BASILICA HUDSON W/ LEG UP MANAGEMENT + JOHN DOE RECORDS PRESENT: DANIEL HIGGS W/ SPECIAL GUESTS BUKE & GASS DJ SETS FROM: DJBDG BRIAN DEGRAW GANG GANG DANCE & JD SAMSON MEN & LE TIGRE GROUP ART EXHIBIT AND VIDEO INSTALLATION BY TV CARNAGE AUG 13, 2011 - DOORS @ 7PM - $12 110 S. FRONT ST. HUDSON, NY BASILICA HUDSON’S FIRST LIVE MUSIC NIGHT In the wake of the wildly successful first annual NADA HUDSON Art Event, which brought 1000s through the Basilica this past weekend, we are thrilled to announce our first official Music Night – Saturday August 13th, 2011, in conjunction with the first annual Hudson Music Fest and Hudson Black Arts & Cultural Festival. The night will include Live performances by Dischord and Thrill Jockey recording artist, DANIEL HIGGS and Brooklyn Based (Part-time Hudson Valley-ians) multi-tasking duo BUKE & GASS. Followed by DJ sets by acclaimed wild card NYC DJs DJBDG aka BRIAN DEGRAW of GANG GANG DANCE and JD SAMSON (MEN and LE TIGRE). Accompanied by Basilica Gallery Group Show: “Measured in Sound”, video installation by TV CARNAGE and Fog + Lasers by LuminaTek. DANIEL A.I.U HIGGS, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band LUNGFISH, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hinderance of collaborative influence. BUKE & GASS are a Brooklyn-based two-piece Arone Dyer on the “buke” (a self-modified sixstring baritone ukulele) and Aron Sanchez on the “gass” (a guitar-bass hybrid of his own creation). Both of them play double duty mobilizing a small army of foot percussion which then undergo various forms of filtration creating a surprisingly complex sound. A beautiful yet unwieldy musical matter, balancing light and dark, calamity and control, their musical multi-tasking makes for visually unexpected and sonically explosive live performances. BRIAN DEGRAW, dance keyboardist from NYC mainstays GANG GANG DANCE, part-time DJ, and prolific visual artist was born in 1974. Originating from the same experimental Brooklyn scene as Animal Collective and Black Dice – GANG GANG DANCE boldly forged their various avant garde influences into a coherent statement -cementing their position as purveyors of melodically stilted experimentations aiming as much for the emotional as the cerebral. DEGRAW has exhibited his visual works in the Whitney Biennial and in multiple solo exhibitions. JD SAMSON is one-third of the electronic feminist punk band and performance project, LE TIGRE and one-half of her more recent project, MEN, a DJ/REMIX live band with LE TIGRE bandmate Johanna Fateman. JD also has DJ’ed internationally since 2001 throughout many different party scenes and music genres, “Creating space for rad people to dance and smile and hold each other.” JD is a people pleaser and can swing as many ways as needed to make an amazing party or club night. "MEASURED IN SOUND" : ART GALLERY SHOW The Basilica Art Gallery will open at 7 pm, showing visual art work by… Andrew Kuo: Spencer Sweeney: Leo Fitzpatrick: Brian DeGraw Daniel Higgs: Melissa Auf der Maur: Brian DeRan