4), a hip-hop 50th anniversary double feature with Digable Planets, Kari Faux and a screening of “Brown Sugar” (Aug. 3), North Carolina singer Indigo de Souza (Aug. Hear premier musical acts in Prospect Park.Īmong the highlights ahead in the final month of BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! are concerts featuring Uruguayan singer-songwriter and actor Jorge Drexler (Aug. 27, welcome Prospero, Miranda, Caliban and the rest in a Public Works presentation of “The Tempest,” a musical adaptation by Benjamin Velez directed by Laurie Woolery. The Public Theater wraps up its Free Shakespeare in the Park production of “Hamlet,” directed by Kenny Leon and starring Ato Blankson-Wood, on Aug. See “Hamlet” while you can, then greet “The Tempest.” 9 celebrates NYC’s home-grown art form with performances by Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, DJ Spinna, Ladies of Hip-Hop and more. 5, and a 13-event Hip-Hop Week series starting Aug. 3, the international smorgasbord known as globalFEST takes over the entire Lincoln Center campus Aug. Eddie Palmieri, the Salsa Spaceman, performs with his band on Aug. Lincoln Center’s expansive, all-embracing “Summer for the City” series heads into the home stretch, starting with a family-friendly chamber music event featuring Imani Winds, a 60th-anniversary dance party for Orquesta Broadway and a performance of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Company” in American Sign Language all happening on Aug. Catch the grand finale of “Summer for the City" at Lincoln Center. 1 at 7:30 p.m., Naumburg Bandshell, Central Park details here. Brass quartet The Westerlies set the stage with a newly composed fanfare by Milica Paranosic. The final offering of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, billed as the world's oldest continuously running, outdoor classical music concert series, features the popular, invigorating East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) playing a world premiere by Eleanor Alberga alongside works by Mozart, Josef Suk and William Grant Still. 1, 8 and 15 at 8 p.m., Bryant Park details here. 8) and electroacoustic string duo ARKAI (Aug. 1), Venezuelan innovator Mafer Bandola (Aug. The inaugural lineup includes jazz bassist Endea Owens with her band, The Cookout (Aug. Live After Dark comprises three cabaret-style sessions on Tuesday nights at the L'OR Porch, near the fountain on the park's south side. The Bryant Park Picnic Performances series has long been one of the city's most popular free seasonal offerings small wonder that now there's a spin-off. Here are some of the best options coming up in August. One of the best reasons to live in New York City is that you'll never run out of things to do for free, from opera on the lawn to movie night on a rooftop.
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