Lincoln Center Out of Doors Schedule 2012

Lincoln Center Out of Doors, which runs from July 25 to August 12, will feature 100 free performances across the plazas of Lincoln Center.  Seventeen premieres and debuts highlight the three weeks of this latest edition of one of the country’s longest-running, free, outdoor festivals.  Week I descriptions and a  chronological listing of performances follow, or visit: www.LCOutofDoors.org

 

On opening night, Wednesday, July 25, everyone’s invited to the party with the man who wrote and produced the music that defined popular dance in the 1970s, 80s and beyond, Nile Rodgers. Rodgers gathers together the CHIC Organization, some of that era’s—and today’s—leading musicians, to get Le Freak on at Damrosch Park.  Opening the evening, DJ KS*360, aka hip-hop DJ, dancer, choreographer, and poet Kwikstep, joined by members of his Full Circle Souljahs musicians and dancers, offers up 70s funk, 80s soul/R&B, Afrobeat, and disco from New York’s basements, rooftops, apartments, and dance clubs to create a giant block party in the Park, BEYOND THE GROOVE. Kwik provides “Soulutions” because he says, “good music always has the answer to your questions and the Soulutions to your problems.”

 

All events are FREE; no tickets required. Events take place on the plazas of Lincoln Center.

Visit LCOutofDoors.org for complete schedule or call 212-875-5766 to request a brochure.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012 is sponsored by Bloomberg and PepsiCo.

LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS – WEEK ONE – JULY 25-JULY 29, 2012

Also opening July 25, continuing to the end of the festival, and punctuated by a live 60-piece percussion performance on August 3, is the world premiere of Phil Kline’s dreamcitynine, a Lincoln Center commission, in honor of John Cage’s Centennial anniversary this year.  From vast boombox symphonies (his signature Unsilent Night) to chamber music and song cycles (he is a long-time collaborator with Bang on a Can), Phil Kline’s work has been hailed for its originality, beauty, subversive subtext and wit. The boundary-pushing composer’s newest work was inspired by Cage’s one-minute stories from Indeterminacy. Kline takes the concept a step further with his work that uses a downloadable GPS-based app tied to various locations mapped across the Lincoln Center campus.  As users walk the campus, the app will randomly “trigger” the 60 new, original, one-minute texts written by many familiar names from the world of music, art and ideas, including filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, historian Luc Sante, American novelist/playwright Darryl Pinckney, composers Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, Elliott Sharp, and David T. Little, musicians Theo Bleckmann, Nadia Sirota, and Mary Rowell, and radio personality John Schaefer, among others. The stories will unfold to a live soundscape of 60 percussion players, led by Talujon and friends on Josie Robertson Plaza on August 3.

Tangle, (U.S. Premiere) a project of Australia’s Polyglot Theatre, is a huge, messy, fun, interactive, elastic weaving event created live by children and their families.  Premiering on July 26 and running for four days with multiple performances daily through July 29, it’s part mass visual arts installation, part performance, part playground, and part dance party. To live music, children and family members create a giant installation by weaving colored elastic through 25 poles of different heights set on a large platform base. Weavers (company members) use big crooks to assist kids in placing elastic up and through the growing tangle of strands. As time passes and the structure becomes denser, it morphs into a huge, bouncy playground. Polyglot Theatre, making its New York debut with Tangle, is an internationally acclaimed creator of interactive and experimental theater for children. The 30-year-old company has performed internationally at venues and festivals that include the World Expo Shanghai, Singapore Arts Festival and the Kennedy Center.

Tangle will be constructed in 30-minute performances on four days on Josie Robertson Plaza: on Thursday and Friday, July 26 and 27 at 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., on Saturday, July 29 (Lincoln Center Out of Doors’ Family Day) at 11 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. and on Sunday, July 29 at 10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m., 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

July 28 is “Family Day,” at Out of Doors, and along with Tangle, will offer an afternoon of circus and street performers, highlighted by the BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS. The Cirkus will bring its quirky mix of vaudeville, circus and sideshow to the Hearst Plaza with a variety of acts and performers. Their performances alternate with amazing acrobats assembled by the Chinese American Arts Council, as part of their longstanding collaboration with Lincoln Center, From Chinatown With Love.

