Rikers Island Gets Funky

Soundcheck | Jun 23, 2011

Make Music New York hit the streets of the Big Apple on Tuesday, transforming the High Line into a second line, Central Park into a meditative sunrise zen zone, and Governors' Island into Punk Island. But chances are you didn't hear about another isle that experienced the city-wide music invasion... Rikers Island. We talk with New York City event producer Chris Wangro about the musicians who brought funk to New York City's largest jail complex.

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