Things To Do in NYC in August 2024 include New York City’s summer festivals. There are no U.S. national holidays in August, but the last two weeks are peak summer vacation time. Late summer weather tends to be hot and muggy with afternoon thunderstorms. The average temperature is 69° to 84°, so wear short sleeves and short pants when you can.
August is Black August, a celebration of all who fought for their freedom. It started as a memorial for two brothers who died in San Quentin State Prison in California, but a major inspiration is the start of the Haitian Revolution in August 1791. The beginning of the end of human slavery changed the world.
There are no U.S. national holidays in August, but the last two weeks of the month are a traditional holiday time. This year’s Labor Day Weekend starts on Friday, August 30.
Latin Things To Do in NYC in August 2024
- DANCE ~ BAAND Together Dance Festival ballet, modern, and contemporary (Jul 30 – Aug 3), Battery Dance Festival contemporary (Aug 11-17), Ballet Festival (Aug 13-18), Ballet Nepantla 🇲🇽 (Aug 16), Fall for Dance at City Center On Sale (Aug 25)
- DANCING ~ Central Park Tango 🇦🇷 (Aug 3, 10, 17, 24, 31), Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 🇵🇷 (Aug 4, 11, 18, 25), New York Salsa Week (Aug 24-29), New York International Salsa Congress (Aug 28 – Sep 1)
- FILM ~ Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema 🇲🇽 (Aug 1-8)
- FOOD ~ International Beer Day (Aug 7), National Potato Day (Aug 19)
- MUSIC ~ World Orchestra Week classical (Aug 1-7), Africa United Youth Orchestra classical 🇿🇦 (Aug 3), La Excelencia salsa 🇨🇴 (Aug 3), Plena Libre plena 🇵🇷 (Aug 3-4), Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra 🇨🇺 (Aug 4, 11, 18, 25), Pedrito Martinez rumba 🇨🇺 (Aug 22), Afropunk (Aug 23-24), New York City Opera 🇮🇹 (Aug 23-24), Charlie Parker Jazz Festival (Aug 23-25), Louis Hayes 🇺🇸 (Aug 25), Vibes with Voicey (Aug 29), SocaFest 🇹🇹 (Aug 30), Panorama 🇹🇹 (Aug 31), Los Temerarios 🇲🇽 (Aug 31)
- PARADES & STREET FAIRS ~ Summer Streets Manhattan (Aug 3), Harlem Week 🇺🇸 (Aug 3-18), Ecuadorian Parade 🇪🇨 (Aug 4), National Dominican Day Parade 🇩🇴 (Gala Aug 9, Parade Aug 11), Afribembé Festival 🇵🇷 🇭🇹 (Aug 11), India Day Parade 🇮🇳 (Aug 18), Afropunk 🇺🇸 (Aug 23-24), Summer Streets Bronx (Aug 24), Summer Streets Brooklyn (Aug 24), New York Carnival 🇹🇹 (Aug 29 – Sep 2), New York Junior Carnival Parade & Youth Fest 🇹🇹 (Aug 31)
- SPORTS ~ El Clásico Real Madrid CF vs FC Barcelona 🇪🇸 (Aug 3), Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 🇭🇰 (Aug 3-4) New York City Football Club, NYCFC (Aug 24), Gotham FC (Aug 24), US Open Tennis Grand Slam (Aug 25 – Sep8), New York Red Bulls (Aug 31)
- SUMMER FESTIVALS ~ Summer for the City 🇺🇸 (Jun 12 – Aug 10)
- THEATRE ~ NYC Broadway Week (On Sale Aug 13)
Latin Culture in August 2024
- BIRTHDAYS ~ Dolores del Rio (Aug 3 🇲🇽), Tony Bennett (Aug 3 🇮🇹), Louis Armstrong (Aug 4 🇺🇸), Roberto Clemente (Aug 18 🇵🇷), Graciella Grillo (Aug 23 🇨🇺), Leonard Bernstein (Aug 25 🇺🇸), Chadwick Boseman (Aug 28 🇺🇸), Arsenio Rodriguez (Aug 31 🇨🇺)
- FESTIVALS ~ Black August (August 🇺🇸), Emancipation Day (Aug 1), Pachamama (Aug 1 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨 🇵🇪), National Night Out (Aug 6 🇺🇸), Giglio Feast East Harlem (Aug 8 🇮🇹), Hip Hop Day (Aug 11 🇺🇸), Yewá (Aug 11 🇨🇺), World Steel Pan Day (Aug 11 🇹🇹), Assumption of Mary (Aug 15 🇮🇹), National Rum Day (Aug 16), National Potato Day (Aug 19 🇵🇪), Queenship of Mary (Aug 22 🇮🇹), UNESCO Remembrance of the Slave Trade (Aug 23 🇺🇳), Emmett Till Lynching (Aug 28 🇺🇸)
- NATIONAL DAYS ~ Bolivian Independence Day (Aug 6 🇧🇴), Jamaican Independence Day (Aug 6 🇯🇲), Battle of Boyacá (Aug 7 🇨🇴), Ecuadorian Independence Day (Aug 10), Indian Independence Day (Aug 15 🇮🇳), Dominican Restoration Day 🇩🇴 (Aug 16), 19th Amendment Women’s Vote 🇺🇸 (Aug 18), Haitian Revolution 🇭🇹 (Aug 21 🇪🇨), Uruguayan Independence Day (Aug 25 🇺🇾), “I Have a Dream” Speech (Aug 28 🇺🇸)
- MOTHER NATURE ~ Sturgeon Moon (Aug 19)
