Downtown Live

Tracks took its show outdoors for the first time on the main stage of the HOWL! festival in Tompkins Square Park in the Lower East Village and legendary artist, Baby Jane Dexter, had grown men weeping, hipsters riveted and every soul moved by her unforgettable rendition of the R.E.M. classic, 'Everybody Hurts' 

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another favorite of fans and critics alike, 'Steve Forbert's Midsummer Night's Toast', thrilled old and new fans that came to see him at his recent appearance at Joe's Pub.

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Steve Forbert is a singer/songwriter whose talent and love of music continues to create songs for himself and others. Here is his recent performance at Joe's Pub in New York of 'Romeo's Tune', which was a hit some time back and is still a favorite of many.

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Crosby joins Miz Metro in an affectionate duet at Sideshow: a Night of Singer/Songwriter Hip Hop that took place recently at the Knitting Factory. 

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Miz Metro performs 'Place 2 Be' at Sideshow: a Night of Singer/Songwriter Hip Hop at the Knitting Factory with her very special urban charms and talents.

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another performance from one of downtown's new favorites, Tippy, of 'Oh No' celebrates dancing and group joy in one of downtown's favorite spots, Plan B.

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Tippy is a Lower East Side hip hop artist whose independent spirit and talent are attracting attention from fans and critics alike and this performance from her last week's appearance at one of downtownTV.com's favorite boits, Plan B, is but the tippy of the iceberg.

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by popular demand, Downtown Live brings you another virtuoso performance by Consider The Source from Miz Metro's Urban Gypsy Circus at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center set to the backdrop of Dr Robotto's visual wonders.

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Flow (Rephstar, Pattydukes and Crosby) are joined by Alex Cowings and Michelle Mola in one of the first Flow performances from the Downtown Live show at the Ace of Clubs. Congrats to Pattydukes and Rephstar for winning the national latino hip-hop competition Cuervoton.

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this past weekend in an East Village club, Club Midway, took place an affectionate remembrance and revue of the fabled 1974 Rolling Thunder Revue, which the downtownTV.com founder enjoyed in 3 different cities in its original incarnation, and enjoyed once again this past weekend. an assortment of musical characters of the first order changed off as in the original and provided a thoroughly modern downtown take on that great event. be they harmonikatz, musically capable and affably able music industry-ites, a rolling good time was had by all.

there was some confusion about who performed Queen Jane Approximately so well and now we can say with certainty that it was Marc Philippe Eskenazi, a touring member of Albert Hammond, jr.'s group.

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Downtown Live stopped by Miz Metro's Urban Gypsy Circus at Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural Center and captured the amazing musical virtuosity of Consider The Source complemented by the video wizardry of Dr Robotto.

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part two of Downtown Live from that magical night at Joe's Pub features Leonard Cohen joining Anjani on 'Never Got to Love You', a song they co-wrote together, and Guy Singer's  'Whither Thou Goest'.

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last week a very special night took place at Joe's Pub when Leonard Cohen introduced Anjani, whose new album Blue Alert he co-wrote and produced. this week's Downtown Live features his poetic grace in introducing Anjani who then performs one of Leonard's own songs "The Gypsy's Wife".
stay tuned for next  week's episode, in which Leonard Cohen joins Anjani in a rare and magical live musical encounter.

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Downtown Live is happy to present this very special treat capturing the flavor of the instrumental and vocal magic of Junior Brown at Joe's Pub.

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downtownTV.com's roving camera in the night stopped by New York's finest music club, Joe's Pub, to enjoy the newest chapter in The Loser's Lounge, Joe McGinty's distinguished series of musical tributes, and captured this extraordinary performance of a Hall & Oates classic 'Every Time You Go Away" by Tricia Scotti with musical support by the distinguished Kustard Kings.

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once again a magic moment from the eternal enchantress Debbie Harry performing Blondie’s classic hit ‘Heart of Glass’ accompanied by her superb guitarist/cyclist Paul Carbonara at the recent Silver Ball celebrating Andy Warhol at the fabled Gershwin Hotel, captured by Downtown Live’s own cameraman about downtown.

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in Felice Rosser's second appearance on Downtown Live we once again encounter her sinuous style as she performs her rendition of ‘I Fall to Pieces’ accompanied by the masterful guitarist Naotaka Hakamada.

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one of downtownTV.com's favorite artists, Valerie Geffner, performs her own composition 'I'm My Own Boyfriend'.

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yet another special Downtown Live performance at Tyler Burba's broadside poetry salon at the Bowery Poetry Club. Sonic Youth's guitarist Lee Ranaldo read his most witty and trenchant poetic observations based on internet spam. they are followed by a classic performance by legendary jazz artist Lodi Carr of 'Yesterdays' which took place at Ace of Clubs.

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Downtown Live continues its coverage of the Gershwin Hotel's Andy Warhol celebration with a very special performance by Debbie Harry singing "The Dream's Lost On Me" accompanied by the exceptional Paul Carbonara on guitar.

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