This summer, Lincoln Center Out of Doors will feature artists from more than 25 countries (including American regional styles), drawing from their musical roots in traditional, new and hybrid expressions, featuring innovative projects and exciting premieres and debuts.

July 26

Transatlantic Brass connections will be made when the double-bill of Serbia’s G.R.U.B.B making its U.S. debut and New Orleans’ Stooges Brass Band crisscross the plazas of Lincoln Center before taking the stage at Damrosch Park. G.R.U.B.B. (Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats) is a collective of young Roma teenage artists, who join Roma (Gypsy) roots music with hip-hop, dance and pop music, to highlight issues of poverty and discrimination that Roma face in their country and beyond.  The 25 musicians, rappers, dancers, singers and visual artists, ages 13-18, crank things up with set, video and lighting elements to deliver an exciting theatrical stage show.  Stooges Brass Band, led by founder Walter Ramsey (on sousaphone; grandson of a member of Dirty Dozen Brass Band) is one of New Orleans’ premier brass bands, blending traditional sounds of jazz and blues with contemporary urban beat, adding comedy and group dancing to create a second line second to none.

July 27

The modern Olympic Games have embraced arts and cultural exchange alongside sport, as key aspects of the Olympic ideal of creating international understanding.  The 2012 Summer Olympics in London include an expanded eight week Cultural Olympiad festival across the U.K.  Following its World Premiere appearance at the London 2012 Festival, Los Irreales de ONDATRÓPICA, created by British-born, Colombia-based Will Holland (aka Quantic) and Colombian musician Mario Galeano (of Frente Cumbiero), as a commission for the Cultural Olympiad, will make its U.S. debut at Out of Doors.  The supergroup, which just completed a new CD at the legendary Discos Fuentes studios, showcases masters of Colombian music such as Michi Sarmiento and Alfredito Linares and rising stars of the next generation, as it draws from cumbia, salsa and the many sounds of Afro-Colombia.

 

Sharing the bill with Los Irreales de Ondatrópica on July 27 is Wil-Dog el Gavachillo featuring Banda VIENTO DE ORO, the New York debut of the newest project of Wil-Dog Abers, bassist of Los Angles based, culture-mashing, social-activist band Ozomatli. With Viento de Oro, Wil-Dog’s alter-ego el Gavachillo serves up Mexican-style banda with large infusions of classic punk.  Ozomatli recently appeared on the Lincoln Center American Songbook series. (Note: Banda Sol de Santa Cruz, previously announced, will not be appearing.)

July 28

Now in its fourth New York season, and making its Lincoln Center debut, Istanbulive IV celebrates the rich music of that Euro-Asian capital. It brings three exciting artists to the Damrosch Park Bandshell, highlighted by the U.S. debut of Turkish folk, psych and protest music singer Selda BAĞCAN whose work has been sampled by Mos Def and draws fans like Antony Hegarty (of Antony and the Johnsons). Also on the bill Ilhan Erşahin’s Wonderland featuring Hüsnü Şenlendirici. Known for his left-field jazz, improv and electronic projects such as Wax Poetics and Istanbul Sessions, and his club Nublu, Erşahin’s Wonderland combines traditional instruments—kanun and darbuka—with a jazz trio of sax, bass, and drums, joined by a clarinet maestro who adds a Gypsy touch.  Opening the evening is The Secret Trio—Ara Dinkjian, composer/oud; NY Gypsy All-Stars’ (and Juilliard School alumnus) Ismail Lumanovski, clarinet; and Tamer Pinarbaşi, kanun—who draw on their separate Armenian, Turkish, and Macedonian Roma roots music for a new, percussive sound.

 

July 29

With singer/songwriter Joe Hurley (“One of NY’s most entertaining frontmen…the best singer of vowels in rock” The Village Voice) and in association with The Consulate General of Ireland, Out of Doors presents ‘OurLand’: Celebrating Irish Culture in America! The Music, The Bards, The Magic, an all-day (2 pm–10 pm) extravaganza of music, spoken word, traditional arts and more exploring Irish and Irish-Americans continuing contribution to the American Songbook and American culture. Featuring stars of pop, rock, punk, folk, and from the worlds of theater, literature, and more, ‘OurLand’ takes place at multiple spaces on the Lincoln Center campus, culminating in Damrosch Park at the end of the night, with the All-Star Irish Rock Revue!

