STEW'S BABA BIBI / BABY OCTOPUS 10pm

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BABY OCTOPUS & STEW'S BABA BIBI will alternate, mingle and swap 45 minute sets from 8pm to midnight. 

Baba Bibi is a band founded by Stew of Passing Strange & The Negro Problem fame. 

Its aim is to create background music for Afro/Asian, experimental-soul-pop cookouts, to which all are invited, provided they bring something. with Stew Stewart - guitar & singing

Dana Lyn - violin/keys; Marlon Cherry - percussion/guitar and Kato Hideki - bass/things

Composer-violinist Dana Lyn inhabits a musical world somewhere in the Venn diagram of 70’s art rock, classical, traditional Irish and improvised music. She has written music for Brooklyn Rider, Palaver Strings, A Far Cry and the National Orchestra of Washington and performs regularly with Taylor Mac, Stew, Hank Roberst, actor Vincent D'Onofrio and guitarist Kyle Sanna. 

Baby Octopus plays music inspired by visual artist Jay DeFeo's monumental painting "The Rose." Dana will talk about her obsession with this painting to anyone who is willing to listen to her, particularly the audience that shows up at Barbes.

Featuring: DanaLyn - violin; Mike McGinnis - clarinet; Sara Schoenbeck - bassoon, Gary Wang - bass and Noel Brennan - drums.