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DUMBO Arts Festival

Hey Bloggers, if you are into art, DUMBO will be having their 11th annual art under the bridge festival next weekend, September 28-30th. There will be art, open studios, exhibitions, installations, performances, projections, videos and lots of art with artists Jackson Martin, Alfonso Munoz, Eve Mosher, Myk Henry, Cynthia Ruse, Rashaad Newsome, Duran Jackson, Dana and Karla Karwas, NATSU, Caitlin Berrigan, Zach Gold, Vitaly Komar, Caspar Stracke, Gabriella Monroy, Aniko Erdosi, Felicity Hogan and hundreds of other artists and more art in different venues.

There will also be a Dumbo Arts Festival Afterparty with a 3-Day Draw-A-Thon at Re Bar in Brooklyn as well. 3 Nights -16 bands- 3 day draw-a-thon, Sept 28-30th, Main room gallery show of Michael Alan’s work and live music by: I love you airlines, bamboo shoots, Tim Love Lee, Bom Bomb, Todd Michaelsen, Orange Park, The Choke, Bones of Davey Jones,The Rats, Saucerboy, biz, The Krays, Umami, Supermansguestlist, used to be women. Also live music by the Hungry March Band, and jesus. Portable Soundtracks for Temporary Utopias, produced by Grammy-winner Danny Blume, and co-produced by Matt Moran of Slavic Soul Party, are Hungry March Band’s fourth album. And if you are into music, music and more music, The Deli Magazine will be having a 2 day free Deli party at the Water Street Lounge as part of the event September 28-29th. Their line up includes: spells, doom dub, cale parks, thing one, The Halcyon’s, djs till 4am and in between. Also, The Epochs, Magic Caravan, smite, Fashion show, Bluprint Clothing, Bovine Homecoming, Benzos, The Picture, The Velocet, Fhe Fatales, Danny Sleep dj’s, Then Halcyon’s dj till 4 am
And if that’s not enough entertainment as part of this gigantic arts festival; there will be dancing, dancing and more dancing. White Wave Dance Company presents their 2007 Dumbo Dance Festival and they will be kicking off the festival with a Gala Benefit and Festival Performances September 27-30th, with more than 80 choreographers and companies performed by over 400 dancers. Dance performers will include works by Terry Dean Bartlett, Arthur Aviles, Azul Dance Theater, Pascal Benichou, Betsy Miller and Dancers, Catey Ott Dance Collective, T. Lang, Push Up Something Hidden, Meg Herbert Dance, Tina Croll + Company, Anabella Lenzu/Dance Drama, Zoe Klein & David Paris and many, many others.
Have a great art, music, dance and rockin roll day.
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Miles Davis

I ran across a friends book about Miles Davis, the legendary jazz musician the other day. It seems like Miles Davis is the icon of the jazz scene because a lot of musicians usually have some record, album, book or poster of his around. And reading this book “Miles” The Autobiography, one would think his lifestyle was more dramatic and interesting than his music. In this book he speaks frankly in black and white about his life and holds nothing back. He seemed to be very outspoken almost political like a preacher in his speech. And I have come across other Jazz icons biographies and movies also such as Charlie Parker, and their lives seem to have been sex, drugs, and Rock N’ Roll as one would never know these jazz icons and others on the jazz scene were former junkies in their lifetime unless you read the book or watch the movie to learn the history of these figures and the jazz scene around them in their time. And the legend lives on. Long Live Jazz.

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I Love A Cappella Music

I love A Cappella music. I really do. It’s something I could listen to all day long, the sound of the melodic voice without the accompaniment of musical instruments. At A-Cappella.com you can find thousands of a cappella songs and music related products at their a cappella store. You can find great sheet music and see great a cappella performances at their website. This is a sponsored post.


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End of an Era


I guess it is the end of an era in Rock N Roll. The news reports say Hilly Kristal, the founder of CBGB’s punk rock club in New York City on the Bowery has passed away. It is almost as if he could have predicted the date of his passing with the closing of the well known club last year. I am not sure what much I can say about CBGB’s that has not already been said about what it embodies and represents in its history as a club for some sort of freedom in music. Only that may he rest in peace and that this marks an end of an era, not only for CBGB’s, but for the Bowery and the New York Citiy real estate scene in an era of gentrification. Maybe the legend will live on somehow, though New York may never be the same. A cycle that is ever changing.

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The Howl is Back!

