Things to do in NYC in July 2024 include the Fourth of July holiday and New York’s summer festivals.
July is Disability Pride Month. The July national holiday is U.S. Independence Day (Jul 4).
July weather is peak midsummer. It’s the hottest month of the year with average temperatures of 69°-84°. The water is warmest for river, bay, and beach outings.
Latin Things To Do in NYC in July 2024
- SUMMER FESTIVALS ~ BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! (Jul 6, 13, 14, 19, 20, 26, 27), SummerStage (Jun 1-), Summer for the City (Jun 12 – Aug 10), Brasil Summerfest (Jul 5-26)
- ART ~ Latin America Foto Festival (Jul 11-28) 🇵🇷
- FILM ~ Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema 🇲🇽 (Jul 26 – Aug 8)
- MUSIC ~ Pedrito Martinez rumba 🇨🇺 (Jul 4), Tania León classical 🇨🇺 (Jul 5), Pedro Giraudo tango 🇦🇷 (Jul 5, 9), Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺 (Jul 7, 14, 21, 28), Latin Alternative Music Conference, LAMC (Jul 9-13), Israel Fernandez flamenco 🇪🇸 (Jul 10), Daymé Arocena jazz 🇨🇺 (Jul 11), Django Festival AllStars jazz manouche (Jul 11), Jazz in July festival directed by Aaron Diehl 🇺🇸 (Jul 17-27), Isaiah J. Thompson 🇺🇸 (Jul 18), Grupo Niche 🇨🇴, El Gran Combo 🇵🇷, La India 🇵🇷, Alex Sensation 🇨🇴 (Jul 20) Etienne Charles 🇹🇹 (Jul 24), Tyshawn Corey 🇺🇸 (Jul 27), Angélica Negrón 🇵🇷 (Jul 31)
- DANCE ~ American Ballet Theatre (Jul 1-6, 9-13, 16-20), Nélida Tirado flamenco 🇵🇷 (Jul 3, 10, 17, 24, 31), Dorrance Dance tap 🇺🇸 (Jul 16-21), Herman Cornejo 25th Anniversary at ABT 🇦🇷 (Jul 19), BAAND Together Dance Festival ballet and contemporary (Jul 30 – Aug 3)
- DANCING ~ Latin Mondays at Taj salsa 🇵🇪 (1, 8, 15, 22, 29), Tango La Nacional 🇦🇷 (Jul 11, 18, 25), Central Park Tango 🇦🇷 (Jul 6, 13, 20, 27), Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 🇵🇷 (Jul 7, 14, 21, 28), El Destino tango 🇦🇷 (Jul 7, 14, 21, 28), DJ Lobo salsa 🇩🇴 (Jul 19)
- FOOD ~ French Restaurant Week (Jul 1-14), World Chocolate Day (Jul 7), National Mojito Day 🇨🇺 (Jul 11), NYC Restaurant Week (Resv. Jul 16 for Jul 22 – Aug 18) Pisco Day 🇵🇪 (Jul 23), National Tequila Day 🇲🇽 (Jul 24),
- PARADES & STREET FAIRS ~ Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks (Jul 4), Giglio Feast Our Lady of Mount Carmel 🇮🇹 (Jul 10-21), Manhattanhenge (Jul 12-13), Ecuadorian Parade (Jul 13, 20), L’Alliance Bastille Day Celebration 🇫🇷 (Jul 14), Festival de las Flores 🇨🇴 (Jul 14), Colombian Day Parade 🇨🇴 (Jul 21), Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano 🇨🇴 (Jul 21), Summer Streets Queens & Staten Island (Jul 27), Bronx Dominican Parade 🇩🇴 (Jul 28), Ecuadorian Festival 🇪🇨 (Jul 28), Peruvian Parade and Festival Paterson 🇵🇪 (Jul 28), International Peruvian Festival Jackson Heights 🇵🇪 (Jul 27-28)
- SPORTS ~ UEFA Euro 2024 🇪🇸 (Jun 14 – Jul 14), New York City Football Club [NYCFC] (Jul 3), Copa América 2024 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 (Jul 4-6, 9-10, 14), New York Red Bulls (Jul 17, 20), Subway Series (Jul 23-24)
Latin Culture in July 2024
- BIRTHDAYS ~ Frida Kahlo 🇲🇽 (Jul 6), Simón Bolívar (Jul 24) 🇻🇪
- FESTIVALS ~ Al-Hijra (Jul 6), Our Lady of Chiquinquirá 🇨🇴 (Jul 9), Aggayú Sola (Jul 25), St James the Apostle [Santiago Apóstol] 🇪🇸 (Jul 25), St Christopher (Jul 25), Pachamama Eve 🇵🇪 (Jul 31)
- NATIONAL DAYS ~ Canada Day 🇨🇦 (Jul 1), U.S. Independence Day 🇺🇸 (Jul 4), Philippines Republic Day 🇵🇭 (Jul 4), Venezuela Independence Day 🇻🇪 (Jul 5), Argentine Independence Day 🇦🇷 (Jul 9), Bastille Day 🇫🇷 (Jul 14), Colombian Independence Day 🇨🇴 (Jul 20), Puerto Rico Constitution Day 🇵🇷 (Jul 25)
- NATURE DAYS ~ Buck Moon (Jul 21)
Travel in July 2024
- Santiago de Cuba Carnival (Jul 21-27)
- Olympics 2024 France (Jul 24 – Aug 10)
Things To Do in NYC July 1-7, 2024
Monday, July 1, 2024
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. 🇲🇽 🇵🇹
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake” (2000) after Petipa and Ivanov, to Tchaikovsky. The classical ballet of classical ballets, tells a story of love that reaches beyond the limits of death at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, July 2, 2024 at 7:30pm. Ends Saturday. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Calvin Royal III, Jose Sebastian, Hee Seo, and Joo Won Ahn dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake” (2000) after Petipa and Ivanov, to Tchaikovsky. The classical ballet of classical ballets, tells a story of love that reaches beyond the limits of death at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Calvin Royal III, Jose Sebastian, Hee Seo, and Joo Won Ahn dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷
Major League Soccer
JULY 4TH EVE
