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SUMMARY:Swamp in the City: Cajun Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:Swamp in the City kick-off party\nFeaturing: Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew and Le Winston Band\n\n\n\nDust off your dancing shoes for the 8th Annual Swamp in the City: A Cajun & Creole Music Festival\nThursday\, May 8 at 7pm at the Waterfront Museum – through May 11 at Red Hook locations\n\n\n\n\nGet ready for four days of great music\, delicious food\, and vibrant community at the 8th Annual Swamp in the City: A Cajun & Creole Music Festival (tickets here). Held along the scenic Red Hook waterfront\, this festival brings the best of Cajun and Creole culture to Brooklyn\, featuring some of the most talented musicians from Louisiana and beyond\, plus plenty of opportunities to dance\, eat\, and celebrate.\n–\n\n\n\n\nWhat to expect:\n\nLive Music from top Cajun and Zydeco bands\, including Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band\, Linzay Young & Joel Savoy\, Le Winston Band\, Alphonso Ardoin & the Zydeco Kingz\, T’Monde\, Jourdan Thibodeaux\, Jesse Lége & Bayou Brew\, Rose & the Bros and many more.\nDance Lessons & Jam Sessions—come early to learn the moves and join in the music-making with fellow festival-goers.\nCajun & Creole Food—think po’boys\, gumbo\, jambalaya\, and all your Louisiana favorites\, served up right on the water.\nSaturday Cajun Invasion Pub Crawl through Red Hook’s best local bars—a fun way to explore the neighborhood and keep the party going.\nKickoff Party on Thursday night aboard the historic Waterfront Museum & Barge —a memorable start to a weekend full of music and dancing.\nMothers’ Day Family Dance on Sunday at 11am—bring the whole crew and stay for a day of music\, dancing\, and good times together.\nAnd so much more! \n\n\nThis year\, we’re excited to feature an incredible lineup of artists and bands\, including Jesse Lege & Bayou Brew\, Linzay Young\, Bruce Daigrepont Cajun Band\, T’Monde\, Jourdan Thibodeaux\, Joel Savoy\, Gina Forsyth\, Wilson Savoy\, Sunpie & the Louisiana Sunspots\, Alphonse Ardoin & the Zydeco Kingz\, Le Winston Band\, Kelli Jones\, Rose & the Bros\, Chas Justus\, The Red Aces\, and more. For a complete schedule of events\, visit swampinthecity.com/schedule. \n\nTicket Options:\n4-Day Supporter Pass\n$200 (Early Bird) | $225 (adv) | $275 (door)\nIncludes:\n\nAll-access pass for the full 4-day festival\nSupporter’s gumbo dinner before Thursday’s Kickoff Party\n\n4-Day VIP Pass\n$275 (Early Bird) | $300 (adv) | $350 (door)\nIncludes everything in the Supporter pass PLUS:\n\nExclusive swag bag (valued at $85\, includes a T-shirt\, tote\, hat\, stadium cup\, and sticker pack)\nVIP access to a special Saturday brunch show with T’Monde\nVIP perks throughout the weekend\n\n3-Day Supporter Pass (Fri-Sun)\n$150 (Early Bird) | $175 (adv) | $200 (door)\nIncludes:\n\nAll-access pass for Friday through Sunday\n\n3-Day VIP Pass (Fri-Sun)\n$225 (Early Bird) | $250 (adv) | $275 (door)\nIncludes everything in the 3-Day Supporter pass PLUS:\n\nExclusive swag bag\nVIP access to the Saturday brunch show with T’Monde\n\nSingle-Day Tickets\nAfter March 3rd\, single-day tickets will be available at the following advanced discount prices:\nThursday Kickoff Party (Aboard the Barge)\n$40 (adv) | $50 (door)Friday Night at Strong Rope\n$50 (adv) | $60 (door) – (kids 12 and under are free at all Strong Rope events!)Saturday Pub Crawl\n$30 (adv) | $40 (door)Saturday Night at Strong Rope\n$55 (adv) | $65 (door) \nSunday at Strong Rope\nPay-What-You-Wish! \n(Suggested $40 donation) \n\n\nDon’t miss your chance to be part of this magical festival. Get your tickets now and get ready for four days of music\, dancing\, food and fun at Swamp in the City! \n\nSee y’all there!
