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TONIGHT’S SHOW WILL GO ON NO MATTER WHAT

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THE SHOW of the SUMMER!

FREE ENERGY and BEST COAST with LOOSE LIMBS
THIS FRIDAY, JULY 23

6pm Loose Limbs / 7pm Best Coast  / 8pm Free Energy

 

Crowd and backdrop at Seaport's Bear in Heaven show, July 9, 2010. Photo by Chris LaPutt

FREE ENERGY'S WELLS and SPRANGERS RETURN TO THE SEAPORT STAGE
SPIN magazine calls them a "Hot New Band" but we've championed these boys (originally of Minneapolis' Hockey Night) for years with two previous performances back in the early days of the festival. So it dosen't surprise us when in their newly formed, Philly-based quintet, they've rocketed to stardom with tracks like "Free Energy" and "Bang Pop".
Check out: Pitchfork interview with Free Energy

BEST COAST BRINGS THE SOUNDS OF CALIFORNIA TO NYC
With a hot new single aptly titled "All Summer" featuring Best Coast, Kid Cuti and Rostam Batmanglij from Vampire Weekend, Bethany Cosentino has been a VERY busy girl.  Her perennially cool sound, mesmerizing vocals and Phil Specter-inspired songs will be a great companion to the East River breezes and city views of the Seaport.

OUR OWN LOOSE LIMBS KICK OFF THE NIGHT
This year saw the release of Brooklyn-based trio Loose Limbs' first single "Red Hands" on our very own label Seaport Music Records and now we're equally psyched and proud to present them live on the Seaport stage. Get here early folks and don't miss a second of this cool Seaport summer evening.

with DJ Bill Pearis     ALL FREE    ALL AGES

Best Coast and Free Energy with Loose Limbs This Friday, July 23

We'll post content from all three bands this week.

Here is the official video for Best Coast's single, When I'm With You.

JUST ANNOUNCED

BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB TO SUPPORT YACHT, AUGUST 6th

Originally released in 1978, Black Devil's "Disco Club" is an extremely rare disco masterpiece, an epic journey into the deepest electronic disco. The record is credited to Junior Claristidge and Joachim Sherylee, pseudonyms of two french library writers Bernard Fevre and Jacky Giordano, respectively. It was made manually in a recording studio in the suburbs of Paris using synths and occasional tape loops and a drummer. No midi or computers.

Bernard Fevre makes a rare appearance here at the Seaport.

Also, appearing - The Witness Protection Programme (DJ Set)

This will be one summer night to remember!

TONIGHT WILL ROCK

GREAT WEATHER, COOL RIVER BREEZE, BIG SHIPS, TALL BUILDINGS, THREE GREAT BANDS

We kick off things tonight with everyone's favorite blogger DJ Bill Pearis manning the "decks" at 6pm. Ireland's SO COW will start around 6:30 so please get here a little earlier than usual. Golden Triangle follows at around 7pm, then Thee Oh Sees wrap up what will surely be another great Seaport summer show!

THEE OH SEES with GOLDEN TRIANGLE & SO COW this week!!!

Since there are three bands this Friday, things will start a little earlier than usual. Don't miss a second and arrive early to see So Cow scheduled for 6:30. Oh, and DJ Bill Pearis on the decks kicking things off around 5:30-6:00!

MARKET DAY

ART, MUSIC & FOOD

Sunday, July 11

The old historic fish stalls of the Fulton Market Building have now been reinvented as a weekly food and farmers market and keeping in line with this healthy offering to the community, six up-and-coming artists have been commissioned to create new work specifically for the stalls. Drawing from the street art and design scenes, these six artists are interpreting imagery from the last hundred years of the Seaport’s market history to integrate its past into the evolving landscape of local markets cropping up in our city today.

The exhibit, New Lenses, goes on display this weekend during market hours (Sunday, 11-6pm) and will remain a part of the market through the end of September. Join us this weekend for a reception (3-6pm) and live musical performance. Seaport resident artist Naima Rauam will be exhibiting her work during market hours and NYC market expert, blogger and author Karen Seiger of Markets of New York City will be on hand signing her aptly-titled book, Markets of New York City from 12-3pm. 

New Lenses features work by:

Rachael Wheeler
Astrid Andujar
Christiner Rucker
Jon Boksel
Sarah Valeri
Mike Pearson

Curated by Joe Ahearn

There will also be a live performance at the market at 5pm by Nonhorse, who will continue the reinterpretive elements by remixing cassettes and hawking self-help tapes with titles such as: Learn Theoretical Physics, Fear of The Maze, and You Are Good.

Nonhorse is G. Lucas Crane, a sound artist, performer, and musician whose work focuses on information anxiety, media confusion, and recycled technology. Using a combination field recordings culled from the underbelly of the contemporary sonic media landscape and homemade electronic instruments, oscillators and broken machines, he creates compositions and performances as a reaction to, and illustration of, our information detritus choked times.

RECEPTION: Sunday, July 11th, 3-6pm (performance @ 5pm)
ON VIEW: Every Sunday through the end of September (11am-6pm)
WHERE: Fulton Stall Market: South Street between Fulton and Beekman Streets