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DAVID AMRAM meets THE AMIGOS- Thursday, April 17 at 8:00 pm

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Part of The Café au Go Go Revisited Music Series Running Thursdays through April 24 atGreenwich House Music School, 46 Barrow St. NYC

A Two Month Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Iconic Venue

at Greenwich House Music School

Thursday, April 17, 2014 DAVID AMRAM Meets THE AMIGOS

at Greenwich House Music School – 46 Barrow Street, NYC

Showtime: 8:00 pm

Tickets: $18

INCLUDES FREE OPEN WINE BAR ALL NIGHT

David Amram, the “Renaissance Man of American Music” (Boston Globe), was a frequent performer and friend of the Cafe au Go Go since its opening 50 years ago. As a multi-instrumental musician who plays more than 35 instruments, he introduced the French horn to jazz (along with Julius Watkins) more than sixty years ago while playing with many of the 1950`s jazz legends, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton and Oscar Pettiford. Some of his other musical collaborators include Bob Dylan, Tito Puente, Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson, Jack Kerouac, Odetta, Leonard Bernstein, Richie Havens, Arthur Miller, Langston Hughes, Joe Papp, Elia Kazan, Antonio Carolos Jobim, Patti Smith, Paddy Chayefsky, Steve Martin, Archibald MacLeish, John McEuen and Johnny Depp. Amram has conducted 75 of the world’s great orchestras, and composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, 2 operas, 23 Broadway scores, and 21 film scores, including the classic films Splendor in the Grass, The Manchurian Candidate, and Pull My Daisy. He is also a progenitor of international indigenous folk music to America over the past half century and has been referred to as the “Father of World Music.” Amram has authored three books, and has written the forewords to new biographies of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Andrew Zuckerman’s book and feature film documentary Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another, features David as one of the World’s 50 Elder Thinkers and Doers. The symphonic live recording of Amram’s composition THIS LAND: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, as conducted by David Amram with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra will be released in April 2014, along with the DVD release of Lawrence Kraman’s feature length documentary film, DAVID AMRAM: the First 80 Years.

Website: http://david-amram.blogspot.com

The Amigos Band (formerly The Tres Amigos) is a collective built on the belief that all genres of American music are branches of the same tree. They blend forms from country to zydeco, bluegrass to jazz, with intricate vocal harmony and a style all their own. The Amigos Band has appeared in recent performances with Pete Seeger, David Amram, New Orleans’ Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and Nellie McKay. They recently gave sold-out performances at New York City’s Lincoln Center. In 2013, the Amigos were chosen to serve as American cultural ambassadors for the American Music Abroad program by the U.S. Department of State. Their multi-country cultural exchange program will include public concerts, interactive performances with local traditional musicians, lecture demonstrations, workshops, jam sessions and media interviews and performances. They recently released their first album, Diner in the Sky, a mix of original and traditional American songs.

Website: http://theamigosband.bandcamp.com

All Tickets to Upcoming Concerts are $20 or Less – Available Now Online by Clicking Here

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Let your friends know about the Café au Go Go Revisited Series on Twitter: #cafeaugogorevisitedFor a complete schedule of upcoming shows as part of the Cafe au Go Go Revisited series, more information about the Café au Go Go’s fiftieth anniversary, photos and interview opportunities, contact GreenHousePublicity@gmail.com

Greenwich House Music School is a program of Greenwich House which was founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help Greenwich Village’s immigrant population adjust to life in NYC. Today, the staff remains true to its founder’s mission to help individuals and families lead more fulfilling lives by offering social and health services, cultural and education programs and opportunities for civic involvement to nearly 15,000 New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds annually. For more information about Greenwich House, contact Parisa Esmaili at pesmaili@greenwichhouse.org

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The Café au Go Go Revisited Music Series

