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BY AMERICAN EXPRESS ANNOUNCES 2007 LINE-UP
JUNE – SEPTEMBER
MUSIC LISTINGS (See
our Clubs Section Too):
Acoustic Sundays
Sunday July 13 to August 24, 7 PM to 9 PM
Pier I, Riverside Park South, Manhattan
Enjoy spectacular sunsets
over the Hudson as you listen to some of New
York’s best jazz, R&B, and world
music. Sponsored by Riverside South Properties.
July 13, Ernestidio Rodriguez y su conjunto
tipico; July 20, Nation Beat; July 27, Pharaoh's
Daughter; Aug 3, Howard Fishman's Biting Fish
Brass Band; Aug 10, Kate McGarry Quartet;
Aug 17, KJ Denhert and the NY Unit;
Aug 24, Los Soneros de Oriente. Presented
by Summer On the Hudson, New York City Department
of Parks and Recreation.
Tickets: Free. For more information, visit
www.nyc.gov/parks/soh, or call (212) 408-0219
Riverside Park South Pier
1|West 70th Street and the Hudson River
New York City
Double-Bill of Stage
Works by Polish Composer Karol Szymanowski
Presented by Bard Summerscape,
July 25, 31, and August 2+ at 8 pm
July 27* and August 3 at 3 pm
July 25 - August 3
Sosnoff Theater
Bard SummerScape’s
exploration of “Prokofiev and His World”
will be enriched by fully-staged productions
of two rapturous works by Polish composer
Karol Szymanowski – a contemporary and
friend of Prokofiev’s – opening
Friday, July 25 for a run of five performances
through August 3. Under music director Leon
Botstein, SummerScape’s resident American
Symphony Orchestra will play both the acclaimed
opera King Roger (The Shepherd) and Harnasie,
a pastoral dance by the composer who is widely
considered the father of modern Polish music.
The Wroclaw Opera Chorus will perform, with
Polish vocal soloists, and a children’s
choir. Both works will be directed and designed
by Lech Majewski.
$25, $55, $75; except Thursday (July 31) perf:
$20, $45, $65
For tickets and further information on all
SummerScape events, phone the Fisher Center
box office at (845) 758-7900 or visit www.fishercenter.bard.edu
(845)758-7900
www.summerscape.bard.edu
Richard B. Fisher
Center for the Performing Arts| 60 Manor Avenue
8 Prospects -Music inspired
by Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Sunday July 20th and 27th at 7pm
Barbès
Joshua Camp, of One Ring
Zero and Chicha Libre, pays tribute to Charles
Ives, 100 years after his ground-breaking
piece Central Park In The Dark. This suite
for six musicians reflects Brooklyn's most-loved
park and a new century of urban sounds. This
project is sponsored, in part, by the Greater
New York Arts Development Fund of the New
York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs, administered
by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
trombones: Brian Drye, Curtis
Hasselbring - violas: Karen Waltuch, Victor
Lowrie - violin: Ben Lively - vibraphone:
Matt Moran
Tickets $12.
Barbès |376
9th St.| Park
Slope, Brooklyn
718.965.9177
(corner of 6th Ave.)
Folks on the Island: An American Folk Music
Festival
Saturdays, July 5th - August 2nd, 2008. Concerts
start at 1:30 PM
Governors Island, New York City
Summer ‘08,
Trinity Wall Street presents Folks on the
Island, An American Folk Music Festival, on
Governors Island, five Saturdays, July 5 –
August 2, 2008, 1:30 PM. This year’s
concert series explores traditional folk music
and delves deeper into the American musical
landscape with the inclusion of blues, bluegrass,
and country western. Featured artists include
Janis Ian (July 5), Slaid Cleaves (July 12),
Bearfoot (July 19), Eric Bibb (July 26), and
Ronny Cox (August 2). The Concerts and ferry
service to Governors Island are free and open
to the public. Concerts take place on Governors
Island at Colonel’s Row beginning at
1:30 p.m. Free ferries to Governors Island
leave every hour, on the hour, starting at
10 a.m. from the Battery Maritime Building
in lower Manhattan, adjacent to the Staten
Island Ferry.
