Lounge, Music Thursday, February 9 at 9:30pm Maggie Hoffee, Julie Winterbottom, Ric Heald, & Jackie Hecht Catahoula Cajun Band Tickets: $5 suggested donation Come on out for a taste of "Northern fried" Cajun music with New York's own Catahoula Cajun Band: Maggie Hoffee, Julie Winterbottom, Ric Heald and Jacki Hecht. Accordion, fiddle, guitar and song will be on the menu for tonight with a side dish of spirited two-steps and beautifully heartwarming, bittersweet waltzes that express the unique culture of the Cajun people. Lounge, Music Friday, February 10 at 7:30pm THE FAMOUS ACCORDION ORCHESTRA Tickets: $5 cash only at the door The Famous Accordion Orchestra, led by Bob Goldberg (of the late Washboard Jungle), is a group of flexible size that bridges the traditional and the post-modern, ranging from Rossini to Duke Ellington to Paolo Conte to Kraftwerk. They have performed in clubs, gardens, cemeteries and parades throughout the city. Lounge, Music Friday, February 10 at 9:30pm John Campo & Tom Ryan Vagabound Velonators Tickets: FREE Guitarist and composer John Campo and Tom Ryan on rhythm guitar bring driving beats and arrangements that fall somewhere between Harlem and New Orleans to The Lounge at Dixon Place. Lounge, Music Saturday, February 11 at 9:30pm JONNY B. GOODMAN AND FRIENDS The Writer's Bloc: Half Baked Works Tickets: FREE THIS MONTH: Jonny B Goodman and Dan Papson

Everyone's had a brilliant idea that's been stalled half-way to realization. Some exotic slice of pizza you could only nibble at; Chinese Democracy; whatever example floats your unfinished boat, or that catamaran you bought, but never sailed. Once a month, The Writer's Bloc at Dixon Place presents pairs of musicians who have worked to resurrect and complete each other's beloved, but perpetually incomplete works, and then debut them together, live. Afterward, stick around for drinks and an open mic salon, where all are welcome to perform their still half-baked songs, in search of a better half to finish them off.

Writers' Bloc will be back in the Lounge March 17th. Special Music Event Saturday, February 11 at 9:30pm Shades Alumni Family The Love Concert Tickets: $20 (advance); $25 (door) Performed by members of the Shades Alumni Family: Tina Colon, Bobby Cronin, Cicily Daniels, Creswell Formey, Desiree Gordon, Anika Larsen, Flora Mendoza, Titilayo Ngwenya, Sherri Sandifer, Greg Serebuoh, Kat Webb, Lauren Worsham. A young, emerging musical family explores love, individually and collectively, through a collage of vocal/instrumental performances. As graduates of Yale University and former members of a 23-year-old vocal group called Shades—they have pursued their music individually and achieved notoriety from Broadway to Billboard's Top 40. Though reminiscent of the popular Shades Midnight Love concerts on Yale's campus, this evening is more of a musical homecoming, where the vocalists may inspire and be inspired by each other and the diverse music they play. Romantic obsessive crazy real sexy unrequited & VOCAL—The Love Concert is an odyssey of songs from the soul. Queer, Music Friday, February 24 at 9:30pm Corky Has a Band with Nicoll+Oreck The Playground Tickets: $12 (advance); $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Corky Has a Band Presents: The Playground with special guests Nicoll+Oreck. Named after Chris Burke's character on Life Goes On, Corky Has A Band is a hyper-vaudevillian performance duo. Its members, Prof. Tickles and Sgt. Whiskers (pianists David Broome and Amir Khosrowpour) find various ways of brutalizing a piano, while exploring the extremities of the absurd. Their eclectic and unpredictable shows are presented through the guise of a variety show, consisting of games, skits and songs, all under a sparkling blanket of highly virtuosic improvisation. Sometimes humorous, sometimes crass, and sometimes heart-warmingly sentimental -- Corky Has A Band's Playground is a surrealist playground run amok. Theater, Music Monday, February 27 at 7:30pm Sir Ari Gold The Reel Ari Gold Tickets: $12 (advance); $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Written and Performed by Sir Ari Gold; directed by Colman Domingo. The Reel Ari Gold is an electro-pop musical memoir that opens in The Bronx, circa 1980's, travelling below-the borschbelt into the Catskills and ultimately landing in the vibrant and historic Lower East Side. Chronicling a career spanning three decades, beginning with an auspicious debut on the legendary Joe Franklin Show, this pop singing superhero comes out and comes of age with an eclectic but stellar group of mentors like Diana Ross, Uncle Moishe & the Mitzva Men and Jem & the Holograms, culminating in a battle for visibility, justice and 'The Real.' The Reel Ari Gold is a true-life, behind-the-musical adventure of