Central Park SummerStage
Tickets Information, Directions
& Schedule
Usually June thru August each year
Rumsey Playfield | Central Park
Just south of the 72nd Street transverse |
Enter Central Park at either 72nd Street & 5th Avenue (best) or
72nd Street and Central Park West and walk across
to 68th Street & Lexington Avenue | Best Bet!
    to
72nd Street & Broadway
to 72nd Street & Central Park West
Info 212-360-2777 | Central
Park Summerstage
Admission Mostly
free | Benefit concerts $37 to $60
Phone Ticketmaster 212-307-7171
Music, dance, opera. Rock and roll
oldies, modern salsa, syncopating jazz, riffin' blues. Classic
songs, classic stars, new rhythms, shooting stars. Central park
afternoons and evenings. New York. Summer. Mostly free. Can't be
beat Schedule
June 2006
Friday June 16th
7:00P Charlie Hunter, Bobby Previte, Elliott Sharpr, Matthew
Shipp, Nils Petter Molvaer, Sex Mob FREE
Saturday June 17th 4:00P Rhett Miller, Teddy Thompson,
Ollabelle FREE
Sunday June 18th 3:00P Takfarinas, Chris Berry & Panjea,
Turntables on the Hudson FREE
Friday June 23rd 7:00P The Refugee All Stars from Sierra
Leone FREE
Saturday June 24th 3:00P Club Shelter's 15th Anniversary
Dance Party DONATION $15
Sunday June 25th 3:00P Feist, Buck 65, Jason Collett FREE
Wednesday June 28th 7:00P Bonnie Raitt, Keb' Mo TICKETS
$55
Thursday June 29th 7:00P Audra McDonald, Liz McComb FREE
Friday June 30th 7:30p Joan Didion FREE
July 2006
Saturday July 1st 3:00P Antibalas, Balkan Beat Box, Ska
Cubano FREE
Sunday July 2nd 3:00P Seu Jorge, Jose
Gonzalez, Alex Cuba Band, DJ Cut Chemist FREE
Friday July 7th 8:00P Noche Flamenca, Roxanne Butterfly's
Worldbeats FREE Saturday 8th 3:00P Hakim,
The Lion of Egypt, Karina Pasian FREE
Sunday July 9th 1:30P Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats, Dirty Sock
Funtime Band, Baby Loves Disco FREE Thursday
July 13th 7:00P Ani DiFranco TICKETS $36
Friday July 14th 8:00P Stephen Petronio Company, The Young
People's Chorus of New York FREE Saturday
July 15th 3:00P The Family Stand, Black Merda, Fugi, Sharrif
Simmons FREE Sunday July 16th 3:00P
Amadou & Mariam, Daby Toure, Birdy Nam Nam FREE
Wednesday July 19th 7:30P UCB Theatre in the Park with Paul
Scheer, Rob Heubel, Aziz Ansari, Todd Barry, Jackie Clarke, David
Cross, Demitri Martin, Amy Pohler FREE
Thursday July 20th 6:00P Umphrey's McGee, Galactic TICKETS
$30 to $35 Saturday July 22nd 7:00P Cheb i
Sabbah, Riffat Sultana FREE Sunday July
23rd 3:00P Maldita Vecindad, Konono No 1, Daara J FREE
Wednesday July 26th 7:00P Fiona Apple, Damien Rice TICKETS
$50 Friday July 28th 7:00P Edie Brickell & the
New Bohemians, Sonya Kitchell DONATION $15
Saturday July 29th 3:00P Goapele, Alice Smith, The Ladies of
Ubiquita FREE Sunday July 30th 3:00P
Lady Sovereign, Pete Rock, Jean Grae, DJ Rekha FREE
August 2006 Wednesday August
2nd 7:30P An Iliad FREE Thursday August
3rd 6:00P Calexico, The Frames TICKETS $30 to $35
Friday August 4th 8:00P Limon Dance Company FREE
Saturday August 3rd 3:00P Gustavo Cerati, Calle 13, Mexican
Institute of Sound FREE Sunday August 6th
7:00P Brazilian Film Festival This is Bossa Nova, Lenine
FREE Monday August 7th 7:00P Film From
Mambo to Hip Hop, DJ Charlie Chase, Orlando Marin FREE
Friday August 11th 8:00P Urban Bush Women, Creative Outlet Dance
Theatre of Brooklyn FREE Saturday August 12th
3:00P The Wild Magnolia Mardi Gras Indians with Big Chief Bo
Dollis, Irma Thomas, The Hot 8 Brass Band DONATION $30
Sunday August 13th 3:00P Talvin Singh, Asha Puthli, Dewey Redman,
Guru, Solar & DJ Doo Wop, Prefuse 73, Outernational, DJ Spooky
FREE |