New York City Football Club vs CF Montreal is Major League Soccer at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Wednesday, July 3, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $17. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Americas National Soccer Championship
The 48th Copa América 2024 Quarter-finals, a special All-Americas version of the South American national soccer championship, are Thursday-Saturday, July 4-6, 2024.
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake” (2000) after Petipa and Ivanov, to Tchaikovsky. The classical ballet of classical ballets, tells a story of love that reaches beyond the limits of death at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 2pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Calvin Royal III, Jose Sebastian, Hee Seo, and Joo Won Ahn dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷
Fourth of July Fireworks
The 48th Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks 2024 salutes the All-American Spirit on the Hudson River, with Manhattan viewing between 14th St and 41st St, and from Hoboken, New Jersey; on Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 9:25pm. The television broadcast is on NBC-4 and Peacock from 8-10pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Cuban Rumba & Timba
Pedrito Martinez, the world’s first-call rumbero, plays Cuban rumba, timba, and jazz; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 8pm (7pm doors). From $30. 🇨🇺
Salsa Dance Party
DJ Lobo spins urban salsa for a 4th of July dance party at Gonzalez y Gonzalez Mexican restaurant in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Thursday, July 4, 2024 from 8pm – 2am. FREE. 🇩🇴
Friday, July 5, 2024
Classical Music
Tania León, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cuban composer, conducts The Harlem Chamber Players with violin soloist Josh Henderson, and dancers from the Harlem School of the Arts choreographed by Leyland Simmons, hosted by WQXR’s Terrance McKnight; in a Carnegie Hall Citywide Bryant Park Picnic Performance in Manhattan; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺
Brazilian Música Popular Brasileira
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. 🇧🇷
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake” (2000) after Petipa and Ivanov, to Tchaikovsky. The classical ballet of classical ballets, tells a story of love that reaches beyond the limits of death at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Calvin Royal III, Jose Sebastian, Hee Seo, and Joo Won Ahn dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Latin Birthday
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist who became a global icon of Mexico, Women, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ communities. 🇲🇽
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kevin McKenzie’s “Swan Lake” (2000) after Petipa and Ivanov, to Tchaikovsky. The classical ballet of classical ballets, tells a story of love that reaches beyond the limits of death at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Calvin Royal III, Jose Sebastian, Hee Seo, and Joo Won Ahn dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷
Argentine Tango
The Pedro Giraudo Tango Trio plays the Perelman Performing Arts Center at the World Trade Center in Manhattan’s Financial District; on Friday, July 5, 2024 at 5:30pm. FREE. 🇦🇷
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Puerto Rican Dominican Dance Party
New York Puerto Rican DJ Eli Escobar spins house, techno, disco, and hip hop in the Main Room, and Dominican DJ Ultra Violet and Friends spin the Onyx Room; at the House of Yes dance club in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Saturday, July 6, 2024 from 10pm – 4am. From $15. 🇵🇷 🇩🇴
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Jamaican Dub
Federation Sound celebrates 25 years of dub featuring Sister Nancy, Tango Metro, and Devonte; for SummerStage at the Coney Island Amphitheater on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn; on Sunday, July 7, 2024 with 4pm doors. FREE. 🇯🇲
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC July 8-14, 2024
Monday, July 8, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Colombian Patron Saint
The Feast of Our Lady of Chiquinquirá celebrates the patron saint of Colombia and Maracaibo, Venezuela on July 9. 🇨🇴 🇻🇪
Argentine National Day
Argentine Independence Day celebrates the signing of Argentina’s Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1816. 🇦🇷
Argentine Soccer
Argentina vs Canada play a Copa América Semifinal; at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey; on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 8pm. From $230. 🇦🇷 🇨🇦
Americas National Soccer Championship
The 48th Copa América 2024 Semi-finals, a special All-Americas version of the South American national soccer championship, are Tuesday-Wednesday, July 9-10, 2024.
