NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Sunday Best Official Website) - Gussie up to get down. Sunday Best-the easy-going, late afternoon, backyard barbecue cum dance party-is back for the summer of 2009. Every Sunday from May 24 to
September 6 at The BKLYN Yard, a leafy waterside lot on the Gowanus Canal, we're serving up tacos on fresh-made tortillas (via the Red Hook Ballfields) with cold sangria and beers while resident DJs JUSTIN CARTER, EAMON HARKIN and DOUG SINGER play alongside some of the finest DJs to ever take on a back yard.
Sunday Best The Line-Up:
May 24 - QUENTIN HARRIS, the master of soulful house
May 31 - MR. SCRUFF, a UK-based illustrator, tea vendor and eclectic DJ
June 7 - LUKE SOLOMON, Rekids and Cajual producer
June 14 - JUS-ED, Bridgeport, Connecticut's finest
June 21 - RUB N TUG, crazy but true
June 28 - JUSTIN MARTIN, the dirtiest Dirtybird of them all
July 5 - LOSOUL, maker of European dance music with big nods to soul and jazz
July 12 - KYLE HALL, the 17-year-old, Detroit-based producer who's never played New York
July 19 - I:CUBE, a forefather of French house and one half of Chateau Flight
July 26 - OMAR S blows our minds every time
August 2 - MAURICE FULTON, the funkiest DJ we've ever heard
August 9 - MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE, a young German paying homage to Detroit
August 16 - TIM SWEENEY, the ever-eclectic Beats In Space man
August 23 - THEO PARRISH, a true master playing a long set
August 30 - JUSTUS KOHNCKE, a Kompakt artist playing a live set
September 6 - DJ HARVEY, closing it out crazily and properly
At the BKLYN Yard
Outdoors by the Gowanus Canal
400 Carroll St
Between Bond & Nevins
3-9pm. Every Sunday from May 24th to Sept 6th.
All ages
$10 $8 w/ RSVP to [email protected] or in advance from residentadvisor.net/sundaybest w/ resident DJs Justin Carter, Eamon Harkin, Doug Singer & Very Special Guests
RAIN LOCATION - The Bell House (round the corner - 149 7th Street, between 2nd and 3rd Avenues.
Food - Tacos, Huaraches and other Latin American delicacies
Booze - You have to be 21 to drink it, but we'll be selling it at the bar
Directions
F, G trains to Carroll St. South on Smith. Left on President. Right on Hoyt. Left on Carroll.
N, R trains to Union. West on Union. Left on Nevins. Right on Carroll. Just over the bridge.
About the Residents
EAMON HARKIN and JUSTIN CARTER are the resident DJs and masterminds of Mister Saturday Night, a big party with live music and DJs that happens at nice places to party in New York City. They also collaborate on New Release, an entity that editorializes and produces music events in New York. DOUG SINGER, one half of the brothers'brothers duo, introduced New York party people to the Water Taxi Beach some years ago with Rebound, the first post-PS1 jam to happen at the now popular summertime spot.
