The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center Atrium) is Lincoln Center’s main ticket office. It presents free concerts and dance parties most Thursdays and Fridays, across the street from the Lincoln Center campus. It also has a TKTS ticket office for Broadway and dance events.
David Rubenstein Atrium Concerts and Dance Parties
SEPTEMBER
Argentine Pop
Brooklyn Argentine singer-songwriter Juana Luna celebrates the release of her second album “Canciones en Blanco y Negro,” with a free concert of romantic pop at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, September 7, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇦🇷
Colombian Cumbia Fusion
Frente Cumbiero plays psychedelic cumbia at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, September 12, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇴
Ecuadorian Pop
Juan Fernando Velasco celebrates 25 years of Ecuadorian pop at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Friday, September 13, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇪🇨
Cuban Alternative For the Ancestors
La Dame Blanche (Yaite Ramos Rodríguez) plays fierce Cuban Yoruba alternative for the ancestors; at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 at 7:30pm. Agua por los santos. ¡Ashé! FREE. 🇨🇺 🕯️
Cuban Charanga (Salsa)
Orquesta Broadway plays Cuban charanga (salsa); at the David Rubenstein Atrium in Lincoln Center; on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇺
Puerto Rican Music, Dance, and Conversation
Television host Rhina Valentin, “La Reina del Barrio,” discusses Latin culture with environmental justice leader Elizabeth C. Yeampierre; in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Latin Alternative
Xenia Rubinos plays wide-ranging Latin alternative in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇨🇺 🇵🇷
David Rubenstein Atrium Tickets
There are no tickets. Shows are free, but entry is first-come, first-serve; so arrive an hour or two early.
David Rubenstein Atrium
61 West 62nd St
(at Columbus Ave)
Lincoln Center, Manhattan
Subways
(1)(2) to Lincoln Center
(A)(C)(B)(D) to 59th St – Columbus Circle
About the David Rubenstein Atrium
The David Rubenstein Atrium is named after the co-founder of The Carlyle Group private equity firm. He is the chairman of Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and other cultural institutions.
- Thursday shows are more musical.
- Friday ¡Vaya! shows are Latin dance parties.
- Saturday shows are family-oriented.
Artists
- Aurelio Martínez, Honduran Garifuna folk jazz 🇭🇳
- Boukman Eksperyans, Haitian folk rock. 🇭🇹
- Bulla en el Barrio, Colombian bullerengue (cumbia). 🇨🇴
- Dayramir Gonzalez, Cuban jazz pianist. 🇨🇺
- La Excelencia, Colombian salsa dura. 🇨🇴
- Eddie Palmieri, New York Puerto Rican jazz and salsa legend. 🇵🇷
- Edmar Castañeda, Colombian folk harp. 🇨🇴
- Forro in the Dark, Brazilian forro fusion. 🇧🇷
- Gerardo Contino y Los Habaneros, Cuban timba and jazz. 🇨🇺
- Gregorio Uribe Colombian cumbia, vallenato, jazz. 🇨🇴
- Holman Trio, Chilean rock. 🇨🇱
- Joe Bataan, the “King of Latin Soul” 🇺🇸 🇵🇭
- Okan, Cuban Yoruba Canadian alternative. 🇨🇺
- Olga Cerpa y Mestisay, Canary Island folk rock. 🇮🇨 🇪🇸
- Orquesta Broadway Cuban charanga (salsa). 🇨🇺
- Pedrito Martinez Cuban rumba and timba. 🇨🇺
- Pedro Giraudo Argentine tango jazz. 🇦🇷
- Tulipa Ruiz, Brazilian MPB. 🇧🇷
Recent Latin Programming
JULY
Brazilian MPB
BRASIL SUMMERFEST, SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Rogê opens Brasil Summerfest 2024 with Brazilian música popular brasileira (MPB); at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
MARCH
Latin Soul
Joe Bataan, “The King of Latin Soul,” plays a ¡Vaya! dance party in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Friday, March 15, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇵🇭 🇺🇸
Dominican Afro Latina Film
“NEGRITA,” screening with Q&As with New York Dominican filmmaker Magdalena Albizu (@1nubianlatina), explores the experience of being a Black and Latin woman in America, through her own story and the stories of women from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Honduras, and Panama. It’s in the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, March 21, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇩🇴 🇭🇳 🇵🇦 🇵🇷
Being Black, Latin, and a woman are three complications, spread across two very different cultural frameworks. Most Latins are taught to deny our African and Indigenous heritage from birth, yet both are core to who we are. Some Americans think they have a God-given right to abuse people of color so being Afro Latin can be life-threatening in a way it isn’t in other countries. Being a woman in the patriarchy is hard enough, but Latin machista male chauvinist culture is extreme.
As Afro Latinas rise above all this, both of our cultural frameworks try to hold us back. So it’s complicated, but also rewarding because women are the guardians of culture, and culture is what makes us human.