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singing with Stew and Heidi at BAM Harvey October 20-23!
Wednesday, October 20th, 2010eisa singing at the Path September 10th at 9pm!
Monday, August 23rd, 2010new venue, new you, new me. constantly shifting selves and nothing but music to hold us.
no cover, just come through.
THE PATH 131 Christopher St, between Hudson and Greenwich
SUMMERTIME!
Monday, June 28th, 2010thanks to everyone who came out to hear the music at Joe’s Pub Memorial Day weekend. don’t forget to buy a copy of SOMETHING ELSE if you don’t have one and sign up / check in here for info on the next show, play, event! (photos below by Nick Suttle and Kevin Yatarola.)
EISA SINGS AT JOE’S PUB FRIDAY MAY 28 @ 930pm
Monday, May 10th, 2010don’t you wanna get down? don’t you wanna be loved? don’t you wanna be loud? don’t you wanna be love?
click me for tix and info…come on over to my place…
HOT SHOW @ SYMPHONY SPACE FEBRUARY 26th
Friday, February 5th, 2010she’ll be there. singing for all of you.
Something Else
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
EISA’s album of original music Something Else is available on CDBaby and iTunes. It is also distributed by Sandfish Records in Japan. Please purchase a copy if you don’t have one–it’s a good companion to have near.
She has performed at venues including Joe’s Pub, BAMCafé, Symphony Space, the Whitney Museum, the Jazz Gallery, Makor, Tonic, CB’s Gallery, the Duncan Theatre in West Palm Beach, and the Temple Bar in Santa Monica.
I’ll be returning to Joe’s Pub May 28th for a set with spanking new tunes. Come by!
ANGELA’S MIXTAPE named a Best of 2009 by The New Yorker!
Thursday, December 31st, 2009yes it was! here’s the link. also got a nod in the Village Voice’s column for contributing to best theater of the decade. nice, right?
“On this mixtape, style will dictate, we bounce back and forth in time…”
Using the rhythms of music and memory, Eisa tells the story of a radical upbringing on the dividing line between Oakland and Berkeley, California– in a family that includes her aunt, professor and activist Angela Davis.
Time shifts between the 70s, 80s, and 90s as smoothly as a DJ fading from song to song. Each track, each memory, has a built-in switch to the next, for theatrical momentum that keeps on building.
The music crosses styles and decades, but it’s hip-hop and a b-girl stance that keeps the piece bouncing in the present.
RIP: THIS by Melissa James Gibson.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009just closed THIS, acting, singing, and playing piano. the show, one of the New York Times bests of 2009, extended through January 3 and was an absolute dream to be a part of. shouts out to the visionary Melissa, Daniel Aukin on direction, Louis Cancelmi, Glenn Fitzgerald, Julianne Nicholson, and Darren Pettie on stage, and Peter Eldridge for his beautiful music. here’s an interview I did about the show as well as The New York Times review. Glenn also took some lovely photos of the cast during tech that were featured in the Times. another of his pictures is below. I’ll miss it muchly.
passing strange the movie!
Monday, October 19th, 2009
why haven’t I posted this until now. insane. it’s sort of like how a fish swimming in water doesn’t notice the water, I guess….after an unbelievably reviewed premiere (100% on Rotten Tomatoes!) and run at the IFC Center in New York and the Shattuck and Embarcadero in the Bay Area, Spike Lee’s film of Annie Dorsen’s and Stew’s and Heidi’s Passing Strange is finally coming out on DVD January 12, 2010! it’ll be shown on PBS then too. tell the Academy to give us an Oscar even though we aren’t eligible!
www.passingstrangethemovie.com.
did I mention the movie is hella good?