Three Rooms Press: Dueling Karaoke New York hits The Bowery Aug. 25 at 7pm

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Dueling Karaoke New York hits The Bowery Aug. 25 at 7pm

Three Rooms Press presents Dueling Karaoke New York an hilarious romp through the bright and shining world of top pop music featuring the Dynamic Duelette of Peter Carlaftes & Kathi Georges at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (Between Houston and Bleecker), New York, NY. Admission: $10

Join Peter Carlaftes and Kathi Georges as they rip the light fantastic and remix the auras of the icons of the pop music industry. From Bing to Sting, Abba to Avril, The Bee Gees to Beyonce--the Dynamic Duelette creates the ultimate hyperlinks in the biz, in this extraordinarily fast-paced, funny-as-all-get-out, downright wacky comedic extravaganza. If you’ve ever listened to pop music and wondered “Why?” this is the show for you.

As a special treat, TRP friends The JDs, featuring Bob and Jake Musial, will play their final New York performance before Jake heads off to college the following week. The JDs will play promptly at 7:00, so don't be late!

For reservations, please email Peter Carlaftes at threeroomspress@mac.com.

1 comment:

Karen said...: Looking forward to the show! It's sad about Elizabeth Murray. Oddly, her name had come up very recently in a couple of conversations. See you Sat.; August 23, 2007 at 7:54 AM

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