Brand new CMJ show added, so come on out!

The JSB @ The Living Room
Tonight, Wed, 10/22
midnight

Also This week in CMJ:
The JSB @ The Mercury Lounge
Tomorrow, Thu, 10/23
8pm

The JSB, Goes Cube, XYZ Affair, Frauke @ Union Hall
Sat, 10/25
1pm

Hello lovelies,

Come out, come out, where ever you are and check out The Jones Street Boys next Thurday, 8pm at the Mercury Lounge.  We’ll be performing as part of the massive NYC supermusic festival CMJ.  You know we’d love to see you there.

Specs:
Mercury Lounge - Houston & Ludlow, NYC
Tickets are $12, or free with a CMJ badge
JSB take the stage at precisely 8pm.  Get there early!

A pieplate full of rock and a breadpan filled with soul,
The Jones Street Boys

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Hello Lovelies,

First off, thanks to all who came out last thursday night to Housing Works and made the Live From Down Home debate party such a success.  While the debate may have been a little anti-climatic, seeing your smiling faces wasn’t!

This Friday we’ll be doing double duty in Cobble Hill.  We’ll be starting the night at the annual Big Brooklyn Pig Roast thrown by Earmfarm and Brooklyn Based at the best venue in the city by the Gowanus canal, The Yard.  There’s going to be, well, pig (yes please), a cash bar, and three great Brooklyn Bands (with the JSB closing out the band portion of the evening at 8:15).

THEN, we’ll pack up our gear, and head a few blocks away to Brooklyn’s brand new major rock club hotspot, The Bell House.  Put together by the same Brooklyn ownership that brought you Union Hall and Floyd’s, The Bell House aims to be THE place in Brooklyn to see great live music.  And after a trip there this weekend to see our good buddies Goes Cube punish the soundman with their crushing riffs, we’re really excited!  The Bell House is really quite something and still smells like freshly hewed wood!  We’ll be helping break the place in with a FREE impromptu gig…

OH and if that weren’t enough, we’ll be joined in this christening by rock of the Bell House by Sam’s other amazing big band of rogues THE XYZ AFFAIR.  That’s right, while the other 4 members of the JSB whine and stretch and fall asleep in the corner, exhausted from our Friday night double duty, Sam (stud that he is) will still be going strong doing TRIPLE DUTY.  Buy that man a drink!

Specs:
Big Brooklyn Pig Roast
Friday, October 10 at The Yard, 388-400 Carroll St.
Doors open at 6pm, $1 Sixpoints until 7pm, JSB perform @ 8:15pm.
Tickets include all food and are $32 advance, available here>> and $40 at the door
Cash Bar
Free for kids ages 10 and under

The JSB @ The BELL HOUSE
w/ XYZ AFFAIR!!!
149 7th Street in Brooklyn, NY.
FREE SHOW -  Time TBA

Because it’s hard to feel shame at a pig roast,
The JSB
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Hello Lovelies,

Come join us this Thursday for an evening of Americana and American Politics.  As part of this Thursday’s monthly event, Live From Down Home, hosted by Housing Works Used Bookstore and your friendly neighborhood Jones Street Boys, we’ll be watching the Vice-Presidential debates live!  It’s a Debate Party!!!

The Jones Street Boys will perform at 8pm followed by a live big screen broadcast of the VP-Debates.  Then, hold on to your socks as the marvelous Junior League Band with Erik Lawrence will perform.

Specs:
THIS Thursday, 8pm
Housing Works Used Bookstore - 126 Crosby St.
FREE Show, Cash Bar - All Proceeds benefit Housing Works / AIDS Assistance

Because we want you to shout the chorus of Neville with us and then ponder the election,
The Jones Street Boys

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Hello Lovelies,

Here’s hoping you’re unpacking your fall closet with relish like we are!  Come out this Thursday and show us your jackets and scarves and we’ll play you a song or 12.  We’ll be back in Brooklyn at Union Hall on a triple threat bill with out of towners Jim Bianco (LA, CA) and The Old Ceremony (NC).  The JSB take the stage at 7:30pm.  Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance here.

Specs:  Union Hall, 702 Union / 5th Ave., Park Slope, Brooklyn
7:30pm, JSB; $10 cover

Till Thursday,
The JSB

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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.

