This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Behind The Groove is FREE with rsvp! Click here to get on the list.

Award-winning Irish writer COLM TÓIBÍN joins 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner and founder/director of The Writers Studio, PHILIP SCHULTZ to celebrate the publication of Schultz's new book, The God of Loneliness, Selected and New Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). The evening will include readings by Philip Schultz and Colm Tóibín and a book signing will follow the reading. This event is presented as part of The Writers Studio Reading Series. $7 admission at the door plus a one-drink minimum.

A monthly gathering of MN expats, this Minnesota Monthly happy hour is one of the friendliest nights in NYC. Come for the camaraderie, tater tot hot dish, and sometimes even delicious homemade bars.



Check out http://minneappleinthebigapple.com for other Minnesota-related events and happenings in NYC.



Extended happy hour till 9PM!

Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new home, the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. Expect their custom blend of mixed up party sounds from electro to house to to good hip hop and assorted breakbeats, all night long with an injection of personal favorites geared toward the intimate gallery space.

The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1 Dance Party Every Friday 6 Years and Counting!!!
Featuring Resident DJs every week... DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth

ladies free till 12am, $10 after, guys $10 all night till 2am, $15 after

Watch Freedom Party online with their new live stream every Friday night. See it here.

This is a general admission standing event.

The Burning Bush VS The Second Coming:
The Ultimate Burlesque Showdown

New York’s biggest burlesque stars are ready for battle – and this time it’s biblical, as they fight to decide which holiday is hotter: Easter or Passover. In one corner, the juiciest Jewesses this side of Mount Sinai are spitting out their matzos and gearing up for a face-off that’s hotter than horseradish. In the other corner, the curviest Christians since Mary Magdalene are ripping off their Easter bonnets and preparing for a rumble that’s stickier than marshmallow Peeps.

THE BURNING BUSH VS. THE SECOND COMING is a bawdy, action-packed, not-to-be-missed burlesque showdown pitting Moses against Jesus, resurrection against liberation, chocolate bunnies against gefilte fish. So come cheer for your favorite prophet and see which side wins.

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

GALAXIE presents... Galaxie TV and Danceparty

Drink specials & dancing ALL NACHT LONG

Hosted by Galaxie DJs

GALAXIE TV happy hour video party til 11pm followed by... ALL-NITE DANCEPARTY!

VISUALS & GALAXIE TV BY ALISON CHILDS.

http://www.galaxieworldwide.com/upcoming-events

JG Thirlwell will be celebrating the release of JG Thirlwell's Manorexia : The Mesopelagic Waters with a concert at Le Poisson Rouge.

The ensemble for this show will include Leyna Marika Papach - violin, Elena Moon Park - violin, Karen Waltuch - viola, Alex Waterman - cello, David Broome - piano, Peter Wise - percussion and JG Thirlwell on samples/ keys /electronics. It's the only US show for Manorexia in 2010 so don't miss it!

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a general admisison, standing event.

Complimentary tix (at door only) to anyone born in 1977 (first 25 people), one per 1977 born, door sales only.

Spinning a heady, eclectic mix of psychedelic rock, electro, new wave, dub, techno, hip-hop and future/primitive sounds...

Muddled Mondays

Service Industry Night $5 Wines, Well Drinks, and Draft Beers!!

Every Monday Night

7-9 p.m. free liquor tasting and contests

9-2 a.m. dj dance party

Tonight you're the customer and the customer is always right! Join Muddled Mondays on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for constant updates. Muddled Mondays is a Monday night party created for service industry professionals. Come enjoy cheap drinks and free contest giveaways!"

InDigest 1207 presents

CA Conrad
Daniel Nester
Laura Sims

Oh man, words and whiskey.

Find out more about InDigest at indigestmag.com

Greenways8 will be spinning electronic, trip-hop, hip-hop, electro house, breaks,beats, and on the fly live orchestration from 10pm to 2am! Expect to hear original and unheard remixes diggin out crates of classics old and new, delivering a music experience perfectly suited for the intimate LPR gallery space.

Special Guest DJ LAGOS DISCO MACHINE will be spinning some quality electronic beats, chillout, hip-hop, and some personal South African favorites from a wide array of music sources.

