Root Hill Takes a Rest.

Saturday, August 20th, 12:00 PM

till

Tuesday, September 6th, 7:30 AM

Coffee & Beverages Served on the Front Porch Monday - Friday, 

August 22nd - September 2nd. 

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Angelo: Barista / Rock Star

Root Hill maybe taking a break soon, but our infamous barista Angelo is keeping himself busy with the release of his band's new double single. His Brooklyn-based group, Sick Cell, plays to adoring fans frequently throughout the city at places like Littlefield, Cameo Gallery, and The Delancey. Next Magazine says that Sick Cell "has a sort of darkly mesmerizing quality to it that command[s] the rapt attention of...rowdy downtown misfits". It's a wonder how Angelo manages to crank out drinks each morning with his late night rock star life!

Here's one of the new songs off Sick Cell's new double single, Motionless.

Hide Inaba Aug 11th @ 7:30p

Born and raised in Chiba, Japan, Hide began singing at the age 15. He wanted to play bass in a band, but his high school friends urged him to step up to the mic because nobody else had the nerve to sing. Through the years, Hide stepped out on his own as an artist, cultivating his love for singing as the ultimate expression of love and passion. He composes various styles of music from Jazz, bossa nova to Hip hop, pop, R+B or even ambient techno.

live cover : lilac wine:@ cafe dolce vita Tokyo dec 2008

hide inaba | Myspace Music Videos

Martian Man - Trash Pony Science & The UnderLining Order Of Things

Join us at 7pm Sunday June 26th, 2011 for a talk with author Andrew Kessler author of Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission.

Andrew and his book have been noted on NPR, BoingBoing.net, NationalGeographic, and whole host of science focused online publications.
Here's a promo for the book:

Matthew Brookshire this Saturday at 8pm

Matthew Brookshire will be performing this very song on Saturday. Check it out:

Stanley Mitchell Trio Friday June 24th

Stanley John Mitchell, formerly of The Drongos, and his band of buddies drop by Trash Pony this Friday, to play a few tunes.

More info check out stanleyjohnmitchell.com

Photo's from Sunday's Trash Pony Science: Boobs!

If Saturday night wasn't wonderful enough, then surely Sunday's event made this weekend the best one ever! Mermaid Hawley stopped back by to give a talk on BOOBS! Wondrous, Magical and Everywhere! Painter Angela depicted expressive pictures as Mermaid Hawley told of personal events relating to her chest. And with the assistance of anthropologist Cricket, Mermaid Hawley literally revealed various brassiere she owned. Check out the photos below...

Recap of Saturday's Cowboy Burlesque

Saturday night was fantastic! Mermaid Hawley hosted a rootin'-tootin Cowboy Burlesque. There was twanging cowboy style music played all night and the most unique and amazing performances ever! Check out the photo slideshow below!

*photographs by: Jozef Koppelman

scandalous weekend

Not really scandalous, but definitely not something conservative. We have two events this weekend dealing with, well, the body. 

First up, this Saturday we get down with spurs, chaps, lassos, and skin for Cowboy Burlesque. Hosted by Coney Island’s Mermaid Hawley.

here's the details:

Cowboy Burlesque Sat. May 21st at 9pm

Cowboy Burly Q: 

A night of down & dirty burlesque (yee-ha!) 

hosted by Coney Island’s Mermaid Hawley

Starring:  

Sizzle Dizzle! Clams Casino! & Lefty Lucy!

These ladies will whoop it up and lasso your hearts!!  

Cowboy musical accompaniment by:

Bill Brovold and Strange Farm featuring:

Ernie Brooks of The Modern Lovers and Billy Ficca of Television and The Waitresses .

 ...wait there's more... 

The always tantalizing Stage Kittens:

Minerva! Lina Moon! Gypsy Meredith! (ka-BOOM!)

 Get there early for yummy food and drink and a birds eye view!

 $5 at the door

Then on Sunday we get all sciency, but that's just so we can talk about Boobs! *tee hee...

trash pony’s science + the underlying order of things presents:

BOOBS! on Sunday May 22nd at 7p 

Wondrous, Magical and Everywhere!

(why do we see them for the first time every time??)

Coney Island's own: Miss Mermaid Hawley brings us her expertise (and she has a lot of it!)! Be prepared for projections, sound,  hands on crafting and audience participation!

Special guests:

Bill Brovold and his Larval Live Sound Effects

Expert Eye Witnesses! Scientific Know How!

Glittler, Glam and the underlying reason for underwires vs. natural!!

