Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra.
On June 5, ASO will host American Masters, a symphonic concert at Jazz at Lincoln Center featuring the world premiere of Roberto Sierra’s newly commissioned Concerto for Electric Violin, performed by acclaimed electric violinist Tracy Silverman. The program will also offer works by three Pulitzer Prize-winning composers: Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, and Shulamit Ran.
The ASO is offering free admission to this performance as a gift to New York music lovers. Tickets are free but required, available at americansymphony.org beginning on May 5. Processing fees will apply. Ticket holders will need to comply with the venue’s health and safety requirements, which can be found here.
From May 16 to June 9, the ASO offers free chamber music performances at Manhattan’s Bryant Park and at Brooklyn Bridge Park. These five performances will include music ranging from French impressionist composers and Italian works to Afro-Cuban Batá drumming. Featured artists include ASO percussionist and composer Javier Diaz, award-winning multi-instrumentalist Alexa Tarantino, trombonist Dion Tucker, and Grammy-nominated oboist Toyin Spellman-Diaz.
A national historic treasure nestled in the woods near Woodstock, Maverick Concerts returns this summer with a full schedule. Beginning in July and playing throughout September, the Maverick Concert Hall features world class music such as Classical, Jazz, and Contemporary concerts.
The Maverick 2022 season begins on Saturday evening July 2nd, with a special 50th Birthday bash in celebration of the acclaimed NEXUS Ensemble. The celebration will be led by Woodstock legend Garry Kvistad and features special guests Paul Winter and Brazilian pianist Henrique Eisenmann.
Opening festivities will continue on Sunday July 3rd with an 85th birthday nod to American music living legend Philip Glass. This concert features classics of Beethoven and Bach – by two of the most exciting stars in classical music today, pianist Simone Dinnerstein and violinist Tim Fain.
Jazz, contemporary, and world music hold a special place on Saturday nights at Maverick Concerts. Sunday afternoons of Classical music have been the foundation of the Maverick Concerts since the very first Festival in 1915, and that tradition continues. Likewise, Woodstock legends will continue to share the stage with talents from all over the musical world.
The Maverick Concert Hall is located at 120 Maverick Road, Woodstock. Reserved seating and general admission tickets for all concerts are available online here. Maverick Family Concerts (Saturday afternoons on August 6th, 13th and September 3rd) are free for ages 16 and under and $5 for adults.
The 2022 Party On The Patio lineup has been announced, hosted by the Waterhole Music Lounge in Saranac Lake. The 14 annual concert series will take place outdoors, every Thursday night 6-10 P.M. beginning April 28 through October 6.
The Waterhole Music Lounge is the premiere live music venue of the Adirondacks located on Main Street in downtown Saranac Lake. It is stocked with two bars and extensive outdoor patio space, and it occupies three stories. It is a spot where locals and tourists alike go to enjoy good company and great music.
This year’s lineup has 24 bands spanning multiple states including Georgia, Kentucky, and Missouri. The genres span from ragtime to indie folk-rock, and even some roots and blues.
The lineup kicks off with the James Daniel Band on April 28, then goes to Organ Fairchild on May 5, and NYS March Madness 2022 winners Hanzolo will also perform on September 22.
The 2022 Caroga Arts Summer Music Festival was announced, featuring over 35 concerts with 20 guest artists and nearly 100 CLMF Resident Artists.
Kyle Barrett Price, Founder and Artistic Director of the Caroga Arts Collective, said he was excited about the festival.
“We’re excited to present the most extravagant summer season we’ve had in our eleven year history. We’re immensely grateful to Zash for sponsoring many of our Saturday concerts at Sherman’s, which feature national touring artists coming to the region for the first time. We have something for everyone – classical, blues, jazz, bluegrass, heavy metal, rock, funk, world music – you name it!
Back by popular demand include saxophonist Eddie Barbash with the KASA Quartet and the Mike Block Trio. Also performing is the fast-rising American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). The AMOC’s co-artistic director and composer Matthew Aucoin will lead the Caroga Arts Ensemble in playing Mozart operas to modern operas.
During the 2022 Caroga Arts Music Festival, the festival will visit neighboring venues around the area. Also, new this summer is the CLMF Lesson & Ensembles Program, which invites community members of all ages to come to participate in general music workshops and individual or small group lessons for an instrument led by Caroga Arts artists.
Tickets for the 2022 Caroga Arts Music Festival will be available on May 20 here.
