Cormorani Live, benefit concert for Evagelismos squat in Heraklion, Crete

Friday 20 October 2023, Cormorani Live, benefit concert for Evagelismos squat in Heraklion, Crete. Door opens at 8pm.

A concert to support financially the squat of Evangelismos in Heraklion, Crete, which was evicted after 21 years of action. With a feast that will be opened by Cormoras and by the familiar to all of us Αman Μolli.
For more information regarding the squat of Evangelismos please click on the site https://evagelismos.squat.gr/?p=5070
We will have many songs and dances. The Cormorans are Tassos (guitar, song), George (ud, bouzouki voice), Yvonne (violin voice). A small amount will be allocated for the transportation of the musicians. We are waiting for you. See you there.

Benefit for safe house in the Balkans. Concert with Per Verse Vis (Dirty Folk)

Thursday 19 October 2023, Voku benefit for safe house in the Balkans. Concert with Per Verse Vis (Dirty Folk). Food served from 7pm, live music from 9pm, no reservation.

This benefit is to raise money for a long standing safe house for survivors of domestic abuse and now in more recent years, people on the move. The funds raised will go towards necessities such as heating, electricity and other basic resources especially now that winter is closing in.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Voku for Roma Community in Slovakia – Performance by Your Local Pirates!

Monday 21 august 2023, Voku for Roma Community in Slovakia Whose Village Has Burnt Down. Performance by Your Local Pirates! Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music from 8:30pm.

We kindly ask you for your support of more than 70 Roma people in Telgárt, Slovakia, whose housing burnt down this July. These people were already living in slums, often without water or electricity and have no means to recover on their own. They are now living in tents with very few possessions.
As Roma people are the most marginalized community in Slovakia, this tragedy was given little to no attention in media, nor on any crowdfunding platform.
We would like to donate the money to the crowdfunding call of the Telgárt municipality that is currently providing them with tents, food, clothes, hygienic products and other essentials.

We will have a yummy and filling vegan dinner. After, there will be a performance by Your Local Pirates! You can check out their website here: https://yourlocalpirates.noblogs.org

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Release concert by Johannes Karst (cello, voice)

Sunday 23 July 2023, Release concert by Johannes Karst (cello, voice). Door opening at 19:30, music from 20:30.

Johannes Karst is an interdisciplinary performer, improvisor and composer on the stage at Joe’s Garage, with his cello, for the release concert of his first album.
His artistic work and personal research are deeply interconnected and he searches for the reasons behind actions, thoughts and behaviors.
In his music he likes to create worlds with depth and layers that take the listener on a atmospheric journey and takes elements from folk, jazz and contemporary classical music.
His improvisations are raw and vulnerable, emotional with a hint of playful absurdity.
This album is not only a music album for me. It is a celebration – a celebration of life, beauty and of possibility.
Every piece on this album reflects a different part of my journey. Therefore every piece has its own unique world, its own sound and its own story to tell. But the pieces are not only an abstraction of my inner world. Through music, words and sound I want to show the beauty I experience around me. I want to share all the amazing details, complexity and the vast amount of colors that life can give us.

https://youtu.be/I98xrLTTKT4
https://www.johanneskarst.com/

Live Hip Hop: Saint Nusu & Messy B.A.O.

Monday 17 July 2023, Live Music: Saint Nusu & Messy B.A.O. – Live Hip Hop at Joe’s Garage between 9pm and 10pm!

Vocalist Saint Nusu and Producer/DJ Messy B.A.O. from the UK will be performing a hip hop set at Joe’s Garage.
Expect soulful samples, eclectic production, and liberatory messaging formed in the lived experiences of both performers.
The performance will take place after the benefit voku and will occur between 9pm and 10pm.

Volkseten Vegazulu & performance with Lasha Rukhadze

Monday 26 June 2023, Volkseten Vegazulu & performance with Lasha Rukhadze. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music on the stage around 9pm.

