Castaway's
8th Annual
Golf Tournament
2009
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Castaways Schedule:
Download the calendar here and put it on your fridge.
Friday Jul 03
Free Music Fridays
Castaways is the place to be for Friday Happy Hour! Great FREE live music - a great crowd and the Ithaca's #1 Wings!
Come on down for the music or to just hang out on the deck with friends
this week's Happy Hour band:
To Be Announced!
No cover! 5 - 8pm
followed by our evening event:
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Malang Jobateh and Badema
with very special guest
Madou Sidiki Diabate
BADEMA BAND has taken shape around the release of the CD "BADEMA (One Human Family)", a collaboration between Gambian born Malang Jobateh and local multi-instrumentalist/producer Nate Silas Richardson (Sim Redmond Band, Black Castle, JBB "alum")
The recording began in February 2006, when Jobateh visited Ithaca, upon the invitation of Richardson, who had been studying the music of West Africa for ten years independently, and for one year privately with Mamadou Diabate (who has since become one of the world's most celebrated Kora players) and ngoni/guitar master Moussa Cissoko. After a week's worth of sessions and gigs Malang decided to skip his return flight. Released in the fall of 2007, the music is a fusion of Malang's unmistakable Senegambian style and Nate's wide range of influences, which have never before been rendered together in such a way.
The all-star lineup for BADEMA BAND is Malang on 21-string Kora and Vocals, Nate on Acoustic and Electric Guitars, Jali Jobateh on Percussion, Matt Sacuccimorano (Black Castle, Jennie Lowe, Hubcap, Mofos, et al) on Drumkit, and Brian Dozoretz (Black Castle, Jennie Lowe, Five2 et al) on Upright and Electric Bass. Papis Cissoko has been known to make the occasional trip from his current home in Las Vegas to play Keys for special engagements. The energy is always incredible and the music, at first exotic, quickly becomes infectious, and there is rarely anyone left off the dance floor after the first number... Come join us as we celebrate life as ONE HUMAN FAMILY. Opening the show on 7/3 will be the INCOMPARABLE Madou Sidiki Diabate, younger brother of the world's most famous korist Toumani Diabate - DON'T MISS THIS SHOW! Receive $3 off the cover charge with your ticket stub from the previous night's concert (an evening with Madou Sidiki at the Foundation of Light).
9pm - $8
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Saturday Jul 04
Mu-Tron Warriors
Deep Funk and Afrobeat
featuring
Elisa Sciscioli- Vocals, Sax, Percussion
Chuck Janvarin- Bass
Stefan Myers- Lead Guitar
Brian Mlodzinski- Rhythm Guitar
Lee Hamilton- Saxes
Mark Weinand- Saxes, Flute
Steve Reichland- Drums, Percussion
Adam Gold - Keys
Barry Rubin- Percussion
10pm - $7
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Tuesday Jul 07
The Original Reggae Tuesday
hosted by
Mike Judah from
JUDAHITES PRODUCTIONS
and WICB's Reggae Explosions
listen every Thursday from 10am - noon for FREE tickets, concert updates, and always the best reggae music...
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Wednesday Jul 08
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Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Friday Jul 10
Free Music Fridays
Castaways is the place to be for Friday Happy Hour! Great FREE live music - a great crowd and the Ithaca's #1 Wings!
Come on down for the music or to just hang out on the deck with friends
this week's Happy Hour band:
Larry Stamatel
No cover! 5 - 8pm
followed by our evening event:
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Lost Sailors
Lost Sailors has been playing for over 12 years, has performed over 400 shows, and is widely considered to be the premier interpretive Grateful Dead tribute band in Upstate N.Y. We've built a solid reputation for high-energy, carefully-crafted, and unpredictable performances, as well as the most consistently enjoyable club sound production around.
Their shows follow the Grateful Dead's traditional two-long-sets format, with a wide-ranging mix of rock, folk, blues, and country-pickin', mainly electric with some acoustic treatments. Improvisational jams are punctuated by sweet ballads and classic show stoppers. Music people of all ages and tastes love to listen and dance to.
9pm - $7
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Saturday Jul 11
Live Music!
Candypants
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Sunday Jul 12
2nd Annual - House with a Heart Fundraiser
All proceeds directly benefit the
Ghar Sita Mutu - House with a Heart
in Kathmandu and through outreach, the warm yet impoverished people of Nepal.
Featuring Performances by
AyurvedA
Mike Ogletree
The Magnetics
and Ghar Sita Mutu founder, Beverly Bronson
If there is power on in the House/Kathmandu, the evening will conclude with a Skype call to the family of children in Ghar Sita Mutu.