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1965) to Prokofiev; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 7:30. Through Saturday. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Argentine Tango
The Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet plays The Django night club in Tribeca, Manhattan; on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 7:30pm. $35 + minimum. 🇦🇷
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Italian Street Fair
The Giglio Feast at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Shrine Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; is an Italian religious festival and street fair, from Wednesday, July 10 to Sunday, July 21, 2024. FREE with items for purchase. 🇮🇹
Americas National Soccer Championship
The 48th Copa América 2024 Semi-finals, a special All-Americas version of the South American national soccer championship, are Wednesday, July 10, 2024.
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1965) to Prokofiev; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Argentine Rock
Alisa Amador, the first Spanish-language winner of NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest, plays Latin rock for Carnegie Hall Citywide; in Madison Square Park, Manhattan; on Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
LAMC Showcase: Colombian Pop, Spanish Flamenco, Mexican Pop
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. 🇨🇴 🇲🇽 🇪🇸
Thursday, July 11, 2024
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; for SummerStage at Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn; on Thursday, July 11, 2024 from 6-9pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Brazilian Music
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
French drummer and singer Stéphane San Juan plays his multicultural bossa nova jazz and MPB; for Brasil Summerfest at the Archway in DUMBO, Brooklyn; on July 11, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇫🇷
Hudson Square (West SoHo), Manhattan
The Latin Alternative Music Conference Acoustic Showcase presents: Spanish guitarist Twanguero, Colombian singer Jona Camacho, Puerto Rican singer Nohemy, Cuban jazz singer Daymé Arocena, Peruvian singer Sebastian Llosa, Venezuelan Henry D’Arthenay, Cheo, and Dominican rapper Lismar; at SOB’s Sounds of Brazil in Hudson Square (West Soho, Manhattan); on Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 6-8:30pm. LAMC registrants only. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇪🇸 🇻🇪
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1965) to Prokofiev; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, July 11, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, July 12, 2024
South African Afrobeats
Thandiswa Mazwai blends jazz and West African influences with her native Xhosa music into a wonderful South African Afrobeats fusion; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at a Bryant Park Picnic Performance in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, July 12, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. 🇿🇦
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1965) to Prokofiev; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 12, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Manhattanhenge
The year’s second full-sun Manhattanhenge sunset is Friday, July 12, 2024 at 8:21pm.
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Classical Ballet
American Ballet Theatre dances Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet” (1965) to Prokofiev; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Hee Seo dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
LAMC Buenos Aires Dance Party
The Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) presents BRESH, an inclusive Buenos Aires street party; for Central Park SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield; on Saturday, July 13, 2024 from 6-10pm (5pm doors). FREE. 🇦🇷
Manhattanhenge
The year’s second half-sun Manhattanhenge sunset is Saturday, July 13, 2024 at 8:20pm.
