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Central Park SummerStage 2009 Schedule

Central Park SummerStage 2009 Schedule

Fri Jun 5 5:30pm – 10pm
TV on the Radio and Dirty Projectors (Benefit concert)

Fri Jun 12 8pm – 10pm
Josh Ritter and The New York Pops

Sat Jun 13 3pm – 7pm
Smokie Norful, Tye Tribbett & G.A., Ruben Studdard

Wed Jun 17 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Wally Lamb, Zoë Heller

Thu Jun 18 7:30pm – 9:30pm
Sharon Olds, Thomas Sayers Ellis

Fri Jun 19 8pm – 10pm
Comedy Central Park: Gabriel Iglesias, Pablo Francisco

Sat Jun 20 3pm – 7pm
Definitely Poetry Hosted by Majora Carter; Earthdriver, Staceyann Chin, Jennifer Johns, Artbattles, Urban Word NYC

Sun Jun 21 3pm – 7pm
Fête de la Musique: Yannick Noah, Coralie Clément, Mayra Andrade

Sat Jun 27 3pm – 7pm
Istanbulive: The Sounds & Colors of Turkey with Mazhar-Fuat-Özkan, Painted on Water featuring Sertab Erener & Demir Demirkan, NY Gypsy All-Stars with Hüsnü Şenlendirici and special guests

Sun Jun 28 3pm – 7pm
Ledisi / Esperanza Spalding, Jonathan Batiste

Sun Jul 5 3pm – 7pm
Oumou Sangare, Les Nubians, Aṣa

Wed Jul 8 7pm – 10pm
Juana Molina, Curumin, El G (ZZK)

Sat Jul 11 3pm – 7pm
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Eric Bobo

Sun Jul 12 3pm – 7pm
Family Day! with DJ Lance Rock & Brobee (of Yo Gabba Gabba!,) Iza Trapani, Sleeping Beauty puppet show

Mon Jul 13 8pm – 10pm
The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Featuring Paulo Szot with Lisette Oropesa (soprano), Alek Shrader (tenor), and Vlad Iftinca (piano)

Sat Jul 18 3pm – 7pm
Q-Tip, Chester French, Little Dragon, Benji B

Sun Jul 19 3pm – 7pm
Alpha Blondy & The Solar System, Lee “Scratch” Perry & Dubblestandart, Subatomic Sound System

More information about the artists and events can be found at http://www.summerstage.org/

These Are Powers and Pterodactyl

Thursday May 21 9:00 PM

The Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211



This show is part of the VICE and Colt 45 Summer Series. Sounds like a winning combination. Free Colt 45 from 9-10pm.

More about the bands:
These Are Powers
Pterodactyl

FREE!

Death+Taxes Magazine Release Party with Greg Johnson, Sean Bones, Kumail Nanjiani, The Antlers

Wednesday May 20 8:00 PM

The Delancey
168 Delancey Street
New York, NY 10002

Deat + Taxes magazine release party for the Comdey Issue. With guest DJs and live performances by Greg Johnson, Sean Bones, Kumail Nanjiani, and The Antlers.

FREE!

Larune, Second Floor Stories, Marcellus Hall, Dead Heart Bloom

Tuesday May 19 8:00 PM

Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211


Larune With special guests from Earl Greyhound and Ghost Gamblers...11PM
Second Floor Stories 10PM
Marcellus Hall 9PM
Dead Heart Bloom 8PM

FREE!

Iron and Wine

Tuesday May 19 6:00 PM

Other Music
15 East 4th Street
New York, NY 11001

Sean Beam, aka Iron and Wine, is performing a free show on the release day of his new album Around the Well.

FREE!

Giant Step Presents Afrika Bambaataa @ Hudson Hotel

Monday May 18 7:00 PM
Hudson Hotel
356 W 58th St. New York, NY 10019

You must RSVP for this free event.

About Afrika Bambaataa

Giant Step's biweekly DJ series at Hudson Hotel presents Afrika Bambaataa on Monday, May 18th.

