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ARCHIVES
FRI
2/1 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Ron
Pope
Acoustic / Southern Rock / R&B |
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9:30-11:00PM |
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Caffe Vivaldi and Katy Pfaffl
are proud to present a new showcase,
MUSIC SKETCHES.
NYC Singer/Songwriter Katy Pfaffl is taking her
popular Myspace Page "Sketches",
http://www.myspace.com/katypfafflsketches,
offline and bringing it to the West Village. Join us as Katy
and a rotating group of other local artists will spend an
evening in the Round where they share their latest demos,
rough ideas and newest works.
MUSIC SKETCHES is a night designed specifically to
bring together some of the best songwriters in town to
share the stage and the joy of creation with new fans and
with each other. Each show promises to be a relaxed evening
of intimate truth, expression and discovery
Katy's guests for tonight's
show:
Misty Boyce and
Abby Ahmad |
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SAT
2/2 |
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Danielle Talamini
Indie / Rock / Americana
Brooklyn-born Danielle Talamini is a country gal at heart,
with a sound inspired by the southern rock-n-soul of John
Fogerty and Tom Petty, and a dose of Outlaw country a la
Willie, Waylon and the boys. The result is "The Road Rises,"
a collection of songs about roads traveled the hard way, not
knowing quite where you'll end up, and the good things in
store just up around the bend. |
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9:30-11:00PM |
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Wild-Wood
Acoustic / Folk / Folk Rock
Wild-Wood formed in the summer of 2005, the daydream
realized of singer-songwriter Tony Lechner. The Northampton,
MA band owes its sultry
sound to Lechner’s talented songwriting and the belief of
its members in the pure and simple beauty of the human voice
accompanied by acoustic
wooden instruments.
With foundations in folk, bluegrass, jazz, and old-fashioned
rock and roll, the group melds sweet vocal harmonies with
the sounds of fiddle, upright bass, mandolin, drums, guitar,
and piano to create a sound that appeals to people of all
ages and musical tastes. |
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SUN
2/3 |
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Singer/Songwriter
Vic Varney
"Nick
Drake with a sense of humor."--Village Voice
"Songwriting
perfected; a huge influence on REM."
--Peter
Buck, REM
A unique
blend of breezy, bluesy, intimate songs of emotional depth
that recall Nick Drake as well as Jobim, but, finally, are
all his own. Great humor, too, and a totally original guitar
style.
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9:00-11pm |
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Kelly Suttenfield
Jazz/Bossa Nova/Lounge
Kelley
Suttenfield is a vocalist in the classic jazz tradition,
delivering soulful interpretations of lyrics over a smooth,
swinging beat.
Also playing here on
Sun 2/17, 7:30-9PM |
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MON
2/4 |
7:00-11:00
Sign-up
at 6:30 |
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Open Mic
Night
"Caffe Vivaldi has the reputation of drawing some of the
best songwriters around. Get there early for sign-up, and
get ready to be intimidated by the talent"
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Kim Ruel
(from "Open Mic Nights in New York City") |
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TUES
2/5 |
7:00-8:30PM |
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Athena Reich
Athena Reich is a bilingual Jewish Mennonite originally from
Canada, which, once you get to know her, explains a lot. She
is currently working on her 5th CD with Emmy/Grammy winning
producer Cynthia Daniels. She has shared the stage with
Peaches, Jim Carrey & Sarah Mclachlin and toured across
North America for 3 years. She is also an actress who
recently appeared as part of the 365 Days/Plays Festival at
Lincoln Center & The Public Theater, and in the Punk-Rock
Musical "Love Sucks" at the New York Musical Theater
Festival 2007. Her music is storytelling piano-pop with a
theatrical twist. She is constantly pushing boundaries,
mocking taboo, and making you pee your pants with laughter
Francine Kay
Francine Kay, pianist, has performed in her native Canada
and internationally. Her solo piano recordings have earned
awards, being described in the press as "Magical, something
to celebrate. An ideal performance played from the heart",
and her recording of the Debussy Preludes was chosen as
"star of the month" by Fono Forum in Germany, nominated for
a Juno award in Canada, and given a rave by "Repertoire" in
France. Ms. Kay is now playing her jazz influenced original
songs with classical solo piano. She has performed in a wide
range of venues, such as Town Hall Seattle, Icicle Creek
Music Festival, Smoke Jazz Club NYC, Vancouver Art Gallery,
Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Trinity Church and the Belize
International Music Festival. In May of 2000, Francine Kay
won the Pro Piano International Competition in NYC, and was
named their "Recitalist of the Year". Francine Kay grew up
in Montreal, where she studied with Yvonne Hubert. She went
on to study on scholarship at the Juilliard School in New
York City, where she received a bachelor and masters degree.
