Award-Winning Talents Common and OK GO to Headline Lowdown Hudson Music Fest This July

The two-day festival is a summer highlight in Lower Manhattan, drawing more than 15,000 attendees annually. Previous headliners have included legends The Roots, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Los Lobos, Neko Case, and Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings.

"We are thrilled to be adding Common and OK GO to our list of outstanding Lowdown Hudson Music Fest headliners," said Karen Kitchen, Vice President, Arts Brookfield. "Lowdown has become an eclectic summer music festival staple in New York. The Waterfront Plaza is the perfect setting for this annual communal party for music lovers, with all the creative dining and shopping options of Brookfield Place."

Grammy and Academy Award winning rapper, actor, producer and poet Common opens the festival on Tuesday, July 18. Common's illustrious career began in 1992 with the release of Can I Borrow a Dollar? and he is now one of the most well-known voices in modern rap and R&B. In 2003, Common won his first Grammy Award: Best R&B Song for "Love of My Life" with Erykah Badu. Its popularity was matched by May 2005's Be, which was nominated for Best Rap Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. Common was awarded his second Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, for "Southside (featuring Kanye West)" in 2007. Common won the 2015 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and the 2015 Academy Award for Best Original Song for his song "Glory" from the 2014 film Selma, in which he co-starred as Civil Rights Movement leader James Bevel.

On Wednesday, July 19, high-energy pop-rock pioneers OK GO take the stage. Formed as a quartet in Chicago in 1998 before relocating to Los Angeles, OK GO (Damian Kulash, Tim Nordwind, Dan Konopka, Andy Ross) have spent their career in a steady state of transformation. On their most recent EP, the band worked with longtime producer and friend Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Weezer, MGMT), while also enlisting a new collaborator in veteran Tony Hoffer, (Beck, Phoenix, Foster the People) to create their most comfortable and far-reaching songs yet.

For more information about the 2017 Lowdown Hudson Music Fest at Brookfield Place NY, visit artsbrookfield.com/lowdown.

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