Arp & Anthony Moore
A concert celebrating the release of the new FRKWYS collaboration for Rvng Intl.
Missy Mazzoli: Composers OutFront!
with Victoire Presented by American Composers Orchestra and LPR

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Presented by Wordless Music, Paste Magazine, XL Recordings, and Other Music: Come celebrate the album release of Sigur Ros' frontman, JONSI, for his solo debut album "GO" - Album available to purchase on site, and happy hour drink specials for the duration of the event. The album will be played in full, with giveaways set up for Jonsi/Sigur Ros vinyl, and tickets for Jonsi's Terminal 5 shows on May 8th and 9th. Video footage from Jonsi's new music videos and related projects to be screened as well.

Click here to RSVP

The Unsilent Film Series is a new monthly series taking place at (le) Poisson Rouge. The Unsilent Film Series brings classic films back into the live music realm with new scores from prominent musicians. The combining of live music with films pre-dates actual sound technology for film. From the end of the 19th century on filmmakers and theatres have hired pianists, organists, and small ensembles to accompany silent films. The Unsilent Film Series takes this tradition and modernizes it combining silent films (and sometimes not-so-silent films) in a live music venue, with a variety of genres - ambient, indie-rock, jazz, classical - and a variety of cocktails.

This first night of the Unsilent Film Series will be free. RSVP to unsilentfilm@lprnyc.com to reserve your spot.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

LPR is streaming Florence & The Machine's performance LIVE:
Members Pre-Sale starts Monday. Check your member newsletter for details.
Tickets are on sale to the public Wednesday March 3rd at noon.
This is a general admission standing event.

We continue our twice-a-month series with another amazing lineup: Ainsley Burrows, Akua Doku, Sabrina Gilbert, Vanessa Hidary, and Meghann Plunkett.

Please join us for what promises to be an amazing night of passionate words.

Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new home, the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. Expect their custom blend of mixed up party sounds from electro to house to to good hip hop and assorted breakbeats, all night long with an injection of personal favorites geared toward the intimate gallery space.

The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1 Dance Party Every Friday 6 Years and Counting!!!
Featuring Resident DJs every week... DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth

ladies free till 12am, $10 after, guys $10 all night till 2am, $15 after

Watch Freedom Party online with their new live stream every Friday night. See it here.

This is a general admission standing event.

THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO CITY WINERY at 10pm

All tickets purchased through LPR will be honored.

http://www.citywinery.com/events/78532

The World Music Institute & (le) Poisson Rouge present
Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures

For more info:
metarecords.com/adam.html
myspace.com/movingpicturesquartet
worldmusicinstitute.org/event.php?id=927

The return of the DJ. Two turntables and a microphone. Sound system connecting live and direct to the people. Back to the roots: The Golden Age of Hip Hop, Soul, Funk, Afrobeat, Dancehall, Roots Reggae, Dance Classics, House, Salsa . Into the future: new artists, gems you might have missed and original remixes. A DJ that communicates with the crowd to give you what you need. Fun & Games. Dance, drink, network & build. Each week new musical guests that move in and out to contribute to the set seemlessly without interrupting the groove. Improvisational love with those in attendance as part of the creation. Under the groove, one nation.

In a program featuring the first New York performance of Glassworks as a complete work, Signal is joined by Philip Glass Ensemble Music Director Michael Riesman. With music direction by Brad Lubman.

Program:
Philip Glass: Glassworks (NY Premiere)
Philip Glass: Music in Similar Motion
Philip Glass: Music from La Belle et la Bête (premiere of new arrangement by Michael Riesman)
Philip Glass: Anima Mundi (premiere of new arrangement by Michael Riesman)


This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Program:

Timothy Andres
Fast Flows the River

Jody Redhage, cello
Timothy Andres, organ

Ted Hearne
New Songs

Timothy Andres, piano
Ron Wiltrout, drums
Nathan Koci, accordion/keyboards
Leah Coloff, cello/voice
Miki-Sophia Cloud, violin
Taylor Levine, electric guitar
Ted Hearne, voice

Jacob Cooper
For Time to Pour

Mellissa Hughes, voice
Jody Redhage, cello
David Skidmore, percussion

Christopher Cerrone
Reading a Wave

Marjolaine Lambert, violin
Amina Myriam Tébini, viola
Neena Deb-Sen, cello
Christopher Matthews, flute
Lizzie Upton, horn
Paul Cho, clarinet
Robert Thompson and Jeannette Fang, piano and celesta
John Corkill, percussion
Adrian Slywotzky, conductor

Robert Honstein
Patter

Marjolaine Lambert, violin
Neena Deb-Sen, cello
John Corkill, percussion

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Muddled Mondays

Service Industry Night $5 Wines, Well Drinks, and Draft Beers!!

