- Date: Sunday June 14, 2015
- Time: 1 pm
- Place: Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park
- Battery Park City, Lower Manhattan (access: Battery Place)
- Subways: 4 or 5 to Bowling Green / R to Whitehall Street-South Ferry/1 to Rector Street / J to Broad Street
- Information: http://easternidaho.org/event/family-concert-with-socalled/
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy and the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene present an all-ages performance by Socalled on Sunday June 14, 2015, as part of KulturefestNYC. Families are invited to bring a blanket or a picnic lunch as they enjoy a fun family-friendly concert and the amazing views of New York Harbor.
Socalled, born Josh Dolgin, is a Montreal based musician, known for mixing hip hop and klezmer into a unique blend of acoustic and electronic music. A pianist and accordion player as well as a rapper and producer, Socalled has collaborated with artists as varied as Fred Wesley, the Mighty Sparrow, Roxanne Shante, Matisyahu, Theodore Bikel, and Derrick Carter. The subject of The Socalled Movie, a feature documentary produced by the National Film Board of Canada, he has been making records and touring the world for over a decade.
KulturefestNYC is an eight day festival of music, theater, films, and lectures celebrating the culture of the Jewish diaspora, as well as the centennial of the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, the longest running Yiddish theater in the world.
For more information on Socalled: http://socalledmusic.com/
For more information on KulturefestNYC: http://kulturfestnyc.org/
