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labrujahThose of you who are fans of sad and glorious music, should come to this for sure. FOR SURE. And of things that are weird and good at the same time.
BABY DEE
Monday May 31st, 2004
@HERE
146 6th Avenue
(Between Spring and Broome)
7:30 pm
$15
www.here.org
"I'd wake up every morning weeping and I'd put on
my cat outfit and my Shirley Temple dress and
ride out to Vondel Park and weave tragic
accordion music with the
wind and the singing of birds and the laughter of
children and I'd cry my eyes out..."
-Baby Dee, of her time in Amsterdam
Baby Dee was a West Village fixture in the 1990's,
riding around on a giant high-rise tricycle,
decked out in fantastic costumes with a full
sized concert harp and accordion, and charming
passersby with beautiful and often comic songs.
Her musical career is long and fascinating. After
living in Paris for a year as a "bear/harpist"
she became the Musical Director of
a Catholic Church in the Bronx. Of this
experience Dee
writes, "I taught babies how to sing and
malevolent
adolescents to play the conga drums". She has
performed in Europe with the Kamikaze Freakshow
and at the Coney Island Sideshow as the accordion
playing bilateral hermaphrodite. When her father
suffered a stroke Baby Dee gave up her performing
career and moved back home to Cleveland, where
she cared for him until he died. During this time
Dee wrote songs with
serious content, creating "Little Window"
and "Loves
Small Song", two of the most heart-breakingly
beautiful albums ever made.
Introduced to David Tibet of Durtro Records by
Antony
from Antony and The Johnsons, these albums were
released at a limited run of 1,000 copies each.
Baby
Dee now lives in Cleveland and runs a tree pruning
business. We are bringing her back to New York to
expose people to some of the most important music
written in the past decade and to one of the most
talented artists to have lived in New York, whose
influence has remained long after she left.
The show will begin with interpretations of Dee’s
music by a variety of New York artists, including
Elyas Khan of Nervous Cabaret, Scotty The Blue
Bunny,
Puppeteer Erin Orr of Movable Tea Party, Curtis
Eller,
Choir Phosphorus, Shana of Awry, Lavinia Coop, The
Luminescent Orchestrii, opera singer Shelly
Watson and
Stephanie Monseau of The Bindlestiff Family
Cirkus and
will conclude with Baby Dee performing her own
work.
BABY DEE
Monday May 31st, 2004
@HERE
146 6th Avenue
(Between Spring and Broome)
7:30 pm
$15
www.here.org
"I'd wake up every morning weeping and I'd put on
my cat outfit and my Shirley Temple dress and
ride out to Vondel Park and weave tragic
accordion music with the
wind and the singing of birds and the laughter of
children and I'd cry my eyes out..."
-Baby Dee, of her time in Amsterdam
Baby Dee was a West Village fixture in the 1990's,
riding around on a giant high-rise tricycle,
decked out in fantastic costumes with a full
sized concert harp and accordion, and charming
passersby with beautiful and often comic songs.
Her musical career is long and fascinating. After
living in Paris for a year as a "bear/harpist"
she became the Musical Director of
a Catholic Church in the Bronx. Of this
experience Dee
writes, "I taught babies how to sing and
malevolent
adolescents to play the conga drums". She has
performed in Europe with the Kamikaze Freakshow
and at the Coney Island Sideshow as the accordion
playing bilateral hermaphrodite. When her father
suffered a stroke Baby Dee gave up her performing
career and moved back home to Cleveland, where
she cared for him until he died. During this time
Dee wrote songs with
serious content, creating "Little Window"
and "Loves
Small Song", two of the most heart-breakingly
beautiful albums ever made.
Introduced to David Tibet of Durtro Records by
Antony
from Antony and The Johnsons, these albums were
released at a limited run of 1,000 copies each.
Baby
Dee now lives in Cleveland and runs a tree pruning
business. We are bringing her back to New York to
expose people to some of the most important music
written in the past decade and to one of the most
talented artists to have lived in New York, whose
influence has remained long after she left.
The show will begin with interpretations of Dee’s
music by a variety of New York artists, including
Elyas Khan of Nervous Cabaret, Scotty The Blue
Bunny,
Puppeteer Erin Orr of Movable Tea Party, Curtis
Eller,
Choir Phosphorus, Shana of Awry, Lavinia Coop, The
Luminescent Orchestrii, opera singer Shelly
Watson and
Stephanie Monseau of The Bindlestiff Family
Cirkus and
will conclude with Baby Dee performing her own
work.
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:28 pm (UTC)-A
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:44 pm (UTC)Hey girl I'll see you tonight at the Lucky Stiff! I am working the door.
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:47 pm (UTC)as for tonight... where did this roumor start? I told keith I couldnt do it, but got him erochicka bamboo instead.
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Date: 2004-05-19 12:55 pm (UTC)