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Free Concerts and Dance Classes Coming to DUMBO Archway This Summer

 Free summer concert series Live at the Archway returns to DUMBO on June 2.
Free summer concert series Live at the Archway returns to DUMBO on June 2.
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Tory Williams

DUMBO — DUMBO’s free outdoor concert series is coming back to the Archway this summer. 

The second-annual Live at the Archway Series will bring salsa, R&B, jazz, classic rock, dance, and even puppets to the Manhattan Bridge Archway from June 2 to Sept. 29. 

The free shows will take place every Thursday at 6 p.m. for 18 weeks.

The series showcases Brooklyn-based talent, including DUMBO residents and artists Beat Kaestli, Greg Humphreys, Conjunto Guantánamo, Tanya Rynd, VJ Farkas (Glowing Bulbs), and WHITE WAVE Dance Company.

Other Brooklyn artists on this year’s lineup include Los Hacheros, Janka Nabay, the Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, Tigue, Bellatonic, Brown Rice Family, and Ava Luna.

DJ sets will follow each performance.

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“We are thrilled to have this impressive lineup of artists who truly reflect the creative and innovative spirit of DUMBO as part of the second annual Live at the Archway series,” said Alexandria Sica, executive director of the DUMBO Business Improvement District, in a statement.

“The Archway makes for the perfect summer setting for outdoor live performances and we are looking forward to having audiences from DUMBO, Brooklyn and beyond join us there.”

This year’s Live at the Archway will include four free dance lessons for all ability levels. The half-hour swing, salsa and tango classes will start at 6 p.m. and will be followed by an hour of open dance set to live music. 

The series will also feature several nights of live puppetry from local theater collective Great Small Works and Ask a Puppet, plus a motion arts performance, "Ethnopoofcologist Appears With Rare Species" by Kate Brehm and Jacob Graham.

The family-friendly performance series is curated by the DUMBO BID and Tanya Rynd of local restaurant Superfine.

Snacks, beer and wine will be sold each night at The Lighthouse kiosk under the Archway.

For more information, and to listen to a Spotify playlist with music from each artist, click here.  

Here’s this year’s Live at the Archway lineup:

►June 2: Los Hacheros
►June 9: Mary C and the Stellars plus Ask a Puppet
►June 16: Lynette Williams plus body-based motion arts live performance Ethnopoofcologist Appears With Rare Species 
►June 23: Beat Kaestli
►June 30: Greg Humphrey’s Electric Trio
►July 7: Conjunto Guantanamo plus a salsa dance class led by Hunter Houde
►July 14: Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang plus Ask a Puppet
►July 21: Blue Vipers of Brooklyn plus a swing dance class led by Paolo Pasta Lanna 
►July 28: Tigue plus a puppet show by Great Small Works
►August 4: Madame T and the Star Lights
►August 11: Harlem Swing Dance Society swing class plus Ask a Puppet
►August 18: M.A.K.U. Soundsystem
►August 25: Milonga with Adam and Ciko tango class
►September 1: White Wave Dance/Oniin Dane Company
►September 8: Bellatonic plus Ask a Puppet
►September 15: Brown Rice Family
►September 22: Ava Luna plus a puppet show by Great Small Works
►September 29: VJ Farkas (Glowing Bulbs)