Events for December 30th, 2009
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Wednesday - December 30th
Music / Blues
Dr. John and The Lower 911
Highline Ballroom - 431 W 16th St. - New York (Meatpacking District)
8 p.m.
One of New Orleans' all-time distinctive voices, along with Louis Armstrong and Fats Domino, and a legend in the Jazz community Dr. John's gravel like voice is a national treasure. A pianist, singer, and songwriter who often combines, blues, boogie woogie, and rock and roll. For breaking New York...
Music / Electronica
Project Jenny, Project Jan
Union Hall - 702 Union Street - Brooklyn (Park Slope)
8 p.m.
Anyone who worries if Brooklyns Project Jenny, Project Jan should be taken seriously as musicians or are just having a laugh at the publics expense are missing the point. Dont think too hard. The electro-pop duo of Sammy Rubin and Jeremy Haines popped out an album last year, but most of the buzz...
Events / Theater Event
Romeo and Juliet
The Kitchen - 512 W 19th St. - New York (Chelsea)
This unique production asks random people to recount the plot from memory. Naturally, they come up with a few surprising twists!
Music / Classic Rock
The Machine
B.B. Kings Blues Club - 237 W. 42nd St. - Manhattan (Midtown West)
9 p.m.
If it's been a while since your last laser light show, it might be time for a booster shot of Pink Floyd. Your best bet, by all accounts, is to check out the Machine, a Pink Floyd tribute band that plays faithful, virtuosic renditions of the seminal space rock band's songs from across their...
Music / Rock
David Johansen
City Winery - 143 Varick St - New York (SoHo)
9 p.m.
David Johansen is best known as the front man of the legendary glam rock band the New York Dolls, as well as his single "Hot Hot Hot" as Buster Poindexter. He has also released tons of solo material under his own name, as well as with the David Johansen group, so you can expect to hear everything...
Events / Theater Event
The Orphan's Home Cycle
Signature Theater - 555 W. 42nd St. - New York (Midtown West)
Signature's MO is to devote an entire season to one playwright. This season, they've selected Horton Foote, a crusty writer who wrote the screenplay for "To Kill A Mockingbird", and has a warm realism that takes honest measure of life's darker moments. "The Orphan's Home Cycle" is actually a...
Bars & Clubs / Bar/Club Event
The Break at bOb Bar
bOb - 235 Eldridge St. - New York (Lower East Side)
Keeping it simple can still mean good music and lots (and lots) of people.
Theater / Theater Event
The Great Recession
The Flea Theater - 41 White St. - Manhattan (Tribeca)
The cool-as-cats Bats have commissioned playwrights to write about how the Great Recession is affecting folks in their 20s and 30s.
Music / Bar/Club Event
Disco Biscuits
NOKIA Theatre Times Square - 1515 Broadway - New York (Midtown West)
8 p.m.
Disco Biscuits are one of those jam bands that can ride out a successful career for years with their dedicated fans and always remain below the radar of everyone else. Since forming in 1995, the group started out playing frat parties before their mix of rock, techno, jazz, and soul quickly earned...
Music / Funk
Soulive
Music Hall of Williamsburg - 66 North Sixth Street - Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
8 p.m.
Few bands epitomize the nature of a New Year's Eve show better than Buffalo soul/funk group Soulive. Long, seemingly unending jams. Horn- and synth-based grooves. And a free-for-all, party-centric vibe that has equal parts in the soul and jam band scene. The band has been touring virtually nonstop...
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