Tuesday, May 18, 2010

a cornucopia of free events in new york city

One of the many great things about New York City is the number of free outdoor events that take place throughout the summer.  Here is a very long (and incomplete!) list of some of what is available.


I'll be updating as more schedules are released.  Please confirm dates and times before heading out.  Resource links at the end.


ALL BOROUGHS

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC IN THE PARKS
July 13-14   NY Philharmonic Central Park Great Lawn  8:00pm
July 15      Cunningham Park Queens  8:00pm
July 16      Prospect Park Brooklyn  8:00pm
July 17      CUNY Center for the Arts Staten Island 8:00pm
July 19      Hostos Center for the Arts Bronx  7:30pm

METROPOLITAN OPERA RECITALS IN THE PARKS
July 12   Central Park SummerStage  8:00pm
July 15   Crotona Park Bronx  8:00pm
July 20   Brooklyn Bridge Park  7:00pm
July 22   Tappen Park Staten Island  7:00pm
July 27   Queensbridge Park Queens  7:00pm
July 29   Jackie Robinson Park Manhattan  7:00pm

METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER HD FESTIVAL
Outdoors in the Lincoln Center Plaza
Aug 28   Tosca  8:00pm
Aug 29   The Magic Flute  8:00pm
Aug 30   Der Rosenkavalier  7:15pm
Aug 31   Doctor Atomic  7:45pm
Sept 1     Le Contes d'Hoffman  7:45pm
Sept 2     La Bohme  8:00pm
Sept 3     Hansel and Gretal  8:00pm
Sept 4     Turandot  8:00pm
Sept 5     Aida  8:00pm
Sept 6     Carmen  7:45pm

ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE'S SUBWAY SERIES
All Mozart Program, City Harvest Food Drive, and the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck!
Free tickets reserved online at http://oslmusic.org/subwayseries/php
June 3     WNYC Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, Manhattan  7:30pm
June 4     Flushing Town Hall, Queens  7:30pm
June 5     Brooklyn Museum  7:00pm
June 6     Snug Harbor, Staten Island  2:00pm
June 7     Church of St. Luke In The Fields, Manhattan 7:30pm
June 8     Wave Hill, Bronx  2:00pm


BROOKLYN

PROSPECT PARK CELEBRATE BROOKLYN
June 9    Norah Jones  8:00pm
June 12   Allen Toussant / Davell Crawford   7:30pm
June 17   Eugene Mirman & Pretty Good Friends   7:30pm
June 18   JG Thirwell's Steroid Maximus / Dr. Lonnie Smith   7:30pm
June 19   Bitches Brew Revisited / Mike Stern Trio   7:30pm
June 24   Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club with Omara Portuondo / Nelida Tirado   7:30pm
June 25   Kid Koala: Short Attention Span Audio Theater vs The Slew / Ness is More   7:30pm
June 26   Texas Tornados / Red Clay Rambers   7:30pm
Jume 29   Passion Pit / Tokyo Police Club  7:30pm
July 1      Zoom: Zvidance / Son Lux with Lottdance  8:00pm
July 2      The Fab 5 / Uzalo   7:30pm
July 8      Itutu: Armitage Gone! Dance featuring Burkina Electric  8:00pm
July 9      Ozomatli / Fidel Nadal / Toy Selection  7:00pm
July 11    OkayAfrica with The Roots / Talib Kweli / Sahr Ngujah / Rajah The Dry Eye Crew / Blitz The Ambassador / and more!  4:00pm
July 17    African Festival: Konono No 1 / Omar Pene & Super Diamond / Meta & The Cornerstones / Djarara / and more!  2:00pm
July 22   The Chaplin Mutuals: Carl Davis & The Brooklyn Philharmonic / The Two Man Gentleman Band     7:30pm
July 23   Bomba Estero / La Secta Allstar / Rita Indiana  7:00pm
July 24   Field of Dreams: Andres Levin & The Bruce High Foundation  4:00pm
July 27   The National / Beach House 7:00pm
July 29   MI21: Mother India 21st Century Remix with DJ Tigerstyle / Falu   7:00pm
July 30   The Swell Season / The Low Anthem   7:30pm
July 31   Sonic Youth / Grass Widow / Talk Normal  7:00pm
Aug 5     Metric / Joan As Police Woman / Holly Miranda  7:00pm
Aug 6     House Of Usher: Marco Benevento / White Magic  7:30pm
Aug 7     Daptone Review: Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Budos Band / and more!  7:00pm
Aug 8     Brady Rymer / Elizabeth Mitchell  4:00pm

