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.
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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 offsite by festival partners.
Latin Music at Carnegie Hall
Isabel Leonard and Friends 🇳🇮 🇪🇸
Multiple Grammy-winning Argentine American mezzo-soprano sings Spanish song and opera with flamenco singer Ismael Fernández and flamenco dancer Sonia Olla.
Carnegie Hall Zankel Hall
Jun 9, Tue, 7:30pm
Arturo O’Farrill and Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra with Strings 🇨🇺
Afro-Cuban jazz
Carnegie Hall 250 & Belongó at El Museo del Barrio, East Harlem
May 15, Thu, 7pm; May 16, Fri, 5pm
FREE with rsvp
O’Farrill wins Grammys year after year, and is one of the godfathers of Latin music in NYC now.
Ablaye Cissoko and Cyrille Brotto 🇸🇳 🇫🇷
Senegalese kora master and djeli (oral historian or griot in French), and French accordionist
Carnegie Hall Resnick Education Wing
Apr 25, Sat, 5pm
$30
Rosa Marquetti Torres “Celia en el mundo, 1962-2003” 🇨🇺
Talk about Celia Cruz life and legacy
YouTube by Cuban Cultural Center of New York
Mar 28, Sat, 3pm
Until “Despacito” and later Bad Bunny took over the music world, Celia was Latin music’s greatest promoter. She couldn’t go home to Cuba, so she spread her country’s music around the world.
Tradición del Suelo Mío: The Voice of Mariachi in America at 250 🇲🇽
Mariachi Violetas de NYU
Carnegie Hall 250 at King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU
Mar 28, Sat, 12pm
FREE with rsvp
Kíko ~ Mariachi is bigger than Mexico. I’m originally from Los Angeles, so it is the music of my youth. No matter where I am in Latin America, I occasionally hear mariachi floating through the air. It always makes me smile.
Northeastern Native Arts Festival: Come to the Fire 🪶 🇺🇸
Native American music and talk with local composers Julia Keefe, Brent Michael Davids, and Nathan Young.
Houghton Hall Arts Community, Church of the Transfiguration (Little Church Around the Corner), NoMad
Mar 28, Sat, 4pm
Ailey II 🇺🇸
African American modern dance
Joyce Theater, Chelsea
Mar 17-22, Tue-Sun
This is the second company of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the African American dance company that popularized modern dance around the world. Really. Ailey dancers have great 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 with Martin Hayes 🇮🇪
Irish folk music with the famous fiddler, poet Paul Muldoon, percussive dancers Nic Gareiss and Stephanie Keane, guitarist and vocalist Sam Amidon, and harpist and vocalist Síle Denvir
Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Mar 17, Tue, St. Patrick’s Day, 8pm.
$44+
Early Irish immigrants were an “other” people who became American by joining the NYPD when it 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. So Irish aren’t Latin (except for Catholicism), but there are many great Latin Irish.
Quinteto Astor Piazzolla 🇦🇷
Argentine tango by double Latin Grammy-winners
Carnegie Hall, Zankel Hall
Mar 16, Mon, 7:30pm
$46+
This is the official music ensemble of the Fundación Astor Piazzolla. Piazzolla modernized Argentine tango with his “Nuevo Tango,” which incorporated the classical music and jazz he was exposed to while living in Greenwich Village.
“Remaining Native” 🪶 🇺🇸
Native American film
Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Crown Heights
Mar 12, Thu, 6pm
Paige Bethmann tells the true 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.
Many Americans have a strange relationship with Native Americans because of the colonial claim that they died out. We didn’t. We married in, and we are still here. South of the U.S. border, the Americas remain Indigenous with African Diaspora culture in some places.
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. 🇨🇺
The American composer and soprano draws a lot of inspiration from Latin themes.
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