MON
9/1

7:00-11:00 Sign-up at 6:30

OPEN MICROPHONE NIGHT

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TUES
9/2

7:30-9:00pm

7:30-9PM
Mette Kirkegaard
Folk

9:30-11:00pm

Dov
Pop / Rock / Powerpop

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WED
9/3

8:00-9:00pm

Kagero
Japanese Gypsy Rock Band

"Echoes of bossanova, Radiohead, Elvis Costello, everything sounds like this band should be performing in a Paris café to a room full of expatriates.                   -Ben Kreiger, Jezebel Music

Kagero's gypsy-flavored acoustic rock is knocking New York's indie scene on its tushy. The sound has been described as a melting pot of tonalities and rhythms from Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Kagero pulls their core rock sound from David Bowie and Neil Young, and adds the gypsy flavor of the violin found in the works of Stephane Grappelli. With a high-energy show that entices even the most jaded hipster into busting a gleefully bohemian move, Kagero's world music goulash is very tasty – even if you don't always know what's you're eating. Just call them your local neighborhood urban-gypsophonic, border-jumping, international debtor's prison groove-loving feelgood band next door

9:30-11:00pm

Matt Irving

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THURS
9/4

7:30-9:00pm

The Small Noise Sessions featuring:
Jodelle
Singer-songwriter and pianist Jodelle hails from New Jersey where she was born, raised and classically trained in piano and voice.  “All Save One,” featured on SHOF’s 2007 New Writers CD, can also be found on her latest release, “The Adventures of Jodelle.” Since its release in October 2004 on Jodelle’s own Espionne Records, “The Adventures,” continues to receive radio airplay and critical acclaim. Two other songs from “The Adventures,” “Shrinking Violet” and “Rabbit Cage,” received honorable mentions in the 13th Annual Billboard World Songwriting Contest.  The success of her latest CD went noticed by Performing Songwriter Magazine who named Jodelle one of their “Top 12 DIY Picks” (Dec. 2005), as well as Keyboard Magazine who named Jodelle their “Unsigned Artist of the Month” (June 2006). Jodelle tours regularly and has performed at industry showcases such as CMJ and SXSW.  In between running her label and writing songs for independent films, Jodelle is readying her next release which is expected late 2008 or early 2009.

 Luthea Salom
Reflections of Luthea's nomadic and bohemian upbringing are evident throughout her skillfully crafted songs. Having grown up, traveled and lived in so many different parts of the world, this young, multicultural and multilingual artist couples her life with her music, proving to be a unique charismatic universe worth discovering. Legends like LOU REED, PATTY GRIFFIN and EMMYLOU HARRIS are full of praise for this young talented upcoming international artist.

Mare Wakefield
Every star in the sky will shine for you.  In the refrain of Ironwood opener, “Enjoy the View,” Mare Wakefield might just be singing from experience. The girl from Southeast Texas went from playing Oregon coffee shops to headlining major Northwest festivals before a songwriting scholarship brought her to Boston’s Berklee College of Music which boasts alums such as Gillian Welch and Aimee Mann (two of many artists that Mare has been compared to). Currently based in Nashville, Mare--pronounced Mary--continues her upward trajectory by co-writing with hit songwriters and burning up the highways with her fourth studio album in tow.  The aptly named Ironwood radiates strength with every song, including the woman who calls out all liars in, “Enough Bad Love,” the gun-toting girlfriend in “Slimeball,” and the tongue-in-cheek barfly in “Whiskey Does it Better.”  Mare celebrates the release of Ironwood with a 5-week tour of the Western US, then heads to Holland and Germany before hitting the Northeast.Check marewakefield.com for more tour info.
Jan Bell
Jan Bell grew up in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire, England, and spent several years on the back roads of north america, learning songs from the rural south and mountain towns. When she first heard the songs of women such as Mother Maybelle, Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard - she felt right at home.  Wherever she goes, people always ask how come an english girl is singing so many american folk songs? Jan reckons the root of many of the songs she loves, are back in the coal mining country side where she was born and raised.  "Sometimes the main difference is in the name of a river, a town, a girl or a boy - but the melodies, and the stories are essentially the same. When folks from northern Britain sailed across the Atlantic- especially if all they knew was mining - they often settled in the Appalachian mountains. For generations, they stayed there, and the music was not only kept alive - but thrived. When i first went to Virginia and Kentucky, I could hear broad Yorkshire in the way people spoke. They had to be true dreamers, to get on the boat back then, and you can hear all that sheer hope and faith and courage in the songs."

9:30-11:00pm

Laura Gould
Laura Gould, an Iowa native by name and wanderlust at heart now makes NYC her home and is jumping into the music scene head first.  With the addictive hooks known to pop music and the depth of a folk singer, Laura's beautiful melodies will take hold of you.

