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Newark is well known for its role in the development of the house music genre.
NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) — Newark is well known for its role in the development of the house music genre. This summer, the Newark City Parks Foundation is staging a variety of free and public house-music events.
In this special editionn of “Here & Now,” Eyewitness News photographer Angelo Martin gives us a look at how house music has impacted the culture of Brick City past and present.
Plus, Marcy DePina, DJ and executive director of the Newark City Parks Foundation, discusses the park’s fall season lineup as well as her monthly Afterwork Wednesday house parties.
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