Title: Trick Holiday
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Toni and Trick met a couple of years ago in the streets of Washington DC. They talked for all of an hour or so, switched email addresses, and departed into the vague, dim mist of forgotten passings. While cleaning out his room this year, Toni found Trick’s info and emailed him from his small town in Germany. After only a couple exchanges he was making plans to come over to play together. Now for October to December of 2011 they are about to hit the streets, the venues, the coffeeshops and whereever there are people who have ears…

Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2012-05-11
End Time: 22:00

Title: Caesar Lopez
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Latin Jazz and more
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2012-05-11
End Time: 21:00

Title: James Margolis
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: alternative blues, folk, jazz, soul
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-05-11
End Time: 20:00

Title: Val Kinzler with Liz Taub on violin
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Award winning singer/songwriter Val Kinzler (aka Valkyrie) doubles on piano and guitar and sings in a style reminiscent of Janis Joplin and Grace Slick.
Inspired by the blues, Kinzler draws from an eclectic array of society’s war torn heroes and working class zeros granting them poetic immortality in a razor heart edged Valhalla.
East Third Street, (produced by Genya Raven) heralds the downfall of an aging beauty queen turned wino. In the Alleyways of Love, a sanitation worker falls in love with a working girl while he’s picking up the garbage. Hence, one man’s trash is another one’s treasure. On the original track of Alleyways, Hilly Kristal (CBGB’s) played the voice of the sanitation worker!
Genya Raven sang background vocals with Val on the East Third Street CD which gives these well crafted songs an early rock and roll girl group feel.

Start Time: 22:00
Date: 2012-05-03
End Time: 23:00

Title: Carolyn Ota
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Coming from a large extended family with deep roots in Hawai’i, I was surrounded by lu’au music, kachi-kachi dancing, Japanese bon dances, handsome local guys singing and playing their guitars and my aunties strumming their ukes and singing old songs.

I reveled in walking alone in Nature or playing piano and singing in empty, stain-glassed churches – just wailing in the dark, coloured light!
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-05-31
End Time: 20:00

Title: Fakin’ It (Simon & Garfunkel Tribute)
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: FAKIN’ IT is a New York City-based musical duo made up of old friends that play, in tribute, the music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, as well as their own original folk pop compositions.

Singer-songwriter Jason Consolacion plays guitar and lends his voice to Simon’s poignant lyrics, while also contributing original folk compositions reminiscent of his idol Simon’s work. Jazz vocalist Zack Foley stands to Jason’s right, perfecting Garfunkel’s harmonies and offering haunting descants over FAKIN’ IT’s original songs.
Start Time: 20:00
Date: 2012-05-26
End Time: 21:00

Title: Jason Consolacion
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Jason Consolacion has established himself as an impressive singer-songwriter, catching the ear of an expanding audience. His style of rock incorporates a number of elements, including rock, folk, jazz, blues and R&B.
A graduate of Houston’s prestigious High School For The Performing And Visual Arts, and always dedicated to being a student of all types of music, Jason has used his knowledge of various styles to incorporate a fusion of all his tastes into an acoustic pop setting. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Jason moved with his family to Houston when he was 6. The son of a concert pianist, Jason turned the influence from his mother into a dream that has led him to where he is today – playing his songs and affecting people with pop- and jazz-laden melodies and lyrics everyone can relate to.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-05-26
End Time: 20:00

Title: Alex Sugerman
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Guitarist and composer Alex Sugerman, 18, is a freshman at the NYU Steinhardt’s jazz studies program in New York City. He began taking guitar lessons six years ago, dabbling in rock and blues, but only began seriously pursuing music, and jazz in particular, at the age of 15. Currently, Alex is studying with Peter Bernstein and Billy Drummond, but he has also had the pleasure of studying with Paul Bollenback, Julian Lage, Jonathan Kreisberg, Chris Rosenberg, Adam Rogers, Yotam Silberstein, Jack Wilkins, Rudy Linka, and Carlo Valte. Alex has attended numerous prestigious summer jazz programs, including the Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Studies, NYU Summer Jazz Improvisation Workshop, Skidmore Jazz Institute, the Centrum Jazz Port Townsend Workshop, and the Stanford Jazz Residency. In his junior and senior years of high school, he played in the advanced jazz ensemble at Trinity School. As a junior, he participated in the elite combo division of the Jazz Standard Youth Orchestra, and as a senior was enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Division for jazz. Alex has also been fortunate enough to play with such jazz luminaries as Joshua Redman, George Cables, Stefon Harris, Quincy Davis, Larry Grenadier, Reuben Rogers, Steve Cardenas, Taylor Eigsti, Hamir Atwal, Donald Vega, Dan Nimmer, David Wong, Ulysses Owens, Roy Assaf, Linda Oh, Jean-Michel Pilc, Jorge Roeder, Harold Danko, Giuseppe Bassi, and countless others. He received the 2010 Stanford Jazz Workshop Outstanding Soloist Award and the 2010 ASCAP Outstanding Young Jazz Composer Award. Alex currently leads his own group that has played at venues around New York City including Miles Café, the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Miller Theater at the Manhattan School of Music, and Tavern on the Green. He has also been fortunate enough to play with other groups at venues including the Jazz Standard, the Bowery Poetry Club, Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music, Trinity Church, and Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Alex is also a teacher of guitar and composition to private students.
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2012-05-23
End Time: 23:00

Title: Van Preston
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description: Van Preston’s music encompasses many genres, and tells the stories of many people. Van grew up in a small town in Arkansas, and started writing songs at the age of nine. Named by her mother after a Southern Pentecostal Evangelist, (Asa Alonzo Allen), Van’s music has a broad appeal. Despite being unsigned and unrepresented in the US, she has earned many accomplishments.
Start Time: 21:00
Date: 2012-05-16
End Time: 23:00

Title: The Cost of Living Film Celebration Night
Location: Gizzis 16 West 8th St bet 5th Ave and McDougal
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Description:
6:45pm Ruth Negron performs

7pm Kevin Marin performs

7:15pm Dean Curtis performs

7:30pm Debra Griner performs

7:45pm William H. Newman performs

8pm— Marie DelaCruz performs

8:20pm— Maytal Angel performs
8:30pm to 9:30pm—Screening of the trailers for The Cost of Living, some scenes from the film, and the behind the scenes of the movie
9:30pm—Kerri Leigh and Craig Wilson perform

10pm— Jason Spirit performs

10:30pm–Re-Screening of the trailers for The Cost of Living and the scenes from the film

10:40pm— Casey Dinkin performs

11:10pm— Coole High performs

11:30pm—Re-Screening of the trailers for The Cost of Living

11:35pm— SoSoon performs

11:45pm—Christine Marie performs
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2012-05-25
End Time: 23:45