Live Music for Spring Break in NYC

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band at Barclays Center on April 3; the band will return to the New York City area for two shows at the UBS Arena this Sunday

The Manhattan Beat regularly lists the best live music events coming to New York City. The twice-weekly guide also celebrates via photographs some of the musicians who have performed locally in the past few days.

Everynight Charley recommends the following 70+ concerts this weekend in the New York City area. Contact the venue or the artists' social media to confirm ticket availability, show times, age restrictions, COVID compliance, and other updates.

Twiddle headlined at Webster Hall on April 6 (photograph by Francesco Marano)

Deerhoof at the Hall at Elsewhere on April 4

Scarlet at the Hall at Elsewhere on April 4

Marcia Ball & Tinsley Ellis at City Winery NYC on April 5 (photograph by Seth Okrend)

Friday, April 7

• The Eagles at Prudential Center

• Molchat Doma, Nuovo Testamento at Terminal 5

• Rickie Lee Jones at Birdland

• Ella Mai, thuy, Leon Thomas at Brooklyn Steel

• Jake Wesley Rogers, Stacey Ryan at Irving Plaza

• Seaford Mods, Sheer Mag at Webster Hall

• Twinkie Clark, the Clark Sisters, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Artina McCain, Angella Christie at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

• Nothing Nowhere, Oxymorrons, Hazing Over at the Bowery Ballroom

• Ezra Collective at the Blue Note

• Doom Flamingo, Big Something at the Brooklyn Bowl

• The Home Team, Broadside, Honey Revenge at the Gramercy Theatre

• VÉRITÉ, Oston at the Hall at Elsewhere

• Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro at Café Carlyle

• Wesley Stace's Cabinet of Wonders with Chris Collingwood, Dave Hill, Bill Janovitz, Vicki Peterson, Queen Esther, John Scalzi at City Winery NYC

• Riki Rachtman at the Iridium

• The Bobby Lees, the Gnarcissists at Mercury Lounge

• Strawberry Girls, Body Thief, Standards, Tang at the Meadows

• North Star Boys at Racket NYC

• caroline at National Sawdust

• Devon Church at the Windjammer

• Joe Hertler & the Rainbow Seekers, Coral Moons at Elsewhere Zone One

• Joshua Hyslop at the David Rubinstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

• Corey Glover & Michael Ciro at the Bitter End

• Locations, Reclining Nude, Free Whenever, Lennee at the Hart Bar

• New Moon Acoustic Blues at Stitch Bar & Blues

• SoulCake, the Hasbros, Ziggy Shock at Otto's Shrunken Head

• The David "Doc" French Trio at Terra Blues

• The Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

• Emily Frembgen at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1

• Lorraine Leckie & Her Demons at Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 1

• Blu Anxxiety, Confines at Saint Vitus Bar

• Kolker at the Bitter End

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs at Mercury Lounge on April 4

White Hills at Mercury Lounge on April 4

Trapper Schoepp at Mercury Lounge on April 2 (photograph by Kevin Keane)

Evangeline Young at Mercury Lounge on April 2 (photograph by Kevin Keane)

Saturday, April 8

• Symba, 24kGoldn, Justina Valentine, Hitman Holla, JD McCrary, Traetwothree, Klondike Blonde, DW Flame, POP MONEY, Big Boss Vette at the Hammerstein Ballroom

• Rickie Lee Jones at Birdland

• Titus Andronicus, Country Westerns at the Hall at Elsewhere

• Shygirl at Webster Hall

• Claptone, Ferreck Dawn, Hannah Wants, OFFAIAH at the Great Hall at Avant Gardner

• Overmono, Beta Librae, Alejandra Sabillon at Brooklyn Steel

• Anané, Louie Vega at SILO Brooklyn

• Unwritten Law, Tyler Posey, Authority Zero, Mercy Music, Eternal Box at the Gramercy Theatre

• Wiki, Akai Solo, Papo2oo4, Subjxct 5 at le Poisson Rouge

• Speed, Scowl, King Nine, Regulate, End it, Raw Brigade, Hangman, Buggin, Jivebomb at the Brooklyn Monarch

• Ezra Collective at the Blue Note

• Noahfinnce, Bears in Trees, Action/Adventure at the Bowery Ballroom

• Alan Cumming and Ari Shapiro at Café Carlyle

• Laura Stevenson, Kayleigh Goldsworthy, Katie Malco at Brooklyn Made

• Marc Broussard, Nicotine Dolls at Sony Hall

• Anvil, Midnite Hellion at Saint Vitus Bar

• Archie Shepp, Linda Sharrock, Claudia Rankine at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

• Life in a Blender at Barbes

• Elita at Elsewhere

• Two Witches, Jesucrisis at Mercury Lounge

• Semaphore at Mother Pug's Saloon, Staten Island

• The Michael Hill Trio at Terra Blues

• The Junior Mack Band at Terra Blues

• Fawn at the Bitter End

The 11th St. Bar Quintet at the 11th St. Bar on April 3

The Wandering Kind at the 11th St. Bar on April 6

The Pine Cats at the 11th St. Bar on April 6

Seth Okrend at Stitch Bar & Blues on April 5 (photograph by Val Kinzler)

Sunday, April 9 Easter Sunday

• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the UBS Arena

• Shygirl at Webster Hall

• Nothing More, Crown the Empire, Thousand Below at Irving Plaza

• Emma Ruth Rundle, Patrick Shiroishi at le Poisson Rouge

• Ezra Collective at the Blue Note

• Florence Dore at the Loft at City Winery

• Worriers, Lizdelise, Heavy Lag at TV Eye

• Satan, Night Demon, Haunt at Saint Vitus Bar

• Stéphane Wrembel at Barbès

• Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra at Birdland Jazz Club

• Hubby Jenkins at Terra Blues

• The Pioneers at Terra Blues

• Wolf van Elfmand at Book Club

• Camille Schmidt, Mike O'Malley at Scratcher

• The Irish Seisiun at the 11th St. Bar

Tracy City at Otto's Shrunken Head on April 6

Iced Ink at Otto's Shrunken Head on April 6

Samantha Pearl at a subway platform on 14th Street on April 3

Aimee Ruckus (right) with Dave Dawson busking on East Eighth Street on April 4

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The Manhattan Beat covers New York City's live music circuit. 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 performances for live audiences, visit The Manhattan Beat's April calendar.