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SOUNDS OF THE CITY Concert Series
THURSDAY EVENINGS, JUNE 23 – AUGUST 25

GKT presents SONIC SUPERSTARS Dance Parties
WEDNESDAY EVENINGS, JULY 7 – JULY 28

NEWARK, NJ, June 23, 2011 – This summer, NJPAC is once again the place to be in downtown Newark on Wednesday and Thursday nights, hosting free music, dance and a hopping social scene. The Arts Center’s popular annual concert festival, Sounds of the City, brings the State’s hottest weekly music series, featuring Newark’s, New Jersey’s and the region’s best jazz, pop/rock, R&B and world music artists – with over 40 bands/artists and DJs, a vendor marketplace, and a multi-thousand-person party – Thursday evenings, June 23 through August 25, from 5pm – 10pm. And after becoming an instant hit last summer, NJPAC gets people’s feet – and the rest of their bodies – moving at GKT presents Sonic Superstars, a free Wednesday night dance party headlined by some of the world’s top DJs, running July 6 through July 27 from 5pm to 10pm. Each Sounds of the City concert will be streamed live at www.livestream.com/njpac. READ MORE »

NJPAC and GKT Presents Sonic Superstars A New DJ Concert Series on Wednesday Nights During July

NJPAC’S FREE SUMMER CONCERT SERIES, SOUNDS OF THE CITY, THURSDAY EVENINGS, JUNE 24 – AUGUST 26

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR TUESDAYS AT CALÇADA JULY 6 – JULY 27

NEWARK, NJ, June 30, 2010 – This summer, NJPAC is the place to be every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night. The Arts Center’s popular series, Sounds of the City, rocks Theater Square with FREE music, dancing, and a hopping social scene. The State’s hottest weekly music series, featuring Newark’s, New Jersey’s and the region’s best jazz, pop/rock, R&B and world music artists, includes over 30 bands, DJs, a vendor marketplace, and a multi-thousand-person party Thursday evenings, June 24 through August 27 (with one Wednesday, June 30), from 5:00 – 10:00 p.m. New this year, on Wednesdays in July, NJPAC turns up the heat with Sonic Superstars, a free DJ series headlined by some of the world’s top DJs. And on Tuesdays throughout the summer, NJPAC and WBGO 88.3 FM radio partner for Jazz Happy Hours in Calçada, Theater Square Grill’s outdoor, tented restaurant. READ MORE »

NJPAC Alternate Routes

NJPAC Alternate Routes Presents Toshi Reagon, Bernice Johnson Reagon and BIGLovely

NEWARK, N.J., March 17, 2010 – The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s Alternate Routes series teams up genre-bending singer-songwriter, Toshi Reagon, and her band, BIGLovely, with her mother, the composer/scholar/teacher and founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Johnson Reagon, for one night only, Saturday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. in the Victoria Theater. Tickets are $39 and are available by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org. All tickets can be purchased by telephone at 1-888-GO-NJPAC (1-888-466-5722), at the NJPAC Box Office at One Center Street in downtown Newark, or by visiting the NJPAC website at www.njpac.org. Alternate Routes is made possible, in part, by American Express, the Ford Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. For more information: www.njpac.org. READ MORE »

NJPAC Alternate Routes Series presents Hip Hop: Out, Loud & Proud and Newark Is Burning: Cakewalk to Catwalk

HIP HOP: OUT, LOUD & PROUD IV, April 9, 2010
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NEWARK IS BURNING: CAKEWALK TO CATWALK, April 10, 2010

Newark, NJ, March 17, 2010 – The New Jersey Performing Arts Center’s (NJPAC) Alternate Routes series brings to Newark a two-day GLBT festival, opening with the return of the annual audience-pleaser, Hip Hop: Out, Loud & Proud IV, a night of spoken word and hip hop focusing on sexuality and performed by artists of all sexual orientations, and Newark is Burning: Cakewalk to Catwalk, an homage to the gender-bending high energy performances and haute couture fashions from the gay “House Ballroom Scene.” READ MORE »