Every Monday Night

7-9 p.m. free liquor tasting and contests

9-2 a.m. dj dance party

Tonight you're the customer and the customer is always right! Join Muddled Mondays on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for constant updates. Muddled Mondays is a Monday night party created for service industry professionals. Come enjoy cheap drinks and free contest giveaways!"

This is a first come seated show. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

The NYCLU Young Professionals invite you to the 3rd Annual

BIG GAY VARIETY SHOW!

A fabulously rowdy event to benefit the NYCLU's work to win LGBT equality and marriage fairness in New York State!

Featuring acts by
*Comedienne, chanteuse & "cabaret superstar" (NY Mag) Lady Rizo
* Actor and Comedian Jesse Tyler Ferguson (ABC's Modern Family)
*Tony-nominated Celia Keenan-Bolger & NYC singer-songwriter Maddy Wyatt
*Comedienne Gloria Bigelow
*Trans singer-songwriter Our Lady J (one of Out Magazine's OUT 100)
*Magician Matthew Holtzclaw
*Comedy Troop and Podcasters Sunday Morning Mimosa
*Comedian Paul Case
*Award-winning cabaret act Mel & El
*Contortionist Jared Rydelek
*Singer Kate Pazakis

$50 per seat, $35 standing room

Admission includes OPEN BAR ALL NIGHT sponsored by Smirnoff Vodka, Red Stripe, Magic Hat, and The Artisan Wine Company

...and a chance to win amazing raffle prizes such as Broadway house seats with backstage tours, Fire Island getaways, and dinner for two by a private chef!

Maya Beiser, hailed by The Boston Globe as “the post-modern diva of the cello,” celebrates the upcoming release of her newest CD, Provenance, issued May 25 on Innova Recordings. That CD is preceded by a just-released digital single: a dazzling multi-tracked cello version of Led Zeppelin’s Middle Eastern-tinged classic, Kashmir, with drum legend Jerry Marotta (Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel). At LPR, Maya will be joined by oud (Middle Eastern lute) player Bassam Saba, percussionists Glen Velez and Matt Kilmer, and electronica artist Raz Mesinai on live electronics. Velez, noted for his startling artistry on the frame drum, will open the evening with a set by Ta Ka Di Mi, his captivating duo with singer Lori Cotler.

For Provenance, her sixth solo release, Maya has commissioned music by contemporary composers from Armenia, Kurdish Iran, Israel, and the US. The title means ‘origins,’ referring to both Maya’s personal history and the intertwining cultural traditions that course through this stunning disc. The music of Provenance is inspired by the Golden Age of Medieval Spain, when Muslims, Christians and Jews lived together, giving rise to a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art and architecture. Likewise, Maya grew up in an Israeli kibbutz at the foothills of the Galilee Mountains, co-existing in harmony with neighboring Muslim and Christian Arab villages. Provenance has been shaped by that experience, celebrating the glory of a multi-religious, multicultural civilization and the hope of lasting peace.

Kayhan Kalhor’s I Was There by is based on a melody by the ninth-century Persian Kurdish musician Ziryab, a former slave who became the most influential musician of his time. Armenia’s unique musical tradition is represented by Djivan Gasparian’s haunting Memories. Gasparian is one of Armenia’s greatest living musicians, a virtuoso player of the traditional double-reed Duduk.

Mar de Leche (Sea of Milk) by Israeli composer Tamar Muskal draws on an ancient love song in Ladino, the mixture of Hebrew and Spanish spoken by medieval Sephardic Jews, whose music blended Arabic and Jewish traditions. Douglas J Cuomo, composer of the theme to Sex and the City and the chamber opera Arjuna’s Dilemma (Innova 697), contributes Only Breath; inspired by a poem by Rumi, it builds slowly from a meditative opening to a virtuosic climax. Kashmir makes a fitting close to this compelling disc.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

John Wesley Harding's Cabinet of Wonders w/
Eugene Mirman
Sondre Lerche
Ben Greenman
Rick Moody
Nicole Atkins
Daniel Felsenfeld
Leona Naess
plus MANY more!

