Tag: music

There are treasures to be found on the UWS. One historic “gem” was showcased last Tuesday night at Merkin Concert Hall on West 67th street.

If you love music, you don't have to leave the neighborhood at all this week, because there are a truly amazing number of outstanding free local concerts.

The Sing for Hope program is back this summer, distributing colorful pianos throughout New York for people to play. Four of the pianos are set to be placed on the Upper West Side.

Summer is so close you can practically taste it, and the City Parks Foundation has just released its summer concerts at Summerstage.

Passover is coming next week, and a capella group Six13 has taken to the streets of the Upper West Side to film a music video to get everyone excited for the holiday. The video, called Uptown Passover

Pandora put together a neighborhood-by neighborhood map of musical tastes, and the Upper West Side's top musical genres will probably confirm all

Make Music New York, an annual citywide summer music festival, will put on concerts at 21 venues in the neighborhood on Saturday, featuring several different music genres.

The West Side Community Garden on 89th street between Amsterdam and Columbus is holding a series of concerts on Sunday nights at 6 p.m. this summer.

Good Morning America hosts concerts in Central Park throughout the summer. The catch is that the concerts start insanely early

Summerstage, the concert series put on by the City Arts Foundation that features concerts in Central Park and elsewhere, has released its 2014 schedule, and there are shows just about every week.

Young musicians from all over the world will get to say they played at Lincoln Center, as the "Young Music Makers" series starts Thursday.

The world lost one of its great musicians and activists when Pete Seeger died on Monday at the age of 94. Seeger had several connections to the Upper West Side, and

Central Park's foliage is peaking, and an event on Saturday offers a great chance to walk around the park and check out the scenery while being serenaded. Jazz & Colors,

Juilliard has begun putting on new performances this week, and there are quite a free shows you can attend.

Juilliard presents a wide array of music this week, but the concerts listed below all have one simple price: Free! Click on the links below the listings for more information about each event. For Juilliard’s

The Juilliard School has numerous free concerts this week. Click on the links below the listings for more information about each event. For

Just hours after we published a story about how Thelonious Monk's name was misspelled on a street sign honoring his legacy, the city stepped up and replaced the sign. Frankly, we're amazed. On the original sign at West 63rd street, where Monk lived for much of his life, his first ...

Central Park is holding a concert on Saturday that will be unlike anything ever before experienced in the park.

There I was on a rainy day last weekend eating carrot-ginger soup at Cafe Du Soleil on 105th Street, and who's sitting at the table next to me? Mary J. Blige. It turns out one of the great R&B-pop singers of our lifetimes lives on the Upper West Side. Who ...

A new bar called 78 Below has opened in the space formerly occupied by the P&G Bar on the corner of 78th Street and Columbus Avenue. And like P&G, the new spot is dedicated to playing lots of live music -- every night, if possible. 78 Below is located in ...