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Stand Up Comedy Night: Diorama Lodge: Cringe Night: Old Time Jam: Brooklyn Guitar School Open Mic: King’s County Cinema Society: Knit PH at Freddy's: Opera on Tap: H.A.M.: Jazz from the Blood Bath Cinema: Donald O’Finn’s TV DREAMS: |
APRIL 2 0 1 0 CALENDAR The Last Month at Freddy's M O N T H L Y O R I E N T - A S I A N Freddy's monthly calendar is brought to you by InfoAsian™ (a subisdiary of SINO-It-All™). April showers bring April showers... attention April 30th is the last night that Freddy's will be open to the public. Freddy's Bar and its entire backroom will be moving to a new locaion in Park Slope, aka Stroelerlandja. So if there was an event that you've always wanted to attend, maybe a band you wanted to hear... don't be a total douchebag, drop in with your best manners. Also coming soon, a new website with the same typos and incorrect date! Cheers, the InfoAsian. MANAGER'S PICS Thu 4/8 Coffee Black Productions presents is Caffeinated Frenzy... with an exclamation mark (!) If you miss this grand evening you are a complete dullard. Sat 4/10 Brooklyn's sons of the soil, John Pinamonti and Friends. Sun 4/18 Knit Night and pot luck dinner! Knit, eat, stich and bitch. Mon 4/19 Stand-up comedy night... "Ed Sullivan on acid's" 7th Anniversary Show... like a funny poetry slam without douche bags with host Pat O'Shea. Wed 4/21 H.A.M.? lower your expecations and win big with your song-a-natrix H-bomb and ethinic side kick Tokyo Rosenberg! Fri 4/23 The 12 year anniversary of Les Sans Culottes! A very special midnight performance by our favorite famous faux French pop band; Also that night: Plastic Fantastic Lover, The Manhattan Valley Ramblers, South Slope String Band, and Les Sans Culottes. If you miss this night you are a total douche-bag-wall-eyed poet. Sat 4/24 Punk Tits... yeah that's their name, Punk Tits. Sun 4/25 BloodbathTheatre Presents a monthly screening of horror, shock, and cult cinema. Thu 4/29 OMG! DO NOT MISS THIS!! Freshly jet-lagged from From Cologne Germany it's the Maxime Bender 4tet featuring Will Vinson. If you miss this y are the biggst Loser. Fri 4/30 Just Puppets CD Release Party... Ric Becker, Ashley Baier, 5-piece rock band, classical concepts, part Rachmaninoff and Radiohead.. you must hear this for yourself On Monday January 11, manager Donald O'Finn and activist Steve Deseve spoke on Fox and Friends about eminent domain abuse. Click Here for video Hello patrons and friends,Singer Crystal Waters, Council Member Letitia James, and Senator Montgomery protest the closing of a local homeless family shelter. Saturday, January 16th Click Here for Video Freddy's Bar toasts George F. Will "Avaricious Developers and Governments Twist the Meaning of 'Blight'" Washington Post, Sunday January 3, 2010 CLICK HERE TO READ. Event: Freddy’s Chains of Justice Sunday, December 20, 2009 · Atlantic Yards Report · Voice Coverage · Found in Brooklyn · New York Post · Vanishing New York · Huffington Post · Brooklyn Bugle · Tracy Collins Slideshow: Chains of Justice Event: Freddy's 9 ft Guillotine Sunday, December 27, 2009 · Atlantic Yards Report · Daily News Follow their Brooklyn section for regular updates on Freddy's. · Florida Today · Nets Daily Mr. O'Finn comments. Feel free to lend an itelligent voice. · Amy Greer Slideshow: Freddy's Guillotine C U L T U R A L I N V - A S I A N Thu 4/1 9:30 Old Time Jam (1st Thu each month) Always a big night! American music from before the electric era. An immense wall of acoustic sound. Jug music, banjos, wash-board & wash-tub bass, tin-can drums. http://www.strungoutstringband.com/2009/04/freddys-old-time-jam-2/ Fri 4/2 9:00 - Slowjamz http://www.myspace.com/slojamzyeah 10:00 - Wilbur, Johnson, Stockwell http://www.myspace.com/maxjohnsonmusic 11:00 - Killer BOB http://www.myspace.com/killerbobsings Sat 4/3 9:00 Big Pull is big pull. 10:00 The Union Street Preservation Society: The Union Street Preservation Society is a Brooklyn-based string band whose soulful vocal harmonies blend with down-home country pickin' on beloved