MUSIC
SUNDAY, AUGUST 19
7:00 PM

Mura Masa
SummerStage, Central Park
Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan

Free
https://cityparksfoundation.org/events/mura-masa-jessy-lanza/?date=20180819

A lot of us were knocked out by Mura Masa's album last year.  (Well, that's a slight misstatement:  I must be one of the few people in the world who actually listened to those tracks as an album, that dying medium.)  A Londoner who group up in remote Guernsey, Mura Masa is a beatmaster who combines the interiority of his birthplace with the urbane eclecticism of his current city -- and is making music that will still sound fresh years from now.  This guy is so goodNile Rodgers recruited him to help out on the Chic comeback album!  Opening is Ontario's Jessy Lanza, a solidly enjoyable if fairly unadventurous electronic singer-songwriter.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Yeah, it's a little bit of a walk.  But I'm sending you to the newly revivified JoJo -- because their Sunday night specials focus on the deeply satisfying cuisine of Jean-George Vongerichten's native Alsace.