10-Year-Old DJ Plays Tribeca's Washington Market Park

DJ Kai Song performs in Tribeca's Washington Market Park gazebo. Photo: Carl Glassman/Tribeca Trib

A Washington Market Park summer concert had a jumpier—and more youthful—vibe one evening last month when DJ Kai Song, who just turned 10, got behind the CD players and mixers for a rocking dance fest around the gazebo.

Having played his first DJ gig at age 3, Song is already a veteran, with more than 100 gigs under his belt. But the park, he said, was special.

“It was a different atmosphere than in a street fest or a club,” he said. “It was cool.”

And watching the kids dance to his music was special, too.
“I’m doing something I love,” he said, “and at the same time they’re doing some­thing they love.”