Hey Bloggers, if you are in the neighborhood, there is a full page ad in this weeks New York Press. We’re back! Howl! 2007. FEVA presents September 5-9, 2007 centered in East Villages, Lower East Side Tompkins Square Park for free. An event not to be missed.
With:
MOBY, ChiChi Valenti and Johnny Dynell’s Lowlife, Felice Rosser & Faith, Rene Risque, the Art Lovers, Heavy Trash, DJ Spooky, Richard West’s Melange, Urban Word, Akim Funk Buddha, Judith Malina and The Living Theatre, Waldos, Crosby/Miz Metro/Alex Cowings, Skin God, Vision Jazz Fest with music by music by William Parker, Charles Gayle, Rob Brown, Sabir Mateen, Roy Campbell & Lewis Barnes, Jason Kao Hwang, Gerald Cleaver and Patricia Nicholson. Urban Gypsy Circus, Hattie’s A Salute To Black Lips, Alien Comic, Keiko Bonk, Fire Flies, Ravens and Chimes, David Amram, Paper & Sand, Robert La Fosse, Dean Johnson, Middle Collegiate Choir, MM Serra’s Avante Garde(N)s, Angel Orensanz, Fusion Arts Museum, A Gathering of the Tribes, Bowery Poetry Club, Nyorican Poet’s Cafe, Pianos, LES Girl’s Club, EVCC, The Living Room, Crash Mansion, Rapture Cafe, Comix Thinktank, Performance Art, LIT, Rock and M/F Punk Panels, Manhattan Samba, Hungry March Band, kidrock, The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Festival with Taylor Mead, John Giorno, The Mayhem Poets, Poetry Drill Team “4 Minute Howl” led by poet Gary Glazner, Stacy Szymaszek, Bob Holman, Danny Shot, Amy Ouzoonian, Chavisa Woods, Paolo Javier, Rachel Levitsky, Filip Marinovich. The Bowery Poetry Club Art Auction with auctioneer Marguerite Van Cook featuring works by Paul Pope, Donald Baechler, Peggy Cyphers, Steven Lack, Kiki Smith, Mike Bidlo, Marguerite Van Cook, James Romberger, ArturoVega, Mark Enger, Matt Enger, Riki Colon, David Pushkin, David West, Jack Natz, Gibby Haynes, John Ahearn, Thom Corn. A Chorus of Poets: (The) Desiccate Ablution: directed by Butch Morris and much more!
The Federation of East Village Artists (FEVA) 4th Annual celebration of the arts. Five days of dance, music, performance, poetry and writing. And if the Howl Festival is still selling that Howl Souvenir Book, check it out. It has a great history of the neighborhood.
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The Deli Magazine Rocks

Hey Bloggers, oh my rockness. I have written an article for The Deli Magazine. The Deli Magazine Rocks! They are all about the NYC Indie Rock Scene! And they rock. I recognize The Deli Magazine as one of my MySpace friends and I also see their magazine in a lot of musicians top eight, so they must rock. I am happy to be able to review music for their magazine because their magazine rocks. The blog entry is titled “Zambri: tiny sisters with huge potential, tonight at Fat Baby”, and that photo of them that goes along with the entry is way cool.
If you happen to be online, you can read it at The Deli Magazine

or

You can read it as follows:

Zambri are creatures with a passion for playing music is basements, streets and various other places. With two sisters Jessica Z and Cristi Jo Z, Carrie I. (who is reported to play bass and electronics with her boots!?) and a couple of guys later, the Z club is born. Their new EP “Aliens” is available now, with a record cover that introduces us to a cool Zambri logo – that somehow reminds us of the squatter anarchist symbol from days long gone in The Lower East Side. I must confess that the infectious lyrics and melody from “God” keep playing over and over in my head. Zambri music is a good fun and sweaty pop – besides, that boot playing bass and electronics must be an awesome sight to see! You can catch them tonight at Fat Baby and on 09.14 at The Lolita Party @ Glasslands Gallery in Williamsburg.

Peace on earth and goodwill to all mankind

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HOWL! Charlie Parker Festival

Hey Bloggers, if you are in the neighborhood, here is are some great events to check out.

Bird’s the Word – A Gathering of the Tribes 14th Annual Charlie Parker Festival, August 2-29, 285 East Third Street, New York, New York.

8/11 Bird Flew in the Garden
3pm poetry reading featuring the original works and readings of poetry from Charlie Paker’s era (50’s): Bob Holman, Yuko Otomo, Steve Dalachinsky, Danny Shot, Amy Ouzoonian, Merry Fortune, Chavisa Woods, Eve Packer, Dorothy Friedman August, Tom Savage and Papoleto Melendez

6pm Butch Morris Chorus of Poets avant-garde conduction
8pm Harpin’ in the Garden featuring Billy Harper performing original compositions with his ensemble

8/26 Shadows and Sound
6pm Live musical performance by pianist and composer Sabrinna Chap.
Shadows Film Screening – John Cassavettes’ “Shadows”

8/29 Charlie Parker Block Party
11am-9pm Street Festival, poetry, performances, open Mic’ and musical performance by the Hungry March Band at 7pm

And also not to be missed

HOWL! Festival of East Village Arts September 5-9. The Federation of East Village Artists (FEVA) 4th Annual celebration of the arts. Five days of dance, music, performance, poetry and writing centered in East Village, Lower East Side’s Tompkins Square Park. And if the Howl Festival is still selling that Howl Souvenir Book, check it out. It has a great history of the neighborhood.
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Lovolution Shows

Hey Bloggers, here is an email that I received for a music event. Lovolution will be doing some great music over at the Knitting Factory. If you are in the neighborhood, check it out.

