Save Our Star!

On Sunday Sept. 23rd the Starry-Eyed Festival will give New Yorkers another chance to enjoy some great outdoor music and locally grown food at Brooklyn’s coolest new music venue, The Yard.
The event will be held from 3-9pm and feature live performances by the Afro-funk outfit The Budos Band, the ethereal art-pop songs of ex-Cibo Matto front woman Miho Hatori, as well as Melanie Moser and the Eleventh Hour Band, Bell Orchestre’s Kaveh Nabatian and newcomer folk artist Barrett Lindgren (Star Island’s own). World-renown DJ and Producer Tim “Love” Lee (Tummytouch) and Acid Test DJs SpiritBear and Udagawa will round out the evening with DJ sets.   
The Yard, located on the banks of the Gowanus and just a few steps from the F/G trains in Carroll Gardens, will be serving up local beer, BBQ and locally grown farm produce at the festival.  More acts to be added in the coming weeks.
Proceeds from the Starry-Eyed Festival will benefit the Star Island Corporation, a Portsmouth, NH -based non-profit organization. 
The non-profit organization maintains a Victorian-era hotel on the island, which has been a haven for historical figures as diverse as Henry David Thoreau and the pirate Blackbeard. Recently, the hotel has needed some prohibitively expensive repairs, threatening the island’s future as a family, artist, and intellectual retreat center.
More information on Star Island is available at http://www.starisland.org.
 
 
Pictures and event information, http://myspace.com/starryeyedfestival
http://myspace.com/bklynyard , http://theyard.ws/

Band Info:
http://myspace.com/budosband
http://myspace.com/mihohatori
http://myspace.com/melaniemoser
http://myspace.com/bellorchestre
http://myspace.com/barrettlindgren
http://myspace.com/timlovelee
http://myspace.com/bruceforce
http://myspace.com/gringoscarr

The concert at the Richmond Unitarian Church in London on September 8
was a great success! The programme featured classical song from many traditions,
including some original English classical songs. There was a fine turnout, including a
number of children who enjoyed the music - and the cookies in the interval. We raised
£100 for the church, and $300 for Star Island!