Giant Step welcomes back one of hip hop's three main originators of break-beat deejaying, Afrika Bambaataa, respectfully known as the "Grandfather" and "Godfather" of Hip Hop Culture as well as The Father of The Electro Funk Sound. Through his co-opting of the street gang the Black Spades into the music and culture-oriented Zulu Nation, he is responsible for spreading rap and hip-hop culture throughout the world. Afrika has consistently made records nationally and internationally, every one to two years, spanning the 1980's into the next Millennium 2000.

Due to his early use of drum machines and computer sounds, Bam (as he is affectionately known) was instrumental in changing the way R&B and other forms of Black music were recorded. His creation of electro funk, beginning with his piece "Planet Rock," helped fuel the development of other musical genres such as freestyle or Latin freestyle, miami bass, electronica, house, hip house, and early techno.

Jason Anderson, The Wailing Wall, Alden Barton

Monday May 18 8:30 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002




The Jason Anderson residency continues at Cake Shop. Also performing is The Wailing Wall and Alden Barton.


FREE!

Michael Beauchamp and The Barn Roughs, Golden Shoulders

Monday May 18 9:00 PM
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer street Brooklyn, NY 11211

About the artists
Michael Beauchamp and The Barn Roughs
Golden Shoulders


FREE!

Brigid Power-Ryce, She Keeps Bees, Ivana XL, Soft Black

Monday May 18 8:00 PM
Zebulon
258 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211



More about the artists
She Keeps Bees
Brigid Power-Ryce
Ivana XL
Soft Black

FREE!

Cake Shop's 4th B'day Awesome Saturdays

Featuring: Springfactory (5:30PM), Strega (4:45PM), The Hat Company (4:00PM), The Hidden Ghost Balloon Ship (3:15PM), Steve Goldberg and the Arch Enemies

Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002
3PM doors open

FREE!

So Cow, Guilty Faces, Dinowalrus, Lame Drivers @ Cake Shop

Friday May 15, 10 PM
Cake Shop
152 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002




Schedule and more about the artists:
So Cow 10 PM
Guilty Faces 11 PM
Dinowalrus 12 AM
Lame Drivers 1 AM

DJS NICK, ANA and CHARLY VIDEOS BY YR FRIEND MATTHEW

FREE!

Bj Snowden, Luke Rathborne, Fair and Kind @ Petes's Candy Store

Friday May 15, 9 PM
Petes's Candy Store
709 Lorimer street Brooklyn, NY 11211




Schedule and more about the artists:
Fair and Kind 9 PM
Luke Rathborne 10 PM
BJ Snowden 11 PM

FREE!

Blondie, Pat Benatar and The Donnas @ Coney Island August 13

Rock legends Blondie, Pat Benatar and The Donnas will be performing a free concert at Asser Levy Park, Coney Island, Brooklyn on August 13.


FREE!

South Street Seaport Music Festival 2009 Schedule

The annual South Street Seaport Music Festival has been announced for the 2009 season. Definitely a great way to spend a Friday night this Summer. Stay tuned for the August 14 line-up.

Friday, July 3: Here We Go Magic with Bachelorette

Friday, July 10: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart with Zaza and Ribbons

Friday, July 17: Superchunk with Versus

Friday, July 24: Black Moth Super Rainbow with Blank Dogs

Friday, July 31: Polvo and Obits

Friday, August 7: Casiokids with The Wave Pictures and Slow Club

Friday, August 14: To Be Announced

South Street Seaport Music Festival
River to River Festival

FREE!

Larune, Declan Zimmerman, Marcellus Hall, Chris Maxwell @ Pete's Candy Store

Tuesday May 12 8:30 PM
Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street Brooklyn, NY 11211




More about the artists:
Declan Zimmerman
Larune

FREE!

Karl Bau, Sondra Sun-Odeon and Painted Cakes @ Zebulon

Monday May 11, 9 PM
Zebulon 258 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11211

More about the artists:
Karl Bau
Sondra Sun-Odeon
Painted Cakes

FREE!

