[mjosef]

THe past week or two I have watched the Bandshell @ Brooklyn Prospect Park 'pitch' their tent (canopy over permanent stage) and slowly install the sound system.
The series starts Friday June 10th.
I will definitely making this one, June 24th.


Friday, June 24
Roy Hargrove Quintet
The Badwagon featuring Jason Moran’s Bandwagon & The Bad Plus

http://www.bricartsmedia.org/performing-arts/celebrate-brooklyn/2011-season

The Decemberists show on the 14th June is already sold out. THis was a benefit concert, not a freebee.

[lonewolfny42]

A few more summer concert links for NYC...looks like more good music this year...

http://www.summerstage.org/

http://www.bricartsmedia.org/performing-arts/celebrate-brooklyn

http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/

http://www.southstreetseaport.com/main.cfm?actionId=globalShowStaticContent&screenKey=cmpContent&htmlKey=calendarevents&s=sss

http://www.madisonsquarepark.org/music

[Matty_J]

Awesome, thank you for the heads up! 

[John Casler]

I'll Have to send these along to my daughter.

She just moved to Manhattan.

Thanks

[mjosef]

Lincoln Center outdoors, this looks good...free.
I am going to try and make this, the weather is perfect!


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WHEN: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 7:30 PM to unspecified

ARTIST/EVENT: BILLY BRAGG: THE BIG BUSK THE BLACK EARTH BOYS featuring JULDEH CAMARA (world debut)

WHERE: Lincoln Center Damrosch Park Bandshell, 62nd St Columbus and Amsterdam (MANHATTAN)

GENRE: Various

DESCRIPTION: British folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg has fashioned himself as a people’s troubadour for decades, but this interactive community sing- and play-along allows members of the audience to bring their own acoustic guitars and get in on his have-guitar-will-travel ethos, covering modern classics all together, including some selected by the audience through advance online voting. Gambian griot and fiddler Juldeh Camara, along with Les Triaboliques’ Justin Adams (Robert Plant, Tinariwen) and Ben Mandelson (3 Mustaphas 3, Billy Bragg & the Blokes) are the Black Earth Boys, an amalgam of plectrists who specialize in erasing the spaces between genres, much like the mouthful that describes their music: “Afroduskcorebluesstringfolk.” Billy Bragg will lead a group rehearsal at 4:00 for anyone who brings an acoustic guitar to practice that evening’s songs. Between the rehearsal and the 5:30 show, buskers who sign up at rehearsal can perform their own material at locations throughout Lincoln Center’s plazas.