Mimi Goese & Ben Neill

Mimi Goese and Ben Neill: Part of Joe’s Pub’s Summer Salon Series at Cooper Hotel Penthouse

Show Description

Show @ 7:30PM (Doors @ 7PM)

This performance is part of the Joe’s Pub Summer Salon Series at the Cooper Square Hotel Penthouse located at 25 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue between 5th and 6th streets). Please note that tickets will not be mailed. Tickets will be held on a Will Call list in the Cooper Hotel Lobby starting 1 hour before doors on the day of show. These shows are standing room only and offer a cash bar.

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Following critically acclaimed performances of their musical theater piece Persephone, Mimi Goese & Ben Neill unveil Songs for Persephone August 30 on Ramseur Records. Songs for Persephone creates a vehicle for Goese’s vocal and performance style—which Rolling Stone likens to “eloquent sonic ballet”—as well as for Neill’s performance on his self-designed mutantrumpet, “a schizophrenic trumpet [used] to create art music for the people (WIRED).”

Goese is known as the lead singer/co-songwriter of Hugo Largo, the critically acclaimed minimalist punk/pop group who released two albums on Brian Eno’s Opal label in the ’80s. After touring with musician/producer Hector Zazou and co-writing/singing on the Moby album Everything is Wrong, Goese’s solo album Soak was released by Luaka Bop, David Byrne’s label.

Neill is a composer, performer, producer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. He has recorded eight CDs of his music on labels including Universal/Verve, Thirsty Ear, Astralwerks and Six Degrees. His most recent CD Night Science was released in 2009 on Thirsty Ear.