Jason Anderson, Yoni Gordon, Alden Barton

Monday May 11, 8 PM
Cake Shop 152 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002

The Jason Anderson residency continues at Cake Shop. Also performing is Yoni Gordon, Alden Barton

FREE!

Emily Easterly, Mary Page, Sasha Dobson @ Pete's Candy Store

When: Sunday May 10 8:30 PM
Where: Pete's Candy Store 709 Lorimer Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
More about the bands:
Sasha Dobson
Mary Page
Emily Easterly

FREE!

Girl To Gorilla with Emily Stine @ K&M Cafe

When: Sunday May 10 8PM
Where: K&M Cafe 225 N.8th St Brooklyn, NY 11211
More about the bands:
Girl To Gorilla
Emily Stine

FREE!

Drew Torres, H. Wood, Psychedelic Disco Angels, Fall Of The Albatross, Jonny On The Rocks, and more @ The Yard

Drew Torres, H. Wood, Psychedelic Disco Angels, Fall Of The Albatross, Jonny On The Rocks, Just A Lil Bit, The Sheppard Brothers, KMBS, Neuronautas, Tayisha Busay
When: Saturday May 9 11:30 AM
Where: The Yard 400 Carroll Street Brooklyn, NY

ALL AGES! FREE!

Antimagic, Katie Eastburn, Mon Khmer @ Zebulon

When: Friday May 8, 9PM
Where: Zebulon 258 Wythe Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Free!

River to River Festival 2009 Schedule of Events

Founded in 2002, The River To River Festival is a partnership between the Alliance for Downtown NY, World Financial Center, Battery Park City Authority, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Port Authority of NY & NJ, and The Seaport.

The River To River Festival takes place each summer from June through August, in a variety of public venues that canvas all of Downtown New York - from Chambers Street down to the southern tip of Manhattan and across the island from river to river.

We aim to produce a world-class performing arts festival with a broad sweep of programming and free admission in order to enhance the vitality of cultural life in Lower Manhattan, to support its economic and social health, and to generate new audiences for the arts of our city. By removing barriers to the experience of live arts by free admission and by presentation at popular, mostly outdoor, public venues, we aspire to attract diverse audiences.

The partners founded the Festival following September 11, 2001 with the intention of using the arts as a tool for the revitalization of Lower Manhattan. Our effort, now in its 8th season, has not only assisted in renewal, but has transformed Downtown into a major cultural destination during the summer.

May, 31 12:00pm Bang on a Can Marathon - World Financial Center Winter Garden

June, 01 7:30pm Félix Lajkó with Antal Brasnyó - Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

June, 03 7:00pm Brian Stokes Mitchell - Rockefeller Park

June, 10 7:00pm POETIC CITY: A CELEBRATION OF POETS HOUSE Rockefeller Park
The music of Meredith Monk performed by Don Byron, Vijay Iyer and other artists to be announced, and poetry readings by Jane Hirshfield, Ed Sanders, Brenda Shaughnessy and Major Jackson in Rockefeller Park, just steps away from the future home of Poets House. Literary tours at 6:00pm.

June, 15 7:30pm Mark O'Connor & Friends Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

June, 15 7:30pm Chuck Brown Rockefeller Park

June, 22 7:30pm Soo Bae Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

June, 25 7:00pm New York City Opera: The Magic Flute Rockefeller Park

June, 29 7:30pm Brasil Guitar Duo Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts

July, 01 / July, 08 12:30pm Lunchtime Music at Zuccotti Park Zuccotti Park

July, 01 7:00pm Tift Merritt Rockefeller Park

July, 03 6:00pm Seaport Music: Here We Go Magic with Bachelorette and guest DJ The Seaport

July, 04 3:30pm Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band with Jenny Lewis to Open Battery Park

July, 07 9:00pm Scanner & Mountains World Financial Center Winter Garden

July, 08 7:00p Stepping Off "The Corner" Rockefeller Park

July, 10 12:30pm Luminescent Orchestrii One New York Plaza

July, 10 6:00pm Seaport Music: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart with Zaza and Ribbons The Seaport

