"The Best of New York: Storytelling at The Cornelia Street Café" - Daily News
The Cornelia Street Cafe
29 Cornelia Street, Greenwich Village, NYC
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
STORYTELLING: 6:00 P.M.
The longest running storytelling series in New York City
Barbara Aliprantis, Curator/Host www.barbaraaliprantis.org
($6 includes one drink)FORMAT: Featured Teller(s)/Open Mic/Swap: 6 - 7 minute limit
FEATURED TELLERS: Rose Fontanella * Steve Northeast
What do you get when you pair a high-energy septuagenarian storyteller, comedian, and political activist from Hackensack, NJ, with a young gifted musician/songwriter from Australia? An outstanding evening of storytelling and music!
To make us laugh and shed a tear or two, at the human condition, Rose Fontanella draws on family stories of growing up as an Italian-American daughter. Rose has been one of the mainstays of the Cornelia Street Cafe Storytelling Series from the beginning. She is a perennial favorite who will have you rolling in the aisles in no time.
Steve Northeast rocks the house as he tells his tales, sings his songs and plays his guitar! He arrived in NYC in 2002 armed with a gift for telling stories through music. Steve immediately began drawing inspiration from the landscape and people of our fair city, and his songs now embrace NYC's wide-ranging emotions and "attitude."
FEBRUARY BULLETIN: Steve Northeast has been selected as a "Finalist" in the February 2006 round of the Song of the Year song and lyric competition. Song of the Year receives entries from all over the world and only the top five entries achieve "Finalist" status. For more information about Steve Northeast please visit www.stevenortheast.com
Story teller/listeners, as always, are invited to bring a favorite 6 - 7 minute anecdote/story on any topic that strikes her/his fancy...
Hope you can join as on March 13th as we celebrate Rose Fontanella's birthday! Talking about birthdays, as the years roll by, here are two of my favorite quotes on the topic...Barbara
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."
- Jane Wagner, Distinguished playwright
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
- Ogden Nash, American Humorous Poet
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About Me
- Barbara Aliprantis
- New York, NY, United States
- “I was born in a two-room house, in a small fishing village on the Island of Paros. In my village community, as I remember it, there was a yiayia – a grandmother – in every house, and I thought they were all mine. When my mother, Margarita, 9 year old brother Yanni, 3 l/2 year old sister, Calypso and my 2 l/2 year old self, departed our Greek Island home, bound for America, to join my father, Anastasios, I left with vivid images of teary-eyed village folks, young and old, lining narrow, winding village streets, waving goodbye. While I was only 2 l/2, I remember that day as though it were yesterday…thus began my journey as a story teller, story listener…”
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