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Global Citizen Festival Latin Headliners Include Anitta, D-Nice, Lauryn Hill and Sofia Carson

The Global Citizen Festival 2023 is a music festival in Central Park that calls for leaders to end extreme poverty through action on equity, the planet, food security and jobs, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. Global Citizen Festival 2023 The Global Citizen Festival 2023 is on the Great Lawn in Central Park on Saturday, September 23, 2023 at … [Read more...] about Global Citizen Festival Latin Headliners Include Anitta, D-Nice, Lauryn Hill and Sofia Carson

Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC

Brasil Summerfest 2023 brings the latest currents of Brazilian music, film and dance to New York City. Brasil Summerfest 2023 Lineup SUMMERSTAGEMarisa Monte sings MPB (Brazilian Pop Music), with openers Joana Amodeira & Fred Martins singing Brazilian fado (Portuguese folk music), and New York's own Music From the Sole showing off tap dance's relationship to … [Read more...] about Brasil Summerfest Brings the Latest Brazilian Music, Film and Dance to NYC

Start Your Summer at the New York Philharmonic Concerts In the Parks

New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks 2023 plays exuberant Copland, Beethoven, Rossini, Strauss, and Rodriguez in Van Cortlandt Park, The Bronx; Central Park, Manhattan; Cunningham Park, Queens; Prospect Park Brooklyn, and an indoor program of string quartets at the St George Theatre in Staten Island; Tuesday-Sunday, June 13-28, 2023. FREE! Concerts In the Parks … [Read more...] about Start Your Summer at the New York Philharmonic Concerts In the Parks

NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is an Open House Block Party on Fifth Avenue

The Museum Mile Festival is a free open house block party, put on by the museums on Fifth Avenue's Museum Mile. It's on the second Tuesday in June. Fifth Avenue closes to traffic. The Avenue fills with people and family-friendly street entertainment. You can visit the museums for free. It's one of the highlights of summer in New York City. Museum Mile Festival 2023 The … [Read more...] about NYC’s Museum Mile Festival is an Open House Block Party on Fifth Avenue

Central Park Tango is Romantic Summer Night Dancing

Central Park Tango is an outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south end of The Mall. A "milonga" is a tango dance party. 2021 was its 25th Year Silver Anniversary. Congratulations to the Central Park Tango team of volunteers. You bring a lot of love and joy to Central Park and the New York Tango Community. Thank you! It's free or pay-what-you-wish. We always … [Read more...] about Central Park Tango is Romantic Summer Night Dancing

New York’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2023 Celebrates Música, Cultura y Alegría

New York's 66th National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2023 celebrates música, cultura y alegría (music, culture and joy on Fifth Avenue; on Sunday, June 11, 2023 at 11am. It's broadcast on ABC-7 in New York and streaming worldwide on abc7ny.com from 12 noon. FREE! 🇵🇷 Over a million Puerto Ricans and friends are expected to line Fifth Avenue for the parade. It is one of America's … [Read more...] about New York’s National Puerto Rican Day Parade 2023 Celebrates Música, Cultura y Alegría

The NYC St Patrick’s Day Parade 2023 Marches Up Fifth Avenue

Manhattan's St Patrick's Day Parade 2023 is a beloved New York tradition that began on March 17, 1762 when New York was still British. That was fourteen years BEFORE the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. The first parade was made by Irish patriots serving in the British Army. At the time, wearing green was forbidden in Ireland. Wow! Today, around 250,000 people … [Read more...] about The NYC St Patrick’s Day Parade 2023 Marches Up Fifth Avenue

The Global Citizen Festival 2022 is Headlined by Mariah Carey & Rosalía

The Global Citizen Festival 2022 promotes global unity. 10th Global Citizen Festival 2022 The Global Citizen Festival 2022 is headlined by Mariah Carey, Rosalía and more on the Great Lawn in Central Park on Saturday, September 24, 2022 at 4pm (2pm gates). Ticketed, but free (App download required). 🇬🇭🇮🇳🇪🇸🇻🇪 The festival calls on world leaders to empower girls, close … [Read more...] about The Global Citizen Festival 2022 is Headlined by Mariah Carey & Rosalía

Rosalía Headlines the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park

Rosalía is a global Spanish Flamenco Pop sensation from Catalonia. She is leading a Flamenco renaissance by stretching and modernizing the form. Flamenco in Spain is very conservative. Purists criticize her for not being from the Andalusía Flamenco heartland, but she studied the form and who cares? Rosalía made Flamenco cool again. Now she is doing all kinds of fusions with … [Read more...] about Rosalía Headlines the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park

Remember Simón Bolívar, whose African Stepmom Hipólita Taught Him That All People Deserve to be Free

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios Ponte y Blanco, better known as Simón Bolívar (El Libertador) is the founding father of the northern section of South America including what are now Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, Venezuela, and Peru and Bolivia. He was born in Caracas on July 24, 1783. Like many great figures of history, Bolívar is complicated. … [Read more...] about Remember Simón Bolívar, whose African Stepmom Hipólita Taught Him That All People Deserve to be Free

SummerStage 2021 is Back!

It's not summer in New York City without SummerStage. New York City is back and SummerStage 2021 is back from June 17 to September 21, 2021 (and maybe into October). The focus this year is on artists connected to New York and the theme of renewal and resilience. The line-up is more inclusive of both gender and the many communities that make New York, New York. The … [Read more...] about SummerStage 2021 is Back!