Dumbo Arts Festival Digital Summit

Friday September 24 – Sunday September 26 St. Ann’s Warehouse The Dumbo Arts Festival is hosting the first annual 3-day Digital Summit celebrating new media, new technology and new ideas flourishing in the heart of the New York Digital District. The Summit features a series of panels, presentations, demonstrations and discussions with the innovators and

Dean Bowman | DAF Sidewalk Series

Saturday 9/25 3pm: Dean Bowman‘s Vocal Workshop (@55 Washington St., 2nd flr) Please RSVP to info@dumboartsfestival.com. 5pm: Dean Bowman performs (@Buzzito’s at Fulton Landing) ALL FREE. Dean Bowman’s specialty is traditional Black spirituals as the foundation of modern music and improvisation. At his workshop, he’ll sing, discuss his work and the history of black spirituals.

Clumber Corner Features | MORE Sidewalk Series Music

HIMALAYAS marching band | DAF Spectacle Performance Art & More

HIMALAYAS – a marching band experience like no other. With an ever-changing cast of characters, a songbook of today’s freshest composers and a penchant for smashing genres, HIMALAYAS is a spontaneous, organic, ephemeral pleasure-filled situation! Saturday Sept 25th afternoon.

Martha Mooke | DAF Music Workshops/Demos

Music Workshops and Demos Sunday Sept 26th 12pm Electro-Acoustic Violist/Composer Martha Mooke, a Yamaha Artist and leading electric strings clinician, offers up sounds, insights and hands-on opportunity to explore new approaches to string playing, creating & experiencing music. http://www.marthamooke.com/

Chamber Music Concerts | DAF Stage Performances

Chamber Music Concerts Curated by Bargemusic: Friday (Sept 24) and Saturday (Sept 25) – 8pm; Sunday (Sept 26) – 3pm At Bargemusic, a floating concert hall, Fulton Ferry Landing Music in Motion all year long – Bargemusic, the intimate floating concert hall is an ideal space to enjoy chamber music with spectacular views of the

The Prodigals | DAF Stage Performances

The Prodigals Sunday Sept 26th, 10pm @ Galapagos Art Space, 16 Main St. Dumbo One of the foremost Celtic rock bands in the United States (the Village Voice dubbed them “NYC’s jig-punk answer to the Pogues.”), The Prodigals masterfully fuse Irish traditional music with rock and jazz with six albums to their credit. prodigals.com/ The

Patrick Derivaz | DAF Music Workshops/Demos

Sunday September 26th, 11am Patrick Derivaz (Recording Workshop) @ Mick Management’s recording studio, 35 Washington St. at Water St. Distinguished music producer, composer, arranger, musician and engineer will guide attendees through the basics of record engineering. patrickderivaz.com Please RSVP in advance to info@dumboartsfestival.com. Patrick Derivaz works with musicians from classical, jazz , world, hip hop,

Jan Bell’s Curated Stage: Strung Out String Band, Jesse Lenat, Jan Bell, Shotgun Party, Will Scott | DAF Stage Performances

Curated by Jan Bell (Sat Sept 25 at Tobacco Warehouse) http://www.janbellmusic.com/ 3p: Strung Out String Band A six piece acoustic band dedicated to interpreting “Old Time Southern” music. strungoutstringband.com 4p: Jesse Lenat A singer, songwriter & actor living in Bklyn who opened Farm Aid 2007, performs a solo show about Woody Guthrie & plays in

DUMBO’s architecture & industrial history | DAF Walking Tours

Brooklyn Historical Society Meet outside the York St F Train Station. A one-hour tour of DUMBO’s architecture & industrial history with one of Bklyn’s leading historians, Francis Morrone Sun 1p & 2:30p, brooklynhistory.org 718.222.4111