Favorite Venues-Manhattan’s WestSide – THURSDAY, FEB. 13, 2014

Today’s snowstorm will close most venues and keep most patrons safe at home.

Rather than try to identify those few special performances that will take place, today’s post will highlight some of my fave performing arts venues on Manhattan’s WestSide:

Music – Jazz and Standards

Birdland
Blue Note
Dizzy’s Club
54 Below
55 Bar
Smoke
Village Vanguard

Music – Everything Else
includes Rock, Pop, Blues, Folk-Rock, R&B/Soul,
Latino/Brazilian, Reggae, even Cajun/Zydeco and Bluegrass.
(but no Hip Hop/Rap, Grunge/Punk/Heavy Metal, Electronic/Dance, music)

B.B. King’s Blues Club
BAM
Beacon Theater
Caffe Vivaldi
Carnegie Hall
City Winery
Cornelia Street Cafe
Joe’s Pub
Le Poisson Rouge
Metropolitan Room
Miller Theatre
Symphony Space
Terra Blues
Town Hall

Other Performing Arts

Lincoln Center
(cultural heart of the cultural capital of the world)

• The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
• Film Society of Lincoln Center
• Jazz at Lincoln Center
• The Juilliard School
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
• Lincoln Center Theater
• The Metropolitan Opera
• New York City Ballet
• New York Philharmonic
• NY Public Library for the Performing Arts
• School of American Ballet
• David Rubenstein Atrium / esp. Target Thursdays

City Center
Joyce Theater
NY Live Arts

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm ticket availability, dates and times, as schedules are subject to change

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Chelsea is the heart of the NYCity contemporary art scene. Home to more than 300 art galleries, the Rubin Museum, the Joyce Theater, and The Kitchen performance spaces, there is no place like it anywhere in the world. Come here to browse free exhibitions by world-renowned artists and those unknowns waiting to be discovered in an art district that is concentrated between West 18th and West 27th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues. Afterwards stop in the Chelsea Market, stroll on the High Line, or rest up at one of the many cafes and bars and discuss the fine art – my fave is Ovest on W 27th St., where the aperitivo is like Happy Hour on steroids.

WHAT’S ON VIEW: most galleries closed today due to snowstorm.

For a listing of 25 essential galleries in the Chelsea Art Gallery District, organized by street, which enables you to create your own Chelsea Art Gallery crawl, see the Chelsea Gallery Guide (nycgo.com) Or check out TONY magazine’s list of the “Best Chelsea Galleries” and click through to see what’s on view ==========================================================

For other selected Museum and Gallery Special Exhibitions see Recent Posts in the right Sidebar: “Selected Events + Special Exhibitions : Manhattan’s WestSide” dated (02/11) and (02/09).