RED HOOK PARK
June 1    Jay Electronica  7:00pm
June 8    Frankie Negron  7:00pm
June 15   Dan Deacon  7:00pm

BETSY HEAD MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND
June 2    Roy Ayers / DJ Jon Quick  7:00pm
June 9    Nice and Smooth / The Awesome 2  7:00pm
June 17   Felix Hernandez Rhythm Review  7:00pm
June 18-19   The Etymology of Bird, a play by Zakiyyah Alexander, directed by Jade King-Caroll  8:00pm

HERBERT VON KING PARK
June 3    Doug E. Fresh / DJ Dee Wiz  7:00pm
June 4    Akim Funk Buddha's Flying Boom Box / Organic Magnetics  7:00pm
June 5    Tamboula / Peniel Guerrier Dance / Julio Hatian American Dance Theater  7:00pm
June 10   Hezekiah Walker  7:00pm
June 11-12   The Etymology of Bird, a play by Zakiyyah Alexander, directed by Jade King-Caroll  8:00pm
June 16   Big Daddy Kane / DJ Jon Quick  7:00pm

MOVIES AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK PIER 1
All movies at dusk
July 8     Annie Hall
July 15   Monsters vs Aliens 3D
July 22   The Big Lebowski
July 29   Rear Window
Aug 5     Brokeback Mountain
Aug 12   Dreamgirls
Aug 19   The Blues Brothers
Aug 26   Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

MOVIES AT McCLARREN PARK
All films start at dusk
July 7      Say Anything
July 14    Labyrinth
July 21    Romeo + Juliet
July 28    Dead Man
Aug 4      Starship Trooper
Aug 11    Point Break


CONEY ISLAND MERMAID PARADE
June 19  12:00pm

CONEY ISLAND SIREN FESTIVAL
July 17  12:00 - 9:00pm
Matt and Kim / Ted Leo and The Pharmacists / Surfer Blood / and more!

CONEY ISLAND SEASIDE CONCERTS
all shows Thursdays at 7:30;  Asser Levy Seaside Park
July 15   Neal Sedaka / Brenda Lee
July 22   The Beach Boy / Happy Together Tour
July 29   George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Aug 5     John Legend
Aug 12   Aretha Franklin
Aug 19   The B-52s / Belinda Carlisle
Aug 26   Annual Latino Music By The Sea


BROOKLYN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CONCERT SERIES
all shows Mondays at 7:30;  Wingate Field
July 12   George Clinton & Parilament Funkadelic / The Ohio Players
July 19   Toni Braxton
July 26   Musiq Soulchild / Chrisett Michele
Aug 2    Salt-N-Pepa / Naughty By Nature / Slick Rick
Aug 9    Aretha Franklin
Aug 16   Bebe & Cece Winans
Aug 23   Sean Paul



GOVERNOR'S ISLAND
concert at 8:00pm,  gates open at 6:00pm; unlesss otherwise noted
June 5     Yeasayer, Keepaway, Delicate Steve at The Beach
June 19   Morning Benders, Freelance Whales, Wild Nothing at The Beach
July 3      Portugal. The Man, Alberta Cross at The Beach
July 4      She & Him, Todd O Phonic Todd at The Beach  4:00pm
July 4      Rosanne Cash  2:00pm
July 10    Lucero at The Beach
July 16    Caribou, Phantogram, The Chain Gang of 1974 at The Beach
July 17    Dr. Dog at The Beac
Aug 8     Josh Ritter, Justin Townes Earle, Dawn Landes at The Beach
Aug 14   Neon Indian at The Beach




MANHATTAN

GOOD MORNING AMERICAN SUMMER CONCERTS
Friday morning's at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park.  Concerts start at 7:00am
May 28    Sugarland
June 4      Diddy / Dirty Money
June 11    Norah Jones / Sarah McLachlan
June 18    Miley Cyrus
June 25    Alicia Keys
July 2       Mary J. Blige
July 9       To Be Announced
July 16     The GO-GO'S
July 23     Sheryl Crow
July 30     Black Eyed Peas
Aug. 6     To Be Announced
Aug. 13   Jonas Brothers / Demi Lovato, Camp Rock 2
Aug. 20   Rihanna
Aug  27   Lady Antebellum

