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Dance Bands
Stages
STAGES is a five-member, high-energy dance band that plays an extensive repetorie of music that ranges from cocktail party, high energy dance to classic rock, disco and ethnic cover. We are as diverse as we are talented. Without exception, STAGES talented entertainers and musicians will keep the dance floor and your special event packed all [...]
Energy Express Band
Energy Express Band provides elegant and fun live band entertainment for Weddings, Private Parties or Corporate Events. The musical group is available for all types of social functions in the Energy Express Band provides elegant and fun live band entertainment for Weddings, Private Parties or Corporate Events. The musical group is available for all types of social functions in the Long Island, New York, New York City, Connecticut and New Jersey tri-state metropolitan area.
and New Jersey tri-state metropolitan area.
Gerard Carelli Orchestra
Gerard Carelli Orchestra is New York’s most popular dance band for weddings, corporate events and fundraisers. The music will speak for itself, but your guests will rave about the party long after the last note is played. We offer DJs, solo musicians, and small and large ensembles that play everything from Bach to Beyoncé including Classical, Swing, Ethnic, Ballroom, Motown, Rock, Latin and Soul.
The Soul Doctors
The Soul Doctors are the Tri-State area’s hottest ticket to the party of your life. Consisting of drummer Ammed Solomon, bassist Steve Hill, lead guitarist Tim Coll, tenor saxophonist Doug Payne and lead singer Steve Payne, this five piece powerhouse band will rock, roll, blues and soul your night away! The Party Starts…When The Doctors Are [...]
Music News
If You Like Fleetwood Mac, Try the Kopecky Family Band
With Fleetwood Mac, came a new sound, exciting and diverse yet mainstream; the Kopecky Family Band elevates its male/female harmonies to multi-instrumental surprises, too. NYT > Rock Music
Real Punk Belongs to Fighters
Punk is still sounding its subversive snarl, only not in the countries where it was born. NYT > Rock Music
New Books About Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen
One biographer tries to get inside the head of Bob Dylan, while another assesses the social and personal factors that shaped Bruce Springsteen. NYT > Rock Music
26 Metal Bands at Scion Rock Fest in Tampa, Fla.
The Scion Rock Fest, which took place on Saturday in Tampa, Fla., offered 26 bands playing metal and beyond, with no particular allegiance to locality or subgenre. NYT > Rock Music
Live Gigs
From ECM: New Jazz Releases
New from ECM Steve Kuhn Trio Wisteria ECM 2257 Steve Kuhn piano Steve Swallow bass Joey Baron drums “Wisdom and wistfulness are intertwined in Wisteria, whose title track, written by Art Farmer, takes us back to the early 60s, when both Steve Kuhn and Steve Swallow sang softly of the blues in the trumpeter-flugelhornist’s band. [...]
New From Cuneiform Records
Cuneiform Records LARS HOLLMER WITH FLOURY HAND (sketches)CD+DVD RUNE 340/341 “Lars Hollmer was a Swedish composer, accordionist and keyboardist. He was a founding member of the influential “Rock in Opposition (R.I.O.)” movement. His band Samla Mammas Manna, were a huge and hugely popular force on the Swedish progressive rock / avant rock scene for about [...]
From Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries at WPRB: “SACRED BRIDGES” IV
“The fourth annual program: SACRED BRIDGES Wednesday April 4, 2012 presented during the time of important Jewish and Christian holidays, but focus is on music from multiple religious traditions rather than just two. Dr Marvin Rosen On this program of spiritual music you will hear Four Biblical Tableau by the Russian/American Composer, Aaron Avshalomov (1894-1964), [...]
From Q2 Music: “Listen Live: Dan Deacon, NOW Ensemble and Calder Quartet”
Q2 is the 24/7 New Music Stream from New York Public Radio Live from Merkin Concert Hall’s Ecstatic Music Festival 2012 “On Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30 pm ET, Q2 Music and New Sounds Live present a live audio webcast of composer and indie heavyweight Dan Deacon from Merkin Concert Hall’s Ecstatic Music Festival. Following [...]