Things To Do in NYC August 1-4, 2024
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Italian History
Augustus Caesar renamed Sextilus, the sixth month in the old Roman calendar, as Augustus in honor of himself. 🇮🇹
African American Festival
Black August celebrates freedom fighters and political prisoners in a month that has many important dimensions in the African Diaspora. 🇺🇸
Caribbean Festival
Emancipation Day is a celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 that ended human slavery in most former British colonies on August 1, 1833. 🇧🇸 🇧🇿 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇲🇸 🇰🇳 🇱🇨 🇻🇨 🇹🇹 🇹🇨
Andean New Year
Pachamama is an Andean Inca new year celebration of Mother Earth. 🇵🇪 ~ 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇧🇴 🇪🇨
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Afghan, African, American, Chinese, European, Venezuelan Classical Music
World Orchestra Week 2024 is a celebration of international youth orchestras; at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; from August 1-7, 2024. 🇦🇫 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇬🇧 🇨🇳 🇨🇩 🇭🇺 🇰🇪 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇿🇦 🇺🇦 🇻🇪
American Classical Music
Teddy Abrams conducts the National Youth Orchestra 2 (NYO2), Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra for younger teens, in symphonic dances from Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story,” a Carnegie Hall commission World Premiere of “Kinsfolknem” by Jasmine Barnes, Tchaikovsky’s “Romeo and Juliet” Fantasy Overture, and the 1919 version of Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” suite; for World Orchestra Week, in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 7pm. From $15.50. carnegiehall.org 🇺🇸
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance Festival
BAAND Together Dance Festival 2024 brings five of New York City’s leading dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet; to dance ballet, modern, and contemporary; at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Thursday, August 1, 2024 at 7:30pm. Tickets on sale May 16, 2024 $35 or choose-what-you-pay as low as $5. It sells out immediately. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 2, 2024
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Venezuelan Classical Music
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the National Children’s Symphony of Venezuela in John Adams’ “Short Ride in a Fast Machine,” Antonio Estévez’ “Mediodía en el llano,” Four Dances from Ginastera’s “Estancia,” and Shostakovich’s “Symphony No. 5;” for World Orchestra Week in the Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 7pm. From $21. carnegiehall.org 🇻🇪 ~ 🇦🇷
La Excelencia, led by New York Colombian Julian Silva, plays New York salsa dura for dancing; for a Carnegie Hall Citywide Bryant Park Picnic Performance; at Bryant Park in Midtown, Manhattan; on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. 🇨🇴
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance Festival
BAAND Together Dance Festival 2024 brings five of New York City’s leading dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet; to dance ballet, modern, and contemporary; at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Friday, August 2, 2024 at 7:30pm. Tickets on sale May 16, 2024 $35 or choose-what-you-pay as low as $5. It sells out immediately. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Ecuadorian Gala
The Ecuadorian Parade of New York Gala is on Friday, August 2, 2024, from 8pm – 2am. 🇪🇨
Saturday, August 3, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Chinese Dragon Boat Racing
New York City’s Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 2024 is at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday-Sunday, August 3-4, 2024, from 9am – 5pm, rain or shine. FREE. 🇭🇰
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Ballet, Modern, Contemporary Dance Festival
