Independent Arts News Reporting Yva Las Vegass, Alexandra Tatarsky join forces with Joseph Keckler for The Golden Hour Finale at ArtYard
Reported on Tuesday, December 10, 2024.
Pictured Above: Alexandra Tatarsky (left) R: Yva Las Vegass (right). Photo Credit: Contributed.
NEWSROOM POST: FRENCHTOWN, NJ
The one-night-only show is on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 8 PM
Frenchtown, NJ – Get ready for an evening of deranged, explosively brilliant comedy and live music performed by two wildly unique artists at this year’s finale of The Golden Hour with Joseph Keckler at ArtYard on Saturday, Dec. 14 at 8 PM.
The evening performance is hosted by Keckler and features fearless solo performer Alexandra Tatarsky and “Queen of Joropunk” Yva Las Vegass. Keckler, a musician, writer, songwriter, and multifaceted creator, launched The Golden Hour at ArtYard this fall to bring together some of today’s boldest and most visionary artists in an inviting variety show format. Featured guests included celebrated filmmaker and writer Charlie Kaufman, award-winning poet Eva HD, trailblazing underground heroine Lydia Lunch, bestselling writer Lindy West, and jazz musician Ahamefule Oluo.
Pictured Above: Joseph Keckler. Photo Credit: Michael Sharkey.
Tatarsky will share highlights of their acclaimed Sad Boys in Harpy Land, called a “blistering, brilliant show, relentless in its invention, humor, and inquiry” by New York Theatre Guide. Tatarsky collages narratives of artmaking and despair into a semi-autobiographical tour-de-farce, as told by a young Jewish woman who thinks she is a small German boy who thinks he is a tree. Equal parts sad clown, demented cabaret, and extended crisis of meaning, this unhinged solo takes place in the hellscape of the mind.
Yva Las Vegas, who reminded NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert’s team of “music I haven’t heard, but which sounds as if it’s been in my life forever,” mixes Venezuelan folkloric music and boleros from the radio stations of their childhood with punk, folk, electronica, salsa, and grunge. With years of experience playing for mixed audiences, they strive to build a channel of communication that eliminates the language barriers, leaving only the pure unadulterated emotion. A long-time resident of Seattle, where they performed as a street musician and formed the band Sweet 75 with Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic, Yva moved to New York City in 2006. “I’ve come this far… might as well keep going.”
Applauded by the New York Times as a “major vocal talent with a range that shatters conventional boundaries… and a trickster’s dark wit,” Keckler hosts the show and performs his operatic monologues that cover subjects such as psychedelic mushroom trips, haunted houses, and buying a jacket.
Tickets are $35. ArtYard is at 13 Front St., Frenchtown, NJ.
For more information, visit artyard.org.
ArtYard is an incubator for creative expression and a catalyst for collaborations that reveal the transformational power of art. Its campus includes an arts center featuring exhibition space and a state-of-the-art theater as well as two buildings housing its residency program. To learn more, visit artyard.org.