Caroga Arts 2022 Season Schedule
SHERMAN’S CONCERTS Free carousel rides will be offered to start 2 hours before each show. Tickets will be available starting May 20th at carogaarts.org
Sat, May 28 – Memorial Day Weekend Concert, Jocelyn & Chris, Insolent Willies Fri, Jul 1 – American Modern Opera Company, Utica Dance with Keir GoGwilt Sat, Jul 2 – Red, White, BLUES & BLUEGRASS, North & South Dakotas, FLAME! The Band, Erin Harkes Sat, Jul 16 – 80’s Metal Night: The Ultimate 80’s Rock Show with Tommy V Live Wed, Jul 20 – Sam Reider & The Human Hands Fri, Jul 22 – Caroga Arts Gala with Eddie Barbash & KASA Quartet Sat, Jul 23 – Cory Wong with Caroga Arts Ensemble, Mike Block Trio Wed, Jul 27 – Rushad Eggleston Fri, Jul 29 – Caroga Arts Ensemble Reimagining Beethoven and Shostakovich Sat, Jul 30 – The Bacon Brothers Out of Memory Tour with Caroga Arts Ensemble Wed, Aug 3 – Robyn Adele Anderson Sat, Aug 6 – Kids Carousel Concert: Bill & Finnegan Ackerbauer Sat, Aug 6 – Sherman’s JazzFest (Artists to be announced) Wed, Aug 10 – Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective Fri, Aug 12 – Caroga Arts Ensemble plays Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 Sat, Aug 13 – SAUNDERSFEST (Artists to be announced) Fri, Aug 19 – Scenes & Stories from the Opera, Caroga Arts Ensemble conducted by Matthew Aucoin Sat, Aug 20 – Kids Carousel Concert: Cara’s Caterpillars Sat, Aug 20 – Marvin and his Music: A Celebration of America’s Composer featuring guest vocalists and the Caroga Arts Ensemble led by J. Ernest Green Sun, Aug 21 – Brandon “Taz” Niederauer Sat, Sep 3 – Labor Day weekend concert, The Ultimates! with fireworks following the show Fri, Sep 30 – Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month with Alex Torres & His Latin Orchestra with salsa dancing lessons prior to the show and more
CAROGA LAKE MUSIC FESTIVAL ON TOUR Thu, Jul 21 – Caroga Arts Ensemble featuring Eddie Barbash at Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts Sun, Jul 24 – Caroga Arts Ensemble featuring Eddie Barbash at Peck’s Lake Marina Thu, Jul 28 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at The Glove Theater Thu, Aug 4 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at The Arkell Museum Fri, Aug 5 – CLMF Returns to its Roots: Caroga Chapel 100th Anniversary Sun, Aug 7 – Caroga Chapel 100th Anniversary Service Sun, Aug 7 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at Mayfield Presbyterian Church, presented by SVAN Thu, Aug 11 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at Johnstown Midsummer Concert Series Sun, Aug 14 – The Barge at Canada Lake Store & Marine Tue, Aug 16 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at The Otesaga Resort Hotel, presented by Cooperstown Summer Music Festival Thu, Aug 18 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at Caroga Museum Sat, Aug 27 – Caroga Arts Ensemble at Maverick Concerts Sun, Aug 28 – KASA Quartet, Postlude at Maverick Concerts
The City Parks Foundation announced the SummerStage 2022 lineup on Tuesday. This year’s performing arts festival will feature 90 free and benefit concerts in 12 different parks across New York City’s five boroughs.
Fans attend a George Clinton concert at SummerStage 2021.
Shows will be held at the SummerStage flagship venue at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park; Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem; Von King Park and The Coney Island Amphitheater in Brooklyn; Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens; Crotona Park in the Bronx; and Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island.
The first shows in the lineup are two benefit concerts (which are not free to the public) in Central Park. Aurora presents the Gods We Can Trust tour/ Sub Urban will open the concert series on June 4. Followed by Modest Mouse and The Cribs on June 8.
Yo La Tengo performing at last year’s SummerStage.
Summerstage 2022 will kick off its free shows, also in Central Park, with an opening night concert on June 11 with jazz legend Herbie Hancock.
This year SummerStage plans to return for a six-show series at The Coney Island Amphitheater. The most notable of which is the Spread Love Hip-Hop Jam Hosted by Ralph McDaniels and DJ Scratch on August 11.
Another highlight will be the 30th Annual Charlie Parker Jazz Festival on Aug. 26-27 in Marcus Garvey Park and Tompkins Square Park. Headliners for this year’s rendition are composer Terence Blanchard, jazz singer Jazzmeia Horn, and avant-garde saxophonist Archie Shepp.
Outside of its numerous musical offerings SummerStage 2022 will also screen the Oscar award-winning documentary Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) for free on June 17 in Marcus Garvey Park. The documentary, produced by The Roots’ Questlove, tells the story of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which was held 50 years ago in the same park.
SummerStage returns with a full slate of shows this year after reducing their number of performances last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, it was cancelled altogether.
“We are so happy to be back in local neighborhood parks after a two-year hiatus” said Heather Lubov, City Parks Foundation’s Executive Director. “Parks have always been neighborhood gathering spaces, but the pandemic brought to light just how absolutely critical parks are to our city’s health.”
