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Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage celebrates its 40th season this year as one of New York’s most beloved, broadly accessible, free outdoor performing arts festivals. SummerStage presents more than 60 free and benefit performances in Central Park and 12-15 neighborhood parks each year, reaching more than 227,000 fans. With diverse artists and performances in genres that represent the cultural fabric of New York City, ranging from jazz, hip-hop, Latin, and global to indie and contemporary dance, SummerStage has filled a vital niche in our City’s summer arts festival landscape for four decades, reaching more than seven million people from New York City and around the world.
At City Parks Foundation, they are dedicated to invigorating and transforming parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through sports, arts, community engagement and capacity building, and environmental education programs for all New Yorkers. Their programs -- located in 330 parks, recreation centers and public schools across New York City -- reach nearly 300,000 people and organizations each year. Their ethos is simple: thriving parks mean thriving communities.
