Things To Do in NYC in April 2023 include:
- Easter Parade
April weather is peak spring. Temperatures average 45°-64°, so it is cool. Trees and flowers bloom as New Yorkers head outdoors.
There are no April federal holidays, but spring break for New York City schools is April 8-14, 2023.
April is National Autism Month, National Poetry Month and International Guitar Month.
Ramadan ends, and Easter and Passover are in April this year.
Saturday, April 1, 2023
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Holy Week (Semana Santa) 2023 is Sunday-Saturday, April 2-8, 2023.
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, April 2, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, April 2, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, April 3, 2023
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Celebrate Senegalese Independence Day (from France) on April 4, 1960. 🇸🇳
Celebrate the Feast of St Benedict the Moor, patron saint of African Americans.
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Celebrate Maundy Thursday, the Washing of the Feet and the Last Supper. ✝️
Sacred Traditions: AfroLatinx & Africans – A Spiritual Reconnection: Embodying AfroLatinidad in the Aftermath of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, is part 3 of a 4-part a pre-travel virtual workshop for a spiritual pilgrimage to Ghana in West Africa in July/August 2023, at the CCCADI, Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute in “El Barrio” East Harlem on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at 6:30pm. $60 for the 4 workshop series. 🇬🇭🇵🇷
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, April 7, 2023
Commemorate Good Friday ✝️
Remember Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. She was born in Vicuña, Chile on April 7, 1889. She died a New Yorker. 🇨🇱
Saturday, April 8, 2023
NYC Schools Spring Break is April 8-14, 2023.
Commemorate Holy Saturday and the Easter vigil.
Celebrate International Romani Day.
New York Red Bulls vs San Jose is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Sunday, April 9, 2023
(Easter Sunday)
Celebrate Easter Sunday ✝️
Walk in the Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival on Fifth Avenue from 59th St to 57th St, from 10am – 4pm. FREE.
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, April 9, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, April 9, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, April 10, 2023
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
HISTORIC MET OPERA PREMIERE
The Metropolitan Opera opens a new Met production of Terence Blanchard’s groundbreaking Jazz Opera “Champion,” the story of African American boxer Emile Griffith, at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center on Monday, April 10, 2023 at 8pm. From $49.50. 🇺🇸
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
Celebrate Juan Santamaria Day on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. 🇨🇷
New York Fashion Week Bridal is Tuesday-Thursday, April 11-13, 2023.
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, April 14, 2023
The Future Dance Festival 2023 is at the 92nd Street Y’s Buttenwieser Hall in the Upper East Side, Friday-Saturday, April 14-15, 2023 at 7:30pm.
Paquito D’Rivera joins the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis for Tres Aguas & Music of Colombia, premieres of Elio Villafranca’s “Tres Aguas” and Edmar Castaneda’s “Music of Colombia;” at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Columbus Circle; on Friday, April 14, 2023 at 8pm. From $41. 🇨🇺🇨🇴
Saturday, April 15, 2023
Celebrate Jackie Robinson Day, when Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947.
New York Red Bulls vs Houston is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Los Tigres Del Norte “Siempre Contigo Tour” brings regional Mexican norteño to the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, NYC on Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 9pm. From $74. 🇲🇽
Sunday, April 16, 2023
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, April 16, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC in April 17-23, 2023
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The SummerStage lineup is usually announced this week.
Monday, April 17, 2023
Celebrate NYC Immigrant Heritage Week, and the day when the largest number of immigrants passed through Ellis Island on April 17, 1907. After the Native American Lenape, we are all immigrants.🗽
Celebrate Malbec World Day with the popular Argentine red wine with French roots. 🇫🇷🇦🇷
Remember Mexican ranchera legend Chavela Vargas who didn’t just sing rancheras, she lived them. Chavela was born in San Joaquín Flores, Costa Rica on April 17, 1919. 🇨🇷🇲🇽
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Celebrate Zimbabwean Independence Day (from the UK) on April 18, 1980. 🇿🇼
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Remember Tito Puente the Latin jazz legend who was born in Harlem, NYC on April 20, 1923.
Ana Gabriel “Por Amor a Ustedes World Tour” brings Mexican pop mariachi to Barclays Center in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn on Thursday, April 20, 2023. From $61. 🇲🇽
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, April 21, 2023
At sundown, celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the great family feast that ends Ramadan. “Eid Mubarak” (Blessed holiday). It’s traditional to share this feast with non-Muslims to help them understand the faith. Sundown is expected at 7:42pm. ☪️
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, April 23, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, April 24, 2023
Dance salsa, bachata, merengue, and more at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Celebrate “Landing of the 33 Patriots Day” the Uruguayan national day. 🇺🇾
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Celebrate Sierra Leonean Independence Day (from the UK) on April 27, 1961. 🇸🇱
Celebrate Togolese Independence Day (from France) on April 27, 1960. 🇹🇬
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea, NYC. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, April 28, 2023
Happy birthday Penélope Cruz. The actress was born in Alcobendas, Spain on April 28, 1974. 🇪🇸
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Remember Duke Ellington, the jazz pianist, composer and bandleader who was America’s most prolific composer. He was born in Washington, D.C. on April 29, 1899. In New York, he lived in Washington Heights.
Celebrate International Dance Day, the birthday of Jean-Georges Noverre (1727 – 1810) who transformed ballet from a spectacle of costume and scenery to emotional expression through movement.
Sunday, April 30, 2023
Celebrate UN International Jazz Day.
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, April 30, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, April 30, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