Enjoy Music Outdoors At Green-Wood’s Annual Memorial Day Celebration

The lovely annual Memorial Day concert at Green-Wood Cemetery is a great way to spend the holiday — you’re in a beautiful setting, on what is looking like will be a nice day, listening to great music:

The concert features the ISO Symphonic Band, founded in 1995 to sponsor talented students throughout New York City and led by ISO’s inimitable founder and conductor Brian P. Worsdale. Each year we feature the works of Green-Wood’s permanent residents Fred Ebb, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Leonard Bernstein, and many others.

People generally bring blankets or folding lawn chairs to sit on, and they will have food and drink for sale. The concert is on Memorial Day, Monday, May 27 at 2:30pm, and it’s free (though you can make a donation to help keep the concerts free in the future).

Following the concert, Green-Wood Historian Jeff Richman will lead a special trolley tour (tickets are $5 for Historic Fund members, $10 for non-members), and they may sell out, so grab them while you can!

Photo via Green-Wood Cemetery