Roxy Bar Presents: Pianist Michael Garin

Michael Garin plays a solo resident-piano set at Roxy Bar, part of the room’s ongoing Tuesday-through-Saturday music series. The evening is built around his piano playing and a request-friendly approach that the venue says can include inviting children to play along. Garin’s sets blur pianist and DJ roles, moving through an unusually broad songbook that the listing names as including Shaggy, Om Kalthum, Rossini, Jobim, Zappa and Raymond Scott. Expect a continuous, quick-changing musical collage rather than a conventional single-style recital.

Garin is The Roxy Hotel’s resident pianist and a Drama Desk Award winner. His New York nightlife résumé includes Elaine’s, the Monkey Bar, the Rainbow Room and Limelight’s VIP Room. Beyond piano, the venue credits him as a songwriter, singer, poet, actor and song-and-dance performer. It also notes that he hosted midnight burlesque shows in the mid-1990s, co-created and co-starred in the environmental musical Song of Singapore, and has acted in Spike Lee projects. The listing calls his Roxy work a “goofy, stylish, and very smart stream of musical consciousness,” and points to a Facebook following for his daily Ogden Nash-style poems promoting his appearances.