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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2026?
28 free events take place on Thursday, September 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out September 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of September . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2026?
28 free events take place on Thursday, September 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out September 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of September . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
28 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 10, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Workshop | Learn to Juggle in the Park
This juggling class is ideal for a quick lesson, an extended practice session, or just enjoy watching jugglers put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons.
All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | I Met My Love Again (1938): Classic Romantic Drama with Henry Fonda
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt, and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship. Directors: Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley, George Cukor Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda Henry Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. On screen and stage, he often portrayed characters that embodied an everyman image. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Fonda won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which co-starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda. He was too ill to attend the ceremony and died from heart disease five months later.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Relaxing & Educational Fishing on the Hudson (Equipment Provided, All Ages)
At this Hudson River catch-and-release event, make a fish wish--you might just get a bite! Over 200 species of fish are found in the Hudson Rive. Anglers ages 5 and up are invited to participate at this program, with parental supervision required. The organizer team provides all the necessary equipment and an on-site fishing tutorial. Participation is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Beginners and experts alike are encouraged to join for a relaxing and educational experience at the water's edge.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Feather, Fin, and Fur: 400 Years of Japanese Animal Prints
This exhibition traces the animal kingdom through more than four centuries of Japanese woodblock printmaking. It moves from intimate ukiyo-e studies of birds, flowers, and fish to the expressive animals of Shin Hanga, Sosaku Hanga, and contemporary woodblock printmaking. Works by Koryusai, Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Koson (Shoson), Goyo Hashiguchi, Koshiro Onchi, Kiyoshi Saito, Tomoo Inagaki, and Daniel Kelly reveal the range of natural subjects within the Japanese print tradition. The exhibition begins with kacho-e, literally "pictures of flowers and birds," a subject with deep roots in East Asian art and a particularly rich history within Japanese painting, poetry, and printmaking. In the hands of ukiyo-e artists, closely observed plants and birds became vehicles for seasonal association, poetic exchange, and technical display. Feather, Fin and Fur takes this tradition as its point of departure while expanding beyond it to include fish, cats, rabbits, and other creatures represented with tenderness, wit, drama, and abstraction.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Talk | Discussions, Panel Conversations, & Artistic Presentations Celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate
An evening of conversations, performances, and international perspectives celebrating e Elfriede Jelinek on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from Austria, Japan, Poland, and the United States, the program explores the role of theater as a space for democratic dialogue, artistic resistance, and feminist intervention. This "Jelinek Day" examines Elfriede Jelinek's enduring relevance in today's global debates on democracy, gender, and the performing arts. Centered on the theme Theater & Democracy, the event highlights how contemporary theater can challenge authoritarian and patriarchal structures while creating new forms of artistic and political engagement. The evening features keynote discussions, panel conversations, and artistic presentations exploring Jelinek's work in dialogue with international theater practices. Additional sessions examine gender and democracy on stage, women shaping democratic structures through performance, and the relationship between comedy and subversion in contemporary theater.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Birdwatching | Evening Birding with NYC Audubon
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season, with guided tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. The park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow!
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Full-Body Fitness Class in the Park (All-Levels Welcome)
An outdoor workout in the park for building strength, balance, and community. This full-body fitness class is designed to energize your week, boost your mood, and build community in the heart of Lower Manhattan. Every movement can be modified, making it perfect for beginners, returning exercisers, and parents looking to reset after school drop-off.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Workshop | Jump into Double Dutch with the Pros
Learn the fundamentals of street-style and competitive jump rope with the Double Dutch Aunties.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | A Vivid Blur: Multi-Artist Exhibition Meditating on Light
This event features an exhibition of work by twelve artists who treat light simultaneously as medium and subject. Artists include Beca Acosta, Angelina Almukhametova, Hence Bollinger, Lena Daly, Jacques Desbiens, Kate Hush, Dani Kaes, Kacie Lees, Louise Lessél, Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero), Paul Simon (MFA 2019 Photography, Video and Related Media), and Celeste Voce.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Annunciation: Solo Exhibition from MoMA-Featured Artist
An exhibition of new work by Hanna Hur. For Hur, who defines her practice of painting as “an act of submission” the Annunciation is much more than a metaphor. As she describes her methodical process, the repetition of artistic gestures serves less to fill the canvas with a predetermined design than to invite—and receive—the appearance of an image from outside herself. —Daniel J. Marcus
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Blue: Solo Exhibtion Focusing on the Mutable Form of the Cloud
This exhibition features Blue, which brings together a new body of work spanning three distinct series. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between traditional landscape and portraiture. Throughout the exhibition, painting emerges not simply as a mode of representation, but as an ongoing process of looking, discovering, and becoming. The act of observation—central to Kim's practice—first led her to capture the elusive, ever-changing nature of the human face. It is through this same perpetual attention, and through the lens of portraiture, that she also approaches landscape, focusing on the mutable form of the cloud.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Hanging Out: Solo Exhibition Embracing the Key as a Motif
