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 ensemble Los Cumpleaños, and ends on Sept 28 with a special reunion show by Japanese pop fusion band Gaijin à Go-Go on September 28, and a circus experience by Big Sky Works in between, on August 17.
Another standout event is the 1920s-inspired jazz ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra and a swing dance class led by Paolo Pasta Lana on August 3, and again on Sept 14 when the lively swing band Hot Sardines gets your toes tapping. Paolo is one of the top swing, lindy and balboa instructors at You Should Be Dancing in Manhattan, and one of the organizers of Swing Remix, the dance event to live swing bands at JCC Manhattan.
SEE ALSO
Midsummer Night Swing to live bands outdoor dancing at Lincoln Center in June and July
New this year, the Artist Interactive invites the public to engage with a different DUMBO-based artist each week, through a pop-up gallery, “The Space Station,” and through a live art component in which the artist and the public create a collaborative piece together over the course of three hours. This program is presented in collaboration with the DUMBO art gallery This Friday or Next Friday.
Live at the Archway events begin at 6pm. Unlike other outdoor concerts, it doesn’t matter if it’s raining, because you are under the protected alcove of the archway in DUMBO. Click here for directions via several subway and bus lines.
SEE ALSO
FREE SummerStage concerts and dance performances in NYC parks in all five boroughs
Metropolitan Opera FREE summer concert series in NYC parks
Here’s the Live at the Archway schedule:
JUNE 8
LOS CUMPLEAÑOS – With opening set by FogoAzul NYC in the Pearl Street Triangle
JUNE 15
POPGUN PRESENTS: RODES ROLLINS – Plus a DJ set with DJ DuctTape
JUNE 22
HIP HOP DANCE CONSERVATORY
JUNE 29
RISING CHOREOGRAPHERS NYC CURATED BY WHITE WAVE DANCE – Plus DJ set by SPASE
JULY 6
79.5 – Plus DJ set by band members
JULY 13
BROWN RICE FAMIL – Plus DJ set by DJ DuctTape
JULY 20
OLA FRESCA – Plus salsa class with Hunter Houde
JULY 27
JAH PAN
AUGUST 3
GHOST TRAIN ORCHESTRA – Plus swing dance class with Paolo Pasta Lana
AUGUST 10
BRASIL SUMMERFEST
AUGUST 17
BIG SKY WORKS
AUGUST 24
LOS CHANTAS – Milonga, plus tango class with Adam and Ciko
AUGUST 31
UNDERGROUND SYSTEM – Plus DJ set with DJ DuctTape
SEPTEMBER 7
ESPIRITU GITANO ENSEMBLE – Plus DJ set with DJ DuctTape
SEPTEMBER 14
HOT SARDINES – Plus swing dance class with Paolo Pasta Lana
SEPTEMBER 21
WONDERWHEEL RECORDINGS WITH NICKODEMUS AND FRIENDS
SEPTEMBER 28
GAIJIN À GO-GO
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