Sunday, September 7 at 2:00PM $ 30 cover

Vocal Harmony Workshop

Emily Eagen and Don Friedman are versatile teachers, singers and instrumentalists, and focus on traditional American close harmony styles. This three hour workshop will emphasize the mechanics of creating harmonies and arrangements as well as singing in small groups. The repertoire will be taken from the old-time and bluegrass vocal traditions, especially the styles of harmony greats such as the Carters, the Louvins and the Stanleys. They will work closely with students to develop their listening abilities, performance styles and singing techniques. No need to read notation! You will be up and singing right away - the class will be a fun, hands on, demystifying experience in learning to sing close harmony. Please email Steve Schwartzman at sschwartzman@eldercareny.com with any questions about the mechanics of the workshop.

Taught by Emily Eagen and Don Friedman.
To register, please contact Jalopy at:
718-395-3214 or email us at jalopy@speakeasy.net

Monday, September 8 at 9:00PM

Country Blues Jam

Join us for a free Country Blues Jam every Monday. Bring your fiddle, accordion, banjo, guitar, harmonica, washtub, spoons.

Wednesday, September 10 at 9:00PM

Roots N Ruckus

Jalopy Theater Presents, "Roots n Ruckus," a night of folk, old-time and blues music every Wednesday starting Jan. 9th, 2008. You will see and hear people playing banjos, guitars, washboards, tub-basses kazoos and harmonicas. This is the gig to go to for real deal folk music in New York City. Hosted by Feral Foster and featuring a stellar group of musicians. Come and be a regular! The gig happens every week.

Thursday, September 11 at 8:00PM $ 8 cover

Chris Moore and Sons with Curtis Eller and Dan Blakeslee

Just back from participating in the second Boredoms drumming extravaganza in LA (77 Boadrum 07/07/07 and 08/08/08), seminal hard core drummer Chris Moore (of Negative Approach) is curating a night of intimate and intertwined music at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theatre.
Moore and Sons just released Local Attachments; a straight ahead affair, mixed with loose, colorful arrangements built upon the sturdy base of Moore’s songwriting (Abe Olman Scholarship, Songwriter of the year awards, runner up in the Borders Musician’s Atlas 2005). Combining elements of Moore and his son’s (Dennis Cronin : Lambchop, Vic Chestnut, Tom Gavin : Amy Kohn, Adam Gold: Gut Bucket, and Gary Langol) eclectic and divergent musical backgrounds.
Brooklyn based Moore will mix his “rustic chamber pop…brawny folk” with Queens’ Curtis Eller’s “carny-goth-Americana” (Boston Phoenix) and Portsmouth NH’s Dan Blakeslee’s “categorically impossible to classify” (Martin England) music for a night that promises to be eclectic, enjoyable and extraordinary.

Thursday, September 11 at 9:30PM

Louis Ledford

LOUIS LEDFORD land is the “Old Weird America” Greil Marcus wrote so emotively about. His stories seldom end with a hero on the proverbial mountaintop. His narratives are typically told by the losers, those close to the edge, in the grandest sense. This latest record puts him in front of a microphone, sans accompaniment, where he pours out live-sounding interpretations of his own music, which while not your Daddy’s folk, has one foot planted firmly either side of Cripple Creek. Adios King represents Ledford’s most accomplished work, which at it’s peak stands shoulder to shoulder with that of modern luminaries as Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, and the like. - J. Holgren, 9X Magazine.

Friday, September 12 at 8:00PM $ 25 cover

Falconworks Theatre

Xylophone People

Join musicians, actors and artists in celebrating and supporting the work Falconworks Artists Group. The evening features amazing music by Xylophone People, Nick Howard, Thursday Night All Stars and Bad Girlfriend.

Falconworks works to support and empower communities and individuals through theater that addresses personal and local issues. Falconworks achieves its mission through workshops in playwriting and performance that offer individuals the skills and resources to tell their own stories; through partnerships with community-based organizations to develop theater that educates audiences and participants about pressing local issues; and through mentoring by theater professionals and collaborations in theater that help participants develop valuable life and work skills.

