Good Music New York - Other

Josh Lederman y Los Diablos

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 13:31:47 -0800

Sunday, January 15th
7:00 pm
Pianos
158 Ludlow Street
Corner of Stanton
Manhattan

Somewhere between the whiskey-soaked waltzes of The Pogues and the Americana gumbo of The Gourds lies the music of Josh Lederman y Los Diablos.

Boston singer-songwriter Josh Lederman formed Los Diablos six years ago in an effort to combine his two favorite pastimes: singing and drinking. Now the reigning 'Kings of Irish-Jewish Folk-Punk' have carved out a unique niche in the New England roots scene with their blend of Celtic, klezmer and zydeco musics, fiery live shows, and Lederman's beautifully crafted songs.

Golden Festival 2006

Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:53:48 -0800

Friday, January 13th - Saturday, January 14th

Friday, Jan 13 at Jan Hus Church
7:30pm - Midnight
351 E 74th (1st & 2nd Aves)
Manhattan, New York
Donation: $16, students $12, children (6-12) $5

Sat., Jan 14 at Good Shepherd School
6:00pm - 4:00am
620 Isham (near 207th St. and B'way)
Manhattan, New York Directions
Donation: $30, students $20, children (6-12) $8

Two nights of Balkan music, dance and border-crossing celebration. The Golden Festival is New York's largest Balkan music event, with multiple stages, Balkan and Middle Eastern refreshments, Balkan arts vendors, as well as beautiful Balkan textiles on display. From international stars to local musicians, modern Balkan stylists to folk traditionalists, over 40 bands provide hours of ecstatic listening, dancing and partying. And it's a benefit besides! The profits from this year's festival go to the East European Folklife Center (EEFC) and relief organizations in the Balkans.

Golden Festival is one of New York's best music events. You should definitely add it to your calendar. There are entirely too many bands to list here so check out their website for all the gory details.

Gypsy Festival

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 12:44:36 -0700

October 29th - Novermber 6th

That's right campers. It seems that gypsy music (or at least what young hip Americans call gypsy music) now has it's own festival right here in New York. I'm sure that you're sitting there trying to figure out what combination of Romanian/Rajasthani/Traveller words they're going to use in naming this week long extravaganza but, hold your horses, they're calling it the New York Gypsy Festival.

Tons of bands, tons of slightly out of tune instruments, tons of songs in 9/8 and, yes, don't forget, tons of that New York gypsy attitude. Mark your calendars and keep the week open.

Freddy's Hurricane Benefit

Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:17:49 -0700

Tuesday, October 11th
9:00 pm
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St.
Corner of 6th Avenue
Brooklyn

There's a benefit goin' on down at Freddy's Back Room. All proceeds will go to hurrican relief. There are apparently a number of bands playing (I've even heard a rumor that the Spunk Lads may make an appearance), however, the only confirmed listing I have is for the Jug Addicts. Think of it as a suprise. Go on down to Freddy's, support a good cause and see what the night may have to offer.

Bill Carney's Jug Addicts apply the twinning principal utilized by Ornette Coleman's early 60s groups and the Max Roach's Double Quartet to the jug band idiom. The result is a particularly robust and raucous jug band sound free of any archival obsessiveness. Comprised of jug band veterans culled from the Don't Look Now Jug Band, MetroPolecats, and Pork Chop, the Jug Addicts' repertoire draws from early jazz, tin pan alley, ragtime, and string band music, along with the classic jug band canon.

The Moonlighters

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 09:24:07 -0700

Monday, September 5th
10:00 pm
FREE
Rodeo Bar
375 Third avenue (at 27th St.)
Manhattan
Full Dinner Menu

Ever wished you were saved from a shipwreck by washing up on the shores of a small, lush island somewhere in the Pacific? If so, The Moonlighters would be the soundtrack for your relaxed life eating fresh coconuts, cavorting with beautiful natives and perhaps even having daquari's delivered.....hmmm. Anyway, if the idea of hearing two women play ukelele, sing with lullabye worthy voices and be backed by a Hawaiian steel guitar seems appealing then go hear the Moonlighters, and quick.

Royal Pine

Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:57:19 -0700

Friday, August 26th
10:30 pm
Freddy's Back Room
485 Dean St. at 6th Ave.
Brooklyn
Free

Robin Aigner is one of New York's finest singer-songwriters who can, armed only with her wry wit, poetic lyrics and melancholy guitar, captivate a crowd of rowdy frat kids and quiet them down to listen to her sing.

She has just started a new band called Royal Pine which is the name for her collaboration with great percussionist Brook Martinez who adds vocals, tabla, xylophone, harmonica, guitar and the occassional soft-shoe.

The Moonlighters

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:39:02 -0700

Sunday, August 21st
9:00pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn

Roulette Sisters

Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:44:07 -0700

Every Monday in August
9:00 pm
Barbes
376 9th St.
(at 6th Ave.)
Brooklyn
FREE

The Roulette Sisters will be be in residence every Monday for the month of August. An all-girl trio in the tradition of the Boswell and the Andrews Sisters, these sisters play an American repertoire that spans the Carter Family, Bessie Smith, Leadbelly, Pink Anderson, Memphis Minnie, Papa Charlie Jackson as well as original compositions. The sisters are rumored to have different fathers, but don't you go spreading rumors - they are strong believers in their own kind of familiy values. - and they can probably kick your ass anyway.

With Megan Burleyson - Vocals & Washboard, Mamie Minch - Resonator guitar & Vocals, Meg Reichardt - Guitar and long-lost half sister Karen Waltuch on Violoa.

Las Rubias del Norte and Las Ondas Marteles

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 21:08:54 -0700

Monday, July 11th
7:00 pm
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette St.
(between 4th St. and Astor Place)
$15.00 Buy Tickets

A double bill of two great bands.

Las Rubias del Norte
Las Rubias del Norte (the Blondes of the North,) are a group of musicians from the U.S, France and Colombia, who perform the music of, among many others, Guillermo Portabales of Cuba, Simon Diaz of Venezuela, Oscar Aviles of Peru and W.A. Mozart of Austria. The Rubias play mostly popular Latin music such as boleros, cha cha cha's and cumbias as well as lieder and cowboy songs - and manage to make it all sound like it belongs on Cuban radio. The Rubias make it all sound distinctly different thanks to the fabulous vocals of Allyssa Lamb and Emily Hurst and the various Rubios and Morenos who back them up.

Musette Explosion

Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:41:13 -0700

Thursday, July 14th - Bastille Day
10pm
FREE
Barbes
376 9th St.
Park Slope
Brooklyn

A Bastille day celebration wouldn't be complete without a Bal Musette - the traditional accordion ball. Musette Explosion explores and re-creates the music of the great French Accordionists of the 30's and 40's: (Gus Viseur, Tony Murena, Joe Privat et al) who, along with Django Reinhardt, borrowed from American Jazz to create Hot Swing, Gypsy Swing and other delightful hybrids, injecting the dance music of its time with both excitement and unparalleled musical creativity.