*LINE-Up SUBJECT TO MASSIVE CHANGE

This is a first come, seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Award-winning filmmakers Andrew Semans and Danielle DiGiacomo invite you to join them for a brilliant night of comedy, booze, and white-hot auction action to celebrate and support their upcoming independent feature film, NANCY, PLEASE! All proceeds for this event will go to the development of this exciting cinematic achievement.

Performing on-stage will be three hilarious local comedy phenoms (local comedy phenoms TBD, but we assure you, they will be top-shelf). In addition to the yuks, a no-holes-barred auction will be held for a variety of cool, desirable things and experiences! As if that weren't enough, celebrated DJ Steve McGuirl will be spinning some excellent records from his vast collection. This event is supported by the Independent Filmmaker Project, the nation’s oldest and largest organization for independent filmmakers, which has fostered the work of over 20,000 filmmakers, including Jim Jarmusch, Michael Moore, Barbara Kopple, Mira Nair, and Kevin Smith.

Also featuring an auction, filled with an eclectic bunch of very desirable items for your rabid bidding pleasure.

Thursday night from 10pm-4am in the gallery bar you'll find Flashy & Trashy. If you are ready to not take yourself too seriously, this is your night. You can sit at the bar and order tater tots and grilled cheese, or act a fool on the dance floor. Dress is casual, though you will often find resident DJ Jay McElfresh in anything from a marching band uniform to a wizard robe. Along with jay's usual mix of 80s and 90s dance, electro, and old school hip hop, you'll find weekly guest DJ's playing everything from funk and soul 45s to classic and soft rock. Prince, Wu-tang clan, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Mary J. Blige, Steve Winwood, Otis Redding, T. Rex, New Order; they all work here.

Special Guest Mikey Palms & Mastro

It all began in New York City, at a club called Havana San Juan. During the 1960’s and 1970’s, some of today’s most revered names in Latin music: Joe Cuba, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Tito Rodríguez, Celia Cruz, Cachao, among others, were merely gifted immigrant musicians from Cuba and Puerto Rico who sought a special venue; a place where they could come together and bring their own unique sound, their different rhythms, their collective son… That special place was Havana San Juan.

Havana and San Juan. Two islands. Two cities. Two rich and often turbulent histories came together through the harsh reality of exile and became inextricably intertwined through music. This was the birth of Salsa.

And for more than a decade, the Havana San Juan nightclub, located at 138th Street and Broadway 2nd, bore witness to some of Salsa and Latin music’s most brilliant collaborations, the most mind-blowing descargas, spectacular shows, nonstop dancing and unforgettable nights in which today’s most renowned artists performed their best music for an expatriated community.

Latin music ruled the dance hall. The echoes are still deeply etched in the memory of those who were there decades ago, and it still haunts the collective consciousness of those who share a passion for its sounds.

That same spirit drives every Havana San Juan events: a series of monthly classic revivals of the Golden Era of Salsa. As some of Miami’s most coveted events, the Havana San Juan series pay homage to the legacy of so many gifted artists through music and ambiance. For many, the events are an immersive “crash course” in Salsa and Mambo that take place every month at Miami hotspots like Grass, in the Design District, and Plunge, the Gansevoort’s rooftop pool. For others, the Havana San Juan events bring all the authenticity of the legendary New York club and brings back its most vivid vibrant memories.

Now, the event becomes an experience, a musical journey, as the original Havana San Juan musicians come together to play on the same stage after more than 30 years.

Although they have played in different ensembles throughout the years, percussionists Johnny Almendra and Alfredo “Freddy” Lugo will join Louis “El Maestro” Bauzo for the first time in three decades at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge (formerly the Village Gate), on Thursday, April 15th, 2010.

“This is truly a historic event,” says Havana San Juan creator and producer, Geno Chaviano. “It is my honor and privilege to be able to continue with a family tradition, to be a foot soldier of this movement, and to usher it into a new era so that it takes its rightful place on the global spotlight.”

