The SummerStage 2019 lineup was announced on Tuesday, April 23, 2019.
This year’s SummerStage opens with Emily King / Durand Jones and the Indications at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park on Saturday, June 1, 2019 at 6pm.
The Festival closes with The Originals at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 at 7pm.
Benefit shows continue into September. If you can please support SummerStage because these benefits help pay for all the free shows.
Check the complete lineup and buy tickets to benefit concerts at cityparksfoundation.org
SummerStage 2019 Latin Lineup
These are the Latin shows although a few of us probably snuck in somewhere.
June 2019
Monday, June 10 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 8-10pm. FREE
Wednesday, June 12 ~ The New York Cantors sing Jewish folk music at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 7-10pm. FREE
Wednesday, June 12 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn Heights from 7-9pm. FREE
Thursday, June 13 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Jackie Robinson Park in Harlem, Manhattan from 7-8:30pm. FREE
Saturday, June 15 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Williamsbridge Oval Park in The Bronx from 4-5:30pm. FREE
Monday, June 17 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Socrates Sculpture Garden in Astoria, Queens from 7-10pm. FREE
Wednesday, June 19 ~ The Metropolitan Opera Summer Recital Series brings Italian opera to Clove Lakes Park in Castleton Corners, Staten Island from 7-8:30pm. FREE
Wednesday, June 19 ~ Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo dances French ballet at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 8-10pm. FREE
Friday, June 21 ~ Ronald K. Brown / Evidence a Dance Company brings its magic (he worked a lot in Cuba) to Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn from 7-9pm. FREE
Sunday, June 23 ~ Mexican-Puerto Rican-Creole-French-African Sheila E multicultural beats to Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens from 5-8pm. FREE
Sunday, June 23 ~ Jesse Royal, Kabaka Pyramid and Max Glazer play Jamaican roots reggae at Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn from 6-9pm. FREE
Sunday, June 23 ~ Celebrate Fete de la Musique, the night-long Parisian summer solstice street party, with French pop by Zdar from Cassius and Les Negresses Vertes at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. FREE
Sunday, June 30 ~ Spanish soul singer Buika is joined by A-Wa, Blick Bassy and DJ Tara at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. FREE
July 2019
Friday, July 5 ~ Mighty Sparrow is joined by Casym Steel Orchestra for a round of Trinidadian Calpyso at Springfield Park in Springfield Gardens, Queens from 7-9pm. FREE
AFRO-LATINO FEST
Sunday, July 7 ~ Tabou Combo, Lakou Mizik, DJ Sabine Blaizin play konpa, the Haitian dance music at Springfield Park in Springfield Gardens, Queens from 6-9pm. FREE
Sunday, July 7 ~ Efya is joined by Blinky Bill and DJ Mahogany for some music of Ghana and Kenya at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. FREE
LAMC ~ LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Wednesday, July 10 ~ Mexican singer-songwriter Ximena Sariñana is joined by Puerto Rican bolero singer Ile of Calle 13, and Spanish-Argentine MC Nathy Peluso at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. The ladies rock. FREE
LAMC ~ LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Thursday, July 11 ~ Aterciopelados, Diamante Eléctrico and DJ Dayansita play Colombian rock at Queensbridge Park in Long Island City, Queens from 7-9pm. FREE
LAMC ~ LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Friday, July 12 ~ New York’s own A Palo Seco dances Spanish flamenco at Queensbridge Park in Long Island City, Queens from 7-9pm. FREE
LAMC ~ LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Saturday, July 13 ~ The Cosquin Rock Festival brings Argentine folk rockers León Gieco, Kevin Johansen, El Mató a un Policía Motorizado, Silvina Moreno and Juan Ingaramo to Queensbridge Park in Long Island City, Queens from 5-9pm. FREE
LAMC ~ LATIN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC CONFERENCE
Saturday, July 13 ~ 20th Anniversary Latin Grammy’s Celebration comes to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 3-7pm. FREE
Wednesday, July 17 ~ Italian-American modern dance company Stephen Petronio Company leads a celebration of Merce Cunningham choreographies with Melissa Toogood, Calvin Royal III, and A-Y Dancers at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 8-10pm. FREE
Thursday, July 18 ~ Lisa Lisa & Cover Girls are joined by DJ Lucy Euclid and host Vinnie Medugno for some Latin Freestyle in Corporal Thompson Park in Port Richmond, Staten Island from 7-9pm. FREE
LA ISLA BONITA
Saturday, July 20 ~ French-Chilean pop singer is joined by L’Unicorns and DJ Shame in Corporal Thompson Park in Port Richmond, Staten Island from 7-9pm. FREE
