The 18th Annual Blues BBQ Festival returns to Pier 97 this weekend for an amazing day of FREE blues music and BBQ from NYC's top restaurants for purchase, including a first-ever vegan option. Participating NYC restaurants include Dinosaur BBQ, Mighty Quinn's BBQ, and Pig Beach, and a vegan option from Monks Eats. Have more of a sweet tooth? Cool off with an ice cream sandwich from Melt … [Read more...]
Global Citizen Festival 2017 in Central Park
Get FREE tickets to NYC's biggest annual outdoor concert, with a blockbuster line-up including Stevie Wonder, Green Day, The Lumineers, The Killers, and The Chainsmokers. Pharrell Williams, Big Sean, Andra Day, and Alessia Cara also perform. Hugh Jackman, Lupita Nyong’o, Aaron Paul and Demi Lovato will co-host. Global Citizen Festival 2017 is Saturday, September 23, on the Great Lawn in … [Read more...]
NYC Free: Accordian Festival in Bryant Park
Accordions Around the World returns to Bryant Park next week with four weeks of strolling musicians. The series features more than 100 accordionists, as well as bandoneón, bayan, concertina, and harmonium-players of different musical genres performing on Wednesday evenings, June 28 to July 19. Each week spotlights 24 musicians, and offers audiences the chance to experience the range of this … [Read more...]
NYC Free: 1,000+ Music Events on June 21
Celebrate the longest day of the year in New York City with 1000+ FREE music events. The Summer Solstice on June 21st is also the annual Make Music New York festival, featuring outdoor concerts, music lessons and jam sessions in public spaces throughout the five boroughs. It's an all-day event, 10am to 10pm, with all kinds of music, from classical to techno, in all kinds of destinations, … [Read more...]
NYC Free: Live Music Festival in Battery Park
Live at SeaGlass Carousel is a two-day family-friendly music and dance festival in Battery Park. The music is by live dance bands playing swing and blues, Latin including a Mexican brass band, and more modern stuff. There's room for dancing to the music, and also riding SeaGlass to beautiful live music. SeaGlass Carousel is one of the world's most unique, where passengers float around in … [Read more...]
NYC Free: Live at the Archway Concerts
Head to the archway on the Brooklyn side of the Manhattan Bridge on Thursday evenings for 17 weeks of FREE family-friendly music concerts, dance performances, social dance classes and more. It's an eclectic mix of local performers and artists, with something to please every kind of musical preference. Live at the Archway starts this week, on June 8, with the five-member Colombian fusion music … [Read more...]
NYC Free: Things to do This Week May 15-19
Cheap is good, free is better, as we tell you often here on NYC on the Cheap. Take advantage of one or more of these freebies of the week, including dancing to a live band, a technology conference, and more, because NYC doesn't have to be expensive when you know where to find freebies, and we do. Monday, May 15th Frost/Nixon - The story of the Watergate scandal is riveting any time, and … [Read more...]
Brooklyn Folk Festival 2017
Grab your banjo, fiddle, ukelele or oud, or just listen to top folk musicians play theirs, at the 9th annual Brooklyn Folk Festival next weekend, April 28-30, 2017. It's three days with 40 bands and individual performers, plus workshops and even a banjo toss contest. Get tickets now before they sell out for this jam fest of great folk music from around the world. The Brooklyn Folk Festival … [Read more...]
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