Closed
Monday, March 22, 2010:
AS220 will be closing on Mondays except for Special Events. If you have an idea for a show; film; fundraiser; etc. and would like to host it on a Monday; please get in touch with booking@as220.org and let's chat! We are open to your brilliant ideas.
Yeah Right, Miss Fairchild and You Scream I Scream
Sunday, March 21, 2010: 9:30 pm
Miss Fairchild plays dynamic modern pop music that serves as a music appreciation course for lovers of soul and funk music. Heavily influenced by Sly and the Family Stone. You Scream I Scream is super fun rock music. Yeah Right is a 3 piece electro dance band from Providence.  
http://www.myspace.com/missfairchild http://www.myspace.com/youscreamiscream http://www.myspace.com/yeahrightyeahright
$6
Providence Cutting Sessions: JAZZ PROGRAM
Sunday, March 21, 2010: 5:30 - 8:00 pm
"Providence Cutting Sessions" is a new Jazz Program at AS220. The program runs every THIRD Sunday of the month from 5:30 pm - 8 pm. The goal of this program is to inspire others to contribute to and support a growing jazz community. Students and Jazz musicians of all levels can contribute to this jazz community through performance, composition, and appreciation. The "Providence Cutting Sessions" is a program created by the Artistic Director of AS220, Bert Crenca, and a trio of local jazz musicians, Nick Sollecito, Mike Bernier, and Alex Chapman. This program's mission is two-part. First, to give jazz musicians a venue to display their art and talent; second, to compose a new repertoire of jazz standards. Providence Cutting Sessions will display new and original jazz compositions by local musicians. These compositions will mainly be in the style of the "Real Book", which contains hundreds of well-known jazz standards. This program welcomes jazz musicians to come to performances and sit in with the house trio. All instruments are welcome. Original charts are available at performances and online in .pdf format (go to www.anglesideside.com for more info). Available charts have been transposed in keys C, B flat and E flat. We welcome composers to submit original songs to be performed (email providencecuttingsessions@gmail.com for more info). This program is inspired from the original cutting Sessions that took place in the 1930s and 1940s in many cities around the United States. Some of these cities included Kansas City, Milwaukee, Chicago, and of course, New York City. They were held in smaller clubs where jazz was played. Musicians would come to these sessions and join the band on stage to perform well-known songs of the time, or standards. One rumor of how the term "cutting sessions" came about is if the musician did not know the song, he/she would essentially be "cut" from the stage. While this may have been true of these sessions in their time, there is another belief in how these performances got the name "cutting sessions" and this is more our vision of the program. Cutting sessions offered musicians the opportunity to "cut their teeth." In other words, these sessions gave musicians a chance to get their experience in a real life situation of performing jazz on stage, with professionals, in front of an audience.
http://www.provcuttingsessions.com/
$5
Irish Traditional Music
Saturday, March 20, 2010: 4-7 pm
Hosted by Jimmy and Hannah Devine with Mark Roberts, Andrea Cooper, Teddi Scobi and Friends! Every Saturday from 4-7pm at the bar at AS220! No cover charge! A full menu of food and beverage will be available, so come in for a pint or make this your regular spot for dinner while enjoying some of the best traditional Irish music around! 
