North Brooklyn Story Project Benefit Concert (Event Over)

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK – The North Brooklyn Story Project will throw a benefit concert, on April 28, 2009, to raise funds for their oral history project. The concert will be held at Union Pool (484 Union Ave) at 8pm. Performers include The Blue Album Group, Rebecca Schiffman and The Roulettes. Suggested donation for the event is $5. The concert is being held to raise money for recording equipment that the North Brooklyn Story Project will use to document, share and store the stories of Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents.

About the performers:

The Blue Album Group play Weezer's Blue Album straight through, note for note, with all the vocal harmonies, ripping guitar solos, and cardigan sweaters intact (or should I say undone?).
For more information, go to: http://thebluealbumgroup.com

Rebecca Schiffman was born in 1982 in New York City. She studied cello and piano from a young age. In 2000, while attending The Cooper Union School of Art, Schiffman began to play bass guitar for the pop-punk band Pearl Harbor, which featured Walter Schreifels (Quicksand, Rival Schools) on drums, Ryan Stratton (Walking Concert) on guitar, and Masayoshi Nakamura on vocals. Schreifels began producing Schiffman's recordings and in 2003 her first album "Upside Down Lacrimosa" was released on Some Records. In 2008 she recorded her second album To Be Good for a Day with Mike Musmanno in DUMBO, Brooklyn. Vice recently dubbed that album their "Album of the Month."
For more information, go to: www.rebeccaschiffman.com

The Roulettes were born in an Oberlin, Ohio basement, where they practiced on borrowed equipment next to a leaky washer/dryer combo. They grew up playing basement and living room parties to crowds of adoring fans and a few aghast fools who didn’t get their jokes. After moving to Portland, the Roulettes met up with label Lucky Madison to create the first ever LM release, a self-titled EP recorded at Portland’s Jackpot! Studios with engineer Larry Crane (Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus, etc.). The Roulettes EP finds the band bouncing from the pressing issues of yesteryear (film students with dinosaur-sized egos on “Crabs”) to love as seen from a creaky Ferris wheel (“Motorcycles in the Mist”) to straight up hot shit dance tracks (“Hot Ticket”) faster than you can pour another bourbon.
For more information, go to http://luckymadison.com/pagetheroulet...

About The North Brooklyn Story Project

The North Brooklyn Story Project (NBSP) is a new initiative of Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG), a community organization that has been serving North Brooklyn since 1994. The project was developed to encourage residents to come together and help build a vibrant and friendly North Brooklyn community. NBSP is raising money for recording equipment that will be used to document, share and store the stories of Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents.

NBSP is looking for people with stories to share about the community and people who can listen to and record these stories. For more information, or to become involved with the project, email: Gregor ( g.nemitzziadie@gmail.com) or Rachel (rachtree@gmail. com).

About Neighbors Allied for Good Growth:

Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (formerly Neighbors Against Garbage) is a volunteer-based community planning and environmental justice organization that has been performing grassroots organizing, advocacy and outreach/education to the North Brooklyn waterfront community of Williamsburg/Greenpoint since 1994.
For more information, go to: www.nag-brooklyn.org.