For travel directions
and more information, visit www.folksontheisland.com.
KRS-One
Thursday, July 24– 7:00 PM – Late
East River Park
CityParks Concerts
presented by Verizon - Grammy-nominated rapper,
KRS-One is a significant figure in hip hop,
often considered one of the greatest rappers
to pick up a microphone. An outspoken MC,
KRS-One has been a mainstay in anything hip
hop over the last 15 years. Hip-Hop Lives,
his 2007 collaboration with fellow veteran,
Marley Marl, met with positive reviews. Adventures
in Emceein and Conflosation with Buckshot,
are KRS-One’s most recent releases.
Ticket Price- FREE, CityParks Concerts presented
by Verizon. For more information go to http://www.cityparksfoundation.org
East River Park |
Manhattan , At the Bandshell along the East
River, between Grand & Jackson Sts.
Lauren Ianuzzi
Thursday July 31st – 8pm
507 Grand
Jersey Girl Lauren Ianuzzi likes to play
with matches and start fires. Good news! She
can take the heat. Lauren's songwriting and
unique vocal style reveal what she and most
girls think about relationships and boys,
but not rarely ever say. With tight clothes,
flashy earrings and curls for days, Ianuzzi's
spontaneous and sexy personality match her
soul and funk driven music. www.myspace.com/laurenianuzzi
WHAT: Inspired by the likes of Prince, Carole
King and Stevie Wonder and musical genres
such as Motown, hair metal and classic rock,
Ianuzzi is a classically trained pianist and
saxophonist who uses her musical inspirations
to create witty songs loaded with wordplay
and pop-culture references. Some outrageous
tracks by Ianuzzi consist of “Cotton
Underwear Days” which is an ode to all
the ladies out there who just don’t
feel like wearing sexy silk undergarments
everyday! "Strawberry Poison" was
written through the eyes of a rockin sex-goddess
character, so Ianuzzi has fun tapping into
that mysterious, alluring attitude. “Nobody
really knows what Strawberry Poison is, but
everybody has to want some,” jokes Ianuzzi.
507 Grand |
507 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY
Live at the Gantries
Tuesday, July 29 / 7pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Free, outdoor performances
featuring some of the borough’s most
celebrated entertainers, from Afro-Brazilian
jazz musicians to Japanese punk rockers, with
acts for audience members of all ages. Live
at the Gantries’ nine nights will take
place on Tuesdays at 7 o’clock at Gantry
Plaza State Park, a 2.5-acre waterside oasis
between 49th and 50th Avenues along the East
River. The series will run from June 24th
to August 26th.
Performing July 29 is the
York College Summer Big Band. The student
jazz ensemble performs annually at the CUNY
Jazz Festival at City College and was featured
in Weltreisen on the German television station
ARD in April 2006. The members of the workshop
perform regularly throughout the borough.
The series is sponsored
by The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, Queens Council
on the Arts, Queens Theatre in the Park, and
New York Water Taxi. Live at the Gantries
is funded in full by Rockrose Development.
Admission is Free. Please
contact Chris Henderson, Queens Council on
the Arts, Arts Services Director at 347-505-3017
or chenderson@queenscouncilarts.org for additional
information or visit, http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html.
Gantry Plaza State Park| 50-50 Second Street,
Long Island City, NY 11101
Music at the Bridge: Curated by Zebulo
Wednesdays from July 9th - August 6th @ 6PM
Tobacco Warehouse, Empire-Fulton Ferry State
Park
This summer, the
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's first music
series Music At The Bridge kicks off. Each
evening is curated by a different venue. Expect
something new, different and challenging each
week. Curious? Come down to the tent in the
historic Tobacco Warehouse. RICE sells dinners
on-site and Brooklyn Brewery provides the
libations. Doors at 6:00pm, performances at
6:30pm. Capacity is limited.
