CORNELIA STREET CAFÉ 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village
1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.
This Week At Cornelia Street Cafe
Mon Jan 11
6:00PM POETS
(Kate Greenstreet; Suzanne Heyd; Jack Lynch)
Kate Greenstreet's second book, The Last 4 Things, is new from Ahsahta Press. Her first book, case sensitive, was published by Ahsahta in 2006. Her most recent chapbook is This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press). Find her poems in current or forthcoming issues of jubilat, VOLT, the Denver Quarterly, Court Green, Fence, and other journals.
Suzanne Heyd is the author of Fascicles (Finishing Line, 2009) and Crawl Space (Phylum 2007). Recent poems appear in Ploughshares, Interim, Agni, and elsewhere. She received a 2009 Artist's Fellowship from State of Connecticut.
Jack Lynch received a BFA in Music Theater from the New School and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. His work has appeared in Ology, POZ Magazine, The Paterson Literary Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, and Diva Complex: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. He has recently completed Kessei (3-month intensive training) at Dai Bosatsu Zendo, a Rinzai Zen temple in The catskill Mountains
Angelo Verga, host.
8:30PM COMPOSERS COLLABORATIVE: SERIAL UNDERGROUND
(Neil Rolnick, composer/laptop; SPIN-17, voice, electronics, percussion, toys; Rachelle Garniez, accordion, voice)
Serial Underground, "the subversive nightclub series" (Time Out NY)
Allan Kozinn (New York Times) contextualizes CCi's monthly performances in the basement of the Cornelia Street Cafe - "... part of the ecology of urban night life." CCi artistic director, Jed Distler, curates the programs abetted by director Arnold Barkus and lighting designer David Lovett.
Tonight:
Neil Rolnick - Composer/laptop virtuoso Neil Ronick installment #2, exploring ideas of losing our senses. More info: http://www.neilrolnick.com/
SPIN-17 - returns with more music and film mayhem (electro-acoustic improvisation,theater).
More info: http://www.myspace.com/spin17
Rachelle Garniez - the diva with a difference and her accordion (singer, songwriter, accordionist).
More info: http://www.rachellegarniez.com
Watch her at the cafe, October 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n56-BCNT88A
Box office: 212.663.1967 (advance purchase discount available)
Admission at the door: $20 + one drink minimum
Jed Distler, host. http://www.composerscollab.org
Tue Jan 12
8:30PM TONY MALABY QUARTET
(Tony Malaby, tenor saxophone; Ralph Alessi, trumpet; John Hebert, bass; Billy Drummund, drums)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tony Malaby!!
Saxophonist Tony Malaby, is one of the most compelling Living Voices on his instrument who is able to musically expand in multiple musical directions. Whether it is in a modern harmonic linear approach or a sonic approach. His is not an eclectic style, but an authentic language in which he is able to create meaning and communicate feeling through the primal power of sound and rhythm.
- Mark Dresser (July 2008)
Malaby is joined by some of his favorite NY improvisers - Advanced Reservations recommended.
Cover $10 http://www.tonymalaby.com
Wed Jan 13
6:00PM POETS
(Martin Walls; Karen Swenson; Estha Weiner)
Three Tiger Bark Press poets! One big reading!
Estha Weiner (Transfiguration Begins at Home), Martin Walls (The Solvay Process), and Karen Swenson (A Pilgrim into Silence).
Three diverse and powerful poets, the first offerings from one of the newest publishing houses on the literary scene.
Angelo Verga, host.
8:30PM INGRID LAUBROCK QUARTET
(Ingrid Laubrock, tenor saxophone; Mary Halvorson, guitar; John Hébert, bass; Tom Rainey, drums)
German SWR-Jazz Prize winner Ingrid Laubrock has recently moved to NY from London.Her new project brings together a cast of some of her favorite creative musicians,all equally comfortable with improvisation and interpreting composed material. The seamlessly blended, multi-layered and movie-like music leaves plenty of space for each musician to express themselves in their own unique way.
"German-born, London-based reedist Ingrid Laubrock is a fearless composer-bandleader who relishes formidably knotty rhythms, unsettling electroacoustic episodes and bold injections of poignant melody."
Time Out/New York
Cover $10 http://www.ingridlaubrock.com
