SummerStage 2024 includes the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival and a few benefit concerts that support the festival. It’s not summer in New York City without SummerStage.
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival at NYC SummerStage Makes August Swing
MARCUS GARVEY PARK, Harlem, Manhattan 🇺🇸
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇰🇷
Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to New York City
Os Clavelitos
BROOKLYN: Archway, DUMBO
QUEENS: Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria
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Blue Note Jazz Festival New York Presents Some Great Latin Artists
BLUE NOTE, Greenwich Village, Manhattan
SONY HALL, Times Square Theater District, Manhattan
SUMMERSTAGE Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan
National Sawdust, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn!, Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Louis Hayes, NEA Jazz Master Drummer, Plays the SummerStage Charlie Parker Jazz Festival
TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK, East Village, Manhattan 🇺🇸
Israel Fernández Sings Traditional Spanish Romani Flamenco in a Very Modern Way
SUMMERSTAGE, Rumsey Playfield, Central Park, Manhattan 🇪🇸
Andy Montañez is a Puerto Rican Salsa Legend
CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER, Coney Island, Brooklyn 🇵🇷
SummerStage 2024 News
JUNE
African American Rhythm and Blues
Andra Day opens the 2024 Blue Note Jazz Festival with rhythm and blues at Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield; on Saturday, June 1, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. bluenotejazz.com 🇺🇸
Puerto Rican Salsa
Andy Montañez headlines a night of Puerto Rican salsa with Charlie Cruz, People of Earth, and DJ García; for SummerStage at Coney Island Amphitheater in Brooklyn; on Saturday, June 15, 2024 from 6-9pm (5pm doors). FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇵🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺
Mexican Rock
Caifanes and Café Tacvba play Mexican rock for a SummerStage benefit concert for Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield; on Wednesday, June 26, 2024 from 7-10pm (6pm doors). $110. cityparksfoundation.org 🇲🇽
JULY
Mexican Cumbia Sonidera and Portuguese Contemporary Dance
Corrente: Beatriz Mira & Tiago Barreiros dance Portuguese contemporary in a program headlined by American folk singer Madison Cunningham with Los Angeles cumbia sonidera band La Lom (Los Angeles League of Musicians sounds more like psychedelic cumbia to us), and American folkie John-Robert; for Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield; on Monday, July 1, 2024 from 6-10pm (5pm doors). FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇲🇽 🇵🇹
Jamaican Dub
Federation Sound celebrates 25 years of dub featuring Sister Nancy, Tango Metro, and Devonte; at Coney Island Amphitheater on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn; on Sunday, July 7, 2024 with 4pm doors. FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇯🇲
Colombian, Spanish, Mexican Alternative
This 25th Anniversary Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) Latin music showcase features Fonseca singing Colombian folk pop, Israel Fernández singing an old folk style of Spanish flamenco with very contemporary sensibilities; and Bruses singing Mexican indie pop; for Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield; on Wednesday, July 10, 2024 from 7-10pm (6pm doors). FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
Guggenheim’s Works & Process ~ Afro Dance
It’s Showtime NYC! dances an excerpt from the contemporary work “Pyramid,” Maimouna Keita African Dance Company of Bed-Stuy dances West African traditions, and Kash Gaines premiere’s “Caged Birds” about dealing with the NYPD on the subway; at Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; on Thursday, July 11, 2024 from 6-9pm. FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇺🇸
LAMC Buenos Aires Dance Party
The Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) presents BRESH, an inclusive Buenos Aires street party; at Rumsey Playfield in Manhattan’s Central Park; on Saturday, July 13, 2024 from 6-10pm (5pm doors). FREE. cityparksfoundation.org 🇦🇷
French National Celebration
The Consulate General of France and SummerStage celebrate Bastille Day with music from the Francosphere: IAM Egyptian-inspired hip hop from Marseille, Magic System Ivorian coupé-décalé, house DJ The Avener, singer-songwriter Laurie Darmon, and urban singer Femi the Scorpion; at Central Park SummerStage; on Sunday, July 14, 2024, from 5:30-10pm. FREE. 🇫🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇮
About
One of the joys of summer in New York City is discovering new music at the summer festivals. Performers range from world-famous artists to local talent.
Co-presenters usually include the Blue Note Jazz Festival, Brasil Summerfest, Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, LAMC Latin Alternative Music Conference, and the Metropolitan Opera.
The Festival is run by women with a mission of diversity and inclusion. The annual lineup features a 50/50 gender balance with lots of representation of artists of color.
There tend to be more Latin artists in August, but SummerStage is fun no matter who is performing.
Latin Artists
These are some of the artists who have performed at SummerStage.
- Andy Montañez Puerto Rican salsa. 🇵🇷
- Israel Fernández Spanish Romani flamenco. 🇪🇸
- José Alberto “El Canario” Dominican Puerto Rican salsa. 🇩🇴 🇵🇷
SummerStage Tickets
Only benefit concerts require tickets.
Free shows are first-come, first-serve. Don’t bring anything with you, and get in line at least an hour (or two or three) ahead. No kidding.
If you don’t get in, have a picnic and enjoy the music outside from the park.