Friday line up includes:
12:00 - 12:45 pm
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
"If we could, we'd pour this sound on pancakes." -The Boston Globe
1:00 - 1:45 pm
Umphreys Mcgee
5:00 - 5:45 pm
The Mutaytor with Mickey Hart and Baaba Maal
"This act is unique, and arguably one of the best live shows running on the West Coast. The show is a must-see for anyone who likes to be entertained and moved viscerally. Indeed, The Mutaytor is as entertaining as the Blue Man Group." -Lauri Shaw, Music Connection
6:00 - 6:45 pm
TBC

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GLOBAL ARTISTS COALITION AND CONVERSE BRING RARE HIP-HOP ARTIFACTS, INNOVATIVE PERFORMANCES AND A SNEAKER PAINTING COMPETITION TO NYC

Hip-Hop Legend Bobbito Garcia and Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah to Host Landmark

WHAT:Hosted by Sneaker aficionado Bobbito Garcia, and Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah, Global Artists Coalition and Converse – in conjunction with Footlocker and Foot Action – will bring their popular sneaker-painting competition, a landmark exhibit of rare hip-hop handbills and urban photography, and several innovative performances to New York City, to raise awareness of hip-hop’s past and spotlight its creative future.

The event will Feature:

·The “Converse Sneaker Art Battle,” which offers emerging artists the opportunity to “tag” a classic white Pro Leather shoe with their own inspired creations. Participants’ pieces will be judged and considered for a special limited-edition athletic shoe from Converse.

·An exhibit of hip-hop historian Curtis Sherrod’s rare hip-hop handbills, which promoted legendary old-school parties during the late ’70s and early ’80s, and photojournalist Jamel Shabazz’s gritty snapshots of the emerging hip-hop scene from 1980-1989, from his critically-praised books Back in the Day and A Time Before Crack.

·A special performances by Bam the Liquid Robot, whose hip-hop dance routines are enthusiastically acclaimed for their passionate virtuosity and stylistic flair; the vocal innovation of Kid Lucky and his freewheeling and funky oral orchestra; and the trailblazing ensemble Asa Yaa. Boasting musicians, dancers and singers, and glorifying the connection between African culture and modern African-American art, this Brooklyn-based company has toured the world to great acclaim.

WHO: Hot 97 DJ Raqiyah will host from 2 pm – 5 pm. Hip-hop legend Bobbito Garcia, host of ESPN 2’s It’s The Shoes and author of Where'd You Get Those? New York City's Sneaker Culture: 1960-1987, will MC from 5pm – 8 pm

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Joan Didion is the 2005 winner for the National Book Award in Nonfiction for The Year of Magical Thinking. She has been a novelist, essayist and screenwriter for more than three decades and was awarded the 1996 Edward MacDowell Medal and the 1999 Columbia Journalism Award. In May 2005 she received the Gold Medal for Belles Lettres from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is the highest honor the Academy awards to a writer, once every six years. Ms. Didion currently lives in New York and is a contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.

W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Awards in Poetry for Migration: New and Selected Poems. Born in New York City in 1927, he worked from 1949 to 1951 as a tutor in France, Mallorca, and Portugal; for several years afterward he made his living by translating from French, Spanish, Latin, and Portuguese. His many awards include the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, the Bollingen Award, the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, as well as fellowships from the Rockefeller and the Guggenheim Foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is the author of dozens of books of poetry and prose; his most recent volume of poems is Present Company (Copper Canyon, 2005). For the past thirty years he has lived in Hawaii.

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