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WRECKLESS ERIC UP ON THE ROOF! STYLES & MICK COLLINS at HSH! NYNT to PDX PICKATHON & LA’s GREEN SLIME!


Friday, Aug 3 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Josh Styles and special guest Mick Collins, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Work your way down into our subterranean party cave to shake a tail feather to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of JOSH STYLES of DADDY LONG LEGS/Rebel Rouser and MICK COLLINS of GORIES/DIRTBOMBS’ most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl spinning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Friday, August 3 Portland, OR – NY Night Train to Pickathon Festival 10:20pm – 1am Jonathan Toubin returns to one of the best festivals in the world for a free-for “maximum rock’n’soul” explosion!
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Saturday, August 4 Los Angeles, CA – Green Slime Anniversary with Jonathan Toubin, Russel Quan, Rick Barzell, Roger Mars, and live Killing Floors 9PM – 1AM, 21+ $7/$10 Los Angeles’ Green Slime brings Jonathan Toubin and thee huge cultural force and big beat that is Russell Quan (The Mummies, etc) to yr town to add our combined ecstatic energies to their epic four year anniversary fiesta at Resident that also includes a live set by thee deadly Killing Floors and of course thee fabulous twin talents that are Rick Barzell and Roger Mars! i’m very proud of my pals and everything they’ve accomplished in the last four years. let’s come out celebrate these handsome young men and the big bad partay that we can by now safely call an El Lay institution!
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Sunday, August 5 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady – NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream with live Wreckless Eric and djs Jonathan Toubin and Eric Davidson of New Bomb Turks, 8pm – 3am, $10 Optional Donation During The Band/FREE After: Wreckless Eric exploded into the world with his 1977 smash hit “Whole Wide World” and proceeded to become an underground music household name through a consistent procession of eclectic Stiff Records pop classics. In the decades since, Eric has prolifically plugged away with a vast array of solo albums, projects with bands like The Captains of Industry, and collaborations with Amy Rigby, and countless world tours. Onstage he hides behind nothing, he tells the truth with big open chords, lilting enchantment, squalls of feedback, dissonance, bizarre stories and backchat. As “Whole Wide World” continues to take on a life of its own throughout mainstream culture, Wreckless Eric remains one of underground music’s most distinctive and life-affirming live acts. Don’t miss this rare intimate performance at this amazing party! Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM! NYC’s Sunday rooftop soul dance party and escape up on Our Wicked Lady’s Sky Terrace is an ecstatic moonlit evening of 60s soul vinyl dancing with Jonathan Toubin and special guest DJ Eric Davison of New Bomb Turk, tropical cocktails, and breezy outdoor vibes at the top of the stairs! Get down up on the roof!
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upcoming nite training:
– Friday, August 10 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin facebook event

– Saturday, August 11 Portland, ME – Space Gallery: Soul Clap & Dance-Off w/Jonathan Toubin facebook event

– Sunday, August 12 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady – NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream with live Tough Sh ! ts, Jonathan Toubin and friends! facebook event

– Friday, August 17 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin facebook event

– Saturday, August 18 wedding

– Sunday, August 19 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady – NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream with live Wyldelife, Jonathan Toubin and friends! facebook event

– Friday, August 24 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin facebook event

– Saturday, August 25 Durham, NC – Pinhook: Soul Clap & Dance-Off w/Jonathan Toubin tickets | facebook event

– Sunday, August 26 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady – NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream with live Tower and Big Eyes, Jonathan Toubin and friends! facebook event

– Friday, August 31 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin facebook event

– Friday, September 7 Lehavot HaBashan, Israel – Pecan Park: Meteor Festival with Kamasi Washington, A$AP Ferg, Pusha T, Flying Lotus, The Black Angels, Ariel Pink, Mahmoud Ahmed, Faust, Laetitia Sadier, Laraaji, Jonathan Toubin, etc ( facebook event | tickets

– Friday, September 7 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/special guests

– Saturday, September 8 – London, UK – Shacklewell Arms: Soul Clap and Dance-Off w/Jonathan Toubin and more facebook event

– Monday, September 10 Morrison, Colorado – Red Rocks Amphitheater: Mac Demarco, NoName, Free Nationals, and Jonathan Toubin and friends facebook event | tickets

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NYNT TO WICKER PARK FESTIVAL! SOUL SCREAM’ w/CRUSH (COLE & ZUMI o BLACK LIPS), and SHAKIN’


Friday, June 27 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Work your way down into our subterranean party cave to shake a tail feather to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl spinning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, July 28 Chicago – Wicker Park Festival with Get Up Kids, DJ Oriaon, Sir The Baptist, Jonathan Toubin, etc, 1pm – 10pm, all ages, FREE! Chicago’s huge thousands-storng three day daytime block party features a Jonathan Toubin 7:30pm set and a whole lot more!
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Sunday, July 29 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Jonathan Toubin B-Day Sunday Soul Scream! with live CRUSH and all night soul dancing with DJs Josh Styles, Todd O Phonic Todd, Phast Phreddie, Avi Spivak, Reyes Rodriguez, Drew Redmond, Natalia Z. Garzón, Nicholas Gazin, Drew Groove, etc etc etc working all not so Jonathan Toubin doesn’t have to! 8pm – 3am, FREE – $5 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!):
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NYC! REIGNING SOUND CLAP w/LENNY KAYE y mas! SOUL SCREAM w/BOYTOY! SHAKIN’!