TODAY SHOW SUMMER CONCERTS
Rockefeller Plaza, Gates open at 6:00am
June 3     American Idol winnner and runner-up
June 4     Justin Bieber
June 8     Christina Aguilera
June 11   Rascal Flatts
June 18   James Taylor and Carole King
June 25   Maxwell
July 2      Maroon 5
July 9      Lady Gaga
July 16    Enrique Isglesias
July 23    John Mayer
July 30    Carrie Underwood
Aug 13    Ke$ha
Aug 20    Keith Urban
Aug 27    Katy Perry

MADISON SQUARE PARK OVAL LAWN SERIES
June 16   Ruthie Foster  7:00pm
June 23   Solas  7:00pm
June 30   Mose Allison  7:00pm
July 7     Alecia Nugent / The Farwell Drifters  6:00pm
July 14   David Bromberq Quartet  7:00pm
July 21   SOMI / John Ellis and Double Wide  6:00pm
July 28   The Wailin' Jennys  7:00pm
Aug 4     The James Carter Organ Trio  7:00pm

STUYVESANT TOWN MUSIC ON THE OVAL
Wednesdays; concerts start at 7:3pm,  DJ at 6:00pm
June 16  Tony Allen / DJ Sal P
June 23  Juana Molina / Treehouse DJs
June 30  Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos with La Cumbiamba nNeYe / DJ Uproot Andy
July 7     Delorean / DJ Brennan Green
July 14   Naomi Shelton and the Gospel Queens / DJ Greg Caz
July 21   Easy All-Stars / DJ Wrong Tom

WASHINGTON SQUARE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Tuesdays in July at 8:00pm
July 6    Washington Square Chamber Ensemble:  Boccherini/Ravel/Hartmann
July 13  Washington Square Chamber Ensemble:  Hartmann/Haydn/Dubois
July 20  Washington Square Chamber Ensemble:  salon music, caberat and american musicals
July 27  Washington Square Chamber Ensemble:  Charles Mingus


LINCOLN CENTER OUT OF DOORS

BARCLAYS CAPITAL GROVE
July 28  No Snakes In The Grass  6:30pm

DAMROSCH PARK BANDSHELL
July 28  Ethel Fair: Adam Schlesinger / Dayna Kurtz / Tom Verlaine  7:30
July 29  Ansanm / Mikerline Dance Company  7:30pm
July 30  Nona Hendryx / Nicolas Liechter Dance  7:30pm
July 31-Aug 1  27th Annual Roots of America Music Festival  6:00pm
Aug 4    Robert Glasper Experiment / Q-Tip / Bilal Jose James' Blackmagic  7:30pm
Aug 5    Paul Taylor Dance Company  8:00pm
Aug 6    Hallogallo 2010: The Music of Neu! / Hermeto Pascoal  7:30pm
Aug 7    Balkan Beat Box / Mucca Pazza  7:00pm
Aug 8    Soul Rebels Brass Band / Wild Magnolias / Glen David Andrews  7:30pm
Aug 11   Susana Baca / Aureli Martinez & Garifuna Soul / Carlos Varela  6:30pm
Aug 12   International Body Music Festival  7:30pm
Aug 13   Kronos Quartet / Kenge Kenge  7:30pm
Aug 14   Larry Harlow's La Raza Latina: A Salsa Salute / Ruben Blades  7:30pm
Aug 15   Lucinda Childs Dance / Brian Brooks Moving Company  7:00pm

JOSIE ROBERTSON PLAZA
July 29    DJA-Rara  7:00pm
Aug 6     Asphalt Orchestra  7:00pm
Aug 12   Chines American Arts Council: Lion Dance  7:00pm
Aug 15   Centrifugal Force: Hip Hop Generation  5:00pm

