New Yorkâs Pop-Up Concerts Kick Off With Jazz at a Vaccination Site
The musician Jon Batiste led a band through the Javits Center to begin half a year of unannounced performances throughout the state.
Jon Batiste (center) and his band Stay Human march through the Javits Center during the first NY PopsUp event on Saturday.Credit.Nina Westervelt for The New York Times
Feb. 21, 2021
It seemed at first like a small, no-frills concert in a carefully controlled environment: The jazz musician Jon Batiste sitting at a piano in an auditorium at the Javits Center on Manhattanâs West Side, performing for an audience of about 50 health care workers seated in evenly spaced rows â some wearing scrubs, others Army fatigues.