Friday, June 20 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Work your way down into our subterranean party cave to shake a tail feather to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl spinning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, July 21 Brooklyn, NY Elsewhere – Soul Clap and Dance-Off with Reigning Sound, Miriam and Nobody’s Babies, all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin, the NY Night Train Shadow Dancers, and Spencer Bewley… 12AM Dance-Off with dj Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group, etc), Steve Myers (Afghan Wigs), and more! $20 / $10: The 21st Century’s most popular and prolific soul party and a legendary NYC nightlife institution is now at Bushwick’s Elsewhere! Thee one and only New York Night Train SOUL CLAP & DANCE-OFF! One of the world’s most distinctive shindigs, the all-night fiesta is chock full o’live music, dancing, & visuals features an incredible agglomeration of non-stop talent! July’s edition features a full set by one of the best and most consistently compelling contemporary rock’n’roll bands out there Reigning Sound (who else in the last couple of decades has produced such a vast arsenal of super-solid classic jams?) This is RS’s first NYC appearance in years and their legendary shows are not to be missed! Also get excited for a live performance by the fabulous Miriam and Nobody’s Babies (the rockin’ girl group-informed 60s rock and baroque pop project of the iconic Miriam Linna of Norton Records, The Cramps, A-Bones, etc) followed by all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin / New York Night Train, THE NY NIGHT TRAIN SHADOW DANCERS, the 16mm projections of Spencer Bewley, THE $100 MIDNIGHT Metropolis Vintage DANCE-OFF with Lenny Kaye Fans (Patti Smith Group, Nuggets, etc), and much more!
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Sunday, July 22 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Sunday Soul Scream! with live Boytoy and Miranda and The Beat and all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and special guest David Paris of Cleveland’s Secret Soul Club! 8pm – 3am, FREE – $5 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!): Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM! NYC’s Sunday rooftop soul dance party and escape up on Our Wicked Lady’s Sky Terrace! SATURDAY, JUNE 22 the party train keeps a’rollin’ with another extraordinary fiesta! Get ready for a rare NYC live performance by the cosmopolitan globetrotting rocknroll aggregation we know as BOYTOY and the fab new kid in town MIRANDA AND THE BEAT! Then stick around to get moved dancing deep into the wee hours by the o.g. 45rpm sweaty 60s soul satisfaction of your favorite dee jay JONATHAN TOUBIN and special guest David Paris of Cleveland’s Secret Soul CLub! As always, breezy moonlit summer vibes, tropical frozen cocktails, and person to person electricity…. From dusk til dawn! Get down up on the roof!
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FRIDAY THE 13TH, 2 DAY ROCKAWAY BEACH BASH! SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM!


Friday, July 13 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: Lucky Friday the 13th NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Jonathan Toubin is back from out west tour and ready to turn his most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours for this Lucky Friday the 13th edition of Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! All fire! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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– Saturday, July 14 – Sunday, July 15 Rockaway Beach – Jacob Riis Park Bathhouse Pavilion: NY Night Train Rockaway Beach Bazaar Bath House Blowout! Sat and Sun (both days!), Noon – 6PM, FREE Both Saturday July 14 and Sunday July 15, Jonathan Toubin takes over the Riis Park Beach Bazaar Bathhouse Pavilion from Noon – 6PM! Two consecutive days of sun, fun, good eats, strong drinks, arcade games, ping pong, air hockey, surfing, swimming, camping, music, and rock and soul dancing at this super-spectacular newly-renovated 1932 Art Deco seaside jewel! Its not hard, not far to reach! Hitch a ride to Rockaway Beach!
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Sunday, July 15 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Sunday Soul Scream! with live Champagne Superchillin’ and all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and sfriends! 8pm – 3am, FREE – $5 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!): Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM, your favorite weekly summer party tradition, returns for its third season on Our Wicked Lady’s Rooftop Oasis with another unforgettable night of soul dancing with your favorite dee jays Jonathan Toubin and special guest Josh Styles and a live performance by NYC’s spicy Chorizo! Fresh fruit frozen tropical cocktails! Bushwick rooftop vacation vibrations! Get down up on the roof!
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NY NIGHT TRAIN WEST!


