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What to say about a music fest so festooned with fantastic local artists that’ll have you bump bump bumping your ass off for three days ‘n’ nights straight this coming weekend to quote the recording that used to play on loop outside the bumper car attraction at Coney Island back in the day…
…spread across three venues (Baby’s on Friday, Sultan on Saturday, 3DB on Sunday) in an orgy of forty musical entertainments minus the actual orgy and like the patter of Coney Island sideshow barkers of yore there’s nothing more authentically Gothamite than (literal) gig economy workin’ independent musicians just tryin’ to make a living, or at least a little extra spending money, which was the impetus for the three Rogue co-organizers to put this whole thing together with their stated aim to “promote equity and collaboration between musicians and venues…”
…and this looks to be possibly the most righteous festival of the summer (bonus points: who remembers the most righteous festival of the spring?!?) cuz this whole rogue’s gallery of greaet musicians will make you wanna say “riiiighteous” with the same enthusiasm and hand gestures of Raphael from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise a.k.a. the one from Brooklyn…
…but even more to the point it’ll make you wanna say “riiiighteous” cuz not only is the Rogue Music Fest being brought to you for a mere 20 buckaroos a day but it’ll be guaranteeing that 70% of those buckaroos are passed directly to the performing artists themselves which, it may shock you to hear, are sometimes not paid commensurate to their time and labor and talent despite enriching our lives to such a great degree which is the reason why your musician friends are always asking you to buy band logo ornamented anal beads and doilies and tube socks…
…but in all seriousness The Deli would like to congratulate Amy Klein (AK & the Hallucinations), Natalie Field (Hot Tea), and Roni Corcos (RONI) alongside Allison Becker (Wetsuit) who contributed to the early stages of planning, for conceiving, assembling, and for soon pulling off such a major undertaking alongside the venues, staff, artists and attendees (you!) all in support of sustaining local, independent music making and working to make it more fair and equitable for the musicians in the process and what could be more righteous than that… (Jason Lee)
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…and finally, if you attend, be sure to come and visit The Deli we’ll be sitting in our limo outside…