#InTheLoop | Live Music in Astoria Park on June 26 – QEDC

#InTheLoop | Live Music in Astoria Park on June 26

BY QEDC It's In Queens

Astoria Park is a wonderful place to enjoy the great outdoors. It features direct shoreline access to the East River, inspiring views of Manhattan and Randall’s Island, a roughly-one-acre pool, a track, and facilities for basketball, skateboarding, and tennis.

And it’s about to have live music.

Astoria Park Alliance will present multiple performances on Saturday, June 26, from 1 pm to 4 pm.

Organized in partnership with event producer and Astoria native Jennifer Sellers, the Astoria Park Walking Tour is headlined by Art-Pop performer Virginia Marcs, The Funk Unit, Os Clavelitos, and the Trifon Dimitrov Trio.

It’s simple. The musicians play, while others enjoy as they take advantage of all that the park has to offer.

A member of the Astoria Music Collective and Venue Envy Artist Coalition, Marcs has been compared to Adele and Kate Bush, but she’s best described as an “Indie Folk” performer. She enhances her personal lyrics with gripping vocals.

Led by percussionist extraordinaire Joe Abba, The Funk Unit has a unique sound full of grooves and jams.

Os Clavelitos is an “eclectic American Samba” group with members from Brazil, Japan, and the United States. The six-piece band plays Brazilian rhythms, and they sing in English and Portuguese.

Trifon Dimitrov is a bass player who graduated from Bulgaria’s National Academy of Music. He’ll jam with Vincent Herring who plays saxophone with an intense, soulful, multi-noted style, and Jerome Jennings, a drummer whose debut recording, “The Beast,” received a four star rating in Downbeat Magazine.

Astoria Park Alliance strives to maintain and enhance its namesake park, which covers about 60 acres at the western end of Ditmars Boulevard in the shadows of the Robert F. Kennedy (formerly Triborough) Bridge. Supporting partners include Lockwood, Chatfield Green Roofing, and VSPOT.