Summer in Newark Explodes With Free Music
The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) will again present its annual “Horizon Sounds of the City” FREE concert series at Chambers Plaza right outside the NJPAC building. For further information, visit https://www.njpac.org/series/horizon-sounds-of-the-city/.
The Summer
June 25
Felix Hernandez’s Rhythm Revue Dance Party
June26
DJ Wallah with Special Guest Nice & Smooth
July 9
“A Tribute To Mtume” will feature R’n’B Hall of Famer Kenny Lattimore, Hoboken diva Lisa Fischer and Mtume lead singer Tawatha Agee, all under the direction of Ray Chew. Singer-Songwriter-Activist James Mtume started the band that bore his name in 1973 after playing percussion in one of the bands of Miles Davis. When the band broke up 22 years later, he produced Mary J. Blige, Stephanie Mills, Phyllis Hyman, Lou Rawls and The Spinners. He died in his South Orange home in 2022 at 76.
July 16
The Afro-Pop, Hiphop and Electronic Dance Music DJ known as Spinall is from Nigeria.
July 23
Rapper-Composer-Producer Kurtis Blow, 66, a Founding Father of Hiphop, had the first gold rap single, “The Breaks,” in 1980.
July 30
Afro-Cuban band Cimafunk laces its Proud Blackness with kinetic salsa. Opening will be Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars with its funky Creole-Calypso New Orleans soul.