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2025 New York SummerStage Line-Up Includes Soccer Mommy, Roots, Rakim, James Blunt, Femi Kuti & More


The 2025 New York SummerStage line-up includes sets from Soccer Mommy, The Roots, Rakim, James Blunt, Femi Kuti & many more.

The rest of the eclectic roster for the 39th edition of SummerStage will feature jazz, hip-hop, rock, salsa, reggae, Afrobeat, soul and pop artist, as well as DJs and contemporary dance performers from around the globe. Among the other acts slated to take the stage are: The Roots, Soccer Mommy, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Rakim, Celia Cruz Centennial Celebration, Big Freedia, Camilo, Jessica Pratt, Bob Sinclair, IZA, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Awich, Frankie Negrón, La Sonora Poceña and Morgan Freeman’s Symphonic Blues, among others. Femi Kuti: a July 27 show with the Nigerian superstar and his band, the Positive Force, along with New York rap crew dead prez — celebrating their 30th anniversary — and poet Maryam Bukar Hassan.

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