Bring a canned food donation to the City Harvest truck at Dante Park (63rd Street and Broadway) and support NYC's only food-rescue organization!
All evening throughout Lincoln Square enjoy the sounds and styles of the Hungry March Band, Chinese Lion Dances, Puppeteer's Cooperative and much more.
The Hungry March Band
Roaring out of Brooklyn comes the Hungry March Band, NYC's legendary street brass march band in the anarchic style that has become their trademark and a Winter's Eve staple.
Chinese Lion Dances
Alan Chow, the Director and founder of the Chinese American Arts Council, provides a “Lion Dance” team featuring a King, Queen and other costumed figures to perform throughout the Winter’s Eve evening. Lion Dances are used for most celebratory events in Chinese communities, and are especially appropriate for this winter holiday.
Puppeteers Cooperative
The Puppeteers Cooperative of Boston and New York, led by Sara Peattie, will present a 6-puppeteer pageant with figures for "walk-arounds." Puppeteers Cooperative is a group of artists and puppeteers working in cities around the nation to create giant puppet parades, pageants, and ceremonies, using simple materials and movements to build community cardboard extravaganzas.
Mariachi Real de Mexico
Founded in 1991 by New York City trumpet player Ramon Ponce, Sr. and his son Ramon Jr., Mariachi Real de Mexico keeps traditional Mariachi music alive.
Drumadics
Drumadics is a leading underground percussive ensemble. Driven by the raw power of buckets, the band’s clever fusion of traditional, contemporary and unorthodox drum styles with stirring brass accompaniment, delivers a distinct sound that is captivating audiences in New York and around the world.
The Mikerline Dance Troupe
Founded in 2002 in NY (as Banboche Lakay) by dancer & choreographer, Mikerline Pierre, this multicultural group of dancers and drummers takie Haitian Folklore to a new level. The troupe's goal is to be the ambassador of the Haitian culture, expressed in dances, music, and exciting choreography.
Raya Brass Band
Raya Brass Band is the newest fiery Balkan band to come out of the village of Brooklyn, NY. This mighty quintet of tuba, bass drum, accordion, trumpet and clarinet exuberantly delivers the swirling, dynamic music of northern Greece, the southern Balkans and the Romany people.
Student Showcase
From 5:30 - 7:30pm, TD Bank at 68th Street and Bradway, will host student Chamber groups from Kaufman Center's Lucy Moses and Special Music Schools.
Visit Samsung Experience on the third floor of Time Warner Center for a musical treat featuring some of New York City's most talented students, including La Guardia High School’s Show Choir (6:00 pm), Professional Children’s School Performers (6:30 pm) andYouth Pride Chorus presented by Big Apple Performing Arts and the LGBT Community Center (7:00 pm).
At the Professional Children's School, located just west of Columbus Avenue on 60th Street, student singers, dancers and instrumentalists will delight all with a Classical and Popular sampling. 7:00 pm
Ice Sculpture Designs!
Live ice sculpting and demonstrations in front of Time Warner Center and at Columbus Avenue and 65th St.
Holiday Singalongs
Don't miss the holiday singalongs by ASCAP at 1900 Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets and at the Church of St Paul the Apostle at Columbus Avenue and 60th Street.
O'Neals' Presents
At O'Neals' REDBAR, located at 50 W 65th Street just east of Broadway, Bill Wurtzel and Ed Laub will be on guitars. 7:30 - 9:30 pm
AcroYoga by Yogaworks
Inside Pottery Barn at Broadway and 67th Street, shoppers will be spellbound by AcroYoga performances by Yogaworks.
Enjoy free world-class musical performances, street festivities and more at great spaces throughout Lincoln Square! As you walk along the streets of the neighborhood, you will hear music resonating from the unique instruments and voices of a variety of talented performers as this Upper West Side neighborhood is transformed into a winter wonderland!
