Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2015 schedule (Fiona Apple, Yo La Tengo, Lee Ranaldo, members of Nickel Creek, more)
The annual Lincoln Center Out of Doors festival returns in 2015 from July 22-August 9 with free outdoor concerts at various Lincoln Center venues. Some highlights:
On August 5 at Damrosch Park Badnshell, electric guitar quartet Dither joined by Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo and Yo La Tengo, and then by Bang on a Can All-Stars’ Mark Stewart for Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint, with experimental duo Matmos opening. Then two days later at Hearst Plaza (8/7) there’s a Denitia & Sene show, and the next night (8/8) at Damrosch Park Bandshell Watkins Family Hour will perform Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisted in full. Watkins Family Hour features Sean & Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, as well as Fiona Apple, Don Heffington, Sebastian Steinberg and special guests. Justin Townes Earle opens that show.
There’s also ex-Kraftwerk member Wolfgang Flür performing under his MusikSoldat moniker on July 23 at Damrosch Park Bandshell as a special guest with Botsich + Fussible, whose album Motel Baja he appears on. Country veteran Lyle Lovett plays Damrosch Park Bandshell on August 9, Randy Newman plays there on July 25, and Afropunk presents a showcase there on July 31 with Vintage Trouble, Lion Babe, The Skins and a screening of The Triptych: Wangechi Mutu. Later that same night, Rocky Horror Picture Show screens “silent” (audience will hear the sound via wireless headphones) at the same venue.
For more info on these free, all ages shows, head to the festival’s website. Full schedule below…
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 22
7:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Muscle Shoals All-Star Band with David Hood and Jimmy Johnson of the Swampers plus
Muscle Shoals Horns, and special guest singers tba
Donnie Fritts and John Paul White
THURSDAY, JULY 23
7:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible
With special guest Wolfgang Flür/MusikSoldat (ex-Kraftwerk)
Jungle Fire
FRIDAY, JULY 24
7 PM – HEARST PLAZA
Gaby Moreno
7:30 PM – Damrosch Park Bandshell
Dorrance Dance: “The Blues Project Revisited” with Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
SATURDAY, JULY 25
FAMILY DAY
10 AM – JAFFE DRIVE / TOLL PORTE-COCHÈRE
Baby Loves Disco – A Family Dance Party
11 AM – JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA
Lil Buck
12 PM, 5 PM, 5:30 PM, 6 PM – JAFFE DRIVE / TOLL PORTE-COCHÈRE
Bridgman|Packer Dance: Truck
3 PM – JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA
Joyous Quartet
3:30 PM – JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA
Heidi Latsky Dance
4 PM – JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA
National Dance Day
SATURDAY, JULY 25 – EVENING
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Randy Newman
Wycliffe Gordon and His International All Stars
Lil Buck
SUNDAY, JULY 26
3 PM – HEARST PLAZA
Chinese American Arts Council Dancers: From Chinatown with Love
4 PM, 4:30 PM, 5 PM, 5:30 PM, 6 PM – JAFFE DRIVE / TOLL PORTE-COCHÈRE
Bridgman|Packer Dance: Truck
WEDNESDAY, July 29
4:30 PM – BRUNO WALTER AUDITORIUM, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Letieres Leite, Arturo O’Farrill, and Steven Bernstein
Lecture and Demonstration
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
The Mavericks
Orkesta Mendoza
THURSDAY, JULY 30
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz (U.S. Debut) with special guests Arturo O’Farrill and
Steven Bernstein
Cyro Baptista’s Banquet of the Spirits
Forró in the Dark plays John Zorn
FRIDAY, JULY 31
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
AFROPUNK @ Lincoln Center
Featuring: Vintage Trouble, LION BABE, The Skins
AFROPUNK presents The Triptych: Wangechi Mutu
7 PM – HEARST PLAZA
Chargaux
11:45 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
“Silent” Movie: Rocky Horror Picture Show
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
A Celebration of the Life of Geoffrey Holder
1 PM – ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER – AMPHITHEATER
Panel discussion: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Holder, speakers TBD
2 PM – ELINOR BUNIN MUNROE FILM CENTER – AMPHITHEATER
Carmen and Geoffrey, 2006, 79 Minutes
7:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Garth Fagan Dance
Related Event – Exhibition
JULY 23 – AUGUST 29, 2015 – THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS,
DOROTHY AND LEWIS B. CULLMAN CENTER, PLAZA CORRIDOR GALLERY
The Genius of Geoffrey Holder
SATURDAY, AUGUST 1
12:00 PM – HEARST PLAZA
La Casita
La Casita Spoken Word lineup:
Mardonio Carballo & Juan Pablo Villa, DarkMatter – Alok & Janani, Camonghne Felix, Luis H. Francia, Magdalena Gómez, Roberta J. Hill, Ayisha Knight-Shaw, Aja Monet, Roanna Shebala
La Casita’s Music lineup:
Legacy Women led by Manuela, Los Hacheros, Nkumu Katalay & Life Long Project, Nano Stern, Vlada Tomova’s Bulgarian Voices Trio
SUNDAY, AUGUST 2
1 PM – HEARST PLAZA
Heritage Sunday
Opening Doors: Celebrating Immigrant New York
2 PM – TEATRO PREGONES, 571 WALTON AVENE, BRONX NY 10451
La Casita (See Saturday, August 1 for lineup.)
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Ache: Lavagem da Rua
Featuring: Gilson Menezes Santos Dorea (Tatau do Araketu), Alexandre Cortes de Barros, and a section of Baianas, Members of the Afoxe of Filhas de Gandhy and Drummers from Brazil; Something Positive from Trinidad; Legacy Circle from the Dominican Republic;
Ashe Dance from Haiti; Amma McKen; and Grupo Oriefun from Cuba.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5
7:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Full Band Electric Counterpoint + Dither and friends, featuring Lee Ranaldo, Yo La Tengo, and
Mark Stewart
Matmos
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
We Like It Like That! A Boogaloo Celebration
Joe Bataan with special guests
Ray Lugo and the Boogaloo Destroyers with special guest Richie Ray
ABAKUÁ Afro-Latin Dance Company
DJ Turmix
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7
7 PM – HEARST PLAZA
denitia and sene.
7:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Rock My Soul: featuring The Fairfield Four and The McCrary Sisters
Junior Mambazo
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8
Roots of American Music
Americanafest NYC
2 PM – HEARST PLAZA
The Quebe Sisters
Sam Outlaw
6:30 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited performed in its entirety by house band Watkins Family Hour and
very special guests
“Watkins Family Hour” featuring Sean Watkins & Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek, Fiona Apple,
Don Heffington, Sebastian Steinberg, and special guests
Justin Townes Earle
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9
Roots of American Music
Americanafest NYC
7 PM – DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
An Evening with Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
