Things To Do in NYC in March 2023 include:
- St Patrick’s Day Parade
- Rendez-vous with French Cinema film festival
- New York International Children’s Film Festival
March weather is early spring with average temperatures of 35-50°F. So it is cold.
March is Women’s History Month.
There aren’t any March bank holidays, but this year’s college Spring Break peaks the first two weeks of March.
Festivals include St Patrick’s Day on Friday, March 17, 2023.
Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Thursday, March 2, 2023
The Outsider Art Fair is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, NYC on March 2-5, 2023.
The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival, coproduced with UniFrance, runs for ten days at Film at Lincoln Center, Thursday-Sunday, March 2-12, 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, March 3, 2023
The New York International Children’s Film Festival is weekends March 3-19, 2023.
Saturday, March 4, 2023
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New York Red Bulls vs Nashville is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 8:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Sunday, March 5, 2023
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, March 5, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, March 6, 2023
Celebrate Ghanaian Independence Day from the UK, on March 6, 1957. 🇬🇭
Celebrate Purim and the courage of Persian Queen Esther at sundown on Monday, March 6, 2023. 🇮🇷✡️
Remember Gabriel García Márquez. The Nobel Prize-winning author who was born in Aracataca, Colombia on March 6, 1927. 🇨🇴
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, March 7, 2023
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
(International Women’s Day)
Celebrate International Women’s Day! #EmbraceEquity
Celebrate Holi, the South Asian spring festival of colors. [South Asians are Latin in the Caribbean.] 🕉
Remember Johnny Ventura. The Dominican merengue legend was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on March 8, 1940. 🇩🇴
Remember Enrique Rodríguez. The Argentine tango composer and leader was born in La Plata, Argentina on March 8, 1901. 🇦🇷
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Celebrate National Meatball Day. 🇮🇹
Maurya Kerr (Alonzo King LINES Ballet, ODC) from the Bay Area, brings her contemporary dance to the 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Hall in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Thursday, March 9, 2023, at 7:30pm. From $20. 🇺🇸
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, March 10, 2023
In “Indigenous Connections,” Rhiannon Giddens leads women of the Silkroad Ensemble with Tuscarora/Taíno (Indigenous American/Caribbean) singer and lap-steel player Pura Fé, in an evening of Indigenous folk music in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Tuesday, March 10, 2023 at 7:30pm. 🇺🇸
Maurya Kerr (Alonzo King LINES Ballet, ODC) from the Bay Area, brings her contemporary dance to the 92nd Street Y Buttenwieser Hall in Manhattan’s Upper East Side; on Friday, March 10, 2023, at 7:30pm. From $20. 🇺🇸
Saturday, March 11, 2023
Remember Astor Piazzolla! The father of “Nuevo Tango” (tango jazz) was born in Mar del Plata, Argentina on March 11, 1921. He first learned to play bandoneon in New York City. 🇦🇷
Sunday, March 12, 2023
Celebrate Mauritian Independence Day, from the UK, on March 12, 1968. 🇲🇺
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, March 12, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
TRAVEL or TV
Jimmy Kimmel hosts the 95th Oscars (Academy Awards) live on ABC-7 from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California at 8pm.
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, March 12, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, March 13, 2023
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Remember Rodolfo Biagi. The tango pianist and composer with a strong beat was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 14, 1906. 🇦🇷
Happy Birthday Sergio Vargas! The merengue and bolero singer was born in Villa Altagracia, Dominican Republic on March 15, 1960. 🇩🇴
Celebrate the Ides of March, a Roman holiday and the day Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BCE. 🇮🇹
Celebrate National Reggaeton Day!
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Thursday, March 16, 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, March 17, 2023
Happy St Patrick’s Day! 🇮🇪
Remember Elis Regina 🇧🇷, the MPB, Samba and Jazz singer, who was born in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil on March 17, 1945.