Singing with untainted sincerity, her songs invite you
to join in the intimacy of music and the beauty that
comes out of life's lessons.  Regardless of age,
gender, and background they are the story lines we
all can relate to.  Laura is in every aspect an upcoming artist to keep your eye on

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FRI
9/5

7:30-9:00pm

Chuck Costa

"...sensitive, introspective...inspired."
                                                         -NY Times

2008 Rocky Mountain Folks Fest Songwriter's Competition Winner
2007 Kerrville Newfolk Finalist
2007 Telluride Troubadour Competition 3rd Place
2007 Solarfest Winner
2007 Wildflower Festival Finalist
2005 Great Waters Festival Finalist

9:30-11:00pm

Dave Pittenger
Rock / Acoustic / Pop

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SAT
9/6

7:30-9:00pm

Laura MacLean
Laura began her music career as a voice.  Classically trained, her talent and the diversity in her training brought her around the world- singing jazz, rock, and European pop, but it was in New York that she met a local producer who encouraged her writing abilities. May 2004, marked her first airplay in the states, on KUMU lite F.M. radio in Honolulu, Hawaii.   Since then, her EP has been supported by New England radio stations WFNX, 92.5 The River, and BBC Radio in the U.K. Laura performs regularly in New York, and abroad. She has been the opening act for such names as Tom Rush, Aimee Mann, and most recently, for a star-studded benefit hosted by Paula Abdul, at Paramount studios in Los Angeles. Having released her CD, “If The Shoe Fits, Wear It OUT” in 2006,  she is currently recording a new album.

9:00-11:00pm

Paula Valstein
Rock / Pop / Indie

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SUN
9/7

7:00-8:00pm

Orly
With a captivating voice and a profound passion for music, Australian neo-soul artist, Orly, captures the essence of jazz and soul, and delivers it to her audience in a memorable performance. Having been trained in music both in Australia and abroad, Orly has exhibited her talents at popular venues throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as the USA and Europe.
Now living in New York City, Orly is making a great impact performing her original neo-soul music regularly in Manhattan’s most popular venues.
Orly is currently working on her new album to be released in 2008

8:00-11:00pm

Tyro Marks
Trio (Cello, Guitar, Voice). Elegantly composed songs about hardship and heartbreak. Reminiscent of Paul Simon and Iron and Wine



Topu Lyo
Electronica/Experimental 5 string electric cello player and drum duo. He is called the DJ of the cello because he cuts, pastes and loops his cello live. He will make you dance and be in awe at the same time.
 

Randy Bergida
Great whiskey drinking songwriter. Also singer of touring rock band Skidmore Fountain. Usually appears with special guests including drummer Mike Theis and vocalist Katherine Burns.

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MON
9/8

7:00-11:00 Sign-up at 6:30

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TUES
9/9

7:30-9:00pm 

Kelly Suttenfield
Jazz/Bossa Nova/Lounge

Kelley Suttenfield is a vocalist in the classic jazz tradition, delivering soulful interpretations of lyrics over a smooth, swinging beat.

9:30-11:00pm

The Utsi Zimring Band
Moderm jazz with latin, funk and world elements.
The line up:
Utsi Zimring- drums, John Price -bass, David Deitch-piano and keyboard, Chad McLoughlin-guitar

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WED
9/10

7:30-9:00pm

Daniel Goodman
Folk / Folk Rock
After earning a degree in Jazz performance Daniel returned to his first love, traditional American folk music. His writing style comes from many diverse sources, including the earlier ballads of Stephen Foster as well as the traditional music of the Appalachian region. The revival of folk music in the 1940's through the 1960's has had a profound effect on Daniel's music and lyrics, including Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and, of course, Bob Dylan. Daniel's lyrics have also been strongly influenced by the works of Nick Drake, Jim Croce,Patti Smith and Jackson C. Frank. The musical legacies of Blind Willie McTell,Leadbelly,Dock Boggs,Bascom Lamar Lunsford,Lemon Jefferson as well as the musical dicoveries of John Jacob Niles have also contributed greatly to the context of both his music and lyrics

9:30-11:00pm

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7:30-11:00pm

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FRI
9/12

7:30-9:00

Caffe Vivaldi, 2/2/08 -- Photo by Mark Amrhein

Danielle Talamini
Indie / Rock / Americana

Brooklyn-born Danielle Talamini is a country gal at heart, with a sound inspired by the southern rock-n-soul of John Fogerty and Tom Petty, and a dose of Outlaw country a la Willie, Waylon and the boys. The result is "The Road Rises," a collection of songs about roads traveled the hard way, not knowing quite where you'll end up, and the good things in store just up around the bend

9:30-11:00pm

Boyan
Acoustic / Experimental / Other





 

Goli
Other / Classical / Experimental

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SAT
9/13

7:30-9:00
&
9:30-11:00pm

ANDY MAC and FRIENDS
Line up:
7:30pm
Andy

 