BAAND Together Dance Festival 2024 brings five of New York City’s leading dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispánico, Dance Theatre of Harlem and New York City Ballet; to dance ballet, modern, and contemporary; at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center; on Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 4pm. Tickets on sale May 16, 2024 $35 or choose-what-you-pay as low as $5. It sells out immediately. 🇺🇸 🇨🇺 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇷
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Jamaican Reggae
Beres Hammond & Friends sing Jamaican reggae; at Coney Island Amphitheater on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn; on Saturday, August 3, 2024, with 6pm doors. FREE. 🇯🇲
African and African American Classical Music
The Africa United Youth Orchestra led by American conductor William Eddins, makes its North American debut with works by South African composers Michael Mosoeu Moerane, Mzilikazi Khumalo, and Bongani Ndodana-Breen, including arias sung by South African sopranos Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha and Goitsemang Lehobye, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” featuring members of the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America; at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 3, 2024, at 7pm. From $15.50. 🇺🇸 🇨🇩 🇰🇪 🇲🇿 🇳🇬 🇿🇦
Puerto Rican Plena
Plena Libre plays contemporary Puerto Rican plena from their new album “Cuatro Esquinas,” and remembers founder Gary Nunez (1952-2023); at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 7pm (6pm doors). From $25+fees. 🇵🇷
Spanish Soccer
El Clásico Real Madrid CF vs FC Barcelona, is Spanish soccer exhibition for the DIRECTV Soccer Champions Tour; at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey; on Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 7pm (5pm gates). From $191. 🇪🇸
Sunday, August 4, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Chinese Dragon Boat Racing
New York City’s Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival 2024 is at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday-Sunday, August 3-4, 2024, from 9am – 5pm, rain or shine. FREE. 🇭🇰
Ecuadorian Parade
The Ecuadorian Parade of New York is on Northern Blvd, from 69th St to 87th St in Jackson Heights, Queens; on Sunday, August 4, 2024, from 11:30am – 3:30pm. FREE. 🇪🇨
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Chinese Classical Music
The Beijing Youth Orchestra conducted by Lü Jia with Pipa soloist Wu Man, plays selections from “Chinese sights and sounds” by Bao Yuankai, the New York Premiere of Pipa Concert No. 2 by Zhao Jiping, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5; for World Orchestra Week in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 4pm. carnegiehall.org 🇨🇳
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Puerto Rican Plena
Plena Libre plays contemporary Puerto Rican plena from their new album “Cuatro Esquinas,” and remembers founder Gary Nunez (1952-2023); at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in NoHo, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 4, 2024 at 6pm (5:30pm doors). From $25+fees. 🇵🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC August 5-11, 2024
Battery Dance Festival Connects the World Through Dance (and it’s FREE) 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇱 🇳🇬 🇷🇴 🇰🇷 🇹🇼 🇻🇪
Monday, August 5, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Bolivian National Day
Bolivian Independence Day commemorates the signing of Bolivia’s Declaration of Independence from Spain, on August 6, 1825. 🇧🇴
Jamaican National Day
Jamaican Independence Day celebrates the transfer of sovereignty from Britain to Jamaica, on August 6, 1962. 🇯🇲
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
European Classical Music
