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How do you celebrate the holidays? How did they celebrate back in 1891? Enjoy this 30-minute virtual look inside The Newark Museum of Art’s Ballantine House, an urban mansion in downtown Newark, NJ. Discover how the Ballantine Family’s home might have come to life during the winter months. This program will be available on Zoom and live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch.

Your first drink is on us! Get ready for laughs, prizes, and cocktails in our decked-out Winter Garden. DJ Poison Ivy brings the beats, Harmonica Sunbeam hosts four outrageous rounds of bingo, and stand-up comedian Mike Burton will be bringing down the house with his latest routine. Local vendors Urban GLO, Pure Joie Jewelry, Seme Body Butter, Spicegrove, Fern & Fossil, FLOW Brand, and GT Artland, will be on-site to satisfy all your holiday shopping needs! Drinks by All Points West, Newark Local Beer, & Black Swan Espresso. Throughout the evening, be part of the creation of Newark’s Harriet Tubman Monument by decorating ceramic tiles with your stories of freedom and liberation. The tiles will later be fired and integrated into the final design of the monument.

Simona Smirnova presents Bird Language on Thursday, January 13, 2022 at 7pm at Chelsea Table + Stage, 152 W. 26th Street, NYC. Tickets begin at $32 and can be purchased online at chelseatableandstage.venuetix.com. Bird Language is a mesmerizing evening of music inspired by nature. Enjoy drinks, dining, and elegant ambiance with Simona's genre-bending blend of Baltic folklore, jazz, and pop. Featuring ethereal Lithuanian ethnic biter (kanklės), breathtaking vocals, and mimicked bird sounds, Simona's original compositions are joined by virtuosic jazz improvisations from her bandmates: Caili O'Doherty on piano, M. Ch. on drums, Maksim Perepelica on upright bass, and New York rising saxophone star Berta Moreno. Bird Language is the perfect fusion of the theatrical, musical, and aesthetic.  "Smirnova's music has a timeless aspect while able to reference a wide range of modes of expression; and her own voice, too, has that otherworldly quality." - Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine About the Artist Simona Smirnova is a Lithuanian-born jazz vocalist, composer and kanklės player based in New York City. She is an ambassador of Baltic folklore in the United States, while presenting a unique ethnic instrument through modern styles and a highly entertaining act called "Bird Language". Simona is a fixture in the New York live scene with her quartet when she's not touring the world, including Australia, New Zealand and Europe. Smirnova's genre-bending style has a unique theatrical flavor and uncanny vocal improvisation techniques. She deftly implements chamber music, Lithuanian zither – kanklės and folkloric chants into foundations of jazz and rock. Smirnova's latest album, Joan of Arc, for String Quartet, is an original composition written as a soundtrack for the classic Carl Dreyer silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928). The album is a cinematic landscape of chamber pop, jazz and folklore. Simona's third album "Bird Language" will be released in early April of 2022. Classically trained on Lithuanian zither – kanklės, Smirnova earned her BA in jazz vocals at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Shortly after receiving the European Touring Scholarship, she moved to the United States to study at Berklee College of Music where she earned a degree in Contemporary Composition and Production. Simona is a full-time musician and composer and an active member of New York City's cultural life, she is a composer member of New York Composer Circle and a voting member of The Grammy Recording Academy.

Blippi The Musical brings the energetic and loveable character Blippi off the screen and onto the stage with world-class production, audience engagement and amazing music. Children across the world have quickly taken to Blippi’s charismatic personality and innovative teaching lessons. In the live show they will continue to learn about the world around them while singing and dancing along with this one-of-a-kind show

