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The New York City Parks Foundation has announced the schedule for the 2013 SummerStage festival, which will brings more than 100 free music, dance, comedy and theater programs to 17 parks across all of the city’s five boroughs. Among those shows, Shuggie Otis will be headlining at SummerStage this year on August 11th in Central Park. The show, which also will feature performances from Jose James, Hiatus Kaiyote and DJ sets by OP! (I Love Vinyl), will run from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. EDT and will be FREE! More information can be found at CityParksFoundation.org.

Here are some additional images from Shuggie Otis’ performance at B.B. King Blues Club & Grill last Thursday in Times Square. The show proved so popular that Shuggie was also booked for an additional appearance at the venue, which took place this past Saturday. BrooklynVegan said, “Shuggie showed that his guitar chops are in fine form.” You can view the images below and also check out more photos at BrooklynVegan.com.

Photos by Brian Wong

In the heart of Times Square, tourists and fans alike came out to see Shuggie Otis perform a very funky set at BB King’s on Thursday night (pictured). Check out more photos at PopMatters and read their perfect score review of Inspiration Information/Wings Of Love! The album is available now at Amazon and iTunes.

Shuggie Otis recently spoke with MTV Hive about how it feels to be a comeback kid twice now, at age 59, and how he works on his music:

“I still love music. I was doing [Inspiration Information] because it was the first time I’d ever written for myself. I had mostly been on my father’s albums more and what not, but I’d never done an album for myself. And I was falling in love with jazz and classical, with composers as much as the blues and all the other people in my life. I started to come up with an idea, not purposefully; I wasn’t like, I’m going to write this and it’s going to sound like this. No — I would just come down, and it would all come down to my head, something like that, and then I put it down.”

“So that’s the way I write. I don’t play anything for anyone. If I don’t like it, I won’t let anyone hear it until it’s done. Not everything I like is great; I just don’t let anyone hear what I don’t want them to hear. They might think it’s great, horrible — doesn’t matter. If I like it, then I’ll let somebody hear it and it’ll come out. So finally I get this album out, so that’s great. It was really a labor of love. … You know I’ve done a lot for others over the years, but when you do something with your name on it, you know it’s a whole different thing too. You know, you want to look good. You want to sound good.”

Read the complete interview at MTV Hive.