Lasha Rukhadze had announced his departure for Athens in the freezing winter but failed to escape the city, keeping performing in every dark corner. Then, it became useless to go to Greece as Teeth’n’Tongue, his band from Bern (CH), would visit Amsterdam in June. Lasha is back another time at Joe’s Garage, for a solo performance with his acoustic guitar. You’ll laugh your ass off, ending up dancing with the crowd. Expect an hilarious show, mime, a fusion of dub ska afro balkan tunes. Unforgettable!

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Benefit voku for Venezuelan refugee family. Performance by Bella Luna

Thursday 15 June 2023, Benefit voku for Venezuelan refugee family. Performance by Bella Luna. Food served from 7pm, no reservation. Music on the stage around 9pm.

Two years ago Yameli and her daughter Laumar arrived in Gran Canaria from Venezuela, they had to emigrate for family health issues, one of her daughters was having a very complicated pregnancy at that moment and needed family support. Once they got on the island the only legal support they had was the ex-husband of Yameli who was abusing them physically and verbally in a daily basis. So they had to leave his house and start a new journey on the streets, they become totally homeless without any right to apply for government support, not even for charity food.

New chapter starts on them life, they got a small house provide by a neighbour where they can stay long term, but they need some money for food and medicines still. Yameli is 70 years old, so she can’t work anymore, and Laumar have disability due to a car accident she had years ago and without an official permit that says which type of disabilities she has, she can’t work at all, the waiting list to get this paper goes up to two years or more.

So we will be cooking a delicious vegan meal and enjoying of an Acoustic set by the hand of Bella Luna to support this powerful women who despite everything continue fight by day to survive.

Volkseten Vegazulu is a people’s kitchens existing since the very beginning of Joe’s Garage, June 2005. Your donations are welcome. Food is vegan, no reservation. All benefits go to social & political struggles. Joe’s Garage is a space run by volunteers. Without a collective effort, without your active participation, we’re remaining closed. Get in touch in you feel like giving a hand. We’re always looking for cooks. Any help is welcome in the kitchen. Experience not required. If you want to know which days are still available, mail us.

Aman molli concert with Primi Secondi

Friday June 2nd 2023, Aman molli concert with Primi Secondi. The doors will open at 8pm, and music will start at 9 pm. Donations welcome.

Primi Secondi are an ensemble of immigrants and students located in South Holland. Inspired by the evident similarities of Rotterdam with the maritime and multicultural background of early 20th century Piraeus, they attempt a strictly amateur interpretation of inter-war Rebetiko and post-war Greek Folk compositions.

Οι Πρίμοι Σεγόντοι είναι ενα ανσάμπλ οικονομικών μεταναστών και φοιτητών στη νότια Ολλανδία. Αντλώντας έμπνευση από τις εμφανείς ομοιότητες του Ρότερνταμ με το λιμανιώτικο και κοσμοπολίτικο χαρακτήρα του Πειραιά στις αρχές του 20ου αιώνα, επιχειρούν μια αυστηρώς ερασιτεχνική απόδοση προπολεμικών ρεμπέτικων και μεταπολεμικών λαϊκών συνθέσεων.

Orestis Strymponis: vocals
Chris Toitos: bouzouki
Kostas Patsis: bouzouki, vocals
George Germanos: guitar
Vangelis Christantonis: baglamas, vocals

Aman Molli is an open collective workshop for modal music, broadly defined as music following melodic pathways that are outside the two standardized Western scales and associated harmonies. Instruments and Music Styles Any kind of acoustic instrument (Strings, percussions, wind, voice). Many of the instruments used today (guitars, bouzoukia etc.) have even-tempered tuning so the maqams/dromoi are not the traditional Arabic/Turkish/Persian microtonal versions but the westernized adaptations. One of the objectives is to explore the differences. In the same spirit, we add harmonic structure (in guitars or mpaglama chords etc) where possible.On the rhythm side we explore the various characteristics rhythms of these regions/musical tradition (9/8 etc.).