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FREE & BENEFIT JUNE-OCT PERFORMANCES LIMITED CAPACITY 2021 TICKETS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY 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. JUNE THURSDAY, JUNE 17 SUNDAY, JULY 18 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra La India with Wynton Marsalis SATURDAY, JULY 24 SATURDAY, JUNE 19 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 5PM • FREE Sun Ra Arkestra / Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty Screening: SUMMER OF SOUL (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) SUNDAY, JULY 25 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE SUNDAY, JUNE 20 Dance IS! featuring Artists from CENTRAL PARK • 3PM & 8PM • BENEFIT Rennie Harris Puremovement, Complexions Chris Botti Contemporary Ballet, Parsons Dance, A.I.M., Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with special guest Madison McFerrin, and Soles of Duende with guest artist, Asha Griffith THURSDAY, JUNE 24 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 AUGUST SUNDAY, AUGUST 1 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE JULY Tito Nieves 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 SATURDAY, JULY 17 THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE Gloria Gaynor / Sundae Sermon’s - DJ Stormin’ Norman of Disco Sequestered 2021 CALENDAR Click “Show Info” to jump to a dedicated page within this brochure. AUGUST SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE THE CONEY ISLAND AMPHITHEATER • 7PM • FREE Met Opera Summer Recital A Glorious Tribute to Michael Jackson / DJ KS 360 SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE SEPTEMBER Marc Rebillet, DJ Premier and Brady Watt SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE The Dom Salvador Samba Jazz Sextet / SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 Film Screening: Dom Salvador & Abolition CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE In Association with 25th Inffinito Armand Hammer & The Alchemist featuring Brazilian Film Festival Moor Mother, Fielded and KAYANA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Erica Campbell Antibalas MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT Machine Gun Kelly “Tickets to My Downfall” Lake Street Dive / Allison Russell Tour with jxdn and KennyHoopla SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 6PM • FREE CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE Charlie Parker with Strings: The Donald Dawes with special guests Harrison Quartet and The Harlem Bonny Light Horseman & Erin Rae Symphony Orchestra SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • FREE MARCUS GARVEY PARK • 6PM • FREE Patti Smith and her band Willie Jones III - A Charlie Parker Centennial Celebration featuring Sarah Hanahan, Godwin Louis, Justin Robinson, Erena Terakubo with Donald Vega TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 and Endea Owens CENTRAL PARK • 7PM • BENEFIT Indigo Girls / Ani DiFranco 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. Request Free Tickets 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. Request Free Tickets 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 or at renowned venues around the globe, his unparalleled crystalline and poetic sound transcends musical boundaries. Chris Botti Info SUMMERSTAGE.ORG SUMMERSTAGE NYCSUMMERSTAGE SUMMERSTAGENYC SCREENING: MONSOON WEDDING / FALU Flushing Meadows Corona Park THURSDAY JUNE 24 8:30PM FREE DOORS 8PM IN ASSOCIATION WITH ROOFTOP FILMS AND QUEENS BOROUGH PRESIDENT DONOVAN RICHARDS, JR. SummerStage, in partnership with Rooftop Films, brings you a South Asian double bill for the ages as part of Queens Borough President