Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings at Nokia Theater 2/13

Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings played new music and old favorites on night one of a two night set at the Nokia Theater in NYC. It was brilliant, as usual. 

Upcoming February Music

February 6 and 7: Beirut at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Also a treat that sold out. 

February 13 and 14: The incredible Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings plays in hometown NYC at the Nokia Theater in Times Square. Sexy grooves just in time for Valentines Day.

February 14: Grizzly Bear and a slew of NY intellectuals and music afficionados pack the new Galapagos Art Space in DUMBO, Brooklyn for the New Yorker Speakeasy "Love is Strange" series.  My favorite music critic Sasha Frere Jones will be there. The evening is hosted by the New Yorker's fiction editor Deborah Treisman.

Sharon Jones at South Paw: What did I do to deserve this treat?

Well I don't know what kind of mitzvahs I've done recently to deserve this but Sharon Jones showed up as the surprise guest on Thursday night at the Daptone Records Obama Fundraiser at South Paw in Park Slope. It was amazing. Not only were we treated to an already stellar evening of the Menahan Street Band, Budos Band and I missed Naomi Shelton but heard she was amazing, but to have Sharon Jones end the evening was a heart warming surprise. 

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And Sharon Jones encored with "This land is your land" off of her album Naturally. It was a beautiful moment in Brooklyn. And super duper funky.