AfroPunk’s 2018 Festival Featuring Erykah Badu, Janelle Monae And Miguel Is Aptly Themed ‘The People Resist’.
The power-packed lineup for the 2018 Afropunk Festival returns to Commodore Barry Park in Fort Greene Brooklyn AUG 25-26th, and it includes fan-favorites with a massive lineup featuring Erykah Badu, Tyler, the Creator, Janelle Monáe, Miguel, Jaden and Willow Smith, the Internet, and more set to perform.
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Out Now: “United We Swing“
New star-studded album from the Wynton Marsalis Septet **All proceeds go toward Jazz at Lincoln Center’s education initiatives
Recorded between 2003 and 2007, United We Swing finds an unparalleled array of musical talent that collectively boasts 94 Grammy Awards joining Jazz at Lincoln Center Managing and Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis (a nine-time Grammy Award winner himself) and his Septet. Together, they perform blues-inflected versions of iconic American repertoire and celebrate the red, white, and Blues.
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Local New Jersey promoters Out of the Beardspace, will host their own home state celebration Beardfest this summer in June and the event just dropped their stacked lineup which is topped by Medeski Martin and MonoNeon. MonoNeon, a young extremely funky former Prince protoge, is a bassist and filling in for Chris Wood in the traditional Medeski Martin and Wood lineup, Marco Benevento and Moon Hooch.
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