July, 14 9:00pm Anthony Gonzalez (of M83) & Janet Biggs World Financial Center Winter Garden

July, 15 12:30pm Lunchtime Music at Zuccotti Park - Darren Wallis Trio Zuccotti Par

July, 15 7:00pm Luisito Rosario y su Orquestra Wagner Park

July, 16 12:30pm Emmet Cohen Trio World Financial Center Plaza

July, 21 9:00pm Karsh Kale and Timeline, GamelaTron & Forward Motion Theater World Financial Center Winter Garden

July, 22 12:30pm Lunchtime Music at Zuccotti Park - Mahalo Boys Zuccotti Park

July, 22 7:00pm Frankie Negrón Wagner Park

July, 23 7:00pm Four Nights of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock Richie Havens Castle Clinton

July, 24 6:00pm Seaport Music: Black Moth Super Rainbow The Seaport

July, 28 9:00pm King Britt Sun Ra-lectric: Saturn Never Sleeps World Financial Center Winter Garden

July, 29 12:30pm Lunchtime Music at Zuccotti Park - Great Republic of Rough and Ready Zuccotti Park

July, 29 7:00pm Químbombó Wagner Park

July, 30 7:00pm Four Nights of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock Arlo Guthrie Castle Clinton

August, 05 7:00pm Los Salseros del Hudson Wagner Park

August, 06 7:00pm Four Nights of Peace, Love & Music: A Castle Clinton Tribute to Woodstock "Songs for a Shiny Hot Night" John Kelly Sings The Joni Mitchell Songbook Castle Clinton

August, 07 6:00pm Seaport Music: Casiokids, The Wave Pictures and Slow Club The Seaport

More at River to River Festival

St. Vincent @ Virgin Megastore Union Square

Who: St. Vincent
Where: Virgin Megastore Union Square 52 East 14th Street New York, NY 10003 map
When: Tuesday May 5 @ 7:00 PM
Cost: FREE!

More about St. Vincent

Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009 Season at the Prospect Park Bandshell

Celebrate Brooklyn! has announced the 2009 Season schedule of free concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell. There are also benefit concerts to help underwrite Celebrate Brooklyn!'s free programming.

Monday, June 8, 8:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) David Byrne

Thursday, June 11, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Goran Bregovic & His Weddings & Funerals Orchestra

Friday, June 19, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) David Rudder/Samantha Thornhill

Saturday, June 20, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.
La Nave de los Monstruos, with live score by Ethel and Gutbucket Part of Celebrate Brooklyn!¹s Music & Movies Series

Thursday, June 25, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:00 P.M.) Femi Kuti & The Positive Force/Melvin Gibbs¹ Elevated Entity

Friday, June 26, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Blonde Redhead

Saturday, June 27, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 600 P.M.) Dr. Dog/Phosphorescent/These United States

Thursday, July 2, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:00 P.M.) Obie Juan Bermudéz/Cucu Diamantes/Rebel Diaz Bud Light Latin Music Series

Thursday, July 9, 8:00 P.M. (gates open at 7:00 P.M.) Dance
STREB: Invisible Forces

Friday, July 10, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Celebrate Brooklyn and LAMC present Los Amigos Invisibles/Aterciopelados Bud Light Latin Music Series

Saturday, July 11, 4:00 P.M. (gates open at 3:00 P.M.) Ezra Jack Keats Family Concert A Very Special Show with They Might Be Giants

Thursday, July 16, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Kronos Quartet/Luminescent Orchestrii

Friday, July 17, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) The Robert Cray Band/The Sweet Divines American Express Roots Music Series

Saturday, July 18, 2:00 P.M.‹9:00 P.M. (gates open at 1:00 P.M.) African Festival with King Sunny Adé/Freshly Ground/The Mandingo Ambassadors/Cheikh M¹Baye & Sing Sing/Abena Koomson/Yasser Darwish American Express Roots Music Series

Thursday, July 23, 8:00 P.M. (gates open at 7:00 P.M.) Dance Stephen Petronio Company

Friday, July 24, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Buckwheat Zydeco/The Holmes Brothers American Express Roots Music Series

