27 years ago, webcam technology experts EarthCam unveiled their first live stream of the famous Times Square celebrations and ball drop. Fast forward to 2023, EarthCam has announced they are continuing their live streams, using cutting-edge networks of webcams to deliver real-time coverage of festivities and fireworks around the world.
Celebrations start in New Zealand at 6:00 a.m. EST on December 31st. Subsequently, viewers will have the opportunity to see dozens of locations ring in the New Year, including Taiwan, Puerto Rico, Corning, NY, Sicily, Wales, and Alaska. Back in Times Square, EarthCam will be providing multiple live camera perspectives, covering the entirety of the festivities in uncut and unfiltered 4K quality live streams.
EarthCam is the global leader in providing live camera technology, content, and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam provides live-streaming video, time-lapse construction cameras, and reality capture solutions for corporate and government clients. They lead the industry with the highest resolution imagery available, including the world’s first outdoor gigapixel panorama camera system. EarthCam has documented over a trillion dollars of construction projects around the world.
The Webby Award-winning company hosts many highly trafficked tourism cams, with views of popular locations and landmarks such as Times Square, World Trade Center, Statue of Liberty, Miami Beach, Bourbon Street, Temple Bar in Dublin, Jerusalem’s Western Wall, CN Tower and Abbey Road Crossing in London.
EarthCam has experienced a remarkable expansion in 2023, documenting amazing construction projects globally, including the reconstruction of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine. EarthCam was also chosen to document the crucial emergency repair and reopening of the I-95 bridge in Philadelphia and the I-10 in Los Angeles. Also in 2023, they premiered a new platform to better serve hundreds of news media professionals who feature its live-streaming content every day. Media Priority Access is an unprecedented success in its first year, increasing EarthCam’s media exposure by 260% and earning tens of thousands of media mentions.
For more information and to tune into the live stream, visit here.
Performance Space New York has announced they are presenting artist, composer, and choreographer Richard Kennedy’s Hybrid Peasant from Jan. 11 – 13 at 8:30 p.m.
Combining opera, dance theater, poetry, sketch, and slapstick comedy to create its speculative hyper-reality, Hybrid Peasant, a three-act performance, is another explosive disruption of opera’s formalism from the interdisciplinary artist with a long history of engaging and subverting the classical. It delves deep into the landscape of the “Nightmerican dream,” experienced through the lives of “the housed citizens of Hirth.”
The story unfolds in an exaggerated past-future version of Richard Kennedy’s hometown of Middletown, Ohio. With references and points of departure ranging from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring to SNL’sWeekend Update, the artist shapes a funhouse portrait of contemporary America’s polarized realities. A call to action, Hybrid Peasant urges us to ascend collectively by nourishing each other, forging a path toward liberation.
Richard Kennedy’s multidisciplinary practice is interested in relationships and navigating sexuality as it occurs at the intersection of class, race, and gender. Considering opera through a language of the African American experience, Kennedy disrupts the tradition of Western theatre to generate new participatory modes of viewership.
This piece is really about the hybrid; an access to high and low has produced a sense, in the opera world, of both access from my experiences and training and career, while also being treated as a peasant. I want to continue to explore opera through this hybrid balance to call more attention to the ways we troll ourselves as a society—to acknowledge the past in the present, and question if this is what we want our future to be.
Richard Kennedy
Over the last 40 years, Performance Space has been propelling cultural, theoretical, and political discourse forward. Founded in 1980, it became a haven for many queen and radical voices. Their focus has been not just on presenting boundary-breaking work but on restructuring their organization towards prioritizing equity and access. Qorks that have dissolved the borders of performance art, dance, theater, music, visual art, poetry and prose, ritual, nightlife, food, film, and technology are presented here.
NYC native and “troubadour piano man” Craig Greenberg has released his new soulful track “Song of December,” encompassing the feelings that come with the creative process and pushing forward.
Over the past 15+ years, Craig Greenberg has been a staple on the New York City music scene, capturing and building on the spirited ivory traditions of greats like Billy Joel, Ben Folds, and Randy Newman with sparkling, soulful new musical twists, a larger than life personality and his insightful, dramatic sense of storytelling. He has independently released five albums (his most recent EP, Between the Sea and the Sky, released in Dec 2022), and has performed upwards of 1000 shows from New York to Israel, since his start playing in bars while living in Chile, and later Spain, in the early 2000s.
