APRIL 29, 2011:
ELVIS PERKINS
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
JESSE HARRIS
host/curator DAVE GODOWSKY
and the noncerts house band:
Pico Alt, CJ Camerieri, Christina Courtin, Dave Godowsky, Jesse Harris, Clarice Jensen, Ben Lester, Eivind Opsvik, and Doug Wieselman.
100% of ticket sales will benefit music programs at public schools in Brooklyn.
April 29, 2011
Cameo Art Gallery
93 North 6th St, Williamsburg
8:00pm
Tickets: $20: www.cameony.com
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February 20, 2011
Featured performers:
GENE WEEN
HAMILTON LEITHAUSER (THE WALKMEN)
DAVID DONDERO
DAVE GODOWSKY
The noncerts house band will consist of:
PICO ALT (violin)
CJ CAMERIERI (horns, wurlitzer)
DAVE GODOWSKY (guitar, piano)
JESSE HARRIS (guitar, banjo)
MARIKA HUGHES (cello)
BEN LESTER (drums)
EIVIND OPSVIK (bass)
JENNY SCHEINMAN (violin)
DOUG WIESELMAN (clarinet, sax, guitar)
LEV “LJOVA” ZHURBIN (viola)
Cameo Art Gallery
92 North 6th St.,
Brooklyn, NY 11211
8:00pm
Tickets: http://tickets.cameony.com/events/Cameo-Gallery-NYC-New-York/AsUUUSudoUk
All proceeds benefit music funding for public schools in Brooklyn.
THE BAND
Violinist Pico Alt was born and raised in New York City and graduated from The Juilliard School of Music. She has performed in North and South America, throughout Europe, and played a season with the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. She recently appeared with Bruno Mars on Saturday Night Live and The Late Show with David Letterman and with Taylor Swift for her Thanksgiving Day Special. She has also worked with Sufjan Stevens, Teddy Thompson, and James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and is a member of the Knights Orchestra. Pico can be heard on the record labels of Sony Classical, Island, and DFA, as well as on the soundtrack to NBC’s 30 Rock.
Since graduating from The Juilliard School with a degree in classical trumpet, CJ Camerieri has maintained an active and exciting career as a freelance trumpet player, french horn player, arranger, and pianist for numerous indie rock bands. He has toured and recorded extensively with Sufjan Stevens, Rufus Wainwright, The National, Sean Lennon, and just recorded with and joined Bon Iver. He is also a co-founder of yMusic and is excited about upcoming recording projects with the ensemble including an instrumental record to be released on New Amsterdam records and a record of songs with Shara Worden to be released on Asthmatic Kitty.
Although best known for having written and played guitar on Norah Jones’ breakout hit “Don’t Know Why” (for which he won the Grammy Award for Song Of The Year), Jesse Harris is an accomplished producer and solo artist in his own right. He has released 10 albums, including his latest releases “Through The Night” and “Cosmo” (an all-instrumental recording) and has toured worldwide. His songs have been covered by numerous great singers, such as Smokey Robinson, Willie Nelson, Cat Power, Solomon Burke, Emmylou Harris, and many others.
Marika Hughes has performed with Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige and Sean Lennon and has recorded for many artists including Lou Reed, Ani DiFranco and Jolie Holland. She was the cellist in the Grammy-nominated Quartet San Francisco, and has had an eclectic musical career ranging from symphonies to Sesame Street.
Ben Lester is currently drummer/pedal steel-ist for A.A. Bondy. He also played drums on John Shade’s album “All You Love is Need.” He has toured as percussionist for Bon Iver and is currently working on a new album with Bon Iver drummer Sean Carey.
Eivind Opsvik is a Norwegian musician who’s been living in New York for over 10 years. His main instrument is the bass, but he also loves experiments with recording and mixing, playing lap steel guitar, old organs, drums, composing music, and running a record label; Loyal Label. His main projects are his band “Overseas”, the instrumental chamber-pop duo Opsvik & Jennings and his solo project. Eivind is currently working on a solo album. Eivind has collaborated with artists such as Bill Frisell, Paul Motian and Brian Blade.
Jenny Scheinman is a singer, violin player, composer and arranger. She has taken the #1 Rising Star Violinist title in the Downbeat Magazine Critics Poll and has been listed as one of their Top Ten Overall Violinists for the last five years. In addition, she has garnered numerous high-profile arranging credits with artists such as Lucinda Williams, Bono, Lou Reed and Sean Lennon, and has toured and recorded with Bill Frisell, Norah Jones, Madeleine Peyroux, Nels Cline, Vinicius Cantuaria, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Mark Ribot.
Doug Wieselman has worked as composer, arranger and musician with a variety of artists in different fields – in theater – with director Robert Woodruff and the Flying Karamazov Brothers, in dance with Jerome Robbins and Paul Taylor, and as musician with Victoria Williams, Robin Holcomb, Wayne Horvitz, Lou Reed, Tricky, Anthony Coleman, Laurie Anderson, Syd Straw, Steven Bernstein, Joan as PoliceWoman & John Lurie, among many others. He is currently composing music for the animated Nickelodeon show “The Backyardigans” in association with Evan Lurie.
Hailed by Billboard Magazine as “one of New York’s fastest-rising composers and instrumentalists”, and by the New York Times as “an eclectic with an ear for texture… strikingly original and soulful”, LJOVA (Lev Zhurbin) was born in 1978 in Moscow, Russia, and moved to New York with his parents, composer Alexander Zhurbin and writer Irena Ginzburg, in 1990. He divides his time between performing as a violist in diverse groups ranging from his own, LJOVA AND THE KONTRABAND, to string quartets, jazz combos and Gypsy bands; studying and arranging music for Yo-Yo Ma, the Kronos Quartet, Jay-Z, Gustavo Santaolalla, Osvaldo Golijov, Brooklyn Rider and others; and composing original music for film, TV, dance, and the concert stage.