free
Jerkus Circus
Saturday, March 20, 2010: 9 pm
"Oddball sexuality and a slaphappy caboodle of raw talent makes JERKUS CIRCUS a fantasyland for creepster hipsters, horny carnies, art fags, fart hags, and connoisseurs of real-deal performance art that's fueled by a few puffs on a unicorn bong. The Steamy Bohemians' bi-curious variety show (happening quarterly at Lizard Lounge in Cambridge and Ralph's Chadwick Square Diner in Worcester) has featured the sweet cream of Boston's artistic crop, including Black Cat Burlesque, the Human Floor, Babes in Boinkland, Robby Roadsteamer, the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, Evan O'Television, and, of course, the Steamies themselves." Boston Phoenix, Best of 2009 "Good ole fashion vaudeville acts are a mighty rare occurrence, with the city's highfalutin' intelligentsia demanding more than just a simple tambourine dance, some blackface and a performance of the song "Uncle Grunty's Shoeless Jig. Let's just say that in the revolutions of art there comes a time for renaissance, when the avant-garde becomes too much and we must once again return to the core of what is known as pure�or as they say�"make it new." Friday sees the consummate rebirth of entertainment variety as The Lizard Lounge in Cambridge gives host to Jerkus Circus, a freewheeling whirlwind of freaks, feminism and fart-jokes hosted by hometown heroes The Steamy Bohemians. Offensive? Low-brow? Sultry, salacious and scatological? You bet your bottom dollar. It's been known to intrude on one's deepest reserves of sexual inhibition, blow a hole in the side of the tank and let flow all the milky goodness of hedonistic indulgence that a human can possibly expunge in one evening. Half-naked ladies with classically trained soprano voices singing songs about kissing cousins and bastard children all the while pulling strange things out from between their breasts? Done and done. Welcome to the new vaudeville." - Boston's Weekly Dig  
http://www.myspace.com/jerkuscircus
$6 - $8 sliding scale
Herman The Great, Psychedelic Horseshit, and Panther Moderns
Friday, March 19, 2010: 9 pm
Psychedelic Horseshit is a two piece (sometimes more) from Columbus, Ohio. They have released records on Siltbreeze (Magic Flowers Droned, Too Many Hits) and Woodsist (Shitgaze Anthems), as well as their own tapes (Magic Flowers), CD-Rs (Live At Pompeii) and vinyl releases (Golden Oldies, a collection of their earliest CD-R EPs). They first came about as three buds determined to crash a hippie fest and jam. When asked for their name, Matt replied, "Just call us Psychedelic Horseshit." The band killed, the name stuck, and thus the die was ignominiously cast. They list their influences as: drugs, dimensional ripples, life outside living, space debris, and smiles within frowns. According to the band, they sound like when all the sober neons apologize in waves of crashing silk, and the sun winks its left half at the skipping of tomorrow, you can hear tiny birds reciting all the symphonies they've ever loved in fragments on repeat. Psychedelic Horseshit have toured with Times New Viking, Fucked Up, Eat Skull, Pink Reason, Quintron, and Tyvek. Herman The Great (members of Sweatlodge). Indie pop! Panther Moderns is riff driven off kilter rock with female vocals.  
http://www.myspace.com/psychedelichorseshit http://www.myspace.com/hermanthegreat http://www.myspace.com/panthermodernsprovidence
$6
Artist Talk (at the Project Space at 95 Matthewson Street)
Thursday, March 18, 2010: 6 pm
Joshua Enck will be giving an artist talk on Thursday March 18, 2010 at 6pm in the AS220 Project Space. For More information contact Gallery Director Neal Walsh: neal@as220.org
Free
Science Cafe and Green Drinks
Thursday, March 18, 2010: 5:30 - 6:30 pm
Come learn about the hot environmental issues of today from regional experts. Join us each month for an all-ages Environmental Happy Hour at AS220! This month: Lead Poisoning in Rhode Island- What's going on? Sure, we know lead paint can be poisonous… but what effect is it currently having on children in RI? What do we *still* need to change and why? Join Emily Godfrey, from the Childhood Lead Action Project, and other community members to discuss these topics! Science Cafe is brought to you by the Community Environmental College, a collaboration between Brown University's Superfund Research Program and the Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island.
