The NYNCS proudly presents a Fall Soiree & Benefit for the Society, Featuring Eden and John’s East River String Band, Psyche Corporation, Painless Parker, Montague Jacques Fromage, and more musicians and performers to be announced!
The event will be held at The Morgan, a spacious bar and venue in North Brooklyn! Two blocks away from the Morgan L stop, The Morgan is a twenty-minute ride from downtown Manhattan.
Purchase tickets online here! Advanced tickets have a discounted price of $10; tickets at the door are have the regular price of $12. All profits from the soiree goes to the NYNCS, and will be put toward future free historical programming and events, open to the public.
Details:
- New York Nineteenth Century Fall Soiree & Benefit Concert
- Friday, September 21, 2012, 8:00pm Sharp
- Location: The Morgan, 250 Varet Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206
- Subway Directions: 20 minute ride from Union Square on the L train… Morgan L Station is 2 blocks away on Bogart Street
- Amazing performances and musicians!
- Drinks and Libations!
- Fabulous period-insipred costumes encouraged (but optional)!
- Your ticket price goes toward a good cause — future free educational and historical programming presented by the NYNCS!
Performers:
Drawing from the vast spectrum of traditional American country blues music, Eden & John’s East River String Band create some of the most authentic sounding renditions of songs from the 1920’s and early 30’s. Focusing on both well known and lesser known country blues and some popular music from this era, their love and deep reverence for this music shines through in every song. Founded in 2006 the New York City based duo have released four albums and toured the US, Canada and Europe.
Psyche Corp. is named after a dream manufacture group from a future where widespread neural implants have allowed people to jack their nerve endings directly into the internet and download dreams. Songs deal in dystopian themes as well as the surreal psychological landscapes of sleeping minds. The musical style spans genres; a recent song has mixed tribal singing with classical piano while embedding poliovirus DNA into its percussion.
Behind the Painless Parker moniker is the musical output of one Noam Berg, an American-Israeli-Canadian no-goodnik whose zeal for music far outstrips any actual talent. What started out as a sandbox for ideas new and old slowly but surely mutated into a proper stage act which combines traditional and popular tunes with Painless Parker originals. The result is a mixed bag of country laments, sea shanties, murder ballads and classic rockers, filtered through a grimy, whiskey-stained punk lens.
The ever-smoldering Sky Claudette Soto has been performing with fire since 2002 “and Vlad joined me shortly after I began working with the flames.” Their performances are very athletic, incorporating contortion and other special abilities. “Our fire performances evolved through dedication and rehearsal,” Sky explains. They leave the audience “in a state of euphoria, bringing every feeling out and sending them home with a vision, a memory they can never forget.”
Lord MontyJacques III (alter ego of Montague Jacques Fromage, Lord High Admiral of Her Imperial Majesty Victoria’s Airship Armada) has taken Rap to an unbelievably new height… Victorian FUNK rap! Not just elementary droll rap extolling the virtues and vices of the Age of Steam, MJF III has originated and perfected Victorian rap with the scintillating hook of FUNK and lyrics that at times vie Gilbert and Sullivan for intricacy, wit and social commentary. Get Down and Funky, Victorian-style. Shake your bodice and your bustle! Snap those corset stays! You are cordially invited to submerge yourselves in a performance that is pure unadulterated fun and not to be forgotten!