Shore Front Parkway at Beach 94th Street
To close out an eventful summer in The World’s Borough, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. is bringing back his “Queens Live!” free concert series, beginning with “Reggae on the Boardwalk” this Sunday, September 3.
The free concert will be held from 3pm to 7pm at the Rockaway Beach Amphitheater, located on Shore Front Parkway at Beach 94th Street. The performers will include DJ’s Sir Tommy, WiFiOG, Jah Earl, Baddamon, Amy Wachtel, and Chanter The Timeless Sound with Prezident Carter.
Reggae on the Boardwalk offers a traditional reggae sound-system event in a family-friendly outdoor setting, featuring legendary Jamaican emcees and DJs spinning vinyl records. The tunes are played from a 10-foot-tall sound system, or a wall of speakers — the kind of which constitute an important aspect of Jamaican music history — operated by Chanter “The Timeless Sound.”
Founded in Coney Island in 2010 by Carter Van Pelt, a WCKR DJ and curator who works for Queens-based VP Records, Reggae on the Boardwalk celebrates the popular Jamaican genre and highlights local performing artists, bringing together multicultural audiences for memorable afternoons of music and dancing. After years of performances in Brooklyn and the Bronx, Reggae on the Boardwalk came to Queens for the first time in 2021.
The concert is free to attend, open to the public and does not require registration in advance.
Queens Live! is produced in partnership with NYC Parks and the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College.