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Communications Department Sandy Sawotka Fatima Kafele News Release Eva Chien Tamara McCaw Jennifer Lam 718.636.4129 BAM presents a special evening with funk legends [email protected] Morris Day & The Time and Brooklyn's own soul-stylists Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings . Special Screening of Purple Rain follows the concert
Concert is part of 2006 Rhythm & BAM series
BAM 2006 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg. Rhythm & BAM is part of Diverse Voices at BAM presented by Time Warner, Inc.
Morris Day & The Time Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings
Programmed by Danny Kapilian Rhythm & BAM lighting designed by Roma Flowers
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Avenue) Jan 28 at 7:30pm Tickets: $20, 30, 35 Call: 718.636.4100 or visit www.bam.org
Purple Rain BAM Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue) Jan 28 at 11pm Tickets: $8 for concert ticket holders/$1 0 for non-ticket holders Call: 718.636.4100 or visit www.bam.org
Brooklyn, NY/Dec 28, 2005--As part of the fourth annual Rhythm & BAM concert series, BAM is proud to present Morris Day & The Time and Brooklyn' s own Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings in a special evening of funk, soul, R&B, and pure entertainment. The performance will take place in the Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave) on Jan 28 at 7:30pm.
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Tickets, priced at $20, 30, and 35, may be purchased by calling BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or by visiting www.BAM.org.
"What time is it? " is the rallying cry from funk and R&B group Morris Day & The Time. Established by Prince in 1981 , The Time honed an outrageous, theatrical stage act in Minneapolis and released the ground breaking funk albums The Time ( 1981 ), What Time Is It? ( 1982), Ice Cream Castle ( 1984), and Pandemonium (1990). Their records spawned a string of hit dance singles in the 80's-including "Get it Up," "Cool," "Jungle Love," "777-9311," and the song that created a dance of the same name, "The Bird." Led by flamboyant frontman Morris Day, The Time's infectious, multi-layered concerts are a unique musical experience that includes comical skits, Zoot-suits, and dance routines. The Time' s music, along with Morris Day' s antics with colleague Jerome Benton, were featured in the classic cult film Purple Rain. Their latest album It's About Time was released in 2004-a year which also saw the band open for Prince on select dates of his "Musicology" tour.
The show opens with the old-school soul of Brooklyn's own Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings. Smoky-voiced Sharon Jones honed her vocal skills in the church. As a teenager she moved with her family from Augusta, Georgia to Brooklyn, NY, and found herself doing back-up vocals for gospel, soul, and blues artists. She teamed with the Dap-Kings-the formidable house band for Brooklyn-based funk and soul label Daptone Records, led by bassist and producer Bosco Mann-and they released 2002's Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. After extensive worldwide touring, the band released its most recent album, Naturally, in 2005. According to The Houston Press, the album captures the "analog swing classic of James Brown funk and the pop-minded soul of vintage Motown." The Austin Chronicle says of the band: "Brooklyn took it, placed it in the trusty hand of Bosco Mann, and the funk has been better for it ever since."
A special screening of Purple Rain will be shown in the BAM Rose Cinemas following the concert. In the movie Prince plays "The Kid", a cynical, struggling musician at the First A venue, a popular club in Minneapolis. His career is suffering when a young singing hopeful (Apollonia Kotero) arrives at the club in search of her own fame. Their blossoming relationship is short lived when she accepts an offer from Morris Day, the Kid 's club competition. The screening will take place on Saturday Jan 28 at 11 pm. Tickets for this screening are $8 for concert ticket holders, $10 for non-ticket holders and can be purchased by calling BAM Ticket Services at 718.636.4100 or visiting www.bam.org.
About the music curator
Danny Kapilian is an independent producer, programmer, and music consultant for BAM and other performing arts centers and presenters including the NC Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall, and Jazz at Lincoln. Kapilian 's live production for BAMhave included Party At The End of Time: 1999 Live featuring The Roots and numerous guest artists celebrating music by Prince (1999 BAM Next Wave Festival), A Magic Science: Celebrating Jimi Hendrix (2000 BAM Next Wave Festival), the annual BAM Rhythm & Blues Festival at MetroTech (since 1995), and the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Day Celebration. In 2004 he produced "Sing The Truth: A Tribute To Nina Simone" at Carnegie Hall for the NC Jazz Festival.
About Rhythm & BAM
Now in its fourth year, Rhythm & BAM is an annual performance series at BAM which spotlights music from the African Diaspora including rock, jazz, soul, gospel, blues, R&B, funk, and hip-hop. Other events include a gospel concert with Alvin Slaughter and The Greater Allen Cathedral Mass Choir and Band on January 21 at 7:30 and a spoken word and hip-hop evening with Arrested Development, poets from Urban Word NYC, and Ml of hip-hop group dead prez on January 27 at 7:30pm. All events take place in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House.
For press information contact Fatima Kafele at 718.636.4129x4 or [email protected]
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Credits BAM 2006 Spring Season is sponsored by Bloomberg. Rhythm & BAM is part of Diverse Voices at BAM presented by Time Warner, Inc. Additional support for Rhythm & BAM is provided by Con Edison.
Programming in the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House is supported and endowed by The Howard Gilman Foundation.
BAM thanks its many donors and sponsors, including: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The New York City Council, Brooklyn Delegation of the New York City Council, Brooklyn Delegation of the U.S. House of Representatives, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, New York State Council on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, The Estate of Richard B. Fisher, The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Starr Foundation, The Shubert Fotmdation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Skirball Foundation, The Kovner Foundation, and Robert W. Wilson Foundation. JPMorgan Chase is BAM's Lead Corporate Partner. New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge is the official hotel for the Next Wave Festival. Yamaha is the official piano of BAM. RiGA is the sponsor ofBAM.org.
General information
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAM Rose Cinemas, BAMcafe, and Shakespeare & Co. BAMshop are located in the Peter Jay Sharp building at 3 0 Lafayette A venue (between St Felix Street and Ashland Place) in the Fort Greene neighborhood of Brooklyn. BAM Harvey Theater is located two blocks from the main building at 651 Fulton Street (between Ashland and Rockwell Places). BAM Rose Cinemas is Brooklyn's only movie house dedicated to first-run independent and foreign film and repertory programming. BAMcafe, operated by Great Performances, also features an eclectic mix of spoken word and live music on Friday and Saturday nights. A $21 three-course dinner at BAMcafe is available Thu-Sat for BAM Rose Cinemas ticket holders (day of screening only). BAMcafe is open Thursday-Saturday from 5pm-closing. Additionally, BAMcafe is open two hours prior to all Howard Gilman Opera House and Harvey Theater performances.
Subway: 2, 3, 4, 5, Q, B to Atlantic Avenue; D, M, N, R to Pacific Street; G to Fulton Street; C to Lafayette Avenue Train: Long Island Railroad to Flatbush A venue Bus: B25, B26, B41, B45, B52, B63, B67 all stop within three blocks of BAM
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