The European Union Youth Orchestra, conducted by Iván Fischer with English piano soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason and guests from the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, play Anna Clyne’s “Masquerade,” Dihnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune, Op. 25, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 1; for World Orchestra Week in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Tuesday, August 6, 2024 at 7pm. From $15.50. carnegiehall.org 🇭🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇧
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Afghan Classical Music
The Afghan Youth Orchestra, led by Portuguese conductor Tiago Moreira da Silva with members of the European Union Youth Orchestra, plays works by William Harvey, Sarahang, Awalmir, and Abdul Wahab Madadi, plus arrangements by the conductor of works by Nainawaz, Brahms, Kodály, and popular artist Sediq Shabab.; in the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in Midtown, Manhattan; on Wednesday, August 7, 2024 at 7pm. From $15.50. carnegiehall.org 🇦🇫
Thursday, August 8, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Mexican Film Festival
Spectacle Every Day: Mexican Popular Cinema, a retrospective of Golden Age Mexican cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s; is at Film at Lincoln Center; through August 8, 2024. $19. 🇲🇽
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 9, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Dominican Parade Gala
The National Dominican Day Parade Gala fundraiser is Friday, August 9, 2024. It always sells out. (Location and time to be confirmed.) 🇩🇴
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Ecuadorian Independence Day
Ecuadorian Independence Day commemorates “El Dia del Primer Grito de Independencia de Quito,” the first cry for independence in the Ecuadorian capital Quito, on August 10, 1809. 🇪🇨
African American Jazz Outdoors
Harlem Week’s Great Jazz on the Great Hill brings jazz to the Great Hill in Central Park; on Saturday, August 10, 2024, from 4-7pm. This is a Jazzmobile picnic concert with live music for swing dancing. The nearest street entrance is on Central Park West at 106th St. FREE Google Maps
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, August 11, 2024
African American Street Festival
A Great Day in Harlem (Harlem Day) brings Harlem Week to the Ulysses S. Grant National Memorial in Riverside Park in Morningside Heights; on Sunday, August 11, 2024, from 12-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Dominican Parade
The 42nd National Dominican Day Parade 2024, marches up Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) from 38th St to 56th St on Sunday, August 11, 2024, starting at 12noon. (Route and time to be confirmed). 🇩🇴
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Pan-African Street Fair
The CCCADI Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute’s Afribembé Festival presents Something Positive Dance Troupe, Kongo-Haitian Roots Music, KR3TS, DJ Sabine Blaizin, and MC Felipe Luciano; as part of Harlem Week “A Great Day in Harlem” celebration at Grant’s Tomb in Morningside Heights, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 11, 2024, from 4:30-6:30pm. FREE. 🇵🇷
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC August 12-18, 2024
Joyce Ballet Festival Unites the Ballet World in the Hands of Calvin Royal III 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇦🇷 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇸🇳 🇰🇷 🇪🇸
Battery Dance Festival Connects the World Through Dance (and it’s FREE) 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇨🇦 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇫🇮 🇩🇪 🇮🇳 🇲🇽 🇳🇱 🇳🇬 🇷🇴 🇰🇷 🇹🇼 🇻🇪
Monday, August 12, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Broadway Week
NYC Broadway Week offers 2-for-1 tickets to 23 of the 27 shows on Broadway from September 3-15, 2024. Tickets go on sale on Tuesday, August 13, 2024. 🇺🇸 🇨🇱 🇫🇷 🇲🇽 🇵🇭 🇵🇷
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Italian Festival
