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GoogaMooga Expands To 3 Days With Yeah Yeahs Yeahs, Flaming Lips And Foie Gras Doughnuts
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Published Mar 26, 2013
Modified Mar 26, 2013
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We're less than two months away from the return of GoogaMooga to Prospect Park, and just this minute organizers released their initial announcement. This year an extra day has been added to the fest, and there will be 85 restaurants and 20 live performances—the big headliners are the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Flaming Lips on Friday May 17th, and other performances throughout the weekend will include Matt & Kim, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, The Darkness, Jovanotti, Father John Misty and De La Soul.
Tickets for Friday night and for the VIP Cocktail Experience* (presumably this is this year's answer to the Extra Mooga fiasco of last year, but is it worth it?) will go on sale March 28th at 12 p.m. (For $79.50, the VIP Cocktail Experience gets you closer access to the stages and five drink tickets for artisanal cocktails.) Limited quantity of 'early bird' tickets will be available at $49.50, with regular price going up to $54.50. Complimentary, General Admission tickets for Saturday and Sunday will be available in an online giveaway running Monday, April 1st through Wednesday, April 3rd—those will be available here.
This year a literary stage has also been added, curated by WORD and Housing Works Bookstore Cafe they'll offer up food, drink, and literature at Café GoogaMooga, a tented area with a coffeehouse ambiance. They'll put writers, celebrity-chef authors, critics, novelists, comic artists and poets under the spotlight here—"who are using food and drink as the main ingredients of their craft."
If judging by last year's lines, the main event is the FOOD. And this year their food lineup includes: Do or Dine (and their foie gras doughnuts), Roberta's, Momofuku Milk Bar, Dinosaur BBQ, M. Wells, Char No. 4, The Meatball Shop, and new additions Gwynnett St., Pork Slope, and Motorino, amongst many, many more (Marty Markowitz says you can also expect "the city’s best mixologists, winemakers and brewers!") And here's a breakdown from the press release sent out this afternoon:
Friday, May 17th (4 p.m. to 10 p.m.): "Friday evening will feature GoogaMooga’s kick-off concert headlined by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Flaming Lips. British glam metal band The Darkness will also perform. While a majority of the festival will be open on Friday, some of its areas will not be open until Saturday. Friday ticket buyers will be guaranteed one complimentary ticket, per ticket purchased, to either Saturday or Sunday."
Saturday, May 18th & Sunday, May 19th (11 a.m. to 8 p.m.): "Performances on Saturday are headlined by Matt & Kim, Jovanotti, Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten, and Lee Fields with his band The Expressions. The Sunday lineup features Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, De La Soul, Cults, Delicate Steve, and the eight-piece New Orleans’ jazz, brass, funk and soul ensemble The Soul Rebels.
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater curated its eight performances, hosted on The Joe’s Pub Stage on both Saturday and Sunday, with an eye for local bands reflective of New York’s diversity. A few highlights include Brooklyn Bhangra party band Red Baraat, melodic folk trio Pearl and The Beard; cabaret superstar and comedienne Lady Rizo; high-energy eight-piece Afro-Colombian outfit M.A.K.U SoundSystem; sizzling Parisian-style jazz band The Hot Sardines, iconic New Orleans artist Jonathan Batiste, gospel and roots vocalist Marcelle Davies Lashley, and Mexican brass band Banda de los Muertos."
*And about that VIP Cocktail Experience (offered only Saturday and Sunday): "VIP Cocktail Experience gives ticketholders premiere viewing of the Nethermead Stage and exclusive access to the festival’s only cocktail experience. Curated by acclaimed mixologist Julie Reiner, Partner and Beverage Director of Brooklyn’s Clover Club and Owner of Manhattan’s Flatiron Lounge, the VIP Cocktail Experience creates the ultimate 'bar' with cocktails by some of New York’s most loved and trendsetting destinations: Dead Rabbit Grocery and Grog, Pouring Ribbons, The Library at The Public, The Nomad, Booker & Dax, PDT, Clover Club, Pegu Club, Flatiron Lounge, and Death & Co. Cocktails will be served in both Prospect Park’s Boathouse, a stunning historical building dating back to 1904 that overlooks the Lullwater and Lake, and in a tented venue in the Nethermead Meadow. Reiner will also be hosting cocktail demos throughout the weekend. VIP tickets include five drink tickets to the area’s cocktail bars for ticketholders."
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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