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Music

 

 

Now – Tues., January 1, 2008

Free Jazz from 2pm-5pm & 5:30pm- 8pm Everyday.

For more information, 212-283-5299

EZ's Woodshed
2236 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd. (7th Ave)
Between 131st and 132nd Streets
New York, NY 10027

 

NYC Summer 2007 Music Schedule

JUNE

Sat 6/1: Mint Condition @ B.B. King’s ($TBD)
Martha Graham Dance Co. (Wall & Broad Sts. – FREE)

Sun 6/2: Martha Graham Dance Co.
(Wall & Broad Sts. – FREE)
DJ Bobbito Garcia @ Red Hook Waterfront Festival (FREE)
Brand New Heavies @ Highline Ballroom ($27.50/$30)

Mon 6/3: Martha Graham Dance Co.
(Wall & Broad Sts. – FREE)
Tue 6/5: Method Man & GZA @ Webster Hall ($15)

Thu 6/7: Ashford & Simpson (BAM Metro Tech – FREE)Nelly Furtado @ Theater at MSG ($45/$65)

Fri 6/8: Rihanna on TODAY (Rockefeller Plaza – FREE)
Robin Thicke on GMA (Bryant Park – FREE)

Sat 6/9-10: Street Fair: Big Apple BBQ Block Party (Madison Ave., 23rd-26th)

Mon 6/11: Street Fair: Taste of Times Sq.
(W. 46th St, btw 9th & B’way)
Joss Stone/Common @ Summerstage
(Central Park, $37.50/$40)

Wed 6/13: Booker T. & The MGs
(Rockefeller Park – FREE)
Jill Scott/Musiq @ Radio City Music Hall ($49.50-69.50)

Thu 6/14: Jill Scott/Robin Thicke/Chaka Khan @RCMH ($49.50-69.50)
Neville Bros. @ Celebrate Brooklyn (Prospect Park – FREE)

Fri 6/15: Enrique Iglesias on TODAY
(Rockefeller Plaza – FREE)
Cassandra Wilson @ Summerstge (Central Park – FREE)
DMX @ B.B. King’s ($TBD)

Wed 6/20: Branford Marsalis/Joshua Redman
(JVC @ Town Hall, $50/$60)

Thu 6/21: 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest
(Tobacco Warehouse – FREE)

Fri 6/22: India Arie (JVC @ Carnegie Hall, $35-$80)

Sat 6/23: 3rd Annual Brooklyn Hip Hop Fest
(Empire/Fulton State Pk FREE)
Patti LaBelle (JVC @ Carnegie Hall, $35-90)
Street Fair: Pride Fest (8th Ave., btw. 14th -23rd)

Fri 6/29: Patti LaBelle on GMA (Bryant Park – FREE)

Sat 6/30: Ne-Yo @ The Copacabana ($TBD)
Street Fair: Times Sq. Block Party
(W. 46th St. btw 7th-8th)

　

JULY

Wed 7/4: 4th of July Celebrations:
Macy’s Viewing on FDR @ 23rd, 38th & 42nd Sts. (FREE)
Roosevelt Island ($18)
Empire State Bldg rooftop ($175)
Circle Line cruise, from So. St. Seaport @ 5:30 p.m. ($65)
Long Island City, Hunter’s Point Pier (FREE)
Liberty State Park, Jersey City, NJ (FREE)

Thu 7/5: The Delfonics (Von King Park, BK – FREE)

Fri 7/6: Norah Jones on GMA (Bryant Park – FREE)

Sat 7/7: LIVE Earth Concert @ Giants Stadium
($55-$350)
Street Fair: Dominican Fest
(Amsterdam Ave., btw 190th-193rd)

Wed 7/11: Hall & Oates
(Nokia Theatre @ Times Sq., $60-100)
Femi Kuti/DJ Rich Medina @ Summerstage
(Central Pk – FREE)
Roy Ayers (Brower Park, BK – FREE)

Thu 7/12: Hall & Oates
(Nokia Theatre @ Times Sq., $60-100)

Sun 7/15: Street Fair: Bastille Day
(E. 60th, btw 5th & Lexington)

Wed 7/18: The Manhattans (Crotona Park, BX – FREE)