After Chaviano contacted Louis Bauzo, “el maestro” himself worked his magic to reach out to Freddy and Johnny and assemble this musical Dream Team. And so, the these three rhythm masters will unite on stage a Le Poisson Rouge, a state-of-the art multimedia art cabaret, to relive the old glory days of the Havana San Juan nightclub where they jammed the nights away with the music of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez and Machito. This historic reunion will be an epic musical event that, officially, marks the birth of the Havana San Juan Orchestra.

This is a general admission, standing event.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new home, the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. Expect their custom blend of mixed up party sounds from electro to house to to good hip hop and assorted breakbeats, all night long with an injection of personal favorites geared toward the intimate gallery space.

The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1 Dance Party Every Friday 6 Years and Counting!!!
Featuring Resident DJs every week... DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth

ladies free till 12am, $10 after, guys $10 all night till 2am, $15 after

Watch Freedom Party online with their new live stream every Friday night. See it here.

This is a general admission standing event.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

DJ Sickrock & Uncle Chip spin: Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, House & Reggae.

Special guest this month, the 3rd Elite Camp brother Jay Jung! Bringing you a trifecta of good music that no one can duplicate!

Doors at 6:30pm
Discussion at 7:00pm
Concert begins at 7:30pm

ACME (American Contemporary Music Ensemble), led by cellist and artistic director Clarice Jensen, will perform a concert at (Le) Poisson Rouge entitled The Music of Louis Andriessen, presented by (Le) Poisson Rouge and Carnegie Hall as part of a month-long celebration of the eminent Dutch composer’s music and his 70th birthday. The concert will be preceded by a discussion with the composer and Robert Hurwitz, president of Andriessen's longtime U.S. record label, Nonesuch Records.

The program will include a screening of Peter Greenaway’s 1991 30-minute video film, M is for Man, Music, Mozart with a live performance of Andriessen’s score, conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky and featuring soprano soloist Mary Elizabeth Mackenzie. In addition, pianist Eric Huebner will perform three solo works, Image de Moreau, Trois Pieces, and Trepidus. Andriessen’s Facing Death, for amplified string quartet, completes the program.

M is for Man, Music, Mozart was made for television by Greenaway and Andriessen (who would later collaborate on the operas Writing to Vermeer and ROSA, The death of a composer), in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s death. It features four nude dancers representing the Gods, and a singer who sings a list of objects starting with each letter of the alphabet. When the letter “M” is reached, the Gods choose to create Man, then Music – and in order to have Perfect Music – Mozart.

Originally written for the Kronos Quartet in 1990, Facing Death for amplified string quartet is based on the music of Charlie Parker. The composer writes, “Be-bop had been an important influence on my musical development when I was young, and I decided to do something with this music from my youth . . . I literally quote fragments of Charlie Parker improvisations. I also quote one original melody: Orinthology (which is based on How High the Moon). The 7th and 8th bar of Orinthology became an important motif in the piece.”

ACME players for April 18 include Yuki Numata, violin; Ben Russell, violin; Caitlin Lynch, viola; Clarice Jensen, cello; Kelli Kathman, flute and piccolo; Patrick Posey, soprano saxophone; Luke Gay, tenor saxophone; Matt Marks, horn; Gareth Flowers, trumpet; Nathan Botts, trumpet; Jeff Missal, trumpet; John Vera; trombone; Michael Engstrom, trombone; Will Lang, bass trombone; and Logan Coale, bass.

This concert has been made possible by support from the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York and Boosey & Hawkes.

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

MATA presents the world premiere of UK composer 2010 Commissionee Matthew Wright's Totem for Gobi-New York, an interactive audio/video installation. Erosion, non-linear networks, the idea of music 'at the edge of collapse' and the dialogue between 'stillness' and 'speed' are recurrent themes in Wright's hybrid electronica. A keen ear for timbre and architectural beats underlie his experimentation. He has collaborated with artists as diverse as Evan Parker, Ensemble Klang, and The Percussion Group of Hague, and worked in venues such as Abbey Road studios and Tate Modern (London), De Ijsbreker (Amsterdam) and Bunkier Stzuki (Krakow).

Muddled Mondays

Service Industry Night $5 Wines, Well Drinks, and Draft Beers!!