Photo by: Buscar Photo (www.buscarphoto.com)
This year’s lineups reflect the diversity that New York is known for. Artists performing this year will be 52% woman or non-binary and 95% of performers are BIPOC.
“Each season, SummerStage has always presented a festival full of talent as diverse and broad as the communities that host these performances in parks across all five boroughs,” said Erika Elliott, Executive Artistic Director of SummerStage. “The artists we are presenting this season not only represent their own distinct cultures but reflect the global diversity that truly matches the spirit of New York City.”
The full lineup can be found on the SummerStage 2022 website.
Update 4/28: Due to illness, Sonia Manzano will not be appearing at UAlbany on Saturday, April 30, 2022 as previously planned. The 4pm Creative Life Conversation at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center for which Manzano was to be the guest is canceled.The 7:30pm performance of Selected Shorts will take place as planned at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center. Actors Patricia Kalember (The Tick) and Bhavesh Patel (The Good Wife) will be joined by a third actor to be named shortly who will replace Manzano.
Sonia Manzano who, for almost five decades played Maria on Sesame Street, will make two appearances at the UAlbany Performing Arts Center this week, both on Saturday, April 30th.
Manzano’s first appearance will be at 4 PM, where she will be the final guest of The Creative Life: A Conversation Series at UAlbany. Here, Manzano will discuss her creativity, craft, and career with host Joe Donahue from WAMC. This event will be free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations will be required.
Her second appearance will then be at 7:30 PM. Here, Manzano will be participating in a series called Selected Shorts. Selected Shorts is a series in which prominent creatives read classic and new works of fiction. Manzano will be reading alongside Patricia Kalember, famous for her role in Sisters, and Bhavesh Patel.
Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
Sonia Manzano will read a special selection of brand-new work by authors Carmen Maria Machado, Jess Walter, Jenny Allen, Etgar Keret, and Lauren Groff commissioned for the 35th anniversary of Selected Shorts.
Tickets are still available and are $10-$15 in advance and $15-$20 on the day of the show through the UAlbany Performing Art Center’s box office at (518) 442-3997 or tickets@albany.edu.
The Syracuse Jazz Festival is back after a five-year hiatus. Since 1981, the Syracuse Jazz Fest has served as Central NY’s oldest, longest-running, and most-attended festival. It has received four International Awards and 30 National & Regional Awards.
The Syracuse Jazz Fest will run for three nights from Thursday, June 23 through Saturday, June 25. It will feature international and national artists on the Clinton Square Main Stage in downtown Syracuse. There will also be performances by 20 of Syracuse’s finest jazz groups, who will be appearing at clubs, bars, restaurants, and performance venues downtown.
Festival Founder Frank Malfitano thanked Amazon for sponsoring the event in a statement.
We couldn’t possibly be more grateful to NYS Assemblyman Al Stirpe, Onondaga County Executive J Ryan McMajon, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh, US Senator Chuck Schumer and Amazon for co-sponsoring and bringing Syracuse Jazz Fest back to Downtown Syracuse this June. I know we’re all thrilled to see this longtime Syracuse summertime tradition coming back, and that would simply not have been possible without Amazon’s support.
The Syracuse Jazz Festival is back with a stellar lineup of world-renowned artists. And perhaps the best part about the annual festival that will be happening for three nights in June is that admission is free.
Wiz Khalifa and Logic have just announced their co-headline Vinyl Verse Tour featuring special guests. In fact, the 28-city tour will make a stops throughout New York at the Brooklyn Barclay’s Center on August 16, and at Saratoga Springs’ Saratoga Performing Arts Center on August 23. Truly, you won’t regret adding the dynamic experiences of Wiz Khalifa and Logic to your summer 2022 agenda.
The two infamous rappers have joined forces with Live Nation for their upcoming Vinyl Verse Tour. Featuring special guests DJ Drama, C Dot Castro, and Fedd the God, the 28-city trek kicks off July 27 at the FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine, California, making stops in Houston, Atlanta, and Brooklyn, before wrapping up in St.Louis.
Multi-platinum selling, Grammy and Golden Globe nominated recording artist Wiz Khalifa rose to fame with the success of his first major label debut album, Rolling Papers in 2011.
Rolling Papers holds infamous hits such as “Black and Yellow” and more. These successful songs gave Wiz the platform to win the “Best New Artist” and “Top New Artist” music awards. Later on, Wiz’s track “See You Again,” off the FURIOUS 7 soundtrack catapulted to the top of the charts across 95 countries. Throughout his career, Khalifa has inspired various elements of pop culture from music integration and content creation to MMA lifestyle apparel.