Ms. Kay teaches at Princeton University. |
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9:00-10:30PM |
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Dave Deporis
Born in New York City, Dave Deporis is a classically trained
violinist who swapped the violin and bow for a guitar and
notebook.
Taking inspiration from 80's punk bands like the Minutemen,
Dead Kennedys, Ramones and Black Flag as well as the
wondrous and wide cannon of world music, he is currently
putting the finishing touches on his visionary and unique
second record "For The Birds and Children," a fiercely
non-elitist journey through the backstreets of the mind and
the early morning hours, a map of dreams, conflagrations and
landscapes stretched out over a compact disc. |
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WED
2/6 |
8:00-9:15PM |
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Kagero
Japanese Gypsy Rock Band
"Echoes of bossanova, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, everything
sounds like this band should be performing in a Paris café
to a room full of expatriates.
-Ben Kreiger, Jezebel Music
Kagero's gypsy-flavored acoustic rock is knocking New York's
indie scene on its tushy. The sound has been described as a
melting pot of tonalities and rhythms from Asia, the Middle
East and Eastern Europe. Kagero pulls their core rock sound
from David Bowie and Neil Young, and adds the gypsy flavor
of the violin found in the works of Stephane Grappelli. With
a high-energy show that entices even the most jaded hipster
into busting a gleefully bohemian move, Kagero's world music
goulash is very tasty – even if you don't always know what's
you're eating. Just call them your local neighborhood urban-gypsophonic,
border-jumping, international debtor's prison groove-loving
feelgood band next door. |
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9:30-11PM |
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Jennifer Niceley
Pop / Country / Jazz
"If you're
still wondering what Billie Joe and his paramour threw off
the Tallahatchie Bridge, here's an unexplored theory: It was
the unborn blueprint for the music of Jennifer Niceley, a
Knoxville-raised, East Nashville-based singer and songwriter
with a flair for Southern gothic drama and a torch to bear
for all the hearts her after-after-hours croon sends down
river. With her new full-length debut Luminous, she rewrites
Bobby Blue Bland's "Blind Man" as "Blind Woman," letting a
luxuriant string section wash away the blues, and redefines
sultry soul the way Neko Case redefines moody alt-country or
Billie Holiday redefines jazz balladry. Guided by the
shadowy slide and distended riffs of guitarist Joe McMahan,
Niceley evokes midnight confessions, turbulent romance and a
dark, flowing, mysterious lyricism."
(Oct 2007, St. Louis Riverfront Times) |
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THURS
2/7 |
8:00-9:15PM |
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Avi Wisnia
Bossa Nova / Folk / Acoustic
Avi and his band is also playing here,
Thursdays, 8:00-9:15PM, on:
3/6. 4/3, 5/1 |
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TRIO GRANDE
Sean Driscoll, guitars, compositions
| Brad mason, flugelhorn | Christian Fabian, bass
| Marko Djordjevic, drums |
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FRI
2/8 |
7:30-9PM |
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Reni
Laine
At 19, Reni Laine has released a full-length CD, American
Baby, been featured in Nylon Magazine, blogged on Gawker and
The Ivy Gate, and toured in Europe - all while attending
Columbia University. Reni has even been featured singing and
performing her own song "American Baby" in promos for "THE
FIRST LADIES OF MTV/Virgin Mobile" campaign on MTV. |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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The Super Best Friends
Acoustic / Indie / Comedy
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SAT
2/9 |
9:00-11:00pm |
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Kristin Hoffmann
Also
playing here, 9-11pm, SaturdaysL
1/12, 2/9,3/8.
