Events at the Recovery Lounge and Upper Jay Arts Center

June 12 Saturday, 8:00pm.	BIG SLYDE - At first sight, Big Slyde's instrumentation seems atypical. At first note, it becomes refreshingly familiar. Building on the foundation of guitar and cello, enhanced by the bouzouki, banjo, and dobro, the intensely original music of Big Slyde can carry you to strange and beautiful places. No cover. BYOB John Doan: Banjo, Dobro, Dojo, Guitar, Vocals Hannah Doan: Bouzouki, Guitar, Vocals Mikey Portal: Guitar, Vocals Christina Grant: Cello
June 25 Friday 8:00pm	Play Reading- God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza This dark comedy won the 2009 Tony Award for best play on Broadway. Cast includes- Dorian Gossey Melissa LaValley Bob Andrews Brian LaValley Admission is free
July 17 Saturday 8:00pm	Semi-free Janine Nichols voice, rhythm guitar Brandon Ross guitar JANINE NICHOLS is the “arrestingly plaintive” (Village Voice) singer, ever more frequent songwriter and rhythm guitarist in a band she calls SEMI-FREE in recognition of her genre-jumping ways. Nichols had been producing live music in New York for more than 20 years when she first put a band together following a series of show-stealing performances in the multi-artist “concept shows” she masterminds with Hal Willner, most recently in the Cultural Olympiad accompanying the Vancouver Olympics. For this performance, Janine will be accompanied by the exquisite guitarist BRANDON ROSS, who invented the word “future-folk” to describe the sound he chases. Brandon has played, among so many toweringly great others, with Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Myra Melford, Stomu Takeishi and Me’Shell N’degeocello; he also was music director for Cassandra Wilson in her rise to fame. Brandon co-leads the avant power trio Harriet Tubman in addition to several acoustic ensembles and has been observed by both Janine Nichols and the magazine Jazz Times to join “linear facility and originality” with “cathartic abandon,” rare and redemptive qualities. Tempos are often languid. Fevers always run high. “Her idiosyncratic sense of time and space elevates everything she sings.” David Greenberger, Metroland “Watch her stop time.” Jim Macnie, lamentforastraightline “Janine is one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard.” Terry Adams, NRBQ www.semi-free.com No Cover
July 29,30,31, Aug. 1,5,6,7,8	The play True West, by Sam Shepard look below for information about the Special Benefit Performance Performances - at 8:00pm. Tickets- $18. Reservations required. Call 946-8315 Cast: Brian LaVallee, Scott Renderer, Harry Fine, Susy Doolittle
Aug 7th 8:00pm	Special Benefit Performance August 7th 6:00pm Pre-Show Mongolian Grill & Open Bar Drinks at Intermission Post Show Cast Party Tickets $50 All Proceeds to Benefit the Upper Jay Art Center Reservations Required Call 946-8315 pay at the door