Also known as Sir Robert Bryson Hall II or Bobby Hall, Logic has made a name for himself as one of the most prolific and prevalent artists of the past decade since his emergence in 2010. The Maryland native progressed from online mixtapes to three number one albums, two GRAMMY® Award nominations, and dozens of gold and platinum certifications. Similarly, Logic has sold out arena tours on multiple continents and 6 billion streams and counting.
Wiz Khalifa and Logic’s song “High Today”
VINYL VERSE TOUR DATES:
Wed Jul 27– Irvine, CA – FivePoint Amphitheatre
Thu Jul 28 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube Theater
Sat Jul 30 – Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chin Pavilion
Tue Aug 02 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta Amphitheater
Wed Aug 03 – El Paso, TX – UTEP Don Haskins Center
Fri Aug 05 – Austin, TX – Germania Insurance Amphitheater
Sat Aug 06 – Houston, TX – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Sun Aug 07 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis Pavilion
Mon Aug 08 – Rogers, AR – Walmart AMP
Wed Aug 10 – Nashville, TN – Bridgestone Arena
Thu Aug 11 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music Pavilion
Fri Aug 12 – Atlanta, GA – Lakewood Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 13 – Virginia Beach, VA – Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach
Sun Aug 14 – Camden, NJ – Waterfront Music Pavilion
Thu Aug 25 – Darien Center, NY – Darien Lake Amphitheatre
Fri Aug 26 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music Center
Sat Aug 27 – Cincinnati, OH – Riverbend Music Center
Sun Aug 28 – Burgettstown, PA – The Pavilion at Star Lake
Tue Aug 30 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH – Blossom Music Center
Thu Sep 01 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music Theatre
Fri Sep 02 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Wiz Khalifa and Logic’s song “Indica Badu”
Ticket Information:
Tickets go on sale starting on Friday, April 22nd at 10 am located here.
Citi is the official card of the Vinyl Verse Tour 2022. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Tuesday April 19th at 10 am ET until Thursday, April 21st at 10 pmthrough the Citi Entertainment program. For complete presale details, visit here.
The Rock and Roll Playhouse has announced that a national Earth Day weekend celebration on April 23 and 24 is coming to Port Chester, NY. The Playhouse is a family concert series where kids rock out to the classics, and this concert series will feature music by the Grateful Dead for Kids.
The Rock and Roll Playhouse Grateful Dead Earth Day celebration.
Stephen Grybowski, Senior Director of the Playhouse, said they are excited to bring families together for this event.
We’re excited to bring families together across the country to celebrate Earth Day Weekend. The Grateful Dead were not only a phenomenal band with classic songs, but they were environmentally aware—that’s a connection that makes these shows an even more special celebration for families as we inspire the next generation of young rockers.
It provides kids with early music exposure and promotes creativity. It is introducing the new generation to music by artists including The Beatles, Fleetwood Mac, Phish, David Bowie, Prince, Aretha Franklin, Dave Matthews Band, and more. It was founded in 2013 at the Brooklyn Bowl by Peter Shapiro, co-owner of the Bowl and owner of The Capitol Theatre, and Amy Striem, a certified Early Childhood, and Elementary teacher.
Proceeds from the shows will go to the Grateful Dead’s official non-profit Rex Foundation, which supports charitable organizations working to protect the Earth. Tickets are on sale now.
Northwell Health’s “Side By Side: A Celebration of Service” is making its return to the UBS Arena with a special benefit concert from John Legend, along with a special appearance from Jason Derulo. This two-day festival starts on Sunday, May 29.
This event will begin with a block party in Flatiron Plaza on May 28, hosted by Alfonso Ribeiro, with appearances from Questlove, Stars of Broadway, the Northwell Health Nurse Choir, and more.
As a part of Memorial Day Weekend and New York’s Fleet Week, the first day of the festival includes active military members, veterans, and their families who will get the chance to mingle with the public for a day of games, food, music and more. Subsequently, day two will solely honor the nation’s active-duty military, veterans and their families with Legend’s hit songs.
Memorial Day weekend is a dedicated time every year to reflect on the sacrifices so many Americans have made in our country’s history. We should never take for granted the freedoms we enjoy in this country or forget our heroes in the armed forces who will stop at nothing to protect those freedoms. We are honored to host ‘Side by Side: A Celebration of Service’ for those very reasons – to honor our service members.
Michael Dowling, president and CEO of Northwell
Northwell Health’s “Side By Side: A Celebration of Service” first launched in 2019 and has had a great turnout ever since. In fact, this festival has raised more than $2 million for Northwell Health’s Military Liaison Services, an organization that focuses on benefiting those who have served and are struggling with post traumatic stress disorder, with medical and behavioral services, as well as better employment opportunities.
Tickets for the concert event will be accessible on Friday, April 15 at 10 A.M. For more information visit Side By Side NYC.
