Entertainment is teaming with the Long Island-based Downstate New York Blues Association and Cornelia Street Cafe to stage New York City's second annual Soul of the Blues Festival this summer.

From July 25-29, some of the most exciting and accomplished local, regional and even international blues and soul artists will tramp down the stairs to the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe stage. In that welcoming, intimate setting, New York audiences will get to experience the kind of great music the city's blues clubs used to present - before they almost all, in recent years, closed down or switched formats.

"We're really excited to be working with Downstate again on the Festival," says Bagel & Rat's Paul Cruz. "The [blues] scene on Long Island is hopping, but here in the city blues fans don't have much opportunity to experience this kind of live music any more... Downstate coming in with their great bands is just such a shot in the arm for the scene." Over one third of the bands at the Festival were booked through the Downstate NY Blues Association. This summer's festival will feature a broad range of talent, from the rhythmic country blues of Roosevelt & Ira Lee to the sweet soul sounds of Sam "Magic Man" Waymon (brother of the late Nina Simone); from New York's celebrated blues queen Pat Cisarano to the genre-smashing soul-jazz of British import Oli Rockberger; from the rough blues-rock of Andre & the Night Hounds and Sonny Hudson's wailing harmonica to the honeyed stylings of songstress Julia Joseph and the thumping Chicago blues of Breakaway. Altogether seventeen acts will perform over five days. (See http://souloftheblues.com for the full schedule.)
9:00PM Jon Sobel, host.
Sat Jul 29
SOUL OF THE BLUES FESTIVAL
(Jon Short; Breakaway; Andre and the Night Hounds; Pam Betti and the Bluebloods)
World-Class Summer Blues Festival to Return to Blues-Deprived Big Apple

Local promoter Bagel & Rat Entertainment is teaming with the Long Island-based Downstate New York Blues Association and Cornelia Street Cafe to stage New York City's second annual Soul of the Blues Festival this summer.

From July 25-29, some of the most exciting and accomplished local, regional and even international blues and soul artists will tramp down the stairs to the legendary Cornelia Street Cafe stage. In that welcoming, intimate setting, New York audiences will get to experience the kind of great music the city's blues clubs used to present - before they almost all, in recent years, closed down or switched formats.

"We're really excited to be working with Downstate again on the Festival," says Bagel & Rat's Paul Cruz. "The [blues] scene on Long Island is hopping, but here in the city blues fans don't have much opportunity to experience this kind of live music any more... Downstate coming in with their great bands is just such a shot in the arm for the scene." Over one third of the bands at the Festival were booked through the Downstate NY Blues Association. This summer's festival will feature a broad range of talent, from the rhythmic country blues of Roosevelt & Ira Lee to the sweet soul sounds of Sam "Magic Man" Waymon (brother of the late Nina Simone); from New York's celebrated blues queen Pat Cisarano to the genre-smashing soul-jazz of British import Oli Rockberger; from the rough blues-rock of Andre & the Night Hounds and Sonny Hudson's wailing harmonica to the honeyed stylings of songstress Julia Joseph and the thumping Chicago blues of Breakaway. Altogether seventeen acts will perform over five days. (See http://souloftheblues.com for the full schedule.)
9:00PM Jon Sobel, host.
Sun Jul 30
ERICA VON KLEIST AND PROJECT E
(Donny McCaslin, tenor saxophone; Jesse Stacken, piano; Dan Loomis, bass; Jeremy Noller, drums; Erica von Kleist, alto & soprano saxophones, flute)
As a member of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and the Chris Potter Tentet, Erica von Kleisthas begun to make her mark on New York’s jazz scene with her quintet, performing her funky original compositions and arrangements at jazz clubs throughout the area. Project E will be performing music from Erica’s new CD to be released in the summer of 2006, and is comprised of some of New York’s best talent.
6:00PM Cover $7 www.ericavonkleist.com

TRIOS: MICHAEL KANAN
(Michael Kanan, piano; Joseph Lepore, bass; Jeff Williams, drums)
Pianist Michael Kanan has been part of the New York Jazz Scene since 1991. He is widely known as a gifted vocal accompanist, having spent the last 10 years recording and performing with singers like Annie Ross, Jimmy Scott, and Jane Monheit (with whom he's been touring for the last 5 years). Through his work with vocalists, Kanan combines his deep appreciation for melody with rhythmic clarity, and harmonic freedom. In this rare trio appearance, Kanan will perform some seldom heard gems from the Great American Songbook, some compositions from Monk, Bud Powell, and Lennie Tristano, as well as some originals. He will be joined by legendary drummer Jeff Williams, and bassist Joseph Lepore.

Kanan does not dote on the styles of Tristano and Monk, electing to go his own way, and properly so. Simple lines and melodic musings are the hallmark of this fine player. His original tunes are methodically beautiful. His interpretation of the compositions of others may linger momentarily in appreciation of their legacy, but he wisely follows his own dictates and methods. The message is clear in performance..."Swing For The People" and this is done with clarity and overall excellence.
-- John Gilbert, Jazz Review.com
8:30PM Cover $8
Mon Jul 31
VIBES: TIM COLLINS
(Tim Collins, vibraphone; Erik Deutsch, keyboards; Matt Clohesy, bass; Simon Lott, drums)
Everything from hard-edged bass lines to haunting melodies are staples in vibraphonist Tim Collins' band. His original music draws upon hip-hop, electronica, jazz, and classical influences to create a driving, powerful sound.

“An exceptionally bright and brisk live jazz album featuring vivid jazz vibes, lighting up a full-spectrum sound. Incorporating influences from Funk, Rock and Latin styles with sassy backbeats and forthright piano punctuation, this east coast group is one that jazz connoisseurs will be talking about. With outstanding compositional integrity, this is truly a meeting of voices, a group performance with one, cohesive vision. Highly recommended.”
-- CDBaby review of Tim Collins Quartet - Live In Concert
8:30PM www.timcollinsmusic.com

JULY Spoken Word

Fri Jul 21
PINK PONY POETRY
Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. Tonight's featured reader is jaxx electronica.
6:00PM Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6
Fri Jul 28
PINK PONY POETRY
Jackie Sheeler's open mic poetry series. Arrive before 6 pm to sign up. Tonight's featured reader is Omaha Rising.
6:00PM Jackie Sheeler. Cover $6
Sat Jul 29
GUITAR & PEN
"Guitar & Pen" performance. Chris will be reading new fiction & playing new tunes
6:00PM Chris Belden, host. Cover $6

JULY User Added



Mon Jul 24
MINDY'S MONDAY
Over the years, Mindy has performed in professional regional theatre, on cruise ships and with several bands. She has produced and written three one woman shows. The current production is entitled, "Strong Enough for a Man, But Made for a Woman", which she performs at various venues throughout New York City. Mindy was featured in a high profile ASCAP Showcase at "The Sidewalk Cafe." Recently, she has brought music back to, The Two Boots "Den of Cin" with the successful premiere of Mindy's Mondays "The Kitchen Sink."
6:00PM Mindy Cassle, host. Cover $10
Mon Jul 31
SHAKESPEARE ANYONE?
Actors perform monologues scenes poems of The Bard.
6:00PM Jonathan Escobio, host. Cover $6