LINDY LOO'S COUNTRY CUZINS is an old school variety show featuring comedy and country music from the stars on the NYC&W scene. With a changing cast of the best and the brightest each month, the vibe is fun and loose with all the audience feeling like members of Lindy's Hillbilly Family by the end of the night. Only at a wonderfully intimate venue like Banjo Jim's can you experience a show as rollicking and welcoming as this one.

This month featuring:
Brother Flower, Sammo, Drina Seay, Lindy Loo & Jake Leg Strutters, Uncle Fidget & the Methtones, Chicky Wicky www.bigcityhick.com
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Sign-up 2:30; music 3-6:30pm - every Saturday afternoon

For the best in Old-time, Country, Jazz, Blues, Pre-Blues and original songs, come on down to Banjo Jim's on the 2nd Saturday night of every month, hosted by Eli Smith of Down Home Radio.

Steve Tarshis and his Instrumental Trio return to Banjo Jims...playing an eclectic mashup...tunes by the likes of Bob Marley, Beatles, Ray Charles, Buena Vista Social Club, Neal Young, Police, Smokey Robinson, lots of Blues, Jazz Standards, traditional Americana, R&B...The Ventures meet Bill Frisell...Steve and his telecaster will be joined by Dave Hofstra on upright bass and Robin Gould on drums...and some very special guests!

Western swing!

Dennis Lichtman and Tamar Korn of the Cangelosi Cards are holding down the fort every Monday while the Cards take a break. Classic tunes a la Bob Wills, plus new arrangements. The usual lineup includes Tamar (vocals), Dennis (mandolin, fiddle, clarinet), Matt Munisteri (guitar), Raphael McGregor (steel guitar), Kevin Dorn (drum), Jared Engel (bass), and other special guests coming through all the time.

... a songwriter's heaven in a bottle ...

"...a sort of Medeski, Martin and Mahavishnu thing that cuts loose from tight heads to travel the spaceways." VILLAGE VOICE JNS has haunted NYC in various forms since its formative Knitting Factory Tap Bar days in the mid-90's; the group's newest incarnation uses laptops, mysterious pedals, and outright wonkiness to elevate the Situation to 21st century standards, for worse or, perhaps, better.

"Teddy is not as dumb as I look. He's an effects monster, a lick meister who leaves a cool, refreshing taste in your ears." -Adrian Belew

Teddy's music reflects that fact that he is comfortable with the eccentric and the mainstream equally. He straddles the line between songwriter, jam band, guitar hero and avant funkster. Teddy's vast experience with guitar effects is showcased in his newest group the Teddy Kumpel Orchestra (TKO), a trio with Saturday Night Live drummer, Shawn Pelton and bassist extraordinaire, Tim LeFebvre. Teddy's unique take on live looping and texturally advanced use of the Line 6 M13 has been wowing audiences in New York and elsewhere for the last couple of years.

Sign-up 2:30; music 3-6:30pm - every Saturday afternoon

THE WHISTLIN' WOLVES are the only whistling - harmonica - ukulele - fiddle - guitar - banjo - jew's-harp - mandolin - bass - vocal harmony group around - great traditional music with a few originals thrown in!!!

The Band features the ukulele, fiddle, vocals and two time world championship whistling of EMILY EAGEN; the cookin' harmonica, and singing of TRIP HENDERSON; the wizard of the strings & things SPIFF WIEGAND on vocals, banjo, mandolin, guitar, and jew's-harp; and CHRIS Q. MURPHY singing, playing bass and guitar.

From my days producing country tunes in New York and Nashville, I have always loved an authentic sound mixed with creative inspiration, and the NYCity Slickers are all that and more. They are the best toe tappin' / leg shakin' / put a smile on your face / good time band I know.

~ David M. Pincus
Managing Director / WorkShop Theater Company Chair, Theater Task Force / NYC Community Board 4

Western swing!

Dennis Lichtman and Tamar Korn of the Cangelosi Cards are holding down the fort every Monday while the Cards take a break. Classic tunes a la Bob Wills, plus new arrangements. The usual lineup includes Tamar (vocals), Dennis (mandolin, fiddle, clarinet), Matt Munisteri (guitar), Raphael McGregor (steel guitar), Kevin Dorn (drum), Jared Engel (bass), and other special guests coming through all the time.

Entertainer and protege of the late Eubie Blake, has produced over 40 albums. His THIS IS RAGTIME is the definitive book on the subject, and his 26-part series with the same title for National Public Radio fueled the 1970's ragtime revival.

special guests Thirsty Dave ( David Hanson, of Western Caravan) and Lisa Lowell. All proceed will go to Save the Children for Haitian Relief. Suggested donation $10, but no one will be turned away!

Gut-wrenching harmonica playing, howling whiskey ballads, and soul-filled, fingerpicking country and blues guitar. East River Blues Band is: Ken Hughes, Dan Cumberland, Tom Brumley, Bill Acost

Sign-up 2:30; music 3-6:30pm - every Saturday afternoon

One of the most richly multistylistic songwriters of recent years, Jenifer Jackson's bossa-nova inflected songs are like a tropical breeze with an undercurrent of wintry unease - disarmingly honest, unaffectedly poetic, solace for anyone who's spent this past winter here. Lucid Culture called her most recent album The Outskirts of a Giant Town 'the first instant classic to be released this year.'

more info soon!

Western swing!

Dennis Lichtman and Tamar Korn of the Cangelosi Cards are holding down the fort every Monday while the Cards take a break. Classic tunes a la Bob Wills, plus new arrangements. The usual lineup includes Tamar (vocals), Dennis (mandolin, fiddle, clarinet), Matt Munisteri (guitar), Raphael McGregor (steel guitar), Kevin Dorn (drum), Jared Engel (bass), and other special guests coming through all the time.

Entertainer and protege of the late Eubie Blake, has produced over 40 albums. His THIS IS RAGTIME is the definitive book on the subject, and his 26-part series with the same title for National Public Radio fueled the 1970's ragtime revival.