Tickets go on sale 2/5

City Parks Foundation welcomes The Black Keys to Central Park SummerStage. The Akron, Ohio-based duo will perform a benefit concert to help support the free programs of Central Park SummerStage, presented by Bowery Presents. Tickets are $35 and go on sale Friday, February 5. 

The Black Keys broke out in 2002 with their debut release, The Big Come Up, winning over fans ever since with their energetic, high-volume live shows. The Chicago Tribune said, “Akron duo The Black Keys created a mighty ruckus at a sold-out Riviera Theatre…” and the Orange County Register lauded the “raw and relentless fury of their riveting set at House of Blues Anaheim,” going on to say that “…it felt like we had all been transported to a dive bar in some swampy corner of Mississippi. And it felt good. Damn good.”  In 2008 the duo released their fifth studio album, Attack and Release, produced by Danger Mouse.  With Danger Mouse, The Black Keys didn’t veer uncomfortably far from the elemental rock & roll territory they’d mined so effectively on previous albums like their 2006 Nonesuch debut, Magic Potion, or their Fat Possum discs, Rubber Factory (2004) and Thickfreakness (2003).  In November 2009, the band released a collaborative album under the moniker BlakRoc featuring some of the biggest names in hip hop including Mos Def, Raekwon, Ludacris, and the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, spearheaded by music producer Damon Dash.  In late ’09 the band headed back into the studio to record their sixth studio album to be released later this year.

To purchase tickets visit www.bowerypresents.com.