The Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project in collaboration with the Flatiron 23rd Street Partnership will present an open to the public outdoor concert at the Flatiron North Plaza on 23rd Street/Broadway on Saturday, October 23, 2021 from 12:00 Noon to 4:00 PM. The event, Tin Pan Alley Day, will feature a special appearance by entertainment legend Marilyn Maye, as well as more than two dozen leading performers of Cabaret, Broadway, Jazz, Tin Pan Alley music and the Great American Songbook. The rain date is Sunday, October 24.
Other Tin Pan Alley Day performers include Danny Bacher, Aaron Lee Battle, Ken Bloom, Klea Blackhurst, Jim Brochu, Richard Carlin, Eric Comstock, Natalie Douglas, Cassidy Ewert, Willy Falk, DeWitt Fleming Jr., Eric Yves Garcia, Anita Gillette, Vince Giordano, Robert Lamont, Gabrielle Lee, Larry Marshall, Sanborn McGraw, Jill O’Hara, Jeannie Otis, Jennifer Poroye, Steve Ross, Billy Stritch, TADA! Youth Theater Ensemble, Tony Waag & The American Tap Dance Foundation Ensemble, and Terry Waldo & The Gotham City Band.
The event celebrates the official New York City landmark designation of Tin Pan Alley buildings at 47-55 West 28th Street and publicly launches the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to the commemoration and continuation of the legacy of Tin Pan Alley, the birthplace of American Popular Music in New York City in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Tin Pan Alley was designated a New York City landmark in 2019 based on its preeminent role as the birthplace of American Popular Music as well as the multicultural significance of contributions of Eastern European Jewish immigrant and African American composers, performers and sheet music publishers who worked there, notably including Irving Berlin, Williams & Walker, George Gershwin, J. Rosamond Johnson, George M. Cohan, and James Reese Europe, among many others.
The block of 28th Street between Broadway and 6th Avenue that is home to five recently designated Tin Pan Alley landmarks will officially become part of the Flatiron/23rd Street Partnership BID in 2022 following the New York City Council’s vote in July 2021 to approve the expansion of the BID’s boundaries.
Tin Pan Alley Day is sponsored in part by the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Foundation, the J. Rosamond Johnson Foundation, The Lambs Foundation, the Sam Ash Music Corporation, PianoPiano, Rosanne and Ed Braun, and George Calderaro and William Megevick.
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