TONIGHT in NEW YORK CITY: THREE GREAT ENTERTAINMENT CHOICES

Peter Quinn's "Banished Children of Eve"
Peter Quinn’s “Banished Children of Eve”

As part of its series of events for young readers in New York , Commonweal Magazine has invited Peter Quinn—good friend of Commonweal, award-winning author and really fun guy to be around—to read from his novel of Civil War New York, ‘Banished Children of Eve’ to celebrate its 20th year in print (Peter will bring books for purchase).  It’s at Swift Hibernian Lounge, 34 E4th St., NYC, 7pm. And then Peter will hang out and share a drink; first round’s on Commonweal. So if you’re looking for useful writing tips, Bronx accents, original sin and local history, Swift is the place to be.

 

Tara O'Grady Jazz Trio
Tara O’Grady Jazz Trio

At 7:30pm Tara O’Grady and her band will be swinging at Winnie’s Prohibition Lounge, Refinery Hotel, 63 W. 38 Street at 6th Ave. 7:30-10:30pm. If you’re heading uptown maybe you can catch Tara’s act after Peter’s. 

 

Martina Fiserova
Martina Fiserova

Or, if you’re staying in the East Village, not far from Swift will be singer songwriter Martina Fiserova at Rue 7 Social Club at Klimat Lounge, starting around 9:30pm. 77 East 7 Street (between 1 and 2 Ave).  Prague native Martina will be celebrating her first year in NYC. She landed on the island exactly one year ago today. 

 

 

JOIN ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS, SATURDAY at SWIFT in NYC

What’s an Artists Without Walls gathering like? Is a picture worth a thousand words? This photo was taken at the Ed Romanoff’s performance at Rockwood Music Hall this past Tuesday night. A great evening of music, fun and laughter. Who can’t use a few hours of that?

 

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Well, Saturday, beginning at 4:30, AWoW will be convening at NYC’s Swift Hibernian Lounge located at 34 East 4th St., between Bowery and Lafayette.  All are welcome. If you’d like to bring an instrument–guitar, fiddle, accordion, bodhran, kamancheh, whistle whatever–or if you’d like to sing a song, recite a poem, or try something new go ahead, we encourage it. Maybe a collaboration between a musician and singer, or a storyteller or a poet might be fun. It’s all meant to be very informal. And, if you have a friend, musician or otherwise, who’d like to join us, bring them along.

 

We hope to see you then.