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Club Zanzibar was a dance club that opened in 1979 at 430 Broad Street in Newark, New Jersey. [1] Its presence in Downtown Newark was noted for its influence on house music and garage house genres and scene. Club Zanzibar, along with other gay and straight clubs in the era, was both a straight and LGBT black and Latino nightlife destination.
Annual summer events like the Roselle House Music Festival in Warinanco Park, [7] [8] the Trenton House Music Festival, the Weequahic Park House Music Festival, the Plainfield House Music Festival in Cedar Brook Park and the Lincoln Park Music Festival attract families and house music enthusiasts, also known as house heads, dedicated to the classic 1980s Jersey sound.
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. [11] It was created by DJs and music producers from Chicago's underground club culture and evolved slowly in the early/mid 1980s as DJs began altering disco songs to give them a more mechanical beat.
And there is classical dance: National Ballet of Ukraine (Oct. 12, bergenPAC) and "Creative Forces: Peck Robbins and More" by the New Jersey Ballet (Nov. 8, Mayo). Raising the curtain on fall theater
Slum Village is a hip-hop group founded in Detroit, composed of original members Baatin, T3 and J. Dilla. T3 remains the only original member left after Baatin and J. Dilla left the group and ...
Barefoot Country Music Festival (Wildwood, New Jersey, on the beach) Beardfest Music & Arts Festival - NJ Pinelands National Reserve; Belmar Seafood Festival; Big Greek Festival - Randolph June 7–9; Celtic Festival - Historic Cold Spring Village in Cape May; Cuban Parade of New Jersey; Flemington OPA Festival - St. Anna Greek Orthodox Church
It has less Old-school hip hop, R&B, and House music which is found on WMXD. In October 2017, after 31 years as "FM 98", the station rebranded as "97.9 WJLB", featuring a logo template used by many of iHeart's "Real"-branded urban stations.
Contact Detroit Free Press music writer Brian McCollum: 313-223-4450 or bmccollum@freepress.com. This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Motown classics paired with modern music in ...