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August 23, 2013 Page 51
AFTEE Dance Party Rocks the East End! FTEE’s Nile Rodgers Dance Party East End brought a festival atmosphere to Martha Clara Vineyards in Riverhead on Monday night, fueled by an eclectic crowd including tiny tykes and their grandparents, high school students and high school principals, high society and hipsters and the hoi polloi, all looking to get their groove on. With acts that seemingly spoke to distinct generations, the concert drew together the eclectic crowd into a single, celebrating entity. “That’s what dance music does,” said Rodgers. “It’s the music that unifies.”
•Assemblyman Fred Thiele, sportscaster Ann Liguori and other East End notables joining guests perusing the many prizes in the silent auction area. And those silent auction items astounded. Among the hot tickets: A swimming clinic with Ryan Lochte; a week in a private villa in Italy; a Super Bowl VIP experience for two; an escape to St. Emilion, France; and plenty of contributions from local businesses and restaurants. Did we perhaps see you bidding on a Sag Harbor dining experience, Ms. Liguori? Excellent choice.
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nile Rodgers with his autographed guitar
Bringing people together has been the goal of All for the East End (AFTEE) since its inception. Uniting them in mind and spirit to support the myriad nonprofits across the East End, uniting them here at the first full-blown fundraiser concert for All For the East End (AFTEE). “This event puts us on the map,” said AFTEE Founder and President Myron Levine, DJ Prince Paul onstage providing the perfect backdrop to support that notion. Not even the occasional drop and drizzle was going to dampen anyone’s spirits this night, especially Rodgers himself. “Hopefully this is the beginning of a million shows here,” Rodgers said as the concert kicked into high gear, and nobody in the crowd was going to argue. So with a classic disco beat and new DJ jams still reverberating, we celebrate the evening’s defining moments, the amusing, the inspiring and, ultimately, the endlessly entertaining. • Nile Rodgers out on stage even during the warm-up acts, signing autographs and chatting with fans hours before he and his band Chic were scheduled to take the stage. “I just love music,” said Rodgers. “I love doing this—I have the best friends in the world.” How many headliners would pass programs, scraps of paper and the like back and forth with adoring fans, much less hang out with every opening
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