The show opens with Xylophone People. This xylophone based band includes Phil Kester, xylophone, marimba and drums; Sean McCaul, xylophone, vibes, accordion and vocals; Mike Dillon, lead guitar
and Alison Oelke McCaul, executive producer.

Friday, September 12 at 9:00PM

Nick Howard

Nick Howard is a musician focused on the highly coveted prize of achieving fame with his music. Moving to New York City in 2004, he’s been working a full-time career-balancing act as a means to achieve this goal. He started playing the guitar and singing at the age of 10, eventually forming bands with friends throughout high school who emulated the stars of the booming ‘90s Brit-Pop revolution. He eventually met Travis Harrison, with whom Howard collaborated on his first album Contradicted, a 6-track EP that he independently released in 2005. The blues-inspired EP received several accolades, including a feature on Clearchannel’s “Discover New Music” campaign in 2006. “Contradictions”, a track from the EP, will soon be featured in the upcoming Elisha Cuthbert movie, My Sassy Girl, to be released in 2008.

Friday, September 12 at 10:00PM

Thursday Night All Stars

The THURSDAY NIGHT ALL STARS can be described as an Iranian jazz-rock band with a revolving line-up that blends world music, jam rock, jazz, and pop music all in one entertaining show, complete with comedy, costumes and a bit of satire thrown in. Each member of the group parodies the role of a different religious figure of varying cultures—a Pontiff, a Rabbi, a nun, a Persian Ayatollah, a Friar, a Sheik, and a Monk—all in light-hearted way of symbolizing a sense of harmony among all creeds, cultures, and sects under the fictitious ideology they call Selfishtology. Their songs involve vocals (male and female), drums, saxophone, keyboards, electric guitar, bass guitar and an upright bass, as well as a Persian Tar played by front man Piruz Partow (as the zany Ayatollah Fancy). The band’s name is itself a play on Muslim cultural tradition. As Friday is the traditional Muslim day of rest, Thursday night is generally understood to be a big party night within that culture.

Saturday, September 13 at 9:00PM $ 10 cover

Latin American Afro Beat

Jarana Beat

Jarana Beat was born after a trip through Latin America's mestizo landscapes. Traveling from Mexico to Spain, where he studied Flamenco for 4 years, and then touring Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Bolivia for another 3 years, Mexican composer and researcher Sinuhé Padilla Isunza was collecting the Arab and Afro-Latin roots of the music —also marked by the indigenous cosmogony and merged them with the minimalist sounds of afro-beat. In its most recent migration, Jarana Beat arrives in New York, bringing us an upbeat fusion of Son Jarocho, Samba, Cumbia, Flamenco, Afrobeat and Salsa you can't help but dance to. Join us —the tarima is open!

Sunday, September 14 at 7:00PM $ 12 cover

Crooked Road Show

From the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge to the Coalfields region, the southwestern part of Virginia has always been blessed with great riches in traditional music. The Crooked Road, winding through the beautiful Appalachian Mountains, passes through many important historic and still thriving sites for the creation and passing on of old time, bluegrass, and mountain gospel music. Virginia State Folklorist Jon Lohman will bring some of the finest bluegrass and old time musicians from this musically rich region for a wonderful evening of genuine mountain music, ncluding National Heritage Fellowship Recipient *Wayne Henderson*, Award winning performers and instrument makers *Gerald Anderson* and *Spencer Strickland,* the lovely traditional vocal stylings of *Linda and David Lay*, and young bluegrass sensations *No Speed Limit*!

Monday, September 15 at 9:00PM

Country Blues Jam

Join us for a free Country Blues Jam every Monday. Bring your fiddle, accordion, banjo, guitar, harmonica, washtub, spoons.

