{"id":262847,"date":"2026-06-11T05:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262847\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T05:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T05:31:07","slug":"manhattan-masters-of-ska-and-reggae-play-new-paltz-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/262847\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan masters of ska and reggae play New Paltz on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Fri. 6\/12 \u2022 8pm \u2022 The Lemon Squeeze, 107 Main St., New Paltz<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-99388\" style=\"padding-right: 13px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/23-the-slackers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"333\"\/>A ska night with serious metropolitan roots: The Slackers, the Manhattan six-piece who\u2019ve spent 35 years threading ska, rocksteady, reggae, and soul into something distinctly their own. Frontman Vic Ruggiero\u2019s gravelly accent has always been as much an instrument as his keyboard, and the band\u2019s 2022 album Don\u2019t Let the Sunlight Fool Ya debuted at number one on the Billboard reggae charts. The band is known for dense, horn-driven sets that fill dancefloors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri. 6\/12 \u2022 8pm \u2022 The Lemon Squeeze, 107 Main St., New Paltz A ska night with serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-262847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}