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/swamp-in-the-city-cajun-music-festival-2/
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:The Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny's Bar
DESCRIPTION:September 28th through October 27th \nBuy tickets here. \nEn Garde Arts\, in association with Vineyard Theatre\, presents the world premiere of The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar\, a site-specific\, multimedia theatrical experience created by Obie Award winners\, playwright Sarah Gancher and director Jared Mezzocchi. Commissioned by Vineyard Theatre and En Garde Arts\, The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar will run September 28 – October 27\, 2024\, at The Waterfront Museum\, with an opening set for Monday\, October 7\, 2024. \nAt the end of Conover Street in Red Hook\, Brooklyn\, on the waterfront opposite the Waterfront Museum\, there is a bar called Sunny’s. For over 100 years\, it’s been run by one family\, through booms and busts\, prohibition and pandemics\, blight and gentrification. It’s been home to dreamers and immigrants\, artists\, bootleggers\, longshoremen\, union bosses\, corrupt police\, numbers runners\, bluegrass musicians\, and hipsters. And when Hurricane Sandy hit\, it was almost lost forever. But in that moment of incomprehensible damage and loss\, one woman persevered. Tone Johansen fought to save Sunny’s – for all of us. \nThe Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar rock-skips across the decades\, reaching into the deep past and leaping into the future. Beginning at The Waterfront Museum and ending at Sunny’s Bar\, it invites audiences inside the lives of the real people who became the fabric of this community. The Wind and the Rain uses immersive design technology\, to tell a quintessential New York Story about how the currents of time and nature shaped our lives. \nEn Garde Arts’s Executive Artistic Director Anne Hamburger commented\, “The Wind and the Rain is a dream project of mine as it harkens back in form to the early site-specific work on which En Garde Arts built its reputation. With its historic charm\, Red Hook is an ideal neighborhood in which to mount this site-specific piece envisioned by two exceptionally creative minds. Sarah Gancher is not only an acclaimed playwright\, but also a gifted fiddle player and longtime Sunny’s regular\, while Jared is a talented multi-hyphenate artist and consummate storyteller. En Garde Arts is proud to shine a light on Sunny’s intrepid owner\, Tone Johansen. Theatrical productions with brave and exceptional women at their center are all too rare.” \nPerformances of The Wind and the Rain: A story about Sunny’s Bar will take place September 28 – October\, 27\, 2024\, at The Waterfront Museum. \nPlease visit www.engardearts.org for more information. \n \n 
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/the-wind-and-the-rain-a-story-about-sunnys-bar/2024-10-27/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:LET THE MICE IN: THE SHADOW RING (1992–2002) reunion
DESCRIPTION:  \nJul 27\, 2024\n4 pm and 7 pm \n$25\, free for box set owners (with proof of purchase\, RSVP to info@blankforms.org by July 13) \n \nTICKETS at official event site \nOn the occasion of the monumental release of The Shadow Ring (1992–2002)\, the original Cat & Bells Club compatriots G. Lambkin & D. Harris will be joined by Novation Bass Station wizard and Phacto founder T. Goss for two sets of song and celebration. The three Folkestone-reared friends will reunite at the Waterfront Museum. Not performing as the Shadow Ring\, the performances will summon the trio’s current sonic incarnations\, featuring readings\, sound arrangements\, and a rare set by Call Back the Giants. Once on the water\, we’ll soon learn what the fish REALLY think. \nAt 9 pm\, join the group for an afterparty\, informal Q&A\, and DJ set at the San Pedro Inn. \nThroughout their legendary\, decade-long run\, the Shadow Ring were an enigmatic force on the international musical sub-underground. Before their disbandment in 2002\, this shambolic rock outfit\, formed by a group of rowdy teenagers in southeast England\, left behind a mighty run of eight LPs\, a handful of 7″s\, and a spate of raucous live shows and cryptic zine appearances on both sides of the Atlantic\, all which have bolstered their enduring word-of-mouth mystique. Beginning in 2023\, Blank Forms has launched a multipronged retrospective\, including the first vinyl pressing of the self-released pre-Shadow Ring tape The Cat & Bells Club (1992)\, reissues of their first two records\, and a comprehensive CD box set with a 500-page catalog. More reissues and activities are on the way.
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/let-the-mice-in-the-shadow-ring-1992-2002-reunion/2024-07-27/2/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:William King's "A Man and His Barge"
DESCRIPTION:“I was drawn to Red Hook with its edgy\, worn landscapes\, its ubiquitous rust\, and the extraordinary quality of its light. Some years ago\, while taking pictures there\, I came upon an old barge moored in a small inlet in the harbor.”  \nand so begin’s William King’s story of a Brooklyn man and his barge. \nThis photographic project highlights Captain David Sharps and the Waterfront Museum of Red Hook\, Brooklyn. The documentary imagery focuses on Captain Sharps and his various maritime activities\, operations and maintenance needed to maintain the historic vessel. \nThis show is on view during the museum’s regular open hours Thursdays and Saturdays\, May 4 – July 25 \nAdmission is by suggested donation (people usually leave between $2 and $20). \n  \n \n \n  \n  
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/a-man-and-his-barge-2/2024-07-25/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
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SUMMARY:Batalá New York drum performance
DESCRIPTION:Free drumming performance on the barge! \nSunday\, June 2nd from 2:30-3:00pm \nBatalá New York is the premier all-women\, Black-led\, percussion ensemble\, activating partnerships\, community building\, and cultural awareness\, bringing high-energy performances to the people of New York City through an engaging blend of cultural education and joyous entertainment. \nBatalá New York is one of approximately four Batalá groups that are all women and women-led. Their music\, instruments and costumes are primarily from Salvador da Bahia in the northeast of Brazil. \n \n 
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/batala-new-york-drum-performance/
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SUMMARY:Captain Nemo's Adventure Academy: 20\,000 Laughs Under the Sea
DESCRIPTION:Dive into this madcap homage to Jules Verne’s’ famous maritime hero!\nCaptain Nemo himself will entertain\, inspire\, and challenge your little guppies’ brains while quenching their thirst for knowledge of the Wonders of the Deep. \nTICKETS HERE\n$5-$20 Sliding Scale\nThe cantankerous and ever-curious Captain Nemo lives to excite kids about our watery-blue planet with tales of the Giant Squid\, the elusive Angler fish and even how whale poop is part of the Cycle of Life! \nThis engaging theatrical experience features beautiful sound effects\, hilarious slapstick hijinks\, magic\, bubble-play and full-audience participation. \nCreated and performed by David Engel\, alias Billy Bones the Good Pirate\, who tours his shows to arts centers\, festivals\, schools and museums nationwide and internationally. \nMore here.
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/captain-nemos-adventure-academy-20000-laughs-under-the-sea/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Arthur Miller's The Hook
DESCRIPTION:Fridays – Sunday June 9-11\, 16-18 & 23-25 at 8pm.\nBrooklyn’s Brave New World Repertory Theatre (BNW) will present a full production of The Hook\, adapted by Brooklyn-based writer Ron Hutchinson from Arthur Miller’s unproduced screenplay and directed by Claire Beckman aboard The Waterfront Museum’s floating stage moored in Red Hook. The performances will run three weekends on Friday\, Saturday and Sunday nights at 8pm from June 9-25. Based on the true story of martyred longshoreman Pete Panto\, who stood up to a racketeering union\, rigged elections and corruption on the Red Hook docks in the 1950’s. \nClaire Beckman co-founder/producing artistic director of BNW says “The Hook captures the life and death struggle on the docks where the ever-present danger to the workers and their families was both from the job itself and the mobsters who controlled the docks.” \nBeckman credits David Sharps\, director and captain of The Waterfront Museum “for bringing Miller’s story to the US. “David introduced the UK team to me and Brave New World Rep. We are thrilled to be partnering with Captain Dave again\, as we continue our dramatic explorations of the waterfront.” \nThe Hook of the title is Red Hook\, Brooklyn. It is also the classic tool of a longshoreman; an extension of his arm\, a claw for gripping heavy crates and sacks of goods – or for use in a fight. The play gives a closer look at the tightly-knit working class community doing the dangerous work of loading and unloading the ships. Back-breaking work which made New York the world’s richest and most important harbor.Both BNW and Beckman have a history with Arthur Miller\, arguably Brooklyn’s greatest 20th century playwright. BNW has previously produced acclaimed productions of two other Miller classics: The Crucible in 2010 and The American Clock in 2011\, in addition to A View from the Bridge in 2018 & 2019. \nThe screenplay of The Hook\, arguably the template for On the Waterfront\, lay untouched for almost seventy years until British designer Patrick Connellan unearthed the original material\, including Miller’s handwritten notes. A stage version was produced at the UK’s Northhampton Theatre Royal in 2015. It was inspried by the true story of Pete Panto\, a young dockworker who stood up to the corrupt Mafia-connected union leadership. Panto was kidnapped on a local street\, murdered by The Mob and his body dumped in New Jersey. The movie was never made. When studio heads demanded the systemic corruption on the docks be attributed to Communism instead of The Mob\, Miller pulled the plug\, uninterested in writing “red scard” propaganda. He wrote A View from the Bridge instead.
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/arthur-millers-the-hook/2023-06-25/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:The Pierson Family Follies
DESCRIPTION:A evening of family fun. Beth\, Doug and Emma\, et all combine their music\, skills\, humor and wit in a fun showboat evening for all ages. \nThe Pierson Family Follies will appear on the Lehigh Valley No. 79 Showboat on Saturday\, October 14th at 7pm. Sliding scale $5-$20.\nTickets here or pay at the door. \nFeaturing Slackjaw – Rob Meador and Doug Pierson have  been astonishing audiences worldwide for generations with their music.  On October 14 they will play original creations\, and they’ll recreate some of your favorite bluegrass tunes to boot. \nBeth (Pierson) Leonard and Sarah Pope who will make appearances as SarahBesque and Bethford\, attempting to support the show with comical physical theater interludes that highlight their ridiculous virtuosities \nEmma Pierson is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn\, New York. While she’s been singing and writing forever\, she began performing locally with her band\, Emmerson and her Clammy Hands at the end of 2017. With folk\, pop\, and rock’n’roll influences\, her music is sweet\, melodic and lyrical with a dark edge and a sense of humor.
URL:https://waterfrontmuseum.org/event/the-pierson-family-follies/
LOCATION:Waterfront Museum\, 290 Conover Street\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11231\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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