Make Music New York, in conjunction with music festivals around the world, takes place all over NYC—and 186 bands and musicians will be performing in Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bushwick alone! Complete TimeOut listings here, and Greenpoint, Williamsburg, Bushwick listings after the jump.
Now in its third year, Make Music New York, “the largest music event ever to grace Gotham” (Metro New York), is a unique festival of free concerts in public spaces throughout the five boroughs of New York City, all on Sunday, June 21st, the first day of summer. MMNY takes place simultaneously with similar festivities in more than 327 cities around the world — a global celebration of music making.
From 11 in the morning to 10 at night, musicians of all ages, creeds, and musical persuasions — from hip hop to opera, Latin jazz to punk rock — perform on streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, cemeteries, parks and gardens. From high school bands to marquee names, MMNY is open to anyone who wants to take part, enjoyed by everyone who wants to attend.
Along with the hundreds of individual concerts, MMNY will introduce a new project this year called “Mass Appeal,” where hundreds of musicians band together to perform massive pieces written for a single type of instrument.
MMNY is also celebrating Jazzmobile’s 45th anniversary this year with a special series of jazz events in each borough: check back for more details.
MMNY website: www.makemusicny.org
COMPLETE LISTINGS: NORTH BROOKLYN
Bushwick
Bushwick Music Studios (286 Scholes St)
12:15 Yoko Oh, No! psych-experimental noise 1:00 Blanket Statementstein sweet & loud eight-piece rock 1:45 Burden of Man brutally honest indie 2:30 I’m Turning Into multi-instrumentalist indie 3:15 Appomattox high energy, semi-spastic 4:00 Renminbi “Tense riot-grrrl-informed indie” 4:45 Behind The Façade young rockers 5:30 Seeking Through Silence indie pop-rock 6:15 Governours acoustic folk 7:00 Bot bass & drums 7:45 The Adrianna Outfit percussive singer/songwriter 8:30 The Bright Room a neighborhood band 9:15 U Say USA psychedelic pop punk 10:00 The Tryptics indie rock 10:30 open jam
Cafe Orwell (247 Varet St)
11:00 AM AC Haley’s Effervescent Hour cabaret on bass guitar 2:00 GunFight! rowdy “post-country” 3:15 Chantilly “roller coaster vocals” 4:30 Dracula Driveway punky drum & guitar 5:30 Little Bear & The Bad Touch two drummers, one bass 6:30 butterflymonkey electronic pop
C-Town Food Store (72-80 Wykoff Ave)
3:00 Majuscules spaced-out rock 4:00 Parachuting avant jazz 5:00 Alex Greiner whimsical avant-folk 6:00 The Wendels reggae punk “turns placid hipsters into galvanized dancing feet”
Duckduck Bar (153 Montrose Ave)
2:00 Matthew Varvil theatrical noise-rock 3:00 Of Hounds indie rock 4:00 Roadside Graves “7-piece band dancing a country waltz in perfect step” 5:00 The New Lines melodramatic brum-pop 6:00 Fan-Tan electro-rock 7:00 Last Year’s Model cyber punk sugar pop
Flushing Farms (965 Flushing Ave)
1:30 The Darkloft Consortium modern jazz – bring your instrument & sit in! 4:00 The Wendels reggae punk 5:00 I’m Turning Into multi-instrumentalist indie 6:00 The Library is on Fire “the only rock band left” 7:00 Inoculist psychedelic Americana
Goodbye Blue Monday (1087 B’way)
2:00 The French Exit dirty blues & cinematic, free-form sonic collages 2:45 Graffiti Monsters 8-bit/punk band with two gameboys 3:30 Jonathan Houghton hummable folk-pop 4:00 Swimclub modern mod-rock 5:00 Maybe the Welders danceable rock 6:00 K-man’s Crew Latin jazz 6:45 Blues Control piano, guitar & tapes 7:30 Nervous Breakdown hardcore/punk 8:00 Whatever Gets You Through the Night multi-instrumental dance music 8:45 orangetree driving instrumental rock 9:30 Cinema, Cinema atmospheric, freak-out punk 10:15 Buffie Gilbert smoldering, bluesy 11:00pm Marionettes of Satan theatrical noise-rock
M&I Int’l Food (66B Eldert St)
Shows at 3:00, 4:00 & 5:00 CoCo Nation reggae, R&B, salsa, hip hop
Maria Hernandez Park (Knickerbocker Ave & Starr St)
Hosted with Bushwickbk.com. 4:00 Thought “Salt & Sugar Dance Party” 4:45 The Gypsy West psychedelic rock 5:30 Ava Luna post-punk drum-&-synth-bass with gospel backup singers 6:30 Ledo y la Vaina Spanish pop 7:15 Pass Kontrol rock n’ roll workout party.
Northeast Kingdom (18 Wyckoff Ave)
12:00 Lady Magma violent & beautiful 1:00 Vulture Realty youthful indie 2:00 Red Romans “a basement filled with instruments” 3:00 A/D underground rock 4:00 Bonnie Baxter electro-rock duo 5:00 Pass Kontrol rock n’ roll workout party 6:00 Bad Credit No Credit rock band with woodwinds
Woodbine St Block Assoc. Garden (146 Woodbine St)
2:00 Seabeast bicycle-powered indie rock 4:00 Lina Villegas Latin & bossa originals
Greenpoint
136 Milton St
12:30 The Havens all-girl honky tonk 1:00 Craig Chin odd pop 2:30 Ranarex dark, Central & S. American rock
Automotive HS (50 Bedford Ave)
2:00 ensembles from the school
Bar Matchless (557 Manhattan Ave)
2:00 Ivan & the Terribles Radiohead-inspired 2:45 The Courtesy Tier rock with melodic blues 3:30 Great Elk Americana 4:15 Lowry vivid indie story-telling 5:00 Jessi Robertson Band alt-country vocals with electronic drums 5:45 Casey Shea Band wry lyrics & perfect songcraft 6:30 Matt Singer “Fear of a Black Planet meets A Prairie Home Companion.” 7:15 Dinosaur Feathers tropical indie pop 8:00 Chris Cubeta & the Liars Club upbeat, catchy 8:45 Willie Breeding Band updated country/folk
Brouwerij Lane (78 Greenpoint Ave)
3:00 Gypsy West psychedelic rock 4:00 Eula loud guitar riffs & rapid bass 5:00 Beluga aggressive garage punk 7:00 Athenia Henderson Caribbean fusion
Church of St. Anthony (800 Manhattan Ave)
2:45 Kaleidoscope of Polish Songs 6 singers from the Polish Theatre Institute, with sets & costumes
Fr. Popieluszko (780 Lorimer St)
4:00 John Hovorka guitar & vocals
Greenpoint Furniture (820 Manhattan Ave)
1:00 William Beaufort original songs, with banjo
Kill Devil Hill (170 Franklin St)
1:00 Nicole Saxton mellow folk 2:00 John Witherow songs and classical guitar, with ukulele 3:00 Maggie Doucet swampy folk, Gypsy soul 4:00 Stephen Clair alt-country troubadour 5:30 Lindsay Steiner feminine folk
McCarren Park (Lorimer St & Driggs Ave)
At the Vincent V. Abate Playground: 1:00 Carlene Graham + DJ Fattzz a range of electronic & soul 1:00 Love Space Music “Afro-ecstatic” dance 2:00 Lauren Chapman “true believer of soul music” 3:00 Earthman Experience + Hard Hittin’ Harry vocalist Richard “Earthman” Laurent joins the former DJ for The Fugees 4:00 Jihad Muhammad “prince of the underground dance music scene”
At the Flagpole Lawn & Plaza: 1:00 Any Day Parade country, “the echo of love gone wrong” 4:00 Seamonsters indie psychedelic 5:00 The Telephones rock quartet 6:00 pow wow! one of L Magazine’s “8 NYC Bands You Have to Hear” 7:00 LEILOLAI hot vocals, electronics without computers
McGolrick Park (Driggs Ave & Russell St)
4:00 Justice of the Unicorns “Neil Young meets the Flaming Lips”
Schmook’s Pizza (86 Nassau Ave)
2:00 – 9:00 Cold Hands Collective live hip hop
Williamsburg (North to South)
PeachFrog (136 N 10th)
2:00 LIBEL shoegaze, post-punk rhythms, 70s glam 4:00 The White Noise Supremacists socially conscious alt rock 6:00 Hoodless smart hooks
Bedford Ave & N 9th
3:00 Violet Hour “The Beatles meet The Clash” 4:00 Chris David singer-songwriter 5:00 Moto:Rosa pop melody & artful dissonance 7:00 Violet Hour
Buffalo Exchange (504 Driggs Ave)
12:00 A-Don Producer, mix-master, rapper 3:00 Ecotone Refugees stoner rock, “enough hooks to catch a school of fish” 4:30 Vulture Realty indie house party 6:00 The Ravages melodic pop-punk
Supreme Trading (213 N 8th)
1:00 Warper Party electronic musicians & DJs from the Warper collective 3:00 Greything beatbox freakout waltz music 3:45 Prez Powerz Mega Chip-Hop 4:30 In The Loop guitar looping & laptop remixing 5:15 HeavyW8bit ChampionChip as if your computer wrote dance music 6:00 FreeBassBK live basses & laptop dance multi-tracking 6:45 !include audio nonsensea 7:30 Vanessa Boyd & Co trance Americana 8:15 Monsters of Motocross face shredding, ear splitting, with visuals 9:00 FriendsMens electronic art-rock collective
Fada Restaurant (530 Driggs Ave)
1:00 Blue Vipers of Brooklyn early jazz, homemade washboard percussion 1:00 Stephane Wrembel Django-influenced Gypsy jazz 6:00 Bad Girlfriend Band soul vocals over distorted rock 6:00 Eliane a force on the NYC Latin jazz scene