Electronic Reggaeton Dance Party
Rosa Perreo spins neoperreo (electronic reggaeton) and techno in the Onyx Room; at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; on Saturday, July 13, 2024, from 10pm – 4am. $15. 🇵🇷
Sunday, July 14, 2024
French Bastille Day
Bastille Day commemorates the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison which launched the French Revolution on July 14, 1789. 🇫🇷
Bastille Day Celebration
The L’Alliance New York Bastille Celebration 2024 (French Institute Alliance Français or FIAF) French culture street fair is on Madison Avenue, from 59th to 63rd St, in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Bastille Day, Sunday, July 14, 2024, from 12noon – 5pm. FREE with food and crafts for purchase. 🇫🇷
Colombian Flower Parade
The Festival de las Flores 2024, New York’s version of Medellín’s Feria de las Flores, is on 37th Avenue from 69th to 89th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, July 14, 2024, from 12-3pm. FREE. 🇨🇴
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
European National Football
The UEFA Euro 2024 Final is Spain vs England; at the Olympiastadion in Berlin, Germany; on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 3pm. 🇪🇸 🏴
French Bastille Day SummerStage
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. 🇫🇷 🇪🇬 🇨🇮
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Americas National Soccer Championship
The 48th Copa América 2024 Final, Argentina vs Colombia, is a special All-Americas version of the South American national soccer championship, at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida; on Sunday, July 14, 2024 at 8pm. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
French Bastille Day Dance Party
Dimitri from Paris, Ligitime and Ÿas celebrate the French national day; at House of Yes in Bushwick, Brooklyn; is Sunday, July 14, 2024, from 1am – 7am. $15. 🇫🇷
Things To Do in NYC July 15-21, 2024
Colombian Independence Day Celebrations
“Ajai, al son de los tambores”
Monday, July 15, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Classical Ballet Mexican Story
OPENING NIGHT
American Ballet Theatre dances Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (2022) to music by Talbot; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. Through Saturday. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Joo Won Ahn, and SunMi Park dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
American Tap Dance
OPENING NIGHT
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $27. Through Sunday, with a curtain chat on Wednesday, July 17, and a family matinee on Saturday, July 20. 🇺🇸
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival opens with five pianists in one- and two-piano sets featuring NEA Jazz Master Kenny Barron, Benny Green, Helen Sung, Joe Block, and Aaron Diehl; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org
Brazilian Popular Music
BRASIL SUMMERFEST & SUMMER FOR THE CITY
Gilsons (Gilberto Gil’s sons and grandsons), play their family’s Brazilian MPB, samba, and reggae fusion for Brasil Summerfest; at Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center on July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷
Classical Ballet Mexican Story
American Ballet Theatre dances Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (2022) to music by Talbot; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Joo Won Ahn, and SunMi Park dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
American Tap Dance
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift” with a curtain chat; at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $27. 🇺🇸
Major League Soccer
STAR WARS NIGHT (May the 4th Be With You)
New York Red Bulls vs CF Montréal is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Wednesday, July 17, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $19. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Classical Ballet Mexican Story
American Ballet Theatre dances Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (2022) to music by Talbot; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Joo Won Ahn, and SunMi Park dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival presents 2023 American Pianists Award-winner, the Isaiah J. Thompson Quartet; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org
American Tap Dance
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on THursday, July 18, 2024 at 8pm. From $27. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, July 19, 2024
Classical Ballet ~ Herman Cornejo 25th Anniversary
American Ballet Theatre celebrates Herman Cornejo’s 25th Anniversary with Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (2022) to music by Talbot; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 19, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. 🇦🇷 🇲🇽
Colombian Vallenato
Gregorio Uribe celebrates Colombian Independence Day with vallenato jazz; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 7pm. From $25. 🇨🇴
Brazilian Popular Music
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Nathan Dies plays Brazilian electronic MPB; at Public Records in Gowanus, Brooklyn; on July 19, 2024 at 7:30pm (7pm doors). FREE. 🇧🇷
American Tap Dance
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Friday, July 19, 2024 at 8pm. From $27. 🇺🇸
Colombian Salsa Dura
La Excelencia plays New York salsa dura for dancing at Gonzalez y Gonzalez Mexican restaurant in Greenwich Village, Manhattan; on Friday, July 19, 2024, from 11pm – 3am. 🇨🇴
Saturday, July 20, 2024
Colombian National Day
Colombian Independence Day (from Spain) is July 20, 1819. 🇨🇴
Peruvian Parade Ceremony
Paterson’s Peruvian Parade and Festival hosts a Peruvian flag raising ceremony at Clifton City Hall in Clifton, New Jersey; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 1pm. 🇵🇪
Classical Ballet Mexican Story
American Ballet Theatre dances Christopher Wheeldon’s “Like Water for Chocolate” (2022) to music by Talbot; at the Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 2pm & 7:30pm. From $33. Daniel Camargo, Herman Cornejo, Carlos Gonzalez, Calvin Royal III, Joo Won Ahn, and SunMi Park dance in various performances. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇲🇽 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
American Tap Dance
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 2pm and 8pm. From $27. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival presents three generations of jazz vocalists with Marilyn Maye, Catherine Russell, and Ekep Nkwelle backed by the Aaron Diehl Trio; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇺🇸 🇨🇲
Major League Soccer
MARVEL NIGHT ~ Comic Book Giveaway ~ vs 2023 Supporters’ Shield Winners
New York Red Bulls vs FC Cincinatti is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, July 20, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $27. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪
Colombian Independence Concert
Newark’s Colombian Independence Festival features Grupo Niche, El Gran Combo, La India, Jesse Uribe, Paola Jara, Francy, and Alex Sensation for a night of salsa and regional Mexican at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey; on Saturday, July 20, 2024, at 8pm. From $47. 🇨🇴
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Full Moon
The Buck Moon is the July full moon.