The Assumption of Mary, on August 15, commemorates the Virgin Mary’s death. 🇮🇹
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 16, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Dominican Festival
It’s Dominican Restoration Day (El Día de la Restauración Dominicana) when “El Grito de Capotillo” launched the War of Dominican Restoration that finally led to Dominican independence on August 16, 1863. 🇩🇴
Mexican Contemporary Ballet Folklórico
Ballet Nepantla dances excerpts from “Nacimiento” a holiday production about the birth of the Mexican people from Indigenous and Spanish roots; “Matlachines” about Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of Mexico and multiracial people; and “Chinito Koy Koy” a traditional dance of the Yucatan; at the Battery Dance Festival at Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City; with six more dance companies; on Friday, August 16, 2024 at 7pm. FREE. 🇲🇽
Saturday, August 17, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Sunday, August 18, 2024
African American Street Festival
The 50th Harlem Week celebrates Black culture in and around Harlem, Manhattan; for two weeks from August 3-18, 2024. FREE. 🇺🇸
Indian Parade and Festival
New York City’s 2024 India Day Parade marches down Madison Avenue from 38th St to the reviewing stand on 28th St; on Sunday, August 18, 2024 at 12noon. It ends at the Indian culture street fair on Madison Avenue and 26th St which goes until 6pm. 🇮🇳
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC August 19-25, 2024
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition Must Never be Forgotten 🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇩🇰 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Monday, August 19, 2024
Mother Nature
The Sturgeon Moon is the August full moon.
Latin Food
National Potato Day is August 19. Potatoes were domesticated in southern Peru and northwestern Bolivia between 8,000 and 5,000 BCE, and possibly before. 🇵🇪 🇧🇴
Salsa Dance
Latin Mondays at Taj by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
The Haitian Revolution, one of the greatest humanitarian achievements of all time, began on August 22, 1791. 🇭🇹
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Catholic Festival
The Queenship of Mary recognizes the Virgin Mary as the Queen of Heaven, and thereby acknowledges the divinity of women. 🇮🇹
Cuban Rumba & Timba
Pedrito Martinez, the world’s first-call rumbero, plays Cuban rumba, timba, and jazz; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, August 22, 2024 at 8pm (7pm doors). From $30. 🇨🇺
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 23, 2024
African Diaspora Music Festival
Afropunk BLKTOPIA 2024, Brooklyn’s Alternative Black Arts festival, is headlined by Erykah Badu in a benefit for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Black cultural festival; at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; on Friday-Saturday, August 23-24, 2024, from 1-10pm. From $122. Hurry, this always sells out.
Italian Opera
New York City Opera celebrates Puccini’s 100th Anniversary with a full-length production of “Tosca,” in a Picnic Performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Friday-Saturday, August 23-24, 2024, at 7pm. FREE. 🇮🇹
African American Jazz
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival presents the Christian McBride Big Band and trumpeter Wallace Roney Jr. at Marcus Garvey Park SummerStage in Harlem, Manhattan; on Friday, August 23, 2024, from 7-9pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Saturday, August 24, 2024
African Diaspora Music Festival
Afropunk BLKTOPIA 2024, Brooklyn’s Alternative Black Arts festival, is headlined by Erykah Badu in a benefit for the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Black cultural festival; at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; on Friday-Saturday, August 23-24, 2024, from 1-10pm. From $122. Hurry, this always sells out.
