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Monday - Saturday, from noon til 6pm, closed on Sundays.

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13 Monroe Street // New York, NY 10002-7351 // (212) 473-0043 // downtownmusicgalleryofficial@gmail.com


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Concerts Series:

Tuesday, April 30th: 6:30: SALLY GATES - Guitar / TREVOR DUNN - Bass / ALEX KOI - Vocal // 7:30: JAMES PAUL NADIEN / LAO DAN / JOE FONDA - Alto Sax / Suona / Contrabass // 8:30: TODD CAPP - Drums / JOHN HAGEN - Tenor Sax

THE DMG 33rd ANNIVERSARY IN-STORE FREE MUSIC SERIES Continues with:

Tuesday, May 2nd:
6:30: EYAL MAOZ - Solo Guitar
7:30: JAMES WENGROW / HERY PAZ / JAMES NADIEN
8:30: AARON RUBINSTEIN - Solo guitar

Tuesday, May 7th:
6:30: PATRICK BRENNAN / PAUL AUSTERLITZ - Contrabass Clarinet / CLAIRE de BRUNNER - Bassoon / NICK GIANNI- Bass Flute / THOMAS HEBERER - Trumpet / DAFNA NAPHTALI - Electronics / SAM NEWSOME - Soprano Sax!
7:30: JAMES WENGROW - Guitar / KAELEN GHANDI - Sax / ANNA ABONDOLO - Bass / PATRICK GOLDEN - Drums!
8:30: PAUL AUSTERLITZ CLARINET CHOIR: JASPER DUTZ / STEPHEN GAUCI / RAS MOSHE BURNETT / IVAN BARENBOIM / FRED ROSENBERG / TSOYUSHI NIWA / RANDOLPH MURPHY / MICHAEL MOSS / KATIE PORTER
9:30: LISA MEZZACAPPA - Bass / SARAH BERNSTEIN - Violin / SARA SCHOENBECK - Bassoon

Saturday, May 11th: DMG and GauciMusic Co-Hosts for:
6pm: LISA MEZZACAPPA - Contrabass / CHRIS WELCOME - Guitar / MIKE PRIDE - Drums
7pm: STEPHEN GAUCI - Reeds / KEVIN SHEA - Drums!
8pm: JOHN DIKEMAN - Tenor Sax / BRANDON LOPEZ - ContraBass / - ? Drums

DMG stands for Downtown Music Gallery and we are located at 13 Monroe St, between Catherine & Market Sts. You can take the F train to East Broadway or the M15 bus to Madison & Catherine Sts. We are in a basement space below an art gallery & beauty salon. We are on the east side of Chinatown, not far from East Broadway & the end of the Bowery. Admission for all concerts is free and donations are always welcome. We have concerts here every Tuesday starting at 6:30 plus Steve Gauci curates his own series here on the 2nd or 1st Saturday of each month. You can check out the weekly schedule here: https://www.downtownmusicgallery.com/shows.php. I post 1 minute segments from these sets almost every day on our InstaGram feed (if you don’t do InstaGram, you can still view these 1 minute clips on the DMG homepage, (a recently added feature), so please check them out and come down to visit when you can. - BLG/DMG

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THE VAST ESP-DISK CD and LP SALE!

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ESP Disk

Take 3 or more single ESP CD’s and pay $10 each (1 or 2 costs $12 each, our regular price)
There are a few 2-CD sets and 1 3-CD set which do cost a bit more and are priced below.
Take 3 or more ESP LP’s and play $15 each (1 or 2 costs $16 each)

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