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Escape to NY Announce DJ Lineup | Aug 5-7

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Tue, 07/19/2011 - 11:42pm

In anticipation of the first-annual Escape to New York this August 5-7 at the Shinnecock Reservation in The Hamptons, the festival is proud to announce its DJ/Dance lineup. In addition to previously announced performances from Patti Smith, Of Montreal, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Best Coast, and more, this year’s party will feature Elliot Lipp, Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang), VHS or Beta (Live Set), Them Jeans, Futurecop!, Brenton Duvall, Sub Swara, Andy Rourke (The Smiths-DJ SET), DJ Rekha (Bhangra Brunch), Turntables on The Hudson's Rich Medina, Mister Saturday Night, and many more to be more to be announced. Set times TBA. See full dance/DJ Lineup below.

Tickets to the festival are currently on sale, and anyone who purchases tickets this week will be entered into a contest to win side-stage passes to the festival. Weekend Ticket buyers will also be given free camping at the festival and a $20 food and drink vouchers. And festivalgoers who purchase three or more weekend tickets will receive a $150 food and drink voucher. Buy tickets HERE!

Curated by Fred Fellowes, the founder and creative director behind The U.K’s Secret Garden Party, Escape to New Yorkis a three-day festival/vacation unlike any other in the U.S. Held on the picturesque Shinnecock Reservation adjacent to Southampton, NY, patrons will be treated to performances by the likes of Patti Smith, Of Montreal, Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros, Best Coast, Mates of State, Chairlift, The Psychedelic Furs, White Rabbits. In addition to the festival’s musical acts, Escape to New York will also feature dazzling art installations curated by Winkel & Balktick, performance artists, luxury camping (aka. “glamping”) an intimate acoustic stage, speaker tent, and the largest brunch on The East Coast, catered by Silkstone!

Guests will be able to enjoy freshly prepared dishes from some of the best restaurants in the country, including seafood from Luke’s Lobster, American BBQ from Brinkley’s, ceviche and hanger steaks from Ofrenda, and traditional tacos with homemade guacamole from the soon-to-open Pulqueria. In addition, attendees will be able to choose among Mediterranean food, innovative sandwiches, Vietnamese cuisine and much more.

Tickets are $275 for the three-day festival and $100 for day tickets. Tickets and camping/”glamping” packages can be purchased exclusively at www.escape2ny.com. And the first 525 three-day-ticket buyers will also receive free camping in at one of two beautiful campgrounds at Westhampton Beach or Battle Row Campground. More details on festival accommodations can be found HERE.

Escape to New York marks a long-time dream of Fred Fellowes to bring his lauded Secret Garden Parties to the U.S. Founded in 2004, The annual Secret Garden Party grew in size and scope to become on of the most unique festivals in the U.K., with 30,000 revelers enjoying the gathering’s mix of music, cutting edge art and theater, and carefree, hedonistic delights. After much anticipation, this year’s inaugural Escape to New York will finally bring Fellowes’ unique festival stateside, offering New Yorkers and East Coasters alike an opportunity to enjoy a vacation unlike any other.

Dance/DJ Lineup:
Elliot Lipp, Xaphoon Jones (Chiddy Bang), VHS or Beta (Live Set), Them Jeans
Futurecop!, Brenton Duvall, Sub Swara, Andy Rourke (The Smiths-DJ SET),
DJ Rekha (Bhangra Brunch), Turntables on The Hudson's Rich Medina,
Mister Saturday Night, Pocketknife, DJ Pierre, RLDJ, Small Change,
Reid Covington, Eli and Fur, DJ Arman, Regent, Dhundee + many more!!

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Main Stage Lineup:

Friday, August 5th: PATTI SMITH, Best Coast, Chairlift, Lissy Trullie, The Ettes, The Postelles, The Static Jacks

Saturday, August 6th: EDWARD SHARPE AND THE MAGNETIC ZEROS, The Vaccines, The Psychedelic Furs, White Rabbits, Au Revoir Simone, The Submarines, Graffiti 6

Sunday, August 7th: OF MONTREAL, The Jolly Boys, Mates of State, Reptar, Hank & The Cupcakes, Tiger Love, Savoir Adore

Ecstatic Music Festival At NYC's Merkin' Concert Hall Continues

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Thu, 01/27/2011 - 1:19am

The 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City's Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of collaborative evenings between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the crossover of classical and pop music. All concerts will include premieres.

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February 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival Schedule:

Thu, 2/10/11 at 7:30 pm

Bang on a Can All-Stars 2011 People’s Commissioning Fund Concert

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Famed electric chamber ensemble Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform three world premiere commissions by composers Bryce Dessner of The National and Clogs, Nick Brooke, whose gamelan-inspired theatrical soundscapes are a genre all their own, and Karsh Kale, known for his genre-bending fusions of electronic, Indian classical music, rock, jazz and hip-hop. Also on the program: the pulsating, virtuosic Horses of Instruction by British composer Steve Martland, the hauntingly subtle Convex/Concave/Concord by Danish composer Pelle Gudmunsen-Holmgreen, and the intensely grooving Believing by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe.

Sat, 2/19/11 at 7:30 pm

Roomful of Teeth & tUnE-yArDs: The Music of William Brittelle, Caleb Burhans & Merrill Garbus

The eight-voice polystylistic vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth are joined by three rising star composer/performers in a concert of new works and expanded arrangements: William Brittelle, whose latest album was called "expansive, anthemic, all-encompassing, [and] shot through with raw emotion" (eMusic); the multi-talented "new music virtuoso" (New York Times) Caleb Burhans; and Merrill Garbus, lead singer of tUnE-yArDs, hailed for her "extraordinary voice" (The Guardian) and described as "somewhere between Aretha Franklin and Yoko Ono " (New York Times).


Thu, 2/24/11 at 7:30 pm

Newspeak & Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society: Works by Darcy James Argue, Vijay Iyer, Nicole Lizée

& David T. Little

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

The eight-piece, high-powered electric chamber ensemble Newspeak premieres The Sleep Room, Part 1, the first-ever commissioned work for an ensemble other than his own by 2011 Grammy nominee Darcy James Argue, director of Darcy James Argue's Secret Society. Argue is winner of the 2010 Downbeat Critics Poll in the categories of Big Band Rising Star, Composer Rising Star and Arranger Rising Star. Argue’s 18-piece big band Secret Society, called "a wholly original take on big band's past, present and future" (Newsweek), will perform new works by highly-acclaimed pianist/composer Vijay Iyer, winner of the 2010 Jazz Journalists Association Artist of the Year Award, the Montreal-based composer Nicole Lizée and Newspeak founder David T. Little.

The Sleep Room is underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

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The Ecstatic Music Festival continues in March:

All concerts below are at 7:30 pm

Thu, 3/3/11: Judd Greenstein (The Yehudim) & Olga Bell (Bell)

Sat, 3/5/11: Timo Andres & Gabriel Kahane: An Evening with Charles Ives

Wed, 3/9/11: Nadia Sirota & Thomas Bartlett (Doveman) with Owen Pallett

Sat, 3/12/11: Clogs & Brooklyn Youth Chorus

Wed, 3/16/11: Sarah Kirkland Snider & yMusic & Special Vocal Guest TBA

New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Mon, 3/28/11: So Percussion & Bobby Previte with Zeena Parkins, John Medeski, DJ Olive & Jen Shyu New Sounds® Live hosted by WNYC’s John Schaefer

Single tickets: $25; Students with ID (in person sales only): $15

Subscriptions: Tickets are $20 each for 4 or more concerts.

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

Tickets and information at 212 501 3330 or http://www.kaufman-center.org