Wednesday, September 17 at 9:30PM

Roots n Ruckus

Friday, September 19 at 9:00PM $ 10 cover

Brass Bonanza

Veveritse

Veveritse Brass Band finds it's inspiration in the drama of the Romany(Gypsy) music of the Balkans. With an eye to the powerful exactitude of these melodies, Veveritse makes room for play. Slippery, squirrelly even, they may start off running almost too fast, only to drop the bottom out; what begins sonorous and jagged straightens up, and carries you into the night....dancing, sighing. With two trumpets, a saxophone, four mid-horns, a tuba and two drummers, they are ten deep, creating not a wall of sound, but a loud tapestry. Members of the band also play in other great NYC bands like Romashka, Hungry March Band, Zlatne Uste, The Woes, Ansambl Mastika, and Stagger Back Brass Band....not to mention the infamous and nefarious "Top Secret Attack Band"! Veveritse, with it's theatrical bent, has already scored two different nights of films, played benefits, parties and numerous clubs. They are available for all kinds of occasions....weddings, private parties, afternoon tea, preschool graduations, feline coronations and divorces.

Friday, September 19 at 10:30PM

Red Hook Ramblers

The Red Hook Ramblers were formed in late summer of 2005 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with the thrill of "discovering" traditional jazz. The group is dedicated to keeping alive America's rich early music - from ragtime to marches to blues to jazz - and more. Our specialty is exploring hot jazz of the '20s, especially of the New Orleans and Chicago styles. We encourage you to seek out the recordings of the legendary performers and come out to hear how we do it live.

Saturday, September 20 at 9:00PM $ 8 cover

Fall Burlesque Festival

Peculiar Gentleman

Fall into the new season with Jalopy's Equinox Festival, bringing you music and burlesque!

The Peculiar Gentlemen includes E-Beats and “Sweet” Wily Jive, who combine innovative blends o f classical and jazz music with hip hop, drum and bass. E-Beats is architect, sound sculpter, and beat builder. "Sweet" Willy Jive is armed solely with an acoustic guitar and a voice, so sad and humble, yet commanding and proud. If the girls don’t get you dancing, the Gentleman surely will.

Saturday, September 20 at 10:30PM

Sugar Shack Burlesque

If the leaves are changing, what are the Sugar Shack girls changing into? We saw vampires and terantulas in the fall, bikinis and beach balls for summer. Imagine how the Girls will celebrate the season of autumn leaves falling!

Sugar Shack Burlesque is the candied cherry atop NYC's Neo-Burlesque scene. Imagine what co-producers RunAround Sue and Legs Malone will create to mark the start of fall.

Sunday, September 21 at 8:00PM $ 10 cover

Miss Tess and the Bon Ton Parade

Miss Tess is a young, Boston-based songwriter, whose “Modern Vintage” sound bridges eras and genres. True to the tradition, her vocals can soar or caress as she strums and picks her way through an array of styles, from ragtime, to blues; country, to swing. Tess writes songs with the folk sensibilities of a troubadour that engage roots-devotees and newcomers alike. A typical set conjures a cast of dreamers and lovers, down on their luck and charming their ways in and out of trouble, with familiar faces mingling in the crowd, courtesy of folks like Bessie Smith and Tom Waits—perpetual muses to her style.
A small career breakthrough came for Tess this past November when she won the 27th biannual Open Mic Shootout at Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, GA. As the winner, she performed on the 2008 Cayamo music cruise with headliners Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett.
Tess first joined the storied Cambridge folk scene in 2005, when she formed The Bon Ton Parade, a dynamic, solo-swapping combo, comprised of sax & clarinet, upright bass, brushes on drums, and backing harmonies.

