Final Week of LC Out of Doors Concerts Highlighted by Laurie Anderson

The 41st edition of one of the longest-running, free, outdoor festivals in the U.S.-Lincoln Center Out of Doors-presents its final week of performances from August 10 through 14. Events follow in chronological order. Visit LCOutofDoors.org

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and take place on the Lincoln Center campus-Hearst Plaza/Barclays Capital Grove, Damrosch Park, Josie Robertson Plaza, and Broadway Plaza and the David Rubenstein Atrium-located between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, West 65th Street to West 62nd Street.

Wednesday, August 10 at 6 p.m.
Plazas throughout Lincoln Center
SPIKE'S SIDESHOW
Honoring King of the Sideshow Ward Hall, who will do the "call for the bally," a dozen different performance artists, including a cornucopia of conjurers, marvels and freaks, take over Lincoln Center's plazas: acrobat and contortionist Jonathan Nosan; magicians Adam Cardone, Jeff Grow, Magic Brian, and Oz Pearlman; baton-twirling tunesmith Christine Lavin; the stand-up comedy stylings of Data the Robot and Heather Knight of Marilyn Monrobot; burlesque hula-hoop artist Miss Saturn; 1940s Coney Island barker Nancy the Thunderbolt Queen; and the multitalented Ringmistress Philomena & Kinko of the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus (stilt walking, juggling, bed of nails, ladder of swords); and barn-burning singer and reedist Aurora Nealand & the Royal Roses enliven a lineup that traffics in awe and spectacle.

Wednesday, August 10, 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Laurie Anderson with Rob Burger and Eyvind Kang
Todd Reynolds with Sxip Shirey, Adam Matta, and strings (worldwide debut)
The reigning performance artist of our time, Laurie Anderson has a gift for transforming the mundane into the stuff of mystery and wonder.
Maverick digifiddler and composer Todd Reynolds leads a first-time collaboration that stars multi-instrumentalist and circus-music provocateur Sxip Shirey (The Luminescent Orchestrii), human beat-boxer Adam Matta (Carolina Chocolate Drops), and a masterful section of violinists: Caleb Burhans, Conrad Harris, Pauline Kim Harris, Yuki Numata, Courtney Orlando, and Ben Russell.

Thursday, August 11 at 6 p.m.
Josie Robertson Plaza
MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND
A high-steppin', flair-totin' cyclone of happiness, MarchFourth blends burlesque, vaudeville, horn-driven funk, and marching-band madness, accompanied by stilt-walkers, dancing girls, flag-twirlers, clown antics, and acrobatics.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2011 is sponsored by Bloomberg and PepsiCo.

Thursday, August 11 at 7 p.m. (NOTE TIME)
Damrosch Park Bandshell
DAVID DORFMAN DANCE featuring
THE FAMILY STONE:
PROPHETS OF FUNK-CONCERT EDITION (world premiere)
DEBO BAND with special guest FENDIKA
The funk is on when award-winning choreographer David Dorfman and his troupe join the musicians of The Family Stone, one of the first major national bands integrated along race and gender lines, for a new concert edition of a full-company work featuring a live band, outrageous costumes, striking lighting and visual effects, and gorgeous dance. It's a non-stop celebration, in Dorfman's words, of "the funk and joy of everyday life." Boston's Ethio-groove collective Debo Band gives new voIce To the music of Ethiopia's Golden ‘70s. They will be joined by Addis Ababa's traditional dance and music troupe Fendika, led by the amazing young eskista "shoulder dancer" Melaku Belay.
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and additional funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Community Connections Fund of the MetLife Foundation.

Friday, August 12 at 6:30 p.m.
Josie Robertson Plaza
CHINESE AMERICAN Arts Council MARTIAL ARTS SOCIETY:
FROM CHINATOWN WITH LOVE
On the ground and in the air, the extraordinary CAAC Martial Arts Society demonstrates the breathtaking virtuosity and explosive athleticism of traditional Chinese sword, spear, and knife fighting. In the near-miraculous traditional Face Changing style, as one face or mask disappears, another rises up to replace it.
Presented in association with the Chinese American Arts Council

