Performances by Q-Tip and Dev Hynes have already been confirmed.
New York State will host over 300 free pop-up arts and music performances through its ‘NY PopsUp’ in an effort to ‘accelerate the revival of the arts’ and ‘revitalize the spirit and emotional well-being of New Yorkers’.
The project has been greenlit by the city’s Governor Andrew Cuomo, and is set to kick off this February 20th, running for 6 months until September 6th. Events will take place across the state of New York, gradually increasing in size as it becomes safer to do so. Many events will not be announced in advance in order to prevent large crowds from gathering.
Among the musical acts set to perform as part of ‘NY PopsUp’ are A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip, Dev Heynes (Blood Orange), and Patti Smith.
‘Creative synergies are vital for cities to survive, and our arts and cultural industries have been shut down all across the country, taking a terrible toll on workers and the economy. We want to be aggressive with reopening the State and getting our economy back on track, and ‘NY PopsUp’ will be an important bridge to the broader reopening of our world-class performance venues and institutions’, said Governor Cuomo in a statement regarding the project.
Events will take place in spaces such as parks, subway platforms, museums, skate parks, street corners, and storefronts.
You can learn more about ‘NY Pops Up’ here.