HEARST PLAZA
July 31-Aug 1  27th Annual Roots of America Music Festival  2:00pm
Aug 5    Asphalt Orchestra  7:00pm
Aug 7    Kids Day Rock Camp for Girls  2:00pm
Aug 7    Puppet Pageant  4:00pm
Aug 8    Yuri Yunakov / Zikrayat / The Maeandros Ensemble  2:00pm
Aug 7    Asphalt Orchestra  6:00pm
Aug 14   La Casita 10th Anniversary  12:00pm

BROADWAY PLAZA
Aug 4    Asphalt Orchestra  7:00pm
Aug 8    Asphalt Orchestra  6:00pm
Aug 13   Gamelan Galak Tika  6:00pm


TOWN HALL FREE FOR ALL
June 8    Stepahanie Blythe and Warren Jones  2:00pm

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK
June 9 - Aug 1   Merchant of Venice / A Winter's Tale   Delacorte Theater

CENTRAL PARK NAUMBURG BANDSHELL ORCHESTRAL CONCERT SERIES
All shows at 7:30pm
June 22  The Knights
July 6     Jupiter Symphoney Chamber Players
July 20   Time For Three
Aug 3     The Knights

CENTRAL PARK HARLEM MEER
All shows at 2:00pm
June 20   Source with Abdulaye Diabate (Afro-Beat)
June 27   Cynthia Holiday (Jazz)
July 4      Zon del Barrio (Latin)
July 11    Retumba (Pan-Caribbean)
July 18    Harlem Blues & Jazz Band (Blues and Jazz)
July 25    Vanderlei Pereira and Blindfold Test (Brazilian Jazz) In the Conservatory Garden
Aug 1      Susan Pereira and Sabor Brasil (Brazilian Jazz)
Aug 8      Something Positive (Afro-Caribbean Dance and Music) Includes dance performance
Aug 15    Sumba Swing (Latin Jazz)
Aug 22    Dja Rara (Afro-Haitian)
Aug 29    Cocomama (Cuban Salsa)
Sept 5     Sounds of Deliverance (Gospel)

CENTRAL PARK SUMMER STAGE
June 1    The New York Pops and Melody Gardot  7:00pm
June 5    Living Colour / Ebond Bones! / Pillow Theory / CX Kidtronik  3:00pm
June 6    Pupy y Los Que Son Son and Jose Conde  3:00pm
June 8    SummerStage Gala: A Tribute to Simon & Garfunkel  7:00pm
June 12   8th Annual Cine Fest Petrobras Brasil featuring Os Paralmas Do Sucesso and Maria Gadu / Oscar Niemeyer - Life is a Breath of Air  7:00pm
June 14   Baaba Maal / Playing For Change  7:00pm
June 19   Pride Rally: Me'shell Ndegeocello / Martha Wash / Gay Men's Chorus / Vicky Shaw / Billie Meyers / Hosted by Bruce Villanch  4:00pm
June 20   Fete de la Musique: Salif Keita / Tabou Combo / Lo'Jo  3:00pm
June 23   Jazz Fest: Mccoy Tyner Quartet featuring Ravi Coltrane / Esperanza Spalding and Francisco Mela & Stanley Clarke Band featuring Hiromi  7:00pm
June 26   Tinariwen / Omar Souleyman / Toubab Krewe  3:00pm
June 27   Gil Scott-Heron  3:00pm
June 29   Definitely Poetry Festival  3:00pm
June 30   Nuyorican Poetry Cafe  7:00pm
July 3     Instanbulive II: Kenan Dogulu / more ve otesi / Ilhan Erashin / Burhan Ocal Tulug Tirpan / Sukriye Tutkun / DJ Salih Saka
July 7     Nortec Collective:  Bostich & Fussible / El Guincho / Anita Tijoux  7:00pm
July 10   Maidita Vecindad / The Pinker Tones  3:00pm
July 11   Jimmy Cliff / Trevor Hall and Victor Deme  3:00pm
July 17   Raphael Saadiq and special guests  3:00pm
July 18   Global Family Day  3:00pm
July 21   Comedy Central presents The Daily Show and Friends / Lewis Black 8:00pm
July 23-24   The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater   8:00pm
July 25   Bassekou Koutaye + Ngoni Ba / Burkina Electric / Fool's Gold  3:00pm
July 28   The Black Keys / The Morning Benders  3:00pm
July 31   Jovanatti / Los Amigos Invisibles / Natalia Lafourcade  3:00pm
Aug 1     St. Vincent / tune-yards / Basia Bullet  3:00pm
Aug 7     Clark Sisters / Keirra Kiki Sheard  3:00pm
Aug 8     The xx / Chairlift / Jack Penate  7:00pm
Aug 10    Complexions Contemporary Ballet / Dancin Downtown Contest Winners  8:00pm
Aug 14    Bachata Fest: Andy Andy / Luis Miguel de la Amargue / Elvis Martinez and Alexandra  3:00pm
Aug 15    Public Enemy / Blitz the Ambassador / The 7th Octave  3:00pm
Aug 21    Chrisette Michelle / Mario / Tamia  3:00pm
Aug 22    The Specials / Black Joe Lewis and The Honeymooners / $mall change  3:00pm
Sep 26     The Music of the Black Sea Roma Festival  3:00pm

