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Best Summer Music Venues
The Bandshell / Celebrate Brooklyn! is one of Best Summer Music Venues.

1. The Bandshell / Celebrate Brooklyn!

9.2
Prospect Park W (at 10th St), Brooklyn, NY
Performing Arts Venue · Prospect Park · 148 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: Thanks to Celebrate Brooklyn!, the Prospect Park Bandshell is to Brooklynites what Central Park SummerStage is to Manhattan residents—the place to hear great music in the great outdoors. Read more.

Central Park SummerStage is one of Best Summer Music Venues.

2. Central Park SummerStage

9.2
Central Park (Rumsey Playfield), New York, NY
Music Venue · Central Park · 115 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: This New York institution has an ear for music of every type—M.I.A. and Television have played in recent years, as have Zap Mama and Nortec Collective. Even better? Many of the shows are free! Read more.

3. Rumsey Playfield

8.3
Central Park (at East & Terrace Dr), New York, NY
Music Venue · Central Park · 28 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: Central Park SummerStage fills Rumsey Playfield with every type of music under the summer sun. Here you can find SummerStage concerts (free) and their benefit shows (not free) as well as other gigs! Read more.

4. Williamsburg Park

50 Kent Ave. (at N 12th St.), Brooklyn, NY
Music Venue · Williamsburg · 19 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: Formerly the Williamsburg Waterfront, Williamsburg Park ensures that Brooklyn's hippest neighborhood will provide plenty of warm-weather concert options, ranging from punk to pop. Read more.

5. Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

8.7
1000 Ocean Pkwy (at Jones Beach Pkwy.), Wantagh, NY
Music Venue · 158 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: This Long Island theater is where classic-rock buffs from the ’burbs meet their NYC counterparts. Whoever's playing, expect a populist, ballpark-style concert experience. Read more.

Red Hook Park is one of Best Summer Music Venues.

6. Red Hook Park

7.8
Bay St, Brooklyn, NY
Park · Red Hook · 8 tips and reviews

Time Out New YorkTime Out New York: An expansive sports field, Red Hook Park turns into one of the city's alfresco music options each summer thanks to the City Parks Department, now billing all of its shows under the SummerStage aegis. Read more.