Tag: music

December 5, 2011 Weather: Cloudy, High of 59 Degrees.

Famed composer Philip Glass has never simply gone with the flow, and that's one reason he's a pioneer. On Thursday night, he's expected to make another unique statement: protesting outside of his own opera Satyagraha on its last night at Lincoln Center as part of the "Occupy" movement. The protest, ...

Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie and other folk singers marched through the Upper West Side with about 600 people late Friday night to support the Occupy Wall Street movement. The march started at around 11 p.m. at Symphony Space on 95th Street and Broadway and ended at the Merchant's Gate entrance ...

The Upper West Side was gentrified years ago, but a sudden proliferation of harp-playing seems to indicate that the gentrification has entered a new phase.

The Black Eyed Peas are expecting up to 60,000 people to show up tonight for their rescheduled concert on the Great Lawn in Central Park, and the fans and police were getting ready early on Friday. By noon, dozens of people were already in line at 72nd Street, even though ...

The Groggers, a pop-punk band from Queens, just came out with a new album, and on it is one of the catchiest, funniest songs about the Upper West Side I've heard. The song, Upper West Side Story, is basically about being an Orthodox Jewish player on the Upper West Side: ...

The American Folk Art Museum sadly closed its midtown location a few weeks ago. But the museum's smaller second location in Lincoln Square is still open and will now become the museum's main home. Even better, it's offering a bunch of free events this summer. The museum hosts a Guitar ...

Almost every public space on the Upper West Side will be jam-packed with musicians on Tuesday (the first official day of summer), as the Make Music New York festival comes back for its fifth year. It's part of a global festival celebrating music and the beginning of summer. Our neighborhood ...