Every Monday Night

7-9 p.m. free liquor tasting and contests

9-2 a.m. dj dance party

Tonight you're the customer and the customer is always right! Join Muddled Mondays on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for constant updates. Muddled Mondays is a Monday night party created for service industry professionals. Come enjoy cheap drinks and free contest giveaways!"

This is a general admission, standing event.

MATA Festival continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Festival Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

Tickets:
$15 General Admision
$10 Students & Seniors

Visit the MATA Festival online at matafestival.org

The Los Angeles-based Calder String Quartet presents a full-evening of World and New York premieres. Composers include NYC-based composer Lisa Coons' Cythère (a trauma ballet in two parts), Swede Fabian Svensson's puckishly-titled Singing and Dancing (written for and premiered by the Calders), Daniel Wohl's textural study Glitch (also written for the group), and a world premiere by rising New York composer Nathan Davis, co-commissioned by MATA and Carlsbad Music Festival [carlsbadmusicfestival.org].

LPR Gallery Bar
6 to 7:25pm
MATA continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

MATA Festival continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Festival Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

Tickets:
$15 General Admision
$10 Students & Seniors

Visit the MATA Festival online at matafestival.org

The 2010 MATA Festival continues with a program that offers its audience a rich cross-section of current modes of compositional practice. Virtuoso pianist Lisa Moore, "New York’s queen of avant-garde piano” (The New Yorker) and a founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, presents an engaging solo program that includes the world premiere of works by Julian Day (2010 MATA Commissionee) and Sam Adams, along with Paul Swartzel's Honky Tonk Toccata, Timothy Andres' How can I live in your world of ideas?, and MATA ED Missy Mazzoli's Orrizonte.

The composer/performer group Ensemble Pamplemousse presents a program of pieces created under a cohesive idea entitled Symbiosis. Works include world premieres by Director Natacha Diels (Symbiosis II), Andrew Greenwald (On Structure II), David Broome (Textures: Symbols - Text), and Rama Gottfried's 2009 work Nest. In addition, members of Pamplemousse will join composer Tristan Perich for the performance of his toy piano trio and 1-bit sound work qsqsqsqsqqqqqqqqq.

LPR Gallery Bar
6 to 7:25pm
MATA continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

MATA Festival continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Festival Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

Visit the MATA Festival online at matafestival.org

The final concert of the 2010 MATA Festival spotlights one of New York's most exciting new groups, the Argento Chamber Ensemble. Composers featured on this FREE evening of music include Americans Michelle Lou and Alexander Sigman, plus Italians Nicola Buso, Lorenzo Tomio, Stefano Trevisi, and Filippo Perocco. The program will also include the NY premiere of Ryan Beppel's Receptive Aphasia (2010), Winner of New Voices project, Philadelphia chapter of the American Composers Forum. (Selected in collaboration between MATA, Argento, and ACF Philadelphia).

Note: the Italian ensemble L'Arsenale, originally scheduled to perform on this program, is unable to appear due to this week's ban on European air travel.

LPR Gallery Bar
6 to 7:25pm
MATA continues its annual presentation of sound works with daily presentations of multi-channel works in Le Poisson Rouge's Gallery Bar. Works by 2010 Commissionee Matthew Wright, MATA AD Christopher McIntyre, Antye Greie (aka AGF), and Bjørn Erik Haugen.

SIMPLE SHOES PRESENTS: ROCK BAND LIVE AN EARTH DAY CELEBRATION
SIMPLE SHOE GIVEAWAYS, ROCK BAND LIVE PRIZES, PLUS: SIMPLE EARTH DAY COCKTAILS $6 ALL NIGHT LONG!

Join us at the Gallery at Le Poisson Rouge to celebrate Earth Day, April 22. Guests are invited to rock out and play Rock Band for a chance to play on the LPR main stage. We’re giving away shoes, hosting an eco-drink special and much more!

This is a general admission standing event.

We continue our twice-a-month series with another amazing lineup: Roger Bonair-Agard, Ngoma Hill, Jared Singer, and Jade Sylvan.

Please join us for what promises to be an amazing night of passionate words.

Outrageous Comedy! Content! Freedom! Fun! Community!