This year's line-up includes the following:
Neighborhood Tree Lighting Ceremony
Winter's Eve will kick off at 5:30pm with a neighborhood holiday tree lighting ceremony at Dante Park - Broadway at 63rd Street. Joy Behar, host of “The Joy Behar Show” on HLN and a featured co-host on ABC’s “The View," will light the 10th-anniversary tree. Join Joy, The Flaming Idiots, God's Generation Choir, Hungry March Band and others as we welcome the holiday season. Our 25 foot Balsam Fir is generously donated by McNulty Outdoors and installed by the City of New York Parks & Recreation Department. Decorations generously provided by Jane Jenni with the assistance of the American Folk Art Museum.Location: Dante Park - Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets
Time: 5:30pm
Photo courtesy of CNN
Antibalas
This year’s Winter’s Eve headliner is the highly celebrated Afrobeat orchestra Antibalas, whose arrangements, musical direction and performers are featured in the new Broadway show FELA! Initially using the revolutionary blueprint of afrobeat as a launching pad, the dozen-strong members of Antibalas weave a rich tapestry of Latin, jazz, classical, funk and soul into their horn-driven mix. Words fail to describe the result: simultaneously polyrhythmic and political, independent and contagious, are the reasons why many have credited the band with introducing afrobeat's framework to a new generation.Location: Winter's Eve Main Stage - 64th Street just east of Broadway
Time: 6:30pm and 7:45pm
FELA! on Broadway
Enter the extravagant, decadent, rebellious world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo-Kuti at FELA! - the new musical, produced by Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter and Will & Jada Pinkett Smith, on Broadway at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Critics are raving about this "Riveting, Surreal, Hip, Outstandingly Sensuous” (Associated Press) show based on the life and music of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti. Directed and choreographed by Tony® Award winner Bill T. Jones, with a book by Jim Lewis & Bill T. Jones, FELA! is a provocative hybrid of concert, dance and musical theatre and includes the musicians and arrangements of Antibalas.
For more information and to save on admission use code FE4NFP9 and visit: www.felaonbroadway.com/lsb.php.
God's Generation Choir
God's Generation, a non-denominational Youth and Adult Music Ministry choir, founded under the direction of Minister Junior Fountain in August of 1996, is dedicated to developing young people of all ages into positive and productive members of the community. Using music as a key instrument, God's Generation focuses on many youngsters and young adults, helping them to achieve their personal goals and aspirations even when circumstances often present obstacles. The choir has performed at the U.N. before such dignitaries as Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, and they have toured with Grammy-Award-winner Lyle Lovett. The choir is in its 13th year of music ministry.Location: Dante Park - Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets
Time: 5:30pm and 6:00pm
Harlem Samba
The Harlem Samba Brazilian percussion ensemble is a group of students and alumni from the Frederick Douglass Academy, a performing-arts public middle and high school in Harlem. Modeled after the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro, Harlem Samba performs the traditional rhythms of the Brazilian carnival. Its mission is to teach personal and academic discipline through the study of music. Many of the group’s college-bound members have traveled to Brazil as part of an exchange program with a Brazilian high school. Harlem Samba is directed by Dana Monteiro.Location: Richard Tucker Park - Broadway and 66th Street
Time: 6:00pm, 7:00pm and 8:00pm
The Flaming Idiots
The wise-cracking, whip-snapping Flaming Idiots join the Winter's Eve festivities with an outrageous onslaught of crackerjack juggling and zany shenanigans. Laugh out really loud as Gyro, Pyro and Walter help to light the neighborhood tree with awesome antics from their holiday engagement at The New Victory Theater - Chestnuts Roasting on The Flaming Idiots. Like trick candles on a cake, this three-man band is the holiday gift that keeps on giving, and giving and giving...Location: Dante Park - Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets
Time: 5:30pm and 6:45pm
Photo Michelle Bates
Ben Allison
