Let's Talk About Cities + Six Brick Shack + Dogbottom Boys + Gengibre @ The Way Station

7:30pm- Satellite Magazine presents: Let's Talk About Cities

Satellite Magazine is back in Brooklyn on Tuesday, June 10 with more short talks about cities. This month, we'll hear about:

Kite-mapping
Urban Solutions' Jennifer Sta. Ines, Renata Silberblatt, and Ben Rosenblatt will talk about documenting Arverne East, an undeveloped parcel of land in the Rockaways, with a camera and a kite.

Karachi
New York-based architect Muhammad Ahmad Khan will speak about his hometown of Karachi, Pakistan, whose population has doubled to around 20 million over the past decade and a half.

The Gowanus
Journalist Joseph Alexiou, who is writing a book about Brooklyn’s favorite sewage-filled Superfund site, will discuss the Gowanus Canal’s history and future.

Neighborhood activism
Crown Heights resident Valerie Fleming will speak about her long experience of working in the neighborhood.

plus Music from Sami and Sarah.

9pm- Six Brick Shack
Genre:  Rock and Roll/Country/Punk
For fans of:  Frank Turner, Jake Bugg, John Mellencamp, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros

A young and devilishly handsome fellah from Brooklyn named Martin got sick and tired. Sick and tired of work and school, of playing by himself an acoustic guitar, of writing songs that he kept stored away, and of not being in a rock and roll band. So he put a little effort in and put one together. And there it was: Six Brick Shack, a real Brooklyn band.

www.sixbrickshack.com
https://soundcloud.com/sixbrickshack
 
10pm- Dogbottom Boys
Genre: Bluegrass
For fans of: Old Crow Medicine Show, Alison Krauss

Not much is known about the Dogbottom Boys. Rumor has it that the unsavory threesome washed up in Brooklyn after a string of unlikely (and somewhat illegal) circumstances involving lead singer Janky Jay, a stolen automobile, and the daughter of a prominent farmer in Sugar Grove, Kentucky. But all that’s behind us. These days, the Boys pass their days drowning their sorrows in whiskey and playing good old fashioned American music for the delight of local barmaids.

https://soundcloud.com/dogbottom-boys

11pm- Gengibre
Genre: Brazilian Choro
For fans of:  Jacob do Bandolim, Gilberto Gil, Os Mutantes, Carmen Miranda, Bill Monroe

Named for the Brazilian word for "ginger," Gengibre is a Brooklyn-based group playing the fiery Brazilian acoustic music known as choro along with choro-flavored arrangements of samba and bluegrass tunes. Featuring Alex Korshin on vocals, Samuel Day on mandolin, Doug Goldstein on banjo, Erica Mancini on accordion, and Elkin Pautt on percussion. It may be possible that Gengibre is even spicier than the root they were named for.

soundcloud.com/gengibremusic