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Colombian Day Parade
The Colombian Day Parade in New York City marches on Northern Blvd from 69th St to 89th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, July 21, 2024, from 12-3pm. FREE. 🇨🇴
Afro-Brazilian Film
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
“Black Rio! Black Power!,” Emilio Domingo’s 2023 documentary about the influence of American soul music and its social commentary on 1970s Rio de Janeiro; screens for Brasil Summerfest at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens; on July 21, 2024 at 1pm. $15. 🇧🇷
Colombian Independence Festival
Festival Independencia Orgullo Colombiano 2024 celebrates Colombian Independence with Colombian music, food, and crafts; outside the New York Hall of Science at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Colombian Independence Day, Sunday, July 20, 2024, from 2-9:30pm. From $10. 🇨🇴
American Tap Dance
Dorrance Dance, one of New York’s leading tap dance companies, performs the World Premiere of “Shift;” at the Joyce Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Sunday, July 21, 2024 at 2pm. From $27. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC July 22-28, 2024
Monday, July 22, 2024
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
The Bronx Dominican Parade Yankee Stadium Tour is Tuesday, July 23, 2024. 🇩🇴
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Cameroonian Jazz
Ekep Nkwelle the rising star Cameroonian American vocalist; sings jazz for Carnegie Hall Citywide; at Madison Square Park in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇨🇲
Dominican Parade Gala
The Bronx Dominican Parade Gala Dinner includes cocktails, dinner, and dancing at Marina Del Rey Caterers in Throggs Neck, The Bronx; on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. from 7-11pm. For tickets, call 718-993-4463 🇩🇴
Brazilian Jazz
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Hugo Sanbone plays his Opera Nova fusion of Afro Brazilian jazz and classical forms from the Yemanjá Project, inspired by the Yoruba Great Mother and Mother of the seas; outdoors at the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza; on July 24, 2024, at 7pm. FREE. 🇧🇷
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival presents the Calypso rhythms of Julliard-trained Trinidadian trumpeter Etienne Charles and Creole Soul; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇹🇹
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Peruvian Parade Gala
New Jersey Peruvians hosts a Peruvian Parade Gala featuring Los Adolescentes and Tropyband Orquesta at the Westmount Country Club in Woodland Park, New Jersey on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 6:30pm. From $175. 🇵🇪
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival explores the classical influence of jazz with Adam Birnbaum, Jeb Patton, and Aaron Diehl; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Thursday, July 25, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇺🇸
Brazilian Popular Music
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
Bruno Capinan, from Bahia, sings his Brazilian MPB for Brasil Summerfest; at Nublu in Manhattan’s East Village; on July 25, 2024 at 10:30pm (10pm doors). 🇧🇷
Friday, July 26, 2024
Food Festival
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2024 offers two- and three-course prix fixe meals, through Sunday, August 18, 2024, for $30, $45, $60. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to 1960s; opens with a reception and screening of Julio Bracho’s “Take Me in Your Arms” (1954); at Film at Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 26, 2024 at 6pm. The Festival continues through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Nigerian Afrobeats
Michael Olatuja and Lagos Pepper Soup play Broadway and film score-influenced afrobeat; for Carnegie Hall Citywide at a Bryant Park Picnic Performance in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, July 26, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. 🇳🇬
Dominican Merengue Típico Legend
Fefita La Grande (Manuela Josefa Cabrera Tavares), a women pioneer on merengue accordion (she is 80 now), plays merengue típico including her hit version of the classic “La chiflera;” for Summer for the City in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center; on Friday, July 26, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇩🇴
Brazilian Dance Party
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
The Brasil Summerfest Closing Party, one of the great parties of summer in New York City; is at a location to be announced; on July 26, 2024. 🇧🇷
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Food Festival
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2024 offers two- and three-course prix fixe meals, through Sunday, August 18, 2024, for $30, $45, $60. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸
Peruvian Parade Ceremonies
Paterson’s Peruvian Parade and Festival hosts a Te Deum Mass at St. John the Baptist Cathedral in Paterson, New Jersey, on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 10am. That is followed by a Peruvian flag raising ceremony at City Hall in Paterson, New Jersey; on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 12noon. 🇵🇪
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Peruvian Festival Floral Altar