Friday, July 6 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Sheila B and Reyes Rodriguez, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Work your way down into our subterranean party cave to shake a tail feather to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom ofthe most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl spinning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! This week with Sheila B of WFMU’s Sophisticated Boom Boom and Reyes Rodriguez of Border Beat! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Friday, July 6 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon: Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down West Coast Edition with live O.C. Hurricanes and Crush (Cole and Zumi of Black Lip’s new band) followed by the rock’n’soul of Jonathan Toubin, 9PM – 1AM, 21+ $10: The New York Night Train docks in its west coast party headquarters for another night of live music, dancing, and blissed-out mayhem!
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Saturday, July 7 Portland, OR – Mississippi Records: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off with Jonathan Toubin, The Strange Babes and $100 Midnight Dance Contest, 9PM – 2AM, 21+, $8/$10: Soul Party #1 returns to Portland, OR for the first time in years for an unparalleled night of fun dancing with Strange Babes (Kill Rock Stars’ Maggie Vail and Thermals’ Kathy Foster) followed by Jonathan Toubin’s soul 45s ’til late! And the Midnight Dance-Off determined by judges Ural Thomas, Maggie Vail, Kathy Foster, Rex Marshall (Mattress), and Drew Groove. Catch the clap!
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Sunday, July 8 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Sunday Soul Scream / OWL 3RD Anniversary, 3PM – 3AM, FREE Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM, your favorite weekly summer party tradition, helps Our Wicked Lady celebrate its third birthday atop its Rooftop Oasis with another unforgettable night of soul dancing with your favorite dee jay Jonathan Toubin and more! Fresh fruit frozen tropical cocktails! Bushwick rooftop vacation vibrations! Get down up on the roof!
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NY Night Train to Burger Boogaloo and More


Friday, June 29 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Work your way down into our subterranean party cave to shake a tail feather to thee wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom of Jonathan Toubin’s most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl spinning ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Oakland, CA – The Uptown: Official Burger Boogaloo Afterparty: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off with live Baby Shakes and The World followed by soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and more, 9PM – 2AM, 21+, $10 After Devo wraps up their set in the park, the party moves to Oakland’s legendary Uptown – where Soul Party #1 returns for the first time since its monthly residency there nearly a decade ago! NYC friends and fellow travelers The Baby Shakes and The World (featuring Oakland legend Andy Human) kick it off and then all night dancing to the 45rpm soul magic of Jonathan Toubin! Midnight $100 Dance-Off with fab contest selector Brontez Purnell (Young Lovers / Gravy Train!!!!) and judges Erin Emslie (Hunx And His Punx), B-Side Brujas, Mario Ishii Hernandez (Kids On A Crime Spree), Todd-O-Phonic Todd (WFMU), and Poindexter (KALX). Catch Thee CLap!
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Sunday, July 1 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Hayley and Bailey of Je T’aime Oh No present NY Night Train Sunday Soul Scream! Dancing with the DJs Phast Phreddie The Boogaloo Omnibus, Avi Spivak, and Wig Doctor! Live performance by The Othermen! 8pm – 4am, 21+, FREE – $5 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!): Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM, your favorite weekly summer party tradition, returns for its third season on Our Wicked Lady’s Rooftop Oasis with another Summer night of soul dancing! While Jonathan Toubin is away, tonight’s promoters Hayley Griffin and Bailey Leiter Je T’Aime Oh No will play! Get ready to experience the live fire of The Othermen, and all night dancing under the stars with legendary backdoor man Phast Phreddie Patterson thee Boogaloo Omnibus himself and special early guest Wig Doctor and late guest Avi Spivak! Get down up on the roof!
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SHAKIN’! PITTSBURGH! & ROOFTOP MADNESS!


Friday, June 22 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Jonathan Toubin is back from his European tour and ready to turn his most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! All fire! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, June 23 Pittsburgh, PA – Spirit: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off, 9pm Doors, 10pm live Spectres, 11pm dancing, 12am Dance-Off, 2am close, 21+, $6/$8: Soul Party #1 returns to Steel Cityfor another epic evening of live music, dancing, and sweaty fun! with a live performance by Pittsburgh’s own Spectres and the Midnight $100 Dance-Off determined by judges Ryan Brown, Greg Austin, The Lopez, Guinevere Marrow, Bjordan! Catch Thee CLap!
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Sunday, June 24 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Sunday Soul Scream! with live Champagne Superchillin’ and all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and sfriends! 7pm – 3am, FREE – $5 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!): Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM, your favorite weekly summer party tradition, returns for its third season on Our Wicked Lady’s Rooftop Oasis with another unforgettable night of soul dancing with your favorite dee jay Jonathan Toubinand a live performance by the new trippy French super-NashVillain freakbeat pop vinters everybody’s talkin’ bout… thee effervescent Champagne Superchillin’! Fresh fruit frozen tropical cocktails! Smokin’ BBQ by Jade! and Bushwick rooftop vacation vibrations! Get down up on the roof!
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NY Night Train is back! SOUL CLAP w/SHOPPING/PRIESTS! SOUL SCREAM w/DADDY LONG LEGS! SHAKIN’ at HOME SWEET HOME!


