2008 Battle of the Broadway Bands to be held on May 17
May 17 will be the night when the various bands comprising of Broadway and off Broadway actors, musicians and writers will battle it out during the second annual Broadway Battle of the Bands competition that is conducted by the New York Musical Theater Festival. The show will kick start at 10 pm at the Zipper Factory in Manhattan and the tickets to this one off concert can purchased for 20$ a person.
The band competition produced by Amy Birnbaurn will feature artists of various genres like jazz, pop, rock, R& B, funk etc and the likes of The Fabulous Entourage (featuring actors Perry Silver, Libby Winters, Jimmy Owens and director Chamberlin), Kacie Shiek, Groovelily (Gene Lewin, Brendan Milburn and Valerie Vigoda), Anthony Rapp and his band (Dan Weiss, Pete Asirisi, David Matos and Paul Gil) and many more. The Broadway Battle of Bands is a program formulated to bring out the extraordinary talents of the Broadway artists to the general public and is an event that has received good reviews from the Broadway audience.