EAST RIVER PARK
Aug 4         George Lamond / Judy Torres / DJ Lucho  7:00pm
Aug 12       White Rabbits  7:00pm
Aug 13       Paul Taylor II / Naganuma Dance  7:00pm
Aug 14       Complexions Contemporary Ballet / Wideman-Davis Dance  7:00pm
Aug 19       Our Latin Thing presents The Fania All Stars with DJ Lucho  7:00pm
Aug 20-22  Goodbar, a play by Waterwell Theater Company  8:00pm
Aug 23-24  Five Days In March, a play by Toshiki Okada, Performed by Witness Relocation  8:00pm
Aug 25-27  Beowulf A Thousand Years of Baggage, Performed by Banana Bad & Bodice  8:00pm

HIGHBRIDGE PARK
Aug 3     Elvis Martinez  7:00pm
Aug 10   Bachata  Heightz  7:00pm
Aug 17   Alexandra / Daniel Moncion  7:00pm

JACKSON ROBINSON PARK
July 30   Creative Outlet Dance Theater / Kyle Abraham and Abraham.in.Motion  7:00pm
July 31   Earl Mosley's Institute of Dance  / Motion Theater Lab  7:00pm
Aug 11   Doug E. Fresh / DJ  Dee Wiz  7:00pm
Aug 18   Tye Tribbett  7:00pm

MARCUS GARVEY PARK
Aug 5     Gill Scott-Heron  7:00pm
Aug 6-7  blood pudding, a play by Sharon Bridgforth, directed by Baraka de Soleil  8:00pm
Aug  28  The Charlie Parker Festival: McCoy Tyner, Jason Moran, Little Jimmy Scott / Revive Da Live: Charlie Parker Revisited  3:00pm

THOMPSON SQUARE PARK
Aug 29   The Charlie Parker Festival: James Moody, Catherine Russell, Vijay Iyer / The JD Allen Trio  3:00pm


RIVER TO RIVER FESTIVAL

BATTERY PARK
July 4   Dan Zanes Jam and Jubilee  2:00pm

CASTLE CLINTON
July 8    Madeleine Peyroux  7:00pm
July 15  Duncan Sheik  7:00pm
July 22  Antibalas  7:00pm

ONE NEW YORK PLAZA
July 16   Emmet Cohen  12:30pm
July 23   KJ Denhert  12:30pm
July 30   Chris Velan  12:30pm

ROCKEFELLER PARK
June 23  Renaissance / Steve Hackett  7:00pm
June 30  Beth Orton  7:00pm
July 7     Poets House Celebrates the Poetry and Music of Haiti  7:00pm
July 14   Jimmy Web with Martin Rivas  7:00pm
July 21   Burning Spear  7:00pm
Aug 5    Tremenda Rumbal with Tiempo Libre  7:00pm

MOVIES AT THE ELEVATED ACRE
July 29    Broadway Danny Rose  8:00pm
Aug 5     Auntie Mame  8:00pm
Aug 12   The Country Girl  8:00pm
Aug 19   The Muppets Take Manhattan  8:00pm

