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SUMMARY:Madison Square Music: Noam Pikelny and Friends, The Sweetback Sisters, and Spuyten Duyvil
DESCRIPTION: Virtuosic banjo player Noam Pikelny headlines MSPC’s 10-year anniversary July 4th celebration with his band of friends including Alex Hargreaves, Aoife O’ Donovan (Crooked Still), Chris Eldridge (Punch Brothers) and Mark Schatz (Claire Lynch Band). Part of the acclaimed bluegrass group Punch Brothers , and winner of the first "Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass Music," Pikelny is, “a player of unlimited range and astonishing precision,” (Steve Martin). The Sweetback Sisters, Emily Miller and Zara Bode, may not be blood relations, but their precise, family-style harmonies recall the best of country music from the Everlys to The Judds, as well as the spirited rockabilly energy of Wanda Jackson, one of the band’s role models. Like the artists they admire, the Sweetbacks are concerned with the traditional subjects of heartbreak, revenge, remorse, and staying strong in the face of relationships gone wrong, albeit with a contemporary sensibility. Spuyten Duyvil, Dutch slang for “in spite of the devil” as well as the creek connecting the Harlem and Hudson Rivers, is a new band of eight old souls playing and singing their hearts out. Led by husband and wife duo Mark Miller (guitar, Bouzouki, vocals) and Beth Jamie Kaufman (vocals), they lean on the history, folklore, and sounds of the last century to craft an energetic bluesy, bluegrass, jug band, Old Timey influenced force. 
LOCATION:Oval Lawn (in Madison Square Park)
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