The annual Jazzmobile Block Party at the Louis Armstrong House Museum will take place on Thursday, Aug. 25 in Corona, Queens, N.Y. Each year, the block party marks the end of the museum’s “Summer With Satchmo” event series.
This year, Jazzmobile will feature percussionist Steve Kroon and his Latin-jazz sextet. Over a career that has spanned 45 years, Kroon has become one of the most respected percussionists in jazz, and has performed with the likes of Bette Midler, Aretha Franklin, Diana Krall, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, among others.
“The annual Jazzmobile Block Party at the Louis Armstrong House Museum is one of those fabulous ‘only in New York’ experiences,” Louis Armstrong House Museum Executive Director Michael Cogswell said in a press release. “Where else can you hear percussionist Steve Kroon play an intimate concert for neighborhood families, tourists and jazz lovers, in front of Louis Armstrong’s house?”
The event is free to the public, and will include art-making workshops and other activities beginning at 4 p.m. At 5:30 p.m., Fulanito, the Latin Grammy-nominated Merengue band, will open for Kroon, who will take the stage at 7 p.m. The museum will remain open until 8:30 p.m.
For more information on the event and museum, visit louisarmstronghouse.org.
