Damrosch Park

words & , additional I go to a lot of amazing shows, but it’s rare to go to a show in New York where the audience makes the show better. Midsummer Night Swing has a built in crowd of people who love to dance in a know-the-steps kind of way, and the energy that creates is so infectious…

Lincoln Center Damrosch Park bandshell – August 2008 (miro.m)This year’s Lincoln Center Out of Doors (LCOOD), three weeks of FREE music and dance on the plazas of Lincoln Center, will run from August 5 through August 23…

Gétatchèw Mèkurya with The Ex @ Damrosch Park, 8/20/08 More pics from last night’s show below…..

Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (2008) for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) (World Premiere) Commissioned by Lincoln Center for Lincoln Center Out of Doors Next, composer Rhys Chatham and section leaders John King, Ned Sublette, David Daniell, and Seth Olinsky (Akron/Family) lead an oversized orchestra of 200 volunteer guitarists and electric bassists in the world premiere of A Crimson Grail for 200 Electric Guitars (Outdoor Version) performed not on the Bandshell stage but along the sides of the audience at Damrosch Park, to heighten the work’s polyphonic effect…

Check out Lincoln Center’s website for this year’s Midsummer Night Swing schedule. Running through July 26th, this year’s free shows that take place in Damrosch Park include ‘A Loser’s Lounge Night at the Disco’, The Budos Band, Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar, Spanish Harlem Orchestra and tonight’s show (July 9) which is Chuck Brown…