BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Riverside Park Conservancy - ECPv6.18.3.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Riverside Park Conservancy X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://riversideparknyc.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Riverside Park Conservancy REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T134551Z CREATED:20260402T192737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260406T134551Z UID:10003653-1784469600-1784480400@riversideparknyc.org SUMMARY:Jazz in the Park at Ralph Ellison DESCRIPTION:Berta Indeed presents Let the Music Play\, community jazz conce rts featuring an array of local musicians and vocalists. \nSummer on the H udson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited\, unreser ved\, and available on a first-come\, first-served basis. If there is heav y rain at the time of the event\, the event will be canceled. For weather updates\, check nyc.gov/parks/soh 2 hours before the event. URL:https://riversideparknyc.org/event/jazz-in-the-park-at-ralph-ellison-2- 2/2026-07-19/ LOCATION:Ralph Ellison Plaza\, Riverside Dr & W 150th St\,\, New York\, NY\ , 10031\, United States CATEGORIES:Music & Dance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://riversideparknyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2 025/02/Ralph-Ellison-Memorial-scaled-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260719T203000 DTSTAMP:20260414T200945Z CREATED:20260414T200945Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260414T200945Z UID:10003263-1784487600-1784493000@riversideparknyc.org SUMMARY:Amplified Sundays featuring Dawn Drake and the ZapOte DESCRIPTION:Live music accompanied by spectacular sunsets over the Hudson R iver. \n\nJuly 5: Wayne Tucker and the Bad Mothas / energetic\, improvisat ional jazz\nJuly 12: Gentleman Brawlers / psychedelic Afro-soul revival an d indie dance\nJuly 19: Dawn Drake and ZapOte / genre-defying pop\, funk\, and groove\nJuly 26: Chispa / love songs for the land rooted in the music al\ntraditions of Latin America\n\nDawn Drake & ZapOte is a female Global South ensemble which celebrates women in world music by incorporating Afro -Cuban and Brazilian rhythms\, pop and funk into a mix that is meant to ma ke you move! With original lyrics that focus on love\, empathy\, environm ental and social justice themes\, the band offers a chance to celebrate li fe and create community through shared experience. A genre bender\, ZapOte has a unique sound based on Dawns musical influences which draw from Cuba n salsa and timba\, Haitian kompa as well as Congolese ndombolo and Nigeri an Afro-beat. Youll find some of New Yorks finest female musicians playing in this band! \nOriginally from Virginia\, Dawn started playing piano at age five. Her mother was a church organist and singer and North Carolina s hag dancer and Dawn grew up listening to everything from Slovenian polka ( from her fathers side)\, gospel\, funk and classic rock. \nDawn chose to l eave Virginia after high school\, heading out in a 1977 Ford Pickup truck to attend college at UC Berkeley on a scholarship and a Pell Grant. Lookin g for something beyond her experiences\, she found joy in music\, educatio n and learning about other cultures. She spent a year studying abroad in G hana\, West Africa through UC Berkeley and started playing percussion ther e. \nAfter further travels\, New York City became her home where she found a job cocktail waitressing on Bleecker street upon arrival. She quickly b egan to pursue writing\, art\, dance and music and landed herself in the e clectic NYC music scene. She went on to pursue Afro-Cuban bat (sacred drum s of the Yoruba people) and Latin percussion in Cuba and NYC\, as well as samba percussion in Brazil and NYC. She also achieved a Masters degree in Ethnomusicology and an MFA in Composition and Performance from California Institute of the Arts. \nDawn moved to Brooklyn permanently in 2003. Curre ntly\, she continues to play electric bass and percussion with artists fro m around the globe in addition to leading her band ZapOte. You can find he r original music on all platforms under the artist name Dawn Drake as well as on her website and music page: https://www.dawndrake.com. \nSummer on the Hudson events are free and open to the public. Seating is limited\, un reserved\, and available on a first-come\, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event\, the event will be canceled. For wea ther updates\, check nyc.gov/parks/soh 2 hours before the event. URL:https://riversideparknyc.org/event/amplified-sundays-featuring-dawn-dra ke-and-the-zapote/ LOCATION:Pier i\, Pier i at W 70th Street\, NY CATEGORIES:Music & Dance,Summer on the Hudson ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://riversideparknyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2 026/04/Dawn-Drake-ZapOte-Photo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Summer on the Hudson":MAILTO:soh@riversideparknyc.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR