Up the Tree

!(left photo)http://www.upthetree.com/wp-uploads/uttcelebratebrooklyn.png(give $3 at the gate)!:http://www.brooklynx.org/celebrate/schedule.asp Marking the official beginning to my music calendar, “Celebrate Brooklyn”:http://www.brooklynx.org/celebrate/schedule.asp has finally released their 2005 schedule. There are some real stunners on the line-ups and some real disappointments. The biggest disappointment for me is the lack of my indierockers in great amount on this years line up.

*But then again I do loves me some indie music.*

The line-up is such *(bold my recomendations)*:

# *Friday, June 17 - 7:30PM - Bad Plus / Charlie Hunter Trio / James Carter Organ Trio*
# Saturday, June 18 - 8:00PM - Philadanco
# Thursday, June 23 - 7:30PM - Hugh Masekela / William Kentridge: 9 Drawings For Projection
# *Friday, June 24 - 7:30PM - Soulive / Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra*
# *Saturday, June 25 - 7:30PM - New Pornographers / Stars / The Sadies*
# Thursday, June 30 - 7:30PM - The Del Mccoury Band / Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez
# Friday, July 1 - 7:30PM - Bilal / Martha Redbone
# Saturday, July 2 - 7:30PM - *Shadow / Trinidad Slam*
# Friday, July 8 - 7:30PM - Hop-Fu: Prodigal Son / Illstyle & Peace Productions
# Saturday, July 9 - 5PM - Polygraph Lounge / Laurie Berkner
# *Thursday, July 14 - 7:30PM - Ozomatli / Pacha*
# Friday, July 15 - 7:30PM - Charlie Musselwhite / Bettye Lavette
# Saturday, July 16 - 8PM - Brooklyn Philharmonic: They Came, They Saw, They Conquered
# Friday, July 22 - 7:30PM - Phantom Of The Opera With Alloy Orchestra / Kaiku
# Saturday, July 23 - 2PM-9PM - Boricua Festival! - Eddie Palmieri Y La Perfecta Ii / William Cepeda Bombashe / Plus Other Artists
# Thursday, July 28 - 7:30PM - Milly Quezada / Grupo Aguakate
# Friday, July 29 - 7:30PM - The Sound Of Music / Slam
# Saturday, July 30 - 7:30PM - Morgan Heritage / Don Minott & The High Voltage Band
# Sunday, July 31 - 2PM-9PM - African Festival! - Papa Wemba / Gokh-Bi System / Maria De Barros / Kakande / Nkossi Konda
# Friday, August 5 - 7:30PM - Plastilina Mosh / Kinky / Jd Natasha
# Saturday, August 6 - 7:30PM - Kasey Chambers / The Greencards
# Sunday, August 7 - 7:30PM - Tarzan The Ape Man With Mocean Worker / Joan As Policewoman

The best news, is the seminal night of the “New Pornographers,”:http://www.thenewpornographers.com/ “Stars,”:http://www.arts-crafts.ca/stars/ and “The Sadies”:http://www.thesadies.net/ on Saturday, June 25 at 7:30 PM. The cost my friends is $3 at the door! All 3 bands are fantastic and worth a good listening so I will of course be playing selections of each on the next TUTT (which will be up for Monday, I promise).

This of course means that we got to schedule a get-together. So the question is, who’s in?!