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Jeremy Denk, piano, playing Bach on Saturday, December 4, 2021 at 8pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/jeremy-denk. MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Jeremy Denk is heralded for artistry that combines pianistic mastery with probing intellect. He returns to our stage perform a work that has become a personal passion, Bach's ingenious collection of preludes and fugues in all 24 keys, Book I of his Well-Tempered Clavier. Denk is acclaimed for the color, sensitivity, wit and splendor of his Bach performances and for his related lectures including "Think Like Bach," and there is simply no artist better poised to bring new revelations to this monumental work. The program includes: Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more. A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: ANA VIDOVIC, guitar  Sunday, December 5, 2021, 3 PM   Bach: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (trans. Despalj) Sor: Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9 Castelnuevo-Tedesco: Capriccio Diabolico, Op. 85 "Omaggio a Paganini" Albéniz: Granada Albéniz: Asturias Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra Barrios: La Catedral Scarlatti: selected sonatas Leo Brouwer: Un Dia de Noviembre Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  RANDALL GOOSBY, violin  ZHU WANG, piano   Thu, December 9, 2021, 7:30 PM Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454  Price: Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor  Price: Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor  Price: Adoration   Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major  THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org. 

Register to get your streaming pass and join us for Jackson Room's live virtual performance! We are pushing through COVID-19 with an Ed Jackson Quartet Live Stream concert from the Jackson Room venue in Queens, NY on Saturday, November 27th. There will be 2 shows, 7:00 pm EST and 8:30 pm EST. Ed will have his full band, including Yayoi Ikawa on Piano, Marcus Mclaurine on Bass, Sam Martinelli on drums, and Ed Jackson on Saxophone. Each show will be sold seperately. Once you register, you will receive a link to the live virtual performance on the day of the event.

Grammy nominee Mariza (“Meu Fado Meu”), the modern voice of fado, brought these beloved, traditional Portuguese songs from Lisbon’s Mouraria neighborhood to stages across the globe. “(Mariza) remakes fado’s ancient sadness into a majestic modern sound” (Rolling Stone magazine). With her rich, vibrant voice and strong artistic personality, Mariza has performed fado at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Walt Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Sydney’s Opera House, and at both the World Cup and the Olympics. She’s performed with musical partners ranging from Gilberto Gil to Lenny Kravitz and Sting. Mariza has released seven studio albums, devoted to both pure fado and a blend of these traditional tunes with jazz, flamenco and African music. Her latest, Mariza, dropped in 2018, and immediately became a chart-topper in Portugal. Upon the new album’s release, she embarked on a world tour to celebrate her 20th anniversary as a recording artist, and fado’s ambassador to the world. A Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, Mariza has been honored by both the Amália Rodrigues Foundation and the French government, which awarded her the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres.

Come watch Maceo Parker at Blue Note NYC! Shows at 8 PM & 10:30 PM each night

In December, Jazz Power Initiative (JPI) welcomes jazz clarinetist Evan Christopher and trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso in performance, with Eli Yamin and the Jazz Power Band, for a “Jazz Power Holiday Celebration” on Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 2pm. Presented at The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, our INTERGENERATIONAL JAZZ POWER JAM series continues live in-person on Sunday, December 12, 2021. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, audience attendance at the museum is very limited; for more information, please contact us at: info@jazzpower.org. Our December Intergenerational Jazz will also premiere online for virtual audiences on Sunday, December 19, 2021 at 2pm. Sign up to tune in through Facebook and YouTube at: jazzpower.org/powerjam2021. Produced by Jazz Power Initiative, a Northern Manhattan community arts non-profit organization for jazz music education and performance, our December Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam showcases the extraordinary improvisational wizardry of our featured artists, clarinetist Evan Christopher and trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso, with the Jazz Power Band, hosted by Eli Yamin. For our audiences of all ages: Help us showcase your Holiday at December’s Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam! Dancer, musicians, singers, and poets are invited to participate in our jam by submitting a video from 10 seconds, to up to 3 minutes here: https://forms.gle/aDbUVs5EFpUpS7jC9 This month’s theme: A JAZZ HOLIDAY CELEBRATION “The 30-year collaboration of clarinetist Evan Christopher and trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso is one for the record books. Filled with “jazz joy” and shared inspiration, our featured artists embody a perfect musical celebration for the holiday season!” notes Eli Yamin, JPI’s co-founder and Managing and Artistic Director.

