Events for Friday, February 4th - Friday, February 11th 2011*

All events are at AS220's 115 Empire Street Location on the ground floor, unless otherwise noted.

The Short of It:

Friday, February 4, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: B Sharp Music Presents: Pezzettino, Kristi Martel, possibly more TBA

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 1-5pm / FREE
Really Free Market

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Irish Traditional Music

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 7pm-10pm / FREE
AS220 Photo Grand Opening Party at the Mercantile!*
"Classy Raffle", special "50/50 Photo Show and Sale" performances from surprise musical guests, photo-themed cocktails & refreshments plus who knows what else!
*AS220 Photo Entrance is on Martha Street, on the Rear of the Mercantile Block, 131 Washington St

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 9pm / $6
A night in loving memory of Dylan Wolk. Featuring: Filthy Still, Hickry Hawkins & The Panty Sniffers, and Cactus Attack

Sunday, February 6, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Gallery Opening Reception for Exhibitions On View February 6th-26th
AS220 Main Gallery New Work by Kate Siner Francis and K. Lenore Siner
Open Window Gallery New Drawings by Robert Robbins
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St) Shadows and Objects: New Work by Chryssa Udvardy
  Project Space Reading Room New paintings by Mollie Hosmer-Dillard

Sunday, February 6, 2011 / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue

Monday, February 7, 2011 - Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. The Bar at AS220 (now 7 days!) & Cottage Industries (i.e. the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo) are open their regular hours!

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

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Milkbread, Skinny Millionaires, and All About Buttons

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Sky Sabin, Joshua Garcia, Andrew Suhre, and Sunset Overbrooke

Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 9pm doors, 9:45pm music / $6
ACCO (The AS220 Criss Cross Orchestra)

Friday, February 11, 2011 / 9pm / $6
I, Destroyer, Tinsel Teeth, Woozy, and Party Pigs

The Long of It:

Friday, February 4, 2011 / 9pm / $6
B Sharp Music Presents: Pezzettino, Kristi Martel, possibly more TBA
Pezzettino - headed by multi-instrumentialist Margaret Stutt of Brooklyn Martel - asongwriter from Narragansett, RI 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

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 1-5pm / FREE
Really Free Market
It's hard times, and the free market ain't free. Luckily, there's the Providence Really Really Free Market, which is! Join us in this collaborative event to create an autonomous space for community sharing. Give what you can, take what you want! Gifts might include but are not limited to: food, usable items, skills, talents, conversation, love.
For more information, please send an email to RRFM.Providence@yahoo.com
http://www.reallyreallyfree.org/index.php?l=home
http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/recentfeatures/reallyreally.php

Saturday, February 5, 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, February 5, 2011 / 7pm-10pm / FREE
AS220 Photo Grand Opening Party at the Mercantile!*
Guests can also try their luck in a "Classy Raffle," with a chance to win a spot in one of AS220 Photo's digital or traditional photo classes, see live performances from surprise musical guests and enjoy photo-themed cocktail creations from AS220 bar manager Noah A and refreshments from AS220 Foo(d). With the opening of the newly renovated Mercantile Block at AS220 the photo program will now include digital photo editing and printing, photo framing and matting. Join local photographers, current volunteers and AS220 alumni for a special "50/50 Show and Sale" to support the purchase of a studio grade strobe lighting kit that will be available for public use. Come see what AS220 Photo has to offer.
*AS220 Photo Entrance is on Martha Street, on the Rear of the Mercantile Block, 131 Washington St

Saturday, February 5, 2011 / 9pm / $6
A night in loving memory of Dylan Wolk. Featuring: Filthy Still, Hickry Hawkins & The Panty Sniffers, and Cactus Attack
Filthy Still is bluegrass, country, punk.
Hickry Hawkins & The Panty Sniffers are Outlaw Country/Rockabilly. Imagine a long white Cadillac with Hank Williams, Sr. driving, Steve Earle riding shotgun, David Lee Roth in the backseat and the body of Sid Vicious banging around in the trunk!
Cactus Attack is an indie folk quartet. Banjo, upright bass, fiddle and more!
http://www.myspace.com/hickryhawkins
http://www.myspace.com/filthystill
http://www.myspace.com/cactusattack999

Sunday, February 6, 2011 / 4-7pm / FREE
Gallery Opening Reception for Exhibitions On View February 6th-26th
AS220 Main Gallery New Work by Kate Siner Francis and K. Lenore Siner
Open Window Gallery New Drawings by Robert Robbins
AS220 Project Space (93 Mathewson St) Shadows and Objects: New Work by Chryssa Udvardy
  Project Space Reading Room New paintings by Mollie Hosmer-Dillard

Sunday, February 6, 2011 / 8pm / $8
The Empire Revue
Witness a raft of talented local performers the likes of which you have never seen at Providence's premiere variety show! The Empire Revue brings you sketch comedy, improv, musical interludes, burlesque, magic, and general devilment, on the first Sunday of every month. Featuring: sizzling music by Superchief Trio and your favorite funnybone fondlers, The Sparkling Beatniks: Richard Goulis, Hannah Devine, & Kate Lohman. Plus, special guest performers every month, unpredictable pre-show shenanigans, a talking squirrel and more! Empire Revue is sponsored by Empire Loan on North Main Street.
http://www.myspace.com/empirerevue

Monday, February 7, 2011 - Performance Space & Foo(d) Closed. The Bar at AS220 (now 7 days!) & Cottage Industries (i.e. the Printshop, Labs & AS220 Photo) are open their regular hours!

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

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 / 9:30pm / $6
Milkbread, Skinny Millionaires, and All About Buttons
Bread is one of the earliest foods that people made. It's the "staff of life".
Milkbread is based on the principle of creating good music with a message. They take the best elements of Hip-hop, R & B, and other contemporary styles and combine them with Jazz theory to create the best groove possible.
Skinny Millionaires is rootsy, Americana. They come barrelling at you slowly in a beaten old pickup truck with maybe a headlight or two out and a cab stoked with grooving blues ridden glory.
All About Buttons is a two piece folk acoustic band.
http://www.milkbreadmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/mrmikemusic
http://www.myspace.com/allaboutbuttons

Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 9pm / $6
Sky Sabin, Joshua Garcia, Andrew Suhre, and Sunset Overbrooke
The oldest musical instruments still preserved today are flutes made of bone that are over 35,000 years old! Tonight is the result of thousands of years of musical evolution! Sky Sabin is a singer songwriter who draws inspiration from nature and life experiences.
Joshua Garcia was born on April 24, one hundred and twenty four years after Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre; seventy seven years after the sinking of the Titanic; and fifty four years after "Black Sunday." He is a folk music performer.
Andrew Suhre plays acoustic songs in Americana/blues/folk style with an original twist.
Sunset Overbrooke is acoustic rock.
http://www.myspace.com/skysabin
http://www.myspace.com/joshwiththehat
http://www.myspace.com/andrewsuhre

Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 9pm doors, 9:45pm music / $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, February 11, 2011 / 9pm / $6
I, Destroyer, Tinsel Teeth, Woozy, and Party Pigs
Imagine living as a woolly mammoth in Siberia 4 million years ago. Makes RI winter seem tropical in comparison.
I, Destroyer is an old school punk/metal/thrash influenced band.
Tinsel Teeth wants to f*#& your ears on the first date. You may wet yourself a little.
http://www.myspace.com/idestroyer
http://www.myspace.com/tinselteethy