SOUTH STREET SEAPORT
June 26   The Apples In Stereo  12:00pm
July 2     Yellowfever / Woven Bones  6:00pm
July 4     Old 97s  7:00pm
July 8      Bear In Heaven / Zola Jesus  6:00pm
July 16    Thee Oh Sees / Golden Triangle / So Cow  6:00pm
July 22    Sounds Like Paper Concert Series 6:00pm
July 23    Free Energy / Best Coast / Loose Limbs  6:00pm
July 30    Avi Buffalo / Chad VanGaalen  6:00pm
Aug 6      YACHT with special guests  6:00pm

WAGNER PARK
July 15   Bill Sims Jr  7:00pm
July 28   Piena Libre  7:00pm
Aug 4    Conjunto Imagen  7:00pm
Aug 11  Nino Segarra and His Orchestra  7:0ppm

WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER PLAZA
July 8    Alice Farley Dance Theater  12:00pm
July 15   Emmet Cohen  12:30pm
July 22   KJ Denhart  12:30pm
July 29   Chris Velan  12:30pm

WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER WINTER GARDEN
June 22   Eroica Trio  7:00pm
June 23   American Ballroom Theater  3:00pm
June 27   Band on a Can Marathon  12:00pm
Aug 4     Tiempo Libre & Julito Martinez: Una Noche Cubana / Trova con Timba  7:00pm

ZUCCOTTI PARK
July 7     Left On Red  12:30pm
July 14   The Dan Martin / Nick Russo Duo  12:30pm
July 21   Gimagua  12:30pm
July 28   Jason Green  12:30pm

HUDSON RIVER PARK PIER 26
May 15 - Oct 15 weekends   Walk up kayaking

HUDSON RIVER PARK STARS OF TOMORROW PIER 45
All shows at 6:30pm
June 8   Classical Brass Trio - Mannes College
June 15  Thomas Finn Quartet - The New School
June 22  Classical Woodwinds Trio - Mannes College
June 29  Darrel Smith Quartet - The New School
July 6     Classical Brass Trio - Mannes College
July 13   Sarah Elizabeth Charles Quintet - The New School
July 20   Classical Woodwinds Trio - Mannes College
July 27   Alon Albagli Quartet - The New School
Aug 3     Petr Gazarov Quartet - The New School
Aug 10   Classical Brass Trio - Mannes College
Aug 17   Classical Woodwinds Trio - Mannes College

HUDSON RIVER PARK RIVERFLICKS FOR KIDS PIER 46
All films start at dusk
July 9     The Wizard of Oz
July 16   Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs
July 23   The Great Muppet Caper
July 30   Monsters vs Aliens
Aug 6     Big
Aug 13   Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Aug 20   Annie

HUDSON RIVER PARK RIVERFLICKS FOR ADULTS PIER 54
All films start at dusk
July 7    The Hangover
July 14   I Love You, Man
July 21   The Proposal
July 28   District 9
Aug 4     Julie & Julia
Aug 11   Public Enemies
Aug 18   Star Trek

HUDSON RIVER PARK MOONDANCE PIER 54
Dance lessons at 6:30; Live bands at 7:00pm
July 11    David Berger Jazz Orchestra
July 18    Los Hermanos Colon
July 25    Nu D'Lux
Aug 1      Hector Del Curto's Eternal Tango Orchestra
Aug 8      George Gee Swing Orchestra

HUDSON RIVER PARK RIVERROCKS PIER 54
Gates open at 6:00pm
July 8     Phosphorescent / Dawes
July 22   The Antlers / Dinosaur Feathers
Aug 12   Deerhunter / Real Estate

HUDSON RIVER PARK CLINTON COVE PIER 84
All shows 6:00 - 7:00pm
June 14   Roosevelt Dime
June 28   NYCity Slickers
July 12   Cocomama
July 26   Cumbiagra
Aug 9     Old SIlver Band
Aug 23   Stephen Beasley Project
Sept 13   Soul Understated

MOVIES AT BRYANT PARK
Lawn opens at 5pm; Movies start at dusk
June 21   Goldfinger
June 28   Carousel
July 5      The French Connection
July 12    My Man Godfrey
July 19    The China Syndrome
July 26    Monty Python and the Holey Grail
Aug 2      Rosemary's Baby
Aug 9     The Goodbye Girl
Aug 16    12 Angry Men
Aug 23    Bonne and Clyde


