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JUNE-OCT FREE & BENEFIT 2021 PERFORMANCES SUMMERSTAGE.ORG SUMMERSTAGE NYCSUMMERSTAGE SUMMERSTAGENYC SUMMERSTAGE IS BACK More than a year after the first lockdown order, SummerStage is back, ready to once again use our city’s parks as gathering spaces to bring diverse and thriving communities together to find common ground through world-class arts and culture. We are committed to presenting a festival fully representing the city we serve - a roster of diverse artists, focused on gender equity and presenting distinct New York genres. This year, more than ever before, our festival will focus on renewal and resilience, reflective of our city and its continued evolution, featuring artists that are NYC-born, based, or inextricably linked to the city itself. Performers like SummerStage veteran Patti Smith, an icon of the city’s resilient rebelliousness, Brooklyn’s Antibalas, who have married afrobeat with New York City’s Latin soul, and hip hop duo Armand Hammer, two of today’s most important leaders of New York’s rap underground. And, as a perfect symbol of rebirth, Sun Ra’s Arkestra returns to our stage in this year of reopening, 35 years after they performed our very first concert, bringing their ethereal afro-futurist cosmic jazz vibes back to remind us of our ongoing mission and purpose. Our festival art this year also reflects our outlook -- bold, bright, powerful -- and was created by New Yorker Lyne Lucien, an award-winning Haitian artist based in Brooklyn. Lucien is an American Illustration Award Winner and a finalist for the Artbridge - Not a Monolith Residency. She has worked as a photo editor and art director at various publications including New York Magazine, The Daily Beast and Architectural Digest. Her drawings are rooted in community engagement and are influenced by the detals she noticed around her in the US and Haitian cities where she lived as a youngster. The complexities of color, form, and texture she uses in this year’s SummerStage design articulate the vivacity and diversity of NYC. This summer will certainly be different, and we will be somewhat pared-down, but we will be no less vibrant. Our shows will be staged in four parks: Rumsey Playfield in Central Park, in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, and at the Coney Island Amphitheater along the boardwalk and will, as always, feature both iconic performances and newfangled buzz artists. We hope to see you there! 2021 CALENDAR Click “Show Info” to jump to a dedicated page within this brochure. SUNDAY, JULY 18 JUNE THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE THURSDAY, JUNE 17 La India / DJ Bembona CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra SATURDAY, JULY 24 with Wynton Marsalis CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Sun Ra Arkestra / Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty / DJ Greg Caz SATURDAY, JUNE 19 MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 5PM • FREE Screening: SUMMER OF SOUL SUNDAY, JULY 25 (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Dance IS! featuring Artists from Rennie Harris Puremovement, Complexions Contemporary SUNDAY, JUNE 20 Ballet, Parsons Dance, A.I.M by Kyle CENTRAL PARK • 3PM & 8PM • BENEFIT Abraham, Soles of Duende with guest artist Chris Botti Asha Grif-fith, Samantha Figgins from Alvin Ailey, Jessica Amber Pinkett, Gianna Theodore, and special guest, Madison THURSDAY, JUNE 24 McFerrin FLUSHING MEADOWS CORONA PARK 8:30PM • FREE Screening: Monsoon Wedding / Falu SATURDAY, JULY 31 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE The Originals SUNDAY, JUNE 27 CENTRAL PARK • 2:30PM & 7:30PM • BENEFIT George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic / Louie Vega AUGUST SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE JULY Tito Nieves / The Salsa Project ft. DJ JFuse SUNDAY, JULY 11 CENTRAL PARK • 2:30PM & 7:30PM • BENEFIT Galactic featuring Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 and special guest MonoNeon THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE Funk Flex Birthday Concert with live performance by Ginuwine and Friends WEDNESDAY, JUly 14 CENTRAL PARK • 6:30PM • FREE Bastille Day Celebration SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Met Opera Summer Recital SATURDAY, JULY 17 THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE Gloria Gaynor / Sundae Sermon’s - SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 DJ Stormin’ Norman of Disco Sequestered CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Marc Rebillet, DJ Premier and Brady Watt 2021 CALENDAR Click “Show Info” to jump to a dedicated page within this brochure. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 AUGUST CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 The Dom Salvador Samba Jazz Sextet / CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Film Screening: Dom Salvador & Abolition / Armand Hammer & The Alchemist featuring DJ Nyack & Eduardo Brechó Moor Mother, Fielded and KAYANA/ GENG PTP SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Erica Campbell Antibalas SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT Valerie June Lake Street Dive / Allison Russell / Zia Victoria MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 6PM • FREE Machine Gun Kelly “Tickets to My Downfall” Charlie Parker with Strings: The Donald Harrison Tour with jxdn and KennyHoopla Quartet and The Harlem Symphony Orchestra Wednesday SEPTEMBER 15 SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE VP Records: Reggae Gold meets Soca Gold Go Brooklyn! Stetsasonic & Friends 40th Anniversary Show FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 Dawes with special guests MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 6PM • FREE Bonny Light Horseman & Erin Rae Willie Jones III - A Charlie Parker Centennial Celebration featuring Sarah Hanahan, Godwin Louis, Justin Robinson, Erena Terakubo with Donald Vega SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 and Endea Owens CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Patti Smith and her band SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 INVINCIBLE: A Glorious Tribute to Michael Jackson / DJ KS 360 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT Indigo Girls / Ani DiFranco SEPTEMBER WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Yo La Tengo / Mountain Movers JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA WITH WYNTON MARSALIS Central Park THURSDAY JUNE 17 7PM FREE DOORS 5PM Wynton Marsalis’s name looms large in the world of jazz, and for good reason—the GRAMMY® -winning trumpeter, composer, and bandleader has helped shepherd the cultural institution of jazz into a new millennium. Under his direction, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the resident orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center, performs a vast repertoire: from rare historic compositions to Jazz at Lincoln Center-commissioned works, including compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Charles Mingus, and many others. For this unique performance, the world-renowned orchestra’s performance will explore freedom and may include tunes by Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Ted Nash, and Charles Mingus. Since the orchestra’s founding in 1988, the group’s performances have been leaving its global audiences inspired and uplifted with the full vigor, vision, and depth of America’s music. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis’s vast, innovative body of original work over the past decade demonstrates the orchestra composers’ and arrangers’ thematic ambitions, distinctive musical personalities, and unprecedented range. LEARN MORE SUMMERSTAGE.ORG SUMMERSTAGE NYCSUMMERSTAGE SUMMERSTAGENYC SCREENING: SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) Marcus Garvey Park SATURDAY JUNE 19 5PM FREE DOORS 3PM PRESENTED BY TARGET IN ASSOCIATION WITH NYC PARKS’ HISTORIC HARLEM PARKS AND JAZZMOBILE Celebrate Juneteenth in Harlem with a free, outdoor screening of Summer of Soul presented by Target in association with Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage, NYC Parks’ Historic Harlem Parks and Jazzmobile. The special advance screening will be followed by live performances at The Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park featuring Questlove and surprise guests. Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, highlights the story of the momentous 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, which took place in Marcus Garvey Park, featuring never-before-seen footage from the massive concert series that was - until now - virtually eliminated from the history books. The film had its world premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and was met with rave reviews, taking home both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. Summer of Soul will stream on Hulu in conjunction with Disney General Entertainment’s Onyx Collective; Searchlight Pictures will release it theatrically on July 2, 2021. LEARN MORE SUMMERSTAGE.ORG SUMMERSTAGE NYCSUMMERSTAGE SUMMERSTAGENYC Central Park SUNDAY JUNE 20 3PM & 8PM BENEFIT DOORS 1:30PM & 6PM PRODUCED BY SONY PRESENTS THE BLUE NOTE JAZZ FESTIVAL For over two decades, GRAMMY® Award-winning master trumpeter and composer Chris Botti has amassed a spectacular variety of honors, including multiple Gold and Platinum albums, to become the nation’s largest selling instrumental artist. His mesmerizing performances with a stunning array of legends such as Sting, Barbra Streisand, Tony Bennett, Yo-Yo Ma, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Andrea Bocelli have cemented his place as one of the most brilliant and inspiring forces of the contemporary music scene. Whether he’s performing with illustrious symphonies