SOUL AT HOME - HARLEM WEEK CLOSING CONCERT | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
8:00 PM20:00

SOUL AT HOME - HARLEM WEEK CLOSING CONCERT | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

Get ready for all your classic jams from some of your favorite 70s soul acts, live in concert!

Soul at Home features the history and the music of The Dramatics, The Stylistics, and The Blue Notes. See them perform all their classic soul jams. This closing concert for HARLEM WEEK and the Harlem Music Festival is also a fundraiser for the “Support Harlem Now” campaign, providing services for Harlem’s senior citizens, food banks, the homeless, arts & cultural not-for-profits, local small businesses, and families.

Get in on the fun and party for a purpose! Virtual tickets - $7.99 A fundraiser to “Support Harlem Now”

NOTE: Unlike our other events, Soul at Home will not be available for view on our website after it ends.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
1:00 PM13:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Today is an afternoon affair featuring DJ Stormin’ Norman’s Sundae Sermon, which seeks to soulfully support and strengthen diverse communities through music, dancing, family recreational activities, and social awareness.

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HARLEM DAY | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
23
1:00 PM13:00

HARLEM DAY | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

HARLEM DAY is how HARLEM WEEK began in 1974. It is now the culminating event of the HARLEM WEEK Festival and our biggest day! For decades, HARLEM DAY has seen international recording artists, actors, sports figures and leaders take the stage.

This year, HARLEM DAY features The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s presentation of “Chamber Music of the Harlem Renaissance” by-era composers Duke Ellington and Harold T. Burleigh.  Clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Gloria Chien perform Ellington's “Clarinet Lament” (arranged by David Schiff). Violinist Chad Hoopes and pianist and Co-Artistic Director Wu Han perform Burleigh's “Southland Sketches.”

Full list of appearances and performances:

  • Alvin Ailey Dance Company

  • The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

  • Harlem Music Festival All Star Band featuring Ray Chew with Special Guests

  • Jazzmobile - Great Jazz on the Great Hill featuring Alyson Williams and the Georgie Gee Orchestra

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Children's Corner
Aug
23
10:00 AM10:00

Children's Corner

Parents and educators have your children join us each morning for Children’s Corner.

Today in the Children’s Corner:  Lincoln Center presents Daily Rituals Workshop with Lisa Green and Ivory Nuñez-Medrano plus Lincoln Center Concert For Kids presents "Nobuntu."

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Apollo Teen Takeover: Dear Future… | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
22
1:00 PM13:00

Apollo Teen Takeover: Dear Future… | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

Apollo Teen Takeover is annually produced by the Apollo Young Producers, a collective of alumni from the Apollo Theater Academy who create and develop events to connect young artists to the Apollo Theater and provide a creative space for collaboration. Young voices have a great impact on the world and they often lead the charge in changing it for the better. Dear Future... is a celebration of youth voice and vision via art, song, and dance as we work to realize a greater future, together.

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Jazzmobile Presents: T.K. Blue @ Home | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
21
8:00 PM20:00

Jazzmobile Presents: T.K. Blue @ Home | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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Talib Kibwe, or “T.K. Blue”, is the official full-time professor and director of jazz studies at Long Island University-LIU-Post. He was part of an historic photo session in Paris, France called "A Great Day in Paris", which featured close to sixty musicians from the U.S. who resided there. He has toured in eastern, western, and northern Africa. This concert features T.K. Blue in full performance from home.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
21
5:00 PM17:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Courtesy of 107.5 WBLS-FM, today’s featured DJ is one of the founding fathers of Hip Hop music and culture, Harlem’s very own Kool DJ Red Alert ("YeeeAAAAaaaaaah!")

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Aug
21
4:00 PM16:00

Lincoln Center presents the premiere of audio excerpts from "The Black Clown" | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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In celebration of HARLEM WEEK, renowned opera singer Davóne Tines leads a special audio excerpt fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals. The Black Clown animates one man’s resilience against America’s legacy of oppression and brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning music-theater piece created by Davóne Tines, Michael Schachter, and Zack Winokur.

