Join the Morris Museum in celebrating Lunar New Year with a special craft activity. Children can fold origami figures to mark the holiday while learning why Lunar New Year is one of the most important festivals for many East Asian countries around the world. Free with museum admission.
New Jersey native and GRAMMY-winning drummer Evan Sherman returns to the Back Deck after three years of sold-out performances. In 2025, Evan spent a year touring and performing internationally at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Paris Philharmonie, and Royal Albert Hall playing drums and writing arrangements for vocal sensation, Samara Joy, who was a surprise […]
The Black Oak Ensemble has established itself as one of the most innovative and exciting chamber ensembles on the international stage. The Black Oak Ensemble consists of violinist Desirée Ruhstrat and cellist David Cunliffe, members of the multi-GRAMMY-nominated Lincoln Trio, and violist Aurélien Fort Pederzoli, a founding member of the ground-breaking, GRAMMY-nominated Spektral Quartet. Attendees […]
Send off the summer in Roaring Twenties style with Mike Davis and the New Wonders, featuring familiar favorites and forgotten gems of the jazz age. Attendees must bring their own chairs and are welcome to bring refreshments. Tickets are $63 for an 8’x8’ block that accommodates up to two patrons or $33 for a block […]
Now in its 16th season, the Tesla Quartet performs regularly across North America and Europe. Tickets are $63 for an 8’x8’ block that accommodates up to two patrons or $33 for a block that accommodates one patron.
The Alaya Project is the essential bridge between the intricate Carnatic style of Indian classical music and contemporary jazz and funk. Born in the cultural bastion of Oakland, California, The Alaya Project explores new textures and perspectives built over two decades of friendship, dialogue, and musical immersion across genres and continents. The driving hybrid kit grooves of […]
Cuarteto Latinoamericano is one of the world’s most renowned classical music ensembles, for more than forty years the leading proponent of Latin American music for string quartet. Founded in Mexico in 1982, the Cuarteto has toured extensively throughout Europe, North and South America, Israel, China, Japan and New Zealand. They have premiered more than a […]
The Grammy nominated Richard Baratta Gotham City Latin Jazz Sextet/Septet is comprised of world-renowned master musicians. Rooted in traditional jazz background, but expanding into all musical idioms, the musicians and band have traveled the world entertaining at well know jazz and music festivals, universities, institutions and clubs. Tickets are $63 for an 8’x8’ block that […]
Come to the Back Deck for an inspired musical performance, full of opulence, jazz, and extravagance. Imagine a 1920s-style jazz band, complete with a horn section, piano, and a swinging rhythm section, playing lively tunes reminiscent of the roaring twenties. The music will include classic jazz standards from that era, like “Rhapsody in Blue” or […]
Musical mega-talent Bria Skonberg makes her debut on the Back Deck. She is a Juno-award winning artist, 10x Downbeat Rising Star, recipient of the Legend Award by the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook, a 2025 nominee for the prestigious “Academie du Jazz” awards - and a trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter. Tickets […]
THE FUMOS are an NYC-based band reviving the horn-heavy dance music of the '70s. From funk to rock, soul and jazz, the 4-piece rhythm section lays down heavy grooves to surround a 3-piece horn section on an array of classic tunes that are danceable. Tickets are $63 for an 8’x8’ block that accommodates up to […]
Enjoy a breezy night of warm wind music when Frisson Winds brings their mix of the classics by Mozart and more as well as lighter summer fare by Gershwin, Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag and many other crowd favorites. From Carnegie Hall to Lincoln Center and the Bermuda Festival the musicians of Frisson Winds have performed […]
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