Barbès and Electric Cowbell Present: SECRET PLANET 2024 — live event

APAP is an annual rite that, every January, brings musicians and music industry professionals to New York City. It is the largest event of its type in the world and brings people from every corner of our planet to the New York winter. The weeklong gathering can be grueling: showcases, conferences, meetings (cold, snow…) and music can sometimes feel like a footnote, or even a commodity. Secret Planet, rather than an industry showcase, prides itself in focusing on music and the event feels more like a festival than a showcase. Artists come from close and afar. From countries and neighborhoods where English is not always understood and their culture is not always represented on the US stage. Regardless of their cultural or geographical origin, all Secret Planet artists, tend to follow their own vision and not be held back by genre, rules, language, commercial appeal, or concerns of authenticity. They all have in common a creative impulse never impeded by stylistic or cultural boundaries. Secret Planet is also turning into a loose network of East Coast presenters with shared values and esthetics – with various presenters in Western Mass, NY state, Pittsburgh, DC and beyond. Over the years, Secret Planet has presented close to 80 different groups, including Chicano Batman, Combo Chimbita, Hailu Mergia, Janka Nabai, No BS Brass Band, Flor de Toloache, Las Cafeteras, Alash, Anbessa Orchestra, Innov Gnawa, Chicha Libre, LADAMA, Underground System, The Debo Band, Alsarah; the Nubatones, Sunny Jain, BCUC, Mdou Moctar, Sofiane Saidi, Yonatan Gat, Slavic Soul Party, and quite a few more.

Starts: 2024-01-13T18:30:29Z

Ends: 2024-01-13T20:30:29Z

Where: 85 Avenue A, New York, New York 10009, United States

Price: $20.0

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