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BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival

Violent Femmes / Kristin Hersh

BUD LIGHT MUSIC SERIES

Violent Femmes and Kristin Hersh come together for an epic night of 80s alt-rock. 

Date

Jun 18, 2016

6:30PM GATES / 7:30 PM SHOW

Cost

FREE

Location

Prospect Park Bandshell (2020)
9th Street & Prospect Park West
Brooklyn, NY 11215
United States
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  • Violent Femmes

    Photo: Ebru Yildiz

  • Kristin Hersh

    Photo: Courtesy of the artist


BUD LIGHT MUSIC SERIES 


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The first new album in fifteen years from VIOLENT FEMMES, We Can Do Anything, finds frontman Gordon Gano’s seething angst and rueful humor undiminished — the record pulses with “the playful quirkiness, infectious beats, and jittery observations of the band’s earliest work.” (NPR Music) It has a been a long road here. Violent Femmes came together in 1981 and were quickly recognized as one of the most inventive and surprising bands of the era with their singular blend of folk and punk, sarcasm and spirituality. Gano, bassist Brian Ritchie, and original drummer Victor DeLorenz got their first break while busking outside the Oriental Theater in their home town of Milwaukee, where the Pretenders were about to headline a sold out show. Chrissie Hynde & Co. invited them to open on the spot and they never looked back; they released eight albums between their 1983 self-titled platinum-selling classic and 2000’s Freak Magnate before taking a long break from recording. They’re back with a vengeance, and remain an anomaly and an enigma — a sly riddle at the center of American roots music that is yet to be solved.

KRISTIN HERSH’s trenchant explorations of “rage, aggression, and mental chaos” (NY Times) with Throwing Muses helped define American alt rock in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Her subsequent work as a solo artist and with her power trio 50 Foot Wave, if less celebrated, is equally vital. Now the author of six books, including the exceptional memoir Rat Girl, she remains a ferociously intense presence onstage.


Friends Member Seating & Tent Access

Friends Seating: Front seats open to Seat-Pass and Tent-Pass members 
Friends Tent: Open to Tent-Pass members
Sponsor Tent: Closed for a Private Event


Venue Information:

The BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival is one of New York City's longest running, free, outdoor performing arts festivals and is held every summer at the Prospect Park Bandshell. View seating arrangements here.

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