Taking It to City Hall for Tonic & the Lower East Side
Musicians and New Yorkers - including Alan J. Gerson, city councilman of District 1 - make the case for live avant-garde music after Saturday’s eviction of Tonic, which may have been the last 90+ venue on the island of Manhattan to present this music nightly.
This issue is of vital importance to New York’s creative capital, and to its future as an international creative capital. As one speaker said,
“Thank you Paris! Thank you London! Thank you Berlin! Thank you Copenhagen! Thank you Japan! Thank you Australia!”
For all of those cultural centers have something that New York now seems to lack - long-standing, mid-city venues where audiences can pay to hear experimental music any night of the week.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Visit www.takeittothebridge.com for updates, and consider adding your name to all the beautiful names on the petition.
See also http://www.williamaveryhudson.com/6.html
