SummerStage is an annual summer festival of free concerts and a few benefits at parks in all of New York City’s boroughs.
SummerStage runs from May through October.
Latin Artists at SummerStage 2017
June SummerStage
Celebrate the French tradition Fête de la Musique with Wax Tailor, Her, Ayo, and Ali.Ni at Central Park, Wednesday, June 21 from 5-10pm. Free
Dig Portuguese sounds from Fado to Contemporary with The Gift, Dead Combo, Sofia Ribeiro at Central Park, Saturday, June 24 from 5-10pm. Free
July SummerStage
July 1-2
Celebrate French Hot Jazz with Vince Giordano & The Nighthawks, Avalon Jazz Band, and Aurora Nealand as part of the New York Hot Jazz Festival at Central Park, Saturday, July 1 from 5-10pm. Free
July 3-9
Colombian Cumbia Queen Totó La Momposina and Mariachi Flor de Toloache, NYC’s first all-female Mariachi band, play Central Park, Saturday, July 8 from 6-10pm. Free
July 10-16
Chilean rocker Mon Laferte, Nuyorican Hip-Hop artist Destiny Frasqueri, and Puerto Rican electronic band ÌFÉ play Central Park SummerStage, Wednesday, July 12 from 5-10pm. Free
Latin Freestylers Judy Torres and Cynthia play Queensbridge Park in Queens, Thursday, July 13 from 6-9pm. Free
Argentine reggae-rockers Los Pericos, LA’s Chicano Batman, and Venezuelans La Vida Bohéme play Central Park for the LAMC (Latin Alternative Music Conference), Saturday, July 15 from 2-7pm. Free
July 17-23
Nuyorican Freestyler Lisette Melendez plays Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island, Thursday, July 20 from 6-9pm. Free
Boogaloo legend Joe Bataan plays Corporal Thompson Park in Staten Island, Friday, July 21 from 6-9pm. Free
July 24 – 30
The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit: Star-Crossed (Los Desdichados) plays Latin music and reads from Chilean Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda’s Spanish translation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, at St. Mary’s Park in The Bronx, Wednesday, July 26 from 7-9pm. Free
Bronx-based dancers Nelida Tirado, Bombazo Dance Company, Richard Rivera/PHYSUAL, and Mando/3VXM kick it up with Modern, Folk, Flamenco, and House dance at St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx, Thursday, July 27 from 7-9pm. Free
Puerto Rican Salsa legend La India plays St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx, Friday, July 28 from 6-9pm. Free
Puerto Rican-American Salsa singer Frankie Negrón plays St. Mary’s Park in the Bronx, Saturday, July 29 from 4-9pm. Free
Nuyorican freestyle legend Lisa Lisa and Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist Marlon B play St. Mary’s Park in The Bronx, Sunday, July 30 from 5-7pm. Free
August SummerStage
August 1-6
The cast of A Bronx Tale (Italian story with a Colombian choreographer) play Crotona Park in The Bronx, Thursday, August 3 from 7-9pm. Free
Brazilian Samba legend Elza Soares, YouTube success Liniker e os Caramelows, and DJ Teleseen play Central Park as part of Brasil Summerfest, Saturday, August 5 from 6-10pm, Free
August 7-13
Cuban contemporary dance company Malpaso Dance Company, Afro-Cuban Jazz singer Daymé Arocena, and NYC’s own Nickodemus play Central Park, Wednesday, August 9 from 7-10pm. Free
The Nuyorican Poets Cafe presents spoken worders Stacyann Chin, Ntozake Shange, and Sarah Kay at East River Park in the Lower East Side, Wednesday, August 9 from 7-9pm. Free
Legendary Puerto Rican Bolero singer Andy Montañez, “El Godfather de la Salsa” plays East River Park, Friday, August 11 from 6-9pm. Free
The Funkbox in the Park tribute to party promoter Evelyn Santos includes DJs Tony Touch, Danny Krivit, Jellybean Benitez, and D-Train at East River Park, Sunday, August 13 from 4-7pm. Free
August 14-20
Lincoln Center at the Movies screens an Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater documentary Central Park, Wednesday, August 16 from 7-10pm. Free
August 21-27
Tel-Aviv born clarinetist and Brazilian Choro master Anat Cohen leads her Tentet for the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at Marcus Garvey Park, Friday, August 25 from 7-9pm. Free
September SummerStage
Silvio Rodríguez, the legendary Cuban Trova singer, plays a benefit concert at Central Park on Sunday, September 10, 2017 from 6-10pm. $65
For tickets, visit www.cityparksfoundation.org/summerstage
