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SummerStage music festival kicks off in NYC

Xinhua, May 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

SummerStage, an annual music festival in New York City, opened Monday night with a free concert in Central Park featuring blues supergroup Tedeschi Trucks Band.

Formed in 2010 with a spirit of adventure that saw Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks shelve their equally successful solo careers, Tedeschi Trucks Band, an 11-piece tour-de-force, has become the vanguard of modern roots music.

Other performers in this year's SummerStage include iconic African singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo, London's soul-funk collective Jungle, Canadian folktronica artist Caribou, and Franco-Norwegian circus duo Magmanus.

In addition, a special celebration of dance and music from the legendary Broadway musical "The Wiz" will be staged and Brazil's pioneering mangue-beat superstars, Nacao Zumbi, will return to SummerStage 20 years after their historic and epic U.S. debut.

In June 1986, Sun Ra and the Omniverse Jet Set Arkestra performed a free concert in the Naumberg Bandshell in Central Park, and the summer music landscape in New York City changed forever.

Nearly 30 years later, SummerStage is now the largest free performing arts festival in New York City, presenting work in all performing arts disciplines, with a focus on the city's unique neighborhoods.

In celebration of this milestone, City Parks Foundation, an independent nonprofit organization that produces the festival, plans to deepen the impact the festival has in neighborhoods throughout New York.

The 2015 season will feature more shows in Central Park and see a 15-percent growth in the number of performances offered in neighborhood parks, bringing more than 140 unique artists to the stages around the city. Endi