Set your DVR! Parents Who Rock will be profiled on television on the 9 a.m. news show, CBS 2 News Saturday, on this Saturday, January 28. Alma Schneider will be interviewed and Ellen Paretti and Tim O'Connor will be performing. So be sure to tune in!
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What better way to start the year off right than by paying tribute to Bob Dylan while raising money for a great cause—women's health initiatives?
More than two dozen Parents Who Rock musicians will be performing their favorite acoustic Dylan covers Saturday, January 21 at StudioKids Art, 211 Glenridge Ave, Montclair, NJ. The show runs from 7 to 10 p.m. Admission is $10. All money will go to benefit Goals for Life.
The evening's performers include:
Michael Reitman
Rob Halper
Mark Egan
Ed Carine
Christine Kelly and Dylan Kelly Filkohazi
Alma Schneider, John Paul Uva and Doug Andrews
Carrie Cantor and Malcolm Marsden
Meg Beattie Patrick
David Rieth
John Paul Uva
Matthew Davis with Michael Carlucci (The Thousand Pities)
Ellen Paretti and Tim O'Connor
Andrew Klewan
Ron Holtz
Julian Keenan
Zara Phillips and Alvin Al
Jessica Henry
Aliza Mattensen and Ciaran Kinsella
Come on out and join Parents Who Rock and hear your favorite Dylan covers performed by your favorite, rockin' local parents! Space is limited so please RSVP to Alma Schneider at: alma@parentswhorock.com. StudioKids Art can be reached at 973-744-6484, mobile: 973-433-5797.
You can still buy tickets to see John Wesley Harding (JWH), aka Wesley Stace, who will be kicking off year with a house concert @The Art Studio/Studio Kids Art in Montclair on Saturday, January 28th. Megan Reilly (a Montclair local) will also sit in and do a few songs with JWH and on
her own.
Harding has released 17 albums, ranging from traditional folk to full-on pop music. His most recent, The Sound of His Own Voice (Oct. 2011), produced by Scott McCaughey and JWH, features a backing band with members of the Decemberists, Peter Buck, Rosanne Cash, John Roderick, Laura Veirs, and many others—13 new songs, many among his best since 1837 AD.
@The Art Studio is an intimate 50 seat venue where you can see and hear a great show in a house concert-like setting. Bring your own refreshments and kick back and listen to a fantastic show man who has recently released some of the best work of his career.
To learn more about JWH and his music and to purchase tickets, click here.
Click here to see his most recent video for "There's a Starbucks Where the Starbucks Used to Be"...a catchy tune with very clever lyrics.
@ The Art Studio/Studio Kids Art is located at 211 Glen Ridge Avenue, Montclair. Show is at 8 p.m.; doors open at 7:30. Tickets are $15. Phone 973-744-6484 for more info.
Parents Who Rockers Big Mamou and many others will be performing at the 3rd Annual Concert for Haiti.
Other performers include Jazz House Kids, Stephen Bryant, Passing Notes, Obed Jean-Louis, Chazzan: Meredith Greenberg and Leora Perlman, the Reticents, and Peri Smilow. Dr. Richard Besser from ABC news will also be on hand.
The show is set for February 11, from 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 67 Church Street, Montclair.
All proceeds will go to the Edeyo Foundation.
Tickets are $20 or $5 for children; additional donations are encouraged. Advance tickets are available at Terra Tea Salon or Watchung Booksellers. They can also be purchased online at www.ticketweb.com.
For event or volunteer info, contact: Cindy Stagoff at Cstagoff@comcast.net.
Parents Who Rock's The Bloomingfields will be performing live at Hat City Kitchen, Saturday, January 14.
The show starts at 9 p.m. Hat Cat Kitchen is located at 459 Valley Street, Orange, Nj. Cover is $10.
Come out for anight of great live music!
The Thousand Pities are, L-R: Matt Friedlander, Billy Donohue,
Matt Davis, Michael Carlucci, Ken Meyer, Racine Romaguera.
(Photo by: Mike Caffrey)
Montclair's The Thousand Pities will be returning to Tierney's Tavern on January 14,. Also on the bill that night will be Feelies spin-off, Yung Wu. The bands will be playing sets from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Thousand Pities formed around the songwriting and ears of Matthew Davis. In the late '80s and early '90s, Davis fronted the Western Massachusetts band The Vestrymen, whose pair of independent records garnered ecstatic reviews and plenty of college-radio airplay. After seven years of Econoline van touring—and sharing stages with acts like Aimee Mann's 'Til Tuesday, American Music Club, Robyn Hitchcock, Green Day and Belly—Davis called it a day in 1994, retiring his brand of jangly-guitar power-pop and heading off in non-musical directions.
In 2006, after a dozen years trying to ignore the songs that kept knocking on the door of his musical id, Davis began playing, writing and recording again, recruiting old band mates and new friends from his adopted New Jersey home turf to contribute their talents. The result is The Thousand Pities, whose personnel includes guitarist Michael Carlucci (formerly of N.J. college-radio darlings Winter Hours and current leader of East Of Venus, which also features members of The Feelies and The Bongos), keyboardist Billy Donohue (another former Vestryman, who has also played with John Cale, Inger Lorre and New Brunswick/Jersey shore favorites The Blasés) and drummer Ken Meyer (of long-lived New York City group Life In A Blender). Rounding out The Pities' sound are guitarist/singer Matt Friedlander (whose résumé includes N.J.-based indie-rockers Painted Birds and garage-bashers The Miscreants) and bassist Racine Romaguera.
The Thousand Pities' debut album, Believe In Sound (OverPop Music), was released in the spring of 2011 and features sonic contributions from beat master Stan Demeski (The Feelies, Luna) and singers Deena Shoshkes (The Cucumbers), Briga Heelan, Aviva Patz and Lane Gardner.
The Thousand Pities have also recorded a handful of covers and tributes under the name of their alter-ego: The Parkway Charlies. Among these is a version of "4:04" that is featured on the deluxe edition of the compilation Ciao My Shining Star: The Music of Mark Mulcahy, which came out in September 2009. Other contributors include Thom Yorke (Radiohead), Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Frank Black (Pixies), A.C. Newman (New Pornographers) and The National. Meanwhile, The Parkway Charlies' rendition of "Ten Minutes" graces the late-2008 compilation A Few Uneven Rhymes: A Tribute to Winter Hours, which also includes tracks featuring members of The Violent Femmes, Nada Surf and The Feelies.
Tierney's Tavern is located at 136-138 Valley Road.
PWR member Nat Grauman has put a new band together covering favorite tunes from the '70s through the '90s. The Baby Please is rocking its inaugural gig on Friday, December 23 at Highland Place in Maplewood Village.
Nat does an acoustic set at 8 p.m. featuring some surprise guests. The Baby Please plays from 9 -11:30 p.m.
Highland Place is located at 5 Highland Place, Maplewood.
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