Roger Manning


performance schedule

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Thurs, Feb 22nd, 2024 from 6-7:30 PM
The East Village in Music & Words: A Conversation with Jesse Rifkin & Roger Manning


Jesse Rifkin is the author of This Must Be the Place: Music, Community, & Vanished Spaces in New York City (Hanover Square Press, 2023). Roger Manning is a New York City-based singer-songwriter who plays an aggressive acoustic style of music. Manning, along with a small handful of other artists, established the original New York City anti-folk scene. Join them for music and conversation on Thursday, December 21st from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM in the Tompkins Square Library Basement (331 East 10th Street).
FREE
Registration etc: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2024/02/22/east-village-music-words-conversation-jesse-rifkin-roger-manning


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Saturday, June 17, 2023 2:40pm
Roger Manning @ Porch Stomp, Governors Island NYC

At the Kat and Friends stage, 2:40pm in front of #407 Colonels Row.
More info at FaceBook event page And https://www.porchstomp.com


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Saturday, June 18, 2022 3:30pm
Roger Manning @ Porch Stomp, Governors Island NYC

At the 'Nick Horner Family Stage' at 3:30pm in front of #9 Nolan Park. Also performing with the 'Hat Cousins' at the 'Kat and Friends Stage' in Colonels Row at 2:25pm..
More info at FaceBook event page


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Saturday, June 26, 2021 3:40pm
Roger Manning @ Porch Stomp, Governors Island NYC

At the Live Muzic Mondayz stage, 3:40pm at the north/west end of Colonels Row.
(More info at FaceBook event page)


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Saturday, October 10, 2020 1pm
Roger Manning @ Porch Stomp

#18 Nolan Park, Governors Island NYC
Also with The Hat Cousins @ 2:30pm in Colonels Row
(More info at FaceBook event page)


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Sunday, April 24, 8:30pm
Trouble With Kittens, Great Circles, Roger Manning

The Cobra Club
6 Wyckoff Ave, Brooklyn, NY
(FaceBook event page)


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Monday, March 7, 7:00 PM
Rachel & Rebecca (R2) and Roger Manning in LIC

LIC Bar
45-58 Vernon Blvd
Long Island City, NY (FaceBook event page)

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Sunday, August 23, 3:00 - 6:00pm
Busking at 30

Sponsored by BuskNY
Herbert Von King Park Tompkins Ave and Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, New York
FREE

Since the landmark People v. Manning case on September 10, 1985, New York City's subway performers have thrilled millions. On the anniversary of that decision, come celebrate 30 years of subway art and music with a lineup of subway stars in Von King Park.

Featuring Roger Manning, Najah Lewis, Ghsts N Guitars, Jadon, Float Master John aka John Rich, along with rocking busking by Heidi Kole, NYCsubwaygirl, Jessica Delfino & dirty folk rock!, Cameron Orr, Matt Dallow Music, Stephen Witt, and Juan Soria.


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Monday, April 27, 8:00pm
Trans-Pecos
9-15 Wycoff Ave, Queens (almost Brooklyn), NY
all ages, $10
doors at 7PM

8PM Toby Goodshank
8:30 Roger Manning
9:15 Hamell On Trial
10PM Paul Baribeau
10:45 Kimya Dawson


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Saturday, May 2, 2015, 5:00 - 11pm
C-Squat Folk Punk Saturday
C-Squat
155 Ave C, Maddhattan, NY

My Pizza My World
Robber's Roost
Roger Manning (6:30 or so?)
Glittered and Mauled
Out of System Transfer
Shark Shark
Early Riser

Doors at 3:30, show at 5, over by 11.
Admission is $5-10 sliding scale
Sandwiches and chocolates will be available for cheap.


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Thursday, March 19, 2015, 8:30 - 12pm
Palisades
906 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY

8:45 Fly
9:00 Toby Goodshank
9:40 Fly
10:00 Roger Manning
11:00 Trouble with Kittens
$5

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Thursday, February 4, 2010, 7 - 10pm
Circle Arts Gallery Opening - Heroes

Clemente Soto Velez Gallery
107 Suffolk Street
New York, NY 10002
Abrazo Gallery
free (right?)

I was thinking that the heroes/sheroes notion is lame, but then realize that I indeed have a few sheroes. I sing one song at 8pm.