New work by Nate Lowman (b. 1979). The exhibition debuts a body of shaped canvases that take the form of keys–objects freighted with associations of access, security, and exclusion–a new motif for the artist. Lowman has frequently employed universally recognizable shaped canvases including hearts, tree-shaped air fresheners, poppies, and maps, among others, each produced in iterations with distinct painted surfaces. His key paintings extend this vocabulary, ranging from tightly rendered replicas to more schematic, nearly abstract forms. Some reproduce dissonant photographic imagery taken by the artist; others appropriate the bright, patterned novelty finishes available at hardware stores to distinguish one key from another; whereas another work, a silkscreen diptych, represents two keys yet to be cut into their final shape. The paintings recall distinct art-historical registers—from hard-edged geometric abstraction to loose, gestural markmaking, to the flattened logic of the readymade—each employing a different painterly language on the same recurring form.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | jpegs ny: Solo Photograph Exhibition Commemorating 9/11
A group of photographs by Thomas Ruff. Featuring images from jpegs ny, a subset of the artist’s larger jpegs series, the twelve works on view are derived from images of the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks, this exhibition was conceived by the artist as a commemoration of that day.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING: SOlo Sculpture Exhibition Embracing Vivid Color & Sensuous, Organic Surfaces
An exhibition of sculptures by Lynda Benglis. Alongside glazed ceramic, bronze, pleated, and paper works created by Benglis between 1972 and 2024, the presentation will also spotlight rarely exhibited glass sculptures from 1985. Since the late 1960s, Benglis has developed her lively, flowing forms across a wide range of materials—from beeswax, latex, and polyurethane foam to later innovations with plaster, gold, vaporized metals, glass, ceramics, and paper. Emerging amid the rise of Postminimalism, she set herself apart from her contemporaries with an enthusiastic embrace of vivid color and sensuous, organic surfaces. She has continuously pushed the boundaries of painting and sculpture over the course of her career, engaging in a radical investigation of sensorial perception. KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING will feature a robust range of sculptures created by Benglis over more than five decades, illuminating her use of diverse methods and materials.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Film | Letty Lynton (1932): Classic Romantic Drama Starring Joan Crawford
A glamorous New York socialite begins a shipboard romance with a wealthy man, but is blackmailed by a former lover, with devastating consequences. Director: Clarence Brown Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Nils Asther, Lewis Stone, May Robson Joan Crawford was an American actress, who, during the 1920s into the 30s, was one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest-paid women in the U.S.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Lo grabado de lo vivido (What is etched from what has been lived): Solo Monorpint Exhibition Exploring Land, Labor, & Identity
An exhibition of new works by Gamaliel Rodríguez. Conjuring vibrant images of his native Puerto Rico and the wider Caribbean, Rodríguez's new monoprints revisit themes central to his practice while exploring the expansive possibilities of printmaking at a new scale. Rendered across sweeping surfaces exceeding four feet, the works transform landscapes of the artist's homeland into meditations on the contested relationship between nature and the built environment. Rodríguez’s new body of work confronts the enduring tension between nature and industry across the postcolonial Caribbean and American landscapes. Rodríguez's electric chroma palette recalls the idyllic imagery of vintage travel postcards and tourist advertisements while subtly unsettling those familiar scenes. While appearing to be tropical scenes, the works on view are actually rooted in specific sites that register the climate implications of commercialized industrialization, including the Milwaukee War Museum, the ethanol power plant in Medina, New York, and the Cataño distillery in Puerto Rico. By anchoring the works in real destinations of commerce, production, and power, the artist renders the traceable weight of colonial history embedded in the landscape. Power appears both literally, through electrical infrastructure and industrial sites, and metaphorically through the systems that continue to shape land, labor, and identity across the Caribbean.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
Free
Opening Reception | Pastels: Solo Exhibition of Scenes from an Allegorical Universe
A showing of new works on paper by London-based artist Sara Anstis. For Pastels, Anstis expands an allegorical universe informed by the visual languages of mythology, folklore, and art history. Realized at a small scale, the nearly thirty works on view encourage close looking while contrasting with the expanse of the gallery architecture. Anstis works in soft, delicate pastels, retaining an intimate sense of touch that charges her scenes with introspective intensity. In Pastels, Anstis draws from a deepened engagement with art history. Architecture and interiors assume a more pronounced role, contrasting with Anstis' archetypal landscapes, and her compositional structures recall sources ranging from medieval traditions and the proto-Renaissance period to the Early Netherlandish masters.Themes of motherhood surface across the exhibition – treated with the same tenderness and strangeness that characterize Anstis' broader vision of daily life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Silent Night: Solo Exhibition from Award-Winning Landscape Painter
An exhibition by Scott Kahn focusing on the artist’s singular landscapes—a genre that is central to his practice. The exhibition will bring together a significant group of new and recent paintings alongside works spanning the previous twenty-five years that explore Kahn’s most enduring motifs. Over more than five decades, Kahn has maintained a commitment to a representational mode of expression, using a distinctive formal language to achieve a nuanced and poetic rendition of the simultaneous splendor and mundanity of the world around him. Rooted in his everyday life and experiences, Kahn’s enigmatic landscapes blend real and surreal elements. Many read as near facsimiles of lived experience shot through with electric color or ghostly shadows: billowing clouds that seem to come alive, ominous moonscapes, bare trees electrified by unexpected hues, and picture windows that open onto worlds both known and unknown. Seasons turn and day recedes into night, change often sweeping across a single canvas.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Opening Reception | Clocks: Solo Exhibition from Met-Featured Artist
New works on paper by London-based artist Pablo Bronstein. Clocks features a suite of imagined antique mantel clocks complete with allegorical elements, deepening Bronstein’s longstanding fascination with the history of aesthetics and bourgeois material culture. Extending as far as 6 feet wide, each work on view comprises an imaginary model for a clock. Drawing from vintage pattern books from his personal collection, Bronstein combines design elements from various styles and movements, creating original compositions that resist historical categorization. He draws inspiration from the mantel clocks that filled family homes across 18th-century Europe, filled with allegorical motifs and today recognized as material projections of human imagination. Bronstein presents these at large scale, as if to magnify designs ready to be manufactured. The works are united by this fixed format, inviting the suggestion that the elements could be swapped in limitless variations.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Dancing | Evening of Dancing in the Park: Swing & Salsa (In Person AND Online!)
