Celebrate Brooklyn - Prelim Schedule is Out

Ooooh! Manu Chao! Manu Chao.....

Now I'm singing "King of the Bongo Bong". Damn you! ;-)

It's a good song, I like it. Maybe I'll sing "Me gustas tu" instead and I'll be practicing my Spanish at the same time

Ani! Manu!

Now where's Antibalas!?

Mamacita wrote: 2 words: RALPH STANLEY!!!!

http://www.ralphstanley.net/

interesting . . . never heard of him before

I wonder who else is on AfricaFete?

Manu Chau was the most amazing concert last year. So many beautiful people... and we got 3 or 4 encores.

Ozomztli was incrediable too! Pulling little kids on stage and then dancing all the way around the audience... it was audience participation on a whole new level. I missed Charli 2na though.

Nothing aside from Ralph Stanley is blowing me away on that schedule. Maybe Richard Thompson will be fun. I hope there will be more goodies tucked into the full schedule. I just can't get worked up by the Stills or the Hold Steady.

That said, I really, really, really hope they turn up the volume this year. The past two years it's been hard to sit up on the grass because the volume is so low. If you've got a family with kids or a loud group sitting next to you, it's impossible to hear. Is that a conscious decision to reduce the volume so less people listen from outside of the gates? It was definitely a lot louder when Celebrate first rolled out.