"MISS TESS AND THE BON TON PARADE The Maryland transplant called one of her albums "Modern Vintage," and that neatly sums up her crisp approach to old-time jazz, folk, and blues. After a recent contest win, Tess will hit the high seas next month as part of a music cruise in the esteemed company of artists including Emmylou Harris, Lyle Lovett, and Patty Griffin. No doubt they will be as charmed by her classic covers and clever originals as Boston audiences."
The Boston Globe (Jan 12, 2008)

Monday, September 22 at 9:00PM

Country Blues Jam

Join us for a free Country Blues Jam every Monday. Bring your fiddle, accordion, banjo, guitar, harmonica, washtub, spoons.

Wednesday, September 24 at 9:00PM

Roots N Ruckus

Thursday, September 25 at 9:00PM $ 10 cover

Bob Guida

Blues superstar Bob Guida will open for Ann Rabson. Bob Guida has recorded and worked as a solo performer, been a founding member of the Otis Brothers and the Cool Drives. For the last 35 years, he has been singing and playing all forms of American traditional music on guitar, Fender bass and mandolin – most often, too loudly. He’s lead vocalist in Raoul Otis and his Blue Serenaders, worked as a duo with Texas piano man Michael Greene and also with his garage band, the Atomic Passions.

Thursday, September 25 at 10:30PM $ 10 cover

Ann Rabson

Ann Rabson is clearly a woman of distinction. A world-class barrelhouse piano player, a respected Piedmont-style finger-picking guitarist, and a uniquely passionate and witty songwriter, Ann is also blessed with an immediately recognizable contralto voice. Her talent has earned her nine prestigious W.C. Handy Award nominations. This is no ordinary grandmother.

Ann’s roots in music run deep. At the tender age of four, blues great Big Bill Broonzy found his way into Ann's heart and imagination. Although she did not understand the lyrics, his music stayed with her through her life’s peaks and valleys. A short time later Ann wrote her first song - about bubbles. She started strumming the ukulele before she was ten and played her first guitar gig when she was a senior in high school. At the ripe old age of 35, her fingers began tickling the piano keys. The sound that first captured her soul set her on the path to create wonderful music of her own.

Ann grew up in a music-loving family that quietly nurtured her natural musical bent. Her new release, (February 2005), is appropriately titled IN A FAMILY WAY. In addition to showcasing Ann’s talents, this album introduces the listener to the talents of other members of her family. Ann’s sister, renowned violinist Mimi Rabson, graces many cuts; brother-in-law Dave Harris contributes stellar work on the trombone; brother Steve Rabson, an accomplished jazz pianist shines, nephew Kenji Rabson, a rising star on the New York City jazz circuit, is featured on upright bass, and multi-talented daughter Liz Rabson Schnore completes the ensemble on rhythm guitar.

Friday, September 26 at 9:00PM $ 10 cover

An Eclectic Night of Music

Die Haifische

Join an eclectic night of music, featuring Jason Grisell, Ezekiel Healy, formerly of Boggs Visionary Orchestra, Mama Macabre, and Die Haifische.

Die Haifische presents their arrangements of Bertolt Brecht and three penny operas. Most of the material is dismal, dates back to the years between the 2 world wars and is performed in German. Nevertheless it is absolutely relevant and rewarding.

Sunday, September 28 at 8:00PM $ 10 cover

Firecracker Jazz Band

With jubilant vigor that spills from the stage to the streets,
FIRECRACKER JAZZ BAND revitalizes the energy of the roots of Jazz. In
paying homage to the pioneers of early 20th Century Jazz, including that of Dixieland and New Orleans, the Firecracker Jazz Band carries the torch that was once lit by such greats as Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong & Bix Beiderbeck.

The band includes JE WIDENHOUSE, trumpet and cornet; EARL SACHAIS, trombone; REESE GRAY, piano, banjo, ukulele and saw; JON CORBIN, guitar; MICHAEL GRAY, drums; and HENRY WESTMORELAND, tuba.

Monday, September 29 at 9:00PM

Country Blues Jam

Join us for a free Country Blues Jam every Monday. Bring your fiddle, accordion, banjo, guitar, harmonica, washtub, spoons.