Dustin Wong will follow up Northside solo gig with a collaboration with Dan Friel at Spy Music Festival on Saturday night (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
285 Kent Ave. at South First St.
Saturday, July 7, $10, 8:00
Festival continues through July 15
spymusicfestival.com
Last month former Ponytail and Ecstatic Sunshine guitarist Dustin Wong played a mesmerizing set at Public Assembly as part of the Northside Festival that showed off his impressive virtuosity both with his axe and technology. Wearing a dowdy green cardigan, a seated Wong layered live riffs and melodies on top of one another as he leaned over and fiddled with knobs with his hand and pumped pedals with his socked feet. He even played a slide solo with his keys, dropping them into one of his sneakers when he was done. At the end, he stood up and added howling vocals to the mix. The Brooklyn-based Wong, whose experimental solo albums include Let It Go, the two-track Infinite Love, and this year’s gorgeous Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads, will be playing the second annual Spy Music Festival on July 7 at 285 Kent, teaming up with keyboardist and guitarist Dan Friel, cofounder of the late, lamented Parts & Labor. The bill also features an exciting collaboration between New York duo White Out and septuagenarian jazzman Charles Gayle in addition to PC Worship. The festival continues through July 15 with such shows as Man Forever at the Stone on July 11, Rhyton, Chris Forsyth, P. G. Six, and Raajmahal at Death by Audio on July 13, and Thurston Moore and Loren Connors at the Stone on July 14. Wong will also be at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on July 9, opening for the Dirty Projectors.