{"id":12602,"date":"2010-06-22T09:28:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T13:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/?p=12602"},"modified":"2019-06-25T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T11:33:16","slug":"bam-rhythm-and-blues-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/12602\/bam-rhythm-and-blues-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Play That Funky Music: BAM&#8217;s Rhythm and Blues Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"R&amp;B Festival BAM\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4723245302_4792d50b25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"238\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter lazyload\" title=\"R&amp;B Festival BAM\" src=\"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/4723245302_4792d50b25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"238\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I know it\u2019s hot, but there is no excuse for missing some of the finest musicians in the business at the <strong>2010 BAM Rhythm &amp; Blues Festival at Metrotech<\/strong> in downtown Brooklyn. Every Thursday through August 5 there will be a free outdoor concert just a few steps away from nearly every subway line in the city of New York.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nYou\u2019ve already missed Jennifer Holliday, Tony Allen\u2014who played with Fela for 15 years\u2014and Bernie Worrell\u2019s SociaLybrium. While listening to one of his open-air sets two weeks ago, I began to feel that he was truly channeling Jimi Hendrix. Do not miss this Thursday\u2019s concert featuring Victor Wooten, one of the hottest jazzmen in the business today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is live music at its best with an appreciative audience sitting (and standing) in the shady center courtyard of Metrotech. Grab a sandwich at any of the dozen local eateries within shouting distance of the stage, kick back, and extend your lunch break into a cool musical memory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to get there:<\/strong><em> Take the 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, M, F, G, R, A, or C trains to downtown Brooklyn, walk one to three blocks and you are at center stage, located on the lawn at MetroTech Commons. MetroTech Commons is situated in the Civic Center\/Borough Hall area of Downtown Brooklyn at the corner of Flatbush and Myrtle Avenues. For more specifics, and bus options: visit bam.org.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019s hot, but there is no excuse for missing some of the finest musicians in the business at the 2010 BAM Rhythm &amp; Blues Festival at Metrotech in downtown Brooklyn. Every Thursday through August 5 there will be a free outdoor concert just a few steps away from nearly every subway line in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,320,315],"tags":[285,142,24,20,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-12602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"category-brooklyn-outer-boroughs-destination","8":"category-day-trips","9":"tag-cultural-activity","10":"tag-festival","11":"tag-jazz","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-outdoors"},"acf":[],"mv":{"thumbnail_id":null,"thumbnail_uri":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offmetro.com\/ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}