The International Peruvian Festival Floral Altar is opening on Calle Perú at 85th St & Northern Blvd in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 6pm. 🇵🇪
Peruvian Parade Gala
Peruvian Parade Inc (previous organizer) hosts a Peruvian Parade Gala featuring Afro-Peruvian salsa singer Wilmer Cartagena and Los Hermanos Morenos y Orquesta, at the Fiesta Banquet in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 7pm. $150. 🇵🇪
Jazz Festival
The Jazz in July 2024 jazz festival has composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey reimagining the American Songbook with Aaron Diehl on piano, Warren Wolf on vibes; at the 92nd Street Y, New York, and online; on Saturday, July 27, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 92ny.org 🇺🇸
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Food Festival
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2024 offers two- and three-course prix fixe meals, through Sunday, August 18, 2024, for $30, $45, $60. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸
Peruvian Parade and Festival
The 38th Peruvian Parade in Paterson celebrates Peruvian Independence by marching from Passaic, through Clifton, to Paterson, New Jersey on Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 9am. The Peruvian Festival is a Peruvian street fair on Memorial Drive and Market Street, near the Peruvian Consulate in Paterson, New Jersey; after the parade. 🇵🇪
Ecuadorian Street Fair
The 10th Ecuadorian Festival of New York street fair is a family day of Ecuadorian music, dance, food, and artisanal crafts; outside the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Sunday, July 28, 2024, from 10:30am – 6pm. FREE with items for purchase. 🇪🇨
Dominican Parade
The Bronx Dominican Parade 2024 marches up Grand Concourse, from 167th to 176th St; from Concourse, through Claremont, to Mount Hope, The Bronx; on Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 11am. 🇩🇴
Peruvian Festival Jackson Heights
The 6th International Peruvian Festival Parade celebrates 203 years of Peruvian Independence with the theme “Be a Hero Again;” on 37th Avenue from 69th St to 87th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, July 28, 2024 at 12noon. FREE. 🇵🇪
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Venezuelan Salsa
The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI) presents Venezuelan salsa legends La Dimensión Latina “Now or Never Tour” at Summer for the City in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center; on Sunday, July 28, 2024 with DJ Broadway at 6:30pm and a live set at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇻🇪
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC July 29-31, 2024
Monday, July 29, 2024
Food Festival
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2024 offers two- and three-course prix fixe meals, through Sunday, August 18, 2024, for $30, $45, $60. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Food Festival
NYC Restaurant Week Summer 2024 offers two- and three-course prix fixe meals, through Sunday, August 18, 2024, for $30, $45, $60. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇪🇹 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇮🇪 🇮🇹 🇯🇲 🇯🇵 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇷 🇸🇴 🇪🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance Festival
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet dance ballet, modern, and contemporary for Summer for the City; on afternoons in the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; from July 30 – August 5, 2024. FREE 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Classical Music and Poetry
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto, plays Ginastera and Haydn featuring mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges singing Lieberson’s Neruda Songs; for Summer for the City in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday-Wednesday, July 30-31, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇲🇽
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance Festival
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet dance ballet, modern, and contemporary for Summer for the City; on afternoons in the David Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; from July 30 – August 5, 2024. FREE 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Mexican Musical Theatre
Jaime Lozano, one of Broadway’s leading Latin playwrights and composers, and his Broadway creative collective The Familia, debut his new work ¿Bailamos? (“Shall we dance?”), a fusion of Broadway, regional Mexican, cumbia, and salsa traditions; for Summer for the City on The Dance Floor at Josie Robertson Plaza in Lincoln Center; on Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 6pm. FREE. 🇲🇽 ~ 🇨🇴 🇵🇷 🗽
Classical Music and Poetry
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto, plays Ginastera and Haydn featuring mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges singing Lieberson’s Neruda Songs; for Summer for the City in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Tuesday-Wednesday, July 30-31, 2024 at 7:30pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇲🇽
Andean New Year
Pachamama, the Andean new year celebration of Mother Earth, begins on the eve of August 1. 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