Carnegie Hall produces classical, jazz, and pop concerts at its legendary music hall in Midtown, Manhattan; and all kinds of music all over town at Carnegie Hall Citywide. Some concerts have a broad cultural impact.
United In Sound: America at 250
Carnegie Hall’s Spring 2026 music festival celebrates the United States of America’s 250th Anniversary. It shows how American culture is a mix of many peoples and cultures. It’s easy to think of these artists as “others,” but they’re not. They’re Americans.
Some performances are produced by Carnegie Hall. Many are produced by partners offsite.
Latin Music at Carnegie Hall
MARCH 2026
Cuban Classical Music
Composer and soprano Dr. Stephanie Susberich performs her album “Songs of Juana Borrero” which puts the 19th-century Cuban poet’s words to music; at the cell theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 5pm. 🇨🇺
Susberich does a lot of inspiration in Latin themes.
Native American Film
“Remaining Native” (2025), by Paige Bethmann, tells the story of 17-year-old runner Ku Stevens, a Native American Yerington Paiute who navigates his budding athletic career while holding on to his family roots. His great-grandfather escaped one of those abusive Indian boarding schools by running 50 miles across the desert. Ku produces a “Remembrance Run” on the same route. It’s at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 6pm. 🪶 🇺🇸
Many Americans have a strange relationship with Native American First Nations because of the old-fashioned story that they died out. They didn’t. We are still here.
Argentine Tango Concert
Two-time Latin Grammy-winners Quinteto Astor Piazzolla plays Argentine tango at Carnegie Hall in Zankel Hall; on Monday, March 16, 2026; at 7:30pm. From $46. 🇦🇷
This is the official music ensemble of the Fundación Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla modernized Argentine tango with his “Nuevo Tango,” which incorporated classical music and jazz he was exposed to while living in Greenwich Village.
African American Modern Dance
Ailey II, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater second company, performs African American modern dance at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; from Tuesday-Sunday, March 17-22, 2026. 🇺🇸
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is the African American dance company that popularized modern dance around the world. Really. Ailey dancers have perfect technique, gorgeous physicality, and every performance is a spiritual revelation derived from the experience of being African American. Ailey II is a talent incubator across the performing arts.
St. Patrick’s Day Celebration
A St. Patrick’s Day Celebration with Martin Hayes has the legendary fiddler playing Irish folk music with poet Paul Muldoon, percussive dancers Nic Gareiss and Stephanie Keane, guitarist and vocalist Sam Amidon, and harpist and vocalist Síle Denvir; to Carnegie Hall on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage; on St. Patrick’s Day, Tuesday, March 17, 2026 at 8pm. From $44. 🇮🇪
Irish are an “other” people who became American by becoming police around the time the NYPD was founded in the mid-1800s. Galician and Basque Spaniards share many Celtic Irish traditions. Irish soldiers played important roles in the Latin American Wars of Independence.
Native American Music
Northeastern Native Arts Festival: Come to the Fire has local Native composers Julia Keefe, Brent Michael Davids, and Nathan Young talking about Indigenous performances over the years at Carnegie Hall, followed by a concert of Indigenous artists in various genres. It’s at the Houghton Hall Arts Community at the Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner), in NoMad, Manhattan; on Friday-Saturday, March 27-28, 2026 at 4pm. 🪶 🇺🇸
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