bluegrass, blues, spiritual and folk tunes. http://www.myspace.com/unionstreetstringband Sun 4/4 Easter Jazz Stylings Based in New York, tenor saxophonist Stan Killian performs original music drawing inspiration from the minds of Wayne Shorter, Woody Shaw, McCoy Tyner, and Joe Henderson. Reviewers have described his playing as "virtuosic", "muscular", and "mellifluous." Peter Westbrook from Jazz Review writes, "Killian is by no means another Coltrane clone. He has a voice of his own with an almost classical sonority at times." His Freddy's Backroom Quartet features Jon Heagle guitar, Bryan Copeland bass, and Owen Howard on drums. For recent live audio samples, log onto http://www.stankillian.com Mon 4/5 9:30 Stand-up Comedy Gaffaw into the face of eminent domain abuse with your allegedly blighted leader of laughs by Pat O'Shea and a whole host of displaced humor. Tue 4/6 8:00 Diorama Lodge (1st Tues each month) 8:00 Got a hankering for liquor-fueled arts and crafts? For anyone with a hankering for liquor-fueled art and crafts. Our group sits around making dioramas and marveling at our own creations. The theme will be announced on the night of and there will be one first prize, voted on by all the creators (and drinkers) that show up. Bring your own shoebox plus> glue, found objects, foil, toothpicks, craft store doo-dads, string, cotton balls, cake toppers, general junk, and inspiration. Bring stuff for your own diorama - but you are also strongly encouraged to bring stuff to share with the communal stew of diorama ingredients. Arrive at 8pm for 8:15 start. (8-11:00pm), Held on the first Tuesday of every month. http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/09/yes_brooklyn_does_have_a_diora_1.html Read what New York Magaine has to say... dioramalodge@yahoo.com Thu 4/8 Caffeinated Frenzy Coffee Black Productions presents is Caffeinated Frenzy... a frantic night of theatre created, performed and conceived by the artists that have worked with CBP. 8:00 Feral Foster http://myspace.com/rootsnruckusferal 8:40 Big Hat http://myspace.com/thebighat 9:20 Ted Hefko and the Thousandaires http://myspace.com/tedhefkoquartet 11:00 Willy Gantrim and the Phantoms http://myspace.com/willygantrimandthephantoms Ted Hefko mixs the Caribbean percussion and jazz improv that breathe vitality into New Orleans' take on American folk music. He has worked regularly with jazz legend, Warren Battiste, Brazilian influenced songwriter, Blake Amos and he performed at New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival with R&B singer Tondrae, and the latin group, Los Sagitarios. Ted Hefko and The Thousandaires, features some of the City's most talented players. "Placing disparate but complementary musical sounds side by side with a wide range of storytelling, Ted Hefko & The Thousandaires convincingly turn out a fine tribute to the Crescent City in Egyptland." -- Jeff Boyce, Jupiter Index (Austin, Tx.) http://www.jupiterindex.com/album/files/d8d9be38e1949e495462360a6b2a79b7-52.html "For us, this is one of the most beautiful CDs that we have reviewed so far this year and the disc will certainly have a prominent place in our private collection." -- Fred Celis, Rootstime (Belgium) http://www.rootstime.be/ The intoxicating effects of his soulful sax play embody a spirit of New Orleans-a sultry, sensual style that could only emerge from the heat and eccentricities of jazz's hometown. -- Frank Etheridge, Charleston City Paper Willy Gantrim and The Phantoms: Willy Gantrim and The Phantoms will range on any given night from classic rockabilly, doo-wop, ragtime, country, folk, and blues to originals..whatever tickles our fancy. We play mostly dark, death-ridden, and heart-broken songs but with a feverish desire to be alive and fascinated through them and the singing of them. "...a potent and awesome combo. Rocking a pseudo-pompadour, Gantrim had a mysterious air about him, and his dusty South Western Americana songs complimented the entire scene perfectly. His songs were excellently crafted and executed in an honest and humble manner. We don't really know what his