🕕 Happy Hour: 6–8 PM
🎶 Live Music: 7:30 PM | Ghost Band: 8 PM
🆓 FREE!
Meet us at McHale's for live music, then march and pay homage to the great ghost venues and old haunts of yesteryear!
Featuring:
👻 Stefan Zeniuk's GHOST BAND
🎶 Afoxé Alkebulan Acá
🎶 Inconvenient Brass Band
🎶 Hungry March Band
🎺 AND YOU!
Bring an instrument and make some noise with us!
GHOST BAND is co-presented with MOMENT NYC, whose programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in Partnership with the City Council.
About the Bands:
Stefan Zeniuk's GHOST BAND
Ghost Band Plays Ghost Venues, a project of musician Stefan Zeniuk and HONK NYC!, honors creative spaces that once were. Parade through multiple generations – and genres – of music history, haunting once revered but now shuttered music halls, sites currently home to boutiques, banks, and hotels. The hallowed incubators of NYC’s musical heritage may be gone but are not forgotten. Touch the past and sing a song for the town that continues to inspire.
A ghostly parade for long-lost local music venues - EV Grieve
Afoxé Alkebulan Acá
Afoxé Alkebulan Acá is an Afro‑Atlantic practice of percussion, song, and public ritual based in the global crossroads known as NYC. This project, led by master percussionist Okai Musik and educator-leader Deinya Phenix, is inspired by African Diasporic artistic traditions and cross-cultural experiences that have led to fusions such as jazz, salsa, and hip hop. In that in-between space, we have called upon disparate peoples into a musical Black family reunion enriched with aché, solidarity, joy, and belonging.
Instagram:
@deinya
@okaimusik
Inconvenient Brass Band
Inconvenient Brass Band puts a horn in your side.
Instagram:
@inconvenientbrassband
Hungry March Band
Celebrating over 20 years of bringing live musical spectacle to the people of New York City and beyond is Hungry March Band, a brass, percussion, and performance ensemble.
Founded in Brooklyn in 1997 for the Coney Island Mermaid Parade, HMB embodies the spirit of NYC’s streets with an inimitable brass sound and inspired, eclectic dance.
HMB has shared their creativity with audiences around the United States, South America, and Europe, where they’ve been embraced by a longstanding community of brass bands.
A unique sonic voice has emerged from the recording of their four self-released albums—one that melds their musical knowledge of big band, traditional, and free jazz, with punk rock and global brass influences.
