Summer Sway 2024

Join for Summer Sway as DJs, musical artists, dancers, and other performers take over The Shed’s outdoor Plaza in July and August, creating community through the joy and liberation we find in music and dance.

They’re celebrating the roots of hip-hop and digging into the art forms and styles it has inspired, from breaking and graffiti to DJing and MCing. On Friday evenings, some of the city’s fiercest DJs, dance collectives, and artists will bring a party to the Plaza with free performances centering queer, trans, and BIPOC community-based and community-born art.

Artists and collectives will include José Parlá, Clave Y Cuba, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, Papi Juice, Soul Summit, Ladies of Hip-Hop, Quiana Parks, and guest artists for a dance cypher, DJ Perly, and other special guests.

Every day of the week, explore our public art installation—including a playlist, a graffiti artwork by QuOne, and a timeline of hip hop’s living history by Rakia Seaborn—that highlights the movement’s global social impact. The installation was produced by Neon Fab Studios.

Schedule (5pm-sunset)
July 12th
Quiana Parks and guest artists for a dance cypher
*Part of West Side Fest, a celebration of arts and culture on the West Side of Manhattan organized by the West Side Cultural Network.

July 19th
Papi Juice

July 26th
DJ Perly
Uptown Vinyl Supreme

August 2nd
Michele Byrd-Mcphee, Ladies of Hip-Hop

August 9th
Soul Summit

August 16th
Clave Y Cuba feat. Shie Moreno and Román Díaz
Marcus Logan
José Parlá