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ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' MEMBERS ON THE TOWN: WEEK of 11/10/13

There is a reception for artist Sana Musasama from 2-5 today, Sunday, at the Kingsborough Community College of the City University of New York in the Art Gallery, Ground Floor–Arts and Science Building–2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, NY. Sana’s show “In Reawakening” is running through November 29.

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There will be a staged reading of Seamus Scanlon’s The Long Wet Grass in Tivoli New York, Sunday Nov 10th at 6 pm. Tangent-Arts Theatre

Honor Molloy will be part of a themed reading “when we were young” hosted by Mr. Devin Doyle, featuring Honor and four other talented writers: John “Chance” Acevedo, Nancy Agabian, Christine Kendall and Anna Voisard. You can find their bios here: http://boundlesstales.com/readings/november-2013/ Thursday, November 14th @ 7:30pm at Waltz-Astoria (23-14 Ditmars Blvd)

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Irish Traditional singer and Fulbright Scholar Mary McPartlan and legendary jazz pianist Bertha Hope will be performing an evening of American blues, folk, and Irish songs at the Irish Arts Center, 553 W51st St on Thursday, November 14. The concert will see both their styles and history merging together to create a new earthy, colorful and playful canvas for these two genres. Bertha and Mary first met at an Artists Without Walls’ Showcase and they are making their debut at the Irish Arts Center. Tickets are $30 but AWoW members can click here to order tickets for $20. https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/929161/prm/IAC The discount can also be redeemed by entering the code manually when buying tickets off the Irish Arts Center site or by mentioning it when calling the box office at 866-811-4111.

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The Irish Arts Center will be hosting ModERIN: The 15th Anniversary of Darrah Carr Dance with guest choreographer Seán Curran. (Also featuring the book launch of “ModERIN: Contemporary Irish Dance Works – Darrah Carr Dance”). November 22-24 Friday & Saturday | 8 pm Sunday | 3 pm Family Shows: Saturday & Sunday | 11 am Opening Night Reception & Book Launch – Friday, November 22nd! *Special $18 discount for AWOW members! Call: 866-811-4111 or https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/926667/prm/AWW

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Honor Finnegan will be performing on Friday, November 15th at the Minstrel Coffeehouse. She will be opening for John Forster 8:00 pm | $8 Morris County Cultural Center Morris Township NJ 07005 US 973-335-9489. Honor will be performing on Saturday, November 16th in Concerts at the Crossing. She will be opening for John Gorka 7:30 pm. 268 Washington Crossing Rd Titusville NJ 08560 US 609-406-1424 Aviv Roth will be joining Honor on guitar. For tickets and reservations, please check their website.

ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' MEMBERS and FRIENDS on THE TOWN: WEEK of 10/20/13

Author/actress Michele Forbes will reading from her novel Ghost Moth, which will be followed by a Q&A at Book Court, 163 Court Street, Brooklyn, NY, Monday, October 21, 7pm. 718 875-3677

Michele will also be part of a panel discussion for “Reading Group Month” at Strand & The Women’s National Book Association, 12th Street and Broadway, NY. Wednesday October 23rd, 7.00pm – 9.00pm. $15 Strand Gift Card required for admission

Sasha Papernik will be performing a piano four hand duo with Alexander A. Wu at Cornelia Street Cafe, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, Monday, October 21, 8pm. Join Sasha for an hour long show of jazz, classical, tango, modern music, and some vocals from the NYC and DC concerts that she performed with Alexander in July.

Artists Without Walls’ Showcase at The Cell Tuesday, October 22, 7pm at the Cell Theatre, 338 West 23rd St. NYC. Hear Diana Jones, Ed Romanoff, Deni Bonet and many others. Free event

Honor Finnegan will be opening for John Gorka at the Sanctuary Concerts, Saturday, October 26, 240 Southern Boulevard Chatham NJTickets $25

ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' MEMBERS and FRIENDS ON THE TOWN: WEEK OF 10/6

Today, Sunday, is the last day of “Irish Film New York. ” AWoW members can buy discounted $10 tickets (normally $12) for any of the films included in the festival by using the promotional code: OFIG. For more information on the critically acclaimed films, its director Niall McKay, and to watch trailers and buy tickets click here.

