I want to help develop an audience for creative live music in and around Astoria. Making good friends and connections is also not besides the point! By joining you'll get invitations to local jam sessions and concerts right here in Astoria and Long Island City.

If you Hustle, Salsa, Ballroom, Hand Dance, or just LOVE TO DANCE!, you can learn Chicago Style Steppin'. The home of Steppin' is Chicago, and gained popularity across the nation when R. Kelly released, "Step in the Love" in 2002. It's a partner dance to Soulful Grooves like Classic R&B, Soul, Old-School, Jazz, Neo-Soul, and some Hip Hop. So, join us to meet others who enjoy Chicago Style Steppin'; love Steppin' music; and want to learn the dance. In the process meet new people, enjoy adult inte …

Welcome to the VOCAL BRILLIANCE Meetup group! This group is intended to cater to all types of singers. Whether you’re a seasoned professional, an intermediate hobbyist, or a complete beginner hoping to get your feet wet; whether your focus is rock, pop, classical, Broadway, Jazz, R&B…there will be an event designed specifically for you. Our primary purpose is to have fun becoming better singers; to improve together as vocal artists and performers beyond where we are at present. The “how” depe …

Meet others in your area who are Experimental Music Artists/Fans. All interested in developing, listening, and performing experimental music concepts are welcome! Discussions, Networking, performances, Jams, and development of New Creative Styles in Experimental Electronics, Free Jazz, Rock, Noise/Sound, Composition, Music/Media, New ART/MUSIC/SOUND....

Meet young chamber music enthusiasts, find others with whom to play and sightread and take advantage of all NYC has to offer in this most intimate and expressive of musical genres! We'll check out performances together in a variety of settings and gain insights into chamber music through lectures, panel discussions, master classes and movies -- as well as from each other over drinks and small, informal social gatherings -- all while making new friends. Open to everyone interested in chamber musi …

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Are you a lover of Smooth Jazz? Straight Ahead Jazz? or Latin Jazz? How about Smooth Vocals, or R&B/Soul? Well, you've come to the right place. If you're ready to experience live performances.. Wouldn’t mind traveling to see great artists.. Interested in meeting fellow music lovers… Embrace the "Smooth Side of Jazz" and other genres of music! We invite you to become an "Explorer" Thank you for stopping by. Get comfortable & Take a look around. We look forward to seeing you at our next event. Kee …

Hi. This group is for the underserved of us who like jazz AND gospel. Socialize with others with common interest as we plan events in venues comfortable for all members regardless of cultural tastes or religious background. If you are a jazz purist or a gospel-only devotee this group may not be for you. Since well-known jazz musicians present gospel music and vice versa, so it should be very interesting! See you soon.

CONGRATULATIONS TO 2010 GRAMMY WINNER ZAC BROWN, WHO WON THE 2010 GRAMMY FOR BEST NEW ARTIST! THE NEW YORK CITY LIVE MUSIC MEETUP ATTENDED A PERFORMANCE BY ZAC AND HIS BAND, AND THEN PERSONALLY MET ZAC AND HIS BAND, AT A MEETUP ORGANIZED BY RICH CASELLA ON AUGUST 26, 2008. CHECK OUT THE PHOTOS. How often have you wished for more live music in your life? Finding good live music is like a tourist in NYC finding a good restaurant to go to. Unless you know the right areas to search, you will be rele …

Welcome to a meetup that celebrates the *greatest* live instrumental music: FUNK! (and funky versions of its cousins- afrobeat, soul, hip hop, brass, jazz and rock) The late, great James Brown and many of his colleagues may no longer be with us, but rest assured funk is alive and well in a venue right around the corner!! There is no better way to listen to these electric, joyous beats than front and center and there are some amazing NEW funk bands out there that promise to put on a show that wil …

This group is for everyone who is interesting in meeting new people and love to be out. Our goal is to get people together from all different background and interest. No matter what kind of music you like Pop, Jazz, Techno, House, Hip hop. you are welcome. We will be hosting our events in some of the best lounges and clubs in NYC including cruising parties. Our events will start after work and stay late. So if you have kids and other responsibilities you can still join us for few hours. 2 …

The mission of this group is exactly what the name implies, we want to provide good company and a positive atmosphere to experience those things that- for whatever reason- you either weren't able to do before or don't get to do often enough. To work toward that, we try to offer a wide variety of things for you to do with us. We try to cater to the interests of as many people as possible. But we are few and you are many, and this means to do what we want as well as possible, we need your help. Fe …

Jazz in the City is a group for local jazz aficionados, which introduces you to the finest musicians performing at some of the most elegant venues this city has to offer. The group’s organizers, In Touch Entertainment, manage, book and produce both established and up-and-coming recording artists, so we have our finger on the pulse of the jazz scene! We started this group because we want to share our passion for jazz with other fans. However, the group is not exclusively for jazz connoisseurs. …