Friday, June 1 New York, NY – Home Sweet Home: NY Night Train Shakin’ All Over Under Sideways Down! w/Jonathan Toubin, 10:30pm-4am, $5: Jonathan Toubin is back from his European tour and ready to turn his most exciting and exquisite o.g. 1950s/1960s “maximum rock’n’soul” vinyl ’round and ’round ’til the wee wee hours! All fire! Eccentric postcards from the old weird America addressed to you in the here and now! The wild rumble way down below the big city after dark in the cozy basement confines of Home Sweet Home! NYC’s biggest and longest-running weekly rock’n’roll dance and a NYC institution since 2008… Get down in the basement!
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Saturday, June 16 Brooklyn, NY – Elsewhere: NY Night Train Soul Clap and Dance-Off with Shopping, Priests, Gauche, Ziemba, and DJ Baby Alcatraz followed by dancing with Jonathan Toubin, the NY Night Train Shadow Dancers, and visuals by Spencer Bewley and Midnight $100 Dance-Off with JD Samson (Le Tigre/MEN), MC Steve Myers, and more! 7pm doors, 8pm show, 11pm dancing, 12am Contest, 4am close, 18+, $20 ($10 after the bands): The 21st Century’s most popular and prolific soul party returns home from its European tour for a two room all-night fiesta chock full o’live music, dancing, & visuals! Supporting their critically acclaimed new album The Official Body, UK post-punk juggernaut Shopping hit the empire city joined by DC co-headliners Priests in the Main Hall for a night to remember. Priests/Downtown Boys side project Gauche, and NYC’s own Ziemba turn it on in Zone 1. Bands are ordered so you don’t have to miss a thing. And all bands have one-syllable names! Around 11pm Jonathan Toubin is joined by the fabulous NY Night Train Shadow Dancers Erin Sheehy and Dee Dee Dame and the visuals of Spencer Bewley to move you ’til 4am. Get lost in our environment! And get in the MIDNIGHT DANCE-OFF with the huge cultural force that is artist/musician/activist JD Samson of Le Tigre/MEN, MC Steve Myers, and a colorful collection of judges!Make a night of it! CATCH THEE CLAP!

MAIN HALL
– 8:45pm Priests
– 10:00pm Shopping!
– 11:00pm soul dance with Jonathan Toubin, the New York Night Train Shadow Dancers Erin Sheehy and Dee Dee Dame, and live 16mm visuals by Spencer Bewley
– 12:00am $100 Metropolis Vintage Dance-Off! with contest selector JD Samson (Le Tigre/MEN, MC Steve Myers and more!

ZONE 1
– 8:15pm – Ziemba!
– 9:30pm – Gauche


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Sunday, May 27 Brooklyn, NY Our Wicked Lady: Sunday Soul Scream! DADDY LONG LEGS/JONATHAN TOUBIN WELCOME HOME PARTY! with live Daddy Long Legs and all night soul dancing with Jonathan Toubin and special guest Baby Alcatraz! 7pm – 3am, $10 (100% of voluntary sliding scale donation goes directly to the band every month!): Daddy Long Legs and Jonathan Toubin have been burning up the road together in European and tonight isn’t only a welcome home party but a benefit for the prestigious charity Daddy Long Legs’ Back From Tour Fund! Support your local bluesman! Thee NY Night Train SUNDAY SOUL SCREAM, your favorite weekly summer party tradition, returns for its third season on Our Wicked Lady’s Rooftop Oasis with a killer program! Last week was Mystery Lights and Kid Congo, the week before was Escape-Ism, et etc! And this week is the unstoppable force of nature that is NYC’s own hair-raising blues natural resource, Daddy Long Legs! And after a couple of weeks with the Long Legs boys overseas, your favorite dee jay Jonathan Toubin is back in the booth and ready to keep ya all lit up ’til the dawn’s early light! And not only that but DC’s amazing Baby Alctraz of Shout Bamalama fame is in town for the Soul Summit and ready to let ’em rip! As always look forward to fresh-fruit frozen tropical cocktails, homemade natural BBQ by Jade, and good rooftop vibrations! It looks like its gonna be a beautiful summer night on the warm breezy rooftop and you don’t wanna miss this week’s fiesta!
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