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Saturday, October 3, Live Music from the Sixties and Seventies, 8 PM -10 PM
Saturday, October 3, Live Music from the Sixties and Seventies, 8 PM -10 PM New Jersey acoustic duo, Jeff & Karen are crossing the Hudson to bring us their special blend of retro music, mixed with current hits and original material from their CD, Jersey Fresh. They’ll be playing music from the fabulous fifties, the psychedelic sixties, and sensational seventies, including hits from The Monkees, Sonny & Cher, Jefferson Airplane, Bon Jovi and Janis Joplin. For more information about Jeff and Karen please visit: www.jeffkaren.com and myspace/jeffkarenacousticduo. Suggested donation: $10
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Saturday, September 26, “Every Hour Eye to Eye” 7:30 PM
Saturday, September 26, “Every Hour Eye to Eye” 7:30 PM Join us as we explore the life and insights of Dag Hammarskjöld with Roger Lipsey. Second secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961), Dag Hammarskjöld left a legacy of acute political wisdom, relevant today and always. ‘What would Dag do?’ is a question that still lives at the United Nations. And he left something more: his private journal, Markings, published after his death in an air crash, which revealed him to have been a spiritual seeker of taut discipline and great insight. Tonight’s presentation begins with a powerful documentary film, The Vision of a Secretary-General: Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN (2005) directed by Stig Holmqvist. Roger Lipsey, currently writing a book on Hammarskjöld, will comment on the film, introduce additional themes and then invite audience discussion. The evening’s title is from a poem by Hammarskjöld Roger Lipsey, Ph.D., is a well-published author and friend of Orchard House Café. His weekly blog on Hammarskjöld’s political wisdom can be found at www.dag-hammarskjold.com. Suggested donation: $15 ($10 seniors and students)
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Saturday, September 19, Live Music with Pete McAwesome & Elemeno, 8 PM
Saturday, September 19, Live Music with Pete McAwesome & Elemeno, 8 PM Join us for a night of music and sound exploration. Elemeno invites listeners on a free-flowing trip through songs that conjure up images of psychedelic swirls and carefully regimented minimalist sequences. Lyrically, Elemeno gravitates toward both natural and personal experience, attempting to paint a scene rather than offer any heavy-handed philosophy. For more information please visit: http://www.myspace.com/elemenomusiccompany Suggested donation: $8
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Saturday, September 12, Saba Ensemble, 8
Saturday, September 12, Saba Ensemble, 8 PM Join us as we welcome back the musicians of Saba Ensemble who will play Persian traditional music, based on the exploration of short modal pieces known as gushe. There are several hundred gushehs grouped into seven modal systems. Some beautiful songs in two of the seven modes, Shur and Mahur, will be presented in this performance. Arieh Aghajani plays santur (dulcimer) and has performed at MIT, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Columbia University and for the World Music Institute. Dr. Maziar Khoshsima plays tar, a Persian lute, and Ron Erickson plays the tombak and daf drums. Majid K. Shahi, the group’s vocalist, organized Saba Ensemble in 2005 and the group has performed to promote Persian traditional music since then. Suggested donation: $15 ($10 seniors and students)
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Joshua Sturm / James Molloy: Friday August 14 at 8:00pm
Synthesizing influences as diverse as Kaki King, RJD2, and the folk music of Ireland and the Middle East, for years Joshua Sturm and James Molloy have been at work reinventing the acoustic guitar, deconstructing it into orchestral parts capable of symphonic harmonies. Tapping, slapping, plucked harmonics, drumming on the sound box, and beyond, visually idiosyncratic and emotionally unsafe, Joshua and James’ esoteric ‘percussive fingerstyle’ unfolds against a backdrop of eerie melodies you seem to recollect, but that in fact you’ve never heard. See these two one-man bands perform, both separately and together, for a rare evening of instrumental music.
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Saturday, August 15, Live Music with Charlie Phillips, 7:30-9:30 PM
Somewhere between the line of blues, jazz, and R&B lies New York’s young songwriter, Charlie Phillips. His recently recorded debut EP, “Charlie Phillips” captures the songwriter’s respect and love for the masters who have come before him. "From Hendrix to D’Angelo to Dylan… his distinctive soulful tracks convey a sense of learning and experience,” says Kathleen Reagan of The Independent. Anxious to share his songs with audiences, Charlie Phillips performs with fellow musicians who studied with him at the Purchase Conservatory of Music. The result is a groove-based sound, with Charlie’s smooth guitar styling and Buckley-esque tenor soaring above. Suggested donation $10 Reservations recommended: email requests to orchardhousecafe@gmail.com And check our website www.orchardhousecafe.com for updated event listings 1064 First Ave. | New York City, NY.10022 | @ 58th ST. | 212-371-1170
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