Exceedingly Good Song Night
05/01/09
EXCEEDINGLY GOOD SONG NIGHT
An Open Singing Session in the Folk–Roots Tradition
Hosted Monthly by Ken Schatz
Sing and hear Folk Songs, Blues, Gospel, Old-Time, Appalachian, Sea Songs & Chanteys, Worksongs, Ballads, Railroad Songs, Prison Songs, Lullabies, Forebitters, Broadsides, Hymns, Vaudeville, Camp Songs, Farming, MIning & Factory Songs, Country, Bluegrass, Spirituals, Cowboy Songs, English, Irish & Scottish Songs, Labor & Union Songs, Drinking Songs, Children’s Songs, Field Hollers, Music Hall, Love Songs, Parodies, and more...
Next Date:
Sunday May 3, 2009
7:00 – 10:00 pm
At Banjo Jim’s – A Neighborhood Bar
700 East 9th Street at Avenue C in New York City
www.banjojims.com
No cover! – One Drink Minimum Per Set
Join us! Bring your voice, bring instruments, bring friends!
Singers and listeners are welcome. Each month, we have a loose theme to encourage people to learn new songs and remember ones they haven’t sung in a while. If you’d like to lead a song, look for a traditional / folk / roots song or two that somehow fits this month’s theme:
* KINGS, QUEENS, JACKS & ACES *
Know any good folk songs that mention or relate to Kings, Queens, Jacks, and/or Aces? Rulers, Royals, Gamblers, or Cards? Songs you learned in Flushing, Queens? From a straight guy named Jack?
Harmonies and Songs with Choruses especially appreciated!
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“Is that a folk song?”
“Must be. I never heard no horses sing it.”
– Big Bill Broonzy
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“The important thing is: are they good songs? Do they sing well? Is the poetry so good you can’t get it out of your head? Are the words true, and do they need saying? Does the music move you?”
– Pete Seeger
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SAVE THE DATES! OUR NEXT THREE SONG NIGHTS:
June 7
July 12
August 2
More as they’re confirmed...
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For more information, e-mail info@kenschatz.com or call 718·625·8372.
Under Milk Wood
12/10/07
The Juilliard School Drama Division
Presents
A Third Year (Group 38) Performance Project
UNDER MILK WOOD
A PLAY FOR VOICES
Adapted and directed for the stage
By Moni Yakim
Songs arranged by Ken Schatz
December 11, 13, and 15, 2007 at 8:00 pm
December 16, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Studio 301
Third Floor
The Juilliard School
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
For info, see The Juilliard School Calendar of Events:
The Juilliard School - Calendar of Events
"Praise the Lord! We are a musical nation..."
Snapshots
12/08/07
KEN SCHATZ ACTOR TRAINING
PRESENTS
AN ACTORS' SHOWCASE FOR INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS
SNAPSHOTS
ORIGINAL SHORT PERFORMANCE PIECES BASED ON THE LIVES OF EIGHT REMARKABLE WOMEN
Directed by Ken Schatz
Two performances only:
Wednesday, December 12 at 7:00 pm
Thursday, December 13 at 7:00 pm
Free admission, reservations required. RSVP at info@kenschatz.com or call 718·625·8372.
Please join us for a reception in the lounge after the show
The Producers Club
Crowne Theatre
358 West 44th Street
Between 8th & 9th Avenues
With:
Stacy Price as Anne Sexton
Jaclynn Hart as Gilda Radner
Meara Levezow as Leni Riefenstahl
Louise Gassman as Lucille Ball
Monica Knight as Maria Callas
Christina Barrett as Mata Hari
Celia Rowlson-Hall as Patti Smith
Janice Amano as Yoko Ono
Headshot & resume packets available on request
Are You OK, Hal?
06/22/07
"Twain is portrayed masterfully by Ken
Schatz..."
Check out nytheatre.com's super review of PARANG SABIL:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/A07rev_02.htm
Check out nytheatre.com's super review of PARANG SABIL:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/A07rev_02.htm
Sug!
06/12/07
Hear Ken as the voice of Mark Twain in
PARANG SABIL, the legendary ballad of the Tausug people of the
southern Philippines. The New World Theater presents this stunning
story of the struggle against U.S. military occupation and the
massacre of indigenous Muslim people in 1906. Kinding Sindaw's
multimedia dance-theater production, conceived and choreographed by
Potri Ranka Manis and directed by Andrea Assaf, juxtaposes Tausug
dance, music, martial arts, and epic storytelling with Mark Twain's
satirical anti-imperialist writings. Part of the very first
National Asian American Theater Festival in New York.
At the Holden Theater, Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts June 15 - 16, and at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York June 19 – 21.
For tickets and info, visit:
http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/nwt/events/ParangSabil.html
http://www.naatf.org/?page_id=224
http://www.kindingsindaw.org/
“This story burst upon the world last Friday…”
At the Holden Theater, Amherst College, in Amherst, Massachusetts June 15 - 16, and at the Samuel Beckett Theatre in New York June 19 – 21.
For tickets and info, visit:
http://www.umass.edu/fac/calendar/nwt/events/ParangSabil.html
http://www.naatf.org/?page_id=224
http://www.kindingsindaw.org/
“This story burst upon the world last Friday…”
Extra Innings
01/27/07
Well, the buzz has been good, tickets
are hot, and it looks like the run of KING LEAR at the Folger has
been extended. Woo! This means Ken will be in Washington through
Sunday February 25 - a week later than originally scheduled. Until
then, he's available by phone or e-mail (including virtual
sessions), and will still be in New York one day a week - Mondays -
for in-person teaching and coaching. If you need coaching this
month, please try to book early, as the Mondays fill quickly.
Thanks all!
Local Boy Makes Good Fool
01/26/07
Hometown papers! The Washington Post
says :
"The other performances are merely serviceable - except for Ken Schatz's remarkable Fool... This Fool not only has all his wits about him but also seems to respond to Lear's on an instinctive level. It's as if he truly were a facet of the king's psyche."
'King Lear' Without the Tears? It Is Madness - washingtonpost.com
Bob Mondello in City Paper: "Ken Schatz’s Fool is such an insinuating delight that your heart sinks when Lear..." (Spoiler Alert!)
Washington City Paper: : Train Rex
"The other performances are merely serviceable - except for Ken Schatz's remarkable Fool... This Fool not only has all his wits about him but also seems to respond to Lear's on an instinctive level. It's as if he truly were a facet of the king's psyche."
'King Lear' Without the Tears? It Is Madness - washingtonpost.com
Bob Mondello in City Paper: "Ken Schatz’s Fool is such an insinuating delight that your heart sinks when Lear..." (Spoiler Alert!)
Washington City Paper: : Train Rex
The Paper of Record!
10/11/06
Reviews are up! The New York Times
says Ken is "simply superb":
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/theater/reviews/07lear.html?ref=arts
Here's another nice one:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/king4059.htm
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/theater/reviews/07lear.html?ref=arts
Here's another nice one:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/king4059.htm
Who's The Fool Now?
09/22/06
See Ken act! He'll be reprising his
role as The Fool in KING LEAR with Tony Award-nominee Andre
DeShields this fall/winter. At Classical Theatre of Harlem
September 29 - November 5, and at the Folger Shakespeare Theatre in
Washington, D.C. January 11 - February 18.
For tickets and info, visit:
www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org
www.folger.edu
"Then shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion..."
For tickets and info, visit:
www.classicaltheatreofharlem.org
www.folger.edu
"Then shall the realm of Albion come to great confusion..."