BAM announces December BAMcafé Live programming

Lineup includes the international jazz of Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble, musical comedy with Judith Owen and Harry Shearer’s Holiday Sing-Along, the Afro-jazz of the Will Calhoun Trio, festive vocals with the GrooveBarbers’ A Cappella Holiday Concert, the rock-tinged cantorial sounds of the Sway Machinery, a North African and Middle Eastern celebration with TamarRaqs Winter Solstice Hafla, and the Afro-Caribbean sounds of Charanga Soleil

No cover! No minimum! Friday and Saturday nights

Brooklyn, October 31, 2013—BAMcafé Live (30 Lafayette Avenue)—the performance series curated by Darrell M. McNeill, associate producer, music programming—announces its lineup for December. BAMcafé Live events have no cover charge and no drink minimum. For information and updates, call 718.636.4100 or visit BAM.org.

For press inquiries, contact Lauren Morrow at 718.636.4129 x 1 or [email protected].

Friday & Saturday night schedule Dec 6—Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble Dec 7—Judith Owen and Harry Shearer’s Holiday Sing-Along Dec 13—The Will Calhoun Trio Dec 14—The GrooveBarbers' A Cappella Holiday Concert Dec 20—The Sway Machinery Dec 21—TamarRaqs Winter Solstice Hafla Dec 27 & 28—Charanga Soleil

Host: Phillip Andry House DJ: DJ Idlemind “The Appropriate Agent”

About the artists

Fri, Dec 6 at 9pm Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble Eugene Marlow’s Heritage Ensemble is a quintet—led by keyboardist and arranger Eugene Marlow—whose repertoire of original compositions integrate jazz, Afro-Caribbean, Brazilian, neo-classical, and Hebraic musical styles and rhythms. Comprising drummer Bobby Sanabria, saxophonist Michael Hashim, bassist Frank Wagner, and percussionist Obanilu Allende, the group has released three albums and was called “a cross-cultural collaboration that spins and grooves” by the New York City Jazz Record.

Sat, Dec 7 at 9pm Judith Owen and Harry Shearer’s Holiday Sing-Along Actor and comedian Harry Shearer (The Simpsons, Le Show) and his wife, critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter and humorist Judith Owen, come to BAMcafé Live for an evening of holiday music and mirth. The event unites Christmas-lovers and Scrooges alike, with traditional and non- traditional holiday music. A few surprise guests will drop in for this part performance, part sing-along holiday season kick-off.

Fri, Dec 13 at 9pm The Will Calhoun Trio Acclaimed jazz drummer Will Calhoun rose to fame as a member of the Grammy Award-winning hard rock group Living Colour. He has studied music in Senegal and Mali, and experiments with genres such as world music, ambient electronica, jazz, and hip-hop. Calhoun goes back to his roots on his latest project, Life In This World—a jazz-oriented album featuring the legendary bassist Ron Carter.

Sat, Dec 14 at 9pm The GrooveBarbers' A Cappella Holiday Concert The GrooveBarbers is an all-vocal powerhouse quartet featuring Sean Altman, Charlie Evett, and Steve Keyes of the pioneering modern a cappella group Rockapella (Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego?), as well as Kevin Weist. The ensemble is the go-to vocal group for rock, doo-wop, jazz, barbershop and—with the help of guest diva Inna Dukach— a hybrid genre they call “doowopera”. Deemed “a cappella rock and soul royalty” by the Village Voice, the GrooveBarbers will be joined at BAMcafé by beat-boxer extraordinaire Ed Chung of Duwende.

Fri, Dec 20 at 9pm The Sway Machinery The Sway Machinery comprises Jeremiah Lockwood (guitar and vocals), Jordan McLean (trumpet), Nikhil Yerawadekar (bass), Matt Bauder (saxophone), and John Bollinger (drums). The group’s sound is rooted in the cantorial tradition, with influences from each individual member’s musical past. The Sway Machinery has played in Australia, Israel, Poland, and Mali, and at Montreal Jazz Festival and Roskilde Festival in Denmark. The band’s upcoming EP, Monsters of the Ancient World, combines analog Brooklyn grime with loving echoes of West African pop music and futurist anthem rock.

Sat, Dec 21 at 9pm TamarRaqs Winter Solstice Hafla TamarRaqs ushers in the winter season with an evening of North African and Middle Eastern music and dance. Her much celebrated hafla—“party” in Arabic—will feature Scott Wilson & Efendi and dancer JennyRaqs, who will help her ring in the longest night of the year. Tamar has studied Raqs Sharqi (bellydancing) with masters such as Arianna al Tiye, Dalia Carella, and Elena Lentini and has performed at venues including Falucka, Au Bar, Lafayette Grill, and Café Figaro.

Fri, Dec 27 & Sat, Dec 28 at 9pm Charanga Soleil Charanga Soleil is a critically-acclaimed musical ensemble that brings together Cuban salsa, Congolese rumba-soukous, Haitian compas, Puerto Rican plena-bomba, and the beats of the African Diaspora. In addition to the standard charanga instrumentation (flute, violin, piano, bass, conga, vocals, and chorus), the instrumentation includes the Cuban tres and a full drum set, as well as a 21- string West African kora.

Credits

Viacom is the BAM 2013 Music Sponsor.

Pepsi is the Official Beverage of BAM.

Additional support for BAMcafé Live is provided by Con Edison. BAMcafé Live receives endowment support from the BAM Fund To Support Emerging and Local Musicians, created in part with a major gift from The Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust. Programming in BAM Lepercq Space is supported by The Lepercq Charitable Foundation.

General Information BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, and BAMcafé are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 30 Lafayette Avenue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). Both locations house Greenlight Bookstore at BAM kiosks. BAM Fisher, located at 321 Ashland Place, is the newest addition to the BAM campus and houses the Judith and Alan Fishman Space and Rita K. Hillman Studio. BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn’s only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafé, operated by Great Performances, offers small plate and prix-fixe dinner menus prior to BAM Howard Gilman Opera House evening performances. BAMcafé also features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music for BAMcafé Live on Friday and Saturday nights with a drink and small plate menu available starting at 6pm.

Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center (2, 3, 4, 5 to Nevins St for Harvey Theater) D, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Atlantic Terminal – Barclays Center

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