Suzzy and Maggie Roche Hold a CD Release Party

Suzzy and Maggie Roche (two-thirds of The Roches) will officially launch their new Red House Records release, Why the Long Face, at Joe’s Pub in New York City on Wed., Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. The new album follows the sister’s 2001 Zero Church, a collection of songs examining prayer. Why the Long Face also has a prayer-inspired song and offers the words of a wide-variety of writers, including African American poet Jessie Fauset and Jon Turner, a teen-ager Suzzy met at a summer camp where she was conducting a workshop.