7:45-8:30pm
Lizanne Knott  





 

8:45-9:30pm
Scott Stein

9:45pm-10:30pm
Jason Misrahi

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SUN
9/14

7:30-9:00pm

Rob Lanter

Rob Lanter, a native New Yorker studied at the Berklee College of Music where he majored in Composition with guitar as his instrument of choice.
Since that time, his group Orpheus recorded for Polydor Records and toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Canada playing clubs, concerts and jazz festivals. He has recently finished recording a solo
jazz guitar CD 'Thank You Joe, A Tribute to Joe Pass'. featuring many standard jazz tunes as well some originals. Rob will be performing solo jazz guitar featuring music from his solo jazz guitar CD at Cafe Vivaldi

9:30-11:00pm

Bern & the Brights
Indie / Shoegaze / Blues

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MON
9/15

7:00-11:00 Sign-up at 6:30

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TUES
9/16

7:30-8:30pm

Phoebe Henry
Acoustic / Folk / Pop
With over 70 copyrights and 3 CDs, Phoebe Henry, 18, has already established herself as "...a sophisticated and prolific songwriter" (Greg Haymes, "Albany Times Union", Feb 2007). Her acoustic, melodic music and songs from her life-experience appeal to a broad audience. Phoebe is comfortable playing venues from intimate coffee houses, to events before thousands. She performs solo or with a drummer and bassist.

8:30-9:30pm

George Clement & Charles Clement
Acoustic / Folk / Pop
Hailing from a small town in Massachusetts, George (guitar) and Charles Clements (bass) started making music together as soon as they could. Each one brings to their music a wide variety of influences, ranging from George's training as a jazz saxophone player, and
Charles's experience playing orchestral double bass. The brothers unite their sound to form an intimate acoustic blend that is expressed through their love of song and songwriting.
 

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WED
9/17

7:30-9:00pm

NLX

The first extended residency, in 2005 at Caffe Vivaldi, launched her career. She emerged from it with a large following and established herself as major singer/songwriter on the New York scene and beyond.  NLX's second(2006) residency  "The Spring"- continued into Summer, Fall and Winter at Vivaldi, as her fans wanted more. And she is back with "more" new and exciting stuff 2008.

"NLX traffics in unschooled, confessional, piano ballads."  - NYTimes

9:30-11:00pm

Katie Arnold
Acoustic / Pop / Folk
Hailing from the outskirts of D.C., singer/songwriter
Katie Arnold has been writing music for the last 20
years. She started out on piano as a child, picked up
a guitar in college, and didn't discover the unleashed
power of her voice until her early twenties. With
influences ranging from Emmylou Harris to The
Cranberries, this up and coming artist is carving out
a niche for herself in the indie-acoustic music scene
of New York City. Katie’s passion-filled songs have a
fearless, yet graceful way of forcing people to stop
and recognize that a life untested is a life unlived.

“Her skilled vocals and song writing ability mark
Katie Arnold as a gifted talent.”  -- Dave Kellogg,
syndicated radio personality

Jodie Manross
Folk Rock / Acoustic / Blues
“Her crisp voice and illuminative songcraft belie her diminutive stature…equal parts wistful and urgent, it’s atmospheric music that will touch your heart and mind.”
-Los Angeles' Entertainment Weekly

“It’s no wonder why people rave about her power to breathe life into a song.”
- Boone, NC’s The Mountain Times

“Jodie’s voice is strong, rarefied and, to risk hyperbole, maybe even angelic.”
– Knoxville, TN’s Metropulse

“Manross’ rafter-rattling vocals can shatter even the hardest heart.
–Charlotte, NC’s Creative Loafing

With her acoustic-based, blues-influenced folk rock, Jodie Manross has become one of Tennessee’s --and now New YorkCity--top singer-songwriters. Known as “the little woman with the big voice,” Jodie possesses a powerful voice much larger than her size and surprises audiences with her soulful delivery of songs

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THURS
9/18

7:30-9:00pm

Pete Muller

9:30-11:00pm

Meryl Zimmerman
Jazz / Crunk

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FRI
9/19

7:30-9:00pm

A squealing jazz saxophone meets thunderous taiko drums meets virtuoso piano; and the singing cello intertwines with sweet bamboo flute. Diaspora Crossings brings these unique sounds to birth. Come and enjoy the passions of traditions, and the festivities created when these musician-composers from very different backgrounds cross paths.

