Caramoor Summer Festival 2024
Caramoor Summer Festival 2024
Caramoor Summer Festival tickets are on sale now. This year’s festival of classical, jazz, roots and opera features 33 events at four different venues on Caramoor’s 81 acre grounds. Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis will open this year’s festival on Saturday, June 22 and Mokoomba, a six-piece Afro-fusion band from Zimbabwe will close the festival on Friday, August 16.
New this year, Caramoor branches into dance when the Mark Morris Dance Group takes the Venetian Theater stage on August 1. Equally as exciting, fireworks return to Caramoor this year at their annual Pops, Patriot & Fireworks celebration on Independence Day. And no Caramoor season would be complete without their ever-popular all-day Jazz and Roots Festivals,
Additional season highlights include Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster on Saturday, July 13, Les Arts Florissants’ new production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen on Saturday, July 20, the Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire will perform Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons on Sunday, July 28, Richard Goode will perform an-all Beethoven program of piano sonatas on Friday, August 2, burgeoning American Roots legend Rhiannon Giddens will perform on Saturday, August 3, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Jeremy Denk will perform Dvorak’s Symphony No. 8 on Saturday, August 4.
Here are some more highlights of the season. For a full schedule click here.
Editor’s Top Picks
Caramoor: Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Jazz at Lincoln Center with Wynton Marsalis Join us for this high-energy celebration guided by the maestro himself, the iconic trumpeter and composer Wynton Marsalis! This exhilarating night of grand-scale jazz features some of today’s most extraordinary jazz virtuosos […]
Caramoor’s American Roots Music Festival: Madison Cunningham
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor’s American Roots Music Festival: Madison Cunningham Madison Cunningham and her touring band headline this year’s Caramoor Roots Fest. They will perform songs from her recent Grammy-winning album Revealer at the Venetian Theatre. Daytime artists begin at 12:30 pm at […]
Caramoor: The Knights & Aaron Diehl
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: The Knights & Aaron Diehl The Knights and pianist Aaron Diehl bring to life Zodiac Suite by Mary Lou Williams, one of the most influential jazz composers of the 20th century. Last year, The Knights and Diehl recording went […]
Caramoor: Pop, Patriots & Fireworks
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Pop, Patriots & Fireworks Caramoor’s Independence Day fireworks show returns this summer! The Westchester Symphonic Winds, joined by alumni soloists from Caramoor’s Schwab Vocal Rising Stars program, perform a selection of works that pay tribute to America’s independence including rousing […]
Caramoor: Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Kiki Valera y su Son Cubano With its Spanish and African origins, call-and-response format, and infectious percussion beats, Son Cubano was a major influence on many other styles, from mambo and salsa to jazz and cha-cha-chá. Kiki Valera grew […]
Caramoor: Lost Bayou Ramblers
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Lost Bayou Ramblers This Grammy-winning band stirs the unique energy of Louisiana’s music and culture in with the modern sounds and rhythms of punk and psychedelia, serving up a musical gumbo sure to please all palettes. With a recent […]
Caramoor: Sutton Foster
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Sutton Foster The Tony Award winner Sutton Foster brings her show-stopping charm back to Caramoor. Broadway has seen this award-winning leading actor, dancer, and singer in more than 11 shows including The Music Man, Shrek the Musical, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Anything Goes, The […]
Caramoor: Orchestra of St. Luke’s & Miloš, guitar
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Orchestra of St. Luke’s & Miloš, guitar One of the most celebrated classical guitarists of all time, Miloš, joins the Orchestra of St. Luke’s for the beloved Concierto de Aranjuez by Joaquín Rodrigo, one of the leading Spanish composers of the […]
Caramoor: Purcell’s Fairy Queen
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Purcell’s Fairy Queen Les Arts Florissants’ new production of Purcell’s masterpiece invites us to plunge into an enchanting and playful universe — an enchanted forest where reality mingles with dreams, illusion, and the supernatural, as young people gather to […]
Caramoor: Jazz Festival
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Jazz Festival Piano sensation and award-winning composer, Matthew Whitaker, headlines 2024’s Caramoor Jazz Festival in the evening show at the Venetian Theater. Daytime performers Julius Rodriguez, Charles Overton, Francesca Tandoi, Ekep Nkwelle and others will perform throughout Caramoor’s expansive […]
Caramoor: Apollo’s Fire
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Apollo’s Fire Apollo’s Fire, the esteemed period instrument Baroque Orchestra of Cleveland, performs Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and additional works from Vivaldi, Handel and Marais. Apollo’s Fire is led by distinguished conductor/harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell. Lyric soprano Amanda Forsythe (alumna […]
Caramoor: Mark Morris Dance Group
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Mark Morris Dance Group One of the world’s leading contemporary dance companies, the Mark Morris Dance Group and Music Ensemble, has expanded the boundaries of movement and artistic expression since its inception in 1980. The performance will feature music […]
Caramoor: Richard Goode (piano)
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Richard Goode (piano) Caramoor welcomes the return of Richard Goode, revered globally as one of today’s foremost interpreters of Beethoven. Here he performs Beethoven’s three monumental final piano sonatas. All-Beethoven Program Piano Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. […]
Caramoor: Rhiannon Giddens
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Rhiannon Giddens Pulitzer Prize winner and MacArthur “Genius” Grant recipient Rhiannon Giddens’s mission is to lift up those whose contributions to American musical history have previously been erased. With her spectacular banjo and fiddle playing, and passionate vocals, she […]
Caramoor: Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Jeremy Denk
Caramoor 149 Girdle Ridge Rd., Katonah, NY, United StatesCaramoor: Orchestra of St. Luke’s with Jeremy Denk the Orchestra of St. Luke’s collaborates with the brilliant Jeremy Denk on the pinnacle of piano concertos, Beethoven’s fourth, and symphonic masterpieces by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Antonin Dvořák. Tickets