Host Kita St Cyr has been a story teller, sideshow artist, burlesque dancer and emcee for 11 years. She’s the co-producer of several shows including the LatinX Burlesque Fest, dedicated to celebrating the wide array of talent in the Latin performance community; nationally touring sideshow troupe Odd World Danger Show; and the flagship of infamous burlesque drink and draw Dr. Sketchy’s NYC. She also has the distinct honor of being the first performer of color to be sanctioned as a Queen of the Fire Tassels by the late burlesque legend Satan’s Angel.

FireDean was working on an oil rig before finding Jesus in Louisiana where his voice was brought to the attention of the choir director. An audition followed, along with instructions to get in the back row and sing quietly. Eventually they parted ways but the seed had been planted. It wasn’t long however, before he began performing music on stages all over the US and Europe . Eventually his songs were recorded bu Warren Bruleigh (Lou Reed, The Violent Femmes) at Electric Lady. in NYC . The Washington Post describes it thus – ” Maybe a genius…A genuine hair prickler…One of the best songwriters around.”

Spectrum 3 is a vanguard jazz trio that combines “the cry” of jazz with the soulful raw aesthetic of its Detroit home and the extended technique explorations of the avant-garde. The group is centered on the themes of bandleader and saxophonist Skeeter Shelton. He’s joined by Joel Peterson on double-bass and Jim Baljo on drums. Now in his mid-60s, Shelton is finally getting the notoriety he has long deserved. The son of drummer and(AACM) charter member, Ajaramu and raised largely by organist Amina Claudine Meyers, Skeeter grew up around their collaborators, including Sonny Stitt, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhal Abrams, Gene Ammons etc.

11 pm MICHAEL G POTTER BAND

11 pm MICHAEL G POTTER BAND

DECOSTER has put together another Indie Shindig featuring acts of all kinds from the Tri-State area to give you a fun filled night of the music you like and the good times you need. With new music on the way, DECOSTER has a brand of power pop that gets you moving, thinking, feeling, and being who you are. We have performed at Freddy’s before to loving crowds that raised a glass and lived for the moment. We hope to see you so you can do that, too. This showcase features other acts that bring their own brand of joy so there’s plenty to sample and savor.

Saudia Young & Andy Hainz/Bass: Noir Rockabilly Swing Duo!  Tunes from Big Joe Turner to Bo-Diddley, get ready to dance! Saudia Young is an NYC-born singer and storyteller. Young has been stealing hearts one stage at a time, with her Noir Rockabilly Swing band.
Noir Rockabilly Swing is a combination of Bo Diddley-infused rock, rhythm & blues, and swing with a pinch of dark cabaret. Young`s sultry voice, humorous stage presence paired with the world-class musicians she plays with, is an act not to be missed.

“Storyteller’s Round-Up”

9:00 PM Saudia Young & Andy Hainz.

10:00 PM Curtis J.

11pm Kristen Goodman

“Highfalutin country…a convivial blur of expert fiddlers, plucky pluckers, & amateur crooners …”~NY Mag. Critic’s Pick. http://nymag.com/listings/nightlife/cashank-hootenanny/
“an acoustic classic country jam”~ Village Voice. Best Of.
“Johnny Cash and Hank Williams are the stars of the playlist. A stringent four-chord rule holds sway so joining the session can be as simple as singing/playing from your seat, or if you’re a more seasoned instrumentalist, jumping onstage behind host Alex Battle. It all adds up to a convivial blur of expert fiddlers, plucky pluckers, and amateur crooners reprising “Ring of Fire” or “On the Road Again.” Should you feel compelled to request something other than Cash or Hank, please stick to old standbys like “You Are My Sunshine” lest you be run outta town.~Critic’s Pick. NY Mag.  Lindsey Weber”

Hyllus & The Veligers play pertinent music with vintage vibes, in the style of early Chicago blues. Hyllus leads a rotating cast of New York City’s finest up-and-coming blues players, collectively named for the larvae of a sea snail. Like young sea creatures, The Veligers embody a wavy, bouncy groove that long ago defined the sound and dance of post-war American music. The Veligers of 2022 play through a one-of-a-kind B&H amplifier from the 1940s, using antique tubes shipped all the way from the far east, as well as an outboard mechanical reverb unit evoking the springy sounds of the early recordings, and all nourished by loop pedals and field recordings from the rice paddies of Vietnam, crafting a unique experience that brings audiences into a quixotic yet familiar future.

