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Commemorate and celebrate the cultural legends of Newark at a community screening by Celeste Bateman and Associates, Rutgers University-Newark, Woman In Media-Newark, Celeste Bateman & Associates, LLC Present Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy and Loss of Newarks Cultural Icons. There will be two screen times 11am and 1:30pm RSVP via the Event Brite link provided below.

Jazz guitarist David Stern brings a drummerless trio featuring Luis Perdomo on piano and Dominic Duval on bass to the restaurant Pangea in East Village. Two sets starting at 7:30, no cover charge, and great food/drinks. http://www.pangeanyc.com/show/front-lounge-david-stern-trio-730pm-no-cover/ https://davidsternjazz.com/ https://www.instagram.com/davidsternjazz/

Hand to Hand is propelled by 2 giant puppet hands, each the size of a house and rigged like a sailing ship, and music that blows the roof off. The Squonkers, dwarfed by the hands, climb a multi-tiered stage. Music rises from a single finger flicking an organ key, as natural an expression of humanity as a wave or a fist. Squonk’s original progressive rock drives a journey that is spectacular, plaintive, and comic. In this melee, the giant thumbs detach to become truly opposable and challenge each other with guitars.

Join us as Jazz On Sloan presents Jazz Across the Generations performance by the Baker Street Trio with special guest Saxophonist Alex Desrivieres (@alleycatsax). Please join us for this special event featuring a few very special, very young musicians who swing like professionals at the South Orange Gazebo.. You have to see and hear this.

Wil B. and Kev Marcus started out covering hip-hop songs on their violins and soon realized they had something that audiences had never heard before. Their unique blend of classical, hip hop, jazz, R&B and reggae is often described as ''classical boom." Black Violin has collaborated with a diverse group of artists including Kanye West, Tom Petty, Alicia Keys, Aerosmith and Wu-Tang Clan.

In continued appreciation of community support, we invite our friends and neighbors to a free outdoor summer concert series to kick off our music program at The Lodge at St. Edward State Park. Please join us for our new live music series Jazz in the Park. Wednesday, September 1, 2021 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Thomas Marriott Quintet The concert is open to the community and free to attend. Seating is first come, first served on the north lawn of The Lodge - bring your own blankets or low-backed chairs. Families are welcome and encouraged! Food and drink will be offered for purchase at The Tonsorium Bar inside The Lodge at St. Edward.

If you haven’t heard of The New Jersey String Quartet before, you are not alone! Formed last Summer by four strings players in the New York Philharmonic that all live in New Jersey, this quartet, much like the Lot of Strings Music Festival, is one of the musical gifts forged through necessity of the pandemic. Hear these master musicians play a selection of great works in their first ever live public performance! Rain date, Wednesday, September 22, 2021.

On November 11, the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Foundation, in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, will host New Jersey’s official Veterans Day Ceremony at the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial located in Holmdel, New Jersey. The ceremony will take place outside and is open to all. Masks are encouraged, but not required at the Memorial. The Vietnam Era Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Indoor capacity is limited to ensure guest safety. While reservations are not required to visit the Museum, guests will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Masks are required inside the Museum regardless of vaccination status.

The Montclair Orchestra is excited to come to the Morris Museum with a new twist on percussion! Montclair Orchestra student Fellows and professional Mentors make up part of the New York Percussion Group, an ensemble of freelance musicians in the New York metropolitan area. In this unique and engaging program, The Montclair Orchestra will present a diverse range of works arranged especially for percussion ensemble, from classical pieces by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Bizet, to the rags and popular music of Joplin, Gershwin and George Hamilton Green. Rain date, Wednesday, August 4, 2021.

Explore the work of Salvador Dalí with a virtual visit to the Teatro-Museo Dalí, a jewel of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí in Figueres, Spain. Fiona Mata, Coordinator of the Centre for Dalinian Studies, guides us in this special tour. This Museum Crawl will be offered in English and some Spanish. This program will be available on Zoom and live on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Twitch.