He has received praise in American Songwriter, the Huffington Post, and Relix Magazine, and has been played on radio stations all around the country and internationally. In 2021, his song “Oh Caroline” was placed in the semifinals of the International Song Competition and his music video for “Between the Sea and the Sky” received a Europe Music Video Award in March 2023, and placed finalist in the Around International Film Festival (Paris) in June 2023. He has performed with esteemed musicians such as Jackson Browne, Chris Barron (Spin Doctors), Jane Wiedlin (the Go Go’s), Louise Goffin, and Jerry Joseph.
“Song of December” is a layered track that brings the listener on a journey, with his iconic piano and booming percussions. “It’s a song about the struggle of the creative process, and about finding inspiration to push through that struggle. It’s about looking back at the challenges of the year and looking toward a brighter tomorrow, so it is indeed a hopeful song,” he said. He started writing the song back in 2017 and finally finished it just in time for December.
Greenberg lays all his emotion out in this track, bringing in a multitude of instruments that play together in perfect harmony. With intricate lyrics and soulful vocals, he paints the picture of his struggles with being creative but knows, in the end, everything is going to be okay.
Jazz WaHi has announced a full day of free events in Washington Heights on New Year’s Eve and Day, featuring family-friendly events and various musicians.
Jazz WaHi is a nonprofit organization promoting jazz performance and music education in Washington Heights. Their mission is to connect jazz musicians with an audience of jazz lovers, expanding it through accessible performances and educational opportunities. Washington Heights jazz musicians/educators Louise Rogers and Mark Kross founded Jazz WaHi in 2014.
Every year, Jazz WaHi puts on several events including the Washington Heights Jazz Festival, Jazz WaHi for Kids concert, The Jazz Vocal Series, and the Weekly Jazz Jam.
New Year’s Schedule
New Year’s Eve
Noon – 2: Hot Club Jazz (a la Django Reinhardt) at La CreParis on 187 with Ollie Soikkeli and Brad Brose.
3-3:45: an interactive, participatory performance for kids, focusing on the trumpet. The event will encourage the children to sing and dance, featuring Shareef Clayton, Louise Rogers, and Mark Kross at Le Cheile Upstairs.
5:30-6:30 pm: Making Space for Serenity at St. Frances Cabrini Shrine solo piano with Alec Castro.
6-8 pm: 181 Cabrini with flutist KAT modiano and bassist Maksim Perepilca.
7-9 pm: Jazz and Blues at Kismat with John Albin, Pete Venzel, Adam Asarnow, Rick Strong, and Jeff Potter.
9:30-midnight: Latin Jazz Party at Northend Food Court on Broadway.
New Year’s Day
Noon – 2: New Year’s Day Brunch at Le Cheile with Emiko Hayashi and Steve Marks.
JazzBuffalo has announced the 2024 Canterbury Woods Jazz Series, bringing three incredible concerts featuring award-winning jazz artists to the brand-new Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center.
JazzBuffalo is the d.b.a. and brand name for the Greater Buffalo Jazz Society, Inc., a non-profit organization dedicated to building jazz awareness and jazz appreciation in the WNY area. The organization promotes jazz and builds audience appreciation for jazz through jazz news, live performances, concerts, festivals, jazz series, event calendaring, ticketing, hosting internationally recognized jazz musicians, and jazz education.
On February 14, 2024, the 2024 Canterbury Woods Jazz Series presents A Cole Porter Valentines featuring Konrad Paszkudski and Pasquale Grasso. After receiving his jazz piano education in his native Australia, Konrad Paszkudski relocated to the U.S. where he embarked on extensive tours alongside jazz legends such as trumpeter James Morrison and the John Pizzarelli Quartet. Within just four years, he led over 1,000 performances. Konrad will be joined by rising star jazz vocalist, Olivia Chindamo, one of the most promising young jazz vocalists in the jazz scene, celebrating their love for Cole Porter and the Great American Songbook.
Kathy Kosins, an ASCAP Award-winning vocalist, is delighted to present her highly acclaimed project, “The Ladies of Cool,” at the Canterbury Woods Performing Arts Center on Friday, March 22 at 7:30 PM. It is a contemporary homage to the iconic West Coast School of Cool, celebrating the timeless artistry of Anita O’Day, June Christy, Chris Connor, and Julie London. Kosins brings classic songs to life with her smoky vocals and clever arrangements, exuding glamour, sophistication, and a sense of cool. Kosins’ album of the same name received accolades from international media outlets such as the Huffington Post and All About Jazz.