National Women’s Soccer League
Gotham FC vs Portland Thorns FC is at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey (Newark); on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 2pm. From $15. 🇺🇸 🇧🇷 🇪🇸
African American Jazz
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival presents vocalist Carmen Lundy, pianist Helen Sung, saxophonist Isaiah Collier & the Chosen Few, 2023 Sarah Vaughn International Jazz Vocal winner Tyreek McDole, and DJ KulturedChild AKA Angelika Beener; at Marcus Garvey Park SummerStage in Harlem, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 3-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Italian Opera
New York City Opera celebrates Puccini’s 100th Anniversary with a full-length production of “Tosca,” in a Picnic Performance at Bryant Park in Manhattan’s Garment District; onSaturday, August 24, 2024, at 7pm. FREE. 🇮🇹
Major League Soccer
KIDS NIGHT
New York City Football Club vs Chicago Fire FC is Major League Soccer at Citi Field in Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens; on Saturday, August 24, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $29. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇷 🇵🇷 🇸🇱 🇺🇾
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week starts at the Salsamania Saturdays dance party at 224 West 35th St, 15th Floor, in Manhattan’s Garment District; on Saturday, August 24, 2024 from 8pm – 3am. From $20.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Uruguayan Independence Day
Uruguayan Independence Day commemorates the declaration of independence from Brazil, on August 25, 1825. 🇺🇾
International Dance Festival On Sale
The 21st Fall for Dance Festival 2024 brings the world of dance to New York City Center in Midtown, Manhattan. Tickets go on sale on Sunday, August 25, 2024 at 11am (it sells out in one day), for performances from September 18-29, 2024. $30. 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇪🇸
Salsa Dance Party Outdoors
Salsa Sundays at Orchard Beach 2024 is a casual outdoor salsa dance party in Parking Section 5 at Orchard Beach, The Bronx from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend, on Sundays from 12-5pm. The dancing is free, but you have to pay for parking. 🇵🇷
African American & Cameroonian Jazz
Charlie Parker Jazz Festival presents NEA Jazz Master drummer Louis Hayes, Superblue: Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter featuring the Huntertones (singer and guitarist), Cameroonian American vocalist Ekep Nkwelle, vocalist Alexis Lombre, and DJ KulturedChild AKA Angelika Beener; at Tompkins Square Park SummerStage; on Sunday, AUgust 25, 2024 from 3-7pm. FREE. 🇺🇸 🇨🇲
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues at the La Vieja Guardia 16th Anniversary dance party; at Stepping Out Studios in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan; on Sunday, August 25, 2024, from 6pm – 1am. From $35.
Tango Dance
Dance Argentine tango at the El Destino milonga at Solas bar in the East Village from 6-11pm. 🇦🇷
Latin Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra plays Latin jazz at Birdland in Hell’s Kitchen, on Sundays at 8:30pm & 10:30pm (7:30 & 10pm doors). From $36+ per person minimum. 🇨🇺
Things To Do in NYC August 26-31, 2024
New York Carnival Celebrates Freedom Trinidad and West Indian Style 🇹🇹 + 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🇰🇳 🇻🇨
West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day Celebrates Evolution as the Climax of New York Carnival 🇹🇹 🇭🇹 🇧🇧 🇩🇲 🇱🇨 🇯🇲 🇻🇨 🇬🇩 🇬🇾 🇸🇷 🇧🇿
More Latin Culture on Labor Day Weekend
US Open 2024 Tennis Grand Slam is the Place to See and Be Seen at the End of Summer 🇺🇸 🇦🇷 🇧🇴 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇳 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇪🇬 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 🇭🇰 🇮🇳 🇮🇹 🇯🇵 🇯🇴 🇱🇧 🇲🇽 🇵🇪 🇵🇭 🇵🇹 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇾
Monday, August 26, 2024
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues at Latin Mondays at Taj hosted by Talia Castro-Pozo, one of NYC’s most popular Latin dance parties, is at Taj II in the Flatiron District, Mondays. 5pm doors. 7pm salsa lesson. Live sets at 9pm and 11pm. From $13. 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇵🇷 🇵🇦 🇵🇪 🇻🇪
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues at Salsa Tuesdays with DJ John John, outdoors at Cobble Fish restaurant on Pier 16 at the South Street Seaport; on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, from 7-11pm.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues at Pa’la Calle Wednesdays, hosted by Nancy Bocanegra; outdoors in Bella Abzug Park in Hudson Yards, on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, from 6-9pm. FREE.
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues with the Official NYISC Pre-Party in the basement of Ainslie Bowery restaurant in Manhattan’s Lower East Side; on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, from 8pm – 2am. From $20.
