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Modern Sky Fest wrapped up in Central Park w/ Cat Power, The Both, Stars & more (pics)

photos by Amanda Hatfield

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Saturday’s line-up was certainly the harsher of the two, with Sunday reserved for a snappy new Aimee Mann and Ted Leo project called The Both and the mellow indie pop of Stars. This was to be followed by Cat Power, whose performances are notoriously unpredictable thanks to Chan Marshall’s often crippling stage fright; due to Central Park curfews her set was cut to just four songs. Again, no matter how popular or how anticipated the performances of the Chinese bands scheduled to play the bill, they were all relegated to the earlier hours of the fest, their status sadly secondary despite Modern Sky’s roots in the same country. It was the first year organizers have attempted to stage the event in the US, so hopefully they’ll have learned some lessons should they decide to bring it back next season. For now, it was a fun experiment in bringing cultures together, even if this time around they seemed less yin and yang and more like oil and water. [The Village Voice]

The first-ever US edition of the Modern Sky Festival wrapped up its cross-cultural experiment on Sunday (10/5) with performances from Cat Power, Stars, and The Both (aka Aimee Mann + Ted Leo), plus Chinese artists Second Hand Rose, Tongue, Queen Sea Big Shark, Lenka and Omnipotent Youth Society. We already posted pics from Stars’ set here, and the rest of the Sunday pictures are in this post.

Check out photos from Saturday HERE. More from Sunday below…

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More Stars pics HERE.

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