Questlove to Be Honored With ‘SummerStage Icon Award' at 2025 City Parks Foundation Benefit
Come September, the Grammy-winning hip-hop drummer and Oscar-winning filmmaker will be honored by New York's City Parks Foundation with the SummerStage Icon Award at its annual fundraiser. The City Parks Foundation, through its Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage Festival, provides free arts and cultural programs to New Yorkers and helps bring public spaces to life (CPF describes its ethos as 'thriving parks mean thriving communities').
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The organization's 2025 dinner and dance party fundraiser will take place Sept. 25 at the SummerStage venue in Manhattan's Central Park and will wrap with a private dance party DJ'd by Questlove. Additionally, the event will find the City Parks Foundation honoring Brooklyn Sports and Entertainment (Barclays Center/New York Liberty/Brooklyn Nets owners) with the People & Parks Award. Tables and tickets for the event are available here.
The Roots are slated to play SummerStage at Queens' Flushing Meadows-Corona Park this Sunday (July 20). This year's SummerStage lineup also includes Soccer Mommy, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Rakim, Celia Cruz Centennial Celebration, Big Freedia, Camilo, Jessica Pratt, Bob Sinclair, IZA, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Awich, Frankie Negrón, La Sonora Poceña and Morgan Freeman's Symphonic Blues. You can find more about the 2025 SummerStage lineup here.
Questlove received three Primetime Emmy nominations on Tuesday (July 15) for his work on three different programs: outstanding directing for a documentary/nonfiction program for Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music; outstanding music direction for SNL50: The Homecoming Concert; and outstanding documentary or nonfiction special for Sly Lives! (Aka The Burden of Black Genius). These are his first Emmy nods.
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