deal is around the scene at-large right now, except that he plays The Lovin' Cup Cafe every Monday. It was a fantastic discovery on a lazy Sunday night." - Stark Online Article Fri 4/9 11:00 A Silent C shushes any and all C's in existence. Comprised of Danny Isquith, Josh Sanburn, Andy Reger and Will Boyle -- Brooklyners all. A Silent C moves forward with an eye cast ever-backward to those that came before. With Isquith's gravelly guitar, Sanburn's driving electric piano, Reger's punchy, melodic bass, and Boyle's tight, shimmering drumbeats, A Silent C is at times rock, at times dance, at times '60s pop revivalist. Sat 4/10 John Pinamonti 9:00 – 1:00 An vening of original country rythm & blues with local blue-men and Brooklyn's sons of the soil John Pinamonti and Friends. Sun 4/11 Reading Series: Who reads? The Brooklyn College Readers do! Wed 4/14 9:00 Film Screening. (2nd Wed each month) King's County Cinema Society is an organization devoted to the unfettered, unbiased love of film and the moving image. http://kingscountycinemasociety.org Thu 4/15 9:00 Eviction Party Mike Wilbur - Tenor Sax Anthony Jillions - Keys Derek Leslie - Bass Mac Williamson - Drums 10:00 PinkBrown Johan Andersson - Tenor Sax Xander Naylor - Guitar Max Jaffe - Drums 11:00 Blast Off!! Adam Schatz - Tenor Sax Mike Gamble - Guitar Sam Levin - Drums and Celebrity Guest! Fri 4/16 9:00 Donald Devienne: Jazz 10:00 - 1:00 Vanity band Sat 4/17 More Film Screening! Kings County Cinema Society and the Big Mastodons present an Evening in Honor of the Backroom: a group of musicians, film aficianados and general neighborhood derelicts gather to honor this creative space at Freddy's. Join us for a full night of songs and film: 8:00 Kings County Cinema Society presents short films. 9:00-10:00 - Half-Breed 9:30-10:30 - AlbertJacobJacobAlbert 10:30-11:00 - The Toys and Tiny Instruments: Childrens' music for adults. High-octane, toy infested renditions of your favorite My Friend Other tunes. Featuring stylophone, melodica, toy pianos, tiny voices, and whatever else we could find lying around the attic. 11:00-11:30 - Apple Jackzzzz: After months of dealing with adult issues (tax laws, liquidity and water coolers) from 9 to 5, this 20-something is now getting in touch with his inner child. The result: high-energy indie-synth-pop/hip-hop songs about cooties, staying up late, hating vegetables and resenting parental authority. 11:30 - Wild slasher film via Kings County Cinema Society. Sun 4/18 6:30 Knit Night (3rd Sun each month) 7:30 and onward. Potluck dinner and knitting! Stitch. Bitch. Unwind. Swift and ball winder always available. Men are encouraged, chrocheters are welcomed. Mon 4/19 Stand-up Comedy 9:30 Stand-up Comedy Cight... Ed Sullican on Acid celebrate it's 7th Anniversary. It can be described as a funny poetry slam without medicated douche bags... with your hosted by Pat O'Shea and chapbook of funny people. Tue 4/20 Brooklyn Food Coalition Film Night Wed 4/21 H.A.M. (3rd Wed each month) Lower your expectations and sing your ass off. You may win valuable mediocre prizes. Join song-a-natrix H-Bomb and ethnic sidekick Tokyo Rosenberg. Thu 4/22 9:00 Conscious Bowl of the Worthless Adult: Adam Robinson- sax Darren Denman piano Mack Williamson drums Centipede Levitation: James Muschler- drums Johan Andersson- sax Xander Naylor - guitar Mike Huse- bass myspace.com/centipedelevitation Fri 4/23 More Music than You Can Handle 9:00 Plastic Fantastic Lover: Somewhere between Tom Waits and mildly psychotic hippie-folk with electronic down-tempo, flanged guitar and reverb-soaked electric piano. 