According to The Brooklyn Paper, The Pool Parties have been saved for the final Sunday. There has been an agreement made between OSA and Jelly about Jelly’s outstanding debt. It turns out Jelly had never missed any payments and the outstanding amount owed by Jelly were “overage charges. “
Monday, August 23, 2010 7:00 PM
MLK Jr. Concert Series
Wingate Field, Brooklyn
Entrances on Brooklyn Avenue (Rutland Road and Winthrop Street.)
Dancehall and hip hop superstar Sean Paul is a New York favorite. After releasing a string of hits in his native Jamaica, he broke onto the U.S. scene with 1999’s “Here Comes the Boom,” which was featured on the soundtrack to the motion picture Belly, and “Hot Gal Today,” which broke the Top Ten on Billboard’s rap charts.
The Mighty Sparrow (a.k.a. Dr. Slinger Francisco) is affectionately known as the Calypso King of the World. He possesses the unique ability not only to put into words and tempo the exploits of society, but to crown it all with showmanship and appeal.
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Sunday, August 22, 2010 2:00 PM
The Pool Parties
90 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY
Rockin’ the park today:
Chromeo
The Suzan
Telephoned
Kid Sister
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Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:00 PM
Seaside Concert Series
Asser Levy Park, Brooklyn
It has been said that the B-52s are as quintessentially American as the Beach Boys. And twenty-five years and over twenty million albums into their career, the B-52s remain the among the most beloved rock stars ever. Any mystery concerning the longevity and ongoing appeal of the B-52s is immediately solved when exposed to the B-52s unique concert experience.
From the timeless gems of “Rock Lobster,” “Planet Claire” and “Private Idaho” to the more recent classics of “Channel Z,” “Love Shack” and “Roam”, the B-52s unforgettable
dance-rock tunes start a party every time the music begins. Formed on an October night in 1976 following drinks at an Athens, GA, Chinese restaurant, the band played their first gig at a friend’s house on Valentine’s Day 1977.
Naming themselves after Southern slang for exaggerated ‘bouffant” hairdos, the newly-christened B-52s (Fred Schneider, Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson and Ricky Wilson) began weekend road trips to New York City for gigs at CBGB’s and a handful of other venues.
Before long, their thrift store aesthetic and genre-defying songs were the talk of the post-punk underground. A record deal soon followed and their self-titled debut disc, produced by Chris Blackwell, sold more than 500,000 copies on the strength of their first singles, the garage rock party classic “Rock Lobster,” and “52 Girls.”
The B-52s began to attract fans far beyond the punk clubs of the Lower East Side–galvanizing the pop world with their ’stream-of-consciousness’ approach to songwriting and outrageous performance. They had clearly tapped into a growing audience for new music that was much larger than anyone could have anticipated.
“We always appealed to people outside the mainstream,” says Kate Pierson, “and I think more people feel they’re outside the mainstream these days.”
Hollywood native Belinda Carlisle was and occasionally still is the lead vocalist for the pop rock band The Go-Go’s and is also a phenomenally successful solo artist.
After the initial breakup of The Go-Go’s in 1985, Belinda embarked on a solo career resulting in six internationally successful albums and the chart-topping hit “Heaven is a Place on Earth.” The video for that song was directed by Diane Keaton and included an appearance by Belinda’s husband Morgan Mason, son of actor James Mason. Belinda’s TV appearances include Celebrity Duets, the MTV competition reality show Rock the Cradle and the eighth season of Dancing with the Stars. Her autobiography, Lips Unsealed: A Memoir, was released in June of 2010.
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Monday, August 16, 2010 7:00 PM
MLK Jr. Concert Series
Wingate Field, Brooklyn
Entrances on Brooklyn Avenue (Rutland Road and Winthrop Street.)
The brother-sister duo of Bebe and Cece Winans carries a great lineage as members of the gospel dynasty The Winans. They have had individual success, but nothing compares to the magic that is sparked by their musical union.
After six studio-recorded projects, their accomplishments included more than five million records worldwide, five Grammy Awards, eight Dove Awards, two NAACP Image Awards, a Soul Train Music Award and more than 12 Stellar Awards.
On their own, they have also been successful. CeCe earned several Grammys, released eight
CDs and became the first African- American woman to receive a Dove Award for best female vocalist.
BeBe earned numerous awards, penned hits for other artists and released six solo projects. He also honed his acting skills, co-starring in the Broadway play The Color Purple and serving as one of the judges of BET’s Sunday Best. Their 2009 album Still is, says Bebe, “Still BeBe and CeCe, still what we believe, still about God’s love, still about the music and not the madness,” he said. “It really says it all in that one word–still.”
The duo recently suffered two tremendous losses–brother Ronald in 2005 and patriarch David “Pop” in 2009. These trials contributed to the strengthening of their faith. Still reached #1 on Billboard’s Gospel chart and #2 on its R&B chart.
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For more than 21 years, gospel listeners around the world have known Fred Hammond as a talented songwriter, bassist and vocalist.
His work with Face to Face Productions Corporation, of which he is both founder and CEO, has earned him the title “The Babyface of Gospel.”
As a solo artist and member of the pioneering urban group Commissioned, he has sold nearly 2 million albums. Since retiring from that group in 1995, his work with Radical for Christ has made him a mainstay on the Billboard Gospel Chart top 10.
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Sunday August 15, 2010 2:00 PM
The Pool Parties
90 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY
Today on stage:
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Lee Fields and the Expressions
The Strange Boys
Future Islands
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Saturday, August 14, 2010 2:00 PM
Rock Yard
354 Wythe Ave
Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Who’s rockin’ the Rock Yard today:
Chief
Frankie & The Outs
Minks
Total Slacker
Coasting
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Sunday August 8, 2010 2:00 PM
The Pool Parties
90 Kent Ave Brooklyn, NY
Today’s line-up:
Cut Copy
Memory Tapes
Restless People
Glasser
