Yellowcard / New Found Glory / Plain White T’s
Trio of early aughts punk rockers come to Central Park
Manhattan
In June of 1986, the first ever SummerStage show kicked off with a bang, as avant-garde Afrofuturist Sun Ra Arkestra touched down at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. Both the park and our city’s cultural landscape have been forever changed. In the 40 years since, SummerStage has presented thousands of global artists to audiences numbering over seven million, bringing hundreds of free live performances to neighborhood parks across the city. Whether you’ve been with us since that very first show or you joined us for the first time last summer at one of our 70+ performances, be it with Jon Batiste, The Roots, Marcus Miller, or Soccer Mommy, it’s been our honor and our joy to dance, sing, and groove with you, and we can’t wait for you to see what’s in store for our birthday bash in 2026.
Get VIP access to concerts with artists you love and those you will love to discover. Every SummerStage membership now offers complimentary tickets for benefit concerts! We are committed to keeping your need for cost saving, flexibility, and value as our priority. Your membership also funds critically needed free programs in parks across the city with a focus on under-resourced communities, so you can feel good while enjoying live performances in New York City!
Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is one of New York’s most beloved, broadly accessible, free outdoor performing arts festivals. SummerStage annually presents more than 80 free and benefit performances in Central Park and neighborhood parks throughout the five boroughs reaching more than 220,000 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 fills a vital niche in our City’s summer arts festival landscape. Since its inception nearly 40 years ago, more than seven million people from New York City and around the world have enjoyed SummerStage.
New York is the quintessential global city, and the place we have been proud to call home for almost four decades. SummerStage brings renowned artists and rising stars from around the world to local neighborhood parks, presenting distinctly New York genres — salsa, jazz, and hip-hop — alongside indie, reggae, Afrobeat, soul, modern dance, and much more. We turn local parks into dynamic and accessible performance spaces. There truly is no better place to experience music than amongst the trees in this iconic spot. Come watch a legendary artist or discover the performer you’ll love next!
Learn more about the benefits Capital One cardholders receive at Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage.
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SummerStage acknowledges that we are currently standing on Native lands that have been stewarded and cared for by generations of Munsee Lenape, Canarsie, Wequaesgeek, Siwanoy, Matinecock, Schaghticoke and Wappinger people in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Staten Island. In the spirit of honoring our past, the people who inhabited this land before us and their tradition, we offer our recognition and gratitude to all Indigenous people.
Generous private support for SummerStage is provided by Sleeping Phoenix Foundation, The Thompson Family Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, Rick and Danielle Arnstein, Elizabeth Sarnoff and Andy Cohen, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Charles and Lucille King Family Foundation, The Shubert Organization, Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation, The Hyde and Watson Foundation, and NYU Community Fund. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the NYC Council under the leadership of Speaker Julie Menin with special thanks to Council Member Oswald Feliz, Council Member Kamillah Hanks, and Council Member Chi Ossé. SummerStage is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Capital One is the title sponsor of Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage. Supporting Sponsors Subaru, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Yeti, New York Lottery, Sixpoint, Narragansett Beer, Wölffer Estate Vineyard, Sunboy, Archer Roose, United Airlines. SummerStage extends its gratitude to Joe Killian, Founder and Executive Producer of SummerStage (1986–1993).
