Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is continuing its free digital series SummerStage Anywhere.
SummerStage Anywhere schedule for week of September 19th – 26th
Saturday, September 19th
SummerStage Anywhere For The Love of DANCE, A National Dance Day Celebration (SummerStage Instagram) Seven diverse dance companies from around the country have contributed excerpts of their works, which will air every hour on the hour from 11:00AM ET – 8:00PM ET on SummerStage’s Instagram Live channel. The day will kick off with the presentation of the official National Dance Day routine with choreography by Shannon Mather and featuring dance trio MDC 3, presented by American Dance Movement (ADM), co-founded by Nigel Lythgoe and Adam Shankman. The final hour, beginning at 8:00PM ET and streaming on SummerStage Instagram, SummerStage YouTube, Facebook page and Twitch channels, will feature video messages from special guest dance notables, a re-stream of the original dance film “Lift Every Voice”, four/four presents “TETHERED”, featuring music by Jon Batiste and film premieres by Arielle Rosales of Soles of Duende, followed by four/four presents, “TETHERED VIII, A Love Letter to New York,” co-curated and produced by guest presenters. The day of programming is meant to be a message of hope and solidarity with the dance community, not only of New York, but across the country and the world.
Tuesday, September 22nd
SummerStage Anywhere with Amazon Music Series (Amazon Music Twitch) at 7:00PM ET: Performances from PJ Morton and The Revival Featuring Cory Henry, TaRon Lockett & Isaiah Sharkey. PJ Morton is an American Grammy winning musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and one of the keyboardists for the pop rock band Maroon 5. Morton’s 2017 breakout release Gumbo garnered a pair of GRAMMY nominations, debuted in the Top 10 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, racked up more than 15 million streams on Spotify alone and was hailed by NPR as one of the year’s most noteworthy R&B albums. Cory Henry is an American R&B/Soul singer-songwriter, pianist, organist, and music producer. Being a former member of Snarky Puppy, Cory launched his solo artist career with Art of Love, his first independent release. Cory was selected by Quincy Jones to headline his curated “Soundtrack of America” series opening of The Shed in NYC. Cory now tours and records with his band Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles. He will be joined by drummer TaRon Lockett, who has previously toured with musical legends such as Prince, Erykah Badu, and Snoop Dogg and guitarist Isaiah Sharkey, who has worked, recorded, and toured with several world-renown and Grammy award winning winning artists including John Mayer, Patti Labelle, Chris Martin, Paul Simon, Boyz II Men and many others.
Wednesday, September 23rd
SummerStage Anywhere Encore Performance (SummerStage YouTube, SummerStage Facebook, SummerStage Instagram) at 7:00PM ET presents special encore performances from Rafa Pabon, Gabylonia and Jay Wheeler. Rafa Pabón is a Puerto Rican musician known for his urbano songs. In June 2020, he released the protest song and music video, “Sin Aire (Without Air),” in response to the killing of George Floyd and Eric Garner, police brutality and racial inequality in the United States. Gabylonia, born in Caracas, Venezuela, was introduced to hip-hop by her younger brother “Chiky” at an early age. What started off as a hobby grew to much more when Gabylonia joined group Escuadron X in 1999. After some time with the group, she decided to go solo and in 2014 was invited to participate in Hip Hop al Parque, the biggest Hip Hop en Espanol Festival in Latin America. That same year, Gabylonia was nominated for a Latin Grammy for her collaboration with the legendary Rock en Espanol group Jarabe de Palo for the song “Somos”. Hailing from Guayamo, Puerto Rico, Jay Wheeler is an emerging artist who, in the span of five years, has positioned himself as one of the new romantic voices in reggaeton.
