This weekend's @summerstage events in #Harlem, #CentralPark and #ConeyIsland feature #HipHop, #Jazz, #Salsa and more.
Details for each event reposted from @summerstage:
August 18
▪︎We’re in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park with @thejasonmoran & The Big Bandwagon reflecting on the life of James Reese Europe, a jazz pioneer who fought on the front lines in France with the Harlem Hellfighters - one of the first African-American regiments to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. This FREE performance is in association with @jazzmobileny. 7:00 PM.
August 19
▪︎Don’t miss a FREE film screening of Mixtape, a documentary that explores the history and impact of the mixtape in hip-hop culture... This night will also feature DJ sets by genre veterans like @legendarydjrong, @djdoowop, @djmistercee, @djtonytouch, and @twfbrucie_b. #MarcusGarveyPark 5:00 PM
August 20
▪︎We’re bringing you more hip-hop in Marcus Garvey Park with Hip-Hop 50: Native Tongues Edition. This FREE show will feature artists from the Native Tongues including @junglebrothers4life, @darealmonielove, @blacksheepdres, @chialibx, and @kooldjredalert with host @videomusicbox. 5:00 PM
▪︎ Everyone’s favorite dance party, @everydayppl, is back in #CentralPark. Join us for a FREE night full of music, culture, and community. Plus, catch a special performance from @ladiesofhiphop presented with @worksandprocess. 5:00 PM
Want to see the show from the best seats in the house? You can enter to win a pair of VIP tickets through @donewyorkcity at donyc.com/summerstagebestseatsonus
▪︎Salsa singer @josealbertoelcanario “El Canario” is coming to @coneyamp with The Big 3 Palladium Orchestra with a tribute performance of legends Machito, Tito Rodriguez and Tito Puente led by their sons, @tirodjr and Machito Jr. This lineup also includes @uptownvinylsupreme, @djandy23, and flutist Karen Joseph & Mambocha in association with @jazzdotorg. 4:00 PM
On July 15, in the heart of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn at Herbert Von King Park, there's a FREE "MIKE'S Young World III" concert featuring the likes of Noname, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Jay Critch & much more! Yes, very black hipster, underground and artsy/creative.
Very Bed-Stuy!
Animal Collective Bring Joy to SummerStage on Tuesday Night
Animal Collective – SummerStage – August 30, 2022
Animal Collective appear to have strange powers. I’m not the first to say they’re a spiritual and sonic journey, that there is something meditative in the quartet’s signature sound. But on a Tuesday night in Central Park, the band held off a much-discussed torrential downpour until the set’s very last song. Coincidence? Probably. And yet, dancing in the rain to “The Purple Bottle” (Feels, 2005), I’m not not convinced it was their doing.
Coming off the February release of Time Skiffs, the band’s first album since 2016, AnCo delivered a beautiful set that plumbed the band’s decades of adventurous experimental music, while heavily featuring the new record. “Dragon Slayer,” off Time Skiffs, floated gently into form mid-set, Dave Portner/Avey Tare’s vocals blossoming and Noah Lennox/Panda Bear’s drums effortlessly keeping pace. Animal Collective are masters at blending not only form but also feeling. In the great tradition of psychedelia, they have a knack for making your brain feel like it’s become a liquid light show. On “We Go Back,” also off Time Skiffs, the loop-like keys and lyrics make for a poppy, near-manic chorus that melts and distorts at song’s end: “I stood for a moment and the sun went down / I got sad for the sun ’cause I would get lonely.” And “Car Keys” is a new classic, total jam-inspired AnCo canon.
The band played some excellent deeper cuts, too. “Applesauce,” a wacky song that Portner once said was simply based on eating fruit, from 2012’s Centipede Hz, and “Chores,” off my favorite, 2007’s Strawberry Jam, were highlights. But who am I kidding: Nothing can really beat hearing “Bluish” (Merriweather Post Pavillion, 2009) live, a Beach Boys–on-mushrooms love song that sends my heart near-bursting. “I’m getting lost in your curls / I’m drawing pictures on your skin / So soft it twirls.”As the whole of the SummerStage crowd lost its collective mind at show’s end to “The Purple Bottle,” I got emotional. When pleasure and joy can seem increasingly distant these days, it’s a salve to know we have this and each other. Such is the power of Animal Collective, and I’m grateful. —Rachel Brody | @RachelCBrody
Photos courtesy of Mark Ashkinos | www.markashephotography.com
On Saturday, July 8, 2000, Fishbone performed a free show at Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield in New York, NY. The above gallery is of images I captured during the show on 35mm film that I had scanned earlier this year.