Saturday, July 25, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Kailash Kher/Electro Morocco

Thursday, July 30, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Burning Spear/Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens

Friday, July 31, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:00 P.M.) The Royal Family: Soulive¹s 10th Anniversary Celebration, with Special Guests John Scofield and Christian Scott/Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk

Saturday, August 1, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Music & Movies Dean & Britta: 13 Most BeautifulŠSongs for Andy Warhol¹s Screen Tests/ Crystal Stilts

Thursday, August 6, 7:30 P.M. (gates open at 6:30 P.M.) Music & Movies Purple Rain Sing-A-Long with Escort

Friday, August 7, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:00 P.M.) Grace Potter & The Nocturnals/ Deer Tick / The London Souls

Saturday, August 8, 7:00 P.M. (gates open at 6:00 P.M.) Celebrate Brooklyn & Lyricist Lounge Present Big Daddy Kane (with Special Guests TBA), Plus a Screening of BDK: The Big Daddy Kane Story

More about the artists and events at Celebrate Brooklyn! 2009 Season Schedule

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Jason Anderson, The Wailing Wall, Aldenbarton @ Cake Shop 5/4 8PM

Who: Jason Anderson, The Wailing Wall, Aldenbarton
When: Monday 5/4 at 8PM
Where: Cake Shop 152 Ludlow Street New York, NY 10002 Map
http://cake-shop.com/

FREE!

Bang on a Can Mararthon 2009 Line Up Announced

Bang on a Can Marathon 2009
May 31, 2009 12:00pm

World Financial Center Winter Garden, New York, NY Map

Here is a complete list of this year's composers and performers (note that set times are approximate and subject to change):

12pm Andy Akiho's Steel Pan Nonette performing new work by Andy Akiho
Signal performing Trance by Michael Gordon
Solo tabla performance by Sandeep Das
DITHER & Friends performing Eric km Clark's exPAT: Deprivation Music No. 4

2pm Todd Reynolds String Quartet performing Stringsongs by Meredith Monk
Solo performance by Bill Frisell
Your Bad Self performing We Didn't Know, Snowball, and Blacktop by Ted Hearne
Smith Quartet performing White Man Sleeps by Kevin Volans
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen performing Ground, vol. 3 by Jeppe Just Christensen

4pm Lionheart & Ethel performing excerpts from John the Revelator by Phil Kline
Build performing Imagining Winter and In the Backyard by Matthew McBane
Bassist Henry Grimes performing with drummer Andrew Cyrille
Smith Quartet performing The Sinking of the Titanic by Gavin Bryars
Bang on a Can All-Stars & Bill Frisell performing new work by Bill Frisell

6pm Ars Nova Copenhagen conducted by Paul Hillier performing Three Stages by Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen and Rise Up, my love by Howard Skempton
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen performing Braun KSM 2 by Jeppe Just Christensen
Ars Nova Copenhagen performing For love is strong by David Lang
Smith Quartet performing Folk Music (Daithi's Dumka) by Joe Cutler
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen performing excerpts from On This Planet by Anders Nordentoft

8pm Wu Man performing 12th Century Pipa piece Night Thoughts
Ken Thomson's 9-headed Saxophone Monster performing Rut by Ken Thomson
Athelas Sinfonietta Copenhagen & Ars Nova Copenhagen performing Thirst by Julia Wolfe
Shiau-uen Ding performing Haemmerklavier III: One Man Band by Moritz Eggert
Victoire performing Like a Miracle, I am coming for my things by Victoire

10pm Wu Man, Sandeep Das, and Brooklyn Rider performing Sulvasutra by Evan Ziporyn
Solo performance by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Bang on a Can All-Stars & Ryuichi Sakamoto performing new work by Ryuichi Sakamoto
Bang on a Can All-Stars performing Houses of Instruction by Steve Martland
Performance by Tortoise

Click here for a YouTube playlist of Marathon 2009 Artists, or check out artist bios and press clips in our press room

Source: Bang on a Can Marathon 2009 Schedule

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