Thu 7/19: Arrested Development
(Von King Park, BK – FREE)
Ruben Studdard (South St. Seaport – FREE)

Fri 7/20: John Mayer on GMA (Bryant Park – FREE)

Tue 7/24: dead prez (Red Hook Park, BK – FREE)

Wed 7/25: Kurtis Blow (Crotona Pk, BX – FREE)

Thu 7/26: Anita Baker @ Radio City Music Hall ($45-130)
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. @ Celebrate BK (FREE)

Fri 7/27: Marc Anthony on TODAY
(Rockefeller Plaza – FREE)

Sat 7/28: Rock the Bells Fest (Randall’s Island, $83)
Wild Style 25th Anniversary @ Summerstage (CP – FREE)

Sun 7/29: Rock the Bells Fest (Randall’s Island, $83)

Tue 7/31: Whodini (Queensbridge Park, QB – FREE)

　

AUG

Wed 8/1: Blue Magic (Mahoney Playground, SI – FREE)
Mavis Staples (Rockefeller Park – FREE)
The Police @ MSG ($?)

Thu 8/2: Roy Ayers (Springfield Park, QB – FREE)
Jeff Redd & Jean Baylor (South St. Seaport – FREE)
Eric Roberson & Chrisette Michelle
(BAM/Metro Tech – FREE)
Amiri Baraka/Sonia Sanchez @ Summerstage (CP – FREE)

Fri 8/3: John Legend on GMA (Bryant Park – FREE)
Lyricist Lounge w/KRS-One @ Celebrate BK
(Prosp Pk – FREE)
TOTH Billie Holiday Remixed (South St. Seaport – FREE)

Sat 8/4: Brian McKnight @ Bowery Ballroom ($40, $50)

Sun 8/5: AfroReggae @ Summerstage
(Central Park – FREE)
Dave Brubeck Quartet (Damrosch Pk Bandshell – FREE)

Tue 8/7: The Manhattans
(Queensbridge Park, QB – FREE)

Wed 8/8: Biz Markie (Jackie Robinson Pk., Harlem – FREE)
Percy Sledge (Mahoney Playground, SI – FREE)

Thu 8/9: Slick Rick/DJ Red Alert
(Marcus Garvey Park – FREE)

Sun 8/12: Zap Mama/Angelique Kidjo @ Summerstage
(CP – FREE)

Mon 8/13: Justin Timberlake
(Continental Airlines Arena, $54-151)

Tue 8/14: MC Shan (Queensbridge Park, QB – FREE)

Wed 8/15: Leela James (Jackie Robinson Park – FREE)
Black Sheep (Mahoney Playground, SI – FREE)
Justin Timberlake (MSG, $56-156)

Thu 8/16: Dwele (Marcus Garvey Park – FREE)
Leela James (South St. Seaport – FREE)
Justin Timberlake (MSG, $56-156)

Sat 8/18: Si*Se (Governor’s Island – FREE)

Sat 8/18-19: Street Fair: Harlem Week
(W. 135th btw 5th & St. Nicholas)

Wed 8/22: The Delfonics (Jackie Robinson Park – FREE)

Thu 8/23: Chrisette Michelle (South St. Seaport – FREE)

Fri 8/31: Chris Brown on TODAY (Bryant Park – FREE)

 

 

CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE 2007

SCHEDULE OF CONFIRMED EVENTS

All artists, dates and times subject to change

 

Log on to www.SummerStge.org for updates and for complete artist descriptions, photographs and sound clips.

 

Friday, June 15                  7:00 PM

Cassandra Wilson

Olu Dara

Saturday, June 16              3:00 PM

Television

Apples in Stereo

Dragons of Zynth

 

Sunday, June 17                3:00 PM

Tiken Jah Fakoly

Idan Raichel Project

DJ Kadafi

 

Friday, June 22                  7:30 PM

 

Comedy Central Park

Comedian Dave Attell (Insomniac) hosts a free night of comedy featuring the best young talent from the city and beyond, including John Mulaney, Joe DeRosa, Amy Schumer, Kurt Metzger & Ted Alexandro.

 

Sunday, June 24                3:00 PM

Canada Day!

