Music
Sounds Like Brooklyn: Beirut
Beirut
Opening Act: Kaki King
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.