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Central Park
Summerstage: http://www.summerstage.org
Celebrate Brooklyn at
Prospect Park: http://www.brooklynx.org/celebrate
Lincoln Center
Out-of-Doors and Midsummer Night Swing (and indoors, the Brazil Beyond Bossa Festival): http://www.lincolncenter.org
Downtown River to
River Festival, Battery Park / Battery Park City / World Financial Center and
vicinity: http://www.rivertorivernyc.com
New Jersey Performing
Arts Center, Newark Absolut Sounds of the City: http://www.njpac.org
Harlem Meer
Performance Festival, Central Park: http://www.centralparknyc.org/thingstodo
Wave Hill, Bronx: http://www.wavehill.org/calendar.html
City
Parks Foundation – concert series in parks throughout the city: http://www.cityparksfoundation.org
The Zlatne Uste Band and a variant of the Kavala Band
(without Lefteris) will be performing (along with lots of other bands and
ensembles, brass and otherwise) at the Zlatne's annual Golden Festival of
Eastern European dance music Friday January 17 and Saturday Jan 18. Here are the details: Friday Jan 17 at Hungarian House,
213 E 82nd St, Manhattan starting at 7:30 with a dance workshop followed by
live music by the Kolevs and friends, the Zlatne Uste Band, and Souren
Baronian, Haig Manoukian and friends. Saturday Jan 18 at Good Shepherd
School, 620 Isham St (near 207 St and Broadway) in upper Manhattan with the
Zlatne Uste Band, Kavala and over 40 (!) bands and ensembles on three stages
from 6pm until 3am. Lineup, details and directions
at: http://www.mindspring.com/~ginbirch/ZU/au17.htm Kavala band also has performances
scheduled at Hungarian House, 213 E 82nd St on Friday Jan 31 (with other groups
in a benefit for Greek folk music and dance scholar and teacher Joe Graziosi)
and on Friday Feb 28. More info at
http://www.nycfolkdance.org/
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Guest DJ Sean Harvey, a contributor to the Rough Guide books and companion CDs, surveys the popular and traditional music of Haiti.
Live performance: Brass Band Dance Music from Greek Macedonia. Featuring the clarinetist Lefteris Bournias and members of the Zlatne Uste Balkan Brass Band.
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