The Willamsburg Avant-Garde book release party at the Avalon Lounge in Catskill with a live webstream of the entire show from 6-8 p.m. at wgxc.org/listen, and a live broadcast on 90.7-FM from 6-8 p.m. Author Cisco Bradley will discuss the book, and there will be performances from some of the characters in the book, including Delaware Caounty Tianna Kennedy, with a band, and DJ Tom Roe, from Greene County.

The Willamsburg Avant-Garde book release party: In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde, Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Building on the neighborhood's punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, post-punk, and noise musicians and groups produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York's experimental culture. In 2005, New York's rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, he offers thoughts on the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere. The book talk will be followed by a performance by musicians who were a part of the Williamsburg scene who now live in the Hudson Valley.
Cisco Bradley (book talk) Tianna Kennedy Band
DJ Tom Roe

Cisco Bradley will give a quick overview of the book to start and then talk with Tianna and Tom about free103point9 and the Williamsburg scene at that time.

Live performances from The Avalon Lounge in Catskill, New York. Usually DJs perform, often with live band performances, and other experiments. See theavalonlounge.com for more information.