Penny Arcade returns to Le Poisson Rouge for a very special one night event with her fabulous erotic dancers
April 23rd 2010 7:30pm.

A night of erotica, comedy, content and an experience you will never forget!

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited; please arrive early.

Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new home, the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. Expect their custom blend of mixed up party sounds from electro to house to to good hip hop and assorted breakbeats, all night long with an injection of personal favorites geared toward the intimate gallery space.

The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1 Dance Party Every Friday 6 Years and Counting!!!
Featuring Resident DJs every week... DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Marc Smooth

ladies free till 12am, $10 after, guys $10 all night till 2am, $15 after

Watch Freedom Party online with their new live stream every Friday night. See it here.

This is a general admission standing event.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Official Release Party
Kon and Amir present: Off Track Vol 3 (BBE)
Out April 27

Founded in the Summer of 2009, and without a doubt one of the best underground parties in the heart of gotham, Wax Poetics magazine, Halcyon, Raw Fusion, Great Weekend, and Fusicology, present this monthly all-vinyl oasis, featuring a dream team of resident romantics. Sharing deck duties are (six!) resident djs Amir (bbe), one half of the internationally known rare-record collector and mixtape duo, Kon & Amir; prolific beatsmith Ge-Ology (Female Fun), boasting remix credits from Pete Rock to PPP; The Twilite Tone (Great Weekend), both a key player in the seminal 90's Chicago house scene, and long-time producer and dj for Common; New York veterans OP! and Scribe (Raw Fusion NYC), and Jon Oliver (EVR), the baby of the bunch. The sounds are mind-wide, foot-friendly, and snap crackle popping. Anything is fair game, but you can expect to hear some soul, disco, dilla, boogie, hustle, hip-hop, old-school house, no wave, new jack swing, dancefloor jazz, bossa nova, salsa, funk, electro, and afrobeat. No pretentious bullshit, no dress code (not that you shouldn't come sexy as hell), no commercial radio crap, and no laptops allowed.

FREE before 10:30 and $5 after

I Love Vinyl T-Shirts are Available Here!

Download the July Mix from I Love Vinyl Here!

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Muddled Mondays

Service Industry Night $5 Wines, Well Drinks, and Draft Beers!!

Every Monday Night

7-9 p.m. free liquor tasting and contests

9-2 a.m. dj dance party

Tonight you're the customer and the customer is always right! Join Muddled Mondays on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter for constant updates. Muddled Mondays is a Monday night party created for service industry professionals. Come enjoy cheap drinks and free contest giveaways!"

Service Not Included features writers and comedians sharing funny anecdotes and horror stories about their experiences working in the service industry. Seasoned performers re-live some of the worst (or best) moments at their “day jobs” in what has become known as a humorous faux-educational program for those who have never needed to work in the service industry.

You’ll totally relate to some of the hilarious encounters that these former waiters, bartenders, retail workers and baristas have dealt with on a regular basis. They know exactly what it’s like to get the European table. Revenge is sweetest with a stage and a microphone.

FEATURING
Host – Justin Gray
Paul Oddo
Joe List
Desiree Burch
Ophira Eisenberg

Program:
1. Dvorak, Op. 105: Allegro non tanto
2. Bach, E Major Fugue from WTC
3. Beethoven, Op. 127: first movement
4. Janacek:, 1st Quartet, complete
5. Barber, Adagio
6. Dvorak, Scherzo (Molto Vivace) from Op. 105
7. Shostakovich, 3rd movement from 3rd Quartet

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

NewMusicalTheatre.com celebrates its recent website launch with a one-night-only live concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City's Greenwich Village. The event will not only salute the site's launch, but will celebrate the future of musical theater by bringing together an unparalleled group of young songwriters.

Presented by Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records, the show will highlight the work of the original six writers represented on the site – Nick Blaemire (Glory Days), Adam Gwon (Ordinary Days), Joe Iconis (The Black Suits, Things to Ruin), Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk (The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown, Tales from the Bad Years), Ryan Scott Oliver (Mrs. Sharp, Darling), and Pasek and Paul (Edges, Dogfight).

