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Volume 20 Issue 14 | August 17 - 23, 2007

Downtown Express photos by Tequila Minsky

An island’s different beats

Governors Island hosted the old and new last Saturday. It was Civil War Living History so there were actors playing Yanks, Confederate soldiers and laundresses, left. At right, Sweet Micky, a famous Haitian band which popularized fast-tempo compass music while adding obscenities to the lyrics, performed a free concert and had new listeners stomping to the beat on the grass.





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