Join us for a special afternoon and evening of: great music, good energy, handmade products by the women of Ghar Sita Mutu's training center, raffles, and of course, the best food and drink available in the northeastern United States.
Food donated & prepared by
Horigan's of Elmira
By request barmaids:
Barrie on the Tiki Bar
Elaina everywhere
-- amidst Ithaca's favorite bar owners.
If the technology can be techified, the day will be webcast with simultaneous fundraisers in Massachusetts, The Netherlands, Philly, Hawaii, and Washington, D.C. More if you've got an idea. Anyone know a techie?
For more info, additions, and updates stay tuned to Twitter, http://hwah.frandre.net and RSVP and please invite your friends on Our Facebook Event Page
2:30 - 9:30pm
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Tuesday Jul 14
Rubblebucket Orchestra
... a cutting edge ten-piece afrobeat/rock band led by trumpeter Alex Toth and fronted by alluring vocalist Kalmia Traver. Comparisons have been drawn to Portishead, Fela Kuti, Bjork and James Brown, but Rubblebucket's genre-bending, neo-psychedelic soul experience is beyond classification. In addition to winning Relix Magazine's Jam-Off competition in July 2008, Rubblebucket was recently named "Best New Band of 2008," by Seven Days Vermont.
One of the most exciting groups to come out of Boston in recent memory...a genre-mashing maelstrom of hot-blooded West African funk rhythms and scorching soul melodies unlike anything that’s come before it.
- Dan Bolles, Seven Days.
Rubblebucket Orchestra is not your Mamma’s foot-tapping funk band. These guys are a flat-out “move everything” kind of groove.
- Ryan’s Smashing Life
Their youthful exuberance is matched with skill, and they remind you, or inform you, that it’s all right to let your guard down and leave your snarky baggage at the door. Listening to Rubblebucket is a moment in time when you feel like everything is going to work out. You feel that spirit.
- Mike McKinley, State of Mind
warming things up for Rubblebucket... Castaways is pleased to announce the return of
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Black Castle
a rare treat... Black Castle is an Ithaca Reggae Superstar group, featuring Elliot Martin, Brian Dosoretz, Matthew Saccuccimorano, and Matthew Goodwin.
incorporating elements of roots, dub, drum n bass, rock and more this is reggae for the 21st century... hold on tight!
9pm - (only) $7!
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Wednesday Jul 15
Adonai and I
Adonai and I is a ten-piece roots reggae band that draws its inspiration from traditional Hebrew melodies and features an all-star cast of some of the best reggae and dub players in the Northeastern United States. Instrumentation includes drums, bass, keys, 2 guitars, 3-piece horn section, vocals, and percussion.
The brainchild of David Solid Gould, Adonai and I was formed while David was on the road playing bass with John Brown’s Body. David started combining the Hebrew melodies he heard as a child with the reggae music that has come to resonate in his soul. The result is a very eclectic sound combining the often haunting minor melodies with a traditional approach to the roots reggae and rockers sounds heard in Jamaican dance halls in the mid-late 1970s. David skillfully and very naturally crafts in elements of funk, soul, jazz and nyabinghi music.
9pm - $7
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Friday Jul 17
Free Music Fridays
Castaways is the place to be for Friday Happy Hour! Great FREE live music - a great crowd and the Ithaca's #1 Wings!
Come on down for the music or to just hang out on the deck with friends
this week's Happy Hour band:
Hall Pass
No cover! 5 - 8pm
followed by our evening event TBA
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Wednesday Jul 22
The Maybelles
“Of all the music the Be Good Tanya's gave me, my favorite is The Maybelles. They sound like they might be the grand daughters of country greats from the 1930's, The Wild Wood Flowers”
Charlie Gillett - BBC London
We just love The Maybelles...memorable songs, great spirit, lovely and lilting harmonies---plus they're just plain fun. Its great to hear them re-inventing a whole new kind of old-time music.
Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin - Founders - Rounder Records (2009)
I love bands that are willing to explore new territory. I love the instrumental combination, the old-time real country feel, the close harmonies and the sprightly fiddle playing. I think you all are onto something big. Thanks so much for sending me a copy of Leavin' Town.
Dave Higgs - Nashville Public Radio - Bluegrass Breakdown
An EXPERT BAND ! Celtic tinged, Appalachian influenced repertoire puts their album in my Top Ten Folk Albums 2005.