Sloan

Apostle of Hustle

Duhks

 

Saturday, June 30              3:00 PM

Ozomatli

Babylon Circus

DJ Joro Boro

 

Sunday, July 1                   3:00 PM

Rodrigo y Gabriela

Vietnam

JDH and DAVE P

 

Saturday, July 7                 3:00 PM

Cinematic Orchestra

RAMP

El Michels Affair

Kevin Michael

 

Sunday, July 8                   3:00 PM

Junior Reid

Djakout Mizik

Diams

Black Alex & Mecca a.k.a "GRIMMO"

Curated and hosted by Wyclef Jean & Papa Jube for Sak Pas¢e Records

A celebration of music & culture to support Yele Haiti.

Presented in collaboration with [insert logo for Museum for African Art]

 

 

Tuesday, July 10                7:00 PM

Music & Film

Nortec Collective

Fedrico Aubele

Film Screening of So What’s Your Price? Directed  by Olallo Rubio

 

Wednesday, July 11            7:00 PM

Music & Film            

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force

DJ Rich Medina

Film screening of Music Is a Weapon, The documentary about Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti (Femi’s father), directed by Stephane Tchal-Gadjieff & Jean Jacques Flori. Virtually all modern forms of black music (from funk to electronic) owe something to Fela Kuti’s irresistable Afrobeat groove.

 

Saturday, July 14                      3:00 PM

Café Tacuba

Pacha Massive

La Sista

 

Sunday, July 15                        3:00 PM

Global Family Day

Hip-Hop Harry

Sippy Cups

Break!
A day for children of all ages! The Swedish Marionette theater production of Cinderella Samba will take place at the venue beginning at 2:00 PM.

 

Thursday, July 19               7:30 PM

UCB Theatre’s Comedy Cabaret

NYC’s renowned comedy venue presents a special evening of music & comedy featuring scheduled performers  Human Giant, Demetri Martin  Rebecca Drysdale, The Defibrillators and many surprise guests.

This program may include adult content.

 

 

Friday, July 20                   7:00 PM

Neko Case

Eric Bachman

 

Saturday, July 21               3:00 PM

Shrhabeel Ahmed

Aboaraki Al Bkheit

Yousif El Moseley

Hadia "Al Balabil" (Humming Bird)

Ali Al Segid

Rasha Sheikh Aldein

Al Wareef Sheikh Aldein

Brides of the Nile Dance Group

Emmanuel (South of Sudan)

Omer Ehsas (Darfur)

The Nile Music Orchestra

Legendary Sudanese artists reunite for the first time in 20 years for a united and peaceful Sudan.  Supported by the Sudanese Information Center.   

 

Sunday, July 22                 3:00 PM

Brazilian Girls

Cat Empire

HIMALAYAS, conducted by Kenny Wollesen & Jonathon Haffner

 

Thursday, July 26               7:30 PM

Word

Marisha Pessl

Jennifer Egan

Marisha Pessl reads from her best selling debut novel Special Topics in Calamity Physics (Penguin Group).  National Book Award nominated author Jennifer Egan reads from her latest tour de force, The Keep (Anchor). A discussion with both authors moderated by Laura Miller, critic for Salon & The New York Times, follows the readings.

 

Friday, July 27                   8:00 PM

Dance

David Parsons Dance

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet

Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet will present Ohad Naharins clever and humorous full-company piece “Decadence,” which distorts the reality between audience & performer. Choosing from a repertoire of over 70 works, David Parsons brings to us contemporary dance that is both engaging and uplifting.

 

Saturday, July 28               7:00 PM

Multimedia

Liz McComb

King Britt presents Sister Gertrude Morgan Featuring Ben Jaffe of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band".

Acclaimed DJ & producer King Britt has assembled music and beats to accompany ten a cappella gospel classics recorded by singer & folk artist Sister Gertrude Morgan.  Video of Morgan’s explosive artwork will be projected during the performance and contemporary gospel diva Liz McComb will radiate Central Park with her Superb and expressive voice.  

