• FREE - Popa Chubby - 2nd Annual Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival
• 5:00pm

Tuesday Evenings at 5pm (6/29 through 8/10) FREE ADMISSION, NO NEED TO BUY TICKETS!

Every Tuesday from June 29th to August 10th, Trinity Real Estate, Great Performances and City Winery will host a free neighborhood celebration of music, food, and wine. With its downtown location just west of Soho, the Hudson Square Music & Wine Festival is a uniquely urban summer festival for everyone from families and visitors to the after-work crowd. The FREE series of concerts will be held in the backyard of City Winery and features an eclectic mix of musicians, food vendors, artists and full bar service.

All concerts for the Hudson Square Music and Wine Festival are held in the space behind City Winery at 155 Varick Street btw Vandam and Spring Street.

Entry to the festival is from Spring Street, between Varick and Hudson, or from Vandam between Varick and Hudson.

Subway: Take the 1 Train to Houston. A,C,E to Spring Street.

212-608-0555 for additional info

MUSIC THIS WEEK: Popa Chubby

Check out the weekly music lineup and festival details.

ABOUT POPA CHUBBY

Ted Horowitz, aka Popa Chubby is a true native son of the Big Apple.

He was born in 1960 in the Bronx, and grew up in a neighborhood made famous by Robert DeNiro in the movie A Bronx Tale. His parents owned a candy store on the corner of 181st Street and Arthur Avenue. His early memories of hearing the juke box playing the hits of early sixties soul and R&B – and the neighborhood teens flocking around it – made a lasting impression on him. To this day the musical influence of Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, Aretha Franklin and Marvin Gaye are ever present in Popa's music.

At the tender age of six, he picked up the drums and became consumed in playing "Wipeout" (much to the dismay of his mother and neighbors). His parents were huge fans of jazz and R&B and had a vast collection of 78's and LP's. Popa would spend hours scratching them up by playing the sections he liked over and over again. When he was seven, his father took him to see an oldies show at Madison Square Garden. Up close to the stage he watched the headliner duckwalk across the stage playing his Gibson 335 like a ringin' a bell!! Chuck Berry became Popa's idol. The untimely death of his father when he was nine left Ted living with his old-school Italian grandparents. His love affair with the drums was put on indefinite hold.

Popa Chubby's music, forged in the toughness that is New York City, takes blues to the cutting edge, where it highfives its contemporary cousins rock, rap, and hip hop. With his razor sharp, biting guitar, vocals from the gut, and top-notch skill as a songwriter, Popa Chubby artfully combines the rootsiness of blues with the more modern urban elements of today's popular music.

In May 2000, Dixiefrog released How'd a White Boy Get the Blues? in Europe, where it has sold well. Looking for a domestic label that would understand his unique approach to the blues, Popa brought the album to Blind Pig Records, which released this seminal blues-rock concept record in 2001. Popa continues his relationship with both labels, having released Live at FIP, a double live CD recorded in Paris in 2003, The Hungry Years, and Old School in 2003, and Peace, Love and Respect in 2004. Big Man, Big Guitar was released in 2005, as both CD and DVD. Popa teamed with Galea for the critically acclaimed Vicious Country in 2008

Popa Chubby's newest CD is THE FIGHT IS ON.