Ben Allison is a "visionary composer, adventurous improviser, and strong organizational force on the New York City jazz scene, [and] has emerged as a rising star over the past decade" (JazzTimes). For the past decade Ben has toured extensively throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and Brazil with his groups Man Size Safe, Peace Pipe, and Medicine Wheel winning fans and building new audiences with an adventurous yet accessible sound and a flair for the unexpected.Location: American Folk Art Museum's Eva and Morris Feld Gallery - Columbus Avenue between 65th and 66th Streets
Time: 6:30pm (Songs from Think Free and Others) and 7:30pm (Special Neil Young Birthday Tribute)
Andy Akiho Foundry Percussion Trio
Andy Akiho is an award winning composer and performer with a broad range of interests that stretch from steel pan to western classical music. Akiho was recently featured as a composer on PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer and as a percussionist at Carnegie Hall in New York City. His compositions have been recognized by such organizations as Meet the Composer, Bang On a Can, The Syracuse Society for New Music, The World Steelband Music Festival and the 2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards.Location: Richard Tucker Park -
Broadway and 66th Street
Time: 6:30pm, 7:30pm and 8:30pm
New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet
In celebration of Winter's Eve, the Apple Store, Upper West Side welcomes the New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet for a special free performance. The New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet enjoys worldwide exposure and an international reputation. The Quintet — featuring Principal Trumpet Philip Smith, Associate Principal Trumpet Matthew Muckey, Principal Horn Philip Myers, Principal Trombone Joe Alessi, and Principal Tuba Alan Baer — has hosted an annual Holiday Concert at Lincoln Center since 1995, collaborating most frequently with the Canadian Brass. Other guests have included groups such as The German Brass and the Salvation Army’s New York Staff Band. The Principal Brass Quintet has become a regular encore feature on Philharmonic tours and residencies.Location: Apple Store, Upper West Side, Broadway and 67th Street
Time: 7:00pm
Marieann Meringolo
Marieann Meringolo is a native New Yorker and an award-winning vocalist. Her signature blend of stunning vocals and intense passion reinvents enchanting classics and masters original songs as timeless works of art. This beautiful blend of vocals, intense passion and sensitive soul, makes Mariea Meringolo a true find. New York Newsday critic John Anderson says…"The voice of Marieann Meringolo will woo you, win you and whisper in your ear." “I believe we are all here for a divine purpose; To share our gifts with the world,I feel very blessed to have the opportunity to do so.” – MarieannLocation: Barnes and Noble - 1972 Broadway at 66th Street
Time: 6:00pm
Rose Rutledge Trio presented by Jazz at Lincoln Center
Rose Rutledge is a New York based multi-instrumentalist, specializing in performance on flute, oboe, clarinet, and saxophones. Ms. Rutledge, originally from Seattle, first came to New York when she was in high school as a participant in Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Competition and Festival. Since then, she has performed with artists such as Chris Potter, The Cab Calloway Orchestra, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Daniels, The Seattle Symphony, Jimmy Owens, Ralph Lalama, and more! Rose currently resides in New York where she teaches and performs music. Most recently she appeared with her quintet at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola as part of the Diet Coke Women in Jazz festival.Location: Time Warner Center, 2nd Floor
Time: 7:30pm
Spiritus
Broadway, Gospel, Pop, Tight Harmony and Luscious! This exciting, innovative vocal ensemble celebrates the long-awaited release of their new CD, Imagine We Are One. Their unique and beautiful blend of ten magnificent voices shares an eclectic mix of songs that uplift and inspire. Members to include Toni Condos-Bennett, Steven Bogard, Rochelle Small Clifford, Antonio Edwards, Jeff Elsass, Pamm Hamilton, Marieann Meringolo, Zoe Lyons Nieves, Russ Williams and Britt Hall, director.Location: Barnes and Noble - 1972 Broadway at 66th Street
Time: 7:30pm
Alice Farley Dance Theater
The New York-based Alice Farley Dance Theater creates indoor and outdoor Theater of Gesture and Transformation performances. Their outdoor performance at Winter’s Eve will involve creating imaginary landscapes for public spaces, a dream life for architectural and natural environments. They describe themselves as “surrealist street theater.”Location: Broadway and 65th Street
Time: All Evening
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