The April 26 concert will bring together the next generation of musical theater writers with this generation's most celebrated performers -- with a starry lineup of names to be announced shortly. Additional highlights include the announcement of upcoming NewMusicalTheatre.com artists as well as performances of songs written by other NewMusicalTheatre.com members, and other surprise guests.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) reunites with rockstar composer Dai Fujikura in this concert featuring the world premiere of his new piece ice, co-commissioned by the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University and ICE. Under the baton of hot German conductor Matthias Pintscher, ICE will also perform the world premiere of Du Yun's Air Glow, the frenetic freak-out of John Zorn's Sortilège, and Fujikura's 2006 returning for solo piano.

Program:
Dai Fujikura: returning for solo piano (2006)
John Zorn: Sortilège for two bass clarinets (2001)
Du Yun: Air Glow for flute, clarinet, trumpet, cello, guitar (revised 2009) WORLD PREMIERE
Dai Fujikura: ICE for two flutes, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, guitar, violin, viola, cello, bass (2010) WORLD PREMIERE

New Africa Live is a non-profit organization founded & produced by acclaimed East African singer/songwriter Somi and aims to carve out a cultural space of belonging for contemporary African artists through multidisciplinary live arts events. New Africa Live is sponsored by the New York Foundation of the Arts, a 501(c)(3) organization.

www.newafricalive.org

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Program:
Steve Reich: Different Trains
Jefferson Friedman: String Quartet No. 2
Anton Webern: Five Pieces for String Quartet

The Chiara String Quartet performs for the first time at New York's West Village hot spot, (Le) Poisson Rouge in a program selected especially for this venue. Steve Reich's Grammy Award-winning 1988 work, Different Trains, written for string quartet and tape, contrasts the romantic journeys by train that Reich made as a child during World War II between the two cities where his separated parents lived (New York and Los Angeles), with the journeys by train that he may have been forced to undertake as a Jew in Europe during those same years. The recorded speech that is interspersed throughout the piece is taken from interviews with individuals in the US and in Europe leading up to, during, and immediately after World War II. Combining the sounds of steam whistles, brakes, and pistons with these voices, Different Trains is both introspective and a driving, harrowing ride.

Austrian composer Anton Webern wrote Five Pieces for String Quartet in 1909 when he was 26 years old. An ethereal set of miniature works (each piece is only a few minutes long), Five Pieces was radical not only because of Webern's use of tone rows and other then-avant-garde compositional techniques, but because of its remarkable brevity. It remains one of the most influential works in the string quartet repertoire.

Jefferson Friedman is a New York-based composer, whose music has been called "impossible to resist" by The New York Times. The Chiara Quartet will perform his String Quartet No. 2, which was written for them in 1999 and continues to be one of the group's favorite and most-performed pieces. Of a recent performance of String Quartet No. 2, Steve Smith writing in The New York Times offered this description, "The first movement opened with jagged rhythms that shifted in and out of sync; a throaty climax ushered in a somber meditation, eventually banished by the return of the fitful pulse. The free-flowing second movement was a rich, burnished fantasy; in the third movement, a rollicking dance filled with rippling trills led to a passage of ghostly yearning and a breathless finale."

Check out the Chiara Quartet performing Friedman's String Quartet No. 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvigLhP2Wxc

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

This is a first come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

Oh no! Not again! Yes, again, its like being dropped on your head as a baby.. except you're an adult now and the music is doing the damage... either way you end up just a little bit dumber than before. Hosted by Rhys & Phee of We Stole The Show this months "Better Than Prince" promises to be our wildest yet. You know how this goes, Jay and Anubus bring the pain all night with steamy funk, dirty hip-hop, flashy 80s and sweaty electro. No cover. No attitude. Drink specials all night! See you there!

This is a general admission, standing event.

This is a first-come seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.

A Birthday Celebration For James Brown

Crooked Disco featuring DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar

About: Join DJs Morsy and Kestar, aka the Crooked Disco DJs, for Play Date, their weekly Play Date party at its new home, the gallery at Le Poisson Rouge. Play Date is a unique, free, party featuring the Crooked Disco DJs all night long on the decks sharing their favorite new music, premiering their latest custom tracks and remixes, and digging out rediscovered dancefloor classics. Expect their custom blend of mixed up party sounds from electro to house to to good hip hop and assorted breakbeats, all night long with an injection of personal favorites geared toward the intimate gallery space.