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues with the New York International Salsa Festival Kick-Off Party at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square, on Thursday, August 29, 2024, with a press conference at 9:30pm and dancing at 10pm.
Vibes With Voicey Soca Concert
New York Carnival presents the Vibes with Voicey “Graduation Tour” of West Indian soca featuring Voicey (Aaron “Voice”‘ St. Louis) and over 15 more soca artists; at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park; on Thursday, August 29, 2024, from 4pm – 12am. From $45. 🇹🇹 ~ 🇩🇲 🇬🇩 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🇰🇳 🇻🇨
Salsa Dance Party
New York Salsa Week continues with the New York International Salsa Festival Kick-Off Party at Solas Bar in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, August 29, 2024, from 8pm – 1am. $15.
Tango Dance
Dance traditional Argentine tango at Tango La Nacional at La Nacional in Chelsea. Gets busy around 9pm. Performances at 11pm. Dancing until around 2am. $20 🇦🇷
Friday, August 30, 2024
Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival
The New York International Salsa Congress 2024, NYC’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, is at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Friday, August 30, 2024. Through Sunday. The evening concert is Eric Cabanilla y Su Grupo K’ndela playing salsa and Spaniard Dani J singing sensual bachata. Evening passes from $83. Full Pass from $322. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
Trinidadian Soca Concert
New York Carnival SocaFest features over 15 soca musicians at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park; on Friday, August 30, 2024 from 8pm – 3am. From $75. 🇹🇹
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Son Cubano Birthday
Arsenio Rodríguez, “El Ciego Maravilloso,” who developed the basic templates for salsa, songo, and timba; was born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, Cuba on August 31, 1911. 🇨🇺
New York Junior Carnival and Youth Fest
The New York Junior Carnival Parade marches from Kingston Avenue and St. John’s Place, through Crown Heights, to New York Carnival Youth Fest at the Brooklyn Museum; on Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 9am – 3pm. That’s a lot of parade. Wow! FREE to watch. Sign up for Youth Fest to march. 🇹🇹
New York Carnival Youth Fest features live performances, mas characters, Junior King and Queen, and a back-to-school giveaway; at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday, August 31, 2024, from 9am – 4pm. $12. 🇹🇹
Salsa and Bachata Dance Festival
The New York International Salsa Congress 2024, NYC’s Labor Day Weekend salsa and bachata dance festival, is at the New York Marriott Marquis in the heart of Manhattan’s Times Square Theater District; on Saturday, August 31, 2024. Tito Rodriguez, Jr. plays salsa for the evening concert. Evening passes from $83. Full Pass from $322. 🇦🇷 🇨🇴 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇨🇦 🇮🇹 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
Tango Dance
Central Park Tango is a pay-what-you-wish outdoor milonga at the Shakespeare Statue at the south of of The Mall in Central Park; on June through September Saturdays, from 6-9:30ish pm. FREE. 🇦🇷 🇺🇾
Puerto Rican Freestyle
Fever Records’ 8th Freestyle Beach House features TKA, George Lamond, Judy Torres, Cynthia, Safire, Cover Girls, Betty D of Sweet Sensation, Coro, Lisette Melendez, Pretty Poison, and “Gravesend” cast members; at Coney Island Amphitheater on the boardwalk in Coney Island, Brooklyn; on Saturday, August 31, 2024, with 6pm doors. FREE. 🇵🇷
Trinidadian Steelpan Concert
New York Carnival Panorama, one of America’s largest steel pan competitions, is at the Brooklyn Museum in Prospect Park; on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 7pm. $50. 🇹🇹
Major League Soccer
HIP HOP NIGHT
New York Red Bulls vs Philadelphia Union is Major League Soccer at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey; on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 7:30pm. From $25. 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇬🇦 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇻🇪
Regional Mexican Grupera
Los Temerarios “Hasta Siempre Tour” brings Regional Mexican grupera to Madison Square Garden in Chelsea, Manhattan; on Saturday, August 31, 2024 at 8pm. From $89. 🇲🇽