Chuck Eddy, Senior Editor - Village Voice Top Ten Folk Albums
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ZipWire
ZipWire is an unlikely, intriguing collaboration between Black Eyed Susies’ members Leah Houghtaling and Amelia Sauter, and Jules Piper of The Witching. The girls have dubbed their unique melding of sounds “Ithacountry,” characterized by the intermingling of rock, Americana, folk and country that one might come to expect in Ithaca. Jules’ growling vocals, Amelia’s country harmonies and Leah’s driving banjo provide the platform for a point-and-shoot high energy performance laced with three-part harmonies.
9pm - $7
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Thursday Jul 23
Live Music!
RBD (Reichlen Battles Dobry)
one of our favorite IC bands from the turn of the century is pulling back together for a reunion gig... there will be raising of rooves, I believe.
RBD will be joined by good friends
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Wingnut
plus special guest
Keir Neuringer
Defying strict categorization, WINGNUT's compositions are a blend of genres...jazz, cinematic soundscapes, dub, blues, rock, middle eastern, jungle, funk, & hip-hop.
KEIR NEURINGER'S musical output ranges from pulse-based electronic music to free jazz, from notated compositions for contemporary classical ensembles to experimental electroacoustic improvisation, and verse/chorus songs with like three chords.
9pm - $7
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Friday Jul 24
The Makepeace Brothers
Known for their timeless and infectious harmonies and breezy, "front-porch rifts" which inspire fans to sing and dance, the Makepeace Brothers thrill crowds worldwide. Since completing their international tour, "Music Magic Makepeace" with Atlantic Records recording artist Jason Mraz last year, the Makepeace Brothers continue to play to enthusiastic audiences around the US, Canada, and the UK. Their extensive catalog of upbeat songs, from their self-titled debut album, including “Things Gonna Wait” and “I Can Always Do It” get fans up and dancing while songs “Hero” and “Lovely” serve as anthems to their message of love, one world, peace, and consciousness. Home grown in the vibrant music community of Ithaca, NY, the Makepeace Brothers were surrounded by a constant soundtrack of Dylan, Marley, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, as well as diverse acts from around the world that they watched perform at music festivals each year. Combining elements of bluegrass, country, Jazz, Brazilian, African, and Celtic, their music is as worldy and positive as their message.
9pm - $7
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Tuesday Jul 28
The Original Reggae Tuesday
hosted by
Mike Judah from
JUDAHITES PRODUCTIONS
and WICB's Reggae Explosions
listen every Thursday from 10am - noon for FREE tickets, concert updates, and always the best reggae music...
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Wednesday Jul 29
Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Thursday Jul 30
Jeff Bujak
Jeff Bujak generates heavily organized piano progressions, twists and winds them amid constantly evolving poly-rhythmic electronic beats and constructs a sound that is not only unique, but extremely fresh to the underground music scene. Bujak is a solo performer that uses computers, keyboards, effects, samplers and vocals to create a ‘progressive-piano groove.’ He creates a sound that unites keyboard influences of Peter Gabriel, Album Leaf and Bruce Hornsby with the hard driving rhythms of Prodigy and DJ Shadow.
more info TBA
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Friday Jul 31
Free Music Fridays
Castaways is the place to be for Friday Happy Hour! Great FREE live music - a great crowd and the Ithaca's #1 Wings!
Come on down for the music or to just hang out on the deck with friends
this week's Happy Hour band:
GO GONE
original eclectic rock from our good friends
music of love, travel and the always changing human condition...
No cover! 5 - 8pm
followed by our evening event:
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Liz Berlin
of Rusted Root
As a classical composition evokes emotion and controls its audiences, so does Liz Berlin command the stage. Recognized as an illustrious voice within Island Def Jam's multi-platinum selling group, Rusted Root, Liz's creativity has grown to be a viable force in any project she applies herself to.
Over their twelve-year history, Liz and Rusted Root have toured the Country with Santana, the Allman Brothers, Joan Osbourne, Sting, Dave Matthews Band, Sheryl Crow, Page and Plant, Jewel, and The Grateful Dead among many others.
As a solo artist, Liz Berlin's performances are highly anticipated She has performed many shows in the last 10 years, including the H.O.R.D.E. Festival in 1996, the 1997 Lilith Fair, and The Great Blue Heron Festival 2000 in Jamestown, NY. Liz embraces her creativity through personal interaction, intimate songwriting, and her emotionally charged voice. Raised on classical voice training as a child, she has sung with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Opera. This was the beginning of the long and twisted path through the worlds of folk, pop, ethnic, rock, and Rusted Root, through which she has created her own unique artistic style.
