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Han Bennink in NYC
euroGel '06 speaker Han Bennink will be performing at Tonic tonight and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday) in New York.
It's also one of the last performances at Tonic, the venerable NYC performance space. From Tonic's home page:
The neighborhood around us has been increasingly consumed by "luxury condominiums", boutique hotels and glass towers, all making the value of our salvaged space worth more then our business could ever realistically support. ...
If profit had been our chief motivation we could have changed our programming to something more mainstream and financially lucrative. Instead we were more committed to a certain type of music and loyal to the community that supported us. As a result, we've always just survived but never really prospered. It is, however, unfortunate that it is so difficult for small businesses to operate in this city and that a chain store that can afford a high rent is more desirable than a place like Tonic that has a different kind of value.
More on Han Bennink in this SFGate article.
