RACHELLE GARNIEZ

Madness & Ecstasy:
old & new songs

watch video here

ED SCHMIDT

The Kiss, an excerpt from Ed Schmidt's Last Play

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DEBORAH ATHERTON

reads Life Tenancy

read Deborah's blog here

GIANCARLO VULCANO
Monologues for Minerals
texts by Julien Bismith, featuring narrator Emily Hurst and pianist Yvonne Troxler

listen to Monologues for Minerals here

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RANDOM NOTES

May 10th’s show is a veritable feast of story and song, starring three longtime Serial Underground favorites, and the abundantly talented composer/guitarist Giancarlo Vulcano making his Serial Debut. Rachelle Garniez writes songs unlike any others you know, plays them on piano and accordion, and sings them like Nina Hagen, Tom Waits, Maria Mulduar, Connie Boswell and the Cookie Monster morphed into a vocal soup. Continuing our annual “anti-Mother’s day” tradition, Deborah Atherton brings us what she describes as “a tale of a (somewhat) evil stepmother, a Madison Avenue co-op, and a man who couldn't take one more performance of the Nutcracker ballet (well, in this he may represent us all).”

Those who’ve followed Ed Schmidt’s brilliant theatrical assaults on reality surely will be dazed, maybe confused, and ultimately grateful for the latest installment of his last play. We’ll also hear excerpts from Giancarlo’s two-hour cycle Monologues and Minerals, with texts by Julien Bismith. The composer describes this project as “a series of surrealistic true-crime stories that were scored into eighteen individual radio plays for narrator and various instrumentations. They were created to accompany a show of salt paintings by Bismuth in Frankfurt (May 2007), and have since been shown in Paris, London, and New York.”

Lastly, it’s not too late to sign up and join the Mighty CCi House Band to perform Terry Riley’s In C on Cornelia Street on Monday June 21 as part of the fourth annual Make Music New York Festival. For details, go to our official sign-up sheet here. Looking forward to having you join us.