We have the AC all ready to go for this hot weekend. Come join us for these jaw dropping performances and wide eyed discussions. 

Go Ape one last time!

Join root hill’s trash pony bar this Friday night at 8:30 PM to celebrate the last night of :

Bonobos in the Mist

prints by Shelly Mars

Better known as a performance artist for twenty five years, her latest performance piece, Homo Bonobo Project, led Shelly to print making. These prints reveal a freeness that is consistent with the irreverence and punch of her performance style.  Her layering of images is reminiscent of the dense jungle foliage of the Democratic Republic of Congo where Mars spent many research hours observing the bonobo populations.

Native to only one small area of the DRC, bonobos are being wiped out by civil war, poachers and deforestation.

Mars has been Artist in Residence at New York City’s Museum of Sex and has received grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Arcus Foundation, the Gill Foundation and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art.  She is currently hosting the monthly performance series Bulldyke Chronicles at Dixon Place theater.

Twenty percent of all print sales and trash pony’s bar will be donated to Lola Ya Bonobo (www.friendsofbonobos.org ), whose mission is to rescue orphaned bonobos and eventually reintroduce them back into the wild.

To catch a glimpse of some of Shelly’s work visit:  ShellyMarsGallery

root hill’s trash pony bar

262 4 avenue @ carroll street

Gowanus, Brooklyn

718.797.0100

www.trashponybar.com

Story Time Again - May 1st Canceled

Alas, we have Canceled this event. But it will return soon!
Sunday Stories Returns...Squael!!!

MAY 1st, 2010

Trash Pony Science: On the Edge of Science - Astrology and our Relationship to the Cosmos

Trash Pony Science + the Underlying Order of Things presents: 

On the Edge of Science 

Astrology and our Relationship to the Cosmos

A presentation by Cathy Towle

Our fascination with the heavenly bodies goes back to the beginning of time when ancient man noticed the correlations between the movements of the stars and events on earth. Closely related to Astronomy, and considered one in the same, in the 17th Century Astronomy and Astrology split apart. Why did Astrology become associated with idea of superstition and divination, while Astronomy became science? What was it about the human mind that sought reason over divine guidance? How is our own cosmology evolving as we explore the dichotomy of increasing technology in our lives and an inner longing to connect to divinity and create community.

Cathy Towle is an Astrologer, Shaman, Author, and Speaker in Brooklyn, NY. She hosts Salon Fastastique and The Radio Show - Paranormal Highway, teaches intuition and the esoteric arts, and has an intuitive consulting practice in Brooklyn NY.

www.cathytowle.com

When: 

7:00pm April 17th, 2011

Where: 

Root Hill's Trash Pony 

262 4th Avenue (at Carroll St.)

Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11215

Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy - Now required by Doctors.

Someone once said: "laughter is the key to life" and now scientist have actually proven it. Resent research done by Dr. I. M. Funny shows that one must do more than eat healthy and exercise to live a long life. Dr. Funny tested people to see if laughter was actually keeping them alive by measuring their heart rates and telling them jokes. Turns out that humans require at least a minimum of four hours a week of solid laughs and chuckles to remain functional. This is way less than what needed to sustain the existence of the four legged creature, the Hyena. The Hyena has to use 90% of its' day to laugh. Laughing has something to do with regulating the build up of air within the human body. Laughing causes air to be release from deep parts of your diaphragm that just can't be done through normal breathing, talking, athletic workouts, or even singing. But what's the big deal about getting this air out of deep parts of your body? Well, Dr. Funny explains: "not releasing the air with a good belly laugh can be very dangerous. If you don't release this air your body will be force to use all it's energy to try and suppress the growing pressure. That means that you will begin to feel very tired all the time and not be able to function. If this pressure is never release than the energy will build up and you will explode."  That's right if we don't expel the air within through laughing them we all would explode. Some ironic cruelty left over from evolutions Dr. Funny assumes.

Dr. I. M. Funny suggest that you attend the Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy on April 13, 2011 to help with the regulation of air in your body. He says to make sure that you laugh hardly at the people providing jokes for your, literal, well being.  It may save your life. 

Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy

Hosted by Daisy Rosario

8:00pm on April 13, 2011

At Root Hill's Trash Pony Bar

262 4th Avenue

Gowanus, Brooklyn 11215

Shelly Mars Bonobos art of Silkscreen Mixed Media Exhibit

root hill cafe presents: 

Shelly Mars' bonobos project

A Mixed Media Exhibition 

March 25 - April 30th

Shelly Mars has studied and interacted with the Bonobo ape since 2006. Through this unique experience she has been able to artistically capture this species like no one else. Shelly uses a type of screen printing to illustrate the beauty of the human-like ape. With splashes of color and the process of layering she recreates her emotional involvement with the Bonobos. 

