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Pedal Power NYC   Pedal Power NYC is an organization dedicated to capturing and re-purposing human power with bicycles. We provide the bicycles and crew, you provide the Natural Ass! Since we’d all rather power our stage with natural ass than natural gas and other fossil fuels, we’ve developed a live human-powered system that does [...]

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Water is health. Our water is clean and drinkable. We in New York City are the fortunate few. Until the early 20th century, outbreaks of waterborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid fever, and dysentery were relatively common in the United States. It wasn’t an unusual way to die – and not especially pleasant. Today, thanks [...]

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Join us at New York City’s fiercest bike-powered music festival in Union Square on Sunday, June 26, 2011, from 12 to 5 p.m. NYC Celebrates Water Festival 2011, the groove capital of NYC this day, will feature mind-blowing performances by Vanessa Bley, Masa (Didi Gutman of Brazilian Girls and master producer Hector Castillo) and Gordon [...]

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Known to deliver “…a raucous set of danceable tracks, bringing an energy, technical prowess and a wildness rarely seen from young female artists today….” – (NY Times), Vanessa will showcase her self produced EP Sunday night with her band.  Bley is also founder of SPACE CAMP RADIO, a weekly online fracktivist show and is in [...]

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Well known by his pen name Gordon Voidwell, William Gordon Johnson is a Bronx-born singer, songwriter, musician and fashion writer. He is noted for his mixtape Voided Checks (2009), which has been called “electro-fantastic…hip-hop-esque [and] yacht-rockin.”Voidwell’s keen wit, incisive satire and undeniable danceability has earned him praise from critics and peers alike. A friend to [...]

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Robert Granata’s relationship with music has been relatively short. After hand building a dam in the amazon for the Zuma Tribe and many a conquest with exotic beautiful women in Buenos Aires and Rio, he decided to return to New York to not only touch peoples lives physically but emotionally as well. http://www.mattinofestival.com/

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Masa is a combination of sounds and words, generously brought to you by partners Didi Gutman (pictured) and Hector Castillo, + the invaluable contribution of friends. Hector and Didi’s musicals journeys have been marked by innumerable success and failures, encompassed by a high quality level in their work. The songs contain hypnotic passages, poetic words, dance grooves [...]

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The 17 year old poet/musician from Brooklyn, New York who’s works reflect socio-political conflicts as well as the human condition in today’s society. He plans on completing his first album with his band Four Corner Concept by the end of 2012.

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Steve Marchese (DJ Sema4) has been on a nearly 20-year mission to spread good music as far and wide as he can. It wasn’t until the advent of the Internet that he was able to do it completely on his own at www.scissorkick.com, one of a handful of music blogs that’s been proudly running for [...]

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Dr. Ben Zaitchik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Johns Hopkins University and a Steering Committee member of the Johns Hopkins Global Water Program. In his research and teaching, Ben focuses on issues of water sustainability and climate variability, with a focus on long-term water management and development [...]

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David Braun is an activist, artist, writer and justice advocate living in NYC.  He is a cofounder of United for Action, and works for the movie Gasland.  He has a propensity to take apart things that don’t work.

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ON megumi Akiyoshi is a performance/painting/installation artist, growing up in Tokyo, living/working in New York since 1999. She has been exhibiting her ‘ON Gallery’, a moving Gallery, and her installations/paintings around the globe. The five petals blossom, with its geniality, frequently appears in her work, symbolizes for her a continuous perpetuity from its scientific name, rotate [...]

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NYC based MUlti-instrumentalist/improviser/composer Tom Chess has played and recorded with some of the heaviest players in the improvisational scene (Dewey Redman, Butch Morris, Pharoah Sanders, Drew Gress). Also having deeply studied the Arabic, Turkish, and North African traditions he incorporated the tonal palette, rhythms, and forms of these traditional musics while never losing sight of [...]

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Tony Tixier is a young French jazz pianist. He grew up with classical and jazz music. He offers to the audience a poetic and aerial musical world, mixing jazz andcontemporary music rooted in the heart of improvisation. He played with Brian Melvin, Myron Walden, Walt Weiskopf and Dee dee Bridgewater. www.tonytixier.com

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Known to deliver “…a raucous set of danceable tracks, bringing an energy, technical prowess and a wildness rarely seen from young female artists today….” – (NY Times), Vanessa will showcase her self produced EP Sunday night with her band.  Bley is also founder of SPACE CAMP RADIO, a weekly online fracktivist show and is in [...]

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New York based guitarist and composer Patrick Higgins will perform a selection of works from his forthcoming record, featuring the music of J.S. Bach arranged for solo guitar and quadraphonic stereo amplifiers— the brutal Baroque with a modern twist. www.animal-band.com www.monkeymountain.us  

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Uniting in a pursuit to combine multiple arts, the impromptubes will be combining multi-instrumentalists and modern dance for a unique performance. Blowing both your ears eyes and minds! http://www.mattinofestival.com/

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Jason Lindner, leader of the band Now vs. Now, is a keyboardist and composer from Brooklyn. In the 90′s he recorded for Chick Corea, who called Jason a “musical universe.” Lindner’s 5 albums feature his music in various formats and he’s now working on his latest, “Breeding Ground,” an 11-piece band featuring vocalist Jeff Taylor. [...]

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Well known by his pen name Gordon Voidwell, William Gordon Johnson is a Bronx-born singer, songwriter, musician and fashion writer. He is noted for his mixtape Voided Checks (2009), which has been called “electro-fantastic…hip-hop-esque [and] yacht-rockin.”Voidwell’s keen wit, incisive satire and undeniable danceability has earned him praise from critics and peers alike. A friend to [...]

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Masa is a combination of sounds and words, generously brought to you by partners Didi Gutman (pictured) and Hector Castillo, + the invaluable contribution of friends. Hector and Didi’s musicals journeys have been marked by innumerable success and failures, encompassed by a high quality level in their work. The songs contain hypnotic passages, poetic words, [...]

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