AS220 Events for Friday, January 7th - Friday, January 14th

Friday, January 7, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: Panther Moderns, The Sour Notes, and Liz Isenberg

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 2-4pm / $3 individual or $8 family
Urban Barn Dance

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 4-7pm / Free
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Tallahassee, Dastardly, The Silks, and It's A Mountain

Sunday, January 9, 2011 / 4-7pm / Free
Gallery Openings for shows on view January 9th-29th 2011
AS220 Main Gallery: Photography by Scott Alario and New Paintings by Angela Ruo
Open Window Gallery: New Work by Armstrong Diaz (www.5amfunnies.com)
AS220 Project Space: New Paintings by Merleann Poulton
ALSO: For the month of January, AS220 will be screening the David Wojnarowicz "A Fire In My Belly" at the AS220 Project Space at 95 Mathewson Street and in the window of the performance space at 115 Empire Street. This video was recently withdrawn from the Smithsonian's exhibition, and in response, galleries and artist spaces around the country will be screening this film in response. AS220 is honored to be among the participating venues.

Sunday, January 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Player 2, Starring, White Savages, and Chasing Carmen

Monday, January 10, 2011 - Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed! But...The Bar at AS220 is still serving up the drinks!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 / 6-8pm / Free
LEF Foundation Grants Workshop

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Baylies Band, Academia, and Sky Jelley

Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 5:30pm-7:30pm / Free
AS220 Meet and Greet Potluck for Volunteers, Staff, Members, & Residents

Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
ACCO - The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra

Friday, January 14, 2011 / 8:30pm / $10
Songwriters in the Round 7th Anniversary Party - Part 2

Friday, January 7, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: Panther Moderns, The Sour Notes, and Liz Isenberg
Never short on hooks or ambition, The Sour Notes play brittle pop for star-crossed post-grads. Frontman Jared Boulanger knows a good deal about transitional periods, having led two previous versions of the band, but its current incarnation--anchored by the vocal interplay between the sick-hearted Boulanger and his levelheaded female counterpoint, Kelly DeWitt--appears to be the one that'll stick. On rising tides of lonesome guitars and glimmering synths, the band patiently builds its post-millennial laments, making the occasional nod to Krautrock and frequent concessions to soundtrack-worthy mood. The band's bittersweet tones set the pace for this iteration of Future Sounds' monthly local showcase The Rumble (brought to you in part by The A.V. Club), which is also picked up in the C86 bliss of Literature and the romantic naïveté of Hollywood Gossip's Lucksmiths-esque jangle.
B Sharp Music: New, Used, Buy, Sell, Trade, Build, Modify, Guitar, Amp, And Pedal Repair - BSharp Custom, Godin/Simon & Patrick Acoustics, Eastwood, Cort, Dr Strings, Electro-Harmonix, Yorkville/Traynor, Hughes & Kettner, Orange Amplification, Dimarzio Pickups, Eminence Speakers, And More! Support Local Music And Your Local Music Store!
265 Broadway Providence RI 02903 / 401.223.2112 / B-Sharpmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/panthermodernsprovidence
http://www.facebook.com/TheSourNotes
http://www.twitter.com/thesournotes
http://www.facebook.com/pages/liz-isenberg/395473790602

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 2-4pm / $3 individual or $8 family
Urban Barn Dance
This is a participatory dance for the entire family. All ages and abilities are welcome. No partner necessary, all dances are taught and are child and adult friendly. We will be dancing to live traditional music played on guitar, fiddle and banjo. Come and help us build community through music, dance and song! "This event is funded in part by the New Leaders, Good Leaders Fund of the Country Dance and Song Society."

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 4-7pm / Free
Irish Traditional Music
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends! Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220! No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around!

Saturday, January 8, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Tallahassee, Dastardly, The Silks, and It's A Mountain
Tallahassee is a 3 piece band. Guitar, banjo, and upright bass (and sometimes violin). Folk and country with some pop indie influences.
Dastardly is Americana music with just the right ratio of sticky - sweet to f*&#in s@*t up. Every note is deliberate and controlled, but jut barely masks an urgent and immediate sense of existential frantic terror that must be slowly driving them mad.
The Silks are a fresh folk blues project that consists of two guitars, bass, and drums. They strive to keep their music traditional while keeping an infectious attitude.
It's A Mountain is a 4 piece post rock jamband.
http://www.myspace.com/tallahasseeband
http://www.myspace.com/dastardlytheband
http://www.thesilksmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/itsamountain

Sunday, January 9, 2011 / 4-7pm / Free
Gallery Openings for shows on view January 9th-29th 2011
AS220 Main Gallery: Photography by Scott Alario and New Paintings by Angela Ruo
Open Window Gallery: New Work by Armstrong Diaz (www.5amfunnies.com)
AS220 Project Space: New Paintings by Merleann Poulton
ALSO: For the month of January, AS220 will be screening the David Wojnarowicz "A Fire In My Belly" at the AS220 Project Space at 95 Mathewson Street and in the window of the performance space at 115 Empire Street. This video was recently withdrawn from the Smithsonian's exhibition, and in response, galleries and artist spaces around the country will be screening this film in response. AS220 is honored to be among the participating venues.