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Thursday, February 25, 2010, 9pm
Winter Antifolk Festival

Sidewalk Cafe
East 6th Street @ Avenue A, NYC
Tip jar, 2 drink minimum

Antifolk's been dead since 1987, long live Antifolk:
7:00 Beau Alessi
7:30 Albert Goold
8:00 Hank & Pigeon (feat. Morgan Herringer & Alex P)
8:30 Aaron Invisible
9:00 Roger Manning
9:30 Liv Carrow
10:00 Brook Pridemore
11:00 Huggabroomstik
12:00 Crabs on Banjo

http://www.sidewalkmusic.net





Saturday, December 21, 2009 7pm
Webster Hall
NYC (downstairs)

KIRK KELLY’s Go Man Go ANTIFEST in the STUDIO at Webster Hall features Jeff Lewis, John Kruth, LACH Jason Trachtenberg, Debe Dalton, John S. Hall, Roger Manning (on first at 7pm, 15 minute set), Erin Regan and Mike Rimbaud.

Tickets are $20 the night of the show, and the most avid Anti-fans can purchase advance tickets for $15 at www.websterhall.com. Webster Hall is located at 125 E. 11th St. and doors open at 6:30 p.m. This is a benefit for a non-profit musician's project that Kirk is trying to put together

Go man go.





Friday, July 3, 2009
Rubulad
NYC
(email for details)




Sunday, May 24, 2009
Free Outdoor Show
Tompkins Square Park
L.E.S, NYC
Numerous performers, details to come
2pm to 6pm

OFFICIALLY CANCELLED due to weather concerns, but I plan to be there hanging out with guitar around 2:30pm - my planned performance time.




Tuesday November 4, 2008 - 7:00 PM
missile dick chicks election night party
The Living Theatre
21 Clinton St. just below Houston
$10 cover includes Celebratory Punch
7pm to late, late!
I'll be playing a few songs at some point during the long evening. Lots going on. Should be fun.
http://missiledickchicks.net




Thursday August 14, 2008 - 8:00 PM
Anti Folk Festival at Sidewalk Cafe
Avenue A and 6th Street, New York City
On at 8:30pm, really. Short set - 25 minutes. No cover, 2 drink minimum. Rock on.
http://www.sidewalkmusic.net, http://www.antifolk.net



Friday June 6, 2008 - 7:30 PM
U.S.S.A. Fine Arts, Brooklyn
109 South 5th St, #204 (between Bedford and Berry)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Art opening starts at 6pm. I play around 7:30pm. Short set.
Free



Saturday, May 24, - 11:59pm
Olive Juice Music Festival
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street, NYC
Olive Juice Music is a D.I.Y. label, studio, and mail-order distributor, based in New York City. There will be many cool performances all day and evening for 2 days, plus a crafts fair and other stuff. May 24th is $10, $8 pre-sale at Cake Shop starting May 10. May 25th is a free event at Cake Shop. More info at:
http://www.ojallday.com
http://www.myspace.com/olivejuicemusic
http://www.olivejuicemusic.com/


Friday, April 4, - 9:00pm
Postcrypt Coffeehouse
Basement of St. Pauls Chapel
Columbia University (116th Street and Broadway)
(St. Pauls is right next to the East side of the main library building)
Last minute booking. Free show.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/newsite/main3.html


Saturday, April 26, - 8:00pm
The Fort at Sidewalk Cafe
Avenue A and 6th Street, NYC
8pm: Roger Manning
9pm: Simone White (!)

No Cover (2 drink minimum and they pass the hat)

I'm playing a very SHORT set to help support Simone White's NYC show. She's just passing though on the way back to L.A. from Europe. I'm a big fan and have helped set up this date and am spreading the word in the same way many local folks in other towns have done for me over the years. Check out "The American War" and other tunes on her MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/simonewhite


January 24, 2008 - 8:00pm
ISSUE Project Room
232 Third Street, Brooklyn, New York 11215
Cost : $10
I'll be playing 2 or 3 songs. It’s a benefit for an ailing local musician and maybe moveon.org (more mainstream than I'm used to, but I trust the people that set this up).
(not in performing order): Rude Mechanical Orchestra (Big Musical Collective) Darius James (Performance) Kathy Engel (Poet) MM Serra (Film) The Leader (Music Duo) Mac McGill (with Steve Wishnia and Eric Blitz - Art on slides and music) Roger Manning (Music)


Autumn 2007:

Sunday, October 14 - 7:00pm sharp
Blue Stockings
172 Allen Street, NYC (between Stanton and Rivington)
FREE!

