Here is a roundup of major arts events taking place around New Jersey, through June 18.
FESTIVALS
• June 13-18: North to Shore Festival in Newark, Asbury Park and other cities. With The Black Crowes, Janelle Monáe, Alison Krauss, Joe Bonamassa, The Head and the Heart, The Bouncing Souls, Iliza Shlesinger, Jessica Kirson, The Church, others.
• June 18-21: Barefoot Country Music Festival, Wildwood. With Post Malone, Eric Church, Kelsea Ballerini, Miranda Lambert, Cole Swindell, Chase Rice, Shaboozey, Ty Myers, Chase Matthew, The Fray, others.
• The Princeton Festival, which started on June 5 and continues through June 21, is offering a variety of pop, classical, dance and family events in a tented pavilion at Morven Museum & Garden, and other venues.
Here are the remaining events. Everything is at Morven Museum & Garden, unless otherwise noted.
June 11, 7 p.m. at Trinity Church: Twelfth Night Ensemble, performing Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and other works by Vivaldi, Pietro Locatelli, Ancangelo Corelli and Francesco Durante.
MUSIC
• E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg will present one of his Max Weinberg’s Jukebox shows in the Twilight Concert Series at Jack Curtis Stadium at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, June 11 at 8 p.m. In these shows, Weinberg and other musicians play classic rock songs — by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who and others, including, possibly, Bruce Springsteen — that are requested by audience members.
June 12: “Gala 20” featuring Max Weinberg’s Jukebox at South Orange Performing Arts Center.
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• The San Francisco-based Telegraph Quartet (violinists Eric Chin and Joseph Maile, violist Pei-Ling Lin and cellist Jeremiah Shaw) is known for performing both standard chamber music material and more contemporary works, and will do just that in their concert in the Back Deck series at The Morris Museum in Morris Township, June 11 at 7:30 p.m.
The concert will feature Claude Debussy’s 1893 String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10, as well as Eleanor Alberga’s 2001 String Quartet No. 3, and a string quartet arrangement of Jerome Kern’s Great American Songbook standard, “The Way You Look Tonight,” famously crooned by Fred Astaire and others.
• June 13: Ben Folds with the New Jersey Symphony at Prudential Hall at NJPAC, Newark.
June 14: Ben Folds with the New Jersey Symphony at State Theatre, New Brunswick.
• June 13: Claypool Gold Tour featuring Primus, Les Claypool’s Frog Brigade, The Claypool Lennon Delirium at Stone Pony Summer Stage, Asbury Park. Part of North to Shore Festival.
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June 13: French Montana at Dream Live at American Dream, East Rutherford.
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June 11: The Sergio Mendes Band at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
June 14: Sérgio Mendes Band at BergenPAC, Englewood.
THEATER
• June 18-21 and 24-28: “We’ll Meet Again” at Bell Theater at Bell Works, Holmdel.
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June 17-20 and 22-27: “All Shook Up,” Plays-in-the-Park series at Stephen J. Capestro Theater, Edison.
FILM
June 14: “Troma Entertainment Retrospective” featuring Lloyd Kaufman, hosted by Kevin Smith, at SModcastle Cinemas, Atlantic Highlands.
June 14: “The Toxic Avenger” at SModcastle Cinemas, Atlantic Highlands.
FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT
• June 14: Discovery Orchestra at Kasser Theater at Montclair State University. Program includes George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. George Marriner Maull, conductor; Clayton Stephenson, piano.
• June 14: Kidz Bop at Family Day at Sports Illustrated Stadium, Harrison.
• June 13: Sustainably Green Music & Arts Festival, Washington (Warren County).
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REVIEWS
“Things I Remember,” works by Leandro Comrie at Guttenberg Arts. (Through June 20)
“Alexandra Schoenberg: Shifting Perspectives” at Hillside Square Gallery, Montclair. (Through June 26)
“Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50” at Princeton University Art Museum. (Through July 26)
“Allan Rohan Crite: Neighborhood” at Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick. (Through July 31)
“Henri Matisse: Beyond Color” at Morris Museum, Morris Township. (Through Aug. 9)
“Salvador Jiménez-Flores: Raíces & Resistencias” at Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton. (Through Aug. 1, 2027)
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