April Events at Tillie's

(sorry it's not nicely formatted- having a busy day!)April 2008 Events Tillie’s of Brooklyn

248 DeKalb Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11205

(718) 783-6140

www.tilliesofbrooklyn.com Music

Friday, April 4th

Tom Blatt Project

Tom Blatt, bass guitar

Malon Hoard, saxophone Westbank Johnson, trombone

Mary Lou Manahan, keyboard

Lee McClune, flute, electronics

Andy O’Neill, drums

Dave Painchaud, trumpet

Tm Blatt project appears all over the city at venues such as Pianos, the Bowery Poetry Club, and Goodbye Blue Monday in Brooklyn.

Friday, April 11th

Eyal Maoz Crazy Slavic Band Eyal Maoz - guitar Ron Caswell - tuba Ziv Ravitz, drums

Mesmerizing compositions from this prodigiously gifted composer and guitarist. Music by Israeli-born Maoz has been featured on MTV, NPR, and at the 2007 NYC Jazzfest, most recently.

Friday, April 25th

Damian Quinones

Damian Quinones: Vocals/Guitar/Electric Piano

Joe Lee: Electric Bass

Naren Rauch: Guitar

David Beauchamp: Drums

"Urban folk music" equally at home in a solo acoustic setting as it is full volume with the band. Quinones’ songwriting is part 60's pop, in the vein of Gainsbourg, Bacharach, Lennon/ McCartney, Davies, and Hayes/Porter; part 70's Nuyorican funk (in the mold of Willie Bobo, War, and Harlem River Drive; and has elements of electronic music, jazz, Tropicalia, and Reggae.

All performances start at 8 p.m.

Cover: $5, $3 with student ID Art Andrea Spiros Paintings

March 31st – May 3rd 2008

Andrea Spiros is a Brooklyn-born artist currently living in Clinton Hill. She studied at The Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, and participated in a group show at The Whitney. She has studied painting and drawing at Brooklyn College with Lee Bonteque, design at The School of Visual Arts, and Medical Illustration at LIU.

She has shown her work at the Queens Museum of Art, The Hillwood Art Museum, and The Foundation for Hellenic Culture in NYC. Internationally, she as exhibited at The Contemporary Museum of Art in Thassaloniki Greece, at Holland Tunnel in Paros, Greece, and at Sans Quoi Gallery, Okayama, Japan. In the last few years she has shown in several local art centers such as Brooklyn Academy of Music, Pratt Institute, Sideshow Gallery, D3 Gallery, and other in Bed Stuy, Dumbo & Williamsburg. She is dedicated to community art, and the independent art movement. Artist’s Statement

My recent paintings are concerned with psychic space, using hybrid abstract imagery as schematics for philosophical ideology. For example: I combine dualities such as internal and external, past and future, to symbolically model unseen worlds. The symbolism, though abstract, is specific. The cosmic juxtaposed with the cellular expresses a connection. They are composed of the same material, exhibiting a unity that seems to initiate connection.

Reception

Saturday 4/5

7 – 9 p.m.

Open Mic

Thursday, 4/10/08

Thursday, 4/24/08

Sign up: 8:00 p.m.

Performances: 8:30 p.m.

Host: Nick Noir

No cover.

For more information on any events, call Patricia Mulcahy at 718 783-6140. Tillie’s is in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Directions are under “Getting Here” on the website at www.tilliesofbrooklyn.com.