Shows To Get Pumped For This Week

Clarissa VillondoNovember 30, 2015

Cute StuffMusic 06 min read

GO TO THESE SHOWS THIS WEEK.

Monday, November 30

Kelela @ U Street Music Hall

RiYL: “Rewind”

Big Hush @ Black Cat

RiYL: EP release shows

Tuesday, December 1

BETTY Holiday Show, Margot MacDonald @ The Hamilton

RiYL: The L Word

Wednesday, December 2

All Them Witches @ Black Cat

RiYL: “Charles William”

Thursday, December 3

Vince Staples @ U Street Music Hall

RiYL: “Norf Norf”

Dark Star Orchestra @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: “Scarlet Fire”

Jack Ladder & the Dreamlanders @ DC9

RiYL: “Come On Back this Way”

Cartoon Weapons @ Songbyrd Music House

RiYL: “Tall Eyes”

Low Cut Connie @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: “Diane (Don’t Point that Thing at Me)”

Booby Trap @ DC Public Library

RiYL: queer dance punk, DC Punk Archive Library Basement Shows

Mindless Faith @ Black Cat

RiYL: triple-distilled, aggressive

Friday, December 4

Krampus-esque @ Black Cat

RiYL: Krampus, Burlesque, Variety Show

The North [email protected] U Street Music Hall

RiYL: “There Is Nothing to Fear”

Juvenile @ Howard Theatre

RiYL: this interview

Panama Wedding @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: “All of the People”

Super Art Fight Second Annual Non-Denomination Holiday Spectacular @ Black Cat

RiYL: holiday shows

Saturday, December 5

ReWrapped @ Lincoln Theatre

RiYL: Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington

Magnificent Intentions @ DC9

RiYL: music festivals

Highway Cross @ BDU House

RiYL: shows in McLean

Baby Bry Bry & Friends @ Songbyrd Music House

RiYL: tape release shows

Deerhunter @ 9:30 Club

RiYL: “Snakeskin”

Naughty and Nice @ Black Cat

RiYL: holiday burlesque

Sunday, December 6

Terror @ Rock & Roll Hotel

RiYL: “Out of My Face”

25mar6:30 pmMeow Meow and Thomas Lauderdale6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre

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Event Details

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences globally. The spectacular crowd-surfing queen of song had her New York Pops debut in 2015 at Forest Hills Stadium with Pink Martini, and her London Philharmonic debut in 2013 as Jenny in Brecht/Weill’s Die Dreigroschenoper in Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and London’s Royal Festival Hall. She sold out her Lincoln Center American Songbook Series and Sydney Opera House concerts, toured the concert halls of Australia with Barry Humphries and the Australian Chamber Orchestra singing 1920‘s works from Weimar Germany, and in 2014 performed contemporary opera with the LA Philharmonic in Andriessen’s De Materie and for Pina Bausch Company with their Fest für Pina 40 season in Germany, followed by an extended season of the award-winning original music comedy work Feline Intimate in London at the Southbank Centre and again a critically acclaimed season at London’s Southbank with her Apocalypse Meow. Meow starred on London’s West End in Kneehigh Theatre and Michel Legrand’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and in her own solo concerts at the legendary Apollo Theatre. David Bowie, Pina Bausch and Mikhail Baryshnikov are amongst her curators, and she has created works for festivals from Shanghai to Wroclaw as well as performing everything from Schubert and Schumann with orchestra to touring with punk outfit Amanda Palmer and The Dresden Dolls.

Named One of the Top Performers of the Year by the New Yorker, multi-award winning Meow Meow has been called “Sensational” (the Times UK), “diva of the highest order” (New York Post), “The Queen of Chanson” by the Berliner Zeitung, and “a phenomenon” by the Australian press. She opened Berkeley Rep’s 2014 season with the new music theatre work An Audience with Meow Meow. Upcoming: Brecht/Weill’s Die Sieben Todsünden for Orchestra Victoria, and further collaborations with the Australian Chamber Orchestra from Slovenia to Sydney Opera House, further performances with Oregon Symphony , with Pink Martini and the London Philharmonic. Meow’s albums Vamp and Songs from a Little Match Girl are available on iTunes. meowmeowrevolution.com

THOMAS M. LAUDERDALE (piano)

Thomas Lauderdale was raised on a plant nursery in rural Indiana. He began piano lessons at age six with Patricia Garrison. When his family moved to Portland in 1982, he began studying with Sylvia Killman, who to this day continues to serve as his coach and mentor. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Oregon Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, Chamber Music Northwest and Oregon Ballet Theatre (where he collaborated with choreographer James Canfield and visual artists Storm Tharp and Malia Jensen on a ballet based on Felix Salten’s Bambi, written in 1923).

In 2008, he played Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Christoph Campestrini. Lauderdale returned as soloist with the Oregon Symphony in multiple concerts in 2011, and again in 2015, under the direction of Carlos Kalmar. In 2017, he and his partner Hunter Noack created and performed a dazzling, rhapsodic two-piano arrangement of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with choreographer Nicolo Fonte for Oregon Ballet Theatre.

Active in Oregon politics since a student at U.S. Grant High School (where he was student body president), Thomas served under Portland Mayor Bud Clark and Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt. In 1991, he worked under Portland City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury on the drafting and passage of the city’s civil rights ordinance. He graduated with honors from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature in 1992. He spent most of his collegiate years, however, in cocktail dresses, taking on the role of “cruise director” … throwing waltzes with live orchestras and ice sculptures, disco masquerades with gigantic pineapples on wheels, midnight swimming parties, and operating a Tuesday night coffeehouse called Café Mardi.

Instead of running for political office, Lauderdale founded Pink Martini in 1994 to play political fundraisers for progressive causes such as civil rights, the environment, affordable housing and public broadcasting. In addition to his work with Pink Martini, Lauderdale is currently working on three different recording projects with international superstar and singing sensation Meow Meow, the surf band Satan’s Pilgrims and singer/civil rights leader Kathleen Saadat.

In Spring 2008, Lauderdale completed his first film score for Chiara Clemente’s documentary Our City Dreams, a portrait of five New York City-based women artists of different generations. In 2016, Lauderdale created the score and three featured songs for the Belgian film Souvenir, starring the legendary French actress Isabelle Huppert.

Lauderdale currently serves on the boards of the Oregon Symphony, Pioneer Courthouse Square, the Oregon Historical Society, Confluence Project with Maya Lin and the Derek Rieth Foundation. He lives with his partner Hunter Noack in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Time

(Monday) 6:30 pm

Location

Lincoln Theatre

1215 U Street NW, Washington, DC, 20009

Cost

$35

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29mar6:00 pmU Street Music Hall Presents... Big WildRobotaki, Mild Minds6:00 pm 9:30 Club

30mar6:30 pmGary Clark Jr.6:30 pm The Anthem

30mar8:00 pmBoogie T.rio w/ MersivSteez Promo Presents...8:00 pm 9:30 Club

01apr6:30 pmAn Evening with Billy Idol & Steve Stevens: Turned On, Tuned In, and Unplugged6:30 pm Lincoln Theatre

01apr7:00 pmLet's Eat GrandmaTWINKIDS, Claire George7:00 pm 9:30 Club

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