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Celebrating The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary Village Venue

at Greenwich House Music School

**Opening night**

Monday, February 24, 2014

Scenes from a Café with DAVID AMRAM,

TERRI THAL, MATT UMANOV and moderator ASHLEY KAHN

Live Performance by STEVE CUIFFO as LENNY BRUCE

at Greenwich House Music School – 46 Barrow Street, NYC

Showtime: 8:00pm

Tickets: $20

Join us as we celebrate the would-be 50th anniversary of Café au Go Go, with original footage of artists performing at the Café in ‘Seven Years Underground: A 60s Tale’ directed by Jason Solomon, son of the original Café owners, Howard and Elly Solomon. A panel discussion will follow about the origination and history of the Café as music venue with David Amram, Terri Thal, Matt Umanov and moderator Ashley Kahn. Following a brief intermission,Steve Cuiffo performs Café alum Lenny Bruce’s material verbatim and in character.David Amram, the “Renaissance Man of American Music” (Boston Globe), was a frequent performer and friend of Café au Go Go since its opening 50 years ago. As a multi-instrumental musician versed in over 35 instruments, he introduced the French horn to jazz (along with Julius Watkins) more than sixty years ago while playing with many of the 1950`s jazz legends, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton and Oscar Pettiford. Some of his other musical collaborators include Bob Dylan, Tito Puente, Pete Seeger, Willie Nelson, Jack Kerouac, Odetta, Leonard Bernstein, Richie Havens, Arthur Miller, Langston Hughes, Joe Papp, Elia Kazan, Antonio Carolos Jobim, Patti Smith, Paddy Chayefsky, Steve Martin, Archibald MacLeish, John McEuen and Johnny Depp. Amram has conducted 75 of the world’s great orchestras, and composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, two operas, 23 Broadway scores, and 21 film scores, including the classic films Splendor in the Grass, The Manchurian Candidate, and Pull My Daisy. He is also a progenitor of international indigenous folk music to America over the past half century and has been referred to as the “Father of World Music.” Amram has authored three books, and has written the forewords to new biographies of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. Andrew Zuckerman’s book and feature film documentary Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give to Another, features Mr. Amram as one of the World’s 50 Elder Thinkers and Doers. The symphonic live recording of Amram’s composition THIS LAND: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, as conducted by David Amram with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra will be released in April 2014, along with the DVD release of Lawrence Kraman’s feature length documentary film, DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years. Website: http://david-amram.blogspot.com

Ashley Kahn is an author, educator, music journalist, and concert producer. A professor of music history and criticism at New York University who lectures at other institutions as well, his books include A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album, and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. Kahn’s writing has generated two Grammy nominations, three ASCAP/Deems Taylor Awards, and two Book of the Year distinctions from the Jazz Journalists Association.

Website: http://www.npr.org/people/4847621/ashley-kahn

Terri Thal was well known in the vibrant Greenwich Village art scene of the 1960s. During that time, she was married to (and managed) Village folk legend Dave Van Ronk, who is the inspiration behind Joel and Ethan Coen’s movie Inside Llewyn Davis. She also managed other folksingers, including Bob Dylan (for a year), the Holy Modal Rounders, Maggie and Terre Roche and Paul Geremia. A recent article Thal wrote on Inside Llewyn Davis generated intense discussion in the music and film worlds about whether the movie accurately reflected the folk music scene of the 60s.

Matt Umanov is the founder of Matt Umanov Guitars on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village. Since 1965, his store has been a must-visit for any guitarist passing through New York City who can explore his eclectic collection of guitars, amps, pedals, and other accessories. Over the years, Umanov has become equally well known for his deep knowledge of the guitar and the history behind the instrument.

Website: http://umanovguitars.com

Celebrated performer Steve Cuiffo has immersed himself in the work of Lenny Bruce, delivering sublime, hyper-real, verbatim resurrections of the great American thinker’s monologues. Fifty years after his death, Bruce’s often prophetic, freedom-loving skewering of American culture is as dazzling, hilarious and insightful as ever.

