Performers in The Morris Museum’s Back Deck series this summer will include, from left, Stephan Fuller of Amani; TY Zhang and Strauss Shi of ArcoStrum; and Alexis Morrast.
The Morris Museum in Morris Township began presenting outdoor summer concerts — mostly jazz and classical music, but with other genres represented as well — on its elevated back parking deck in 2020, in response to the pandemic. But the concept worked so well that it has continued presenting shows in this way, annually, since then.
The Telegraph Quartet (from left, Jeremiah Shaw, Eric Chin, Pei Ling-Lin and Joseph Maile).
Tickets will go on sale for this year’s shows on April 21, with a pre-sale for museum members, April 14-20.
Each show will begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are sold for 8’x8’ blocks that can accommodate one or two people; attendees bring their own chairs, and can bring refreshments, if they want to. If the weather is bad, the show will move to the museum’s Bickford Theatre.
Here is this summer’s schedule. For information and tickets, visit morrismuseum.org/outdoor-concerts-on-the-back-deck.
June 11: Telegraph Quartet. Program includes works by Claude Debussy, Eleanor Alberga and Jerome Kern.
June 20: Nat Adderley Jr. Quartet.
July 2: Alexis Morrast.
July 9: Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey. Program includes Robert Butts’ Lafayette Suite and works by Haydn, Handel, Mozart, William Billings and others.
July 11: ArcoStrum. Program includes music by Antonio Vivaldo, Astor Piazzolla, Polyphia, John Williams, Zhihui Li and others.
July 16: Amani, “The Music of Burt Bacharach.”
July 25: Orpheus Chamber Players. Program includes music by Mozart and Dohnanyi.
Aug. 1: Little Johnny Rivero & His Giants, “Tribute to Our Legends of Jazz & Latin Jazz.”
Aug. 6: Lance Bryant & Shout.
Aug. 8: The Fumos.
Aug. 13: Evan Sherman & Friends.
Aug. 20: Carla Cook
Aug. 26: Bria Skonberg
Aug. 29: Lynette Sheard. Tribute to Charlie Parker and Dinah Washington, with bassist John Lee.
Sept. 3: Orpheus Chamber Players. “Night Revels” program includes music by Antonin Dvořák, Ludwig van Beethoven, Valerie Coleman, Paquito D’Rivera and others.
Sept. 10: Mike Davis & the New Wonders, “Blanc Aprés Labor Day.”
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