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Olu Dara gives Queens the blues
"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
Posted on July 27th, 2010 7:55am
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