On July 16, the fine folks
at Zebulon curate an evening of live music
with performances by Stuart Bogie/Superhuman
Happiness, the Charles Gayle Trio, Colin Stetson,
and Sharon Van Etten.
FREE!
Tobacco Warehouse|
Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park Main and Plymouth
Streets
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 802-0603
Naughty By Nature
Tuesday, July 22 – 7:00 PM – Late
Queensbridge Park
CityParks Concerts
presented by Verizon - Naughty By Nature electrified
mainstream radio with their street-wise but
contagious anthem, “OPP,” which
is one of the most successful rap songs in
music history. The phenomenal success of “Hip
Hop Hooray” firmly cemented NBN’s
place in hip hop legend. Their third album
Poverty’s Paradise included “Uptown
Anthem,” featured in the film, Juice.
Ticket Price- FREE, CityParks Concerts presented
by Verizon. For more information go to http://www.cityparksfoundation.org
Queensbridge Park
| 41 Ave., Bridge Plaza, Vernon Blvd. &
East River
Neal Medlyn's Unpronounceable
Symbol
Wednesdays - Sundays at 8
Additional Late Shows on Saturdays at 11
Opening Night Party Wednesday, July 9
July 9 - 20
PS 122
NEAL MEDLYN'S UNPRONOUNCEABLE
SYMBOL is Neal Medlyn's fourth and largest
to date pop song tragic-comedic extravaganza.
Following the success of his Lionel Richie
Opera, R. Kelly cabaret, and wild and bloody
spin on Phil Collins, Medlyn takes on the
purple, hyper-sexualized world of Prince.
Set to many of Prince's
biggest hits and infamous b-sides, all performed
onstage by a live band, Neal plays out an
evening of seduction and intense internal
spiritual conflict between two characters:
an engaged cab driver and a messianic libertine.
Jealousy, band troubles, violence, death,
a dream ballet, decent into hell and the eventual
transubstantiation of body fluids and redemption
all find their place in an operatic and overblown
evening of androgynous musical entertainment.
Use discount code "MS10"
for $10 tickets (reg.$20)
Tickets available at www.ps122.org or call
212-352-3101
To find out more information,
please visit http://www.ps122.org/performances/neal_medlyns_unpronounceable_symbol.html
*offer based on limited
availability;may not be combined with other
offers or applied to pas sales; may be discontinued
at any time.
Performance Space 122 |
150 First Ave., new york, ny
On the Border Songwriter
Series
Every Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 8PM –
11PM
May 1st Through August 30th.
Border Burrito
The series will feature
many of the hottest contemporary songwriters
in NYC and surrounding cities including Emily
Zuzik, Nicola, Ian Axel, Open Book, Rorie
Kelly, Ganessa James, Eric Squindo, Aliza
Hava and Caleb Hawley among many others. It
is unique, because it combines multiple genres
and formats requiring only that all performances
be of original material. The program is strictly
not for profit and all performances are free
to the public.
Admission is free. For more
information and artist profiles visit www.myspace.com/borderburritonyc
Border Burrito
|81 Third Avenue at 11th Street, East
Village
Village Voice Presents
Siren Music Festival
Saturday, July 19th Noon - 9PM
Coney Island
Featuring:
STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS
BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE
ISLANDS
RA RA RIOT
THE HELIO SEQUENCE
BEACH HOUSE
TIMES NEW VIKING
JAGUAR LOVE
THE DODOS
ANNUALS
FILM SCHOOL
PARTS & LABOR
DRAGONS OF ZYNTH
FREE http://siren.villagevoice.com/siren/
Coney
Island| W 10th St & Surf Ave
Coming
Soon
The 19th Annual Bard
Music Feistval: Prokofiev and His World
Aug 15 at 8:00pm
Aug 16 at 10:00pm, 1:30pm 8:00pm
Aug 17 at 1:30pm, 5:30pm
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing
Arts.