Sunday, January 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Player 2, Starring, White Savages, and Chasing Carmen
Player 2 is math rock and pop folk. Some songs are technically progressive odd meter nonsense.
Starring: Members of Pterodactyl, Skeletons, Talibam!, Nervous Cabaret, and the Fancy teamed up in 2009 to form Starring, an intense but unabashedly fun psych/prog band out of Brooklyn, NY. Released full-length "Wife of God" in June 2010 on Death by Audio Records.
White Savages are an experimental math rock punk band. Their songs are very dynamic, switching between chaos and ambience. Their performance is high energy.
Chasing Carmen is alternative rock music. High energy, fun, and a great band.
http://www.myspace.com/chasingcarmen
http://www.facebook.com/whitesavages
http://www.myspace.com/starringband
http://www.myspace.com/player2noise

Monday, January 10, 2011 - No Show!
AS220 will not be scheduling performances on Mondays except for Special Events. If you would like to have a special event at AS220 and would like to host it on a Monday; get in touch with Meredith at booking@as220.org with your proposal. Foo(d) is closed...but the bar is open!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 / 6-8:30pm / $6
Life Drawing - Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Trains Through The Countryside, The Ghost Of Otis, and Charles Haymarket
Trains Through The Countryside formed in February of 2008. Indie music influenced by bands like Explosions in the Sky.
The Ghost Of Otis is a 7 piece psychedelic hardcore experiment.
Charles Haymarket is original unique protest acoustic folk.
http://www.theghostofotis.com
http://www.myspace.com/trainsthroughthecountryside

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 / 6-8pm / Free
LEF Foundation Grants Workshop
The LEF Foundation's Moving Image Fund provides funding for long-form documentary film projects made by New England-based filmmakers. Attend out grants workshop to learn more about the Moving Image Fund - we'll be going over guidelines and requirements for LEF's upcoming grants deadline, watching clips from recently funded LEF films and enjoying some snacks and conversation.
http://www.lef-foundation.org

Wednesday, January 12, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Baylies Band, Academia, and Sky Jelley
Baylies Band; Eric Baylies: bass, moog, theremin, voice, James Picardi;drums,Joel Jason;gtr.We play mostly noisy,acid,and prog rock. We put out "Custodians Of Arcane Knowledge" on Blueberry Honey. Our newest cd on 75 or less recs from Providence is "Man Ray & Vague Knitting" recorded in Miami. Also on 75 or Less records is "Fort Thunder Flashback" and"Risibility and Discourse" produced by Keith Souza at Machines with Magnets.
Academia is a two piece from Fox Point.
Sky Jelly is a one person, psychedelic, and very noisey blues project/dance party born in or around RISD. it's not a band, it's not a single, it's not a singer- songwriter.
http://www.myspace.com/bayliesband
http://firstfriend.webs.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pH9yie1J1KM

Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 5:30pm-7:30pm / Free
AS220 Meet and Greet Potluck for Volunteers, Staff, Members, & Residents

Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
ACCO - The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra
The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra (also known as ACCO) will be performing every second Thursday of each month. They will lift your heart with its polyrhythmic, jumpy, musical style which is based in the traditional rhythms of Ghanaian West African music. The group is directed by Obuamah Laud Addy, an award winning West African Ghanaian musician and composer. He is joined by many of the finest West African and New England musicians and ensemble performers. Criss Cross music is currently performed in Europe and Africa; it is defined as a crossing or combination of powerful traditional native African, American, Caribbean, Cuban, Latin American and European musical styles, and includes some of the tonality, improvisations, and other musical dynamics found in Jazz, Rhythm & Blues, and Hip Hop. Per Artistic Director of AS220 Umberto Crenca, "ACCO is intended to demonstrate the compelling and powerful results of cross-cultural collaborations. What better way than through the creation of new music!"

Friday, January 14, 2011 / 8:30pm / $10
Songwriters in the Round 7th Anniversary Party - Part 2
The Songwriters in the Show shows have been happening at AS220 every month for the past7 years. During this time hundreds of songs have been written for themes chosen by the audience. Two CDs have been released featuring just a fraction of these songs. The Songwriters in the Round shows feature "in the round" performances which puts 3 performers on stage at once taking turns peroming their original songs.
Ryan Fitzsimmons, Dean Petrella (The Complaints), GW Mercure (The Benedictions), Joanne Lurgio, Marc Douglas Berardo, Greg Lato, Jan Luby, Wyatt Lema, Chris Boyd (Big Red and the Resonators), Jacob Haller, Lara Herscovitch, Frank Martyn, Jim Tata, Chuck Williams, Louis Leeman (Cheap Sneakers).
http://www.myspace.com/frankmartyn
http://www.laramarecords.com
http://www.louieleemanandcheapsneakers.com
http://www.music.jwgh.org
http://www.thecomplaints.com
http://www.bigredmusic.net
http://www.myspace.com/gwmercure
http://www.marcdouglas.com
http://www.ryanfitzsimmons.com
http://www.joannelurgio.com
http://www.facebook.com/rlema
http://www.reverbnation.com/janluby
http://www.reverbnation.com/greglato
http://www.chuckwilliamsmusic.com