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York's leading cultural venues, presents Randall Goosby, violin, and Zhu Wang, piano, playing Mozart, Franck, and Price on Thursday, December 9, 2021 at 7:30pm ET as part of its fall classical music season, its first fully in-person season since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Tickets for both the in-person and livestream options are $20-$45 and are available at 92y.org/event/randall-goosby-and-zhu-wang. The stunning talents of 24-year-old Sphinx Competition-winning violinist Goosby were first discovered by Itzhak Perlman, with whom Goosby studied at Juilliard, and chronicled recently in a major feature in The New York Times. His playing is sumptuously in the Perlman vein — an incredibly rich and lush tone, and tremendous color, depth and expressivity. Goosby's musical partner is the tremendously talented Young Concert Artist-winning pianist Zhu Wang, who makes his solo Carnegie Hall debut later this year. Their program features a Mozart sonata perfect for showcasing their artistry; three gorgeous, melodic works of Florence Price, arguably the first major female African American composer; and Franck's A-Major Sonata — filled with sheer Romantic excess in the finest sense, bravura passages and beautiful interplay, and a fabulous showpiece for both violinist and pianist. The program includes: Mozart, Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K 454 Price, Fantasy No. 1 in G Minor Price, Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp Minor Price, Adoration Franck, Violin Sonata in A Major Comprising 14 concerts performed in 92Y's historic Kaufmann Concert Hall, the fall season includes two appearances by world-renowned pianist Richard Goode; an all-Rossini program from tenors Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres; the first performance by The Knights as 92Y's inaugural Ensemble in Residence; the 92Y debuts of rising star violinist Randall Goosby, intrepid cellist Seth Parker Woods, and the Grammy Award-nominated Aizuri Quartet; guitarist Ana Vidovic; MacArthur "Genius" Award winner and pianist Jeremy Denk, and others, performing a diverse group of repertoire which includes works of Eleanor Alberga, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Boulogne, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jessie Montgomery, César Franck, Florence Price, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and more.  A full list of performances and dates are listed below. Concerts are for fully vaccinated audiences. For more information, including purchasing tickets and COVID-19 protocols for in-person performances, please visit 92Y.org/Concerts. The Marshall Weinberg Fall 2021 Classical Music Season continues with: THE KNIGHTS ERIC JACOBSEN, conductor COLIN JACOBSEN, violin Saturday, December 11, 2021, 8 PM Jessie Montgomery: Records from a Vanishing City Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 "Unfinished" Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Gottschalk: Symphony No. 2 "À Montevideo"  Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN, piano  Sunday, December 12, 2021, 3 PM   C.P.E. Bach: Suite in E Minor, Wq. 6/12   G. Catoire: Quatre Morceaux, Op. 12   Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106 "Hammerklavier"   Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  CONRAD TAO, piano  Saturday, December 18, 2021, 8 PM   Conrad Tao: Improvisation John Adams: China Gates Jason Eckardt: Antennaria plantaginifolia, "Pussytoes," (from A Compendium of Catskill Native Botanicals, Book 2) J.S. Bach: Wenn wir in höchsten Nöten sein, BWV 641 Conrad Tao: Grids of E Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15 Fred Hersch: Pastorale (Dedicated to Robert Schumann) Conrad Tao: Premiere of KEYED IN  Beethoven: Piano Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Concert also available via livestream and available for 72 hours from time of broadcast.  About 92nd Street Y:  The 92nd Street Y (92Y) is a world-class center for the arts and innovation, a convener of ideas, and an incubator for creativity. 92Y offers extensive classes, courses and events online including live concerts, talks and master classes; fitness classes for all ages; 250+ art classes, and parenting workshops for new moms and dads. The 92nd Street Y is transforming the way people share ideas and translate them into action all over the world. All of 92Y's programming is built on a foundation of Jewish values, including the capacity of civil dialogue to change minds; the potential of education and the arts to change lives; and a commitment to welcoming and serving people of all ages, races, religions, and ethnicities. For more information, visit www.92Y.org.