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Deni Bonet will be playing solo violin on a piece with a wonderful ballet company called BALLETS WITH A TWIST, at Stage 48, 605 West 48th St., NYC, Monday 8pm. Click here for their website. Click here to a link for tickets ($25) and a description of the event.

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Charles R. Hale will present a series of videos that highlight the role of women and song in the labor movement. This event is co-sponsored by the CUNY Institute For Irish American Studies. Located in The Studio Theater at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, Bronx, NY. October 10, 12 Noon to 1:30.

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Author Cynthia Neale and actress Joanna Rush will both be in Chicago at iBam on Saturday Oct. 12 and Sunday Oct. 13. On Saturday Cynthia will be lecturing from 1:15 to 2:00: A Writer’s Journey With an Irish Famine Girl. From 2:15 to 3:15 she will be a panelist for New Perspectives on The Irish Famine with Tim Pat Coogan, Owen Rodgers and Maurice Fitzpatrick. On Sunday, Oct. 13th Cynthia will repeat her Saturday lecture from 1:00 to 1:45. Cynthia will be selling her three books throughout the weekend at the authors’ table.

Joanna will performing thirty minutes from her show, “Asking For It” and sharing a book table with Cynthia at the festival. Click here for the link to the theater page for details and performance times.

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Honor Finnegan will be performing with Aviv Roth at The John Street Jam on October 12th. The doors open at 6:45, music starts at 7:30The John Street Jam is located in the Dutch Arms Chapel at 16 John Street, Saugerties, NY. Tickets are $5. Click here for info.

ARTISTS WITHOUT WALLS' FRIENDS AND MEMBERS ON THE TOWN: WEEK OF 8/25/13

Antoinette Montague will be performing “Jazz Vespers” at Bethany Church, 275 West Market Street Newark, NJ, this morning, Sunday, August 25, 10am. For info call 203 820-8819

Tara O”Grady and the Black Velvet Band will be swinging originals and standards tonight, Sunday, August 25, 8:30pm, at New York City’s best swing dance club, Swing 46 Jazz and Supper Club located at 349 West 46th Street. Tara will also be appearing at Winnie’s Lounge at the Refinery Hotel, 63 West 38th St. Tuesday, Aug 27 from 5-9pm and on Wednesday, August 28, from 6-9pm.

Artists Without Walls presents its “Showcase at The Cell Theater,” 338 W. 23rd St., NYC. Tuesday, 7pm, August 27th. Evening includes jazz musician and composer Chris Stover, singer/songwriter Jenai Huff, dancer Samara, chanteuse Marni Rice and more.

Honor Finnegan will be performing at the CT Folk Festival and Green Expo in Edgerton Park, New Haven, Saturday, August 31, 4:30-5:30

AMAZING PERFORMANCE: "AINT I A WOMAN" HONOR FINNEGAN at an AWoW SHOWCASE

Artists Without Walls’ member Honor Finnegan, a recent winner of the New Folk Song Songwriting Contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival, has been making a splash in the Northeastern regional folk scene with her original songs and ukulele playing. Combining elements of musical theatre, comedy, traditional folk, and poetry, Honor is “cooler than the other side of the pillow.”

Honor Finnegan was born and raised on the South Side of Chicago and learned to appreciate a variety of people and music living in a mostly African American neighborhood and sitting in the back seat of her single mother’s car listening to the radio for long periods of time. When Honor was eleven her dream of being an actress came true when she was cast in the first National Tour of “Annie”.

Honor is a regular attendee at the late, great Jack Hardy’s songwriter’s exchange, which has nurtured the talents of Suzanne Vega, and Shawn Colvin to name but a few. Honor recently performed this incredible version of Hardy’s “Aint I A Woman” at an AWoW Showcase at NYC’s Cell Theater.

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AWoW MEMBERS and FRIENDS' UPCOMING EVENTS: WEEK of 7/28/13

Artists Without Walls presents its “Showcase at The Cell Theater,” 338 W. 23rd St., NYC. Wed., 7pm, July 31.

Tara O’Grady is performing on Tuesday and Wednesday at Winnie’s Lounge in the Refinery Hotel, 63 W 38th between 6th & 5th. 6-9pm, no cover or minimum.

www.refineryhotelnewyork.com

Honor Finnegan will be performing at the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival, August 1st – 3rd. Dodds Farm, 44 County Route 7D, Hillsdale, NY.