4/19, 5/17, 6/28, 7/19,
Kristin uses her classically trained voice and piano playing
to express her lyrics through the rock genre so effectively
that you as a listener become a part of her performance. The
joys,
laments and longings in her songs become your own as
she takes you to an incredible music journey
- Ishrat Ansari |
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SUN
2/10 |
7:30-9PM |
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Michael Sackler-Berner
Native New Yorker Michael Sackler-Berner will be performing
his original material with accompanist Jim Farkas (Joss
Stone, Steven Tyler). Michael SB's music has been licensed
on CBS and NBC. |
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9:00-10:30PM |
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Norman Vladimir
Pop / Alternative / Soul |
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MON
2/11 |
7:00-11:00
Sign-up
at 6:30 |
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Open Mic
Night
"Caffe Vivaldi has the reputation of drawing some of the
best songwriters around. Get there early for sign-up, and
get ready to be intimidated by the talent"
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Kim Ruel
(from "Open Mic Nights in New York City") |
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TUES
2/12 |
8:00-9:30pm |
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Jess King
Pop/ Soul / Rock
Jess is also performing here,
Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30pm: 1/29, 2/12, 2/26, 3/11, 3/25,
4/15, 4/29, 5/13, 5/27, 6/10, 6/24, 7/15 and 7/29. |
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WED
2/13 |
8:00-9:00pm |
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Michael Whalen
Pianist Michael Whalen has had a
remarkably diverse career as a Emmy® award-winning composer
for hundreds of television shows, dozens of films, theater
productions, multi-media projects and on his own successful
recordings as an artist and producer. Through it all, he has
resisted the footlights as a performer - until now. Michael
starts an ambitious series of concerts and special
performances through out 2008 at Greenwich Village's
charming Cafe' Vivaldi. Stop in from a chilly evening in a
cozy room to hear Michael's romantic and lovely melodies...
This is a special event to see him in such a small setting.
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THURS
2/14 |
8:00-11:00pm
Two Sets @ 8PM & 9:30PM |
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NO-SAPPY-LOVE-SONGS
-VALENTINE'S
DAY-
Double Bill
JAMIE LEONHART AND DANIELLE GASPARRO
"Songs We Love, For
People We Hate!"
FEATURING: Danielle Gasparro (piano/vocals), Jamie Leonhart
(vocals), Michael Leonhart (piano, trumpet, sexy toy-like
instruments),
Al Street (guitar), Gary Wang (acoustic bass),
Marc Dalio (drums)
Join vocal goddesses
Jamie Leonhart and Danielle Gasparro for a soul-drenched
evening as they perform a selection of songs they love to
sing, and that have meant a lot to them along the road of
love and loss. Each set will feature a number of carefully
selected, heart-wrenchingly good tunes that have been
penned by others, along with a few inspired ditties of their
own. None of which, of course, shall include the rhyming of
"love" with "dove", "heart" with "start", or "awfully nice"
with "paradise". And for the romantically inclined, songs of
love and gain will be making a cameo appearance, via the
profoundly talented Michael Leonhart. As the featured guest
artist/optimist of the night, Michael will be performing a
few choice heart-lifters. Of course, the seductive harmonies
of Jamie and Danielle, will abound. |
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FRI
2/15 |
7:30-9PM |
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Pamela Means Band
Jazz Project
"Means is,
quite simply, superb...Her guitar playing is very tasty
indeed, her voice...tender, and her version of Billie
Holiday’s “Strange Fruit” is heart-rending.”