Her Mixed Media Exhibit begins March 25th followed by her multimedia Homo Bonobo Project at Trash Pony's Science + the underlining order of things Sunday March 27th at 7 pm.

Root Hill Cafe / Trash Pony

262 4th Avenue at Carroll street

Brooklyn, NY 11215

Coming this week/weekend

Thursday, March 24 at 7:30pm - South Brooklyn Tales with Rick Kadlub

Friday, March 25 at 8:30pm - Stan Mitchell Trio

Saturday, March 26 at 7:30pm - Trash Pony Poker with Bill

Sunday, March 27 at 7:00pm - Trash Pony's Science...The Homo Bonobo Project & Shelly Mars art exhibit opening

And next weekend something so special that it will blow your mind!

Joining us on Friday: The Stan Mitchell Trio

The boys are back...

‘Stanley John Mitchell and His Band of Buddies’ plays mostly original music drawn from the Roots Americana style they love so much. Stan feels though, that they give the music a contemporary twist that makes it all their own.

The band is unusual in that Stan works it like a one-man-band with friends. While he has a bass player and guitarist as bandmates, Stan himself plays guitar, sings and plays percussion/drums all at the same time.


More info check out stanleyjohnmitchell.com

Rewind Music: Kjersti Kveli

In case you missed it here's Norwegian singer and songwriter performing "The Coin" at Root Hill's Trash Pony last month.




Check out more of Kjerst Kveli at www.kjerstikveli.com

Trash Pony's Science + the underlining order of things...Goes Ape!...Homo Bonobo Project

Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, a French primatologist & ethologist, focuses on wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) in Salonga National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Homo Bonobo Project is a multimedia presentation by the globe-trotting Belgian primatologist Dr. Ghislaine Pussait, as played by her creator Shelly Mars.

Starting in 2006, Mars began an intensive study of the bonobo apes, the most endangered and least known of the Great Apes. The bonobos have been recently featured in pop culture and the press as “the make-love-not-war apes,” or “the hippie chimps,” because of their nonviolent nature, pansexuality, and matriarchal social structure. Graceful, charming, intelligent-and-tragic-bonobos bear a striking resemblance to humans, and are our closest relatives, sharing 99.5% of our DNA.

Native to only one small area in the Congo, their numbers are being radically reduced by pressures from civil war, poachers, and deforestation. With a grant from the Arcus Foundation, Mars visited bonobo environments and study centers in the US and the Congo. She videotaped and connected with many important primatologists and field workers, and became increasingly fascinated with them and their urgently important work.

more info: homobonoboproject.com

Sunday March 27, 2011 at 7pm

*this addition of  Trash Pony's Science is for Mature Audiences Only

Team of Rivals ((Acoustic Show)) March 19, 2011

Two Israelis. One Blond guy. Brooding alt. rock.

Guitar driven acoustic alt rock.

Omer Wald - Vocals, Guitar

Jino Arielly - Bass

Brian McFadden - Drums

Shortly after moving to the U.S. from Israel to begin his music career, singer-songwriter Omer Wald met Jino Arielly, a bass player and producer also from Israel. The pair began refining a number of songs that Omer had been working on for years. After many months of polishing the brooding, guitar-driven tracks, they realized the music was finally ready. Jino then recruited Brian McFadden, a drummer and former bandmate. A Team of Rivals was born.

Moments with an Artist: Percy Aguayo / Closing Party March 11th at 8:30p

It's hard to explain all the emotions that are transmitted through Percy Aquayo layered photography. The content combined with what has been done to the texture of the actual film creates something unique and extraordinary. The select works featured at Root Hill Cafe represents only a fraction of what Percy Aquayo has done as an artist. On a busy afternoon in Root Hill, Percy takes a moment to talk about the exhibit, life as an artist, his two books: Blur & Apartment Twenty Five, and new projects he's working on...

Moments with an Artist: Percy Aguayo from RootHillCafe on Vimeo.

See Percy Aguayo works one last time at "closing" party on: 

Friday March 11th, 2011 @8:30p at Root Hill's Trash Pony.

South Brooklyn tales with Ricky "Big Rick" Kadlub

You think you know about Brooklyn?
Hah! You don't know nutthin'!

Come find out about South Brooklyn from someone who's seen it, heard it, lived it, and represents it. . .