Weekend Two (August 15–17), “The
Faustian Pact,” covers Prokofiev’s
world from 1939 onward. The weekend’s
opening concert, on Friday, August 15 in
the evening, will present works by Prokofiev,
Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky, among others.
The finale of Weekend Two is a late-afternoon
concert of exoticism – “20th-Century
Russia: Nostalgia and Reality” –
with Prokofiev’s Egyptian Nights contrasted
with his Cantata for the 20th Anniversary
of the October Revolution, and Epitaph by
Vladimir Dukelsky (aka Vernon Duke), followed
Rachmaninoff’s Three Russian Songs.
$25 - $55 For tickets and further information
on all SummerScape events, phone the Fisher
Center box office at (845) 758-7900 or visit
www.fishercenter.bard.edu (845)758-7900www.summerscape.bard.edu
Richard B. Fisher Center
for the Performing Arts |60 Manor Ave |
Annandale-on-Hudson
"A Bernstein/Bolcom Celebration"
September 23 and September 25, 8 PM
Merkin Hall
New York Festival Of Song
(NYFOS, www.nyfos.org), co-founded and directed
by pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett,
who “reinvented the song recital during
the 1990’s with daring and dramatic
programming” (The New Yorker), opens
its 2008-9 season on September 23 at the
newly renovated Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman
Center, with A Bernstein / Bolcom Celebration.
The concert pays tribute to two of NYFOS’s
guiding lights, Leonard Bernstein and William
Bolcom; Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano
Joan Morris, will cap the evening with a
selection of songs from their vast repertoire.
The program also celebrates the ninetieth
birthday of NYFOS’s Founding Advisor,
Leonard Bernstein, who bestowed the American
premiere of his last work, Arias and Barcarolles,
to the newly-formed company. Their subsequent
recording of the work in 1989, with Judy
Kaye and William Sharp, earned the composer
a posthumous Grammy Award for Best New Composition.
Tickets: Single
ticket prices are $40 to $55, with half-priced
student tickets (as available) a half hour
before curtain, and a limited amount of
$15 student tickets available by calling
NYFOS at (646) 230-8380.
Merkin Concert Hall at
Kaufman Center |
129 West 67th Street
New York, NY 10023.
Charlie Parker Jazz
Festival
Sunday, August 24th – 3:00 PM –
Late
Tompkins Square Park
The Charlie Parker
Jazz Festival annually assembles some of
the finest musicians in the world who reflect
Parker’s musical individuality and
genius, to promote appreciation for this
highly influential and world-renowned artist.
The two days of free concerts take place
in neighborhoods where Charlie Parker lived
and worked, in Historic Harlem’s Marcus
Garvey Park and in Tompkins Square Park
within Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Featuring: Randy Weston, Jerry Gonzales
and Fort Apache, Eric Lewis, Gretchen Parlato
Ticket Price- FREE, Charlie Parker Jazz
Festival. For more information go to http://www.cityparksfoundation.org
Tompkins Square
Park | E. 8th St. Between Aves. A &
B
JUDAH TRIBE REGGAE
GROUP PERFORMS LIVE @ TARGET 1st SATURDAYS
Saturday August 2nd, 9PM
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
On Saturday August
2nd, controversial soul reggae group Judah
Tribe invades the Brooklyn Museum for Target
1st Saturdays. Judah Tribe is already stimulating
a debate over its soon to be released single
Judgment. Written in tribute to Sean Bell,
killed by NYPD officers, Judgment features
guitarist and father-in-law of
Sean Bell Les Paultre. The show will take
place as part of the Reggae Retro/Revival
Reggae Sundays outdoor dance party featuring
Judah Tribe, DJs Silence, Jase and Styff.
FREE
www.JudahTribe.com
718.930.1316
BROOKLYN MUSEUM
| 200 Eastern Parkway| Brooklyn NY
(Corner Washington Ave)
Brooklyn
Lauren Ianuzzi
Thursday August 14th – 9pm
169 Bar
Jersey Girl Lauren Ianuzzi
likes to play with matches and start fires.
