Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Saturday, May 16.
Dance Parade is one of the better Saturday city spectacles: loose, public, and much more New York than another indoor afternoon plan.
The Segue series at Artists Space is a sharp literary-art stop, especially with Patricio Ferrari and Stella Santamaría sharing the bill.
Rostam doing an acoustic set and signing at Rough Trade turns the shop appearance into a real early-evening music plan.
Grace hitting its twentieth anniversary is a downtown performance-art marker, not just another Saturday opening.
KOKAYI at The Jazz Gallery gives the night a more elastic jazz-and-voice center than the standard club set.
VIAL and Scarlet Demore at Elsewhere should bring a younger, louder crowd than the safer Saturday rock listings.
A MUNA album-release show at Music Hall is the clean big-room pop pick, with enough occasion around it to beat the usual tour stop.
The Asian Burlesque Festival at LPR has a defined scene, a real annual frame, and more personality than most Saturday nightlife listings.
Kweku Sumbry leading a Close Up set with Ben Sherman, Lemuel Marc, and Ryoma Takenaga keeps the improvised-music lane intimate and serious.
Keyon Harrold at Carnegie is the polished late option, but his trumpet voice keeps it from reading like institutional filler.