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Fort Tryon Park: Words & Music Acoustic Jam at the Flagpole

Want to express your creative flow in a cool outdoor setting? Bring your words and music to an acoustic jam session to celebrate the arrival of summer. While the sun sets over the Hudson River and the Palisades, sing, play, and dance to your heart’s content. This 12th annual event coordinates with Make Music Day and is part of the NOMAA 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll.

Enter at 190th street and Margaret Corbin circle. Walk around the circle and stroll past Heather Gardens. Go up the stairs to the Linden Terrace Flagpole area.

Fort Washington Green Community Garden: Plein Air Art Evening in the Garden

Plein Air Art Evening in the Garden

Fort Washington Collegiate Church

Join your friends and neighbors at the Fort Washington Green Community Garden for an evening of plein air painting in the garden. This green space has been lovingly cared for and boasts a variety of flowers, fruits, and veggies that will inspire you artistically. Bring your paints, pencils, crayons, and other art supplies, and the garden will provide light refreshments to fuel your creative endeavors. The garden is open until dusk. We will draw inside the atrium using still-life flowers and plants if the weather is inclement.

HVG Lounge: ThEMA Ensemble performs clarinet trios by Beethoven and Brahms

Returning to The Lounge at HVG by popular demand, Hudson View Gardens Performing Arts Group presents the ThEMA Ensemble on Sunday, June 22 at 5 pm. ThEMA features HVG’s own Evelyne Luest on piano, cellist Angela Lee, and clarinetist Nikki Pet as guest performer. The program includes trios by Beethoven and Brahms.

HVG Lounge – High Noon and Blue Notes: Jazz Meets the American Western

High Noon and Blue Notes: Jazz Meets the American Western

Hilary Gardner and the Lonesome Pines album “On the Trail” explores a rarely heard segment of the American Songbook – the Hollywood Western. Hailed as “something new and wondrous” by The Wall Street Journal, the album was named a top 10 jazz album of 2024 by the London Times and received a 2025 Western Heritage Award. New York City musicians Gardner, guitarist Justin Poindexter, and accordionist Sasha Papernik will lead a concert of these songs and share stories about the immigrant voices that shaped this unique subgenre. With Aaron Thurnston (percussion), and Jesse Brenehey (bass).