Bearsville Theater
Benefit for the Jan Kotik Fund featuring Babe the Blue Ox, Johnny Society, The Mommyheads and Ida
Saturday, June 26th, 2010
Doors:11:30am Show:12-3pm
$8-Adults $6-Kids Under-2-Free
Tickets available at the door or by calling 845-679-4406
Benefit for the family of Jan Kotik, musician and artist who passed away
in December 2007. Jan was the drummer for countless NYC bands in the
nineties including Beekeeper, Church of Betty, the Mommyheads and the
Hand, before moving to Prague and beginning a career as a visual artist
and starting a family. Jan died of cancer at the age of 35 and leaves
behind two young sons.
Featuring friends of Jan, including Babe the Blue Ox, Johnny Society,
The Mommyheads and Ida.
The Village Voice calls them, “one of Brooklyn's finest and most unfairly unsung rock bands” and says they have “perfected a vibrant, volatile blend of catchy melodies and spastic, rambunctious noise, like Captain Beefheart making children's records, [or] Tom Waits auditioning for Kool and the Gang.” This alt-rock/art-funk trio on guitar, bass, and drums, (Listen now!)has enchanted fans for nearly two decades guitar, using jazz, sludge rock and punk to screw up their pop music but they also play songs that are "unabashedly lovely, vivid proof of the tender human heart driving this vigorously cerebral corps." (Trouser Press)
This power trio's heart is guitarist-pianist-compulsive songwriter Kenny Siegal, a 26-year-old hooked on rock's past. By reconnecting strands of '60s and '70s pop/rocks--Beatles, Kinks, Bowie, Queen, early Little Feat--in novel ways, Siegal & Co. come up with music that sounds both classic and brand-new.
The Mommyheads
Ida is a band from New York City. They play an idiosyncratic style of minimalist folk rock music that revolves around complex vocal harmonies and sparse (often acoustic) accompaniments. Although Ida has often been identified with labels like “slowcore” and “quietcore”, they have always played songs that could be described as “kind of fast”, “mid tempo”, “kind of loud”, and “super loud”. Led by songwriters Daniel Littleton, Elizabeth Mitchell, and Karla Schickele, Ida’s current lineup includes violinist Jean Cook (Jon Langford, Anti Social Music) and drummer Ruth Keating (Malarkies, Naysayer). Everyone in Ida sings and is a multi-instrumentalist.
291 Tinker St., Woodstock, NY - (845) 679-4406