Paul Shapiro's Ribs & Brisket at The Triad Theater

Catskills Latin Night at the The Triad Theatre!
Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket celebrates the love-fest of Latin and Jewish-American music that permeated 'the mountains' with great sounds, rhythm and comedy!
Joining the mellifluous Cilla Owens is Edwin Lugo who's co-starred on Broadway in Paul Simon's The Capeman and is a Grammy-winning songwriter. Expect Slim Gaillard's Mishugana Mambo, Mickey Katz's Yiddishe Mambo and the Catskills homage to overeating Essen. Cilla Owens will premiere the bawdy Pizza, and Shapiro channels Allan Sherman’s You’re the Top. The rhythm section of Jerry Korman, Dave Hofstra and Tony Lewis cooks like crazy. Virtuosic, comedic and engaging!...

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Catskills Latin Night at the The Triad Theatre!
Paul Shapiro’s Ribs & Brisket celebrates the love-fest of Latin and Jewish-American music that permeated 'the mountains' with great sounds, rhythm and comedy!
Joining the mellifluous Cilla Owens is Edwin Lugo who's co-starred on Broadway in Paul Simon's The Capeman and is a Grammy-winning songwriter. Expect Slim Gaillard's Mishugana Mambo, Mickey Katz's Yiddishe Mambo and the Catskills homage to overeating Essen. Cilla Owens will premiere the bawdy Pizza, and Shapiro channels Allan Sherman’s You’re the Top. The rhythm section of Jerry Korman, Dave Hofstra and Tony Lewis cooks like crazy. Virtuosic, comedic and engaging!

The New Yorker: A heaping platter of rhythm and blues and jazz served with a schmear of classic Yiddish culture is the special of the day for this joyful outfit, led by the exuberant saxophonist Shapiro.

Straight No Chaser UK: Hard blowing, finger-snapping, klezmer-inflected jazz and wailing big city blues that suddenly slips into Yiddish.  

Time Out New York: Reedist-vocalist Paul Shapiro stirs klezmer, swing, R&B and other hearty sounds into his Ribs and Brisket Revue, seasoning it all with a potent Yiddish tinge.    Time Out New York

The New York Times: Transforms the ritual of a Friday night Shabbat service into a rollicking downtown jam.  

Buffalo News: The downtown New York jazz version of Jewish novelty maestro Mickey Katz.  

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