10:00 The Manhattan Valley Ramblers: The Manhattan Valley Ramblers is an acoustic duo that plays old-time and bluegrass music in the New York City area.New Yorker Bill Christophersen ("Hell & High Water," "The Mysterious Redbirds: 1992-1998," "The Lazy Aces: Still Lazy After All These Years," "The Fly-By-Night String Band") has recorded and performed with John Cohen and Tom Paley of the New Lost City Ramblers.California-born John Saroyan ("Live and Pickin' in New Orleans") spent several years in New Orleans playing with Hazel and the Delta Ramblers and making forays into Appalachia, where he met, and later guested with, guitar virtuoso Wayne Henderson and the pickers who recently toured the Northeast as the Crooked Road. In Ballads and Barnburners (November 2009), the band's independently produced debut CD, Saroyan and Christophersen blend songs culled from the classic "brothers duets" of early country music – the Blue Sky Boys, the Stanley Brothers, the Louvin Brothers – with fiddle-banjo tunes of an older stamp.John plays guitar, banjo and mandolin; Bill, fiddle and guitar. "Put together close harmonyin the grand brother duet singing traditionwith the intricacy of bluegrass and modern-oldtime instumental work and you have the Manhattan Valley Ramblers. A new look at old traditions, clean crisp,top of form."----Hazel the Delta Rambler, WWOZ 90.7 FM New Orleans, LA http://www.myspace.com/manhattanvalleyramblers 11:00 South Slope String Band: 12:00 The 12 year anniversary of Les Sans Culottes in Freddy's... a very special midnight performance by our favorite famous mock pop French lounge band. LES SANS CULOTTES: The group has licensed songs featured in a national commercial for HP, and for Ariel Lessive in Europe, and Touchstone films' "The Hot Chick" and 2005's Quentin Tarantino- produced Miramax release "Daltrey Calhoun." The band's music was also featured extensively in various MTV programs such as "Surf Girls" and "The Real World." They've headlined such venerable New York City venues as Bowery Ballroom, Joe's Pub, Southpaw, and Mercury Lounge, and have shared the stage with The Electric Six, Holly Golightly, and Detroit Cobras, the Dirtbombs, Ringo Starr, etc. Les Sans Culottes take-no-prisoners live shows have "Earned a reputation forexcessively fabulous performances and intoxicatingly catchy pop music in the mold of Serge Gainsbourg and Jacques Dutronc." (NY Daily News). "Their live show is a BUH-last, and they bring a veritable Cirque de SLAY stage presence." (DJ Terre T- WFMU). Both modern French Revolutionaries (by way of Brooklyn) and sartorially stylish (culotteless!) maverick rock n rollers Les Sans Culottes are coming to your town to help you party down -- after all, they're an americain band. http://www.lessansculottes.com/articles.shtml "It takes a special strand of rock & roll quirk -- or is it lunacy -- to be an American-born band but sing in French. Yet the seven hipsters in Les Sans Culottes ("Those Without Undergarments") may just pull it off -- and, to be fair, one of the group's singers is originally from Paris. The rest, though, hail from the States, all eventually enrolling in the Rhode Island School of Design, where they formed. And on Fixation Orale, their fourth proper album, the Brooklyn-based septet bops through twelve tightly-wound guitar-songs that might otherwise be Kinks-like, if it weren't for all the French. As it is, this sharp pop is ironically inventive and totally fun. Swirling keyboards and airy, toe-tapping rhythms flutter around boy-girl harmonies that discuss "menage a toi"s and ice cream. Sill, though, it's near impossible not to snicker at the band and wonder if they're for real. Perhaps some questions are better left unanswered." -- Rolling Stone Magazine "The giddy, light-headed charm of the 1960's French rock known as ye-ye is concept enough for Les Sans Culottes, a Brooklyn band that revives the style...fuzz-toned guitars, electric organ, cooing female voices and know-it-all male growls. All Les Sans Culottes had to do is bring back the psychedelic-patterned clothes, come up with stage names like Kit Kat le Noir and add some extra Franglais to savor the music's loony essence." -- The New York Times "Quel fromage! Named for the "ill-clad and ill-equipped volunteers of the French Revolutionary army," Les Sans Culottes (meaning "without underpants") take on the '60s French pop sound of Serge Gainsbourg and add arrangements a la the 5th Dimension to ridiculously groovy effect. They have names like Kit Kat Le Noir, Edith Pissoff, Theo Neugent, Johnny Dieppe, Francoise