Three days of MusicFest 2009 brought Rock, Hip Hop, Pop and Jazz to Downtown New York. The first day, August, 27th, in City Hall Park Diane Birch, Jemina Pearl, The Smithereens.

The second day, August 28th, rain moved the J&R MusicFest indoors to the J&R Music World stage were a packed house enjoyed powerful performances by
Melinda Watts, J Moss, Clipse, and Mario.

The third day, August 29th, the MusicFest was back to City Hall Park, a fantastic show that moved musically from Hip Hop to Pop to Jazz. Performers were
KRS-One and Buckshot, LeToya,
Nikki Yanofsky, Roberta Gambarini and Roy Hargrove.
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Unfortunate rain storm moved the J&R MusicFest indoors to the Music World stage, but didn’t dampen the spirit of the music. In fact, the more intimate setting seemed to intensify the love of music shown by the performers and their fans. The Friday evening event produced three hours of strong preformances by Melinda Watts, J Moss, Clipse, and Mario.

Again, the bloggers, tweeters and YouTube videographers did a fine job of capturing and informing those not in attendance the magic of the occasion.

Here is a sampling found early in the day after. With all sources promising more to come. Continue Reading »

Although our MusicFest 2009 is centered an amazing three day schedule of brilliant artists performing for free outdoors in City Hall Park, Manhattan, if you add in this week’s schedule of free, live performances in J&R Music World across the street on Park Row, it is five days of live music.

This week’s music starts Tuesday, August 25th at 12:30 pm with two simultaneous performances: Jazz wunderkinder pianist, Eldar, upstairs in J&R’s Jazz Store (23 Park Row, 2nd Floor) and the dancehall-tinged, four-part harmonies of T.O.K. downstairs in the Pop Music Store (23 Park Row, 1st Floor). In both cases, the performances will be followed by autograph signings.
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The second day of MusicFest, Friday, August 28th, the free outdoor music performances start at 5:00 pm with Gospel singer, Melinda Watts, followed at 5:30 pm by J Moss. Hip Hop duo, Clipse comes on at 6 pm, R&B balladeer, Mario takes the stage at 7 pm.

Natural can be described as innate or instinctive in essence, disposition or temperament. Quite simply, natural can be summed up as God-given or God-inspired because it comes so easily. When 20 year-old Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, actor Mario realized that his talents came to him naturally, his growth and acceptance of these gifts aptly produced his third album, Go. “I feel like this is what I’m supposed to be doing. I’m supposed to be at this place in every aspect of my life, from personal to business. This is where I am, this is where I chose to be.” Continue Reading »