Good news! She can take the heat. Lauren's
songwriting and unique vocal style reveal
what she and most girls think about relationships
and boys, but not rarely ever say. With
tight clothes, flashy earrings and curls
for days, Ianuzzi's spontaneous and sexy
personality match her soul and funk driven
music. www.myspace.com/laurenianuzzi WHAT:
Inspired by the likes of Prince, Carole
King and Stevie Wonder and musical genres
such as Motown, hair metal and classic rock,
Ianuzzi is a classically trained pianist
and saxophonist who uses her musical inspirations
to create witty songs loaded with wordplay
and pop-culture references. Some outrageous
tracks by Ianuzzi consist of “Cotton
Underwear Days” which is an ode to
all the ladies out there who just don’t
feel like wearing sexy silk undergarments
everyday! "Strawberry Poison"
was written through the eyes of a rockin
sex-goddess character, so Ianuzzi has fun
tapping into that mysterious, alluring attitude.
“Nobody really knows what Strawberry
Poison is, but everybody has to want some,”
jokes Ianuzzi.
169 Bar |169
E Broadway and Essex. NYC.
Lauren Ianuzzi
Wednesday August 27th – 8pm
The Cutting Room
Jersey Girl Lauren Ianuzzi
likes to play with matches and start fires.
Good news! She can take the heat. Lauren's
songwriting and unique vocal style reveal
what she and most girls think about relationships
and boys, but not rarely ever say. With
tight clothes, flashy earrings and curls
for days, Ianuzzi's spontaneous and sexy
personality match her soul and funk driven
music. www.myspace.com/laurenianuzzi WHAT:
Inspired by the likes of Prince, Carole
King and Stevie Wonder and musical genres
such as Motown, hair metal and classic rock,
Ianuzzi is a classically trained pianist
and saxophonist who uses her musical inspirations
to create witty songs loaded with wordplay
and pop-culture references. Some outrageous
tracks by Ianuzzi consist of “Cotton
Underwear Days” which is an ode to
all the ladies out there who just don’t
feel like wearing sexy silk undergarments
everyday! "Strawberry Poison"
was written through the eyes of a rockin
sex-goddess character, so Ianuzzi has fun
tapping into that mysterious, alluring attitude.
“Nobody really knows what Strawberry
Poison is, but everybody has to want some,”
jokes Ianuzzi.
The Cutting Room
| 19 w 24th St (btwn 6th ave &
Bway) NYC.
Live at The Gantries
Tuesday August 5, 7-8 pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Celebrating the rich musical
and ethnic tapestries of Queens in boisterous
style, “Live at the Gantries”,
the borough’s newest free summer performance
series will kick off in Long Island City
on June 24th.
The free, outdoor performances will feature
some of the borough’s most celebrated
entertainers, from Afro-Brazilian jazz musicians
to Japanese punk rockers, with acts for
audience members of all ages. Live at the
Gantries’ nine nights will take place
on Tuesdays at 7 o’clock at Gantry
Plaza State Park, a 2.5-acre waterside oasis
between 49th and 50th Avenues along the
East River. The series will run from June
24th to August 26th.
Event Schedule:
June 24 - Corina Bartra, Afro-Brazilian
Jazz
July 1 - The F# Miners, Irish Traditional
Music
July 8 - Blue Pipa, Chinese Folk Music
July 15 - Bliminal, Indie Rock
July 22 - Calpulli Mexican Dance, Traditional
Mexican Dance
July 29 - York College Summer Big Band
August 5 - Mahina Movement, Folk, Rock and
Rhymes
August 12 - No event scheduled
August 19 - Zikrayat, Arabic Music and Belly
Dancers
August 26 - Noirceur and Uzuhi, Punk
The series is sponsored by The New York
State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic
Preservation, Queens Council on the Arts,
Queens Theatre in the Park, New York Water
Taxi. Live at the Gantries is funded in
full by Rockrose Development.
http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Free Event, For
additional information, please visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org
or http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Gantry Plaza |State
Park, 50-50 Second Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
Live at The Gantries
Tuesday August 19th, 7-8:pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Celebrating the rich musical
and ethnic tapestries of Queens in boisterous
style, “Live at the Gantries”,
the borough’s newest free summer performance
series will kick off in Long Island City
on June 24th.