Click here for a schedule of performances

Annette Homann is performing on Saturday, August 3d at Joe’s Pub with rock-songwriter team Creighton Irons and Sean Mahoney.

Tickets are $15. Click here for tickets and information

Irons-Mahoney at Joe’s Pub Facebook Page

The ARTISTS, THE SIGHTS and the SOUNDS of an "AWoW" SHOWCASE

What’s an Artists Without Walls’ Showcase like? Check out this three minute video for a glimpse of what you can expect.

Below are Tara O’Grady, Niamh Hyland, Tami Lynn, Sasha Papernik and Jack O’Donnell at “AWoW Rocks the Living Room,” a Lower East Side, NYC rock club.

AWoW MEMBERS AND FRIENDS' UPCOMING EVENTS: WEEK OF 7/14/2013

Tara O’Grady performs with her jazz trio every Tuesday and Wednesday, 6-9pm, in July at Winnie’s Lounge in the Refinery Hotel located at 63 W. 38 Street off 6th Ave. Joining her each week is Dizzie Gillespie’s former guitarist Michael Howell, and Dave Hofstra, one of the most in-demand bassists in New York, having worked with everyone from John Zorn to Marshall Crenshaw.

Mark Donnelly is reading his poetry at the IAW&A Salon, The Cell Theatre, 338 West 23rd. St. Tuesday, 7/17, 7-9pm.

Honor Finnegan performing at the Huntington Folk Festival, Saturday, July 20, 2:10 and 2:30 on the lawn at Heckscher Park, Main Street (Route 25A) and Prime Avenue, in Huntington, New York. Free event

Honor Finnegan will also be performing at Joni Mitchell’s Blue: A 40th Anniversary Celebration, July 20, 7:00pm at the Beczk Environmental Education Center, 35 Alexander Street, Yonkers, New York. For tickets, which are $1o, click here http://urbanh2o.org/

AWoW MEMBERS and FRIENDS' UPCOMING EVENTS: WEEK OF 6/30/13

Honor Finnegan is performing at the “Artists Lounge Showcase & Open Mic” at Nightingale Lounge, 213 Second Avenue (corner of 13th Street.) Wednesday, July 3rd, 8pm. $10 minimum at the bar and they pass the hat for musicians.

Honor is also performing in the Minstrel Acoustic Concert Series, Friday, July 5th, 8pm. The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Most Wanted/Emerging Artists Preview Tour will feature Honor as special guest. Morristown Unitarian Fellowship 21 Normandy Heights Road Morristown NJ. Call (973) 335-9489 for reservations and directions.

Seamus Scanlon’s story, “Spice” is included in an anthology called Grand Central Noir. The Kindle version is now available here Grand Central Noir through Amazon. The cost is $2.99

AWoW MEMBERS and FRIENDS UPCOMING EVENTS: WEEK OF 6/23/13

Barbara Rick’s award winning films “Girls of Daraja” and “School of My Dreams” air tomorrow, Monday, June 24th at 8:00pm ET on DIRECTV Channel 375 and DISH Network Ch. 9410, and anytime on this link when you click on the shows — http://www.linktv.org/documentaries

Artists Without Walls “Showcase at The Cell Theater,” Tuesday 7pm, 338 W23rd St. Free event

Peter/Wendy at The Cell Theater, Thursday, June 27, 28, 29, 8pm. Tickets $10-15. Click here for ticket information

Marni Rice’s composition for solo accordion is featured in a short film called “Subterranean Love” by Robert Haufrecht, Friday, June 28th, 3:45pm at The Philadelphia Independent Film Festival. Here is a short video trailer link: Click here for a short video trailer

Click here for festival information, venues and tickets

Honor Finnegan performing at the Soulful Sundown Coffeehouse Series, The Unitarian Universalists Church at Shelter Rock. 48 Shelter Rock Road Manhasset, NY, Friday, 7:30pm. Free event

Colin Broderick, author of “That’s That,” reading at An Beal Bocht Cafe, 445 W 238th St, Bronx, NY 10463, Friday, 8pm. Phone:(718) 884-7127. Free event