Broadway
Critic’s Notebook: ‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ and ‘Murder Ballad’
“Peter and the Starcatcher,” a prequel to the classic Peter Pan story, and “Murder Ballad,” about a dangerous love triangle, won’t make a natural double feature, but they are siblings of sorts under their skins. NYT > Theater
‘Newsies’ Versus ‘Once,’ and Other Tony Competitions
“Death of a Salesman” and Audra McDonald are locks, but not so for other Tony Award nominees, according to the polling for an unusually competitive contest. NYT > Theater
Theater Review: ‘The Bad Guys’ by Alena Smith at McGinn/Cazale Theater
Alena Smith’s new play, “The Bad Guys,” displays an appreciation of the complicated mixture of honorable and dishonorable impulses in us (well at least those of us who are guys). NYT > Theater
Preview Audiences Help Shape Off Broadway Productions
Nowhere are previews regarded as more crucial than at Off Broadway theater companies staging new plays and musicals. NYT > Theater
Arts
Mark Your Calendar: Lincoln Center Out of Doors
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, THROUGH SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 SEE FREE CONCERTS and events this summer at the 43rd season of Lincoln Center Out of Doors. It will feature more than 100 free performances across the plazas of Lincoln Center, including Rubén Blades in concert, Festival au Désert: Caravan for Peace, Roots of American Music and more. [...]
Opening: "A Beautiful Way to Go"
WEDNESDAY, MAY 15 Discover the historical, architectural and cultural significance of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery at A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO GO. The exhibition will include information about some of the people buried there, including Leonard Bernstein, William “Boss” Tweed and Jean-Michael Basquiat. It will also feature artifacts, sculptures and paintings. The exhibition runs through Sunday, Oct. [...]
Manhattan rents set another record
Bad news for people looking for a Manhattan apartment: Average rents in May hit an all-time high of ,438 a month, up from the previous month and from a year earlier, according to a report released Thursday by residential brokerage Citi Habitats. Average monthly rent was up 3% in May from the same time last [...]
Silicon Alley A to Z
AngelsThey are the Wall Streeters, the serial entrepreneurs and other deep pockets who are driving seed- and early-stage funding in Silicon Alley, shelling out millions to get in on the first days of the next Google or Facebook. They’re investing alongside established venture capitalists and, in some cases, drawing VCs’ ire as they push up [...]
Events
LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Spring 2013
PDF: Spring_2013_Newsletter_Update_Final.pdf Weight: -19 Image: Spring is in the air in Lower Manhattan! It’s a time for shedding any winter blues and winter clothes and stepping outside to a crisp breeze and a warming sun to enjoy a walk around the neighborhood.
Explore Lower Manhattan with Downtown Alliance’s Self-Guided Walking Tour
PDF: Walking Tour 6-2012.pdf Single date: 6/4/2012 Image: Get this summer started with the Downtown Alliance’s new, self-guided walking tour – “ The Highlights of Lower Manhattan.” This free tour is the first in a series of walking tours that will give participants a glimpse into 400 years of history and innovation. Whether you live, [...]
A Canopy as Social Cathedral
Origin: The New York Times Single date: 6/6/2012 URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/arts/design/architectural-canopy-shines-in-battery-park-city.html?_r=1 One of the best new works of architecture in New York isn’t a flashy skyscraper or museum but a fairly modest structure, an angular glass canopy over an obscure but busy pedestrian street called North End Way, in the shadow of One World Trade Center [...]
Conrad Hotel Gives Battery Park a Surge of Cool
Origin: New York Daily News Single date: 6/1/2012 URL: http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/real-estate/conrad-york-hotel-battery-park-a-surge-cool-article-1.1088170?localLinksEnabled=false The path to wow in Battery Park City is paved with green marble steps. That was the material New York-based and internationally acclaimed architects Kohn Pedersen Fox used to turn the Conrad New York hotel by Hilton Worldwide into a feast for the eyes.
Other Recent Posts
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, Writers’ Catalyst, Dies at 63
Ms. Goldmark formed a rock band with best-selling authors like Stephen King and Amy Tan. NYT > Rock Music
54 Below, a Cabaret Club for Broadway Lovers, to Open
54 Below, a new cabaret in the theater district, opens next week, aiming to be “Broadway’s living room.” NYT > Theater
LOWER MANHATTAN It All Starts Here – Summer 2012
PDF: Newsletter_Summer_2012.pdf Weight: -16 Image: When I visited the gorgeous new Conrad New York last month, I was reminded that though I have lived downtown for 30 years, I have only stayed in a Lower Manhattan hotel one night. It was November 1995, our loft had just been painted, and by 10 PM in those [...]
Broadway’s real star this theater season
Lynne Meadow’s 40-year run at MTC. Arts – Crain’s New York Business News Feed
Howie Richmond, Music Publisher, Dies at 94
Mr. Richmond, with a diverse stable of artists, was among the last of a Runyonesque breed that was long a vital if largely unheralded segment of the music business. NYT > Rock Music
