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The Bridge: Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks with Catherine Russell
Avalon Jazz Band
Aurora Nealand
Stephane Wrembel
presented by the French Mission du Centenaire of WWI
the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and New York Hot Jazz Festival
Saturday, July 1, 2017 | 5PM - 10PM (FREE)
Enter Park at 5th Avenue & 69th St
Air is a music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel. Air’s critically acclaimed debut album Moon Safari was an international success in 1998. It’s follow-up, The Virgin Suicides, was the score to Sophia Coppola’s debut film of the same name. The band has since released many critically acclaimed albums including 10000 Hz Legend, Everybody Hertz, Talkie Walkie, Pocket Symphony, Love 2 and Le Voyage dans la Lune, all incorporating their innovative style of retro-futuristic electro-pop.
June 4th @ Governor’s Ball
British-born, Paris-based vocalist Ala.Ni defies categorization. All of her songs are written and produced by the artist. Ala.Ni’s voice seems to take in the cadences of musical history, and has an idiosyncratic creative approach to conveying her music, including spooky, self-produced Super 8 videos, and 19th century photo techniques.
June 19th @ Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2
June 21st @ Fête de la Musique / Central Park SummerStage
The singer/songwriter/actress Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin was born from a Nigerian father and Romanian mother and grew up in Africa and Europe. Her stage name Ayo is the Yoruba translation of the word for "joy." Ayo thrives on the live stage, her voice elevated to delectable heights of elation. With a dedication to helping educate children across the world, the artist was named a patron of UNICEF France, and has sold over one and a half million copies of her records worldwide.
June 21st @ Fête de la Musique / Central Park SummerStage
Benoit Delbecq has appeared on nearly a hundred discs. He performs solo piano and solo electronics ("MadMacs"), leads or co-leads a number of bands from duos to quintets, and is involved in many multi-disciplinary productions of theater, dance, the visual arts, and cinema.
June 14th @ Jazz Standard
Blick Bassy formed his first band in Cameroon at the age of 17. They were called The Jazz Crew and would later develop into Macase, an inventive jazz fusion group inspired by local rhythms with three singers, all singing a different Cameroonian language. It was here that Blick began to revinvigorate bassa as a language that could be used in modern music, a language that he felt the younger generations should appreciate.
July 13th @ David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Caravan Palace is a French electro-swing band based in Paris, appreciated for both their musical virtuosity and their sheer ability to deliver a ballistic good time. Having originally formed in 2005, the band’s eponymous debut album in 2008 set the tone – a rip-roaring party, bursting with fun and good humor. Their third album was released in late 2015. The band’s influences include Django Reinhardt, Lionel Hampton and Daft Punk among others.
July 7th @ Irving Plaza
July 8th @ Irving Plaza
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Chocolate Genius, Inc. started out as the alter ego of New York singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson. Based in San Fransisco Thompson began his solo career in the 1980s and made his mark on the scene with Chocolate Genius' 1998 debut album, Black Music. In the years following, Thompson scored films and theater productions and continued to record albums as Chocolate Genius on the side, including GodMusic (2001) and Black Yankee Rock (2005) Swansongs 2010 - Truth vs Beauty 2016
June 29th @ David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
It was DJing that gave Dimitri his start more than a decade ago, when the European radio station CFM hired him to mix records on the air. Because of what he describes as a lack of dance remixers in France, his career in radio with unique takes on tracks from artists like Björk, New Order, and the Brand New Heavies. Along the way he was hired by chic fashion designers like Chanel, Gaultier, and Lagerfeld to put together soundtracks for runway shows and boutiques.
June 24th @ Pier 26, Hudson River Park
Emel Mathlouthi is a songwriter, composer, guitarist, and singer who is bringing an powerful brand new sound to Tunisian music. Endowed with an outstanding voice, she evokes Joan Baez, Sister Marie Keyrouz and the Lebanese diva Fairouz. Her captivating style is lyrical, with powerful rock, oriental and trip hop influences (she’s collaborated with Adrian Thaws AKA Tricky). Emel’s first album, Kelmti Horra (My Word is Free), introduced her groundbreaking marriage of sounds steeped in Tunisia and electronic beats. On her new album Ensen, she’s merged to a style that’s even more uniquely her own, combining organic and electronic sounds to produce a record that will appeal to any lover of innovative and heartfelt music.
June 8th @ National Sawdust / Northside Festival
Fakear is Théo Le Vigoreux - an uncannily suitable name for a young producer whose energy is seemingly limitless. At 24 years old, Fakear has already taken his globally-tuned dance music across the world, playing shows from London to Tokyo, supporting Bonobo and selling out Paris’ prestigious Olympia in 2015.
