Cabinet Of Wonders

A variety show with celebrated musicians, writers and comedians. It will make you laugh, think and sing along. Sometimes all at once. A little bit Vaudeville, a little bit rock n' roll — and a whole lot of fun.

Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Five()  

This week's Cabinet of Wonders lineup sing "Religious Experience" to close the show.

June 22, 2012 A feast of words written for song, for print and for laughs on this episode of Cabinet of Wonders. New music, duets, and a stand against the drum machine. Then, novelist Colson Whitehead, on the trauma he survived at the hands of Coca Cola.

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Cabinet of Wonders: Episode Four()  

Host John Wesley Harding on the Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery in Brooklyn, NY.

June 15, 2012 John Hodgman, master raconteur, will expand your spiritual horizons, with his compendium of lesser-known geists and ghosts. Then the Cabinet doors open wider with great music, comedy, and a true travel tale... worthy of a bad road-trip movie.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Three()  

The star-studded cast of the The King Charles Trio. The band formed to support John Wesley Harding's latest album, The Sound of His Own Voice, and the tour that followed.

June 8, 2012 When the house band features REM's Peter Buck, members of The Decemberists and Scott McCaughey of The Minus 5 — you know you're in for an amazing show. Also on this episode, Nicole Atkins, Ted Leo, Eugene Mirman, Sean Nelson, and Audrey Niffenegger.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode Two()  

Rosanne Cash on the Cabinet of Wonders stage with John Wesley Harding.

June 1, 2012 A feast of music, stories and comedy, featuring Craig Finn, Rosanne Cash, John Darnielle, and Hamilton Leithauser. A reading from Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Paul Harding and comedian Eugene Mirman on the secret messages he leaves on bar napkins.

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Cabinet Of Wonders: Episode One()  

"You know that horrible feeling when you've just made a new friend in your 40's? And you're like - ugggghhh!! One more person to feel bad about not seeing."-- Sarah Vowell

May 25, 2012 John Wesley Harding laments the Starbucks-ization of America, great music from Josh Ritter, Edie Brickell, and Punch Brothers. Then questionable life advice from Sarah Vowell and Eugene Mirman, topped with Haley Tanner's homage to a favorite writer.

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