Rick Kadlub, "Big Rick", is a member of the Brooklyn Heights Association, Brooklyn Chamber Of Commerce and Brooklyn Tourism. After working in the corporate world for 25 yrs he decided he wanted to be his own boss. He started a tour business doing tours of Brooklyn. He is a self taught Brooklyn historian and has lived in Brooklyn his whole life. He is an avid reader, golfer, bird watcher, and a real people person. He is also a fan of all the diverse cuisines that Brooklyn has to offer. Living in and studying about Park Slope has made Rick very familiar with the history and urban folklore of the area.

South Brooklyn tales 

with Ricky "Big Rick" Kadlub

at Root Hill's Trash Pony

Thursday March 24, 2011

7:30p – 9:00p

Check out the tours that Rick gives at: www.ATourGrowsInBrooklyn.com

*Rick really represents Brooklyn, he is featured in one of the photographs by Joe Delano now in the exhibit Brooklyn Portraits by Brooklyn Photographers at Central Brooklyn Public Library.

Aww...look at that bear...sure is silly. Bear In A Hammock Returns

Bear In A Hammock 

Thursday March 3rd @8p

Marc Barnhill and the Sorely Missed

Marc Barnhill and the Sorely Missed have a American folk style with insightful and soulful lyrics. We are please that they will be playing Root Hill's Trash Pony on March 12, 2011 at 8:30pm. 

"Marc Barnhill's music is like a freshly squeezed orange....You wake up and pour yourself a fresh glass of O.J. and look out the window and it's a beautiful sunny day." –IndieShows

Check out more music here: www.MarcBarnhill.com

Rewind: TP Science - Amanda Simson's Fuel Cells & Other Ways to Get 'Off the Grid'

In this unedited clip from last months Trash Pony Science + the Underlying Order of Things Amanda Simson discusses energy involved in burning.

Trash Pony's Science + the Underlying Order of Things: Amanda Simson - Fuel Cells and Other Ways to Get 'Off the Grid". from RootHillCafe on Vimeo.

Did you attend this event? Did you find out how to 'get of the grid' or have you already done so and have no way of reading this blog? We'd like to know. Send us you thoughts or photos of this event.

*And support Science!

Stay tuned - next month Trash Pony's Science has a talk on The Homo Bonobo Project by Dr. Ghislane Pussait, as played by her creator Shelly Mars.

Coming this March...

Coming to Root Hill's Trash Pony this month...

Thursday, March 3rd at 8p - Bear in a Hammock Explains it All - Improv with Mike Sapp

Sunday, March 6th at 6p - Sunday Stories Hosted by Daisy Rosario Inspired by This American Life & The Moth

Wednesday, March 9th at 8p - Get It Out: Trash Pony Comedy Hosted by Daisy Rosario

Saturday, March 12 at 8:30p - Musical Stylings of Marc Barnhill and The Sorely Missed

Saturday, March 25 at 8:30p - Stan Mitchell Trio

Saturday, March 26 at 8p - Poker Night with Bill

Sunday, March 27 at 7p - Trash Pony's Science + the Underlying Order of Things: Homo Bonobo Project

Kjersti Kveli performing this Friday, Feb 11th

On Friday, Feb 11th at 8:30p we have singer songwriter Kjersti Kveli.

Miss Kveli is a Norwegian singer and songwriter, currently situated in New York City. Her songs and way of singing fits the description folk music, leaning into classical contemporary art songs. Educated as a soprano and a voice teacher, now creating her own musical world of experiments and expressions through and straight from the heart. 

Check out more of Kjersti Kveli here: www.kjerstikveli.com

Get It Out - Trash Pony Comedy

These people maybe insane, but they are also extremely funny. Laugh like you mean it. 

Get It Out

at Root Hill's Trash Pony

Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2011

at 8:00pm

Hide Inaba live at Trash Pony Feb 10th at 7:30p

At 15 Hide Inaba wanted to just play bass in a band, but his friends asked him to step up to the mic because they didn't have the nerve. From there his music career took off, playing in local bars, clubs, and colleges throughout Tokyo. In 1997 he moved to the big apple and begin playing throughout the city. Originally from Chiba, Japan, Hide writes songs in both Japanese and English. His styles are a mix of jazz, hip-hop, pop, and ambient techno. 

See Hide Inaba live at: 

Root Hill's Trash Pony (262 4th Avenue) 

on February 10th, 2011 at 7:30pm. 
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Purchase this CD on CDBaby.com here.

Bear in a Hammock this Thursday at 8pm

Don't be afraid to laugh at these people!

