Fringe Preview Party!
Come join us!
For two nights of awesomeness at the Lakeshore Theatre! Half of the proceeds go to helping the Refugee Girls Revue go to The New York Fringe Festival and we’d love your help!
The nights are filled with amazing local stand-up comedians and bands and our first previews of The Refugee Girls Revue! Come drink, watch, listen, and laugh!
And on Thursday, come over to Ruthie’s house afterwards for her Birthday Party!!!
Click the poster above for tickets!
Wed August 13th
Comedians & Bands
Puterbaugh Sisterz
Tony Blanco
Cameron Esposito
Ken Barnard
Mike Palascak
Mark Minelli
Le Concorde
Lakeshore Theatre DJ
Thurs August 14th
Comedians & Bands
Puterbaugh Sisterz
Tony Blanco
Beth Stelling
Rob Buscemi
Hannibal Burress
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
Division and Honre
DJ Avi Sic
Name
The Refugee Girls Revue Preview Party
When
Wed & Thurs, August 13 & 14, 8-11PM
Where
Lakeshore Theater 3175 N. Broadway
Price
$10.00 for a great cause!
Who
Us, comedians, bands, and you...
Le Concorde
"Someone said, ‘One failed marriage and one million books read,’ but the story goes like this: Multi-instrumentalist, Stephen Becker began new recordings in 2006 after fleeing academe with an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern, abandoning a failed 11-year marriage, and releasing the starkly autobiographical 'Universe & Villa' in 2005 on March Records.
Shortly after the release of “Universe & Villa,” Becker sought out his teenage musical hero, David Gamson of Scritti Politti and found him living in LA. The two struck up a friendship and embarked on a series of new recordings with Becker shuttling between Chicago and Los Angeles. Featuring Becker's acoustic guitar and intimate vocals blended with an explosion of color from Gamson's vast palette of vintage synths, 'Suite' will be released Nov. 6. The two have already begun envisioning an epic follow up."
"This is pop in the best sense of the word." The Onion
The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir
won’t be at our show, but two of their members will be there as a 90’s cover band! The Scotland Yard Gospel Choir is awesome and we’re grateful to have some of them at our Party! SYGC is a chambery folky punky band based in Chicago. They've played with The Violent Femmes and The Arcade Fire. They've been glowingly praised in Billboard and Time Out NY. Elia's songs from our first album have been featured on The OC, in a Michael Rappaport film, and in a play at Second City.
"A hug for the downtrodden..." Spin.com
"Street corner stories... dolled up style and wise-guy sensibility... [Elia is] a taleteller in the David Johansen mode." Paste Magazine
Mark Minelli
After spending the last eighteen years in Fairfield, OH (just north of Cincinnati) Mark was slightly overwhelmed by the grandeur of the Windy City. However, it would be here that he would continue to chase his ever elusive dream of being a professional musician. His career has snowballed to include festival appearances, shows with national acts, and relationships that will take him far and wide. His new album "¡Grenade, Grenade! (Everybody Get Down)" promises to be his best to date. From crowd pleasing tracks like "lovin' disease" to hip shaking beats like "john" the album will move you and make you move. Mark Minelli's passion and love for the art of music will make him impossible to miss in the coming years.
"Mark is a new breed of folk singer, infusing his acoustic stylings at times with Spanish and Classical rhythms while maintaining the realism associated with music." Visions and Revisions
DJ Avi Sic
TroubleMaker. DJ. Lyricist. Emcee. Piano/Guitar. Theatre Nerd. Actor. Stage Director. Lean mean fighting machine!
“Avi Sic and Select Inverse know hip-hop and electro so well they turn throngs of tatted-out, punk-rock Liars Club chicks into Snoop-Dogg-lovin' softies every single Wednesday.” Chicago.Going.Com