Finally, the 2024 Canterbury Woods Jazz Series wraps up on April 21, 2024, with “El arte Del Bolero” featuring Miquel Zenón and Luis Podermo. Renowned jazz artist and 11-time GRAMMY Nominee Miguel Zenón, a recipient of prestigious Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, will present his two albums dedicated to the cherished Latin American art form of bolero. He collaborates with and will appear with the virtuoso Venezuelan pianist, composer, arranger, and educator, Luis Perdomo, a GRAMMY Nominated jazz artist based in New York, and a longtime partner in their musical endeavor.
Hudson Valley Live has announced their winter/spring 2024 lineup at The Local, Saugerties’ new year-round, multi-arts venue. The season features nearly 30 must-see events ranging from unforgettable concerts to thought-provoking conversations to family-friendly programs, all between January and June 2024.
Housed in a former Dutch chapel built in 1876, The Local is a space for arts, culture, and community under the guidance of Isabel Soffer and Danny Melnick, co-founders of Hudson Valley Live. The two Saugerties-based music producers and performing-arts professionals have each devoted more than 30 years to producing festivals, concerts, and curated arts experiences.
“After an exciting fall season, we’re returning in 2024 to celebrate an even wider variety of musical traditions and cutting-edge sounds, encouraging discovery through culture. We look forward to bringing even more people together through the arts, with diverse programs for people of all ages and interests right here in Saugerties,” said Isabel Soffer.
Danny and Isabel, photo by Dion Oguest.
Tickets go on sale January 9, with performances by singer-songwriter Tracy Bonham, who celebrates her birthday with a performance on March 16, New Orleans singer-songwriter Joy Clark (Feb. 1), five-time GRAMMY winner Cindy Cashdollar (Feb. 24), banjo extraordinaire Nora Brown (April 20), and more.
The Local will also continue to bring world-renowned global acts to the Hudson Valley, such as Firas Zreik, Palestinian-born, NY-based master of the kanun (Feb. 10); JigJam (March 12), an Irish-bluegrass quartet from Ireland; women-led Caña Dulce y Caña Brava (April 10) who perform music and dance from Veracruz, Mexico; and a rare appearance by Iran’s Persian classical music virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor (June 15), among others.
The Local is a place for community, and whether that’s through the performances we offer or through private events that take place here, we’re thrilled to be a cultural hub for all, right in the Hudson Valley. We’re so encouraged by the economic impact we’ve had here and look forward to engaging with local businesses even more as we expand.
Danny Melnick
The venue’s intimate space is the perfect setting for intriguing conversations, including Consider This, a new discussion series kicking off on March 19 with famed astronomer Bill Berman, who will shed light on the total solar eclipse in April, as well as three other celestial events. Later in the season, acclaimed neuroscientist Farzan Nadim discusses the biology of addiction.
Other new series’ at The Local in 2024 include two family-friendly programs, featuring a street-dance lesson led by teaching artists on the Flex’N style (Feb 4), and a found-object instrument workshop and performance with Dendê’s Brazilian Recycled Sounds (April 21). Barbès x Local, a collaboration with Barbès Brooklyn, one of NYC’s most beloved music clubs, comes to the venue, including psychedelic French-Latin fusion, Southern Appalachian banjo, and legendary global hybridists. Finally, In the Round continues this year, an acoustic series that is intimate, striking, and unforgettable.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit here.
The Local’s confirmed January-June 2024 season lineup:
January
Fri., Jan. 12, 7 pm – John St. Jam: Erene Mastrangeli, Kurt & Cheryl, Abby Lappen, Bennett Harris, Matt Holloran, Jeff Entin & Bob Blum
Sun., Jan. 21, 6 pm – The Spontaneous World of Lonnie Holley
February
Thurs., Feb. 1, 7 pm – Songs of Peace & Love: Joy Clark
Recently, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Louis Cato performed “Winter Wonderland” on a special holiday edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Photo: Scott Kowalchyk/CBS.