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Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s "Abyssinian Mass" | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
20
7:30 PM19:30

Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s "Abyssinian Mass" | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

In 2008, nine-time GRAMMY Award winner Wynton Marsalis was commissioned to write a piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church. The result was a sacred celebration: a sweeping composition for a big band and a 70-piece gospel choir.  See a part of The Abyssinian Mass featuring The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and the Chorale Le Chateau, conducted by Damien Sneed.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
20
5:00 PM17:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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This year during HARLEM WEEK, we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Today’s featured DJ is Harlem native master mixer, DJ Tall Guy.

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Jazzmobile presents: Marc Carey Harlem Jam Sessions @ Minton's Playhouse | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
19
8:30 PM20:30

Jazzmobile presents: Marc Carey Harlem Jam Sessions @ Minton's Playhouse | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

By way of pedigree and design, Marc Cary stands apart as one of New York’s best jazz pianists. The player-composer and improviser graduated from the renowned Duke Ellington School For The Arts, the professional spawning ground for Dave Chappelle, Wallace Roney, Denyce Graves, and Meshell Ndegeocello, whom Cary jammed within the school's orchestra. He continues to jam regularly and you have the opportunity to watch one of his jam sessions from Harlem’s legendary Minton’s Playhouse.

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Broadway’s Behind the Scenes Jobs and Careers - A Discussion | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
19
12:00 PM12:00

Broadway’s Behind the Scenes Jobs and Careers - A Discussion | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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This will be a virtual discussion to share career opportunities on Broadway, particularly for people of color, in an effort to provide more diversity on the Great White Way. This discussion will be led by leadership in this field covering topics including company managers, house management, advertising, digital marketing, scene design, and public relations. Participants include Charles Flateman, VP of Shubert Organization; Stephanie Mills, Actress and recording star; Irene Gandy, Broadway Press Agent; Julio Peterson, VP of Real Estate, Shubert Organization; David Calhoun, Former ATPAM President; Kim Shaw, Company Manager; Aaylitha Stevens, COO Spotco; Neil Mazzella, President/Founder, Hudson Scenic Studio; Jim Glaub, President, Super Awesome Friends; Damian Bazadona, President, Situation Interactive Marketing; Jim Joseph, House Manager, and Donna Walker Kuhne, Founder, Walker Communications Group.

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Jazzmobile Presents "Happy Birthday Pops!" with The Jimmy Owens Quartet @ The Louis Armstrong House Museum | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
18
8:30 PM20:30

Jazzmobile Presents "Happy Birthday Pops!" with The Jimmy Owens Quartet @ The Louis Armstrong House Museum | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

In previous years, this concert was part of an all-day Jazzmobile Block Party celebrating the life of Louis “Pops” Armstrong. This year, the concert was recorded in the garden at the former home of Louis and Lucille Armstrong and includes a tour of Louis’ den.  Paying musical tribute to Pops’ legacy is NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens and his Quartet.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
18
8:30 AM08:30

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Today’s featured DJ is one of the pioneers of Hip Hop: DJ Hollywood.

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Nat Adderly Jr. & Allyson Williams Salute to Phyllis Hyman | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
18
8:00 AM08:00

Nat Adderly Jr. & Allyson Williams Salute to Phyllis Hyman | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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Hitmaker Nat Adderley Jr. wrote &/or arranged Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross, Natalie Cole, Johnny Gill, and numerous other greats. The chart-topping Alyson Williams is an immensely talented artist who can sing classic soul ballads, jazz standards and Broadway show-tunes with the greatest of ease. In celebration of HARLEM WEEK and the Harlem Music Festival, Nat and Alyson come together to perform a special tribute to the late, great Phyllis Hyman. 

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
18
8:00 AM08:00

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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Shake up your mid-week happy hour and hit the virtual dance floor with the Apollo Music Café’s very own DJ Hard Hittin’ Harry as he spins your favorite mix of house, hip-hop, and R&B.  The Apollo Theater’s Apollo Music Café series showcases independent and emerging artists across a myriad of genres.

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HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party |  A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event
Aug
18
7:30 AM07:30

HARLEM WEEK At Home Dance Party | A Harlem Music Festival HARLEM WEEK event

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This year during HARLEM WEEK we won’t be “Dancing In the Street…” But we can have an even bigger party every evening! Join us for the HARLEM WEEK at Home Dance Party featuring DJs spinning a broad spectrum of music that has one thing in common: to make you want to dance! Today’s featured DJ is a celebrity DJ and founder of Black Girls ROCK! DJ Beverly Bond (Courtesy NJPAC).

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