Hello Lovelies,

The curtain is upon us. We’ve had a great summer swimming through the theatre worlds of Hamlet and McCarren Park Pool. And after this Friday, we close it down and call it a memory. If you haven’t yet had a chance to see all the hard work that has gone into mounting 12 Ophelias and hear the score we’ve composed, this week is your last chance.

The final performances are this Wed, Thu, and Fri. You can also stick around and have a few drinks with the cast and crew on friday, as the JSB’ll perform immediately after Friday’s final show. Don’t miss it!

You can get tickets in advance here: https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/2522

Doors/gates open at 7:50pm.

To the pool!
The JSB

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Hello Lovelies,

If you haven’t had a chance yet to take a trip to McCarren Park Pool to see Woodshed Collective’s production of Twelve Ophelias this week we’ve got the perfect opportunity for you.  The Jones Street Boys will be performing a set of their own music after this Friday’s (8/8/08) performance.  There will be beer for sale, sunsets to absorb, theatre in the round, and of course your friendly neighborhood Jones Street Boys singing their hearts out.  And if that weren’t enough, afterwards we’ll be celebrating the birthday of our beloved singer/harmonica badass, Jon Hull.

You can get tickets in advance here:  https://www.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/2522
Doors/gates open at 7:50pm.

Get thee to the pool,
The JSB

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Hello lovelies,

Hopefully you’ve heard a peep or two from us about this great theatre piece we’re involved with this summer at McCarren Park Pool - 12 Ophelias. We’re in the midst of press previews right now and we think we have a very entertaining show for you to enjoy.

I’ve got to admit, we’re so used to banjo strings and beer cans as our backdrop that it has taken this bunch of lunkheaded musicians a few extra beats to get used to the greasepaint and set design of the theatrical world. But the band’s got the flow, the cast are outstanding actors and actresses, and the crew works overtime making sure everything is ready and running properly.

We eagerly await opening night!

Come join us this Friday, July 18th for the official opening of 12 Ophelias! To help mark the occasion, get to the Pool early, as we’ll be playing a set of JSB music before and after the performance. We’ll play 4 shows like this during the the summer run so mark your calendar for these JSB set dates: 7/18, 8/8, 8/16, 8/22. The play will start nightly around 8pm, but on these dates the JSB will start playing @ 7pm. Don’t be late or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will punish you mercilessly!

Because sometimes sleep is a rare gift,
The JSB
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Hi all! Here’s a few great live happenings for you to join us in over the next two weeks:

TOMORROW Tue, 6/17 - The JSB head back to Pianos to play an early set in support of Samantha Crane and the Midnight Shivers. We’ll be on at 9pm followed by Samantha and then Born at Sea. The Woes open the night.

Sun, 6/22 - We’ll be cleaning up the crumbles after Stinky Brklyn’s Cheese Eating Contest during the Smith Street Fair. The JSB will perform at 4pm. Come out and join the festival! (F/G Train to Bergen/Carroll in Brooklyn)

Thu, 6/26 - Live from Down Home! Join Housing Works Bookstore and The Jones Street Boys as we kick off a monthly celebration of roots music at the Bookstore. On Thursday, June 26, at 8pm the first LIVE FROM DOWN HOME will feature the indie folk singer Luke Temple. Free admission, cheap drinks, and a guaranteed good time. The Jones Street Boys will open the show and host the evening. Luke Temple 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 jam. All proceeds benefit Housing Works Inc.

Luke Temple released his first EP in 2004, on Mill Pond Records, and followed it up with his first full-length album, Hold a Match for a Gasoline World in 2005. In the fall of 2006 his song “Make Right with You” was featured in an episode of Grey’s Anatomy. With indie rock kingpins Ben Gibbard and Sufjan Stevens now heralding his voice as one of the best in the business, Temple released his sophomore effort, the quirkily intimate Snowbeast, in 2007.

“Luke Temple has one of the most beautiful voices in pop music.” – Sufjan Stevens
“Mr. Temple isn’t part of any particular school — not even that all-purpose new songwriters’ catchall, freak-folk — and his private world is fascinating.” – Jon Pareles, New York Times

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