
SIMON EMMETT
Liam Gallagher, left, and Noel Gallagher of Oasis, who will perform at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1.
This list of major arts events scheduled for New Jersey will be constantly updated throughout the year, as new events are announced.
Aug. 9: My Chemical Romance will perform its 2006 album The Black Parade in its entirety, and more, at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, with Death Cab for Cutie and Thursday opening.
Aug. 16: Morristown Jazz and Blues Festival. Featuring Samantha Fish, King Solomon Hicks, Blues People, The United States Army’s Jazz Ambassadors Band, and Dani G & Friends.
Aug. 19: The Who will bring their The Song Is Over Farewell Tour to The Prudential Center in Newark, and will also perform at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, Aug. 23. Billy Bob Thornton & the Boxmasters will open in Newark; Booker T. Jones of Booker T & the M.G.’s fame in Atlantic City
Aug. 29-31: Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival at Salem County Fair Grounds, Woodstown. With The Del McCoury Band, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Authentic Unlimited, Danny Paisley & the Southern Grass, John Jorgensen Bluegrass Band, Rhonda Vincent & the Rage, Don Flemons, more.
Aug. 31 and Sept. 1: Oasis‘ reunion tour will come to MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, with Cage the Elephant opening.
Sept. 4-7: The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch will present a 50th anniversary celebration of the release of Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run album.
Sept. 12: Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee, Madeline Edwards at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion, Camden.
Sept. 13: Outlaw Music Festival with Willie Nelson & Family, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow, Waxahatchee, Madeline Edwards, at PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel.
Sept. 13: Montclair Jazz Festival. With Lakecia Benjamin, Jazzmeia Horn, Christian McBride & Ursa Major, others.
Sept. 13-14: Sea.Hear.Now festival, Asbury Park, with Blink-182, Hozier, Lenny Kravitz, LCD Soundsystem, Alabama Shakes, Sublime, Public Enemy, De La Soul, ZZ Top, Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, TV on the Radio, Spoon, UB40, 4 Non Blondes, others.
Sept. 19-21: XPoNential Music Festival at Wiggins Park, Camden. Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, Courtney Barnett, Molly Tuttle, Richard Thompson, Greensky Bluegrass, Craig Finn, Spin Doctors, War, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Tune-Yards, Kathleen Edwards, Southern Avenue and more.
Oct. 31: The new Princeton University Art Museum — built at the location where the original Princeton University Art Museum was demolished in 2021 — opens.’
Nov. 21: The Isley Brothers, The Jonas Brothers, Bon Jovi member and Broadway composer David Bryan and others will be inducted into The New Jersey Hall of Fame, in a ceremony at the American Dream mall in East Rutherford.
May 29-31: The 33rd annual Crawfish Fest, featuring Louisiana Music and Food, takes place at The Sussex County Fairgrounds in Augusta. Lineup TBA.
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