New York’s Central Park SummerStage will kick off this summer’s festivities with its annual fundraising benefit dinner and concert. This year’s SummerStage Gala is slated for Tuesday, June 5 and will focus on the music of Jimi Hendrix. Soulive will serve as the evening’s house band, and Bebel Gilberto, Amel Larrieux, G. Love, The Roots, John Scofield with Nigel Hall on vocals and Keller Williams are slated to perform. Additional acts will join the evening’s lineup in the coming weeks. As previously reported, Soulive and Roots drummer ?uestlove will also play SummerStage on June 17 as part of the Blue Note Jazz Festival.