Free Tour of Historic Forest Hills Today

FREE Historic Forest Hills Tour on Sun, Dec 6 from 2 PM - 4 PM. We will explore stately residential buildings, the business district, & the Forest Hills Gardens. We will meet at La Boulangerie at 109-01 72nd Rd. Please join Jeff Gottlieb (Central Queens Historical Association, President), Michael Perlman (Rego-Forest Preservation Council, Chair & Legendary Locals of Forest Hills and Rego Park, Author), & Susanna Hof (Terrace Sotheby's Realty, Principal). Questions? Email jeffgottlieb@hotmail.com & unlockthevault@hotmail.com

 

SummerStage Celebrates 30th Anniversary Season

The non-profit City Parks Foundation’s famed SummerStage performing arts festival is celebrating its 30^th anniversary season in 2015.  To get fans pumped for the summer and to shake off a case of the late winter blues, SummerStage will leak the names of 30 artists performing at the citywide festival starting on March 9^th. One artist will be announced daily over the course of 30 days, culminating in the full season announcement on April 8^th. 

To stay up to date on the artists being announced, follow SummerStage via the below links and visit www.SummerStage.org for festival information.
Twitter:            @SummerStage Facebook:       www.facebook.com/summerstagenyc Instagram:      http://instagram.com/summerstagenyc

 

Free Family Concert Sunday

                                                            

FREE Family Concert...

The Frog Prince and Peter & the Wolf  Sunday, February 9th at 3 pm LeFrak Concert Hall

Come and hear Victoria Bond’s lively new score for the wonderful tale, The Frog Prince. Paired with Prokofiev’s timeless introduction to the instruments, Peter and the Wolf, these two classic tales will be brought to life by The Queens Symphony Orchestra! The Frog Prince will be narrated by QSO's very own Sandra Billingslea and led my Music Director, Constantine Kitsopoulos. He will then pass the wand to QSO's Associate Conductor, Matthew Kasper, as he narrates Peter and the Wolf. This fun-filled afternoon is something you will not want to miss! FREE to the public! RSVP required!  To RSVP call the Kupferberg box office at 718-793-8080 or email info@kupferbergcenter.org    For more info visit www.queenssymphony.org

And don't forget to come early for...

                            
Come "warm up" by meeting our musicians and trying out some of our instruments! Meet the Instruments starts at 2 pm in the LeFrak Concert Hall Atrium.
FREE with concert RSVP!

Local Events

A reader recently suggested I should update the blog's Events page. Happy to oblige.  Now I just need some to post there. Anyone got anything planned they want Fo Hi'ers and wannabe Fo' Hi'ers to attend?

 Email them to me at edgeofthecity@gmail.com

Free Queens Symphony Orchestra Concerts This Week

Here’s a link to the TimesLedger article:  http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2013/18/qso_2013_05_03_q.html

 

Wednesday, May 8, 7:30 p.m., at Queens College LeFrak Concert Hall, 65-30 Kissena Blvd. and Friday, May 10, 7:30 p.m., at Flushing Town Hall, 137-35 Northern Blvd.