Blues

 

Young man blues: Rising star Gary Clark Jr. keeps his cool in a room full of suits

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Wednesday night, Clark played a benefit gig (sponsored in part by Rolling Stone), in the Openhouse Gallery in Soho for Music Unites, a non-profit that pushes for music education in the underserved public schools in New York and elsewhere; proceeds were going specifically to the organization’s youth choir, which serves New York teens. Donations were requested but not required. The crowd wasn’t black-tie stuffy, per se, just for the most part rather moneyed and looking the part--lots of open collars and business casual and fun-night-out dresses. The crowd seemed largely composed of New York music-biz bigwigs, as with one older man who swore he knew me: “You’re a drummer, right? In L.A.? No, wait, you’re . . .”

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By Michaelangelo Matos

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December 16, 2011 10:45 am

 

Olu Dara gives Queens the blues

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"Some kind of people think they're doing it on their own, but you're not doing it on your own at all," Dara says. For him, music is emphatically about people—this is one more reason to keep him company tomorrow night, when he gives one of his rare New York appearances at Queensbridge Park. More

By James Guida

July 27, 2010 7:55 am