Enjoy the best local talent on the best outdoor stage! Featuring established and emerging local artists in jazz, Latin, world, and gospel music and dance. Click on title for schedule.

Can breakdancing save the world? From executive producer and rapper Nasir “Nas” Jones, who also provides original music for the film, we are treated to a fascinating look at how hip-hop is striking a resonant chord in the slums, favelas, and ghettos of the world and is inspiring young people to enact social change. Hip-hop music, and the acrobatic breakdancing culture that arose in tandem with it, started on the streets of The Bronx, but its reach is now worldwide. Today, “b-boys” and a growing number of “b-girls” hone their gravity-defying breaking techniques in virtually every country on the planet. Shake the Dust by journalist-turned-filmmaker Adam Sjöberg, chronicles the far-reaching influence of breakdancing.

The Strugglers, who were featured on the soundtrack to the Coen Brothers film "Inside Llewyn Davis" produced by T-Bone Burnett, will be joined by legendary musician John Cohen. Cohen was originally part of a trio of “citybillies” known as the New Lost City Ramblers, who introduced many New Yorkers to Southern mountain and bluegrass music in the 1950s and 1960s. Between songs, Cohen and Eli Smith of the Strugglers will talk about their efforts to enrich the musical tapestry of New York with rural string-band, blues, and other forms of folk music.

Tickets: $15 for Museum members; $20 for Students and Seniors; $25 for general public.

For more information, visit The Down Hill Strugglers & the Four o'clock Flowers in Concert.