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October 9, 2012

The Studio Series Finale

mad.sq.music, The Deadly Gentlemen, The Vespers

It was a fantastic end-of-season show with The Deadly Gentlemen and The Vespers! The Vespers gave it their Nashville-all and rocked the house with soothing harmonies and high tempo finishes. Sisters Callie and Phoebe dazzled us with spiritual lyrics while brothers Taylor and Bruno brought in the rhythm with percussion, drums and guitars. Headlining Saturday’s… Read more

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September 24, 2012

A Lesson in Blues

Heritage Blues Trio, mad.sq.music, Rory Block, The Studio Series

Saturday’s blues concert was amazing and we’re so happy we were able to recognize a dedicated Mad. Sq. Music sponsor, David Pinter of Zwicker Electric Company, for helping to bring free music to the public. Thank you David! It was a beautiful Saturday and The Studio Series had the absolute pleasure of bringing the musical… Read more

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August 15, 2012

The Deadly Gentlemen

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THE DEADLY GENTLEMEN Led by Greg Liszt, acclaimed Crooked Still banjo player, and originally formed as an experimental spoken word bluegrass band, this wildly innovative group has evolved into master purveyors of epic folk and grasscore.

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Vance Gilbert • Caleb Hawley

Caleb Hawley, Concert, Folk, mad.sq.music, Singer Songwriter, Studio, Vance Gilbert

THIS CONCERT WILL TAKE PLACE ON OUR CENTRAL LAWN, THE OVAL LAWN. VANCE GILBERT With ten critically acclaimed albums, Vance Gilbert continues to refine his unlikely union of humor, virtuosity, and the unexpected. Vance Gilbert burst onto the singer/songwriter scene in the early 90’s when the buzz spread through the folk clubs of Boston about… Read more

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Rory Block • Heritage Blues Trio

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Photo By: Sergio Kurhajec RORY BLOCK Rory Block comes to the stage with more than twenty highly acclaimed releases under her belt and five Blues Music Awards. Block has staked her claim to be one of America’s top acoustic blues women, an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers, a slide guitarist par excellence, and… Read more

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Jim Lauderdale • The Honeycutters

Americana, Bluegrass, Concert, Jim Lauderdale, mad.sq.music, Studio, The Honeycutters

JIM LAUDERDALE Jim Lauderdale is a multi-talented performer and songwriter, with successes in both country and bluegrass music. His roots stem from the Carolinas, yet his career has taken him all over the United States and abroad, making him an international recording artist with an ever-growing fan base. Jim won “Artist of the Year” and… Read more

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August 9, 2012

Bettye LaVette – Season Closer!

Bettye LaVette, mad.sq.music, Music, R&B

Bettye LaVette knocked our socks off last night on the Oval Lawn. Her voice is one that will truly be remembered as one of the greatest to hit the Mad. Sq. stage. She sang hits from her oldest album, “Tell Me a Lie,” all the way through to her soon-to-be-released album, “A Woman Like Me.”… Read more

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August 2, 2012

An Evening with Suzzy and Maggie Roche, Sloan Wainwright and Lucy Wainwright Roche Recap

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With just one more summer concert left in the Oval Lawn series, the rain stopped just in time for our family extravaganza with the Roche and Wainwright family. Just before the concert, Debbie Landau, President of Madison Square Park Conservancy, honored one of our great supporters, Leslie Spira Lopez from Kew Management for all her… Read more

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July 5, 2012

Independence Day Celebration Recap

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It was a wonderful and certainly hot summer’s day at our Independence Day Concert here at Mad. Sq. Park. Our afternoon celebration started with Spuyten Duyvil and their folk-Americana songs. Then the Sweetback Sisters brought us some of their sweet country tunes, charming the crowd with the sisterly precision of their harmonies. Last but not… Read more

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June 28, 2012

Gretchen Parlato and Gregory Porter Recap

Concert, Gregory Porter, Gretchen Parlato, mad.sq.music, Music

Last night was the first double bill concert of the Mad. Sq. Music season, and what a perfect summer night it was. Packed night with over 2,000 concert goers filling the Oval Lawn, Gretchen Parlato started the night off with her signature melodious voice, singing hits from her latest release,The Lost and Found. With her… Read more

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