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The Central Park Concert is a 2003 live album by the American rock group, Dave Matthews Band, recorded in Central Park, New York City. [1] The concert attracted more than 120,000 people, which makes it the biggest audience to attend a Dave Matthews Band concert.
The Concert in Central Park is the first live album by American folk rock duo Simon & Garfunkel, released on February 16, 1982, by Warner Bros. Records.It was recorded on September 19, 1981, at a free benefit concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, New York City, where the pair performed in front of 500,000 people.
Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016
Concerto: One Night in Central Park is a live album by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. [3] The album was recorded September 15, 2011, during a concert at Central Park's Great Lawn in New York City. Guest performers included Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, Bryn Terfel, Pretty Yende, and music producer David Foster. [4]
The concert was staged as a benefit to raise funds for a children's park, later known as the Diana Ross Playground, located inside the park at West 81st Street and Central Park West. [2] The concerts were aired worldwide on the Showtime cable network and a reported crowd of eight-hundred thousand as For One and For All, while being directed by ...
The performance was included in the subsequent video and DVD releases of the concert but was omitted from the live album. Simon also performed the song several times during Simon & Garfunkel's subsequent 1983 tour. In an interview on Late Night with David Letterman on May 20, 1982, Simon discussed the Central Park experience with David Letterman.
Elliott Erwitt took photographs of dogs in Central Park in 1974. Bruce Davidson's photobook Central Park (1995) was a four-year exploration of the park. [1] Tod Papageorge chronicled the park over several decades for his photobook Passing Through Eden (2007). [1]
Later that spring the counter-culture revolution continued in Central Park but this time "Armed with electric guitars". About 450 people attended the concert. Various bands such as the Grateful Dead performed for the gatherers who originally were scheduled to gather in Tompkins Square Park but was forced to move to Central Park.