'Elwoodstock' – Long Island Sound Festival at the Vanderbilt Estate

Come Hear Jazz-Funk, Rock, Reggae, Folk-Rock, Blues

Located on the Vanderbilt Lawn.

The Long Island Sound Festival playbill features renowned regional musicians: Cindy Lopez & Friends (jazzy blues), Reckoning (a Grateful Dead tribute band), Roast Beef Curtains (reggae), Fusion Collective (jazz-funk fusion interpretations of the music of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and other greats) and the Adam Gieckel Band (folk-rock). Emcee will be Tim "Easy' Connolly" of EasytownRadio.com.

The festival is free to those who pay general museum fee: $7 for adults, $6 for students and seniors (62 and older), and $3 for children 12 and under. 

In addition, visitors are welcome to check out the MG Car Club-Long Island Centre's 31st annual Vanderbilt Invitational Concours, an open show displaying American and British cars, 25 years old and older. The show is free to spectators with general museum admission.

That evening, visitors can enjoy an Arena Players Repertory Theater production of Shakespeare's "Much Ado about Nothing" at 7:00 p.m. in the mansion courtyard, weather permitting. Tickets are $15; seats are provided. To reserve tickets, call the Arena Players box office at 516-293-0674.