Wednesday 26 November 2008 Tea Factory Bushwick Brooklyn, NY 9pm
Jason Trachtenburg is premiering songs
from the forthcoming album called...
Jason Trachtenburg File Under: Pop, Male Vocal.
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Open Mic, Monday November 24, 2008 Sidewalk Cafe New York
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Jason Trachtenburg was back with "Everybody Loves the Clown."
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Saturday November 15, 2008 Benefit for Threads that Teach, sidewalk Cafe NYC
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Jason Trachtenburg
Jason Trachtenburg came on stage with a scarf wrapped around his head, kind of like those bandages you see in old pictures after people left the dentist's office. Jason is very funny and usually spends a lot of time on stage setting up and joking around, which is really part of his act. Last night he said he was going to read some poems, which turned out to be a couple comedic bits, including one about trying to find his chapstick. The shows I've seen of Jason's lately have all featured this song "Everybody Loves the Clown." It's kind of a take off on "Make Them Laugh" from "Singing in the Rain." He'll usually perform it in English and then in some kind of awkwardly rendered translation in another language. After having heard this numerous times now I must say the whole thing is a bit surreal, which come to think of it, maybe is part of the point. Jason also played "All for the Sake of Art," and the ultra-catchy "I Don't Want to Tempt Time," plus a song he wrote with Julie LaMendola called "Giving Kisses." I like the idea of "giving kisses like it ain't nothing."
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Wednesday Nov. 13th City Hall NYC
Join The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players on Wednesday Nov. 13th at City Hall to speak out against Michael Bloomberg's racist rezoning policies! Lets come together and put forth the effort to stop New York City from becoming a playground for the elite. 9:30 am folks! See you There!
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Monday November 10, 2008 Open Mic sidewalk Cafe New York
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Jason Trachtenburg played All for the Sake of Art and his biggest charting single (as he explains it) Mountain Trip to Japan. I remember Mountain Trip from a performance by Jason at Joe's Pub sometime before I started coming to Sidewalk. I'd read about the Slideshow Players in various publications and decided to check them out at some sort of free gig at Joe's. Unfortunately Rachel was not playing that day (she was in Seattle "on business" Jason explained-she being about 9 years old at the time) but I really enjoyed seeing that song with the whole slide presentation.