Lindy hop and jitterbug followed by Latin jazz and salsa. On the upper terrace: 6pm-6:25pm: Swing dance lesson 6:25pm-6:50pm: Salsa dance lesson Live performances: 7pm-7:55pm: George Gee Swing Orchestra 8:10pm-9pm: Alfredo de la Fé All Star Band
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Literary Fiction Novel Book Launch
Michaela is the story of the Murphys, who meet on a playground in Upper Manhattan, court at Coney Island, and bring four children into the world. It’s a great life until catastrophe strikes, and the surviving Murphy kids find church, family and one another inadequate for coming to terms with the loss.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Muay Thai Lessons: Hands-On Instruction To Improve Your Fitness
This summer, learn the fundamentals of Thai Boxing and kickboxing with Patrick Stout; starting with: stance, footwork, then moving on to offense, defense, and techniques. This is a great opportunity to receive hands-on instruction and hone your craft. Whether you’re looking to learn the fundamentals, improve your fitness, or challenge yourself with something new, the instructors will guide you every step of the way. Expect a dynamic mix of drills, conditioning, and technique. No experience is required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
Free
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Workshop | Evening Yoga on the Water: Relax, Stretch, & Reset
Unwind and find your balance along the waterfront with Chelsea Piers Fitness. This class is the perfect place to relax, stretch out and reset. A great fit for any fitness level.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
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Poetry Reading | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Shares His Poetry (+ Live Music & Dancing)
Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon. This salon will feature a reading by poet Forrest Gander accompanied by dancers Zelda and Georgia B. Smith. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Gander's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Gander will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari. The author of twenty books of his own and as many books of translations, Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert. He has degrees in geology and literature. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, Gander has been a signal voice for environmental poetics.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
Free
Free
Dancing | Sunset Salsa on the Pier
Get ready to dance the night away! Sunset Salsa returns for summer rhythm, hosted by acclaimed dancer and choreographer Talia Castro-Pozo, hailed by Latina Magazine as "The Woman of Salsa." Each evening begins with a beginner-friendly salsa lesson and a vibrant open dance party under the setting sun. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious first-timer, all are welcome to join this joyful, high-energy celebration of Latin dance. 6:30 PM: Beginner Lessons 7:15 PM: Open Dance
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Concert | An Evening of Live Folk Music
Performed by Jo Kroger.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
Free
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Dance Performance | Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! -- Dance Meditation on Loss from 2X Tony Winning Choreographer
The world premiere of a new work from National Medal of the Arts and Kennedy Center Honoree, Bill T. Jones, a show that was originally scheduled to premiere on September 12, 2001 on the plaza of the Twin Towers. This new work, with original music from composer Samora Pinderhughes, commemorates the 25th anniversary of that suspended moment—and all that has unfolded since. Jones, in collaboration with Pinderhughes, forge an intergenerational bridge as both artists search within themselves and their respective creative interests to meditate on loss, and their distinct responses to the 25-year aftermath of 9/11 and other cataclysms spiralling into our era of loss of freedom, speech, movement, and justice. Featuring performances from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and live musicians, Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! brings dance back to Lower Manhattan, shaped by resilience and the passage of time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
Free
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Jazz | Cross-Cultural Trio Brings Transatlantic Narrative to the Stage
Canadian bandleader and instrumentalist George Crotty has carved out a unique niche in the contemporary music world by reimagining the role of the cello in modern music. Crotty's vibrant compositions expand the instrument's boundaries to encompass moody jazz, ecstatic Hindustani ragas, and emotionally charged Arabic maqam. Crotty's Trio (GC3), featuring John Murchison on bass and Jeremy Smith on percussion, recently released their fourth album, 2025's Heart Music. The new LP is an accessible, cinematic, and daringly transatlantic narrative that foregrounds the combo's clever cross-cultural interplay while emphasizing groove, melody, and texture over bombast. For this set, the GC3 will introduce New York audiences to the innovative sound that All About Jazz calls "a stream of genre-blurring invention." There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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