The Adam Burke Show + Brother George at the Hideout, Aug 28
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MAKE Literary Productions presents:
The Adam Burke Show
When: Thursday, August 28, 7pm (doors at 6pm)
Music starts at 9pm.
Where: The Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia
Cost: $10 / $7 for MAKE subscribers / 21+
Hi-res poster and participant images available upon request.
http://www.hideoutchicago.com/event/630325-adam-burke-show-7-00pm-chicago/
It’s a double-header! The Adam Burke Show followed by full musical sets by Ida y Vuelta, Minor Characters, and headliner Brother George
A night of live television that will not be televised
with comedy, literature, music, and more!
Featuring:
- THE ADAM BURKE SHOW with guests
author Barrie Jean Borich; author/musician, Brian Costello; and musician/author Tim Kinsella - With house band Ragged Claws
Following the Adam Burke Show, at 9pm:
Brother George
with
Ida y Vuelta
Minor Characters
Poster by Joshua Hauth/Hauthwares
Media sponsor: The Reader
More about the participants
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Host: ADAM BURKE
Originally from the UK, Adam Burke began performing stand-up after writing a piece on comedy for a Chicago magazine. Before long, Burke became a fixture at Midwestern shows and showcases. His absurdist, verbose comedy covers not only the vagaries of life in his adopted hometown of Chicago, but also the usefulness of mammoths, dogs who study law, and the importance of gangland grammar. He has appeared on the Bob and Tom show, WGN 720 AM radio, and the Benson Interruption Podcast, and was listed as one of the Top 20 Comedians in Chicago by Comedy.com. Adam has appeared at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland OR, and as part of the Just for Laughs Chicago festival for three years running. In addition, he has opened for a wide variety of comedians including Jeff Ross, Maria Bamford, Bo Burnham, Brendon Burns, and Jake Johannsen.
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Guest: BARRIE JEAN BORICH
Barrie Jean Borich is the author of Body Geographic(University of Nebraska Press/American Lives Series), winner of a Lambda Literary Award in Memoir and an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) Gold Medal in Essay/Creative Nonfiction. Her previous book, My Lesbian Husband (Graywolf), won the ALA Stonewall Book Award. Her work has been cited in Best American Essays and Best American Non-Required Reading and she’s currently working on a book-length essay about repurposed industrial landscapes, urban joy, and riding her bicycle on the mean streets of Chicago. Borich was the first creative nonfiction editor of Hamline University’sWater~Stone Review and is currently a member of the creative writing faculty of the English Department/MA in Writing & Publishing Program at Chicago’s DePaul University, where she’s developing Slag Glass City, a creative nonfiction and new media journal focused on sustainability, identity and the arts in urban environments. Borich earned her MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop and lives now with her spouse Linnea, a few blocks from Lake Michigan, in the Boystown neighborhood of Chicago, which was recently voted the most “incomparable” gayborhood in the world.
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Guest: BRIAN COSTELLO
Brian Costello’s writing has appeared or will be appearing in Mid-American Review, Chicago Reader, Analemma, New City, and other publications. His first novel, The Enchanters vs. Sprawlburg Springs, was the first publication of Chicago indie press Featherproof Books. His second novel, Losing in Gainesville, is forthcoming in Fall 2014 from Curbside Splendor Books. He plays drums in the band Outer Minds, and co-hosts “Shame That Tune,” a monthly musical comedy game show.
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Guest: TIM KINSELLA
Tim Kinsella is a musician from Chicago, Illinois. He has been a member of many bands, including Cap’n Jazz,, the Sky Corvair, Joan of Arc, Owls, Friend/Enemy, Everyoned, and Make Believe, and worked with a variety of musicians, from Marvin Tate and Leroy Bach to Angel Olsen and many more. He has also recorded solo material, some of it under the name Tim Kinsella(s).
Tim Kinsella is the writer-director of the feature film Orchard Vale,[ which opened at the Chicago Underground Film Festival on August 15, 2007, and his first novel, entitled The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense, was published by Featherproof Books in September 2011. (Eric Lutz of Newcity wrote, “Most of the time, it’s gripping. On a number of occasions, it’s shit-your-pants brilliant”).His second novel, Let Go and Go On and On (Curbside Splendor Publishing), which takes its inspiration from the late actress Laurie Bird‘s brief film career in the ’70s, followed in April 2014.
He recently took over as CEO at Chicago-based independent press featherproof.
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Guest: MINOR CHARACTERS
Minor Characters is pacing to take the Chicago music scene by storm with their unique sound, blending retro-pop rhythms with catchy melodies rooted in contemporary indie music. Since the band’s inception in December, 2010, members Andrew Pelletier (vocals, guitar), Shelby Pollard (guitar, vocals), James Ratke (drums), and Adam Schneider (bass) have developed a sound that is both unique and familiar, reminiscent of favorite ’60′s folk tunes and drawing inspiration from influences such as Radiohead and The Beatles. Each band member brings years of experience to the group, and each of their musical backgrounds contribute to elements of the band’s blended sound. http://minorcharactersmusic.com/
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Musical headliner: BROTHER GEORGE
Brother George is an indie rock band from Chicago, IL. The current lineup consists of Zane Scott (Drums), Neal Neumann (Bass, Vocals), Ryan Culbertson (Guitar, Vocals), and Sagan Jacobson (Guitar, Vocals). Brother George formed in 2007, but their current members have been playing together for just under a year. Founding member Tory Dahlhoff left the band last year to pursue family and career (he ultimately became a touring member of LA electro-soul group Electric Guest). Sagan Jacobson filled Dahlhoff’s vacancy after touring with The Dear Hunter. Drummer Zane Scott joined soon after to round out the lineup.
The band lives together in an apartment above a record store in the heart of Wicker Park. During the summer, you can often hear them perfecting tracks from a window on Milwaukee Ave. Though Brother George represents Chicago, founding members and longtime friends Neal Neumann and Ryan Culbertson originally formed Brother George shortly after leaving St. Louis for Chicago. Sagan was a founding member of Bloomington, IL rock outfit Crown Atlantic. Zane was once on drums for legendary Bloomington, IL indie folk band Ohtis. Coincidentally, Brother George’s previous drummer (Philip Baker) was once drummer for Ohtis, too. Brother George is a hodgepodge of the midwest’s most silently influential bands. http://brother-george.com
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music: IDA Y VUELTA
Ida y Vuelta comes from a long tradition of Mexican folk music called Son Jarocho. The genre is a fusion of Arican, Spanish and indigenous music and poetry. Ida y Vuelta’s instrumentation is native to the Veracruz region, it includes jaranas (8 string small guitars), requinto (lead 4 string guitar), cajón (wood peruvian box), cajita (small peruvian box), leona (acoustic bass), zapateado (percusive foot tapping) and vocals. Ida y Vuelta plays traditional sones that date back 300 hundred years as well as their own arrangements and original tunes. www.idayvueltamusic.com
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MAKE #15, MISFITS, will be available at the show, as will titles by Borich, Costello, and Kinsella.
For the 15th issue of MAKE, themed “MISFITS,” editors chose fiction, poetry, nonfiction, conversations, visual art, and more that didn’t quite “fit” into previous issues. Also, work that was created by or contains self-described misfits.
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