Flushing Town Hall

Jazz lovers, this one is for you! 🎶🎷 FTH is excited to host our annual Jazz Jam All Stars concert, featuring ten outstanding musicians who regularly perform at our Jazz Jams, backed by our fabulous Jazz Jam House Band, led by saxophonist Carol Sudhalter, with Joe Vincent Tranchina on piano, Scott Neumann on drums, and Eric Lemon on bass.

Our 2026 line up includes Angela Arthur (vocals), Richard Braithwaite (tenor sax), Gary Davis (guitar, vocals), Richie Desimone (upright bass), Terrence Dove (piano, vocals), Jason Greenberg (piano), Joe Knipes (guitar), Ken Meyer (saxophone), Keeley Mitchell (vocals), and Gerald Thomas (bass/piano/sax). 🌠

This annual celebration honors the musicians and audiences who regularly attend our in-person Monthly Jazz Jams.

Don't wait--get your tickets below! 🌟
https://bit.ly/43Cm5uV

That’s a wrap—with a pretty bow!—for PRIDEFUL POETRY!

Happy Pride to all! What a stellar evening of poets, poetry, drag and community in FTH’s gallery last night.

It was beautiful to witness so much tenderness and ferocity in one room.

Thanks to Queens World Film Festival and
QWFF ED Katha Cato for bringing everyone together and huge thanks to all the poets and performers for sharing their poems and their hearts with everyone who braved the rain to join us.

Emcee Avant Garbage brought glam, legs, laffs, and shared stories of how far we’ve come and reminded us all how important it is to look out for one another.

Keep doing the good work that makes the rainbows come out after the storm.

For those seeking connection and community during Pride: hear and be heard! 🏳️‍🌈

Queens World Film Festival, in partnership with FTH, proudly presents Prideful Poetry, an intimate, high-energy evening centering LGBTQ+ voices, where every poem is an offering, and each listener is part of the exchange.

Curated by Queens World Founding Executive Director Katha Cato and hosted by Avant Garbage, the night features poets including:

🌀Cerulean Chen Long

🌀David Nazario

🌀Hoshiko Hsu

🌀Joseph O. Legaspi

🌀KayTheePoet

🌀Kir O’Hanlon

🌀Pelayo AF

🌀Stevie Latham

Join us for an evening of music, light refreshments, poetry, and spoken word. Doors open at 6:30 PM, and performances begin promptly at 7 PM.

Get your tickets here!
https://bit.ly/4uGSfBp

Soccer fans! Welcome to Queens, the borough that loves soccer as much as you do!

Here at FTH, our global programming is like soccer: it brings cultures and communities together from every corner of the globe. Except the prize for us at FTH is that we all win!

Come see us at Flushing Town Hall while you’re in town.

See our full list of events here: https://www.flushingtownhall.org/fth-presents

Happy Birthday to Flushing Town Hall’s iconic building, which turns 164 today!

Flushing Town Hall's foundation and cornerstone were laid on June 7, 1862, to welcome Union soldiers home from the Civil War. Our landmark Romanesque Revival building, with its triple-arched portico and commanding presence on Northern Boulevard, has lived more lives than most. It’s been a Civil War assembly hall, a seat of village government, an opera house, a vaudeville stage, and so much more.

Frederick Douglass spoke here, as did Ulysses S. Grant and Teddy Roosevelt. The building also welcomed PT Barnum and the legendary Jenny Lind, the “Swedish Nightingale.”

FTH’s building is an NYC Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places and on the New York State Register of Historic Places.

Our building has always opened its doors to everyone. Queens is a home for everyone, and FTH is a home for Queens.

Happy 164th to our extraordinary building. Here’s to many more!

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2nd Image Credit: New York City Department of Records and Information Services (DORIS) / Municipal Archives

Our first-ever Culturethon! is a pledge drive to support the amazing performances that FTH is home to in Queens.

Our FREE day-long lineup on the Culture Stream platform will share the sounds of performers from around the globe. For one day only, June 16, 10 AM–8 PM, watch the following performances free on Culture Stream:

Qwanqwa - ቋንቋ, the Ethiopian supergroup; Slavic Soul Party!; NY Jazz Legends: The Over 80s; Korean Folk Meets Jazz featuring SE:UM; Nidia Gongora performing Afro-Colombian music; Seo Jungmin's Shamanic Journey Through Gayageum; Crankies Take New York!; Natu Camara Music Family Show; and more, including Global Mashups pairing Turkish and Klezmer, Ghana and New Orleans, Mali and Mexico, Brazil and China, and beyond.

Join us live at culturestream.tv. If you DONATE TO FTH during CULTURETHON!, you'll receive a FREE one-year subscription to the Culture Stream platform.

Flushing Town Hall is honored to be part of this annual celebration of music across the five boroughs!