June 21st @ Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn
Feist’s first album in six years reflects on secrets and shame, loneliness and tenderness, care and fatigue and is at it’s core a study on self-awareness. As the fourth full-length from the Canadian singer/songwriter, Pleasure builds off the warm naturalism of the Polaris Prize-winning artist and emerges as Feist’s most formally defiant and expansive work so far.
June 10th, 11th & 12th @ The Town Hall
Born Flora Fischbach, Fishbach is a French singer-songwriter whose style graces rock, synthpop, and chanson française. She has played at major festivals, including Transmusicales de Rennes. Discovered in France only just a year ago, Fishbach’s voice is one of surprise and sensuality, which instantly sets itself apart from the norm. Following two extraordinary singles, 2017 will see the release of her first album.
June 8th @ David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center
Glockabelle plays two Casio VL-Tones, a lyre-shaped glockenspiel with eight thimbles and sings in both French and English. After being introduced to the sound of the Casio VL-Tone by a neighbor in Paris, Cazes began blending her classical piano techniques with vintage synthesizers and analog drum machines resulting in a hyperactive mix of rhythm and tone.
June 18th @ Barbes, Brooklyn
Her is a tribute to the women who have inspired and shaped the two male performers, Victor Solf and Simon Carpentier, and a commentary on the nature of duality. Vacillating between the masculine and the feminine, their sound is both sensuous and fortified. The members are influenced by indie to soul music.
June 21st @ Fête de la Musique / Central Park SummerStage
As a member of Stereolab, Lætitia Sadier helped to champion analog synthesizers during an era when fetishism for all things digital was on the rise, the British group took cues from Krautrock, lounge music, psychedelic rock and minimalism, still managing to be one of the more progressive bands of their time. Sadier’s cool, instantly recognizable voice recalled French pop singers of the 1960s. There was an amusing irony that she was cooing anti-consumerist messages and Marxist ideology, themes she has retained in her solo work. (She was born in Paris during May, 1968, after all.) Sadier has also carried much of Stereolab’s sound into her three solo albums, and her voice is such a focal point it’s often overlooked that she is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, playing guitar, keyboards, percussion and trombone.
June 8th @ National Sawdust Factory, Northside Festival
The hip foursome from the chic Paris suburb of Versailles needed to record two albums before convincing French music fans of their talent. But, right from the start of their career, Phoenix’s upbeat mix of pop, rock and electro proved to be a big hit abroad.
June 4th @ Governor’s Ball
Ever since the 20th century turned into the 21st, singer-songwriter and guitarist Raul Midón has earned renown as one of music’s most distinctive and searching voices – “a one-man band… who is spiritually connected,” according to The New York Times, The son of an Argentine folk dancer, Midon was born in New Mexico. When he was four, his father began playing drums for Midon, instilling in him a passion for music. He began his career supporting other Latin superstars such as Shakira and Julio Iglesias, eventually abandoning back-up work to focus on his solo career in early 2000s. Midon's music mixes an incredible variety of genres, blending flamenco, jazz, R&B and soul. His talent on a wide variety of instruments and vocal agility have led him to become a venerated musician, touring all over the world with his dynamic solo act
June 2nd and 3rd @ The Iridium Jazz Club
Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, Allen has long been acknowledged as Africa’s finest kit drummer and one of it’s most influential musicians, the man who with Fela Anikulapo Kuti created Afrobeat – the hard driving, James Brown funk-infused, and politically engaged style which became such a dominant force in African music and whose influence continues to spread today.
July 5th @ Le Poisson Rouge
Wrembel, who has been called “a revelation” by Rolling Stone and who composed the music for Woody Allen’s last two films will be joined by Kamlo (Nantes, France) who interprets Django via the Mediterranean, and Flamenco and Gypsy swing-style guitar master Alfonso Ponticelli (Chicago).
June 18th @ Barbes, Brooklyn
July 1st @ Central Park SummerStage
TRIO SR9 present their creative vision of contemporary percussion.The trio, made up of Paul Changarnier, and Alexandre Nicolas Cousin Esperet, was formed in 2010 at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon, and has since performed on many stages in France and internationally. In this Bach on the Marimba program, the group will offer harmonies born from the merger of the three marimbas evocative of infinite possibilities
June 3rd @ St Peter’s Church
Wax Tailor (whose given name is Jean-Christophe Le Saoût) is known for his live performances providing electro music overlayed with old school, live musical acts (including stirring instrumentalists and vocalists) and kaleidoscopic, compelling video projections.
June 21st @ Fête de la Musique / Central Park SummerStage