 

Artistic Director for the ‘OurLand’ celebration, Irish-American New Yorker Joe Hurley has sung with artists ranging from The Chieftains to The Waco Brothers.  He leads the NYC groups Rogue’s March and Joe Hurley & The Gents and has released a number of critically-acclaimed CDs.  ‘OurLand’ is an outgrowth of the annual Irish Rock Revues that Hurley has organized around St. Patrick’s Day, held at various venues around New York, since 1999.

 

‘OurLand’ opens at 2 pm on Hearst Plaza Stage with Gathering The Bards: From Galway to Rockaway, weaving the art of storytelling with original works and classics, to offer Irish-American culture in verse and song. Performers include Oscar-winning director Terry George (Hotel Rwanda), actors Cara Seymour (Gangs of New York), Angelica Page (Sixth Sense), Geraldine Hughes (Belfast Blues) and Aedin Moloney; Malachy and Alfie McCourt best-selling novelists Peter Quinn, Tom Kelly, John Swenson, Thomas Bahler, and Mike Farragher, musicians Cherish the Ladies, Kirk Kelly, Niamh Hyland, New Orleans fiddler Gina Forsyth (N.Y. Debut), Celtic tenor David O’Leary; with poetry from the WB Yeats Society of NY, actress Barbara Feldon, Gerard McNamee, Anne Marie Lynch (2012 NY Rose of Tralee), Salina Mailer, Faith Hahn and more in a wildly eclectic, and interactive gathering of the gems of Ireland’s bards.  At 5 pm, on Josie Robertson Plaza, re-christened, The Auld Triangle, buskers, poets, painters and dancers hold forth on Behan and Beckett, Christy Moore and James Joyce .  Bring your voice for sing-alongs. Alive, Alive, oh!

 

Evening moves to Damrosch Park, with a performance by the cast of ONCE, winner of eight 2012 Tony Awards including BEST MUSICAL at 6 pm, followed by A Parting Glass which celebrates the recent launch of the Association for Cultural Equity’s ACE Online Archive of folklorist/ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax’s landmark work from 1946-1991 collecting and analyzing traditional music from across America and many countries, including Ireland. Ireland’s musical influence on American music, from folk, county, and bluegrass, to later jazz, rock and pop is the focus of A Parting Glass. Moderated by the Lomax Archives Director Don Fleming (musician/songwriter and producer—Sonic Youth, Hole, The Posies), the program features round-robin performances in the Americana-Irish world with Cherish the Ladies, Lianne Smith, Marni Rice, and guests.  At 7 pm, Joe Hurley & The Gents take the Bandshell stage.  Their set will include music from Hurley’s CD Let the Great World Spin, a song-cycle inspired by and created in collaboration with 2009 National Book Award winner Colum McCann. The gents feature Tony Garnier (Bob Dylan bandleader and bassist), Ken Margolis (Cracker), Megan Gould, James Mastro (Ian Hunter; Patti Smith), and special guest, Flogging Molly’s Matt Hensley.

 

The grand finale to ‘OurLand” at 8 pm is JOE HURLEY’S All Star Irish Rock Revue! co-hosted by Ed Rogers (Bedsit Poets, “The Beat Goes On”), with musical directors Chris Flynn and Jon Spurney (Passing Strange), celebrating Ireland’s contemporary music legacy with Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famers, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award-Winners singing “The Great Irish Songbook.”  The Revue will include songs by Thin Lizzy, U2, Van Morrison, The Undertones, The Pogues, Elvis Costello, Stiff Little Fingers, John Lydon, and more. The line-up to date features Willie Nile, Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris (currently starring in the Broadway revival of Evita), soul legend Tami Lynn (Dr. John, The Rolling Stones), Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Famer Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper Band,) Actress Antonique Smith (“Notorious”), The New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain, UK’s Stephan Frost, Tish & Snooky, Mary Lee Kortes, Sam Bisbee and members of Flogging Molly,  Rogue’s March, Lez Zeppelin, The Mekons, Cracker, The Ian Hunter Band and Blue Oyster Cult.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and take place on the Lincoln Center campus. Visit LCOutofDoors.org for complete schedule or call 212-875-5766 to request a brochure.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

