Arts & Culture

Today: Celebrate Summer With Free Outdoor Concerts In Ditmas Park

Carly Miller

Jun 21, 2016 — 2 min read

June 21st is the longest day of the year, and New York City is celebrating with a full day of free outdoor concerts scattered around the neighborhood.

From 10am to 10pm today, Make Music New York will host over 1,200 concerts on the streets, sidewalks, stoops, plazas, and parks across the five boroughs—with plenty of options for rock, folk, jazz, choral, latin, soul, kids, and R&B right here in Ditmas Park and Flatbush.

Check out the pop-up map to find every concert, and this full list of today’s performances in the neighborhood:

Flatbush Food Co-op, 1415 Cortelyou Rd

3:30PM – 4:15PM	Gibraltar Jazz Rock, R&B, Jazz
5:30PM – 6:00PM	Luck & Senses Singer/Songwriter, Indie-Rock, Indie-Folk
6:30PM – 7:00PM	Noni Rene Indie-Rock, Funk, Blues

PS139 Cortelyou Rd Playground, 330 Rugby Road

2:00PM – 3:00PM

PS139 4th Grade Band
Standards, Kids, Folk

P.S. 217 Stage, 1100 Newkirk Avenue

11:00AM – 2:30PM	P.S. 217 Music Groups Kids, Choral
2:30PM – 4:00PM	The P.S. 217 House Band Kids
4:00PM – 5:00PM	Jennifer Richman Folk, Indie-Folk, Singer/Songwriter
5:00PM – 6:00PM	Misery Loves Company Country, Folk, Rock
6:00PM – 7:00PM	Benjamin Cartel Rock

J Boogies / Zeqway FlatBush push 4 Unity, 9 Snyder Avenue

10:15AM – 11:00AM	ROM-EL Hip-Hop, Reggae, World
1:00PM – 1:30PM	BluSoul Hip-Hop, Reggae, Soul
5:00PM – 5:30PM	VIIK Electronic, Hip-Hop, Reggae
5:30PM – 5:45PM	Street Corporate Records Rock, R&B, Hip-Hop
5:45PM – 6:00PM	Aisling Peartree & Shalom Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop

Flatbush Caton Market, 814 Flatbush Avenue

6:00PM – 6:30PM	Popular DJ Electronic
6:30PM – 6:45PM	Amor “Lilman” Young Hip-Hop
6:45PM – 7:00PM	St. Gregory the Great Academy Choir Choral
7:00PM – 7:30PM	El Conjunto Original Latin
7:30PM – 7:45PM	Janelia Young “Sassy Diva” R&B
7:45PM – 8:00PM	Open Mic Other
8:00PM – 8:30PM	El Conjunto Original Latin
8:30PM – 9:00PM	Popular DJ with Sing-along songs

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