May 29th at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, follow the sound of songs about books to the southern end of the Great Lawn. We’ll be there, playing our songs inspired by Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Players include:
Ellia Bisker
Ben Arthur
Justin Vahala
Joe Crow Ryan
Susan Hwang
Up Against The Wall String Band
Leslie Graves
We’ll get started around 8pm! Shakespeare in the Park, Bushwick Book Club style…
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic detective stories are the inspiration for new music tomorrow night! A Study in Scarlet, A Scandal in Bohemia and any of the 56 much loved short stories featuring Sherlock (and Dr. Watson of course) are fair game for intrepid local songwriters:
Aron Blue: Aron is a singer songwriter, sound engineer and producer. She created SuperMeow Records and also curates shows in Brooklyn. She ain’t afraid to get things started.
The Adventures of Kaila and The Kid – Kid Lucky and Kaila Mullady are the beat-rhyming duo of the decade. They are a beat-rhyming force of nature, soon to be touring with their new recording. Watch the TRAILER.
Casey Holford - is an Antifolk-based musician, songwriter, recording engineer and photographer. He has a way with melodies, and his songs are harder to drum to than you think. Did you hear his Game of Thrones song?
Chris Andersen – When he’s not working on his daily online comic, The Ego and The Squid, he’s redefining your notion of hip hop with The
Happy Rappies. He’s performing solo for Book Club this month!
Dan & Rachel - This rock and roll duo is usually zig-zagging the U.S. in their Mazda, hypnotizing the country city by city with their cross-genre, harmonizings and brazen lyrical variety. They will also seduce you with Kale – KALE RECORDS, that is.
Jason Perlman – is a local songwriter who made THIS for the first book club of the year. Happy to have him back for our March show!
Natti Vogel – can break your heart in any musical genre and at least 2 languages. One of them i being Chinese.
Phoebe Kreutz – is an award-winning songwriter and exceptional conversationalist. She is known for her remarkable ability to turn a Sumerian epic into a musical. You must see her GILGAMESH the Musical.
Susan Hwang – is the founder of Bushwick Book Club. She bends literature to her own musical whims and makes a mission of encouraging others to do so because she thinks it’s funny.
THURSDAY, March 28th, 8pm
9 Clinton St. (just south of Houston St.)
New York, NY
ph: (646) 863-7171
Door: by donation (suggested $5)
We’re taking literature-inspired hip hop to the youth. Queens Library at Long Island City has been hosting our workshop for kids afterschool. These kids are fearless, let me tell you. They’re taking Tupac Shakur’s The Rose that Grew From Concrete and using it to inspire their own rhymes and beats.
The kid’s show will be March 21st at Long Island City Queens Library. Here’s a little excerpt from the class. All-star NYC beatboxer/emcee/beatrhymers giving a little taste of what one can do.
That’s Baba Israel, Kid Lucky, D Cross and Kaila Mullady. It’s like hip hop superheros coming together for the cause of songs about books.
ShareIt was a lovely evening of songs inspired by the coming-of-age story of one of NY’s most beloved performing/singing/writing talents. It seems that Justin Bond’s childhood/teenage years inspired a lot of beauty from the songwriters that night. I can think of a better outcome to adolescence. If mine would only amount to as much…
You can hear the songs in the latest album uploaded to our BANDCAMP page - bushwickbookclub.bandcamp.com
Photos from the night are forthcoming!
Here’s another New York songwriter/performer who is joining the Bushwick Book Club presentation of Justin Bond’s TANGO tomorrow night! Meeting Justin Vahala:
Hailing from the bright lights of Dallas, Justin Vahala is a Brooklyn-based musician and performance artist. Justin’s unicorn folk is a blend of country, Americana, and straight up Lilith Fair realness. For links to Justin’s music, upcoming shows, and innermost thoughts, check out his website: www.justinvahala.com.
ShareIntrepid Davi Cohen is joining us this Thursday with his new piece inspired by Justin Bond’s compelling coming of age story. It’s Davi’s first time performing with Bushwick Book Club, and we’re thrilled!
Davi Cohen is a Bushwick-based actor, singer, dancer, writer, producer. She’s performed in some large venues with Taylor Mac and the SITI Company, donned head-to-toe fetish wear as a mime/acrobat for the San Francisco Opera, and given birth to a live lobster by self-caesarean on a very tiny stage in Ditmas Park. She also helps organize the Pop-Up Museum of Queer History and is a founder of the New York Abortion Access Fund.
ShareThis is her first time contributing to the literary-musical spectacle that is Bushwick Book Club. She is a woman of many creative projects, but her musical focus is her chamber pop band, The Snow. We’re excited to have her perform on Thursday!
A native of Portland, Oregon, Hilary Downes knows how to ‘just put a bird on it.’ Hilary successfully integrated front lawn dance performances, piano recitals and auditions for high school musicals with her long-time residence in New York City, and allowed her love of music to reign. To date, Hilary has co-written and recorded three albums with Brooklyn stalwarts, The Snow, and continues to perform with them live. In addition to regular gigs in the New York area, The Snow have also performed in Los Angeles, Scandinavia and Russia. C. Gibbs, Les Bandits and Bad Reputation are among the other artists Hilary collaborates with – sometimes as volunteers at the New York Methodist Hospital. Hilary is a writer, world traveler, multi-linguist, and a practitioner and teacher of both yoga and martial arts.
ShareAnother featured performer this Thursday!
Natti Vogel – Combining “the swagger of Jim Morrison with the honky-tonk piano of an old-timey saloon” (WeLiveInBeijing.com), 25-year-old “indie rock fusion virtuoso” (New York Press) Natti Vogel is not above “throwing your own overpriced cosmopolitan in your face from behind his piano” (the Onion). Possible side effects include re-evaluation of music and your self (“Natti Vogel is an artist who can transform you” – Diane Taha of Associated Content, “Natti Vogel and his band do a wild part-vaudeville, part-pop, part-classical act that made me think about what music does” -the Brothers Frank).
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Fun-A-Day.We are gearing up for the show this Thursday night, the 28th, at brand new, queer book store, The Bureau of General Services Queer Division (27 Orchard St. btwn. Hester and Canal). We have several new contributors for this show, the return of an old favorite and several of our much beloved frequent contributors. We’ll be posting their profiles here so you can wet your literary-musical appetite for Thursday.
Here’s one… feast yourself on some DAN FISHBACK:
