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MMNY Deadline: 975 performers and 410 locations have already signed up to participate in Make Music New York 2014.
Of special interest to the Williamsburg strang ‘n twang beardo crew: This year, MMNY is taking over Governors Island for PORCH STOMP, a celebration of American Music featuring artists from the bluegrass, old-time, folk and roots communities across New York
You have until midnight tomorrow – Tuesday April 29 – to join the June 21 musical festivities. Signup is here.
Staff from a number of bars and restaurants in North Brooklyn will compete in oyster-shucking, cocktail-crafting, and ladies’ arm-wrestling categories Tuesday night.
Brooklyn Allied Bars and Restaurants (BABAR) is hosting a fundraiser to benefit North Brooklyn nonprofit Neighbors Allied for Good Growth (NAG). Come cheer on your favorite bar as they compete for bragging rights in the North Brooklyn Oyster Shucking Championship, including a best cocktail contest, and a cocktail/oyster pairing.
Music by DJ Oystar! Lady arm wrestlers! Participating bars and restaurants include Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn Star, Brooklyn Winery, Cherry Izakaya, Counting Room, Dram, Extra Fancy, Glasslands, Grand Ferry, Greenpoint Fish & Lobster Co, Hotel Delmano, Kinfolk Studios, Lighthouse, Maison Premiere, Nita Nita, Randolph Brooklyn, Rosarito Fish Shack, The Richardson, Soft Spot, Teddy’s Bar & Grill, The Woods and Union Pool.
Pianist and Composer Paul Morin and Violinist and Composer Patrisa Tomassini will be performing Beethoven’s Spring Sonata and Piazzolla’s Spring from the Four Seasons. Tonight at 8pm, $10
The Firehouse Space 246 Frost
Brooklyn Night Bazaar tonight: indie popsters Oberhofer, A Great Big Pile of Leaves, Katrina Ford (of Celebration)’s new band Mt. Royal, and more. Admission is free.
“A fluid, insistent guitar style that’s disco at moments and flanged at others, plus a magnetic, over-enunciating frontman? Yes, that’s Nashville’s Sol Cat, a weirdly thrilling smash-up of first-album Franz Ferdinand and fake-tamed Anthony Kiedis.” — Raymond Cummings for The Village Voice
8 pm, tickets $10-12 @ Cameo
Midnight screenings: Spend the savage weekend with Nitehawk’s Live Sound Cinema presentation of “Fantastic Planet,” featuring a live score by Morricone Youth.
“Knowledge is power in an alien world of “Fantastic Planet” (aka “La Planète savage”) where the oppressed Oms/humans rebel from their overseers, the Triages. See more at: Fantastic Planet @ Nitehawk.
Live accompaniment by Morricone Youth, the venerated New York City band dedicated to performing and recording old film and television soundtrack and library production music.
“Domesticity” at The Picture Show: kids, tea kettles, Super 8, ghosts! First day of three-day micro-festival—formed around an open call for works on the subject of domesticity.
Tonight at 7:30pm, $5
The Picture Show
226 Green Street, Greenpoint
The Loaded Canon at Brooklyn Oenology. Hear the latest works-in-progress from the city’s rising generation of writers while savoring drinks specially prepared by Brooklyn Oenology, with live music by local band Jackpot, Tiger! Hosted by Nathaniel Kressen, author of Concrete Fever, and co-founder of Second Skin Books.