Audio Gumbo Live NYC at The Knitting Factory
Sunday August 5th,
SUN RA IMPOSSIBLE SPACE CIRCUS

7:15pm sharp:

Screening of ultra-rare 1968 film ‘Spaceways’ by Ed English featuring extensive footage of Sun Ra house at 48 east 3rd Street, NYC, plus Arkestra appearance at Carnegie Hall

Also showing: TV concert from Berlin, 1970 – outrageously psychedelic

It has been nearly 15 years since the Sun Day that carried Sun Ra to yet another world, and the waves of effect from the infinitively creative mind of Sun Ra have entered into every genre of music as we, today, are experiencing. Especially we see his more immediate influence in the musics of artists as engraving as John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, George Clinton, Laurie Anderson, Fela Kuti and Pink Floyd. Countless rock groups and creative improvisational ambient artists have followed Sun Ra’s leads into musical revelations. Sun Ra re-set the peripherals of music’s seeming limitations with mesmerizing illuminations. And like the velocity of time travel, Sun Ra’s music becomes with every moment more magnificently vital.

On Sunday, August 5th in the Old Office at the Knitting Factory, the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus will once again perform from original charts original adaptations and interpretations of Sun Ra’s music.

Being the 3rd presentation of the Space Circus, in the past having included Sun Ra Arkestra alumni Juini Booth, Vincent Chancey, Terry Adkins and On Ka’a Davis, this promises to be yet another resplendent concert.

Visiting from Milwaukee will be Daniel Zelonky, one of today’s foremost musician archivist of Sun Ra’s music. He will be bringing along with him some groundbreaking original charts of lesser known Sun Ra gems. Also joining from the midwest will be Sean Behling and Kelly Rossum, teaming up with the NYC home team and some of the Sun Ra Arkestra contingent. Zelonky’s selections will make for a historic presentation never heard ever in the world!

On August 5th Appearing live and in person will be the Sun Ra Impossible Space Circus with these artists:

Danny Zelonky,Danny Zelonky,Aaron Whitby,Sean Behling,Fred Ho,Avram Fefer,Paul Meurens,Jun Miyake,Cecil Brooks III (Sun Ra Arkestra),Dave Davis (Sun Ra Arkestra,Kelly Rossum, Dikko Faust,On Ka’a Davis (former Sun Ra Arkestra),Juini Booth (Sun Ra Arkestra),Welf Dorr,Dave Treut,Monika Heidemann,Dixie Estes,Latasha Diggs,
Abraham Gomez-Delgado.

– Plus –
Space Circus Visual Presentation by Green Dragon

Not only that:

Sunday, August 5th, Late Show in Knitting Factory’s Old Office:

Jojo Kuo Afrobeat Collective Jam at Midnight

Other hits at Knit:

August 19th, Jef Lee Johnson/ Marvin Sewell/ Ronnie Drayton
August 27th, Main Space: Sonny Sharrock / Alice Coltrane double birthday celebration
August 28th, Tap Bar: Monika Heidemann Band / Burnt Sugar The Arkestra Chamber with Ramm El Zee.

Have a great music day.

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Jazz Comes to the Bowery


And so I wandered outside last night with this digital camera I have to play around with to take photos of my friends band, Funk Monk at this really cool restaurant and lounge called Mannahatta. My friends band gave me a really good excuse to dust off the camera and use it for the night. Digital cameras are awesome and I find technology amazing these days. And so I took the above photo of my friends band just for the purpose of posting it on this blog. They are all jazz and hip hop and have played around the city at Nublu, Knitting Factory, the Williamsburg Jazz Festival, and even the New York City subway as part of the Musicians Under New York Program. And I am also taking my friend gig as an excuse to experiment with YouTubeing. How does one YouTube? Well, I made a video of them there also with this digital camera, low light and all and just posted it on You Tube with trial and error. I can now possibly become a YouTube addict to replace all of my other Internet website addictions I have going on at the moment. And that Mannahatta place is awesome with their new Summer Jazz Series and Funk-N-Flava Jazz Wednesdays. They have an open Jazz Jam session every Tuesday in July if you are in the neighborhood. Jazz, Jazz, Jazz. Play Jazz away the day.
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And More Music Festivals

And in the midst of tragedy, life goes on. It’s summertime and music festivals abound this time of year. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, the Village Voice is having its seventh annual Siren Music Festival Saturday, July 21 from noon-9pm at Coney Island, and don’t forget Central Park Summerstage with Brazilian Girls, Cat Empire and The Himalayas this Sunday, the day after also. Saturdays Siren Festival features New York Dolls, M.I.A, We Are Scientists, The Black Lips, Noisettes, Dr. Dog, The Twilight Sad, Cursive, Voxtrot, Matt and Kim, Lavender Diamond, The Detroit Cobras, Elvis Perkins in Dearland and White Rabbits. And for some reason, I really like that We Are Scientists It’s A Hit video. Check it out. They rock.

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