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Crash Course Karaoke (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Please note, the performance was moved indoors due to extreme heat. Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with a rocking live-band karaoke group and a stellar list of popular songs spanning musical genres and eras. During this family-friendly, 90-minute event, audience members can sign up to sing a song, either individually or as
Diverse Concert Artists: This Is America (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Diverse Concert Artists are committed to changing the face of classical and crossover music through diversity. Featuring works of American classical composers and pop artists, this exceptional group draws inspiration from American folk, culture, and landscape. They have collaborated with major artists including Beyonce, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Mark Ronson, Solange, Tony Bennett, and Bebe
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival: Julius Caesar
Important update: The show must go on! Despite the dire weather forecast for Saturday night, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival amphitheater performance of Julius Caesar WILL take place. However, it will be moved indoors to our Middle Level galleries, and “curtain” is at 8pm. You may take your seat starting at 7:30pm. Please be aware
Firey String Sistas! (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
This highly intuitive and energetic ensemble pushes the limits of string, ensemble playing, and improvisation. Their compelling performance incorporates aspects of women’s culture, original compositions, American songbook standards, world music, and jazz. Firey String Sistas! will also feature selections from their latest album, That’s What She Said. Food and beverages will be available for purchase
Tango Night (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Latin Grammy Award–winning bassist and composer Pedro Giraudo is among the most compelling tango artists today. After two decades performing with the most important interpreters of tango, Giraudo debuted his own Tango Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing in 2015 and since then has become an active cultural ambassador of this passionate music of
Benjamin Levy: Magic & Mind Reading (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Benjamin Levy is a unique, multi-talented magician, memory expert, and speaker, who is the favorite of CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and who has performed for the likes of President Obama and Muhammad Ali. His programs are memorable, entertaining, audience involving, highly personalized, sophisticated, and filled with humor and charm. Food and beverages will be
Big Mamou (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
Big Mamou was formed in what could be described as a cosmic Cajun and country collision, when married couple Jim and Julianne Fenhagen met accordion player John Sherman. Their sound is a mashup of Cajun, zydeco, and country music. Food and beverages will be available for purchase in the Museum Shop until 7pm while supplies
FJK Dance (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
A contemporary dance company, founded by Fadi J. Khoury and Sevin Ceviker, FJK Dance is dedicated to presenting a unique fusion of genres—modern, jazz, classical ballet and traditional folkloric—in a language that expresses our fundamental, shared capacity to create. FJK will be performing an exciting jazz program—which was presented to great acclaim in China and
Kaira & Friends (2019 Summer Amphitheater Series)
This New-York based musician and power band will perform a concert inspired by the evolution of music in African American culture from gospel and jazz to R&B and hip hop, with a special tribute Ella Fitzgerald, who grew up in Yonkers. Kaira and Friends will be joined by members of a number of Hudson Valley
Take a Poem, Leave a Poem
Visitors are invited to write a poem of any kind to add to our collective wall of poems. Then, they can take a poem from the wall to keep or pass along to a friend or loved one. So far, we’ve seen poems about love, ice cream, and birthdays. What will you add?