Joe's Pub

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Joe's Pub is an intimate club located in The Public Theater complex at 425 Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan. It debuted in October 1998 and quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists. It is one of the few remaining venues of its type in the city.

Known for its theater quality sound and lighting, Joe’s Pub is open seven days a week, regularly hosting as many as three shows a day. Dinner and drink service is available during every performance; the venue offers a classic Italian dinner menu and a fully-stocked bar.

Since it opened, Joe's Pub has hosted literally thousands of artists from every imaginable discipline, including Sxip Shirey and his Hour of Charm, Amanda Palmer, Nellie McKay, David Byrne, Richard Thompson, Harvey Fierstein, Dolly Parton, Ute Lemper, Mos Def, Eartha Kitt, Aimee Mann, Kronos Quartet, Alicia Keys, David Grey, Isaac Mizrahi, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Karen Black, Goapele, Maxine Brown, Bettye LaVette, Lillias White, John Cameron Mitchell, Neko Case, Del McCoury, Marty Stuart, Joss Stone, Wallace Roney, Don Byron, Youssou N’Dour, Audra McDonald, Feist, Liz Phair, Calexico, Sarah Silverman, Bebel Gilberto, Macy Gray, The Untouchable DJ Drastic, Elvis Costello, Richard Barone, Avenue Q's John Tartaglia, Donna McKechnie, Amadou and Mariam, Anoushka Shankar, Dion, Alice Coltrane, Angelique Kidjo, Mort Sahl, Oscar Brown Jr, Al Franken, Antony and the Johnsons, Emmylou Harris, Pete Townshend, Thomas Dolby, Huey Lewis, Bono, Lesley Gore, Laurie Anderson, Shawn Colvin, Nona Hendryx, John Lithgow, Sutton Foster, Ana Gasteyer, and Sandra Bernhard. As well as Amy Winehouse who made her US debut at Joe's Pub, in January 2007.

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