July 25 – August 12, 2012

(All programs, artists and show times subject to change)

 

Wednesday, July 25 – Sunday, August 12 – ongoing

Phil Kline: dreamcitynine (World Premiere, commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors)

Ongoing GPS-based audio app installation piece inspired by John Cage’s Indeterminacy

Technology developed by Rockmore Tech

(See also live performance on August 3 at 6:30 pm)

 

Wednesday, July 25

7 p.m. –Damrosch Park Bandshell (note updated time)

Nile Rodgers & The CHIC Organization

DJ KS*360 aka Kwikstep presents Behind the Groove

 

Thursday, July 26

2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m.  Josie Robertson Plaza

Polyglot Theatre: Tangle (US premiere)

Interactive family theatrical play piece

 

6:30 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza – parade sets

G.R.U.B.B. (Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats) (US debut)

Stooges Brass Band

 

7:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell – concert sets

G.R.U.B.B. (Gypsy Roma Urban Balkan Beats) (US debut)

Stooges Brass Band

 

Friday, July 27

2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza

Polyglot Theatre: Tangle (US premiere)

Interactive family theatrical play piece

 

7:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Los Irreales de Ondatrópica (US debut)

Presented by Quantic and Frente Cumbiero

Featuring: Michi Sarmiento, Alfredito Linares, Pedro Ramayá Beltrán, Markkitos Micolta,

and Wilson Viveros

All-star intergenerational band of Colombian master musicians with the leaders of the next generation

Wil-Dog el Gavachillo featuring Banda Viento de Oro (NY Debut)

Ozomatli’s Wil-Dog fronts a Mexican-style banda, playing banda, new wave and punk classics

 

Saturday, July 28

11 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza

FAMILY DAY

Polyglot Theatre: Tangle (US premiere)

Interactive, family theatrical play piece

Family Day is sponsored by Disney

 

2:00 & 3:30 p.m. Hearst Plaza

FAMILY DAY

Chinese American Arts Council Acrobatic Group: From Chinatown with Love

Family Day is sponsored by Disney

Presented in collaboration with the Chinese American Arts Council

 

2:30 & 4 p.m. Hearst Plaza

FAMILY DAY

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus

Family Day is sponsored by Disney

 

7:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Istanbulive IV presents:

Selda Bağcan (US Debut)

Ilhan Erşahin’s Wonderland featuring Hüsnü Şenlendirici

The Secret Trio

Presented in collaboration with Serdar Ilhan & Mehmet Dede with the support of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism

 

Sunday, July 29

10 a.m., 11 a.m., 12 noon, 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza

Polyglot Theatre: Tangle (US premiere)

Interactive family theatrical play piece

 

‘OurLand’: Celebrating Irish Culture in America! The Music, The Bards, The Magic

Artistic Director: Joe Hurley

Presented in association with The Consulate General of Ireland

 

2:00–5:00 p.m. Hearst Plaza Stage

Gathering The Bards: From Galway to Rockaway

Poets, Novelists, Singers, Actors, Musicians and Comics weave “The Importance of Being Irish” Featuring Cara Seymour, Terry George, Angelica Page, Peter Quinn, Tom Kelly, Alphie and Malachy McCourt, Cherish The Ladies, New Orleans fiddler Gina Forsyth, Celtic tenor David O’Leary; Poetry from the WB Yeats Society of NY, and more

 

5:00–6:00 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza

The Auld Triangle:  Buskers, Poets, Painters, Dancers, Traditional Sessions, and Sing-alongs

 

6:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Joe Hurley’s All-Star Irish Rock Revue! 

