Paul Jost to Perform at ARTLANTIC Wonder Park in Atlantic City, Now thru 9/18

Paul Jost, the singer/multi-talented musician who has a long history performing in Atlantic City, has been selected to perform every Wednesday, all summer long from June 26 through September 18. It takes place from 5:15 to 6:15 at the new ARTLANTIC Wonder Park, at Pacific Avenue between Martin Luther King Blvd and South Indiana Avenue, just off the boardwalk in the former site of the Sands Casino. In addition, Jost will perform on Friday, August 2, Saturday, August 10 and Saturday, August 17.

He has created an exciting line up of talent with a variety of musicians and bringing, truly, the best of entertainment to Atlantic City in these free concerts. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets, lawn chairs and snacks for a late afternoon musical picnic in the park to satisfy the soul. Near the Atlantic, what could be better than enjoying the ocean breeze in this new park setting and listening to the highly acclaimed music of Paul Jost and his special guests!

Music is only one aspect of "MIND, BODY & SOUL ARTLANTIC", being held in Atlantic City's beautiful new art parks, which provide inviting green spaces on formerly vacant, oceanfront land adjacent to the world famous Atlantic City Boardwalk. ARTLANTIC features a series of diverse summer programming designed to stimulate the mind, body and soul -- to rejuvenate the body with fitness and interactive performances, satisfy the soul with entertainment including music and dance and stimulate the mind with comedy and theatrical performances for all ages, including kids' shows. The Atlantic City Alliance (ACA) and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) created ARTLANTIC to help re-imagine Atlantic City as a vibrant, dynamic, cultural destination.

Jost, an eclectic artist -- a vocalist, harmonicist, guitarist, drummer and composer/arranger, who was music director at Golden Nugget in Atlantic City for eight years and has performed at every casino in the seashore town - has invited the finest musicians to join him. (See schedule below.) Music critic Buster Maxwell says that Jost ... "nearly single-handedly reclaims the male voice as a valid and critically important jazz instrument." On Saturday, August 10, his band, The J?st Project with vibraphonist Tony Miceli, bassist Kevin MacConnell and drummer Charlie Patierno, will make their ARTLANTIC appearance a CD Release Party for the upcoming recording by Dot Time Records called "Can't Find My Way Home," where they interpret classic rock in a jazz format. From Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel and more, fans love their unique renditions of such songs as "Walk This Way", "Kashmir", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", etc.

For more details on "Mind, Body & Soul ARTLANTIC" and a complete schedule of events, visit http://bit.ly/Artlantic-events. For more information about Paul Jost, visit pauljostmusic.com.

The seven-acre exhibition site, ARTLANTIC: wonder, includes works by Robert Barry, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and Kiki Smith. Featuring two open spaces with two sculptures surrounded by 14-foot-high undulating terraces covered in indigenous grasses and wildflowers. The Kabakov sculpture is a large, wooden pirate ship. Opposite the ship is a life-sized version of "Her," a bronze sculpture of a woman embracing a doe by Smith surrounded by a red-themed garden. Embedded in the landscape surrounding both open spaces are Robert Barry's illuminated text pieces. The landscape design is by Balmori Associates. Additional installations by conceptual land artist Peter Hutchinson and New Jersey artists Robert Lach and Jedediah Morfit are being installed this summer. The Hutchinson, Lach and Morfit interventions will include several of Peter Hutchinson's famous "thrown rope" pieces, Robert Lach's fiberglass bird's nest installation and functional, cast-aluminum furniture and a gate by Jedediah Morfit.

The second installation, Etude Atlantis, a large-scale optical illusion by artist John Roloff, is located at California Avenue and the Boardwalk.

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