identity, sex, show-business, religion, family and love. Lounge, Music Tuesday, February 28 at 7:30pm Zoë Sundra bringing sequins to folk music Tickets: $5 cash only at the door Zoë Sundra is a Brooklyn-based folk singer who has been bringing sequins to folk music since 1984. Her self-released debut album, Death by Love Songs (2010) was recorded in Brooklyn at Sterling Audio Studios. She and producer Brendan Tobin (of Made out of Babies) have worked to tackle the difficult but universal question, "Why didn't he call?" To hear some samples of Zoë's music, give a listen on her website. Lounge, Music Wednesday, February 29 at 7:30pm Pete Sturman Tickets: FREE Transplanted from New Orleans, "Pistol" Pete Sturman is a witty, fun and somewhat sex-obsessed singer-songwriter. An entertainer first and foremost, he has a huge repertoire of quirky originals that will have you laughing and crying, often in the same song! "A remarkable troubadour/wordsmith...a Bob Dylan for the gay community." Lounge, Queer, Music Friday, March 2 at 10:30pm Charlie Demos Seven Times Eternal: New Music Tickets: $5 cash only at the door Charlie Demos, song composition, piano, & voice; Carmen Estevez, percussion & voice; Francesco Beccaro, bass. A showcase of new music from Charlie Demos inspired by the spirits of New Orleans, the Lwa, the Orisha, and getting back to Soul! No smoke, mirrors, or artifice, this is raw singing and playing for the love of music. Music Saturday, March 3 at 10:00pm Gordon Beeferman and Charlotte Jackson THE ENCHANTED ORGAN: A Porn Opera Tickets: $12 (advance); $15 / $10 stu/sen (door) Written and performed by Gordon Beeferman and Charlotte Jackson; directed by Beth Greenberg. The Enchanted Organ is a burlesque opera that celebrates sexuality and satirizes the porn industry, while parodying four hundred years of the operatic tradition. Composer/librettist team Beeferman and Jackson bring their trademark wit and polymorphous perversity to this journey through "the Magical Kingdom of Porn," a place where past and present, straight and queer, and living and dead converge. Drawing on influences as diverse as classic 70s porn soundtracks, baroque oratorio, Ancient Greek hymns and The Nutcracker ballet, this work-in-progress is as close as you'll get (or ever want to get!) to "aural sex." Lounge, Music Friday, March 9 at 7:30pm BOB GOLDBERG AND FRIENDS THE FAMOUS ACCORDION ORCHESTRA Tickets: $5 cash only at the door The Famous Accordion Orchestra, led by Bob Goldberg (of the late Washboard Jungle), is a group of flexible size that bridges the traditional and the post-modern, ranging from Rossini to Duke Ellington to Paolo Conte to Kraftwerk. They have performed in clubs, gardens, cemeteries and parades throughout the city. Lounge, Music Friday, March 9 at 10:00pm John Campo & Tom Ryan Vagabound Velonators Tickets: FREE Guitarist and composer John Campo and Tom Ryan on rhythm guitar bring driving beats and arrangements that fall somewhere between Harlem and New Orleans to The Lounge at Dixon Place. Lounge, Vaudeville, Music, Dance Thursday, March 15 at 10:30pm Jill Guidera and Georgia X. Lifsher The Sassparilla Sisters Tickets: $5 cash only at the door Created and Performed by Jill Guidera and Georgia X. Lifsher. Meet Priscilla and Lucie Sassparilla, two rosy showgirls on the new frontier. Journey back in time when American women were pulled out of their cozy homes to make the unpredictable journey westward during the gold rush, looking for a new life adorned with freedom, fame and finances. Watch them fail, triumph and struggle to hang on to the scraps laid before them and weave it into a spectacle of homemade glamour. An intimate jewlbox theater installation with feathers, light, found objects and every day opulence for a medicine show featuring songs from the American songbook accompanied on the ukulele and trumpet. Lounge, Music Saturday, MARCH 17 at 10:30pm JONNY B. GOODMAN AND FRIENDS The Writer's Bloc: Half Baked Works Tickets: FREE Everyone's had a brilliant idea that's been stalled half-way to realization. Some exotic slice of pizza you could only nibble at; Chinese Democracy; whatever example floats your unfinished boat, or that catamaran you bought, but never sailed. Once a month, The Writer's Bloc at Dixon Place presents pairs of musicians who have worked to resurrect and complete each other's beloved, but perpetually incomplete works, and then debut them together, live. Afterward, stick around for drinks and an open mic salon, where all are welcome to perform their still half-baked songs, in search of a better half to finish them off.
Photos (top to bottom): Jason Florio (Thee Shambels), Amir Khosrowpour (Corky Has a Band), Gian Andreadi Stefano (Ari Gold), Marisa Wallin (Sassparilla Sisters), Daniel Winters (Jeanette Plourde).