- Hi Fi
Magazine |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Scott Sharrard Trio
Jeff Hanley -upright bass
Diego Voglino - drums
Scott Sharrad - vocals, guitar
About Vocalist/Guitarist Scott
Sharrard:
"One of the best
guitarists in the country…danceable soul grooves that
support a lyrical journey."
--
Larry Flick, Billboard Magazine |
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SAT
2/16 |
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Jason Darling Band
Classic Rock / 2-step /
Shoegaze
All brand new recently recorded songs
& some of your old favorites.
Jason Darling-Vocals, Guitar; Rod Hohl-Bass,
John Chin- Grand Piano; Diego Voglino - Drums |
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SUN
2/17 |
7:00-8:30pm |
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Premik
Russell Tubbs |
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9:00-11:00PM |
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Kelly Suttenfield
Jazz/Bossa Nova/Lounge
Kelley
Suttenfield is a vocalist in the classic jazz tradition,
delivering soulful interpretations of lyrics over a smooth,
swinging beat.
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MON
2/18 |
7:00-11:00
Sign-up
at 6:30 |
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Open Mic
Night
"Caffe Vivaldi has the reputation of drawing some of the
best songwriters around. Get there early for sign-up, and
get ready to be intimidated by the talent"
-
Kim Ruel
(from "Open Mic Nights in New York City") |
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TUES
2/19 |
900-11PM |
Ronnie Segev |
Ronnie Segev Special.
Ten O'Clock Classics presents...
PROJECT is a dynamic young group that is exciting audiences with
their energy and innovative style. Their sound can only be described
as a fusion of jazz, hip-hop, and world music - balanced out by a
sincere allegiance to their classical roots. PROJECT is a musical
experience not to be missed....
PROJECT is:
Greg Pattillo - Beatbox Flute
Eric Stephenson - Cello
Peter Seymour - Double Bass
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WED
2/20 |
8:00-9:30pm |
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Katie Arnold
Acoustic / Pop / Folk
Hailing from the outskirts of D.C., singer/songwriter
Katie Arnold has been writing music for the last 20
years. She started out on piano as a child, picked up
a guitar in college, and didn't discover the unleashed
power of her voice until her early twenties. With
influences ranging from Emmylou Harris to The
Cranberries, this up and coming artist is carving out
a niche for herself in the indie-acoustic music scene
of New York City. Katie’s passion-filled songs have a
fearless, yet graceful way of forcing people to stop
and recognize that a life untested is a life unlived.
“Her skilled vocals and song writing ability mark
Katie Arnold as a gifted talent.” -- Dave Kellogg,
syndicated radio personality
Jodie Manross
Folk Rock / Acoustic / Blues
“Her crisp voice and illuminative songcraft belie her
diminutive stature…equal parts wistful and urgent, it’s
atmospheric music that will touch your heart and mind.”
-Los Angeles' Entertainment Weekly
“It’s no wonder why people rave about her power to breathe
life into a song.”
- Boone, NC’s The Mountain Times
“Jodie’s voice is strong, rarefied and, to risk hyperbole,
maybe even angelic.”
– Knoxville, TN’s Metropulse
“Manross’ rafter-rattling vocals can shatter even the
hardest heart.
–Charlotte, NC’s Creative Loafing
With her acoustic-based, blues-influenced folk rock, Jodie
Manross has become one of Tennessee’s --and now New YorkCity--top
singer-songwriters. Known as “the little woman with the big
voice,” Jodie possesses a powerful voice much larger than
her size and surprises audiences with her soulful delivery
of songs. |
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THURS
2/21 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Matthew Brookshire
w/Erika Kapin on violin
Indie/pop/folk
Also playing here,
7:30-9PM, Thursdays:
2/21, 3/27, 4/24, 5/29, 6/26, 7/24.
Matthew
Brookshire is a Brooklyn based songwriter and performer,
whose
songs appeared in the recent Todd
Solondz film "Palindromes". Gabriel
Levitt of Jezebel Music calls Matthew
"a joyful and thoughtful songwriter.
Matthew brings an audience energetic
melodies with folk-pop flair, and a
uniquely high tenor vocal delivery."
