Goings On About Town - Nightlife

Andy Friedman, a Brooklyn-based visual artist, grew up on Long Island in the eighties, where, as he puts it, Billy Joel was his Woody Guthrie. For the past few years, he's been traveling the country, confusing promoters (they don't know how to label his shows) and winning over audiences by projecting his drawings, photographs, and paintings onstage and delivering a series of often funny, mostly extemporaneous monologues that connect the images to folk and blues standards. More recently, he added a bass/guitar/mandolin backing band that pushes his performances into the realm of cabaret. The sex columnist Amy Sohn will open the show with a reading from her new book, "My Old Man."