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.
The Central Park Conservancy and Jazzmobile are turning summertime favorite Great Jazz on the Great Hill into a must-see house party. Turn up the volume, move the furniture, put on your dancing shoes, and enjoy our lineup of stellar musicians from home. Join world renowned singer and emcee Alyson Williams for this virtual event which includes a special introduction from Central Park Conservancy President, Elizabeth W. Smith and Jazzmobile Director and Executive Producer Robin Bell-Stevens and features this year’s artists starring in live performances recorded in Central Park.
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.
The Hamiltones have performed on the HARLEM WEEK stage in the past and come back this year to talk about their experience performing at HARLEM WEEK, What Harlem means to them and share a special virtual performance.
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!
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.
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!")
In celebration of Harlem Week, renowned opera singer Davóne Tines leads a special audio excerpt from The Black Clown, a music-theater piece adapted from Langston Hughes’s poem and created by Davóne Tines, Michael Schachter, and Zack Winokur.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Girl from the North Country,” featuring music written by Bob Dylan, was the last show to open on Broadway before all NYC theaters closed due to COVID-19. This exclusive performance features a song written by Bob Dylan while he lived in Harlem!
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.
Nat Adderley Jr. is an accomplished pianist, composer and arranger, best known for producing many of Luther Vandross hits. Jazzmobile presents the Nat Adderly Jr. Quartet in this special performance from Harlem’s famed Minton’s Playhouse.
Harlem’s own Tony Award-winning actress and 4-time GRAMMY-nominated international recording star, Melba Moore, performs her new song and shares her memories of HARLEM WEEK and her career as she celebrates 50 years in entertainment.
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 DJ S1, courtesy of WBLS-FM.
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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, we kick things off with an inspirational mix from DJ Rich from Sunday Praise with Liz Black heard on WBLS-FM.
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.