The Top 50 Live Music Events for the Fourth of July Weekend in NYC

The Seaport Beach Fest will host free outdoor concerts all weekend at Seaport Square between Piers 16 & 17; Pinc Louds will close the series with a performance on July 4th at 7 p.m.

Staying in the city this holiday weekend? The Manhattan Beat regularly lists the best live music events coming to New York City. It also celebrates via photographs some of the musicians who have performed locally in the past few days.

Everynight Charley recommends the following 50 live music events in New York City this Independence Day weekend. Contact the venue for ticket availability, show times, COVID compliance, and other updates. Note that several artists and indoor venues continue to mandate the wearing of masks and/or proof of COVID vaccinations.

Kim Petras closed Pride Island on June 26 (photograph by Devin Kasparian)

Purity Ring at Brooklyn Steel on June 26 (photograph by Francesco Marano)

Goose headlined two nights at Radio City Music Hall and featured guests Trey Anastasio, Father John Misty, David Nelson, D. James Goodwin, and Stuart Bogie; pictured above, Goose's Rick Mitarotonda (left) and Trey Anastasio on June 25 (photograph by Abby Fox)

Friday, July 1

• Wally B. Seck, N Diolle at the Hammerstein Ballroom
• Kizz Daniel at Palladium Times Square
• Ocean Alley, le Shiv at the Music Hall of Williamsburg
• The Brothers Comatose at the Knitting Factory, Brooklyn
• Macy Gray at the Blue Note
• Man Man, Hard Tays Night at Elsewhere Hall
• John Hiatt & the Goners w. Sonny Landreth, the Suitcase Junket at City Winery NYC
• China Crisis at the Iridium
• Combo Chimbita, Sunny Cheeba at the Sultan Room
• The National Reserve at Skinny Dennis
• Hudson City Rats, Holey Sweater, Wexwax at Otto's Shrunken Head
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Terra Blues
• The T Blues Band w. Clarence Spady & Michael Hill at Terra Blues
• Arnt Arntzen at the Anyway Café

Billy Strings (right) at the Rooftop at Pier 17 on June 29 with guest Trey Anastasio

Duane Betts (center) at City Winery NYC on June 28, accompanied by Berry Duane Oakley (left) and Johnny Stachela, both of whom played with Betts in the Allman Betts Band

Charlie Overbey (left) at City Winery NYC on June 28, accompanied on one song by Pamela Racine of Gogol Bordello

Saturday, July 2

• Patrick Watson w. the Attacca Quartet, Elisapie, La Force at SummerStage Central Park
• Los Hacheros w. Jeremy Bosch at the Oasis at Lincoln Center
• Skrizzly Adams, Camp Bedford Rescue Squad, Lily Talmers at Mercury Lounge
• Sofi Tucker at the Marquee New York
• Macy Gray at the Blue Note
• Holy Wisdom LLC, LazyLazy, Plight at Brooklyn Made
• David Russell & the Gold Standard Band at the Bitter End
• Galdort Gumbo & the Righteous Cats at the Bitter End
• The TarantinosNYC, Commercial Interruption, the Weisstronauts at Otto's Shrunken Head
• The Michael Hill Acoustic Trio at Terra Blues
• The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues
• Hugh Pool at Kastelli's
• Towncrier at the Anyway Café
• Jackson Scott at the Anyway Café
• Fariza Anuarbek at the Anyway Café

The SaRon Crenshaw Band at Terra Blues on June 29; the band returns on July 2

UNLTD at Groove on June 29

MJ-12 at the Bitter End on June 29

Sunday, July 3

• Stick Figure, Collie Buddz, Iya Terra at Brooklyn Steel
• Claptone at Nebula
• Macy Gray at the Blue Note
• Astrus at Purgatory
• Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble at Birdland Jazz Club
• Joe Bataan at Union Pool
• Josephine Network, Scout Gillett at Our Wicked Lady
• Miranda & the Beat, Tilden, Tea Eater, Tight Lips at Rippers
• David Russell & the Gold Standard at Mercury Lounge
• The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar
• Jackson Scott at the Anyway Café
• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

Miss Maybell & the Jazz Age Artistes at Ferns on June 29

Mulebone at the Ear Inn on June 29

Jason Green (left) and the Labor of Love at Arthur's Tavern on June 28 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Monday, July 4 Independence Day

• Meek Mill, Kida the Great, Armani White, Miles Hardamon, Laya, Journey Montana at Coney Arts Walls
• Rosie Flores at Skinny Dennis
• Pinc Louds, Robert Leslie, Gabriel Mayers, Grace Kalambay, Eli Bridges at Seaport Square
• June Star at the Red Lion
• Richie Cannata's Monday Night Jam at the Bitter End
• Chris Snell's Bluegrass Session at Mona's
• The 11th St. Bar Quintet at the 11th St. Bar
• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Terra Blues
• The T Blues Band w. Jr. Mack & Michael Hill at Terra Blues
• Eve Silber & Geoff Burke at the Ear Inn

Rock 'n' Roll Johnny Bod at Stitch Bar & Blues on June 29 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Raising Daughters at the Map Room at the Bowery Electric on June 27 (photograph by Ira Zadikow)

Tafoya at Otto's Wednesday Jam & Open Mic at Otto's Shrunken Head on June 29 (photograph by Ira Zadikow)

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The Manhattan Beat covers New York City's live music developments as they happen. All articles are written by Everynight Charley Crespo. All photographs are taken by Everynight Charley Crespo, except when noted otherwise. For a list of Manhattan venues that are presenting live music regularly, swing the desktop cursor to the right of the home page and click on the pop-up tab "Where to Find Live Music." For a listing of upcoming concerts for live audiences, visit The Manhattan Beat's July calendar.