 They can't help being foolish!

Bear In A Hammock - Thursday Feb 3rd

Coming up this week: Music, Comedy, and Art!

This week we have:

Friday, Jan 28th - Matthew Brookshire @8p and The Quintet for World Peace @9p

Sunday, Jan 30th - Trash Pony's Science + the Underlying Order of Things: Amanda Simson - Fuel Cells and Other Ways to Get 'Off the Grid"

Over the Weekend: New Art Exhibit by Percy Aguayo

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Next Week:

Thursday, Feb 3rd - Improv with Bear in a Hammock 
Friday, Feb 4th - Karaoke!  <---Rescheduled for March
Sunday, Feb 6th - Story Telling with Daisy Rosario <-Doh! it's superbowl Sunday so no story for you :(

KARAOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! has been moved to March

Get ready... Your dream of being a star is finally here. We have an open stage, an open mic, and all the best music to sing your heart out with. Trash Pony brings you Karaoke in all its' masterful glory February 4th, 2011...err in March! Sorry, we had to delay Karaokes awesomeness because...well just because. Join us in March for new detailed info. 

Host by Andrew Davenport - Wonderboy Karaoke

Music to Our Ears: Matthew Brookshire - Friday Jan 28, 2011

Originally from North Carolina, Matthew Brookshire is a performer and songwriter currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Matthew’s collaboration with modern dance choreographer Keely Garfield, "Eva Potranspiration/Cloud 9", received a grant from the American Music Center in 2009 for its premiere at Danspace Project in NYC. His original music for films includes Christian pop songs for the Todd Solondz film Palindromes(which screened at the Toronto, Venice, Telluride and New York film festivals), the score for the award-winning short film Rene Turns 40, and a featured placement in the upcoming Violet Tendencies. The title song from Matthew’s sophomore recording, Best Friend, was a finalist in the NY Songwriters Circle contest, culminating in a live performance at NYC’s legendary Bitter End. “Wedding Song” and “I Reveal My Heart” (both from the album 8 Songs) were added to Sirius Radio and appeared in the Top 20. Matthew has co-written (with Curtis Moore) songs for other artists, including #1 Billboard dance artist Kevin Aviance and Tony Winner Sara Ramirez (of “Grey’s Anatomy”). Matthew’s live performances include college bookings throughout the Northeast, as well as shows at some of NYC’s top venues. Matthew is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, School of Drama and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Get Matthew Brookshire music now on:  

itunes 

cdbaby 

rhapsody

Trash Pony's Science + the Underlying Order of Things: Amanda Simson - Fuel Cells and Other Ways to Get 'Off the Grid"

Become one with your Nerdy self . . .

Join us as we present the first of many Trash Pony's Science + the Underlying Order of Things nights, where we ask super smart people, better known as Scientist, to present fascinating information on intriguing topics.

On January 30, 2011 from 7p-9p we begin with Amanda Simson who will speak about Fuel cells and other ways to get 'off the grid'.

Amanda is a Phd student in Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, researching hydrogen production from biofuels for the purpose of running fuel cells. She received a bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and after working on rockets for both NASA and Boeing she spent three years teaching middle school math (in Miami and NYC). Despite working in the Combustion and Catalysis lab at Columbia she deems it worth the hour commute to live in Brooklyn. 

Amanda & two of her friends; Tara and Matt co-founded of FredTalks.org. 

A percentage of the night's bar will go towards the Darfur Stoves Project:

* This event is a Time Out New York Critics' Pick.

Get It Out - Trash Pony Comedy

Tomorrow Trash Pony presents:

Get It Out

a monthly comedy show featuring:

new and up & coming comedians

1/11/2011

Starts at 8pm

Cost: Free!

Hosted by: Daisy Rosario

This Week - Comedy + Music

This week... 

We Have:

Stand Up Comedy - Wednesday, January 12

A concert with Joshua Sanders - Saturday, January 15

Music to Your Ears: Josh Sanders - Jan 15

Next Saturday Jan 15, 2011 at 9pm, alt-country, American style, original artist Josh Sanders will be playing some tunes at Trash Pony Bar. Check out one of his tunes below:

Listen to some more tunes here: Josh Sanders

See you there...

Press via City Rover

Trash Pony Bar - Root Hill's Alter Ego  ...a space for art and music – an after-hours hideaway for folks who weren’t quite ready to call it a night – with a late-night menu of cozy comfort foods explicitly designed to quelch one’s cravings and soak up tomorrow’s hangover.  

—Annie Shapero, City Rover