Friday, October 26
House of World Cultures - 9:00pm
John Foster Dulles Allee 10, Berlin
w/David Peel

Wednesday, October 31
The 12 Bar Club
London
w/Cheka, All Our Good Friends

Thursday, November 1 - 8:00pm
Bardens Boudoir
London
w/David Cronenberg's Wife, Dufus, The Bicycle Thieves

Friday, November 2 - 8:00pm
The Cube
Bristol
w/the Chap

Sunday, November 4 - 8:00pm
Eamonn Dorans
w/Cormac O'Caoimh
Dublin


[ I don't perform much these days. Below are past dates. ]

Saturday May 20, 2006 - 9:00pm
[Roger Manning set - 10:00pm]

"Revelocity: the bicycle ball"
Benefit for the Bicycle Defense Fund
Dick Shea's, 6th Ave. and 14th Street, Manhattan
$10 advance, $12 at the door
2 floors and a roof of revelry featuring:

  • live music / bands / DJs / dancing (acts tba)
  • bike-related art exhibition and silent auction, artists include: Swoon, Visual Resistance, and mutant bike by Black Label Bicycle Club
  • live silkscreening by Antimart / BYO Clothing
    Roger Manning - rogerm.net - Roger Manning, NYC
  • live video projections by Glass Bead and Big Noise / Best of Critical Mass Arrests
  • mugshot photobooth for arrestees and arrestee wannabes
  • bike-blended beverages and delectable party favors by Time's Up!B
  • And you! Bring your friends, enemies, and casual aquaintances! Details for buying tickets online coming soon.
More info: http://bicycledefensefund.org/calendar.html

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Saturday Sept. 18, 2004 - 7 pm
Benefit show for Ananda bahairava A.K.A. Pahztrami
[Ailing old friend and very cool yoga teacher]
Sixth Street Community Center
638 East 6th St. (btwn ave. B & C) loisaida, NYC
Goddess Micropilot, Roger Manning, Zero Boy, maybe Eric Drooker
plus special guests with words & songs
$15 donation requested

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Sunday, Feb 23, 2003
Knitting Factory - Old Office
74 Leonard Street, NYC
212-219-3006
8pm, $7, all ages

8:00 the larval organs
9:00 king missile III
10:00 roger manning
11:00 kimya dawson

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Thursday, July 18, 2002
at the Fort at Sidewalk Café, Ave. A and 6th St., NYC
on 11:00pm

Also performing: 8:00pm-John S Hall (of King Missile), 9:00-Dina Dean, 10:00-Paleface, 12:00-Kimya Dawson (of The Moldy Peaches)

No cover, but they pass the hat and will force you to buy something
drinkable or edible.

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This was the December 2001 Italian tour:

Dec. 7 Recanati - Extra

Dec. 8 Pavia - Spazio Musica

Dec. 11 Milano - Nidaba - ph: 0289403657

Dec. 12 Pergine - Angi-Pub - ph: 3299527416

Dec. 13 Sarzana - Jux Tap - ph: 0187610982

Dec. 14 Sesto Calende - Sala Marne - ph: 3482691261

booking agent in Italy: http://www.onlyahobo.it

 


This was the Late Spring 2000 U.S. tour:

MAY 2 Chapel Hill/Carboro - Room 4 3 Atlanta (Decatur) - Eddie's Attic 4 Tallahasse - Cow Haus 5 Gainesville - Civic Media Center 6 TAMPA -Orpheum w/ Spacious Int. 9 New Orleans - Circle Bar 11 Houston - Rudyard's 12 San Antonio - Reverb Lounge (CANCELLED) 13 Austin - Hole in the Wall 17 Albuquerque - The Launch Pad 21 Taos - Weasel Mahood's 25 Tucson - 7 Black Cats 30 Los Angeles - Al's Bar

JUNE 1 San Francisco - Tip Top Inn 4 Eugene - Sam Bond's Garage 5 Portland - Berbati's Pan 7 Seattle - Galway Arms 9 Missoula - Jay's 11 Bozeman - Filling Station 14 Denver - 15th Street Tavern 21 Minneapolis - 400 Bar 22 Madison - O'Cayz Coral 24 Louisville - Rudyard Kipling 25 Flint - Local 432 28 Cleveland - Grog Shop (with Mojo Nixon) 29 Pittsburg - 31st St Pub JULY 1 Buffalo - Mohawk Place