About 14 months after public performances were halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Music Under New York program of subway busking resumes on Friday, June 4.
The program (also known as MTA MUSIC) is led by MTA Arts & Design and includes more than 350 individual performers and music ensembles participating in over 12,500 performances at 35 spots throughout the subway system. Musicians of all genres participate.
The return of Music Under New York comes as 24-hour service resumed, along with a new campaign aimed at getting riders back on the subway and buses as the city continues to recover from the pandemic. Subway ridership, which would regularly exceed 5.5 million riders per day pre-pandemic and dropped to as low as 278,067 riders on April 12, 2020, is slowly climbing. According to the MTA, on May 10, the system saw 2.2 million riders, a new single-day record since the start of the pandemic.
For more information, including where to find performers, click here.
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