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Stew, Heidi Rodewald, Meshell Ndegeocello, Mark Dendy, et al. Set for Lincoln Center Out of Doors

Stew (© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Lincoln Center Out of Doors has announced a revised line-up for its 39th season of free performances, to take place August 5-23 on the Lincoln Center campus -- Damrosch Park, North Plaza, South Plaza, Josie Robertson Plaza and Broadway Plaza -- located between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, West 65th Street to West 62nd Street.

Among the notable additions is acclaimed singer, songwriter and bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, who replaces Rokia Traoré as the co-headliner of the concert in Damrosch Park on August 7, sharing a bill with Raul Midón. Additionally, Sandra Velasquez and Michael Alpert will join The Arturo O'Farrill Afro-Cuban Sextet, Arturo O'Farrill, Larry Harlow, Andy Gonzalez, Irving Fields, Jeremiah Lockwood, and The Antibalas Horns for the closing performance, Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos on August 23.

As previously announced, the season will kick off with the debut of the Asphalt Orchestra, a new marching band developed by Bang on a Can, premiering works commissioned for Lincoln Center's 50th Anniversary from Goran Bregovic, Tyondai Braxton (of Battles), and Stew and Heidi Rodewald.

Stew and Rodewald, the creators of Passing Strange, will also perform on August 19 in The Broadway Problem, in which they will deconstruct some of their favorite Broadway show tunes, as well as perform some of their own. The bill will also include post-modern Inuit throat-singer Tanya Tagaq.

Highlights will also include a showcase of transnational b-boy culture entitled Hip Hop Generation Next (August 6); Plastic People of the Universe (August 14); a puppet pageant featuring Beautiful Princess Rat of the MTA (August 15); Dendy Dancetheatre presenting the New York premiere of Mark Dendy's Preliminary Studies for Depth, the upper half of high and low (August 15); Urban Bush Women (August 20); and the BRC Orchestra's Four Women: A Tribute to Odetta, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, and Eartha Kitt (August 23), featuring Jayne Cortez, Tamar-Kali, Abena Koomson, Alkebulan, and more.

 

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