Jason Mraz and The New York Pops Featured in One Night Only Performance on August 17 at Forest Hills Stadium

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JASON MRAZ AND THE NEW YORK POPS FEATURED
IN ONE NIGHT ONLY PERFORMANCE
ON AUGUST 17 AT FOREST HILLS STADIUM

Mraz To Perform Selections from His Two-Decade Career Arranged for Full Orchestra

Concert With The New York Pops Is Part of Mraz’s Summer Tour,
The Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride

February 15, 2023, New York, NY — Multi-GRAMMY Award winner and Songwriters Hall of Fame Honoree Jason Mraz is back on tour this summer. His tour will conclude with a one-night-only performance of Mraz and his band with The New York Pops led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke on August 17, 2023 at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens. The concert will feature Mraz performing selections from his two-decade career arranged for full orchestra. Tickets go on-sale on February 24 at 10am ET. 

Mraz brushed off his dancing shoes today and revealed “I Feel Like Dancing,” the first single and video from Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride. Announced today, Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, Mraz’s eighth studio album, will be available everywhere June 23.  

Mraz’s summer tour by the same name runs from mid-July to mid-August and he will enlist longtime collaborators to join his band on the trek, including Austin, TX-based Grooveline Horns, rock-folk band Raining Jane, and guitarist Molly Miller.

Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride is a return to pop music for Mraz, who reunited with producer Martin Terefe (Coldplay, Train, Mike Posner), his collaborator on We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things., Mraz’s landmark album featuring “I’m Yours” and “Lucky.”

Concert Information
JASON MRAZ
AND HIS SUPERBAND
With THE NEW YORK POPS
Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor
Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. / Doors open at 6:00 p.m.
Forest Hills Stadium

Tickets are available at ForestHillsStadium.com. Forest Hills Stadium is conveniently located just steps from the E, M, F, R subway trains at Forest Hills-71st Ave as well as the Forest Hills Long Island Rail Road station.
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About the Artists
The New York Pops is the largest independent pops orchestra in the United States and the only professional symphonic orchestra in New York City specializing in popular music. Under the dynamic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke, The New York Pops continues to re-imagine orchestral pops music. The orchestra performs annually at Carnegie Hall and at Forest Hills Stadium, a 14,000-seat historic concert venue in Queens, NY. Through its PopsEd music education programs, The New York Pops fulfills its dedication to lifelong learning by collaborating with public schools, community organizations, and senior centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City. PopsEd allows thousands of New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds to participate in fully customizable music programs that blend traditional education with pure fun, both in the classroom and through remote learning. Follow The New York Pops on Facebook (facebook.com/thenewyorkpops), Instagram (@thenewyorkpops), and Twitter (@thenewyorkpops).

Steven Reineke has established himself as one of North America's leading conductors of popular music and is in his second decade as Music Director of The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Additionally, he is Principal Pops Conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Principal Pops Conductor of the Houston and Toronto Symphony Orchestras.

Reineke is a frequent guest conductor with The Philadelphia Orchestra and his extensive North American conducting appearances include Dallas, Detroit and the Ravinia Music Festival.

On stage, Reineke has created programs and collaborated with a range of leading artists from the worlds of hip hop, R & B, Broadway, television and rock including Maxwell, Common, Kendrick Lamar, Nas, Ne-Yo, Cynthia Erivo, Sutton Foster, Ben Rector, Cody Fry, Wayne Brady, Peter Frampton and Ben Folds, among others. In 2017, National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” featured Reineke leading the National Symphony Orchestra performing live music excerpts between news segments — a first in the show’s 45-year history. In 2018, Reineke led the National Symphony Orchestra with hip hop legend Nas performing his seminal album "Illmatic" on PBS's Great Performances.

As the creator of more than 100 orchestral arrangements for the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Reineke’s work has been performed worldwide and can be heard on numerous Cincinnati Pops Orchestra recordings on the Telarc label. His symphonic works Celebration Fanfare, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Casey at the Bat are performed frequently. His Sun Valley Festival Fanfare was used to commemorate the Sun Valley Summer Symphony’s pavilion, and his Festival Te Deum and Swan’s Island Sojourn were debuted by the Cincinnati Symphony and Cincinnati Pops. His numerous wind ensemble compositions are published by the C.L. Barnhouse Company and are performed by concert bands worldwide.

Jason Mraz is living full spiral. It’s not full circle, exactly, because he’s changed and his experiences have changed, but on his 8th studio album, Mystical Magical Rhythmical Radical Ride, the musician has found himself returning to a familiar junction in space. Throughout the album, there are hints of Mraz’s formative releases, including his 2002 debut Waiting For My Rocket to Come and 2005’s Mr. A-Z, but it ultimately finds a kinship with 2008’s We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things. The new songs, which are unabashedly pop, see Mraz reuniting with numerous collaborators, including L.A. band Raining Jane and producer Martin Terefe, who helmed the 2008 breakout album. The songs grapple with the emotions and experiences that come with being in your mid-life, a time that is often ignored by pop songwriters. Its optimistic, inspiring sensibility reflects the musician’s overall approach to being in the world. It is, in fact, full spiral, reflecting the past but becoming something new.

Image at top of release by Shervin Lainez

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