Friday, July 26 ~ Lalo Rodriguez is joined by Los Hermanos Moreno and DJ Lucho for some Puerto Rican salsa at Soundview Park in Soundview, The Bronx from 7-9pm. FREE
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Saturday, July 27 ~ Alceu Valença is joined by Cordel do Fogo Encandtado, LaBaq and DJ Grace Kelly play music from Brazil’s Northeast at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. FREE
Sunday, July 28 ~ DJ TedSmooth leads a Latin Freestyle show with Cynthia, Lisette Melendez, George Lamond and DJs Eddie B Swifth, G-Bo The Pro and Breakbeat Lou at Soundview Park in Soundview, The Bronx from 6-9pm. FREE
Sunday, July 28 ~ Magic System bring out their Ivory Coast Afropop with Burkinabe rapper Smarty, Mozambican singer Selma Uamusse and Ivory Coast DJ Birane at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 3-7pm. FREE
Wednesday, July 31 ~ Fela! The Concert brings original cast members of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fela! for some Nigerian Afrobeat inspired by Fela Kuti at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 11am – 12pm & from 8-10pm. FREE
Wednesday, July 31 ~ Ray de la Paz and Edgar Joel are joined by DJ Kamala for some Puerto Rican salsa in Crotona Park, The Bronx from 7-9pm. FREE
Wednesday, July 31 ~ Fela! The Concert brings original cast members of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Fela! for some Nigerian Afrobeat inspired by Fela Kuti at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, Brooklyn from 8-10pm. FREE
August 2019
Thursday, August 1 ~ Samini (Batman) plays Ghana-style African Dancehall with help from pop singer Efya at Crotona Park in The Bronx from 7-9pm. FREE
Friday, August 2 ~ The Garifuna Collective and Wabafu Garifuna Dance Theater bring the last line of Afro-Indigenous Carib culture to Crotona Park in The Bronx from 6-9pm. The party starts with a West African and Garifuna dance workshop. FREE
Saturday, August 10 ~ Reggae and Dancehall label VP Records celebrates its 40th anniversary with Elephant Man, Junior Reid, Estelle and Raging Fyah at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 6-10pm. FREE
Sunday, August 11 ~ Mexican folk pop singer Lila Downs is joined by Indigenous-Colombian-Canadian singer-songwriter Lido Pimienta and DJ Ripley in rocking our Indigenous world at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 7-10pm. FREE
Sunday, August 11 ~ Latin Jazz legend Eddie Palmieri is joined by Baby Power and DJ Sonni for some Puerto Rican salsa at the East River Park Amphitheater in Manhattan’s Lower East Side from 6-9pm. FREE
Sunday, August 18 ~ The Selena for Sanctuary dance party by Doriz Muñoz is back with Chicano pop star Cuco, Dominican-Mexican-American singer-songwriter Ambar Lucid, and DJ Svani and the Santuario House Band at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 8-10pm. FREE
Sunday, August 18 ~ La Sonora Ponceña with José “El Canario” Alberto are joined by DJ Lucho for some Puerto Rican salsa at the Ford Amphitheater in Coney Island, Brooklyn from 6-9pm. FREE
Sunday, August 18 ~ The Wailers’ Julian Junior Marvin is joined by DJ Queen Majesty playing roots reggae at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem from 6-9pm. FREE
Wednesday, August 21 ~ A night with former NYC Ballet Principal Wendy Whelan begins with spoken word by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, a work-in-progress collaboration on the Saint-Saëns composition Carnival of the Animals, and ends with a screening of Restless Creature, the 2013 documentary about Whelan’s reinvention after a potentially career-ending injury at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 8-10pm. FREE
CHARLIE PARKER JAZZ FESTIVAL
Friday, August 23 ~ Harlem 100 celebrates the centennial of the Harlem Renaissance in jazz, Caribbean rhythms and the traditions of Africa with Mwenso and the Shakes (Sierra Leone), Brianna Thomas, Vuyo Sotashe (South Africa), Fred Wesley and Winard Harper & Jeli Posse at Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Manhattan from 7-9pm. FREE
Sunday, August 25 ~ Puerto Rican salsa princess La India is joined by hot Cuban timba singer Cimafunk and DJ Sonni for a night of salsa Puerto Rican and Cuban style at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 7-10pm. FREE
LAST FREE SHOW
Tuesday, August 27 ~ The Originals is a crew of legendary DJs including radio DJ Stretch Armstrong (Stretch and Bobbito), hip-hop producer Clark Kent, Rich Medina of dance club APT and New York DJs D-Nice and Tony Touch at Rumsey Playfield in Central Park from 7-10pm. FREE
That’s all folks…
Going to a SummerStage Show
Doors open one hour before. Lines are long. Get in line 2-3 hours before showtime if you want to be sure to get in.
SummerStage shows have their seating areas and such, but outdoors music goes everywhere. One of the cool things to do at SummerStage is to make a picnic with friends outside the performing area. The people watching is great.