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Antibalas SummerStage

Afrobeat orchestra, Antibalas perform live at SummerStage 2021.

Antibalas (“bulletproof” in Spanish) is an ensemble of quintessentially New York musicians making original Afrobeat and Afrocaribbean-inspired jazz and funk music. Founded in 1998 by Martín Perna with players from Brooklyn’s Daptone label, Antibalas grew from a local fixture to international feature on jazz and world music stages in the mid-2000s. Their mastery of the repertoire of Afrobeat icon Fela Kuti earned them a stint on Broadway in 2009 as the core of Bill T Jones’s FELA! Musical, and to later house band roles performing the music of Aretha Franklin, David Byrne and Paul Simon at Carnegie Hall (2014-2017). Their seventh and most recent album, Fu-Chronicles was nominated for 2020 GRAMMY® Best Global Music Album.

Date: Saturday September 18th, 2021

Time: 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM  (doors open at 5:00 for 2 short films at 6:00 from Rooftop Films Summer Series Films)

Location: Rumsey Playfield, Central Park

Tickets: FREE

Entry

Admission is first come, first serve. All free performances will be open to the public, general admission will be subject to venue capacity limits, and will follow CDC recommendations for health and safety related to COVID-19.

Please note: In response to the increasing spread of the COVID-19 Delta variant, SummerStage now requires all guests to show proof of full vaccination, along with government issued ID, in order to gain entry to the shows.

In order to attend Antibalas, guests are required to have had their final dosage of the vaccine by September 4.

In addition, masks are required upon entry to the venue and strongly encouraged for all guests for the duration of the performance, as is physical distance.

This performance will be livestreamed on SummerStageAnywhere.org.

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