B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
Midtown West
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Photograph: Sophie Harris
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Ramin Karimloo
American songbook, Originals, Show tunes
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The Iranian-Canadian theater vocalist, best known for portraying a sensitive masked killer in The Phantom of the Opera and its ill-fated West End sequel, comes to New York to promote his new album, Human Heart, as part of his Broadway to Bluegrass tour....
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Fri May 24
– Sat May 25 - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $30, at the door $35
Gospel Brunch
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop, Soul, R&B & Funk
- $$$$
Talk about hitting the spot: The world-famous Harlem Gospel Choir plays a soul-food brunch every Sunday. The group’s performances are exuberant, to say the least—about what you'd expect from its slogan, "Get your dose of the Holy Ghost." You'd better...
- Sun May 26
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, New York, 10036
- advance $40, at the door $42.50 (include...
The Shirelles
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop
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The first girl group to make it big, the Shirelles had a huge hit with "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" and lent their sweet vocals to many an early Brill Building pop song. Under the leadership of original Shirelle Beverly Lee, swoon along tonight to "Soldier...
- Sun May 26
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $25, at the door $30
Off the Chart + Fifth of Bourbon + David Rogue
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop
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Worthy souls rock out: Off the Chart comprises nine employees of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
- Wed May 29
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $18, at the door $20
The Mighty Sparrow
Categories, Reggae, World & Latin, Reggae
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Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (a crazy calypso fan, we hear) refers to Sparrow, the genre's first international star, as the "Mount Olympus of Calypso." Tonight the great man comes down from the mountaintop—just in time for summer.
- Fri May 31
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $25, at the door $30
Bernard "Pretty" Purdie and Friends
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop
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Blue Note Jazz Festival. Drummer Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, a groove merchant said to be the most-recorded drummer alive (you've heard him behind Miles Davis, Aretha Franklin and Steely Dan, to name but three prominent examples) takes the stage at B.B.'s...
- Sat Jun 1
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- $20
The Dan Band
Classic rock
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You remember the wedding-reception scenes in Old School and The Hangover, in which the band’s singer keeps tossing out obscenities, to the befuddlement of the guests? Said act is L.A.’s real-life Dan Band, which busts out tongue-in-cheek—yet intensely...
- Sat Jun 1
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $25, at the door $30
Gospel Brunch
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop, Soul, R&B & Funk
- $$$$
Talk about hitting the spot: The world-famous Harlem Gospel Choir plays a soul-food brunch every Sunday. The group’s performances are exuberant, to say the least—about what you'd expect from its slogan, "Get your dose of the Holy Ghost." You'd better...
- Sun Jun 2
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, New York, 10036
- advance $40, at the door $42.50 (include...
Mint Condition
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop, Soul, R&B & Funk
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Twin Cities R&B vets Mint Condition have been on and off the urban adult-contemporary charts since the early ’90s, playing with Prince last year on his Welcome 2 America tour. Tonight the group plays behind its latest album, Music at the Speed of Lif...
- Tue Jun 4
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $36, at the door $40
Gary U.S. Bonds and Friends
Categories, Rock, Pop & Hip-hop
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An experienced old-school rock & soul singer who toured Europe with the Beatles as his opening act, Gary U.S. Bonds forged the mold that Bruce Springsteen later fashioned into that of a troubadour deity. (Fittingly, Springsteen has often paid homage to...
- Wed Jun 5
- B.B. King Blues Club & Grill 237 W 42nd St, (between Seventh and Eighth Aves), New York, 10036
- advance $25, at the door $30
















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