Kim Gordon and Sun Ra Arkestra at Central Park SummerStage

Kim Gordon during her set at SummerStage in Central Park on Thursday, June 13, 2024.

Members of Sun Ra Arkestra during their set at SummerStage on Thursday, June 13, 2024.

A dancer performs with the Sun Ra Arkestra on Thursday, June 13, 2024 in Central Park in New York, NY.

Camilla Charlesworth (left), Kim Gordon (center), and Sarah Register (right) during Kim Gordon’s set on Thursday, June 13, 2024 in New York, NY.

During Kim Gordon’s set in Central Park on Thursday, June 13, 2024.

On Thursday, June 13, 2024, Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage presented a free concert at Rumsey Playfield featuring a stellar bill: Kim Gordon, Sun Ra Arkestra, and Slauson Malone 1.

On July 4, 1992, Sonic Youth and Sun Ra Arkestra performed a free show on the same stage in Central Park and over 30 years later, Gordon mentioned that concert during her set in support of her second solo album, The Collective. SRA also performed the following night with her Matador Records labelmates, Yo La Tengo, as a part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival. Sun Ra Arkestra’s current band leader, Marshall Allen, recently celebrated his 100th birthday.

I covered this special show for Impose Magazine and the full gallery is now available on their website here.