Matthew's debut CD "8 Songs" is
available on iTunes and CDBaby. |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Michael Schoen
Acoustic / Rock / Pop
michael shoen |
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FRI
2/22 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Kristin Plater
Pop / Acoustic / Rock
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9:30-11:00pm |
Photo by
Todd Chalfant |
Sasha
Dobson
Jazz/Latin/Folk Rock
"A young singer trained in the verities of Ella Fitzgerald
and Sarah Vaughan, Sasha Dobson is starting to make music
that's more about her own time." - Ben Ratliff, NY Times
A Dazzling vocalist songwriter. Dobson will perform new
originals and songs from her new album "Modern Romance," an
enthralling amalgamation of Brazilian groove, pop and jazz |
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SAT
2/23 |
6:00-7:00pm |
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Jennings |
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7:30-9:00pm |
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Kyle and
Justin |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Christine Santelli
Roots Music / Blues / Rock
Also playing here on:
Saturdays,
3/29, 4/26, 5/31, 6/28. |
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SUN
2/24 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Mike
Block
Mike
Block - cello
Kyle Sanna (guitar)
In addition to regularly
playing with Yo-Yo Ma and Mark O'Connor,composer/cellist/singer/songwriter
Mike Block performs his original songs and compositions with
some great musician friends. more info and music at
www.mikeblock.net
Also playing here,7:30-9PM,
on Sundays 3/16, 4/13, 5/11, 6/1 |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Jody
Redhage
FIRE IN JULY
Featuring the original music of "adventurous cello
songstress" Jody
Redhage and some of the most versatile and talented
improvisers in New
York, Fire in July melds the finesse of chamber music with
the energy
of pop, rock, and jazz improvisation.
Jody Redhage, voice, cello, compositions
Ken Thomson, clarinets
Alan Ferber, trombones
Fred Kennedy, drums |
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MON
2/25 |
7:00-11:00
Sign-up
at 6:30 |
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Open Mic
Night
"Caffe Vivaldi has the reputation of drawing some of the
best songwriters around. Get there early for sign-up, and
get ready to be intimidated by the talent"
-
Kim Ruel
(from "Open Mic Nights in New York City") |
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TUES
2/26 |
8:00-9:00pm |
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Jess King
Pop/ Soul / Rock
Jess is also performing here,
Tuesdays, 8:00-9:30pm: 1/29, 2/12, 2/26, 3/11, 3/25,
4/15, 4/29, 5/13, 5/27, 6/10, 6/24, 7/15 and 7/29. |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Evan Panzer |
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WED
2/27 |
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Michael Whalen
Pianist Michael Whalen has had a
remarkably diverse career as a Emmy® award-winning composer
for hundreds of television shows, dozens of films, theater
productions, multi-media projects and on his own successful
recordings as an artist and producer. Through it all, he has
resisted the footlights as a performer - until now. Michael
starts an ambitious series of concerts and special
performances through out 2008 at Greenwich Village's
charming Cafe' Vivaldi. Stop in from a chilly evening in a
cozy room to hear Michael's romantic and lovely melodies...
This is a special event to see him in such a small setting. |
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Pamela Means |
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THURS
2/28 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Pete
Muller |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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ATLANTIC QUARTET |
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FRI
2/29 |
7:30-9:00pm |
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Joy Adler
Ambient / Folk Rock / Indie
"Blue*Rock*FolkSoul*World,
incredible voice, dynamic performer, great songs, powerful,
passionate, transforming. Joy not only writes great music,
she channels blazing light with her voice as she sings, and
no one is left unmoved..."
-Patricia White Buffalo, Santa Cruz, CA |
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9:30-11:00pm |
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Kate
Pivoriunas Band
pop/rock
Kate is the lead singer of an energy driven pop/rock band
that stands out for the quality of its lyrics and highly
professional musicianship of its members.
If you like rock, you will love this band.
Also playing here,
9:30-11:00PM on:
Friday, 2/29
Friday, 3/28,
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