Summer Music Festivals
Grand Teton Music Festival
Friday, July 2, 2010
(Jackson Hole, WY) June 30 - Aug 14
Don't Miss: Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, July 2 & 3
(Jackson Hole, WY) June 30 - Aug 14
Don't Miss: Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, July 2 & 3
(Woodstock, NY) June 27 - September 5
Don't Miss: Shanghai Quartet, July 4
The River to River Festival presents Dan Zanes in concert at The Family Festival. Special guests include Tony nominee Stew of Passing Strange, spoken word poet Caridad De La Luz aka La Bruja and Joan Osborn.
(London, England) June 21 – July 9
Don’t Miss: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, July 8
With a repertoire that extends from personal, original songs to a breadth of rare classics from a bygone era, Madeleine Peyroux's standards are anything but standard. She performs as part of the River to River Festival at Castle Clinton.
(Lenox, MA) June 26 – September 5
Don’t Miss: Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection," July 9
(Eugene and Portland, Oregon) June 25 - July 11
Don’t Miss: Mendelssohn’s Elijah, July 11 (Eugene)
Be in the audience for “New York, New Jersey and the World,” a special Brian Lehrer Show, live in The Greene Space. Guests include Jonathan Alter of Newsweek, Katrina vanden Heuvel of The Nation, and Seth Pinsky of the Economic Development Corporation.
(Verbier, Switzerland) July 16 – August 1
Don’t Miss: Verbier Festival Orchestra with pianist Yuja Wang, July 16
(Marlboro, Vermont) July 17 – August 15
Don’t Miss: Opening Night, July 17
Cooperstown, NY) July 9 – August 24
Don’t Miss: Handel’s Tolomeo, July 18 – August 23
(Napa Valley, CA) July 16 – 25
Don’t Miss: Russian National Orchestra with Joshua Bell & Jean-Yves Thibaudet, July 18
(New York, NY) July 7-25
Don’t Miss: Varèse: (R)evolution July 19-20
The Greene Space and the Caramoor International Jazz Festival turn up the heat in New York City, as we bring you a sneak-peek into the full three-day Caramoor International Jazz Festival with today’s jazz greats: Elio Villafranca, Clarice Assad, and Spoken Hand Percussion Orchestra.
Join Brian Lehrer for Census and Sensibilities: 40 & Under Singles Event. Meet other WNYC listeners, enjoy drinks and snacks, and take part in a fun census quiz.
(Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY) June 9-August 8
Don’t Miss: The Chaplin Mutuals: Carl Davis, July 22
See Dean & Britta's accompaniment written for short Andy Warhol films and join the cast and band from the hit Broadway musical Fela! for a live performance on Soundcheck from The Greene Space.
Antibalas - Spanish for “bulletproof” - is a high-energy and highly celebrated Afrobeat orchestra from Brooklyn. The band anchors this year’s Broadway hit FELA! with their musical direction and energetic instrumentalists, arranging and performing the music of Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti and originals alike.
Submit your artwork by Friday, July 23, 2010 at 11:59 pm and your work will become a part of the digital photographic exhibition that will run the entire month of August 2010, projected in the store front windows of The Greene Space; seen by up to 3 million people en route to the Holland Tunnel each month.
(Santa Fe, NM) July 2-August 28
Don’t Miss: Life is a Dream, July 24, 28; August 6, 12, 19
To celebrate SummerStage's 25 years, they team up with The Greene Space to explore the question "What is black dance?" through a live performance and chat moderated by Guggenheim Fellow Dr. Kariamu Welsh, contemporary dance choreographer and scholar.
Joe Thompson, winner of the Battle of the Boroughs, is opening for the SummerStage Concert with Olu Dara, veteran avant-garde player combines jazz, simple blues and Caribbean dance rhythms with his unique cornet and trumpet playing to depict stories about life’s simple joys.
(Katonah, NY) June 25 - August 11
Don't Miss: Christopher O'Riley's Out of My Hands, July 30
Joe Thompson and the Comfortable Catastrophe, winners of the Battle of the Boroughs, perform their prize-winning concert in The Greene Space.