Come Dance the Night Away During Downtown After Sundown

Get Up and Dance!!!!

Sunday, June 16 - Flamenco Dancing - Toni Messina

Like to dance?

Experience the spirit of Andalucia, Spain – The passion, sensuality and the power of flamenco dance, the plaintive cry from the heart of the cante (flamenco song) and the fire of virtuoso flamenco guitar – live on the Downtown After Sundown Stage.

Well our very own Viva Flamenco cooks up a spicy stew of Flamenco song and dance, jazz melodies and improv, along with some 'Flamenco puro' for the purists out there. OLE'! Come join returning favorite Viva Flamenco and Toni Messina will get you up and swirling on the dance floor. All ages invited.

Sun July 7 DJ Night in Spiotta Park with Jimmy Buttros

Like the 80’s?

Speaking of dance floors, was the 80’s your time? Well come on out to an 80’s dance party, where New Jersey DJ Services will be spinning the popular tunes of the 80’s and more. Don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes. All ages are welcome.

Jul 27th NJPAC Weekend - NJPAC Inspirational Dance Night

Want to be inspired?

A former professional dancer with Footprints Dance Company, Forces of Nature Dance Theatre and Showtime at the Apollo, NJPAC Community Engagement Producer Eyesha K. Marable - has shared the stage with LL Cool J, R. Kelly and gospel artists like Donald Malloy. To see her perform with other inspirational dancers or conduct a dance workshop is in a word, uplifting. She founded the National Liturgical Dance Network, which trains and supports dance minister and she is celebrating 29 years of spreading the ministry of dance here and abroad. New Jersey Performing Arts Center will have world class inspirational dancers come to South Orange NJ led by the world renown Rev. Eyesha Marable. Join us as NJPAC will show us how it’s done and then show you how to because she and her team love to get the audience involved.

Don't forget, along with the audience participation events above, we also have more musician participation events like jazz jams and big bands too. All concerts kick off Memorial weekend through Labor Day, every Friday and Saturday evening and one Sunday a month from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm in the heart of Downtown South Orange.

Gregory Burrus, Live Music Ambassador

Gregory Burrus with South Orange Trustee Bob Zuckerman former Executive Director of SOVCA. Downtown After Sundown is a program sponsored by the South Orange Village Center Alliance and the Town of South Orange. https://www.sovillagecenter.org/pub/event/story/2382/

Gregory Burrus curates an manages the South Orange Village Center Alliance’s Downtown After Sundown Live Music Concerts. This SOMA resident arrived in South Orange, 23-year ago and just loves South Orange, NJ. Gregory enjoys all music genres but his first love jazz began as a boy when his mother and father played jazz on the good old record player at home and took him to clubs all over Manhattan. Greg was an executive in the telecommunications industry and has consulted on telecom, technology and operational business processes systems all over the world. Now he is putting his expertise, gain from his former business environment to work producing music, art and community events across South Orange, Maplewood, Newark and other towns around Northern New Jersey and New York.