Henry Miller Memorial Library

On Pitchfork (they’re still around?) today they posted some shots from Monday’s Ariel Pink show, presented by ((folkYEAH)) presents and the HML.

What are the odds?

Check’em out here!

Jackie Bristow was chosen by the legendary  Bonnie Raitt as her opening act on the New Zealand Slipstream tour 2103.   Bristow returns to the USA to tour California with Mark Punch on guitar – and they’ll be playing the Library on Wed. June 5th.

Suggested donation of $10-20; reserve your spot HERE.

It’s Bonnie and Jackie!

More about Jackie:

A young girl and her guitar,  Bristow left Southland New Zealand and set out to become  an international recording artist. Her wildest dreams have come true.   She just completed a national tour of New Zealand opening for  Bonnie Raitt,  a major highlight of Jackies career.  Jackie travels the world like a rolling stone, on planes or highways making her way to centre stage. She  currently lives  and tours in the United States. The past two years have been momentous for Bristow who has the talent, determination and drive of a Kiwi pioneer.

Bristow has opened for international stars ( Tommy Emmanuel, Marc Cohn, John Oates, John Waite, Bettye Lavette, B.J Thomas, Joe Ely, Marcia Ball, Charlie Robison, Rick Springfield, Bob Schneider, Jimmy Lafave, Euge Groove, Ruthie Foster and Howard Jones)

In the sweltering summer of 2012 Bristow packed  her car and hit the road on a three month U.S. road trip. She drove across the desert highways of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and  California, then back to Austin and the plains of West Texas. Bristow has become something of a “Kiwi Road Warrior!”

The sweet smell of the New Zealand air and home drew Bristow back for an unforgettable summer tour. Jackie writes from the heart. Her love of Aotearoa shines through her songs and she sings of life, loss, love and war.

Bristows songs are featured in New Zealand and Australian film and television shows: Go Girls, The Secret Life Of Us, Blue Rose, Home And Away,Outrageous Fortune, Shortland Street, and Go Big. Her song, “This is Australia” won Tourism Australia’s Song Competition and was featured in a worldwide promotional campaign.

At once, heartfelt and sophisticated, Jackie Bristow combines subtle and beautiful melodies with hooks that hypnotise her audiences the world over – inspire complete surrender and promise to stick around with the backbone of a real friend.

Jackies third album, FREEDOM, features her “soulful voice, acoustic guitar with pop … and folk sensibilities”: Desert Highway Magazine.

Still recovering from Brooklyn…so this will have to suffice for now…. (THANK you everyone!!!)

TONIGHT IN WILLIAMSBURG!! PHILIP GLASS AND FRIENDS!

* Philip Glass
* Bryce Dessner (from The National!)
* Real Estate
* Tim Fain
* Sondre Lerche!
* Nico Mulhy
* Nadia Sirota

All sharing the same stage! Click the link for tickets – we anticipated they’ll sell out!

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004A980033A038

After another late night (Magnus did “Ziggy Stardust” at “live” rock karaoke at Arlene’s Grocery), we are finally putting the pieces back together.

Part of this plan involves two distinct activities.

One, drinking some Brooklyn Lager with our old and new friends here at the City Reliquary from 6 – 7:45 pm.  Tell your NYC friends to come on down.  Admission is free!

Two, walking across the street to the Upright Citizens Brigade performance.  They’re doing a performance just for us, called the “Tropic of Laughter.”  It should be riotous.  Tickets here!

Really great article in the New Yorker – on the heels of our Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge – reexamining Miller’s tortured relationship with Brooklyn.

We all, to a degree, have some beef with where we came from.  But Miller was off the charts, calling it late in life “that old shithole, New York, where I was born.”

We think that’s a bit much.  I mean, we had phenomenal Thai just the other night.

But hey, that’s Miller for you.  And when taken within the context of last night’s talk at Spoonbill Books, in which James Decker tied in Miller’s Brooklyn hatred with the trauma of his youth, it starts to make a bit more sense.

Anyway, this article is fantastic.  Read the whole thing!!

While Van Dyke Parks had to unfortunately cancel, we are nonetheless beyond excited for Sunday’s performance at the Williamsburg Music Hall (May 19th)  Here is the updated line-up!

* Philip Glass
* Bryce Dessner (from The National!)
* Real Estate
* Tim Fain
* Sondre Lerche!
* Nico Mulhy
* Nadia Sirota

All sharing the same stage! Click the link for tickets – we anticipated they’ll sell out!
http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/00004A980033A038

Enjoy!

(We’re at the half-way point, btw.  Check out upcoming events here in Brooklyn at bigsurbrooklynbridge.com !)

Hey so opening night was amazing!! Thanks to The City Reliquary, Bill Scanga, Joe, and the whole Ping Pong crew!!

It was magical – and eerily reminiscent of home!!!  See below!

Tonight the party rolls on – the Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge staff party with Al Rose, storytellers from Cowbird, and more!  Reserve your spot HERE.

The The Henry Miller Memorial Library’s BIG SUR BROOKLYN BRIDGE festival (May 12-19) kicks off TOMORROW at noon at the City Reliquary (370 Metropolitan Ave  Brooklyn, NY 11211)!

Full schedule HERE.

See you soon!  Check out the video!