5C Café Needs Your Help

Read the news item on http://www.5ccc.com/ for more details. We need your presence on Friday January 12, 2007 in the Supreme Court – 60 Centre Street, Room 252 in downtown Manhattan at 9:30AM for the oral arguments to increase our live performance hours. More Live Music: Music lovers and musicians ask us “Why is there no live music at 5C Café after 7PM during the week and after 9PM on the weekends when venues like the Stone, NuBlu and Alphabet Lounge on the same street with residential apartments above them have live music during the hours that people go out to hear music?” The answer is: Jemeel Moondoc does not want live music played in the building where he lives on the fifth floor! Yes, the inconceivable is true. Moondoc, a jazz musician, is responsible for this unconscionable restriction at 5C Café since 1995. Moondoc, president of the CO-OP that houses 5C Café, called the police while Roy Campbell, Susie Ibarra and Reuben Radding were performing on Saturday afternoon October 7, 1995 claiming the music disturbed the residents. Two weeks later he asked a Supreme Court judge to slap a sound injunction on 5C that permitted only string instruments. Finally in 2004, a higher court overturned the string instruments only part of the injunction as unconstitutional but left the hours in place. When we opened in the fall of 1995 our goal was to have a performing artists friendly place similar in spirit to Sam River’s 1970’s Studio Rivbea. A European who promoted a series at 5C last summer said that “In Europe, nobody would play with or hire Moondoc until he fixed what he has done…”