Co-Hosted by Ed Rogers

Featuring Willie Nile, Michael Cerveris, Tami Lynn, Antonique Smith, Ellen Foley, Dennis Dunaway, the New York Dolls’ Sylvain Sylvain, and members of Flogging Molly, Rogues March, Lez Zeppelin, The Mekons, Cracker, The Ian Hunter Band, Blue Oyster Cult

Musical Directors: Chris Flynn, Jon Spurney

 

Joe Hurley & The Gents

Featuring Tony Garnier, Ken Margolis, Megan Gould, James Mastro, and special guest, Flogging Molly’s Matt Hensley and including a performance of Let The Great World Spin, Hurley’s song-cycle CD A

 

Parting Glass: Celebrating ALAN LOMAX’s work preserving Ireland’s Musical Heritage

Moderated by Don Fleming, Director of the Lomax Archives

Featuring round-robin performances with Cherish The Ladies, Lianne Smith, Marni Rice and friends tba

 

Performance by the cast of the Tony Award-winning Best Musical Once

 

Wednesday, August 1

7:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Yemen Blues

Khaira Arby & Her Band

UkanDanZ (New York debut)

Yemen Blues is presented with support from the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York

 

Thursday, August 2

7:30 p.m.  Damrosch Park Bandshell

On Sacred Ground: Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring

(NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors)

Arranged and Performed by

The Bad Plus

Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble (US debut)

The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble is presented with support from Goethe Institute. 

 

Friday, August 3

6:30 p.m. Josie Robertson Plaza

Phil Kline: dreamcitynine (World Premiere, commissioned by Lincoln Center Out of Doors)

Technology developed by Rockmore Tech

Performed by Talujon and friends 

Live performance featuring 60 percussionists, with audio app

 

7:30 p.m. Hearst Plaza

Chio-Tian Folk Drums and Arts Group (US debut)

 

8:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Kimmo Pohjonen & Helsinki Nelson – Accordion Wrestling (US premiere)

Made possible in part by The Consulate General of Finland, The Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music (LUSES), The Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre ESEK, Finn Spark, Inc., and Finlandia Foundation National.

Originally created for the Turku Cultural Capital of Europe Program in 2011.

 

Saturday, August 4

7:00 p.m. Hearst Plaza (note new time )

Heidi Latsky Dance: GIMP

 

8:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Kimmo Pohjonen & Helsinki Nelson – Accordion Wrestling (US premiere)

Made possible in part by The Consulate General of Finland, The Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music (LUSES), The Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre ESEK, Finn Spark, Inc., and Finlandia Foundation National.

Originally created for the Turku Cultural Capital of Europe Program in 2011.

 

Sunday, August 5

1:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.  Hearst Plaza

HERITAGE SUNDAY

Ayiti Rasanble!

Feet of Rhythm

Kongo featuring Peniel Guerrier

La Troupe Makandal

Raram

Presented in collaboration with the Center for Traditional Music and Dance

 

7:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Las Caras Lindas de Mi Gente Negra – Homenaje a Tite Curet Alonso

featuring Grupo Esencia de Ponce, Puerto Rico (NY debut) and

Viento de Agua with special guest Lalo Rodríguez

Tribute to the iconic salsa composer Tite Curet Alonso

Presented in collaboration with the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute with support from Banco Popular

 

Wednesday, August 8

7:30 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Dr. L. Subramaniam – Global Fusion

featuring Kavita Krishnamurthi Subramaniam, Larry Coryell, Corky Siegel, Bindu Subramaniam and Ambi Subramaniam

The Alaev Family (US Debut)

Alaev Family presented with support from the Office of Cultural Affairs, Consulate General of Israel in New York

 

Thursday, August 9

7:30 p.m.  Josie Robertson Plaza

!!! (aka Chk Chk Chk)

Lenny Williams

 

Friday August 10

7:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Valerie Simpson and Friends: A Tribute to Nick Ashford

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble

The presentation of Fusion was made possible by the MetLife Community Connections Fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project.  Major support for NDP is also provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

Saturday, August 11

12:00 p.m. Hearst Plaza

La Casita

Poetry and spoken word performances by

Abiodun Oyewole, Advocate of Wordz, Aneta Brodski & Tahani Salah, Briceida Cuevas, Charlie Chin,  Gypsee Yo, Intikana, Iyaba Ibo Mandingo, Peggy Robles–Alvarado, and

Rachel McKibbens

Musical performances by Gerard Edery, KiT (Kuenta I Tambú) (US debut), Mireya Ramos & 809 Ladies Band, Tulali, and Said Damir

MC: Simply Rob

La Casita is sponsored by PepsiCo. 

Produced in cooperation with Claudia Norman, Claudia Norman Management
Co-curated by: Bill Bragin, Lincoln Center Out of Doors; Melody Capote, Caribbean Cultural Center; Lillian Cho, Consultant; C. Daniel Dawson; Caridad de la Luz, Claudia Norman, Claudia Norman Management; Richie Villar, Acentos Foundation: Shawn Termin, The Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian.

