NY Saw Festival, July 18 Queens

Natalia Paruz, also known as "The Saw Lady" has spent the last 10 years bringing the art of the musical saw to audiences high and low. She is a NYC subway musician that has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta, at Carnegie Hall, at Madison Square Garden, and at numerous other events, including the Spoleto Festival, Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion, and on film, radio, and television.

Natalia has received citations of honor from the New York City Council, the New York State Senate and a medal of honor from Paris, France. She's been featured in the "Best of" of numerous magazines, and people love to write about her work. I think it's no stretch of the imagination to say that she is one of the pre-eminent Musical Saw Players in the world.

She is putting together the world's largest convocation of Musical Saw Performers on Saturday July 18 in an attempt to break a Guinness world record for largest Musical Saw Ensemble.

If you want to find out more, visit http://www.musicalsawfestival.org.

If you'd like to find out more about Natalia, (including listening to some samples of her music, you can visit her website and/or blog, listed below.

WEBSITE: http://sawlady.com
BLOG: http://sawlady.com/blog/


Natalia has created a special webpage on her site about Musical Saw playing clowns which it would behoove you to check out:
http://www.sawlady.com/Clowns.htm

Maestrosities in Brooklyn with Orchestra June 13

The Maestrosities (the self-proclaimed coolest band ever) is a group of clown musicians who have a really good time while playing instruments. They've announced a collaboration with The Brooklyn Conservatory Community Orchestra.

On the program:

Finlandia - Jean Sibelius

Peter and the Wolf - Sergei Prokofiev

The William Tell Overture - Tonto

They most certainly won't be interfering with the arrangements, instrumentation or integrity of these pieces.
No, what you will hear at this set of concerts is musicians playing music to the best of their ability.
And it definitely won't be fun or funny.

They'll also be playing a set of their favorites from the 80s, 20s, and today.

Here's what you need to know:

When: Two concerts - Saturday, June 13th, 2:30 pm and 5pm

Where: The Irondale Center - 85 South Oxford Street in Fort Greene

( Just around the corner from BAM )

How much: $15/$8 students and seniors. Purchase now. This will sell out.

http://www.zerve.com/BQCMusic/Comm

To get tickets by phone call Zerve at 212.209.3370

If you have questions email louis@TheCoolestBandEver.com

Or visit http://www.thecoolestbandever.com

Safety Last, with Ben Model Riverdale, NY 1/26

Safety Last with Ben Model

Yes, it's Harold Lloyd in his iconic climb up the side of the 12-story Bolton Building, accompanied live by Ben Model, a silent film historian and accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In 1997 he founded "The Silent Clowns Film Series" with film historian Bruce Lawton. Ben composes all his own scores, and performs in a style that is both evocative of the silent era and also aware of a contemporary (and younger) audience's awareness of music and film scoring. Ben composes and improvises all his own scores, and performs in a style that is both evocative of the silent era and also aware of a contemporary (and younger) audience's awareness of music and film scoring. After each movie - come upstairs to our candle-lit cafe and enjoy complementary coffee, wine, and sweets before you go home for the evening.
Saturday, January 26, 2008 at 8:00 PM
Neuwirth Theatre
5625 Arlington Avenue
Bronx, NY 10471
Map & Directions
TICKETS ARE $12 and available online: http://www.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=121438

Sxip Shirey and his Hour of Charm

Sxip Shirey is a sound designer, performer, story-teller, curator, and real-life circus composer. He performs on a number of unique and bizarre instruments, some of his own devising, including the Obnoxiophone, the Industrial Flute, Mutant Harmonicas, and more. He is also the world's foremost champion of the Tampon as a musical instrument.

Sxip Shirey came to New York City when he joined The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus in the year 2000, This started him in a circus/theater direction and he composed music for Anti-Gravity and for the pyro-technic clowns of the Daredevil Opera Company, performing, composing and appearing at The New Victory Theater on Broadway, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Kennedy Center and the Sydney Opera House. His gypsy-tango-klezmer-punk band The Luminescent Orchestrii tours internationally and is part of the wild Balkan scene in New York City, their track "Amaritzi" is featured on the new Putumayo compilation "Balkan Groove".

Sxip has toured the U.S. as support act for the Dresden Dolls and performed at their two days festival at the Round House in London England. In Adelaide Australia, his show was a hit at their biannual Fringe Festival. In New York City he performs and curates a high powered variety night called Sxip's Hour of Charm at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater. Last winter he composed music for Marsupial Girl by Lisa D'Amour for The Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis in a project developed with New Dramatists in NYC. He has also composed for works at the Ohio Theater, HERE, the Southern Theater and Inter-Media Arts in Minneapolis and has toured East Coast Colleges with the puppet theater piece Savage Nursery by Erin Orr developed through a grant from the Henson Foundation. He has also performed at The Knitting Factory, Tonic, Makor and many underground parties in Brooklyn.

Sxip's Hour of Charm will be making an early fall appearance at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge. The show will feature a number of New York variety entertainers, including the fabulous Una Mimnagh doing aerial stunts, Scott Davis as the "Red Bastard", and Bronx Cowboy AJ Silver. among others. Shows will run weekends from Sept. 14-30 Sept. 14-30 (Friday and Sunday at 8pm, Saturday at 7pm & 10pm) at the Zero Arrow Theater. For tickets call (617) 547-8300 or visit http://www.amrep.org

For more information about Sxip's work, please visit his websites listed below.
http://www.sxipshirey.com

http://www.myspace.com/sxipshirey

http://sxip.blogspot.com/