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Brooklyn Creatives Capture New York’s Underground Artists Through Quarantine

by Jessy Edwards September 9, 2020

Whether recording a roots band jamming on the streets of Bed-Stuy, gypsy punk on a rooftop or Latin ska on a deck in Bushwick, New York not-for-profit Urbano Street has always met underground music wherever it lives.  So when the pandemic hit and people were forced inside, the organization did just that — organizing to […]

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