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While Joe's Pub is temporarily closed to public access, join us for Joe's Pub Live! – a free series of streamed performances from artists' HQ and our iconic stage in New York City. Facilitating social connectivity during this time of physical distancing, Joe's Pub remains dedicated to supporting performing artists at every stage of their careers through sharing concerts with our audiences online.
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the motown project is back by popular demand, after its success at the 2021 Under the Radar Festival. Musical traditions yearning for each other across race, class, and nation grace Alicia Hall Moran’s meditation on the classic Motown songbook — a cinematic, movement-based aria fusing "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch" with Mozart, while Marvin Gaye’s lyrical pathos finds solemnity in Purcell. Featuring Thomas Flippin (guitar and theorbo), Steven Herring (vocals), Barrington Lee (vocals), Raphael Fusco (piano) and, in the rhythm section, Jason Moran (piano), LaFrae Sci (drums), and Reggie Washington (bass). In collaboration with choreographer Amy Hall Garner, the motown project reimagines Motor City poetics in a study of desire and infatuation only soul and opera embodied by one chanteuse could endure.
Thomas O. Kriegsmann/ArKtype, Executive Producer
Alicia Hall Moran, Concept and direction
Lance Cain, Editing
Sascha von Oertzen, Sound mixing
Amy Hall Garner, Choreography
Andrew Sotomayor, Makeup design
Greg DiCrosta, Jason Fifield, Lance Cain, Video & film engineering
Sascha von Oertzen, Greg DiCrosta, Tyler McDiarmid, Sound engineering
Free!