Americana at the Bookstore: LIVE FROM DOWN HOME with Michael Daves and

The Jones Street Boys

 

Housing Works Bookstore hosts a night of free music on Friday September 5, at 8pm. this month’s LIVE FROM DOWN HOME will feature Michael Daves and the The Jones Street Boys. Free admission, cheap drinks, and a guaranteed good time.

 

The Jones Street Boys will open the show and host the evening. Michael Daves will headline, followed by an open jam session for whoever brings an instrument. If you bring an instrument and you play it, you get $1 off drinks all night! Each month will feature special headlining acts followed by open bluegrass jams. All proceeds benefit Housing Works Inc

 

 

Michael Daves is “a dazzling guitarist and fearless singer at the heart of a burgeoning New York City bluegrass scene” (The New York Times). He hails from Atlanta, Georgia and currently lives in New York.  As well as performing solo, Michael has appeared in public with the likes of: Tony Trischka, Chris Thile, Rosanne Cash, Natalie MacMaster, and John Herald (of the Greenbrier Boys). Michael’s debut album, Live at the Rockwood is recordings of Michael performing bluegrass music at the Rockwood Music Hall in New York City.

                       

The Jones Street Boys make American music that is both contemporary and classic in its scope - veterans of New York City’s roots music community, their debut album, Overcome, was released in October of 2007. They are currently recording a new album and were recently commissioned to compose and perform the music for a new play, Twelve Ophelias, which was performed this summer at Brooklyn’s historic McCarren Park Pool.  www.myspace.com/thejonesstreetboys - www.thejonesstreetboys.com.

 

“Listening to The Jones Street Boys is like running down a mountain on a switchback trail, the sound of surprise generating its own momentum.  There’s a punk glee inside the bluegrass craft — and a punk vehemence inside the bluegrass smile”

~Greil Marcus, author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces

 

“Charming, unusually graceful.”

~New York Times 

 

“The band’s ingratiating 2007 release, Overcome, applies the warmth of traditional music to tales of young, urban life in the modern age, coming across like 1995 Wilco with the sensibility of 2007 Wilco.” ~The Onion AV Club

 

 

GETTING THERE:

Housing Works Bookstore Café

126 Crosby Street (one block east of Broadway between Houston and Prince)

Subway: W, R to Prince; B, D, F, V to Broadway/Lafayette; 6 to Bleecker

General Information: (212) 334-3324

 

 

Housing Works Bookstore Cafe Fighting AIDS One Book At A Time

Housing Works Bookstore Café is an independent cultural center that offers patrons a unique opportunity to join the fight against AIDS and homelessness. Arts-based philanthropy in practice, we allow visitors to make a difference simply by buying or donating books; eating at our cafe; coming to concerts, readings, and special events; or volunteering for our staff.

 

We are a non-profit organization that relies entirely on donations to stock our store and volunteers to run it. All proceeds directly benefit our parent organization, Housing Works, Inc., the nation’s largest minority-controlled AIDS service provider. Housing Works provides housing, healthcare, job training, and advocacy for New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS. As an activist organization, we are committed to implementing the systemic changes necessary to ensure that AIDS and public health policies are sound in concept and equitable in administration.

 

 

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