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The fine folks over at BRIC managed to produce another wonderful season of concerts at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park this year and to top it all off, they had none other than The Head And The Heart close things out last week. Despite an afternoon spiced with on and off rain showers,
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@briccelebratebk is winding down its 2023 Summer season and @alvvaysband played their second of two fundraising gigs at The Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park. On a night that felt more like the tail end of September rather than the dog days of August with cool Temps and almost no humidity, Molly Rankin and the
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Back in 2007 when Scott McCaughey and Steve Wynn concocted the idea of putting together a band that would perform nothing but songs pertaining to baseball, I personally was thrilled. But as a viable touring band? I didn’t exactly see this project becoming that. Fast forward to 2023, four full length albums and a host
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August 9th marked 28 years since @jerrygarcia left this earth. I got to celebrate the date with @englishtownproject at the @CityWinery Loft. As a band comprised of musicians who are (or have been) members of such groups as Hot Tuna, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, and The Zen Tricksters, The Englishtown Project is a
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I first discovered Marquis Hill a few years ago when he was playing with Makaya McCraven and his band. Needless to say, I’ve been a huge fan ever since, so when I saw that he was debuting his latest piece, “As Above, So Below” at The Jazz Gallery, I jumped at the oportunity to see
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2023-07-15 Marcia Griffiths began her musical career in her homeland of Kingston, Jamaica nearly 60 years ago with Byron Lee and The Dragonaires. She would go on to sing with a veritable who’s who of Jamaican reggae artists but it was her time spent as a member of Bob Marley’s backup singers The I-Threes (along
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2023-07-29 at City Winery Lenny Kaye told us a story on Saturday night about how he was approached by Elektra Records CEO Jac Holtzman in 1971 to curate a collection of psychedelic and garage rock songs. Lenny says his initial idea was to offer up a series of multiple LPs, each focusing on a different
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2023-07-28 Duane Betts released one of my surprise favorite albums of the year a week or so ago called Wild And Precious Life. Of you’re a fan of @officialallmanbrothers you really need to give it a listen. Well I was super stoked to have had the opportunity to catch Duane and his current band, Palmetto
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Jacob Dylan and The Wallfowers commenced the second half of their 2023 tour with a stop at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on what was an extremely hot and sweaty night. The oppresive heat didn’t prevent anyone, be they musician or spectator from reveling in what turned out to be a great night of new music interspersed
W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 