If you love great music but want to keep your arts outings affordable, the New World Symphony’s Blue Concerts are one of South Florida’s best cultural bargains. Held at the New World Center in Miami Beach, these concerts invite everyone — from first-timers to seasoned classical fans — to experience innovative orchestral music at whatever price they can afford.
What Are the Blue Concerts?
The Blue Concerts are a curated series developed by the orchestra’s Fellows. These performances tend to be more intimate, experimental, and community-focused than traditional symphony concerts, offering fresh takes on classical and contemporary works.
Pay-What-You-Wish Tickets
Here’s the best part for budget-minded South Floridians: Blue Concerts are pay-what-you-wish. That means you set the price — from $0 up — making world-class music accessible to everyone.
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Upcoming Blue Concerts
Blue Concert: If It Ain’t Baroque …
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: New World Center, Miami Beach
RSVP/Tickets here.
Details:
Travel back in time to Bach’s Coffee House in Leipzig, the place where so many of the virtuosic voicings and perfectly placed counterpoints were first performed. The Fellows of New World Symphony will curate and perform an eclectic evening of Baroque, and Baroque-influenced, music. Enjoy this all-too-rare chance to hear the work of Baroque composers Barbara Strozzi and Caterina Assandra alongside Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos No. 5 and 6.
Blue Concert: The Yellow Wallpaper in Concert
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: New World Center, Miami Beach
RSVP/Tickets here.
Details: Through immersive visuals and a modern masterpieces, “The Yellow Wallpaper in Concert” guides the audience through Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic feminist tale of a woman’s psychological unraveling under confinement.
Blue Concert: Musicians’ Forum
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2026
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: New World Center, Miami Beach
RSVP/Tickets here.
Details: Curated and produced by Fellows, this series presents intimate performances that come alive.
More New World Symphony events
See all the upcoming New World Symphony events here.
Parking options
Parking is about $2 per hour at the 17th Street Garage, 1755 Meridian Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139, or usually $15 per event at the Pennsylvania Avenue Garage, 1661 Pennsylvania Ave., Miami Beach, FL 33139.
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