DANCES OF VICE is the art of nightlife once again revived. The creation of Shien Lee, Dances of Vice began in New York in 2007 as a venue showcasing an exotic melange of art, performance and music influenced by that special time in history, the 1920s and 30s. Since then, it has blossomed to include Victorian and Rococo themed events with a New Romantic flair, attracting a sordidly splendid menagerie of elegant dandies, aesthetes, dreamers and ne'er-do-wells who gather in shared enthusiasm for th …

THIS MEETUP'S PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF MUSIC & FAHION Afro Jam provides venues to dance, network, and socialize. We cater to an upscale and stylish crowd. If you want to try something new, if you like to socialize, if you are single, still searching, or a couple, if you like to make friends or network with an international and diverse crowd while having a fun time, if you are  a WORLD MUSIC AFICIONADO, This is the group for you. New York is one of the …

Do you want to explore New York? Are you looking to build career and business connections or just want to meet new friends? Don't want to go out alone! Come along with us and see all that New York has to offer. We know how hectic life can be and that's why our group provides business and career events to help expand your business or career connections and many many fun things for you to do. Things to Do in New York and Beyond offers a wide variety of business, personal growth, career, entertain …

Do you spend your days being serious, responsible, professional, respectable? Have a stressful job, have bills to pay, have people who depend on you? BEING A GROWN-UP IS HARD WORK!! Every now and then, we need to get out and play - whether it be for just an hour or evening - to reconnect with our inner child and to relax and reenergize. SILLY DATE! NEW YORK is a good clean fun Meetup group in New York City for singles and their friends. Members are fun, friendly, independent-minded and are inter …

It's all about the L-O-V-E.... This group promotes a love for the straight-ahead, be-bop style that was born in the early to mid-20th century. Join us & help move this beautiful, "distinctively American art form" into the 21st Century by performing the material &/or showing love for those who do. With this meetup group, I aim to promote my own performances & those of other straight-ahead jazz musical artists. Some of them are here in NYC; some are on the other side of the world. Some I've work …

Concertgoers Meetup presents several major performances each season in renowned venues like Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Jazz at Lincoln Center to name a few. Collaborations with the all-professional New York City Chamber Orchestra, Masterworks Festival Chorus comprised of auditioned singers from across the country and the Manhattan Concert Chorale include Mozart Requiem, Beethoven Mass, Handel's Messiah and more. Tickets are available to members of this group at a deep discount and sometim …

Do you long for New Orleans music, food and fun? This Meetup group is dedicated to New Orleans-oriented events in New York, whether its live music, bar crawls, restaurant nights, Mardi Gras events --- if it's got a New Orleans connection, laissez les bon temps rouler! Ex-pats, JazzFest veterans, Fat Tuesday casualties, or folks who just can't get enough of the Crescent City are all welcome!

Enjoy great indie musicians performing LIVE for you... in the comfort of a cozy LIVING ROOM! This group is run by seasoned indie scene-makers who are also experienced meetup organizers. We've been putting on countless Living Room-style concerts for years, and are well-connected to a thriving indie music scene consisting of hundreds of local musicians, venues and fans. PAST VENUES: - Hayko's Turkish Carpets, Amber's Place, Frank's Apartment, The Meta Center, Rockwood Music Hall, Prospect Park, C …

"its all a matter of opinion" If its live music or a dj set in New York, its all good. For a sample of upcoming sounds, connect to 'Dave Mulligan' on facebook to check the Spotify playlists for sounds of upcoming artists and Photos of the shows.. This group is here to allow members to share their passion for great music. As the organizer, i will share live shows known and loved to me and i hope you will do the same! Meetup with us if.. - you enjoy listening to anything hip hop, jazz, house, dan …

This is a group for folks who love awesomely great live music. There are so many talented soul singers, jazz musicians, and amazing DJs we don't hear about on commercial radio so let's share our favorites! I started this group because I LOVE going to shows and I think nothing beats being in the same room with your favorite singer, sharing space with your favorite musician, or dancing away your blues to your favorite DJ. I keep my finger to the pulse of the best shows and events so I want to shar …

Let's make new friends and check out the NYC Jazz/World Scene!

Tired of playing with Jamey Aebersold?  Looking to play with other jazz musicians, but not quite ready to make your debut at Small's?  Tune Up! aims to create an ego-free, non-judgmental environment in which intermediate jazz musicians can gain valuable experience playing with others.  Join and take your skills to the next level!

5 over 4 is a multi-media zine. We take field trips and make live events to connect and inspire. Example: go to nyc/brooklyn to hear live jazz, write/draw/video, make an event live or on-line that showcases the work created including the source of inspiration.

Share your knowledge and enjoy with us—We're exploring live musical performances from Early Music to Jazz, and beyond—and the musical impulse in the human creative experience, as listeners and as makers. Music and rhythmic spirit delight and entertain us. They also open our minds, show us different worlds, immerse us in another's culture, and challenge us to learn and explore sensation, feelings, thoughts, co-creative experience— traversing the past, the present and the futuristic. Mysteriously …

There are amazing musicians who play mostly for tips- and I'm tired of seeing their work go unappreciated. I know that there is an audience who loves all kinds of roots based music- and would welcome the opportunity to be part of a community that connects with artists on a personal level. This group is such an opportunity.