Sounds Like Brooklyn: Beirut
Part of the 2009 Spring Season and Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival
Beirut
Opening Act: Kaki King
Fri, Feb 6 at 8pm
Sat, Feb 7 at 8pm
In February, BAM celebrates the music of Brooklyn with two weekends of concerts at BAM and at clubs around the borough. Featuring Brooklyn-based bands and solo artists from Bed-Stuy to Brighton Beach and everywhere in between, Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival (formerly known as Brooklyn Next) proves that Brooklyn is a hotbed for distinctive and innovative music.
Kicking off the program, Beirut performs on the Opera House stage, bringing an arsenal of accordions, mandolins, euphoniums, and glockenspiels. Wunderkind Zach Condon fronts the ragtag ensemble, performing ukulele-tinged brass band laments wrought from global experience and youthful optimism.
Opening for Beirut, Brooklyn-based Kaki King, named the first female “Guitar God” by Rolling Stone, combines fret-tapping with slap bass techniques, using her guitar as drum, while layering and looping her own sounds to create percussive and complex compositions.
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Running time: Approximately 120 min with intermission
Tickets: $20, 25
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Kaki King's fret-tapping and slap bass technique have set a new standard of guitar artistry. More