This week’s edition of WNET’s This Week at Lincoln Center features Lincoln Center Out of Doors. The 2011 season will begin with over 100 free performances in the plaza, including some from Billy Bragg and Mavis Staples.
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There are so many things about this description of The Relatives (@LCOutofDoors 7/31) that make me laugh. Let’s just say that they are just about the funkiest gospel band you’ll see all year. Breakout hits at the Ponderosa Stomp and SXSW (where the Funk Brothers guitar shredder Dennis Coffey joined on guitar), their show at Out of Doors will be their long-awaited NY debut. When I say don’t miss it, in this case, it’s not just hype.
On July 31st as a part of Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Mavis Staples is joined by psychodelic gospel funk legends The Relatives, making their much-belated New York debut. Always the innovators, here they are rapping before it was a thing in 1974.
"A turkey is a funny bird. Wabble, wabble, wabble! And all he knows is just one word. Gobble, gobble, gobble!"
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The first song that Mavis Staples learned.
This whole interview is utterly delightful. Staples will be appearing at Lincoln Center Out of Doors on July 31. We’ll be thrilled to see her even if she doesn’t do any poultry-themed songs.
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If on you’re way out of the subway in late July you happen to notice a busker that looks a helluva lot like Billy Bragg surrounded by an army of other guitar-weilding maniacs, don’t be alarmed. The spectacle is just the opening act for the two+ week Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, which will feature shows with Mavis Staples (as discussed), “Laurie Anderson and Friends”, Bettye LaVette, a girl-group heavy Ponderosa Stomp, the 28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival, The Bar-Kays, and many, many others at the Damrosch Park Bandshell and other Manhattan locations from July 27th until its close on August 14th. The full schedule is below.
Billy Bragg leading The Big Busk in the UK
The Big Busk is the first performance scheduled (and it happens twice on July 27th), and will see Bragg leading a play-along concert flanked by an army of cue-cards detailing what chords he is playing. Check out a video from a 2008 ‘Big Busk’ that took place in England, below.
Billy Bragg will also make up his cancelled dates from earlier this year around that 7/27 appearance. He’ll play City Winery in NYC on 7/26 (tickets), 7/28 (tickets) and 7/29(tickets).
www.LCoutofdoors.org for the complete lineup.
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