6/24: Buena Vista Social Club, Sean Hayes & Kristen Chenoweth…
…and Sxip Shirey’s one-man circus symphony
Celebrate Brooklyn!/BRIC
The Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club plays the Prospect Park Bandshell tonight.
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SING SING: Sean Hayes—fresh off his Tonys hosting gig, and no doubt still trying to get spirit gum out of his hair from the wig—fetes the release of the cast recording of Broadway’s Promises, Promises with Kristin Chenoweth and other castmembers at the Lincoln Triangle Barnes & Noble.
NU VAUDEVILLE? We recently had the opportunity to finally catch Sxip Shirey—self-professed maker of “circus music”—live on stage when he opened for (and accompanied) Amanda Palmer’s Evelyn Evelyn show, and watching a grown man with a manic grey ’fro turn dimestore music boxes, marbles ricocheting around glass bowls and a worse-for-wear bullhorn into a one-man symphony about New York City leaves you nothing short of gobsmacked. He releases his new CD Sonic New York tonight at City Winery with Rhiannon Giddens of Carolina Chocolate Drops.
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