 

Sunday, July 29                 7:00 PM

Music & Film

Wild Style 25th Anniversary Reunion featuring The Chief Rocker Busy Bee, The Cold Crush Brothers, GrandMaster Caz, DJ GrandWizzard Theodore, Fab 5 Freddy  + special guests

Film screening of Wild Style, directed by Charlie Ahearn

Wild Style, the first film to unite the underground urban art forms of nascent hip hop culture- DJing, MCing, b-boying, and graff writing- was filmed on location in the South Bronx without permits or pretensions. Some twenty-five years after it’s release, it is truly a classic, having inspired countless artists, musicians and writers with unforgettable scenes starring the era’s most memorable personalities.

 

Saturday, August 4            3:00 PM

Spanish Harlem Orchestra

Spam Allstars

Tato Torres Y Yerba Buena

Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love

 

Sunday, August 5               7:00 PM

Music & Film

Cine Fest Brasil

AfroReggae

Film screening of Zuzu Angel , directed by Sergio Resende

Founded in 1995, AfroReggae’s unique style is a result of the fusion of some of the most important manifestations in Brazilian music. The performance precedes a showing of the film Zuzu Angel, which tells the story of a Brazilian fashion designer’s political awakening after the dictatorship imprisons her son.

Saturday, August 11            3:00 PM

Celebrate New Orleans:Soul to Soul III

Galactic

& special guests Big Chief Monk Boudreaux & The Golden Eagle Mardi Gras Indians & Soul Rebel Brass Band  

A celebration of music & culture to support the New Orleans Musicians’ Clinic.

 

Sunday, August 12             3:00 PM

Zap Mama

Angelique Kidjo

K’Naan

 

Sunday Sept 16       

New York World Festival - Sounds of the Mediterranean

 

1:30 PM

Artist Encounter

A workshop lead by Hassan Hakmoun A workshop, lead by Moroccan master singer and dancer Hassan Hakmoun, on Gnawa, a style of Moroccan devotional music used in all-night healing trance ceremonies.

2:15 PM

Artist Encounter

A workshop on Greek Dance providing an opportunity to learn popular dances from the Dodecanese Islands, such as Syrto, Ballos, Issios and Sousta.

3:00 PM

Hassan Hakmoun – ecstatic music & dance from Moroccan Gnawa trance ceremonies

Orchestre de Tanger - leading Moroccan ensemble specializing in Andalusian music

Amalia Papastefanou – the legendary Greek island singer with master clarinetist Lefteris Bournias

Chris Tiktapanides - Pontic Greek lyra player

Dimonis de Mallorca - from the Balearic Islands in Spain

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Traditional Music & Dance and World Music Institute with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Heritage and Preservation, and L'Institut d'Estudis Baleàrics.

 

 

Friday, June 6 6:30 PM

The Bowery Presents

Joss Stone / Common

with special guest Ryan Shaw

$37.50 advance/ $40 day of show

Purchase via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

OR at the Mercury Lounge Box Office with no service charge

217 E. Houston Street (between Ludlow & Essex), Phone #: 212-260-4700

 

Thursday, June 28

The Bowery Presents

The Levon Helm Band 6:30 PM

$60

Purchase via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

OR at the Mercury Lounge Box Office with no service charge

217 E. Houston Street (between Ludlow & Essex), Phone #: 212-260-4700

 

Monday, July 9                       6:00PM

Metropolitan Talent Presents

Bob Weir & RatDog

Keller Williams

$45

Purchase via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

Or on concerttonight.com

 

Monday, July 16       6:30PM

The Bowery Presents

The Decemberists
Grizzly Bear
Land of Talk

$30 advance / $35 at door

Purchase via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

OR at the Mercury Lounge Box Office with no service charge

217 E. Houston Street (between Ludlow & Essex), Phone #: 212-260-4700

 

Tuesday, August 7                Time TBD

Live Nation presents

Dashboard Confessional

Cost: TBD

Via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

OR at the Irving Plaza box office with no service charge

17 Irving Place between 15^th & 16^th, Phone #: 212-307-7171

 

Thursday, August 9                Time TBD

Live Nation presents

Black Crowes

Cost: TBD

Purchase via Ticketmaster.com or Ticketmaster by phone: 212-307-7171

OR at the Irving Plaza box office with no service charge

17 Irving Place between 15^th & 16^th, Phone #: 212-307-7171