Erin Rogers - Composer/saxophonist

$5 donation goes to support the University of the Streets (a not-for-profit performance space)
Donations for the musicians are also encouraged.

Hooray! We’re now a Non-Profit!
Come out and Support thingNY
For Our First Fundraiser
Monday, June 22, 2009
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
At Vig 27
(In The Back Room)
Located at 119 East 27th Street (between Park and Lex)

Ticket Price Ranges:
$501 – Better than an Opera Star
$201 – $500 – Opera Star
$101 – $200 – Elitist
$51- $100 – Storn Child
$20 – $51 – Groupie

Stop by for a cocktail and some great conversation. There will also be musical performances from the group, special words from a special guest and highlights from our past and upcoming seasons. Please feel free to attend even if you have not already RSVP’d.

Hope to see you there!

Saturday June 20, 2009 – 7pm
The Tank – 354 W 45^th Street

$10 advance/ $15 at the door

A D D D D D D D D D

a 9Ds opera by thingNY

Written and performed by Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers, Jeffrey Young

Focus. The composers of thingNY will tell you stories, sing you songs, scream in your face, try to sell you stuff and rant recklessly to themselves, filling your ears with the sweet sweet sounds of excess. This new experimental opera by NYC’s freshest avant-garde band highlights the everyday excesses of our lives (workaholism, the thrill of consumption, the joys of gluttony, the elation of libation) and turns them into a suite of attention-deficient songs, monologues and infomercials.

Isabel Castellvi, Andrew Livingston, Paul Pinto, Erin Rogers and Jeffrey Young’s collaboration on this project began a year ago with the specific goal to create (and along the way, define) an opera together. The end result is a stream of poetically verbose scenes and songs (most in English, some in… well, Bizarre-Speak) and a musical score (for various instruments, electronics and toys) that is mentally engaging and heartfelt.

“How do you tell if it’s bleeding?

Put gauze on it……..

……….gauze.”

As a miniature prelude to our upcoming opera, thingNY will be performing at the Yippie Museum (Bowery) on May 31st at 7pm. Featuring some of our highlights from the past season, we hope to impress you to the point where you decide it necessary to purchase tickets to our opera, ADDDDDDDDD on June 20th. Do hope you can join us! (tickets $5 at the door)

Please join us May 26th from 5:30 to 9:00pm, as thingNY celebrates the completion of its 501c3 process. This event is a fundraiser.

Where: Mezzo Mezzo (upstairs)
3129 Ditmars Blvd.
Astoria, NY  11105
(take the N/W line to Ditmars Blvd, walk 2 blocks East)

When: Tuesday, May 26th, 5:30-9:00pm