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Posted in music on January 20, 2011

Ecstatic Music Festival continues (Dan Deacon is sold out)

Buke & Gass and Victoire @ Merkin Concert Hall - 1/17/11 (by David Andrako)
Victoire

For the dozens of artists who participated in the opening marathon concert of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday, the event was less a defining breakthrough moment than the establishment -- temporary or not -- of an uptown beachhead for a flourishing alliance normally encountered in downtown and Brooklyn spaces like Le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, Issue Project Room and Joe's Pub.

The notion of a mission seemed too heavy for the feel of this sprawling showcase, which was meant to run for seven hours and consumed nearly eight. If there was a core statement, it could have been -- to twist slightly the title of a song by Sarah Kirkland Snider, a gifted composer to be featured in a later festival event -- "This is what we're like." [NY Times]

"The Chiara String Quartet and the Music of Nico Muhly & Valgeir Sigurdsson" happened last night (1/19), and the Ecstatic Music Festival continues tonight with a now-sold out Dan Deacon & So Percussion show. Some videos from previous shows below..

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Nadia Sirota w/ Nico Muhly - Keep in Touch - Ecstatic Music Festival

Ecstatic Music Festival - Ashley Bathgate plays Velvet

buke & gass (& victoire); bundletuck.

buke & gass; red hood came home.

buke & gass (& victoire); immoral but just fine, okay.

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Tags: Buke and Gass, Dan Deacon, Ecstatic Music Festival, Merkin Concert Hall, Nadia Sirota, Nico Muhly, Victoire
posted at 5:16 PM on January 20, 2011 in music | Comments (0)

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