Briceida Cuevas is presented with additional support from the Mexican Cultural Institute.

KiT (Kuenta I Tambú) is presented with additional support from the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and in part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.

 

Saturday, August 11

12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. New York Public Library For The Performing Arts

Stoned Soul Symposium

12:30 p.m. – Author of SOUL PICNIC: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro, Michele Kort leads a discussion on the iconic singer’s work and life; panelists tbd

2 p.m. – Professor Gayle Wald, author of Shout Sister Shout? presents a talk on the landmark Soul at the Center festival held at Lincoln Center in 1972-1973

3 p.m. – Cultural critic, musician/producer Greg Tate moderates a panel on the legacy of Gil Scott- Heron. Panelists:  Umar Bin Hassan (Last Poets), Carter Mathes and Michael Coard

Presented in association with the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

 

29^th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

5:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Otis Clay & the Platinum Band

 

Soulful Songwriters Circle: William Bell, Teenie Hodges, and Dan Penn

 

The Triple Goddess Twilight Revue – Celebrating The Music of Laura Nyro

featuring Nona Hendryx, Sarah Dash, Melissa Manchester, Desmond Child & Rouge, and Kate Ferber

And JUST ADDED:  Felix Cavaliere

 

Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls All-Stars: Sister Songwriters

Musical Director: LaFrae Sci

The Roots of American Music Festival is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation

 

Sunday, August 12

3:00 p.m. –8:00 p.m. Teatro Pregones in the Bronx

La Casita

See artist line-up for August 11

 

Sunday, August 12

29^th Annual Roots of American Music Festival

12 noon – 5:30 p.m. Hearst Plaza

Erin McKeown and her Fine Parade

Taylor Mac

Tom Paxton

Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird

Pura Fé Trio

 

6:00 p.m. Damrosch Park Bandshell

Pardon Our Analysis: An All-Star Gathering for Gil Scott-Heron
Performed by Black Rock Coalition Orchestra and Guests

LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Artistic Director

Featuring Brian Jackson, Sapphire, Martha Redbone, Abiodun Oyewole, Sandra St. Victor,

Carl Hancock Rux, A. Van Jordan, Gordon Voidwell, Hanifah Walidah, and Willie Perdomo.

Presented by Black Rock Coalition and Poetry Society of America

In cooperation with the Estate of Gil Scott-Heron

 

Aloe Blacc

 

Swamp Dogg

 

The Roots of American Music Festival is presented in association with the Ponderosa Stomp Foundation

The Ponderosa Stomp Foundation (PSF) is a 501(c) (3), not-for-profit educational organization whose mission is celebrating the legacy, revitalizing the careers, and preserving the history of American music & musicians. We work to ensure that the unsung heroes of American music are given their due: celebrated, included, and remembered, but most of all, heard – during their lifetimes. We provide both a voice and a stage to overlooked sidemen, session musicians and other influential pioneers whose contributions have shaped American culture for over 50 years.

 

All events are FREE; no tickets required

Events take place on LINCOLN CENTER’S PLAZAS between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, from West 62^nd Street to West 65th Street (except where noted).  Take No.1 IRT to 66^th Street/Lincoln Center Station) OR the A, B, C, D and No. 1 trains to 59^th St/Columbus Circle.

 

Visit LCOutofDoors.org for complete schedule or call 212-875-5766 to request a brochure.

This year’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors brochure has been designed by noted illustrator Mark Alan Stamaty

 

Performance and event Locations:

 

BROADWAY PLAZA

Corner of Broadway and West 65^th Street (grandstand plaza in front of Alice Tully Hall)

 

DAMROSCH PARK

West 62^nd Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue.

 

DAVID RUBENSTEIN ATRIUM

Broadway, between West 62^nd and West 63^rd Streets

 

HEARST PLAZA / BARCLAYS CAPITAL GROVE

North of the Metropolitan Opera House, in front of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Lincoln Center Theater, near West 65^th Street

 

JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA

Main plaza of Lincoln Center, fronting Columbus Avenue, between 63^rd and 64^th Street.