The free, outdoor performances will feature
some of the borough’s most celebrated
entertainers, from Afro-Brazilian jazz musicians
to Japanese punk rockers, with acts for
audience members of all ages. Live at the
Gantries’ nine nights will take place
on Tuesdays at 7 o’clock at Gantry
Plaza State Park, a 2.5-acre waterside oasis
between 49th and 50th Avenues along the
East River. The series will run from June
24th to August 26th.
Event Schedule:
July 22 - Calpulli Mexican Dance, Traditional
Mexican Dance
July 29 - York College Summer Big Band
August 5 - Mahina Movement, Folk, Rock and
Rhymes
August 12 - No event scheduled
August 19 - Zikrayat, Arabic Music and Belly
Dancers
August 26 - Noirceur and Uzuhi, Punk
The series is sponsored
by The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, Queens Council
on the Arts, Queens Theatre in the Park,
New York Water Taxi. Live at the Gantries
is funded in full by Rockrose Development.
http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Free Event, For
additional information, please visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org
or http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Gantry Plaza |State
Park, 50-50 Second Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
Live at The Gantries
Tuesday August 26, 7-8:00pm
Gantry Plaza State Park
Celebrating the rich musical
and ethnic tapestries of Queens in boisterous
style, “Live at the Gantries”,
the borough’s newest free summer performance
series will kick off in Long Island City
on June 24th.
The free, outdoor performances will feature
some of the borough’s most celebrated
entertainers, from Afro-Brazilian jazz musicians
to Japanese punk rockers, with acts for
audience members of all ages. Live at the
Gantries’ nine nights will take place
on Tuesdays at 7 o’clock at Gantry
Plaza State Park, a 2.5-acre waterside oasis
between 49th and 50th Avenues along the
East River. The series will run from June
24th to August 26th.
Event Schedule:
July 22 - Calpulli Mexican Dance, Traditional
Mexican Dance
July 29 - York College Summer Big Band
August 5 - Mahina Movement, Folk, Rock and
Rhymes
August 12 - No event scheduled
August 19 - Zikrayat, Arabic Music and Belly
Dancers
August 26 - Noirceur and Uzuhi, Punk
The series is sponsored
by The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation
and Historic Preservation, Queens Council
on the Arts, Queens Theatre in the Park,
New York Water Taxi. Live at the Gantries
is funded in full by Rockrose Development.
http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Free Event, for
additional information, please visit: www.queenscouncilarts.org
or http://queenscouncilarts.org/liveatthegantries/index.html
Gantry Plaza |State
Park, 50-50 Second Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
"REVOLUTIONARY ACTS"
A Benefit for the Living Theatre Honoring
Judith Malina
Monday, August 25 @ 7pm-8:30pm Doors Open
at 6:30pm
Joe's Pub,
Featuring: Debbie Harry,
Justin Bond, Nellie McKay, Penny Arcade,
Austin Pendleton, Tammy Faye Starlite, Sanda
Weigl, Our Lady J, Nancy Magarill, Susan
Hwang, and cast members from the Tony Award
Winning Broadway Show, "Passing Strange",
with a Special Appearance from Judith Malina.
"Revolutionary Acts"'
Benefit for The Living Theatre - Produced
by Barbara Maier & Goodie Magazine -
Emceed by Murrary Hill
Tickets: $50 **30 Student Tickets Available
for $30 Standing Room**
(on a first come, first served basis)
Plus 2 Drink Min,
or $12 Food Minimum
Table Reservations: 212-539-8778
www.joespub.com
Joe's Pub |425 Lafayette
Street
between Astor & E. 4th Streets
N/R Trains to 8th Street,
#6 Train to Astor Place
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