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Music Frees All Festival coming to various NYC venues this weekend w/ Antibalas, Stepkids, Prince Paul & more (win tix!)

Antibalas at Capitol Theatre in 2012 (more by Greg Cristman)
Antibalas

Music Frees All Festival returns to various NYC venues this weekend (7/17-21) including Bowery Electric, Rockwood Music Hall, and The Bell House. The main event of the festival happens on Saturday (7/20) at the Bell House with Antibalas, The Stepkids, Pegasus Warning, and DJ Prince Paul. Tickets for that individual show are on sale now, as are tickets for the entire festival. Proceeds will go to help producer Scotty Hard (De La Soul, Black Sheep, etc) who, in 2008, was paralyzed from the chest down after a stolen car broadsided the taxi he was in. If you’d like to go for free, we’re also giving away a free festival pass. Details on how to enter to win are below.

Other artists playing this weekend include Xenia Rubinos, Cuddle Magic, EMEFE, Chicha Libre, Zongo Junction and more. Full lineup and flyer below…

Music Frees All

Music Frees All Festival — 2013 Lineup

Friday, July 19, 2013
BOWERY ELECTRIC

Chicha Libre
Mokaad
Smoota
People’s Champs
La Mecanica Popular
Nikhil P. Yerawadekar & Low Mentality
Bailen Brothers
BAM

ROCKWOOD MUSIC HALL AFTERPARTY

EMEFE
Cuddle Magic

Saturday, July 20, 2013

THE BELL HOUSE

Antibalas
The Stepkids
Pegasus Warning
DJ Prince Paul

Sunday, July 21, 2013

HOSTELLING INTERNATIONAL NY

Outdoor day party with food, drink, art, dance

Featured bands:

No Mirrors Orchestra (20+ piece Afro-Rock Exploration)
Zongo Junction
Xenia Rubinos
Super Hi-Fi
Gabriel Garzon-Montano
Karikatura
The EMEFE Horns
Nickel and Dime OPS

and more to be announced.

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For a chance at winning tickets to Music Frees All Festival: either tweet something that includes both @BrooklynVegan AND “MFA Fest” in the tweet, or send an email to [email protected] with the subject line “MFA Fest”. Include your first and last name in the email. We’ll pick a winner at random and contact them with more details. If you enter by email, it will not be shared with anyone else. Good luck!