Hardly, Jean L'Effete and Max Gauche, and you can expect to have your Gainsbourg thoroughly Serged." -- LA Weekly Music, Los Angeles Sat 4/24 Punk Tits Doors 8:00, Show 9:00 Yes, they call themselves Punk Tits. I'm sure you are all asking "Who... what are they? Like a poetry slam?" Punk Tits is a mash up of punk & metal bands and burlesque. Bands that play from electric hospital beds with misters and mistresses of all things metal, medical and metaphysical. Including go-go dancing, anti-bacterial soap, skin pounding, queer MCs, liquid latex, gender benders, and PBR can g-strings... Punk Tits will keep you up at night. April's show, hosted by JZ Bich and N of HyperGender Burlesque fame features the bands 7G, Taurus Trakker (from London), Adam Mucci's 11th Hour, go-go by Lil Miss Lixx and burlesque performers Agent N, JZ Bich, BB Heart and Fetchin' Gretchen. Not to be missed. They are Punk Tits. Sun 4/25 BloodbathTheatre Presents (4th Sun each month) 8:00P A monthly screening of horror, shock, and cult cinema. This month's theme is Demented Families. Tue 4/27 9:00 Music from the New York Underground: Music from the New York Underground is a monthly series of free jazz and other experimental forms of music. Since February 2003 over 200 of NYCs most exciting improvisers have shared the stage in the intimate backroom setting at Freddys Bar. With a line up ranging from seasoned veterans to talented newcomers the On the Way Out series blurs the boundaries of the New York avant jazz and experimental music scene. For additional information, please visit: http://www.generaterecords.net/freddys.htm Wed 4/28 9:00 Backroom Improv with Swiftkick (4th Wed each month) Every fourth Wednesday, improv troupe Swiftkick hosts an evening of stand-up, sketch and improvisational comedy with special guests. Thu 4/29 DO NOT MISS THIS!! Maxime Bender 4tet featuring Will Vinson: Originally from London, Alto Saxophonist/Composer Will Vinson is a member of Rufus Wainwright's band. He has also performed and/or recorded with Sufjan Stevens, Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, Beth Orton and Harper Simon. Will has an international reputation as a leader and sideman. All About Jazz New York describes Will as playing "with a relentless force". After a performance at the Pizza Express Soho in London, Jack Massarik (London Evening Standard) described Will as "the thinking man's alto saxophonist... Britain's Greg Osby", and John Fordham of The Guardian described a "superb solo of rugged leathery sounds turning into mellifluous high notes, his secure control and storming energy occasionally reminiscent of Bobby Watson." Time Out London describes Will as an "exciting young altoist" with "a lethal approach to writing and soloing". Maxime Bender 4tet: From Cologne Germany . The safety of the usual harmonical and rhythmical sructures that usually shape a jazz 4tet's identity and behaviour are dissolved and recycled into something fresher, freer, newer and certainly more exciting, opening up new spaces of spontaneous composition, direct and instant musical communication , always aiming for a totally uninhibited flow of creative energy. Fri 4/30 Just Puppets CD Release Party 9:00 – 1:00 : Just Puppets with Belt and a trombone quartet Guidonian Hand. Just Puppets is a 5-piece rock band deeply rooted in classical concepts. One part Rachmaninoff to one part Radiohead, Just Puppets is a vivid and eloquent hybrid between chamber ensemble and rock band, pulling influences from Queen, Led Zeppelin, Stravinsky, and The Who. Dreamed up by frontman Ric Becker (vocals/trombone) and Ashley Baier (drums), Just Puppets' lofty lyrics and illustrious arrangements makes the band's whimsical journey into the existential a sophisticated, quirky, and surprisingly soulful experience. Since its birth in 2008, Just Puppets currently includes Darren Lipper (bass), Ben Hicock (guitar), and Melissa Li (keys). For more info, please visit: http://www.justpuppetsmusic.com Keep your shirt on mister wall-eyed poet man. There's more to come.
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