At her shows, Liz delivers a truly hypnotic live performance. Her collection of original songs --sometimes tranquil, sometimes funky, sometimes raging-- are written on a very personal level, and her life experiences unfold like chapters in a book. She explores her imagination thoroughly, projecting the fine lines and shadowy corners of her heart and mind with a sensitive intelligence. Audiences become utterly enchanted by her many voices, spiraling at times from tender and chillingly true, into an elegant wailing decree.
with special guest
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Heather Moran
Heather Moran first started singing as a teenager in Rochester, NY. She went on to study Jazz Performance at SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music. For the last 4 years, she has been living, working, and making music in New York City. This fall she finished writing and recording the song 'So In Love With The Sky' for the soundtrack to the upcoming film 'May I Be Frank'.
9pm - price/ticket info TBA
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Wednesday Aug 05
Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Wednesday Aug 12
Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Wednesday Aug 19
Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Saturday Aug 22
Red Stick Ramblers
"We live pretty fast and hard," confesses Red Stick Ramblers fiddler and vocalist Linzay Young. "We live life to its fullest. Then we pour that into our songwriting and our music, and take it with us wherever we go."
Hard driving, witty, eclectic, and honest, the music of the Red Stick Ramblers is inseparable from their way of life and the rich Louisiana culture that first inspired them.
Fresh on the heels of the release of their latest album, My Suitcase is Always Packed, Louisiana's pride The RED STICK RAMBLERS return to Castaways. It's been over three years since they've graced our Ithaca club circuit but they've toured relentlessly since, most recently in Australia. The band's dual fiddle stomp and swingin' melodies are sure to get you moving through the hot August night.
another great show at Castaways courtesy of
Dan Smalls Presents
doors open at 8pm
show starts at 9pm
advance tickets -$12.00
Tickets at the door will cost more so buy now and save.
On Sale Friday, May 29th at 9am
Get Tickets Here
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Wednesday Aug 26
Free Boody Institute
Free Boody Institute is an institute that promotes Free Love in a party atmosphere while exposing the great R&B B-Side classics of Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Bill Withers, Earth Wind & Fire, Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye and many, many others. Based in Ithaca, NY, FBI was founded by members Frank Henry Jr. and London McDaniel and includes members from Blue Sky Mission Club and the Bernie Milton R&B Allstars. FBI is a hit!!
9pm - $6
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Thursday Sep 10
Ra Ra Riot
Fresh off a tour with Death Cab for Cutie, local indie band Ra Ra Riot will return triumphantly to Ithaca on September 9th at Castaways to kick off DSP’s fall club calendar. The band hails from nearby Syracuse, NY and have garnered a ton of praise for their Barsuk debut The Rhumb Line.
It’s not often you stumble across a danceable indie rock band with a cello and violin. Even if you do, chances are the music won’t be half as good as Ra Ra Riot.
Formed in 2006 as an energetic chamber pop sextet, Ra Ra Riot quickly caught the attention of national media and secured recognition with a self titled EP.
With their latest release, Ra Ra Riot join label mates Death Cab For Cutie and Rilo Kiley on Barsuk Records. “The Rhumb Line,” released in August 2008, is a mature debut full length and sophisticated effort from this talented group, bringing to life an intense realism in a characteristically positive light. Fresh off a European tour with Los Campesinos! and Vampire Weekend, Ra Ra Riot is getting hotter by the minute and promises only greater things to come.
Their songs range from upbeat, catchy, Converse-tapping tunes to thoughtful, haunting melodies. The music is well-orchestrated and layered with lingering melodies weaving warm earmuffs you’ll never want to remove.
But as their music might tell you, it hasn’t been all major keys for this Syracuse sextet. The group has endured a couple of heartbreaks, including the devastating loss of founding member and creative force, drummer John Ryan Pike in 2007, and the theft of years worth of creativity in the form of notebooks, journals, computers and demos last year in Montreal.
But on they went, using music as a healing tool. Their tenacity has paid off in a big way. Their energetic live performance, which earned them a reputation and buzz at last year’s SXSW festival, only seals the deal.
In short, it’s tough not to like this band. I’ve never listened to “a frothing cauldron of gruel,” but according to the band’s Myspace page, that’s exactly what they sound like. Somebody get me a cauldron. ---NICHOLAS GRIZZLE
another great show at Castaways courtesy of
Dan Smalls Presents
doors open at 8pm
show starts at 9pm
advance tickets -$15
Buy Tickets Now
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