we are eagerly anticipating our next Boston show, which is taking place on Saturday, May 19th at the beautiful all-ages, grand-piano toting venue, Cafe 939. Heather Christian & the Arbornauts (NYC) will open the night ~ they had us all shocked and drooling when they played with us at a private event in March. Heather is part blues musician, part pixie, part old lady and she “howls like a werewolf with a voice made of molasses.” (Variety Magazine). Her dream-hymnals are a staple at esteemed venues in New York like Joe’s Pub and LaMama. You really do not want to miss her set, so get ye to the show early. Sarah Rabdau also joins the bill, with her new side project, Foolish Ida. Inspired by Sarah’s favorite children’s book, “Outside Over There” by Maurice Sendak, the Foolish Ida song cycle is composed of tales suggesting how the main character ~ Ida ~ might have grown up after being forever changed by the events from Sendak’s book. Swirling piano, strings, organ, and layers of voices paint a picture of possibilities about a young woman wracked with familial responsibilities, love, and doubt. Jaggery’s set tonight features Jonah Sacks on cello, and a handful of brand new songs with which we’ll be testing the waters before we hit the road for a short tour in June. This show is gonna be dreamy and delicious so hope you can make it!
tickets here
Image: Stian Berg Larsen
Some of you may know of the Org performance party events Singer Mali has been producing at Cloud Club, in Boston, over the last four years. These are generally “themed” evenings of local (and sometimes beyond) music, story-telling, art, film, performance art, dance, and community. Occasionally Org moves beyond the intimate environs of Cloud Club and takes up space at the club-theater Oberon, in Cambridge, MA. Org: Intoxication is the third Org to be held at Oberon, on the heels of Org: Murder Ballads, and Org: Asylum. The show is Friday, April 20th, at 8pm.
Singer Mali will be musically MC-ing the night, joined by her long-time collaborater (who also happens to be her brother), Raky Sastri ~ of You Won’t and NoHow On. The two formed what eventually became the Jaggery you know of today, in 2001, under the name The Throes. Raky, though no longer the primary Jaggery drummer, continues to appear on Jaggery albums and sometimes at live shows. However, this show will be the first actual Throes “reunion” in over a decade!
An assortment of musicians, dancers, magic-makers, filmmakers, and other artists will be riffing on the theme of inebriation for this one, seeking to “exhilarate and stupefy as if by liquor”. Enter the hookah bar of your imagination, and be prepared to get into an altered state via music, dance, film, magic, and more.
Info and Tickets HERE
photo: BriAnna Olson
A few of us will be coming out of winter hibernation to play at the second annual [Songs of] Winter recital, hosted by Brian King of What Time Is It, Mr. Fox?, this year, at the esteemed Club Passim in Harvarcd Square, Cambridge. Mali, Rachel, and Tony ~ with Nate Greenslit on drums ~ will perform an assortment of wintry covers and originals. Adv tickets here: http://bit.ly/w4FznO
hope to see YOU
in honor of the winter holy daze, we have a digital stocking stuffer for you revelers ~ our take on the 16th century lullaby lament, Coventry Carol:
click here for your no-minimum-pay-what-you-want download.
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and last year’s, Arabian Dance (from The Nutcracker) still holds up as well:
please share far and wide.
we wish you all the best for the holidays and the coming new year!
our current undertaking has us arranging songs by Def Leppard, Paula Abdul, and Rob Base (with some Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance thrown in for good measure) ~ among others. why? the lovely folks at Boston Band Crush asked us to be a part of their Mixtape series and the year of note this time is 1988. this is also a self-indulgent personal fantasy for Singer Mali, who came of age in the late 80s, and has always had a soft spot for the power ballad and feathered bangs. join us at the new Union Square (Somerville, MA) club, Radio, on Saturday, December 10th, in your late-80s finest, and be prepared for some serious sing-along-ing. the esteemable Jonah Sacks joins us on cello for this one (’cause how, we ask, could we perform Love Bites without a cello?):
more info here
- hello Jaggeryians ~ right now we are working on finishing up the artwork for the Private Violence EP which we plan to release on CD in February. (non-Boston folks, you can expect a short tour around that time, too. let us know if you want us to visit your town/city & we will do our best to accommodate your request!) in addition, we are preparing for a set of hit songs from 1988 for our next show (info here) which will feature Jonah Sacks on cello (as Tony is taking the month off). Singer Mali is also embarking on a project with painter/director Steven Bogart called Ten Paintings, Ten Songs ~ more details to be revealed as the project develops. so far, the experience has served to shake up Singer Mali’s songwriter’s block, and force some new songs out of her . . . so you can expect new material on the horizon. oh yes, and we’re also recording our own reggae-influenced-mixed meter-trip-hop interpretation of a christmas carol, to be released as an mp3 download in December. please visit this site for more info. and be in touch! we LOVE hearing from you.
- photo: Justin Moore
next on the agenda: we aim to turn The Middle East Upstairs upside down and into an interactive art space ~ for one night only. We’re sharing this experiment in audience art participation with some of our favourite new-ish Boston bands: the rock opera-tastic SchoolTree, the inspired avant-art-rockers BENT KNEE, and the beautiful, alterna-lilters, Sounds of Venus.
contrary to what the flyer says, doors are actually 9pm. advance tickets thru Ticketfly HERE and thru Ticketweb HERE, and of course at the Middle East box office, if you are smart and want to avoid the service fees. (box office hours: daily 2 – 8pm).
bring your inner artist, and PLAY WITH US.
Our next endeavor has us assuming the unique role of live radio drama house band, contributing a live “soundtrack” for the Post-Meridian Radio Players adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The show is part of The Big Broadcast of 1954 ~ a two part radio drama running for six nights (Oct 19th, 20th, 21st, 27th, 28th, & 30th) this month at the beautiful Regent Theater in Arlington, MA. We’ll be performing creepy music written by local Boston composer, Michael J. Veloso ~ and we’ll be sneaking in a few post-show Jaggery sets, featuring our most Halloween-y material ~ on Thursday 10/27, Friday 10/28, and Sunday 10/30.
shows are all at 8pm, and are $20 general admission, $15 for students/seniors
tickets here
more info about the broader Sleepy Hollow Ride Across America (of which our production of Sleepy Hollow is a part) here: http://www.sleepyhollow2011.com/
hope you will join us …..mwahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!
thanks to all who made the Unabridged residency a phenomenal experience for us!
next up . . . Org: Asylum
photo: http://www.opacity.us/
info, and tickets, here: http://www.cluboberon.com/events/org-asylum
more soon….