GRAMMY-nominated and internationally acclaimed multi-instrumentalist Louis Cato has been keeping audiences engaged on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert since its inception in 2015, and was promoted to the bandleader of the group last summer. Since the age of two, Cato started appreciating music with the purchase of his first drumset, citing artistic influence from southern gospel from his native North Carolina. He has an undeniable talent for crafting sonic landscapes into timeless masterpieces. Releasing his first record STARTING NOW in 2017, Louis Cato produced and mixed the entire record by himself.
His newest record Reflections is slow, spirited, and heavenly, showcasing his kind and empathetic essence. Cato is not just a solo artist though, he has worked with an array of other established musicians, like Snarky Puppy, Jon Batiste, Q-Tip, A Tribe Called Quest, and many more, mixing in his artistic capabilities and talents with theirs. With the voice of an angel, melodies that pull you in, and the funk of James Brown, Cato’s sound is unmistakable.
NPR Music just named “Unsightly Room” from the LP one of the Best Songs of 2023, raving “While other artists released big studio productions, Cato’s simple guitar and haunting voice reaffirm the power of back-to-basics songcraft and storytelling. It’s a deceptively sweet song with an earworm melody, but something truly horrifying is lurking in the shadows.”
For more information about Louis Cato, visit here.
What used to be called First Night Saratoga, the rebrand to Saratoga New Year’s Fest happened in 2022 as pandemic restrictions loosened. Festivities are planned from December 29, 2023, to January 1, 2024. This year’s events will feature more than 30 performers on nearly two dozen stages. In addition, there will be a 5K run, a fireworks show, a family-friendly pre-fireworks block party, and other events.
“This is a joint presentation: the city the Chamber, Discover Saratoga, the City Center, and myself,” said producer Robert Millis of the 398Group, during this week’s festival announcement. “We put this idea together last year to bring back First Night – and it worked. We met our milestones. It’s all part of a three-year plan to make this thing get bigger and bigger.”
For more information about the Saratoga New Year’s Fest and to purchase, visit here.
Saratoga New Year’s Fest Lineup
Friday, December 29
DJ Logic, 10 p.m. at Putnam Place
Saturday, December 30
The Nth Power, 7 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
The Weight Band, 8 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
Sunday, December 31
Afternoon
Kids Music Show, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at Caffe Lena
TBA Band, 3 p.m. at the City Center “Jazz Room”
Will Pedicone, 2:30 p.m. at Impressions of Saratoga
Maurizzio & Kaos, 2:30 p.m. at Franklin Square Market
Pete Pashoukas, 3 p.m. at Sixth Generation Strings
Erin Powers, 3 p.m. at Overland on Broadway
Late Afternoon
Swing Docs, 4 p.m. at the City Center “Jazz Room”
Gibson Brothers, 4 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
Toss The Feathers, 4:45 p.m. at The Parting Glass Irish Pub
Jeff Brisbin, 4:30 p.m. at The Holiday Inn
Erin Powers, 4:30 p.m. at The Coat Room
New Year’s Eve
Halfstep, 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at The City Center “Dead & Groove Room”
Country Kickers Line Dancing, 5 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at The City Center “Country Room”
Chris O’Leary with Tia Comedy Show, 5 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m.at The Inn at Saratoga
Erin Powers, 5 p.m. at The Coat Room
Kristian Montgomery, 5 p.m. at Tap & Barrel
Shine On, 5 p.m. at Embassy Suites
Family Tree, 5 p.m. at Ellsworth Jones Place (outside of the City Center)
Tracy Bonham, 6:30 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
Triskele, 7 p.m. at The Parting Glass Irish Pub
Robert Randolph, 7 p.m. at The City Center Main Hall
Double Barrel, 7 p.m. at Nashville of Saratoga
Ragged Company, 7 p.m. at Quarters
Toubab Krewe, 7:30 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
Classic Rock Tent, 8 p.m. at The Ice House
Patrick Wisdom Stewart, 8 p.m. at Baileys
Organ Fairchild, 8:30 p.m. at The City Center “Dead/Groove Room”
Ward Hayden & The Outliers, 8:30 p.m. at The City Center “Country Room”
GA-20, 8:30 p.m. at Universal Preservation Hall
Maggie’s Clan, 8:30 p.m. at The Parting Glass Irish Pub
Joan Osborne & Band, 9 p.m. at The City Center Main Hall
EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced its Spring 2024 programming.
