AWE-MAGEDDON will be a curiosity cabaret featuring one or two of the world's most creative scientists, musicians, philosophers, actors and folks who can’t even really be pegged in a single word. We'll be transported to a place where we are confused, amazed, confounded, inspired or flabbergasted.

Join WNYC's Richard Hake for an LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Networking Event.

Join WNYC's Richard Hake for an LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Networking Event.

Co-presented by WNYC and The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce LGBT Business Committee and Out Professionals

Hear members of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s perform a FREE concert featuring Eine Kleine Nachtmusik and other Mozart favorites.

Perform. Spectate. Party. Vote. Be there! New York has talent and WNYC’s new street-level performance space is the place to find it this year. 

The Prospect Park banshell hosts two months of music, dancing, film screening, drinking and eating entertainment. The majority of the festival events come with a mere $3 suggested donation to keep the bandshell in business. So cough it up and get out there. Click here for our picks.

(Ojai, CA) June 10-13

Don’t Miss: Ensemble Modern with George Benjamin June 13

Chefs Jacques Pépin and Michel Nischan go head-to-head in cook-off with only a hot plate and elementary cooking equipment, judged by Lidia Bastianich and complemented with a blind wine tasting with sommelier Aldo Sohm and live performance by the Eroica Trio.

Join Terry Gross as she ruminates on the good, the bad and the funny from among the thousands of interviews she’s conducted in her more than 30 years hosting Fresh Air.

(New Haven, CT) June 13-23

Don't Miss: Calder Quartet, Yale Percussion Group and others, June 18

(Verona, Italy) June 18 - August 29

Don’t Miss: Puccini’s Turandot, June 18 – August 20

The battle culminates in the final round with winners from each borough competing against each other. It's sold out, but you can watch the whole event via live video webcast at thegreenespace.org.

Cultural Fusion: Past Present Future explores the merging and converging of cultural traditions in the Diaspora. In this instance, we look closely at the vital nexus between New Orleans and Havana and the work of great composers.

Join us for a night of jazz, talk and wine, as host Elliott Forrest presents Esperanza Spalding and Anat Cohen with performances and a conversation.

Bobby McFerrin and Jason Moran & The Bandwagon join Soundcheck for live performances.

WQXR presents a sneak preview of this summer’s Caramoor International Music Festival, featuring a dazzling array of live performances by some of the artists featured in this year’s festival line-up.

WQXR’s Naomi Lewin welcomes music lovers 40 and over to an evening of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, with a pre-concert private reception.

Every Thursday until August 5, at high-noon in downtown Brooklyn, hip-hop and world music can be found. For free! It's all part of BAM's R&B Festival held on the lawn at MetroTech Commons.

The L Magazine takes Williamsburg and Greenpoint hostage for four days with their second annual Northside Festival. While there are hundreds and hundreds of bands in this musi-plosion, click here for a curated list of our picks.

(Vail, CO), June 25 – August 3

Don’t Miss: An Evening With Yo-Yo Ma, June 25

Bang On A Can notes its marathon as "Lollapalooza advised by the ghost of John Cage". It's a mass of musicians, composers, and listeners collaborating on uninterrupted live ear-bending border-crossing music from around the corner and around the globe. The performace is from noon til midnight (in 2007 it lasted 27 hours and 10 minutes!) and this year, its 23rd year, the World Financial Center Winter Garden plays host.

Grab a seat for an intimate conversation with the creative team behind YOU BETTER SIT DOWN! You’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at the show, the online project, and the tales, and join what has become a nationwide conversation about divorce. The artists will perform excerpts from the show with new material created from online responses and gathered from audience members at the event.