…Again, this could be the one and only sighting this year of THIS estimable bunch…
Times like these need songs like these. Inspired by a photo of Brecht from the ’20s, performing with some clowns including the famed Karl Valentin and his partner Liesl Karlstadt: Brecht is standing in a cart playing the flageolette, behind a roll-down cartoon drawing of a strong-man being run over by a car full of revellers, with the inscription ‘Mr. Wau Wa’. The band is dedicated to performing the songs of Bertolt Brecht as set by his collaborators Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler, and Paul Dessau, as well as some original settings.
Gina Leishman, vox, accordion, pump organ; Rinde Eckert, vox, accordion, pump organ; Doug Wieselman, clarinet, sax, guitar; Marcus Rojas, tuba
Barbes
376 9th St. (corner of 6th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718.965.9177 www.barbesbrooklyn.com
