Downtown Sounds is growing and expanding; this year will feature additional musical acts on a smaller second stage in July. The second stage will be located on School Street by Highland (in front of La Famiglia and Asian Fusion). Music starts at 7pm.
Downtown Sounds Off the Square 2026 Lineup
July 3: BRAKE
July 10: Frank Ferrara Trio
July 17: Livestock Trio
July 24: Roger Street Friedman
July 31: Ray Lambiase & The Acoustic Tin Kickers
BRAKE
July 3
The original BRAKE line up consisted of brothers Koorosh Leibowitz (drums) and Brandon Leibowitz (lead guitar), who are both Glen Cove natives, and their friend Jake Levine (vocals & rhythm guitar) of Plainview. The trio recorded various singles in 2020 and their freshman studio album entitled Breakfast in 2021, releasing it in Spring 2022. In Summer 2023, Nick Reip of Massapequa joined the band to play bass. Since then, the band has played various venues across Nassau and Suffolk County. The band covers music across all decades and genres, from classic rock, blues, funk, to more modern alternative rock. In between covers, the band performs their original music, including fan favorite and hit single Bacon Egg and Cheese.
Live Stock Trio
July 17
Sea Cliff-based Live Stock has been the life of the party since 2011, playing beaches, parks, clubs and private parties around Long Island. The scaled-back Live Stock Trio plays a mix of roots rock and party favorites spanning the 1960s through the ’90s.
Ray Lambiase & the Acoustic Tin Kickers
July 31
Ray Lambiase is a veteran New York singer-songwriter, who has just released his sixth full length CD, Perfume Like a Full Moon. Featuring ten new original songs, the album is his most personal and reflective collection to date. His previous well-received releases include The Road Ahead, Kid Bayonne and The Ballad of Three Finger Brown, whose title track has become a staple of college radio at the start of each baseball season.
He also performs acoustically with two members of his band The Tin Kickers, featuring the three-part harmonies of Kate Corrigan on vocals, and Lanny Sichel on vocals and acoustic lead guitar. Ray, Kate and Lanny have been singing and performing together for more than fifty years.
Ray began writing and performing his own songs as a teenager on Long Island. After traveling the college coffeehouse circuit in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, he formed his first band and released his first recording. That early vinyl single, Slow Dance Romeo received significant local radio airplay and led to publishing contracts with Nashville’s Combine Music and Bob Dylan’s Special Rider Music publishing arm in New York City.
He has performed in concert with Steve Forbert, Suzanne Vega, Eric Anderson, Graham Parker, Marshall Crenshaw and many others.
Frank Ferrara Trio
July 10
Frank Ferrara began playing guitar at the age of 11.
His performance experiences include stints with blues band Cadillac Moon, Brazilian artists Vinicius Cantuaria and Bebel Gilberto, and the Dan Marshall Band, for which he served as musical director, as well as 7 years as guitarist for the Roger Street Friedman band, with which he performed as the opening act for Los Lobos and the Blind Boys from Alabama.
Frank’s TV and radio credits include spots written for MCI, Cover Girl, Days Inn, and Bed Bath and Beyond, as well as many commercials for which he played guitar.
Frank has also written and performed the music for two full length plays, ‘Quixote’, performed at Columbia University, and ‘The Reluctant Lovers’, performed at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in Manhattan.
His composition for marimba quintet, Point to Line to Plane, had its premier at Queens College in December of 2021.
Roger Street Friedman
July 24
Roger Street Friedman is still a believer in the idea that music can change hearts and minds. Over the past decade, and during the course of four critically acclaimed albums, the modern Americana singer-songwriter has become a prominent voice in addressing issues both societal and personal in ways that recall the leading music lights of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
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