NYC's Largest Presenter of Free Entertainment in the Parks, City Parks Foundation,...
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NYC's Largest Presenter of Free Entertainment in the Parks, City Parks
Foundation, Presents 75 Summer Concerts, Dance & Theater
CITYPARKS THEATER, CITYPARKS CONCERTS & CITYPARKS DANCE
NEW YORK, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- New York City's largest organization
dedicated to providing free performing arts programming in NYC parks, City
Parks Foundation, presents the full lineup of its 2009 summer schedule.
City Parks Foundation upholds the tradition of free arts festivals to ensure
that all in the city have the opportunity to experience the best in the arts
this summer, especially during a year when many have limited budgets for
summer entertainment. CityParks Theater presented by Time Warner, CityParks
Concerts, and CityParks Dance will provide valuable access to arts and culture
throughout the city, by bringing 75 performances to 21 parks throughout the
five boroughs free of charge.
The 2009 season marks several exciting new additions to the three festivals
including City Parks Foundation's first ever commissioned play, Dirt Rich by
Chisa Hutchinson, as part of CityParks Theater presented by Time Warner. The
festival also features a modern adaptation of William Shakespeare's A
Midsummer Night's Dream performed by the Continuum Company, and will also
welcome acclaimed poet, jessica Care moore, as she fuses music and spoken word
in her celebrated one-woman show, God is Not an American. Three-time New York
Innovative Theater Award winning production, Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment
will round out the festival with a genre-defying piece performed by the
company Witness Relocation.
CityParks Dance has another impressive season line-up including an interactive
dance experience for the audience led by the highly acclaimed ballet company
Morphoses/The Wheedon Company. The festival also presents African American
troupe Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, break dancing experts Illstyle &
Peace Productions, and nathantrice/RITUALS abstract expressionists. Dance
master classes will be featured before all performances, and will be taught by
dance professionals and choreographers.
CityParks Concerts is proud to present top musical acts including Grammy
award-winning R&B singer Chrisette Michele, salsa sensation Frankie Negron,
popular "experimental" band Man Man, and gospel music sensation and Grammy
Award-winning pastor of Brooklyn's Love Fellowship Tabernacle, Hezekiah
Walker. City Parks Foundation is also welcoming back the fan favorites
hip-hop group Naughty By Nature, KRS-One, and Slick Rick.
The full schedules are available online: www.CityParksFoundation.org/arts.
Photos of the artists are available upon request.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Christina E. Daigneault
212-710-9397 / 917-207-4686
Sin Hom
212-710-9395 / 215-776-5806
SOURCE City Parks Foundation
Christina E. Daigneault, +1-212-710-9397, +1-917-207-4686, or Sin Hom,
+1-212-710-9395, +1-215-776-5806
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