Friday, August 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Damrosch Park Bandshell
Tan Dun conducts the METROPOLIS ENSEMBLE:
THE MARTIAL ARTS TRILOGY
A chamber orchestra dedicated to rendering classical lyricism in its most contemporary forms, the Metropolis Ensemble turns its attention to the kinetic music of Oscar-winning composer Tan Dun, who will conduct his Martial Arts Trilogy, a multimedia concert culled from music inspired by three popular Chinese films: Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Zhang Yimou's Hero, and Feng Xioagang's The Banquet.
Presented in association with the Chinese American Arts Council

Saturday, August 13 at 2 p.m.
Hearst Plaza Stage
28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
SID SELVIDGE & SONS OF MUD BOY
SUN RECORDS ORAL HISTORIES
Clawhammer banjoist Abigail Washburn has emerged as a gifted singer-songwriter after perfecting the most unlikely of fusions-between Appalachian music and Chinese folk. Soulful folk-rocker Sid Selvidge's astonishing voIce Takes the Memphis blues to another level, joined by Luther and Cody Dickinson, the sons of the influential late producer-musician Jim "Mud Boy & the Neutrons" Dickinson. Roots of American Music producer Spike Barkin starts the day with an onstage talk with the pioneering alumni of Sun Records, whose stories and recollections are a historical treasure trove.

Saturday, August 13 at 5 p.m.
Josie Robertson Plaza
28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival
EBONY HILLBILLIES
As one of the last black string bands in the U.S., the Hillbillies keep an important legacy alive with a rootsy, homegrown style that was a key element in the genesis of all-American music: jazz, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly, rock and roll, and country.

Saturday, August 13 at 6 p.m.
Damrosch Park Bandshell
28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival
MARTY STUART & HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES
TRIBUTE TO SUN RECORDS with SONNY BURGESS & THE LEGENDARY PACERS, COWBOY JACK
CLEMENT, RUDY "TUTTI" GRAYZELL, and HAYDEN THOMPSON
DAILEY AND VINCENT
Sixty years after Elvis broke through to bobbysoxers, Memphis's Sun Records still lays claim to early rock and roll's most enduring iconography, from blue suede shoes to men in rockabilly black. This bill comes at Sun's legacy from the country and bluegrass side of the equation: Marty Stuart, Sonny Burgess, and Cowboy Jack Clement all figured into the career of Johnny Cash. Rudy "Tutti" Grayzell and Hayden Thompson are esteemed members of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Dailey and Vincent are the award-winning rising stars of contemporary mountain music.
The Roots of American Music Festival is sponsored by Toyota.

Sunday, August 14 at 2 p.m.
28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival
Panel Discussions
David Rubenstein Atrium
SOUL TO SOUL: STAX'S AL BELL and Melvin Van Peebles
DIXIE FRIED-THE LIFE & MUSIC OF JIM DICKINSON
Join an intimate conversation with music business pioneer Al Bell, who transformed soul through his leadership of Stax Records, and blaxploitation film pioneer Melvin Van Peebles. The North Mississippi Allstars' Cody and Luther Dickinson will talk with Sid Selvidge about their father, the legendary producer and musician.

Sunday, August 14 at 5 p.m.
28th Annual Roots of American Music Festival
Damrosch Park Bandshell
STEVE CROPPER AND FRIENDS: TRIBUTE TO THE 5 ROYALES (New York debut)
with Bettye Lavette, ELLIS HOOKS, and DYLAN LEBLANC
THE BAR-KAYS
NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS DUO
BIG SAM'S FUNKY NATION
One of soul music's prime movers as guitarist for Booker T. & the MGs, songwriter, and talent scout for Stax Records, Steve Cropper pays homage to The 5 Royales, a seminal outfit whose synthesis of gospel, jump blues, and doo-wop pointed the way forward for the international recognition of soul music. Vocalists include fellow pioneer Bettye Lavette and retro stalwarts Ellis Hooks and Dylan LeBlanc, backed by a one-time-only gathering of studio session royalty: David Hood, Spooner Oldham, Leon Pendarvis, Anton Fig, Billy Block, Jon Tiven, and members of the Uptown Horns.
Stax-Volt veterans The Bar-Kays celebrate the legacy of the classic sound of hits "Soul Finger" and "Son of Shaft," their roots as the backing band for such pioneers as Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes, and a rebirth that freaked the dance floor with electro-funk anthems. Steeped in a family legacy of music and culture as rich as the black Mississippi dirt, raised on classic records, all-night juke joint boogie and moonshine-inspired trance blues, the North Mississippi Allstars filter old-field hollers into loud edge, modern primitive, blues-infused rock and roll. New Orleans-raised trombonist Big Sam Williams, formerly with the Dirty Dozen, has one goal: to get you out on the dance floor. Big Sam's Funky Nation embraces the party-all-the-time dance-machine ethos and works it until the sweat drips. Get on up!
The Roots of American Music Festival is sponsored by Toyota.