Free
Free Speech Thursdays at AS220 featuring: Singer/Songwriter & Poet Open Mic
Thursday, March 18, 2010: 9 pm
Free Speech Thursday's Singer-Song Writer and Singer/Songwriter's Open Mic!! Come and play your songs in front of an appreciative, respectful Poetry Slam audience used to giving their full attention to performance art, at an event run by professionals who know how to maintain a listener's environment and keep the show moving. The mic is open to all on 3rd Thursdays, but the focus is definitely on the music: Singers and Songwriters get 8 minute blocks, acapella poets get 3 minutes. Open mic list goes up at 7:30/Doors at 8pm. Come early because the list fills up quick!! For more info: contact us through our myspace account!
http://www.myspace.com/providencepoetryslam
$4
I Was On The Football Team, Judith Bingham, and The Kingwoods
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: 9:30 pm
The Kingwoods are alt rock dudes that like to have fun and mess around. Aldrich CANCELLED. Judith Bingham is an acoustic singer/songwriter who plays indie rock songs. I Was On The Football Team is a 5 piece band from Newport RI that blends jazzy guitars, spoken word, and emotional climaxes.   
http://www.myspace.com/thekingwoods http://www.myspace.com/judithbingham http://www.myspace.com/iwasonthefootballteam
$6
Geek Dinner
Wednesday, March 17, 2010: 5:30-8:30pm
The goal of Providence Geeks is to help Rhode Island's digital innovators connect, collaborate, and ultimately make the City-State and its geeks info-technology leaders. Topics of conversation will vary as they will at any gathering of geeks, but many of us will be talking about AJAX, Mashups, Startups, and Web Services. It's totally casual. Wear whatever, bring whoever, arrive and vamoose whenever. And don't worry about eating or not. Come famished or full, eating is optional, and frankly, the least of the festivities. 
http://providencegeeks.org/
FREE
The Valar, 1000 Nations (Of The Persian Empire), and Hovercraft
Tuesday, March 16, 2010: 9:30 pm
1000 Nations (Of The Persian Empire) is a rock band. Hovercraft is a rock band that is inspired by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, The Who, etc. The Valar is a combination of synth driven riffage, extended improv jams, a rhythm section deeply rooted in the sounds of classic rock, and an emphasis on the value of good songwriting.
http://www.myspace.com/thevalar45
$6
Life Drawing
Tuesday, March 16, 2010: 6:00-8:30 pm
Every Tuesday bring your drawing utensils and paper to AS220 and sketch from a live model!
$6
Sissy Spacek, Gerritt Wittmer/Paul Knowles, Mark Lord
Monday, March 15, 2010: 9 pm
Sissy Spacek is an experimental grindcore band. Massive volume at extreme levels.
http://www.gorejet.com http://www.john-wiese.com
$6
Mother Of Dylan, Jesse Mack, and Meghan Yates
Sunday, March 14, 2010: 9:30 pm
Mother Of Dylan is original music that is sheltered and fed by the comforts of home. Jesse Mack is a folk singer/songwriter who writes songs that are poems about love, death, and God set to simple alarming melodies with haunting pastoral acoustic arrangements. Meghan Yates rolls a historical sound into a furiously curious new sound. 
http://www.myspace.com/motherofdylan http://www.myspace.com/eghanyates http://www.myspace.com/jessemacksongs
$6
SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND
Sunday, March 14, 2010: 6-8pm
Songwriters in the Round is a totally acoustic (no PA) showcasing of the songwriting craft. On the second Sunday of each month at AS220, rotating hosts, Ryan Fitzsimmons , John Fuzek, Jim Tata, and Jacob Haller will find three songwriters to join in and share their work, writing a new song on a theme specifically for the event. The show will run from 6pm to 8pm, and includes 4 rounds of original songs. Roughly a month before the show, each writer scheduled is given a common theme to write on, and is expected to perform a new, original song in the third round. This provides the rare opportunity to see 4 separate writers perspectives on the same subject matter. Two additional writers from the Rhode Island Songwriter Association (RISA) join in each month and a third spot is open anyone, not just RISA members. Anyone interested in performing should email John Fuzek at fuzmek@aol.com or Ryan Fitzsimmons at songwriters@ryanfitzsimmons.com.
$5
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