Stubs: Summer 2025 Concerts

It’s National Concert Week, and there’s no better place for concert storytelling than here at Stubs. To celebrate, below is a listing of summer concerts to consider so that you can create moments and stories that you will remember forever.

FREE:

• 6/14/25, 6-10pm: LA- Ozomatli 30th Anniversary Celebration

  • Check out the rest of the Grand Performances in DTLA here:

• 7/20/25, 7-9pm: NYC- The Roots

• 8/16/25, 6-10pm: Brooklyn- Funk Flex R&B Birthday Party w/ Carl Thomas / Christopher Williams / Soul for Real

• 8/17/25, 7-10pm: Manhattan- Funk Flex R&B Picnic 

  • Look at all the free NYC City Parks Foundation concerts here

CONTESTS & SPECIAL OFFERS

• $30 Tickets for various concerts nationwide via Live Nation to celebrate National Concert Week, starting at 10am EST on 5/21/25. Our favorites in the selection include:

  • Jonas Brothers x All American Rejects

  • James Taylor

  • Nelly, Ja Rule, and more in Atlanta and other cities

• Marriott Bonvoy x Beyoncé

CONCERTS WHERE YOU CAN FIND THE STUBS BY GRANTANSWERS TEAM

• 5/31/25-6/1/25: Roots Picnic, in Philadelphia

• 8/1/25: Little Brother, in Brooklyn

• 9/12/25: Anuel AA, in Brooklyn

WORTH PAYING FOR:

• 6/6/25-6/8/25: The Governors Ball w/ Olivia Rodrigo, Benson Boone, and Tyler The Creator

• Various dates: SiR - STEP INTO THE LIGHT tour, Nationwide

• Various dates: Raphael Saadiq - No Bandwidth! tour, in NYC, Los Angeles and Oakland

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About the author:

Cris is Founder/CEO of GrantAnswers, an NYC-based strategy, data, and product consultancy founded in 2013. His work has helped ventures scale nationwide and impacted 1000+ individuals in launching careers in tech and securing acceptances to top colleges/universities. Cris earned a BA in Psychology from CUNY and ascended as a 21-year-old Ph.D. Candidate in Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center. His speaking engagements for the likes of Columbia Business School, UCLA, Teach for America, and the US Chamber of Commerce encompass career development, entrepreneurship, and technology.

As an emerging writer, Cris integrates Philippine and Saudi Arabian migration, coming-of-age in NYC, and 25+ years of concertgoing to form deeply reflective, intimately vulnerable, and humorously adventurous stories through universal themes of family, freedom, loss, nostalgia, and technological advancement. His piece “Never Tell [A Lie]” is featured in PEN America’s World Voices Festival and the 2025 DREAMing Out Loud Anthology. His journey from immigrant child to award-winning entrepreneur and immigrant rights advocate has been highlighted in outlets such as NYT, WSJ, MTV, and Forbes.

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