ALSO ON THE SCHEDULE...................

August 9 at 7:30 p.m.
David Rubenstein Atrium
Stax Film Series - WATTSTAX

Celebrate the cultural phenomenon of Stax Records with the last in a series of free film screenings.
"Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get," says the opening song, and Wattstax, the dynamic film of the 1972 Los Angeles event attended by over 100,000 concertgoers and first billed as the "black Woodstock," will getcha plenty. Its performances burn with vitality. Its forays into the neighborhood are a time capsule of pride and pain. And the Richard Pryor comedy riffs that provide the film's running commentary are a treasure all by themselves. The film includes live performances by Isaac Hayes, the Staples Singers, Rufus Thomas, Johnnie Taylor, Albert King, the Bar-Kays, Carla Thomas, Little Milton, Luther Ingram, and other artists of the Stax family, and intros by emcee, a young Jesse Jackson.
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE and take place on the Lincoln Center campus-Hearst Plaza/Barclays Capital Grove, Damrosch Park, Josie Robertson Plaza, and Broadway Plaza and the David Rubenstein Atrium-located between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenues, West 65th Street to West 62nd Street.
Programs and artists subject to change.

Visit LCOutofDoors.org for complete schedule or call 212-875-5766 to request a brochure.

ABOUT LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS
Inaugurated in 1971 under director of community programming Leonard Depaur, Out of Doors began as a small festival of street theater, in collaboration with Everyman Theater (co-founded by actress Geraldine Fitzgerald.) Former Lincoln Center President John Mazzola's vision was "to bring the community to Lincoln Center and bring Lincoln Center to the community." Gradually expanding to include music and dance performances, the re-christened Lincoln Center Out of Doors has grown into one of the largest free performance festivals in the U.S. Over its 41-year history, Out of Doors has commissioned nearly 95 works from composers and choreographers and presented hundreds of major dance companies, renowned world-music artists, and legendary jazz, folk, gospel, blues and rock musicians, many under the auspices of its popular "Roots of American Music" mini-festival, and poets and storytellers as part of the annual "La Casita." It has highlighted the rich cultural diversity of New York City with performances by established ensembles and up-and-coming groups and has partnered with dozens of community and cultural organizations including the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lincoln Square Neighborhood Center, Brooklyn Arts Council, Bronx Council on the Arts, Center for Traditional Music and Dance, the Chinese American Arts Council, Americas Society, and Dancing in the Streets.

Performance and Event Locations:
BROADWAY PLAZA

Corner of Broadway and West 65th Street (grandstand plaza in front of AlIce Tully Hall)

DAMROSCH PARK

West 62nd Street, between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenue.

David Rubenstein ATRIUM

Broadway, between West 62nd and West 63rd Streets

HEARST PLAZA / BARCLAYS CAPITAL GROVE / MILLSTEIN POOL

North of the Metropolitan Opera House, in front of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and Lincoln Center Theater, near West 65th Street

JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA

Main plaza of Lincoln Center, fronting Columbus Avenue, between 63rd and 64th Street.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2011 is sponsored by Bloomberg and PepsiCo.

Additional support is provided by Toyota, Disney, Zabar's and Zabars.com, Abraham Perlman Foundation, The Weininger Foundation, Inc., Amtrak, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau, New England Foundation for the Arts, Great Performers Circle, Chairman's Council, the Friends of Lincoln Center, and Young Patrons of Lincoln Center.

Public support for Out of Doors 2011 is provided by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Kate D. Levin, Commissioner and New York State Council on the Arts.

Operation of Lincoln Center's public plazas is supported in part with public funds provided by the City of New York.
Endowment support is provided by PepsiCo.

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First Republic Bank is the Official Sponsor of the Fashion Lincoln Center Online Experience.

MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center, Inc.

"Summer at Lincoln Center" is sponsored by Diet Pepsi and The Wall Street Journal.

Lincoln Center Out of Doors is a presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA), which serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As a presenter of over 400 events annually, LCPA's programs include Great Performers, American Songbook, Lincoln Center Festival, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Live From Lincoln Center. In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major capital projects on behalf of the resident organizations.

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