Hi,
You're invited to our fourth monthly "Saturday Showcase & Salon" to benefit WBAI -- entry is only $5, no minimum!
Come meet your favorite WBAI personalities. Excellent food, great music and radical politics in downtown Manhattan.
Saturday, February 4th, 2012 1 pm – 4 pm at the Lafayette Grill and Bar 54-56 Franklin Street in downtown Manhattan (3 blocks south of Canal Street, between Lafayette and Broadway) All trains to Canal St., or #1 train to Franklin St.
This month FEATURING:
* Stand-up comedian Katie Halper -- comic, writer, blogger, satirist and filmmaker. Can politics be funny, and not simply exhausting, scary and nauseating? We'll see. Katie writes and directs satiric videos, including "Jews/Women/Gays for McCain" (which went viral on the internet), and (serious side) co-directed New Yorkers Remember the Spanish Civil War, a video for Museum of the City of NY exhibit. Her next documentary? -- "Another Camp Is Possible," about her childhood experiences at Camp Kinderland where Katie camped (so to speak), and her mother and grandmother worked; AND,
* Rorie Kelly, Brooklyn-based singer & songwriter. Rorie is making a return engagement, after her riveting tear-the-roof-off performance a few months ago. Don't miss her! AND,
* Guest Speaker: Gary Null (in person), on "Who's poisoning the planet and what we can do about it." Gary's natural health and political commentaries can be heard every weekday at noon on WBAI, and on the internet over the Progressive Radio Network. Questions and comments are welcome; AND,
* The Big Road Blues Band, exploring the roots of the Blues (musically, as well as politically). Performing material from their latest album, "Crossroots", which will be available there. Big Road Blues Band is: Alan Podber--vocals, guitars, mandolin, harmonica; Ricky Eisenberg--vocals, guitars; Myriam Valle--vocals, guitars, mandolin, triangle; Ken Ficara--harmonica, guitar; Come meet your favorite WBAI personalities. Excellent food, great music and radical politics in downtown Manhattan. Deborah Monlux--fiddle; Jim Porter--frottoir (What's a frottoir? I have no idea!)
ALSO, possible walk-ons from returning performers (among others):
* Opera singer Katie Kat, in a return engagement! Katie brought down the house last month with her performance of Puccini's "Quando men vo" from La Boheme;
* R&B & funk guitarist extraordinaire Ahmad Ali, host of Stony Brook (WUSB) radio's "Cafe Ali" (and who sometimes co-hosts late night shows on WBAI), hopefully joined by WBAI's Ibrahim Gonzalez on the congas and Gary Cobin on harmonica.
* Topical singer-songwriter and jokester Marcy Gordon (the singing lawyer);
There'll be excellent Mediterranean food and drink, free hors d'oeuvres, and a bottle of wine as one of the door prizes (compliments of Dino, the owner of the Lafayette Grill); and mucho reading material & CDs. So come early, and stay late!
Entrance cost: Just $5 and no minimum we want to pull together our communities and thank WBAI members, management and staff, enjoy each other's company -- not soak WBAI listeners for what little funds they have! (And if you can't afford even that, don’t sweat it! No one turned away for lack of funds.)
Remember . Revolution is as American as Occu-pie.
- Mitchel Cohen Brooklyn Greens/Green Party, and Chair, WBAI (99.5 FM) Local Station Board*
* for ID only .
Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything, That's how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen