Roulette Opens Thursday - Laurie Anderson + Lou Reed + John Zorn, Fred Frith, Henry Threadgill and more!

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ROULETTE
New Home for Experimental Music
OPENS THURSDAY!

With performances by Henry Threadgill's Zooid, Laurie Anderson + Lou
Reed + John Zorn, Fred Frith's Cosa Brava, Marc Ribot's Film Noir, and
much more!

ROULETTE
509 Atlantic Ave (at 3rd Ave)
Brooklyn
www.roulette.org

Henry Threadgill's Zooid
Kaija Saariaho
Margaret Leng Tan
Sylvie Courvoisier & Mark Feldman Duo
Thu Sep 15 - 8:00 PM
$100 Front Row
$35 General Admission
*No student, senior or member pricing

The first night of Roulette's eclectic Grand Opening Celebration
features performances by Henry Threadgill's ZOOID, new work for flute,
electronics, and projections by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho,
Margaret Leng Tan performing John Cage piano works, and Sylvie
Courvoisier and Mark Feldman duo performing their own compositions as
well as excerpts from John Zorn's Masada Book II (Book of Angels).


Marc Ribot's Film Noir Project
ETHEL
Fred Frith + Shelley Hirsch
Fri Sep 16 - 8:00 PM
$100 Front Row
$35 General Admission
*No student, senior or member pricing

Guitarist/composer Marc Ribot presents Film Noir - an ensemble
exploring a lonely place between classic noir film scores of the 40's
thru 60's, and the 80's No-Wave bands who worshipped them, New York
City's ETHEL Quartet, a group dedicated to new music called the "…
avatar of `post-classical' music—the virtuosic alternative string
quartet…vital and brilliant." by the New Yorker performs work by John
King, Judd Greenstein, and Anna Clyne; and critically acclaimed
vocalist, composer, and storyteller Shelley Hirsch teams up with
iconoclast guitarist/composer/improvisor Fred Frith.


Laurie Anderson + Lou Reed + John Zorn
Sat Sep 17 - 8:00 PM
$100 Front Row
$50 General Admission
$35 Members
$25 Students (LIMITED AVAILABILITY)

Three legends of the New York Underground combine forces for an
evening of extreme improvised music. "The most important multimedia
artist of our time,"(LA Times), Laurie Anderson is best known for her
multimedia presentations and musical recordings that have challenged
and delighted audiences around the world for more than 30 years.
Tonight Anderson teams up with husband Lou Reed - arguably one of the
most influential musicians in rock history whose band, the Velvet
Underground, redefined the music of the late '60s. Also joining them
tonight is maverick composer/performer and godfather of the Downtown
New York scene, John Zorn.


COSA BRAVA
(Fred Frith, Carla Kihlstedt, Zeena Parkins, Matthias Bossi, Shahzad
Ismaily, and the Norman Conquest)
Sun Sep 18 - 8:00 PM
$100 Front Row
$35 General Admission
$25 student, senior or member pricing

Cosa Brava is an all-star experimental rock and improvisation quintet
formed by multi-instrumentalist, composer, and icon of experimental
music, Fred Frith, featuring Frith on guitar, Zeena Parkins on
keyboards and accordion, Carla Kihlstedt on violin, Matthias Bossi on
drums,Shahzad Ismaily on bass, and The Norman Conquest on sound
manipulation. All About Jazz described their music as "somewhere
between folk, Celtic, modern chamber, Latin, funk, Eastern, and prog-
rock". Join us for this rare NYC performance!