Celebrate the diversity of the Americas with the NJSO this summer! Explore the continents with concert, theater and dance music from Leonard Bernstein, José Pablo Moncayo, Astor Piazzolla, Florence Price, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin. Hear hits from West Side Story and Porgy and Bess, travel to Mexico with Arturo Márquez’s Conga del Fuego Nuevo and experience patriotic favorites along with Copland’s classic “Hoe Down” from Rodeo.

Rain Site: Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School. 667 Westfield Rd, Scotch Plains, NJ 07076

Bring a towel or yoga mat for free UC Fit Yoga sessions beginning at 6:30. The concerts begin at 7:30. Pack a picnic basket and bring your chair. The free series is presented by the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders. It is held at Echo Lake Park during July and moves to Oak Ridge Park in Clark during August.