Coney Island Circus Halloween Variety Show w/ The Mindstream + Lizzie and The Makers

The latest installment of the Coney Island Circus Sideshow will feature New York City's best sideshow and burlesque performers!
Sword swallowing, the human blockhead, daring escapes and a bit of the old fashioned hoochie koochie are just some of the electrifying acts and unusual feats you'll see...all set to a Grateful Dead soundtrack!
This month's show will feature the Pain Proof Puerto Rican - Alejandro Dubois, the burlesque stylings of Corvette LeFace and Wae Messed, with your host - Adam RealMan.
They're all real, they're all alive and they'll all be at Garcia's on Wednesday, September 30!


The Mindstream is an exciting band whose unique sonic blend forms a style of rock music that is both progressive and easily accessible.


With Paul Damon Thomas on guitar & vocals, Robert Durham on drums, and Andy Egyud on bass, they are recognized for their dynamic performances and original sound. The Mindstream plays a style of music that is "prog/pop space-blues/rock" and have been called "a new Pink Floyd... with much more energy". They balance their heavy tribal rhythms, and the running bass lines, with an ethereal lead guitar, and poetry sung from a unique voice, to create songs which stimulate both the heart and the mind.


The Mindstream has burst onto the New York area, continuing to gain momentum as they go - pushing the boundaries of what people define as various genres, all with a seemingly familiar, but strikingly original, style of rock music.


It was pretty impossible for Lizzie Edwards to avoid a career in music. Her grandfather was an opera singer, her grandmother was a classical harpsichordist, and her father was a sideman for various artists including Chuck Berry, and was in a band himself. Throw in a childhood soundtrack including everyone from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Otis Redding – not to mention - regular trips to the iconic Beacon Theatre, which was steps away from her New York City home, and it’s no wonder music has been in her veins practically right from the womb. Speaking of which, she and her rock band Lizzie & The Makers gave birth to their first full-length album Fire From the Heart of Man on Sept. 4.


“The album title is actually inspired by Beethoven and the kind of emotion he believed music should evoke from people when it is played and heard. The songs all draw from personal experiences, many of which focus on ex-boyfriends, ex-lovers, and ex-jobs,” Edwards explained. “There’s definitely a lot of darkness and despair coupled with images of triumph and the refusal to compromise, give up, or be beaten down.”


But, the singer/songwriter, who has shared the stage with various artists including The Deen Ween Band, has never been down for the count.


The early career for Edwards, who studied Classical Piano and Music Theory for 14 years at Mannes College of Music (now The New School) and holds a bachelor’s degree in English and Music from Dartmouth College, followed the age-old blueprint of a working musician: she played countless gigs, led various bands before they broke up – rinse and repeat. Ironically, the makings of Lizzie & The Makers was made on a whim. (Say that three times fast.)


Edwards was working as a sound engineer at the Brooklyn venue Pete’s Candy Store when a series of events led her to The Makers. “I was putting on a one-day blues/soul/rock festival called Bourbonfest, and was scheduled to headline with Sister Sparrow and The Dirty Birds but my band had folded a month before the festival,” she explained. Determined to perform anyway, and knowing “Pete’s Candy Store had a wealth of talent,” she decided to take the stage anyway, pulling a band together of staffers and “regulars” from the venue on the fly, and rocking the house. She and Greg McMullen, an member of that last-minute band, decided soon after to make it a real thing and dubbed themselves “The Makers.” Fitting since it all unfolded out of Bourbonfest.


While McMullen has since left the band, the pair still pen tunes together. Lead guitarist James Winwood, Brett Bass, naturally on bass, and Bryan Bisordi on drums round out the current Makers roster. Additionally, Rob Clores (organ/keys) often performs with them live and appears on the new album along with Jason Loughlin (guitar).


“As Beethoven describes, Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. Each song has meaning for me, no matter how long ago I wrote it,” said Edwards, who quickly added, “the meaning is forever changing."