Saturday, March 18, 2023
New York Red Bulls vs Columbus is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $34. 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇯🇲 | 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇻🇪 | 🇮🇹 | 🇨🇲 🇺🇬
Sunday, March 19, 2023
Celebrate the Feast of Saint Joseph, Latin Father’s Day (and Stepfathers Day). ✝️
Happy birthday Eliane Elias! The jazz and bossa nova pianist was born in São Paulo, Brazil on March 19, 1960. 🇧🇷
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, March 19, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, March 20, 2023
Celebrate the March Equinox (Northern Spring).
Celebrate Tunisian Independence Day, from the UK, on March 12, 1968. 🇹🇳
Celebrate National Ravioli Day. 🇮🇹
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Celebrate Namibian Independence Day, from South Africa, on March 21, 1990. 🇳🇦
Remember Benito Juárez. The founding father of modern Mexico was born in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca on March 21, 1806. There is a statue of him in Bryant Park. 🇲🇽
Celebrate World Poetry Day.
Celebrate World Puppetry Day.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Celebrate the start of Ramadan from sundown, Wednesday, March 22, 2023 through Thursday, April 20, 2023. ☪️
Celebrate Día de la abolición de la esclavitud (Puerto Rico Emancipation Day), the day when the Spanish law that ended legal slavery in Puerto Rico was enacted in 1873. 🇵🇷
Happy Birthday Jorge Ben Jor. The father of samba-rock was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on March 22, 1942. 🇧🇷
Thursday, March 23, 2023
The Affordable Art Fair New York Spring is at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea, NYC from Wednesday-Sunday, March 23-27, 2023.
The Flamenco Festival New York 2023 features living legend Sara Baras “Alma” (soul); at New York City Center in Central Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 8pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
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, March 24, 2023
Two Latin Grammy winners: Flor de Toloache and Nella play Mexican mariachi and Venezuelan pop at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in Midtown, Manhattan on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 7:30pm. From $64. 🇲🇽🇻🇪
The Flamenco Festival New York 2023 features living legend Sara Baras “Alma” (soul); at New York City Center in Central Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, March 24, 2023 at 8pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Saturday, March 25, 2023
Today is the UN’s International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. 🇫🇷🇳🇱🇵🇹🇪🇸🇬🇧
Celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation. ✝️.
Remember salsa legend, Johnny Pacheco! The Fania Records co-founder and Fania All-Stars bandleader was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic on March 25, 1935. 🇩🇴
The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) 2023 Season is Saturday, March 25 through November 11, 2023.
The Flamenco Festival New York 2023 features living legend Sara Baras “Alma” (soul); at New York City Center in Central Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 8pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Sunday, March 26, 2023
The Flamenco Festival New York 2023 features living legend Sara Baras “Alma” (soul); at New York City Center in Central Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 3pm. From $45. 🇪🇸
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village on Sunday, March 26, 2023 from 6-11pm. $20. 🇦🇷
Arturo O’Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra play Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sunday, March 26, 2023 at 8:30pm & 10:30pm. From $36+ $20 per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Monday, March 27, 2023
Celebrate National Theatre Day.
Remember Arthur Mitchell, the first African American principal dancer at New York City Ballet, and co-founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem, the first African American ballet company. Mitchell was born in Harlem on March 27, 1934. 🇺🇸
Dance Salsa, Bachata and Merengue at Talia Castro-Pozo’s Latin Mondays at Taj, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, at Taj in the Flatiron District, Mondays at 7pm (5pm doors). From $15. 🇨🇴🇨🇺🇩🇴🇵🇷🇵🇦🇵🇪🇻🇪
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Happy birthday Mario Vargas Llosa! The Nobel Prize-winning author was born in Arequipa, Peru on March 28, 1936. 🇵🇪
Happy birthday Lady Gaga! The Italian-American pop star was born in New York City on March 28, 1986. 🇮🇹🇺🇸
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Major League Baseball opening day is Wednesday, March 29, 2023.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
The Photography Show by AIPAD is at Center415; from Wednesday-Saturday, March 30 – April 2, 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, March 31, 2023
Celebrate César Chávez Day! The Mexican American labor and civil rights leader was born in Yuma, Arizona on March 31, 1927. 🇲🇽🇺🇸