Website: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/01/24/110124ta_talk_friend

Upcoming Shows in The

Café au Go Go Revisited

Series:

March 6 – DOM FLEMONS and ELI “PAPERBOY” REED
March 13 – FALU
March 20 – PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER
March 27 – MICHAEL DAVES and TONY TRISCHKA
April 3 – JULIA HALTIGAN
April 10 – Getz Au Go Go Revisited: Another Look at Bossa Nova in the 1960’s
with VITOR GONCALVES, CESAR GARABINI, MARCOS KUZKA,
SERGIO KRAKOWSKI, EDUARDO BELO and FERNANDA BRAVO
April 17 – DAVID AMRAM meets THE AMIGOS
April 24 – DEVA MAHAL

All Tickets to Upcoming Concerts are $20 or Less – Available Now Online by Clicking Here

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For a complete schedule of upcoming shows as part of the Cafe au Go Go Revisited series, more information about the Café au Go Go’s fiftieth anniversary, photos and interview opportunities, contact GreenHousePublicity@gmail.com

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Café Au Go Go Revisited

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Greenwich House Music School presents

Café Au Go Go Revisited

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Iconic NYC Venue

Greenwich House Music School, located at 46 Barrow Street in the heart of the West Village, is proud to announce Café Au Go Go Revisited (CaGGR), a live performance festival commemorating the spirit and innovation of the short-lived yet legendary 1960s stage in celebration of the venue’s would-be 50th anniversary.

The series begins on February 24, with a special screening of Seven Years Underground, an intimate documentary on the history of Café Au Go Go directed by Jason Solomon. Mr. Solomon, son of Howard and Elly, the original owners of Café Au Go Go, will be on hand to present the film and speak about the rich history of the Café.

Café Au Go Go opened in February 1964 in the basement of 152 Bleecker Street and provided a stage for many of the greatest rock, jazz, folk and stand-up comedy performers of their era. A list of venue regulars reads like a who’s-who of the New York art and pop scene of the time: Van Morrison, Jefferson Airplane, Oscar Brown Jr., Judy Collins, George Carlin, Linda Ronstadt, Richie Havens, Muddy Waters, Odetta, Richard Pryor and Stan Getz. The Café set the stage for the first New York performance of The Grateful Dead, hosted Jimi Hendrix and is indelibly linked to the infamous obscenity arrest of Lenny Bruce following his shows at the club.

“The Café Au Go Go Revisited festival pays homage to the ingenuity and imagination of our one-time neighbor,” says Rachel Black, Director of Greenwich House Music School, whose vision to honor this period of Greenwich Village’s artistic history led to the production of the festival. “That spirit is at the heart of the work we do at Greenwich House and is reflected in the line-up for this inaugural festival.”

Ms. Black has invited Jennie Wasserman, previously of Carnegie Hall and Joe’s Pub and currently a member of the programming team at Jazz at Lincoln Center, to book the Café Au Go Go Revisitedfestival. Ms. Wasserman is assembling an impressive line-up of artists covering the fields of jazz, blues, folk, chamber pop, americana and classic soul and R&B, reflecting the diversity of programming that made Café Au Go Go great. The complete Cafe Au Go Go Revisited lineup will be announced shortly.

Live performances begin March 6 and will continue every Thursday thereafter through April 24. Tickets to all shows are available in person at Greenwich House Music School or online at GreenwichHouse.org/music_school/index beginning in February. Performances are general admission, first come first seated, and open to all ages. Wine and light refreshments will be served at most shows.

Jason Solomon, Director of Seven Years Underground; Elly Solomon, original owner of the Café Au Go Go; and Rachel Black, Director of Greenwich House Music School, are available now for interviews. For all press requests and ticket inquiries regarding Café Au Go Go’s 50th Anniversary and Greenwich House Music School’s Café Au Go Go Revisited festival, please contact: John Seroff at GreenHousePublicity@gmail.com.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Additional sponsorship funding provided by New York University.

Greenwich House was founded in 1902 as a settlement house to help Greenwich Village’s immigrant population adjust to life in NYC. Today, the staff remains true to its founder’s mission to help individuals and families lead more fulfilling lives by offering social and health services, cultural and education programs and opportunities for civic involvement to nearly 15,000 New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds annually. For more information about Greenwich House, please contact Parisa Esmaili at PEsmaili@GreenwichHouse.org.

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