From January through May, EMPAC 2024 presents a diverse lineup of interdisciplinary programming, including concerts, film screenings, dance performances, artists’ talks, and a two-day symposium. Furthering their mission of gathering artists, thinkers, and audiences together to explore the boundaries of art, science, politics, and technology, EMPAC’s programming will keep people intrigued and entertained.
EMPAC / the Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer is located on the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue in Troy. It is a 220,000-square-foot facility designed expressly for creating and presenting experimental media and performing arts. Since the building’s opening in 2008, the curatorial program has supported more than 600 performances and new works through residencies, commissions, partnerships, premieres, installations, publications, and more.
EMPAC Spring 2024 Programming
Barobar Jagtana (January 11) is a screening of Suneil Sanzgiri’s vivid trilogy of short films. He is a recipient of the UOVO Prize and his solo exhibition is currently on display at the Brooklyn Museum through May 2024. The Konkani title of the series roughly translates to “continuously surviving.” The evening screens three of his films: At Home But Not At Home (2019), Letter From Your Far-off Country (2020), and Golden Jubilee (2021), followed by a conversation with curator Vic Brooks.
Barobar Jagtana connects the childhood experience of Sanzgiri’s father at the tail-end of Portuguese occupation in Goa, India with the broader history of South Asian anti-colonial struggle. The films link past events to contemporary struggles, forging connections between solidarity movements across time with a distinct visual language.
Poetry & Fairy Tale (January 19) is a piano recital by award-winning pianist and composer Conrad Tao, hailed “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music” by New York Magazine.Tao has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Boston Symphony, and his original compositions have been performed by orchestras throughout the world.
This new program combines Western repertoire and provocative contemporary works. Inspired by themes of poetry and fairy tales, Tao’s one-night-only recital tests a line-up that includes music by Johannes Brahms, Tod Moellenberg, David Fulmer, Rebecca Saunders, and Maurice Ravel.
In February, EMPAC presents Reembodied Sound 2024 (February 2-3), a two-day festival and symposium on transducer-based music and sonic art, co-presented with the Rensselaer Department of Arts. A famed member of the New York School, David Tudor pioneered transducer-based artworks in the 1960s and 70s, inspired by the work of his frequent collaborator John Cage. Tudor created Rainforest IV in 1973, which used “surface speakers” (electric transducers) to excite the sonic possibilities of such objects.
The symposium has three tracks: a remounting of Rainforest IV by students of the Rensselaer Arts Department with John Driscoll and Phil Edelstein in commemoration of its 50th anniversary in 2023, a series of demonstrations and paper presentations, selected from an open call that received 189 project submissions from around the world, with a keynote address by noted sound art scholar and composer Cathy van Eck, and a concert of transducer-based works to be announced. All activities are free and open to the public.
Grounds of Coherence #1 / but this is the language we met in (February 9) is a multifaceted evening with filmmaker Shen Xin and performer Ali Van that includes an American premiere film screening, a live performance, and the debut of their collaborative project, AX Archive. Van opens the program in a performance with Shen that aims to mirror the narrative style of Shen’s most recent film. His new short film is from the ongoing series Grounds of Coherence and explores how language can be used to create spaces of belonging. In it, myths are recited in English between two lovers, a story is narrated in Arabic, and protesters chant in regional Mandarin. The duo’s EMPAC appearance concludes with improvisation, incorporating spatialized audio.
Dancer and choreographer Ligia Lewisis at EMPAC 2024 with the first East Coast presentation of her stage production, A Plot / A Scandal (February 16 & 17). After debuting in Germany in 2022 it was recently awarded the prestigious annual Der Faust prize, citing Lewis as the “master of ceremonies.” This piece explores fantasy, pleasure, and narrative experimentation. Lewis’ prior performances in the U.S. have been called “the most vital new work…beautiful, blistering” by the New York Times.
Akoma (March 15) previews the new multimedia production from acclaimed electronic musician and Pulitzer Prize for Music finalist Jlin, and visual artist Florence To, in preparation for the upcoming tour of Jlin’s latest album of the same name. Jlin’s music is influenced by “footwork,” a genre of post-house music originating in Chicago, featuring athletic and hyperactive rhythmic drive. For this concert, Florence To designed an interactive landscape of sound and light mapped onto various surfaces and lighting rigs that respond to Jlin’s music.
