4 DAY GRAND OPENING CELEBRATION!
Thu Sep 15 - Sun Sep 18th - 8:00 PM
NYC
The long wait is finally over! Roulette re-opens - bigger and better
than ever - in Downtown Brooklyn. With a newly renovated Art Deco
concert hall, seating for up to 400 people (600 standing!), expanded
multi-channel sound system, massive projection screen for film and
multi-media events, state-of-the-art lighting system, modular stage, and
a specially designed floor to accommodate dance - the new Roulette
promises to be one of the most exciting places in New York City to
experience adventurous music and art. Join us as we kick off our
inaugural season with a huge four night Grand Opening Celebration - with
performances by:
Laurie Anderson / Lou Reed / John Zorn Trio, Henry Threadgill's Zooid,
Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, Kaija Saariaho, Margaret Leng Tan, Sylvie
Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Duo, Marc Ribot's Film Noir Project, ETHEL,
Shelley Hirsch & Fred Frith, and more!
TICKETS ON SALE NOW: www.roulette.org
ROULETTE
509 ATLANTIC AVE (at the corner of 3rd Ave)
2, 3, 4, 5, C, G, D, M, N, R, B & Q trains and the LIRR
Downtown Brooklyn
www.roulette.org
Henry Threadgill's Zooid
Kaija Saariaho
Margaret Leng Tan
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Duo
Thu Sep 15 - 8:00 PM
$35 General Admission
$100 Front Row
*No student, senior or member pricing
An eclectic evening of new music - with performances by Henry
Threadgill's explosive Zooid Ensemble, new work for flute, electronics,
and projections by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, Margaret Leng Tan
performing John Cage's piano work, and Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman
duo performing their own compositions as well as excerpts from John
Zorn's Masada Book II (Book of Angels).
Marc Ribot's Film Noir Project
ETHEL
Shelley Hirsch & Fred Frith
Fri Sep 16 - 8:00 PM
$35 General Admission
$100 Front Row
*No student, senior or member pricing
Marc Ribot presents Film Noir - an ensemble exploring a lonely place
between classic noir film scores of the 40's thru 60's, and the 80's
No-Wave bands who worshipped them, New York City's ETHEL Quartet, a
group dedicated to new music called the "…avatar of
`post-classical' music—the virtuosic alternative string
quartet…vital and brilliant." by the New Yorker performs work by
John King, Judd Greenstein, and Anna Clyne; and critically acclaimed
vocalist, composer, and storyteller Shelley Hirsch teams up with
iconoclast guitarist/composer/improvisor Fred Frith.
Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, John Zorn Trio
Sat Sep 17 - 8:00 PM
$50 General Admission
$100 Front Row
*No student, senior or member pricing
Three legends of the New York Underground combine forces for an evening
of extreme improvised music. "The most important multimedia artist
of our time,"(LA Times), Laurie Anderson is best known for her
multimedia presentations and musical recordings that have challenged and
delighted audiences around the world for more than 30 years. Tonight
Anderson teams up with husband Lou Reed - arguably one of the most
influential musicians in rock history whose band, the Velvet
Underground, redefined the music of the late '60s. Also joining them
tonight is maverick composer/performer and godfather of the Downtown New
York scene, John Zorn.
COSA BRAVA
(Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi, and the
Norman Conquest)
Sun Sep 18 - 8:00 PM
$35 General Admission
$100 Front Row
$25 student, senior or member pricing
Cosa Brava is an all-star experimental rock and improvisation quintet
formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and icon of experimental
music, Fred Frith, featuring Frith on guitar, Zeena Parkins on keyboards
and accordion, Carla Kihlstedt on violin, Matthias Bossi on drums, and
The Norman Conquest on sound manipulation. All About Jazz described
their music as "somewhere between folk, Celtic, modern chamber, Latin,
funk, Eastern, and prog-rock".
ROULETTE is located at 509 Atlantic Ave at the corner of 3rd Ave in
Downtown Brooklyn
Call 212.219.8242 or email roulette@roulette.org
For more info visit www.roulette.org
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