The Asbury Underground Downtown Art and Music Crawl, an Asbury Park tradition which fills the streets of downtown Asbury Park with free concerts, comedy shows and poetry readings, will be held again this year for the first time since 2019.
This year’s crawl will be held Sat., June 15 from noon to 7 p.m.
The event returns to Asbury Park as a feature of the Prudential presents North to Shore Festival, New Jersey’s three-week, three-city celebration of arts and ideas. North to Shore, produced by NJPAC, will offer concerts and events across Asbury Park June 10 to June 16.
This year’s Asbury Underground art and music crawl will include approximately 100 performances — highlighting the work of over 200 musicians and some 50 visual artists, plus scores of poets and comedians, at 33 different venues, including stages dedicated to jazz, spoken word poetry and comedy.
Visitors following the crawl map to all of the event’s stages and venues will be able to travel across the city’s downtown, into art galleries, coffeehouses, clothing stores, restaurants and other spaces. Each stop along the way will offer a display or a performance by an area artist.
“The whole idea, from the inception of Asbury Underground, was to bring a broader awareness of just how fertile, in all of the arts, the city truly is,” says the founder and producer of Asbury Underground, Patrick Schiavino, a local artist and the owner of art629 Gallery.