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7:45pm – 9:00pm  Les Sans Culottes:

6:15pm – 7:30pm Sean Kershaw Trio:

5:00pm – 6:00pm  Even Twice:

4:00pm  – 4:45 The Placeholders:

3:00pm – 3:45pm Michael G Potter

Les Sans Culottes: A French-style ’60s band has taken New York by storm. Their act is a musical takeoff on the French pop music of an era far more famous in America for the British invasion led by The Beatles”~NPR. Les Sans Culottes is a Faux French- rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The group performs mostly original material as well as French rock covers and French-language reworkings of classic American rock songs. https://www.lessansculottes.com/

Sean Kershaw Trio: Brooklyn-based music artist Sean Kershaw, whose swaggering, “high-octane honky-tonk” (New York Times) has thrilled and seduced audiences from New York to L.A. Sean Kershaw on electric guitar w sax, bass, drums; sometimes keyboards. Sometimes gogo dancers. Surf, Rockabilly, Jump Blues & Ska. https://seankershaw.com/home

Even Twice: Hard hitting bass and drum duo, putting out punky, aggresive sounds. Pat O’Shea(Drums and vocals)and Robert Hait(Bass and vocals) are “Even Twice”. Founded in Brooklyn in 2011, Even Twice play a kind of progressive, garage rock that sounds like it should be coming from 5 instruments, not 2. https://www.facebook.com/eventwicerocks/

The Placeholders: 3 South Brooklyn Boys cooking’ up some tasty Americana and Rock ’n’ roll originals and covers. A new act from Bay Ridge Brooklyn – featuring three seasoned veterans in the form of David Pybas, Chico O’Potleigh, and Dan Kocieniewski and playing some fine originals and covers  from murder ballads to blues to uptempo rockers.

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Michael G Potter

The movies you think you remember on a format you can’t forget.

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This month, we’re ‘wild & crazy guys’ as we bring you two yukky VHS romps from the unbeatable comedy team of Carl Reiner and Steve Martin. One’s a body-switch deal, the other a brain-switcheroo. See what we did there? Good.

First up – say it along with us – ‘Edwina – back in bowl!’ It’s the memorable body-switch sorta rom-com ‘All of Me.’ Some might call it the first ‘smoothening of Steve’ before later Hollywood monstrosities, but it’s still pretty good. When crotchety millionaire Edwina Cutwater (Tomlin) learns she’s dying, she enlists a guru to transfer her soul to a younger blonde woman (Victoria Tennant). But the plan goes hilariously awry, and she winds up inhabiting one half of lawyer Roger Cobb (Martin). Can he straighten out the situation and find love along the way? Of course.

Then we get weird again with good old Steve in the crazy-go-nuts ‘Man With Two Brains.’ Here Martin is pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. (say it with us again) Hfuhruhurr! Saddled with a cruel, adulterous, scheming wife (Kathleen Turner), he plots with another scientist (David Warner’s Dr. Necessiter) to replace her brain with a nicer one that he’s been wooing in a jar. Can he get away with it? There’s also the matter of ‘The Elevator Killer’ leaving female corpses around. And you won’t believe who plays him (‘We’ll be right back.’)

So this month, put on your ‘cruel shoes’ and come on down to Freddy’s Back Room for some trivia, beers & laffs with the rest of us poor saps. Steve would want it that way!

So as we again convene in Freddy’s back-room for drinks, trivia and VHS comradery, let us not think of what might have been, but what is, and what shall ever be! Join us, won’t you – the proud, the stalwart – the Obsolete! (& screw the Oscars.)

The movies you think you remember on a format you can’t forget.

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 1st, 2nd & 4th Mondays 7-9

3rd Mondays 6:30-8