Celebrate Brooklyn - Prelim Schedule is Out

Gowanus Lounge has posted a preliminary schedule for Celebrate Brooklyn:
http://gowanuslounge.blogspot.com/2007/04/preliminary-celebrate-brooklyn-schedule.html#links

Good stuff - check out The Hold Steady in August. I hope its a free one!

Ooooh! Manu Chao! Manu Chao.....

Now I'm singing "King of the Bongo Bong". Damn you! ;-)

Sorry to do that to you!

It's a good song, I like it. Maybe I'll sing "Me gustas tu" instead and I'll be practicing my Spanish at the same time

Que hora son mi corazn
Te lo dije bien clarito
Permanece a la escucha

Ani! Manu!

Now where's Antibalas!?

2 words: RALPH STANLEY!!!!

http://www.ralphstanley.net/

Mamacita wrote: 2 words: RALPH STANLEY!!!!

http://www.ralphstanley.net/

interesting . . . never heard of him before

I wonder who else is on AfricaFete?

Gotta love Celebrate brooklyn!
I'll never forget meeting Tito Puente backstage.

Manu Chau was the most amazing concert last year. So many beautiful people... and we got 3 or 4 encores.

manu chao was awesome, but I wish Ozomatli would perform again.

Ozomztli was incrediable too! Pulling little kids on stage and then dancing all the way around the audience... it was audience participation on a whole new level. I missed Charli 2na though.

I saw Manu Chao at Central Park Summerstage a few years ago. It was mobbed, but the show was awesome.

Nothing aside from Ralph Stanley is blowing me away on that schedule. Maybe Richard Thompson will be fun. I hope there will be more goodies tucked into the full schedule. I just can't get worked up by the Stills or the Hold Steady.

That said, I really, really, really hope they turn up the volume this year. The past two years it's been hard to sit up on the grass because the volume is so low. If you've got a family with kids or a loud group sitting next to you, it's impossible to hear. Is that a conscious decision to reduce the volume so less people listen from outside of the gates? It was definitely a lot louder when Celebrate first rolled out.