Live tracks from hot acts at your stop

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Live tracks from hot acts at your stop

BY STEPHANIE GASKELL

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

May 16th 2008

 

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'Tin Pan,' an old-style New Orleans jazz and blues band, is one of 23 winners in

the Music Underground New York contest.

 

It's underground and noisy - but where else can a struggling artist reach millions of people a day?

 

The MTA announced the annual winners of its Music Underground New York contest Thursday - 23 acts that get special permits to perform in the subway.

 

"If you're an artist, advertising is everything," said Gibran Soul, a "ghetto folk singer" who moved here from Toledo, Ohio, a year ago to find stardom in the Big Apple. "You never know who's riding the subway."

 

Straphangers stopped at Grand Central Terminal Thursday to hear Soul and other performers - including New Orleans-style jazz band Tin Pan and Latin fusion band Movimiento - take the "stage."

 

"It makes you feel happy," said Cynthia Young, a 44-year-old student from the Bronx.

[Pablo M 201 35]

I saw alot of these bands yesterday.

 

14th Street Union Square, 42nd Street Times Square, 42nd Street Grand Central (but it wasn't The Pan), 34th Street Herald Square.

[sebbieprops 0]

I see them rather frequently at 42nd Street/Times Square.