MUSIC
MONDAY, JUNE 18*
8:00 PM

Stew & The Negro Problem:  The Total Bent/Notes of a Native Song
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$25 advance; $30 door
http://lpr.com/lpr_events/lpr-x-stew-negro-problem-june-18th-2018/

Stew is an excellent songwriter and charismatic performer.  Here, aided and abetted by his essential songwriting/performing accomplice Heidi Rodewaldand their band, he performs songs from two theatrical works he and Heidi composed.  Notes of a Native Song was a reflection on James Baldwin; its score was merely excellent.  The Total Bent told a story of generational conflict and the move of African-American pop music away from the church; its score was sensationally great.  It will be great to hear all these songs again -- even outside their theatrical contexts.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:   Did you know that the really very nice eclectic Nolita eatery Jack's Wife Frieda opened a branch on Carmine Street?  Well, it did.

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