Spike Hill Bar & Restaurant (184 Bedford Ave)
3:45 Tanjents tangled guitars, funky bass, male/female vocals 6:45 GunFight! rowdy “post-country”
Macri Square (Metropolitan Ave & Union Ave)
5:00 Teletextile Surreal songs, blurry guitar, steadfast drums
Public Assembly (70 N 6th)
All day Brooklyn country, female drummers, performers TBD
Northside Deli (200 Bedford Ave)
3:00 The Library is on Fire “the only rock band left” 4:00 ¡Cowgirl! complicated, nerdy, progressive rock 5:00 Frequency Core “livetronic” instruments & vocals, electronic bass & beats
Lovin Cup Cafe (93 N 6th)
1:00 Paul Tabachneck & the Awkward Situation Elvis Costello-esque 2:00 Maya Solovéy songs in English, Portuguese, & Spanish 4:00 Scandinavian Halfbreeds Gypsy music, Dixieland, ragtime
Cyn Lounge (216 Bedford Ave)
4:30 Daniel Harris “sound environments” & experimental pop 5:00 Kris Kelly singer-songwriter 5:45 The Alan Cohen Experience 6:30 Avi Wisnia bossa nova with a singular sound 7:30 Kagero melting pot of tonalities & rhythms 8:30 Ippazzi spoken word meets rock & roll
Grand St Community Band Block Party (N 5th & Bedford)
4:00 Grand Street Community Band all-volunteer ensemble of 40 woodwind, brass, & percussion: “the largest classical music organization in North Brooklyn.”
Zebulon Cafe Concert (258 Wythe St)
4:00 Himalayas marching band with saxophonist Jonathon Haffner, percussionist Jennifer Harris & bass drummer Kenny Wollesen
Mast Brothers Chocolate Factory (105A N 3rd)
2:00 Frankenpine bluegrass-influenced acoustic
Front Room Gallery (147 Roebling St)
4:00 Johnson Administration king of the mash-up DJs 4:00 Noise Floor Music Roy Vanegas’s ambient textures, noise-infused rhythms 5:00 The Specialness “distortions of the aural planes” 6:00 Radio Ruido Tom Mulligan’s composed installations & improvised situations 7:00 Rubaiyats of the Cicadas cross-pollinates aural idioms 8:00 Tamara Yadao performance artist 8:30 Dan Jones beer-fueled improvisation 9:30 Tom Ritchford known for his work with the MIDI wind instrument
Secret Project Robot Art Space (47 Metropolitan Ave)
Robot Death Cult experimental noise at the art center on the Brooklyn waterfront
Grand Ferry Park (Grand St & River St)
5:00 In Cadeo “kick-you-in-the balls/face/balls indie rock” 6:00 Ron Jackson’s “Flubby Dubby” established jazz guitarist 7:00 Ellis Ashbrook “Swim in a pool of aquatic delays” 8:00 Maya Solovéy Songs in English, Portuguese, & Spanish
Sodafine (119 Grand St)
4:00 Kocho-bi-Sexual a boy, a girl, a Hammond console organ, a Roland Space Echo 5:00 Hard Nips sex, sushi, rock & roll 6:00 Red Dawn II hardcore punk party
507 Bar & Grill (507 Grand St)
1:00 Shanna Zell passionate, aggressive vocals 1:00 Frances Elizee soulful & playful 3:00 Dangerous Muzic uplifting & relevant hip hop/Soul 7:00 If But When catchy Bronx pop/rock 8:00 Tommie James intelligent hip hop 9:00 Kalae All Day neo-soul artist has been “singing since the womb”
La Superior (295 Berry St)
6:00 WTNR Radio DJs spin myriad genres
Latitude Zero (82 S 4th)
1:00 Bloco Quimbombó energetic, irreverent Carnaval music & dance
TIME’S UP! (99 S 6th)
3:00 Blanket Statementstein sweet & loud electro-rock, by founding members of Antibalas
Bedford Ave Parade
4:00 Oxygen Mobile Unit for the 3rd year, group will wander around Bedford Ave, improvising with sonic surroundings
3rd Ward (195 Morgan Ave)
3:30 The Yes Way indie 4:15 Aviation Orange synth rock quintet 5:00 Medium Cool jungle pop 6:00 Sigmund Droid alt-punk rock
Lentol Garden (Graham Ave & Bayard St)
5:00 – 9:00 Team Picnic bicycle-powered electronica
Olive St Community Garden (25 Olive St)
3:00 Ward Morford surrealist folk from the South 5:00 Nicole Saxton mellow folk Sternberg Park (Lorimer St & Montrose Ave) 3:00 Nigel Chiwaya folk rock awesomeness
1027 Grand St Rooftop
6:00 The White Noise Supremacists socially conscious alt rock 7:00 Manawi Thorn math rock by athletic men in small pants
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