A review of the show by Jon Pareles is available on The New York Times website here.
Photography: Portraits of New Yorkers at SummerStage 7/29/23
Photography: Portraits of New Yorkers at SummerStage 7/29/23 @CapitalOne @SummerStage @CPFNYC @CentralParkNYC @dkcnews
I’ve covered a couple of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage showcases at Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, and besides catching some great music across a variety of genres and styles, what I love about the annual festival is the opportunity to take impromptu pictures of my fellow New Yorkers.
I firmly believe that New York has some of the most beautiful people in the entire world just…
Shinehead hits Central Park SummerStage on 13th August
Shinehead hits CENTRAL PARK SUMMERSTAGE on 13th August for a free concert along with Wayne Wonder, Red Fox, Lady G, and more. #shinehead #waynewonder #redfox #ladyg #reggaeicon #nyreggae #freeconcert #centralparksummerstage
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TGIF! This weekend's Newport Jazz Festival features performances from Cécile McLorin Salvant, Sam Gendel, and Makaya McCraven, who also performs at SummerStage in NYC's Central Park. There's more great live music ahead around the world from The Black Keys, Rhiannon Giddens, Punch Brothers, Steve Reich, Tyondai Braxton, Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, and Molly Tuttle. Details here.
🎶💃🏾☀️#ArtIsAWeapon Here are a few fun music, dance & culture events to do this weekend in #NYC, many of which are Free.99:
Today, August 5
🔸️THE RAP UP-"An immersive experience that will take you back in time to Hip-Hop's early years." Panel discussions + Hip-Hop exhibits featuring @vibemagazine editor-in-chief @datwon, Wild Style director @CharlieAhearn, @mickey.factz + fashion icons @5001Flavors, HipHop icon @fab5freddy + designer @iamaprilwalker author/journalist @vikkitobak & @djspinna -📍@nypl, Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, 476 5th Ave, 10AM-4PM
🔸️ #DancePartyNYC with @djstorminnorman at 📍@theafricacenter, 1280 5th Ave, 2PM-10PM; Part of the @nypl 's "joyous citywide festival of music and movement" at more than 20 venues across 4 boroughs. See link in @nypl BIO or go to nypl.org/dancepartynyc for more info.
🔸️ @theoriginals_nyc - @richmedina
@djclarkkent @stretcharmstrong Tony Touch - at @summerstage 📍#CentralPark-Rumsey Playfield, 5PM-10PM with live graffiti art by @jamestopproductions
🔸️@stonebwoy with @iam_djbuka and @bigwooo_ebonnn - Afropop, dancehall and reggae presented by @summerstage + @ghanafestny at📍#CrotonaPark - 1700 Crotona Park Ave, #TheBronx, 6PM-9PM
🔸️@rednessparties presents Amplified with @markfrancis and Merlin Bobb @clubshelternyc, 📍23 Meadow Street, Brooklyn, 9PM-4AM. $20
Tomorrow, August 6
🔸️@soulsummitmusic at 📍@fortgreenepark, Dekalb & Myrtle Ave, BK 3PM - 8PM (IYKYK!!)
🔸️ @summerstage at 📍@coneyamp featuring @niceandsmoothofficial @specialedmusic @buckshotbdi @mastaacepics @therealclsmooth @therealrahdigga @therealrampage @sweetteethemc Joeski Love, @sparkydmusic and The B-Boys, hosted by @videomusicbox, 4PM.
🔸️ @soulclapofficial + @djspinna + @rissancr at 📍@publicrecordsnyc The Nursery, 233 Butler Street, BK, 3PM-9PM.