Underground & Avant Jazz, Art Rock/Pop, Contemporary Classical, and the Completely UnCategorizable
Deep in the Heart of Manhattan's Two Bridges Neighborhood
LPs, CDs, DVDs, Books, and Live Music Too!
THE DOWNTOWN MUSIC GALLERY 32nd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE CELEBRATION CONTINUES WITH:
Tuesday, February 7th:
6:30: MARCO CAPPELLI - Solo guitar!
7:30: STEPHAN CRUMP - Solo contrabass!
8:30: JAMES PAUL NADIEN - Solo drums!
Saturday, February 11th - GauciMusic Series Continues with:
6pm: James Ilgenfritz - bass / Sandy Ewen - guitar / Michael Foster - saxes
7pm: Stephen Gauci - tenor sax / Adam Lane - bass / Colin Hinton - drums
8pm: Toadal Package: James Paul Nadien - drums / Brenna Rey - bass / Cosmo Gallaro - guitar
Tuesday, February 14th: Love Songs for Valentines’ Day & Blues Song for Mother Earth!
6:30 - STEW CUTLER - Solo Guitar
7:30 - GARY LUCAS - Solo Acoustic Guitar
Tuesday, February 21st:
6:30: NICK FRASER / MAT MANERI / BRANDON LOPEZ - Drums / Viola / Contrabass!
7:30: AARON RUBINSTEIN - Solo Guitar!
8:30: ACTIVE FIELD: NANA FUTAGAWA - El Shamisen / EVAN CAPLINGER - Cello / JOE JORDAN - Oboe / IZZY TANASHIAN - synths / ORCHID McRAE - drums!
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who read the DMG weekly Newsletter, our many Friends, Family, Creative Musicians and Serious Listeners from your friends here at Downtown Music Gallery.
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In the Summer Time when the weather is fine..?!? Nope, too hot and humid! DMG is celebrating with a large CD Sale, some USED and some SALE CD’s.
Saturday, May 1st was the actual anniversary of Downtown Music Gallery, 30 years to the day! I am immensely proud of all we’ve accomplished since we opened out doors on 211 East 5th St. in the East Village. Special thanks to all of the well-wishers who’ve written to us or come down in the past month, we do appreciate your kind words of support! We, here at DMG, are going to celebrate for the entire month with some live outdoor events, some in-store on-line events and a series of on-line epis
Last Friday, May 1st, was the 29th anniversary of the modest beginning of Downtown Music Gallery. We opened our doors on May 1st of 1991! Our first store was at 211 East 5th St., around the corner from Cooper Union. Our rent was cheap ($750) and the store was not very big (750 sq ft). There were two owners, David Yamner & Steve Popkin, and I worked for them 6 days a week. Their plan was to sell Used CD’s and vinyl while I promoted Downtown/Progressive/Avant Jazz, what I dug the most. There wer