EMPAC-commissioned concert Susceptible Chambers (April 5) by composer-performers Antonia Barnett-McIntosh and Jessie Marino is continuing the season’s theme of sonic exploration through everyday objects. It begins with the reconstruction of a simple microphone and expands into technologies from different eras, like pulley systems, pianolas, needlepoint, and sodium vapor lamps. Barnett-McIntosh and Marino create a new performance that draws the audience into an unusual and playful sonic and visual world, experimenting with and challenging accepted practices of today’s electronic music and contemporary music more broadly. They also present an open studio and talk (January 17) at the start of the season.
Space Carcasses (April 23) by performing artist and choreographer Onye Ozuzuis a work-in-progress dance performance that explores how architectures haunt the body and impart their histories to us as physical effects. The work includes a virtual, composite space layered with audiovisual data from three different architectural sites. Space Carcasses is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project with an international society of co-commissioners that includes dance centers across the states. At EMPAC, this free presentation offers a window into Ozuzu’s research, development, and production of Space Carcasses, including how the artist and EMPAC production teams are engineering a “sound dancer” using EMPAC’s spatialization sound technology.
Iconic Afro-gothic composer and vocalist M. Lamar closes out EMPAC’s Spring 2024 season with Machines and other intergalactic technologies of the spirit (May 3), the third collaboration with experimental music duo The Living Earth Show, as part of their ongoing residency at EMPAC. Lamar gains the production backing to put on his largest-scaled work to date: an evening of psychedelic rock, noise music, opera, and doom metal, drawing conceptually on the “Astro-Black mythology” of the visionary jazz artist Sun Ra.
Lamar performs in a 15-foot tall rocketship-boat-coffin structure, with images of outer space as popularized by mass media over the years, ancient Egypt, and pre-Atlantic Christianity. The performance is a follow-up to M Lamar and The Living Earth Show’s 2019 Met Cloisters collaboration, Lordship and Bondage: The Birth of The Negro Superman.
The EMPAC Spring 2024 season also presents a curated set of lectures, with appearances from composer and artist Marina Rosenfeld, giving a work-in-progress talk that takes her decades-long work with dubplates into new visual and sonic territory (January 24); scholar André Lepecki, on choreographic works that challenge the ideas of time as a technology for policing movement (January 25); Marina Vishmidt, on art, labor, and value, reflecting on projects from EMPAC’s archive (February 22); Ezekiel Dixon-Román, on computation influenced by black radical anti-colonial thought, cybernetics, and critical philosophies of technology (March 21); and Peli Grietzer, on art’s structures concerning architectures of artificial intelligence (April 11).
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit here.
The HERE Foundation, fresh off last year’s successful music festival, announced the date and lineup for HERE for NY, taking place at The Knockdown Center on Feb. 10, 2024.
HERE for NY is the next stop in the global concert series dedicated to creating hyper-local action within cities worldwide. With a focus on supporting local organizations and nonprofits, HERE aims to empower Gen-Z individuals and businesses to impact their communities positively. The festival is the first of its kind, transcending traditional festival experiences and embracing a new era of action, empowerment, and community.
Last December, HERE for LA showcased 22 acts, engaged over 1200 attendees, and made an incredible impact on HERE’s nonprofit partners. HERE Foundation is a non-profit organization that works at the intersection of culture and cause, supporting individuals, organizations, and nonprofits with charitable events, activities, gatherings, and workshops around causes that young people are passionate about.
HERE for NY welcomes artists across genres including Eartheater, Vegyn, Liv.e, RXK Nephew, Underscores, Roy Blair, James Ivy, 454, DJ_Dave, Alice Longyu Gao, Push Ups, and MGNA Crrrta.
“We think people are going to be very surprised when they show up on February 10th,” said co-founders Ethan, Stella, and Connor. “It’s not a vast grass field with the traditional layout and nonprofit booths, we have created something uniquely different from the existing array of festivals out there today” they share.
In line with HERE Foundation’s commitment to social responsibility HERE for NY is excited to partner with Big Reuse and the Urban Justice Center for Social Equity, local nonprofit organizations dedicated to climate justice, social equality, and education. HERE For NY sponsors include Perfectly Imperfect, Dice, and more.
