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music
Eliza Neals to Perform at Long Branch Jazz & Blues Festival (LONG BRANCH, NJ) -- Rising modern blues powerhouse vocalist/keyboardist Eliza Neals brings her high-octane live show to the Long Branch Jazz & Blues Festival, Long Branch Great Lawn & Promenade (10 Ocean Avenue) on Saturday, August 26, 2023 at 6:15pm. The event is free for all
Perkins Center for the Arts Announces New Friday Night House Concert Lineup (MOORESTOWN, NJ) -- Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown will build on its 30-year-old house concert tradition with a new series of acoustic performances featuring folk, roots music, and jazz with an international flavor. Perkins House Concerts kick off on September 15 and will run on the second Friday of each month through April 2024. Selected events will feature a pre-concert Community Discussion, an opportunity to meet the musicians and learn more about their music.
Don McLean and Al Stewart LIVE! at Ocean City Music Pier It's a sold-out house this Monday, August 7, 2023 at Ocean City, NJ's Ocean City Music Pier for a concert by American singer/songwriter Don McLean and Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart.
MPAC presents 98 Degrees (MORRISTOWN, NJ) -- Popular 1990s boy band 98° will perform their hits at Mayo Performing Arts Center on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at 7:30pm. Tickets range from $79-$129
comedy
NJPAC presents Mexican Comedian Carlos Ballarta (NEWARK, NJ) -- New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents Carlos Ballarta, star comedian from Mexico who has taken the stand-up world by storm with his dark humor will perform in Spanish on Saturday, January 13, 2024 at 7:00pm. Ballarta has been featured on Comedy Central, and recently released his Netflix special titled, Furia Ñera..
art
Montclair Art Museum Presents Four New Exhibitions Opening this Fall (MONTCLAIR, NJ) -- The Montclair Art Museum (MAM) has announced four new, visually inspiring exhibitions opening this September and November: Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale; Siona Benjamin: Lilith in the New World; Inspired by the Weight of an Object–A Partnership with Studio Montclair; and Joel Meyerowitz: Photographs from Cape Cod (1976-1987).
West Windsor Arts presents Ode to New Jersey Art Show (PRINCETON JUNCTION, NJ) -- The Ode to New Jersey Art Show at West Windsor Arts celebrates the unique connections that artists have to the dynamic and ever changing state of New Jersey. The exhibition will run from August 29th to October 28th, with a free opening reception on Friday, September 8th from 7:00pm-8:30pm at West Windsor Arts.
community
Center for Jewish Farming Colony Receives $100,000 Mellon Foundation Grant Steven Marcus, right, the coordinator of Stockton’s Holocaust and Genocide Dual Credit program, talks to students from Egg Harbor Township High School during a field trip to the Alliance Colony Cemetery in Pittsgrove Township, Salem County. The group also toured a Holocaust memorial at the cemetery site. Photo credit: Stockton University
IDEA Center for the Arts Awarded Significant Grant from Independence Public Media to Highlight More Positive News in the City of Camden (CAMDEN, NJ) -- IDEA Center for the Arts in downtown Camden has received a major grant from the Independence Public Media Foundation to develop an integrated, robust media communications program – podcasts, radio broadcasts, and zines – of positive news affecting the Camden community. The program will also teach youth journalistic and production skills for careers in the Creative Economy.
Ramapo College’s Berrie Center Launches Rebrand "Arch Performances" (MAHWAH, NJ) -- For 24 seasons, Ramapo College of New Jersey has been bringing outstanding guest artists to perform at the Berrie Center for the Arts on the Ramapo College campus. As the Berrie Center Performances' team looks to the future in anticipation of their silver anniversary, they are thrilled to announce their new brand Arch Performances!