QUEENS

QUEENSBRIDGE PARK
July 15   EPMD / Funkmaster Flex  7:00pm
July 16   Seewe African Dance Company / Balafrohop  7:00pm
July 17   The Dance of Light: Vernard J. More and Abdur-Rahim Jackson  7:00pm
July 21   Pharoahe Monch / Danny Castro  7:00pm
July 28   Olu Dara  7:00pm

ROCHDALE PARK
July 23   The Main Ingredient  7:00pm
July 30   Total Praise  7:00pm

SPRINGFIELD PARK
July 14   Ryan Leslie  7:00pm
July 22   Smokie Norful  7:00pm
July 23-24   blood pudding, a play by Sharon Bridgforth, directed by Baraka de Soleil  8:00pm
July 29    Jon B  7:00pm


THE BRONX

SOUNDVIEW PARK
June 22   Carefusion Jazz Fest: Eddie Palmieri Y La Perfecta II  7:00pm
June 29   Papa San  7:00pm
July 6      Felix Hernandez Rhythm Review  7:00pm

ST. MARY'S PARK
June 24   Conjunto Clasico  7:00pm
June 25   Rennie Harris RHAW:  Le Soul Afrique / Akim Funk Buddha  7:00pm
June 26   Abukua Afro-Latin Dance Company / Areytos Performance Works  7:00pm
June 27   Bronx Family Day: Jose Ortiz / Dan Zanes / Jose Conde's Baby Loves Salsa  12:00pm
July 1      La Orquesta de la Gente present a tribute to Hector Lavoe  7:00pm
July 2-3  American Schemes, a play by Radah Blank, directed by Charlotee L. Brathwaite  8:00pm
July 7     Hector Tricoche / Chris Alfinez  7:00pm

COTONA PARK
June 23  Brand Nubian   7:00pm
June 30  DJ Kool Herc  7:00pm
July 8     30th Anniversary of Fever Records  7:00pm
July 10   Summer Shake-Up:  A Workshop with the Public Theater  3:00pm
July 9-10  American Schemes, a play by Radah Blank, directed by Charlotee L. Brathwaite  8:00pm



STATEN ISLAND

TAPPEN PARK
July 13   Force M.D.'s  7:00pm
July 20   Lisa Lisa  7:00pm
July 27   Blue Magic  7:00pm


MANHATTAN STREET FAIRS 2010
Friday May 21st
 NYC Business Expo 
(on Greenwich St. from Barclay - Warren Street) 


Saturday May 22nd
 Lexington Avenue Spring Fair 
(on Lexington Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
Sunday May 23rd 
Times Square Fair 
(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street)
Friday May 28th
 Grand Central Spring Fair 
(on 43rd Street from Lexington - 3rd Avenue)
Saturday May 29th
 Lexington Avenue Spring Festival 
(on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
Sunday May 30th
 The Annual Spring Jubilee 
(on Lexington Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
Monday May 31st Madison Avenue Community Expo (on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
Friday June 4th 
Tribeca Community Fair 
(on West Broadway from Barclay - Warren Street) 

Saturday June 5th 
International Cultures Festival 
(on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
Sunday June 6th 
Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood - 2nd Avenue Fair 
(on Second Avenue from 14th - 23rd Street)


Friday June 11th 
Tribeca Food Festival
(on West Broadway from Beach - Leonard Street) 

Saturday June 12th 
Lower Third Avenue Summer Festival 
(on 3rd Avenue from 6th - 14th Street)
Sunday June 13th 
New York City Expo 
(on 3rd Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
           
Saturday June 19th
 Times Square Expo 
(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street) 


Sunday June 20th
 The Turtle Bay Festival 
(on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 54th Street)
Friday June 25th
 Grand Central Station Festival
(on 43rd St. from Lexington - 3rd Avenue) 


Saturday June 26th 
6th Avenue Summerfest
(on 6th Avenue from 23rd - 33rd Street)
Sunday June 27th 
Times Square Block Party
(on 46th Street from Broadway - 8th Avenue)
Saturday July 3rd 
USO - Avenue of the Americas Summerfest
(on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
Sunday July 4th 
The Great July 4th Festival
(on Water from Fulton - Broad Street)
Friday July 9th 
Financial Community Day Festival
(on Broad St. from Water - South Street)
Saturday July 10th 
Park Avenue Summerfest
(on Park Avenue South from 17th - 23rd Street)