9:30-11:00pm

Jeremy Nash
Acoustic / Folk Rock / Pop

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SAT
9/20

7:00-8:30pm

Katie Locke
Pop
Katie Locke, a native of Bradenton, Florida, grew up around music. As her mother was a pianist and her father a singer/guitarist, it is no wonder that she began playing Classical piano at age seven and was singing in local productions by the time she was eight. In 2005, Katie earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music. Some of her greatest accomplishments include having sung backup for Grammy-nominee Patti Austin’s “BeboperElla” tour, and released a debut album, entitled "Works for Me," in 2006. Her band has done well in NYC, having performed at such celebrated venues as The Bitter End, Arlene’s Grocery, Rockwood Music Hall, The Cutting Room, and more. She is currently working on a new album as she continues to pursue her dream of eating, sleeping, and breathing music!

9:30-11:00pm

Kristin Hoffmann

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6:00-7:30pm

HANNAH REIMANN

JAZZ STANDARDS AND ORIGINALS
with
ANDY EZRIN, piano

SUN
9/21

7:30-9:00pm

9:30-11:00pm

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MON
9/22

7:00-11:00 Sign-up at 6:30

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TUES
9/23

7:00-9:30pm

SPECIAL EVENT
Poetry Recital
Guests:
Alexis Sullivan is working on her first book, a collection of elegies entitled Zero-Dark-Thirty. She has an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a B.A. in English from Reed College. Her work has been featured in Lumina. She has taught poetry workshops at a women's correctional facility with the program Right to Write. The daughter of a veterinarian, Alexis lovingly "slings cats"  as her day job (a.k.a working as a veterinary technician) at a feline exclusive veterinary hospital in Manhattan. She lives in Brooklyn Heights with her musician-lawyer husband Tom and her two cats, Zen and Chi.

Joy Ladin is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University.  Her poems and essays have been widely published in journals such as Southwest Review, North American Review and Parnassus, to which she is a regular contributor.  Her first book of poetry, Alternatives to History, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2003; Sheep Meadow brought out her second, The Book of Anna (completed while on a Fulbright Scholarship), in
2007, and will bring out her third, Transmigration, later this year.  Her fourth book of poetry, Life Blow, is currently under consideration; she is completing her fifth, Coming to Life, while finishing up a collection of autobiographical essays, INSIDE OUT:  CONFESSIONS OF A WOMAN CAUGHT IN THE ACT OF BECOMING.

Niina Pollari is from Finland (cold) and Florida (hot). She lives in Brooklyn, where she's translating Finnish and working on a book about love, global warming, and Paradise Lost.

9:30-11:00pm

Tiff Jimber
Alternative / Pop / Acoustic

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WED
9/24

8:00-9:00pm

Megan Palmer
Allison and Megan Palmer

 

9:30-11pm

Alyson Greenfield
Folk Rock / Pop / Emotronic

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THURS
9/25

7:30-9:00pm

10pm

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FRI
9/26

7:30-9:00pm

Kristin Plater
Pop / Acoustic / Rock

9:30-11pm

           Live at Vivaldi
     -- Photo: Mark Amrhein

Katesland
Americana/Rock/Roots Music
Kate is the lead singer of an energy driven pop/rock band that stands out for the quality of its lyrics and highly professional musicianship of its members.
If you like rock, you will love this band:
Kate Pivoriunas - vox, guitar, piano
Adam Robb - vox,
bass Andrew Zehnal - drums
Chris Maloy - guitar

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SAT
9/27

6:30-7:30pm

Dilia
Latin / Pop / Country

7:30-9:00pm

Neil Nathen
Rock / Folk Rock / Pop

"Melding the heartache of alt.country to the soul of acoustic Americana, Nathan's "Glide" EP is a stirring, thoughtful collection of mini-revelations that grow in beauty with every listen."                    -Nevin Martell,
                                                        Music Journalist
Filter Magazine and Author of Beck:The Art of Mutation

9:30-11pm

Jill Stevenson
The music of Jill Stevenson reflects a depth of soul and poetic sense that reaches well beyond her years. Jill's passion for music brought her to New York City a few years ago. Since her arrival, she has spent most of her time working with songwriters and producers to cultivate the art of song craft she is dedicated to. Her unwavering commitment to expressing herself through music has contributed to the maturity she displays on stage. And her innate understanding of her musicianship, reveal an artist who is not only connected with her music, but also with the audiences she plays for every week

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SUN
9/28

7:30-8:30pm

Tim Noyes
Acoustic / Indie / Folk

Another man with his guitar, Tim Noyes manages to stand out with honest songwriting and simple, accessible melodies. Drawing from folk, pop and indie influences, his original voice lends itself to all kinds of listeners. A debut album forthcoming, Noyes has established himself as a musician to watch in New York City. This is his first performance at Caffe Vivaldi

8:30-9:30pm

Amber Lee
Acoustic / Folk Rock

9:30-11:00pm

Kris Kelly
Indie / Alternative / Acoustic

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MON
9/29

7:00-11:00 Sign-up at 6:30

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TUES
9/30

7:30-9:00pm

Joy Bellis
Jazz / Latin / Lounge 

9:30-11:00pm

Lisa Jaeggi

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