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\"vernita<\/a>A first-ever collaboration is being staged at Ceres Gallery <\/a>on May 24 at 4 p.m.: \u00a0Vernita Nemec will perform in honor of under-recognized artists backed by the improvisations of \u00a0Cat Casual’s William Benton<\/a>, the singer and guitarist \u00a0from Shilpa Ray<\/a> and Her Happy Hookers. Vernita, our director at Viridian Artists, has presented her performance art as Vernita N’Cognita, in honor of unknown and uncelebrated artists, in\u00a0the United States, Hungary, Japan, Ireland, Germany, Mexico and France, including performances at the Pompidou Museum in Paris and Documenta 13 in Kassel.<\/p>\n

Cat Casual, a Queens instrumentalist and singer \u00a0from Oklahoma, now with Shilpa Ray, has worked with a long list of luminaries: Nick Cave, Bonnie \u201cPrince\u201d Billy, Makoto Kawabata (Acid Mothers Temple), Steve Shelley (Sonic Youth), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Ivan Julian (The Foundations, Richard Hell and the Voidoids), and many others as well as sharing the stage with many legendary performers of the past and present.\u00a0He is \u00a0grooming his solo band, Cat Casual, for live shows in the near future. Most recently, he contributed original music for a production of Marius Von Mayenberg play\u00a0The Ugly One\u00a0<\/em>which was performed at The Bridge Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A first-ever collaboration is being staged at Ceres Gallery on May 24 at 4 p.m.: \u00a0Vernita Nemec will perform in honor of under-recognized artists backed by the improvisations of \u00a0Cat Casual’s William Benton, the singer and guitarist \u00a0from Shilpa Ray and Her Happy Hookers. 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