Sunday July 11th
 NYC Celebration of Nations Festival
(on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)

Saturday July 17th 
East Side Summer Festival 
(on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street) 

Sunday July 18th 
NYC Unfolds Street Fair 
(on Broadway from Houston - Grand Street)
Saturday July 24th 
Washington Sq. Summer Fair 
(on Bleecker St. from Broadway - 6th Ave. )
Saturday July 24th 
Central Park Summerfest
(on 60th St. from Madison - 5th Ave. ) 

Sunday July 25th
 52nd Association Jazz Festival 
(on 52nd Street from Lexington - 7th Avenue)
Friday July 30th
 Manhattan Youth Fair 
(on Greenwich St. from Barclay - Chambers Street)
Saturday July 31st 
Festival of the Americas
(on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
Sunday August 1st 
The C.O.R.E. Health Expo 
(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street)
Friday August 6th
 Financial Community Day Series 
(on Fulton St. from Water - Ryders Alley)
Saturday August 7th Greenwich Village Festival (on Greenwich Avenue from 6th - 7th Avenue)
Sunday August 8th 
Lexington Avenue Summerfest 
(on Lexington Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
Saturday August 14th 
Summer Seaport Festival 
(on Water Street from Fulton - Broad Street)
Sunday August 15th 
Madison Avenue Summer Fair
(on Madison Avenue from 42nd - 57th Street)
Friday August 20th
 Grand Central Summer Festival 
(on 43rd Street from Lexington - 3rd Avenue)
Saturday August 21st
 The Great Irish Festival 
(on 6th Avenue from 42nd - 56th Street)
Sunday August 22nd
 Third Avenue Merchandise Fair 
(on 3rd Avenue from 23rd - 34th Street)
Saturday August 28th Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Festival 
(on 2nd Ave. from 45th - 57th Street)
Sunday August 29th
 Big Apple Performing Arts Festival 
(on Broadway from 47th - 57th Street)
Tuesday August 31st
 Welcome Back To Columbia University
(on 120th St. from Broadway - Amsterdam Ave.)



RESOURCES
http://www.briconline.org/celebrate
http://www.brooklynconcerts.com
http://www.summerstage.org
http://www.rivertorivernyc.com
http://www.batteryparkcity.org
http://www.downtownnyc.com
http://www.govisland.com
http://www.bcpparks.org
http://www.artsworldfinancialcenter.com
http://www.brooklynbridgepark.org
http://www.bryantpark.org
http://www.hudsonriverpark.org
http://www.riverrocksnyc.com
http://pier26.com
http://pier46.com
http://pier54.com
http://clintoncove.com
http://www.fohrp.org
http://figmentproject.org
http://summerscreen.org
http://www.nyphil.org
http://www.naumburgconcerts.org
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/29181613
http://www.metoperafamily.org
http://www.washingtonsquaremusicfestival.org/
http://oslmusic.org/subwayseries.php
http://www.nycgo.com/?event=view.article&id=231115

10 comments:

  1. WOW. What an astonishing wealth of activities! Is there any other city like this in the world? No wonder y'all love it so.

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  2. So much good stuff happening, thanks for putting it all in one place. I'll make plans for my favorites, but the beauty of New York in the summer is unexpectedly walking by a fantastic performance on your way to somewhere else. Some of the ones I'm looking forward to catching: Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Kronos Quartet, Beth Orton, Bang on a Can Marathon, and all the stuff at Lincoln Center Out of Doors and Mid Summer Night's Swing.
    Oh, and this baad lamb loves Baaba Maal!

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  3. updated to include ny philharmonic and ny met opera in the park schedules, movies at bryant park, nyc street fair schedule and corrections.

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  4. updated to include stuyvesant town music on the oval schedule.

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  5. new reader here. thanks so much for this. i totally book-marked you and this page.

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  6. updated to include the met opera HD festival, st luke's subway series, washington square park music festival, abc good morning america and nbc today show summer concert series.

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  7. updated with more free governor's island concerts

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  8. updated to include the start of the brooklyn seaside and martin luther king jr concerts series. both schedules only partially released....

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  9. updated to include movies at mcclaren park brooklyn

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  10. updated to include the full brooklyn seaside and martin luther king jr. concerts series schedules.

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