Tours & Events

We are looking forward to an exciting season of tours in 2025 to explore the history, art, and natural beauty of Woodlawn Cemetery. We host a variety of events throughout the year for families in the Bronx and beyond. We invite friends and neighbors of all ages to attend one of our upcoming tours to experience the fascinating history and cultural heritage of The Woodlawn Cemetery.

The Woodlawn Conservancy offers private group tours for adults and students. A schedule of rates and inquiry form can be found here.

Celebrate Pride at Woodlawn

LGBT Notables Trolley Tour, June 21, 2025, 12:30PM.

Join the NYC LGBT Historic Sites project and place rainbow flags at the Woodlawn Cemetery graves of vaudeville stars, suffragists, Harlem Renaissance figures, artists, writers and other LGBT individuals who are buried at the cemetery. The tour will be led by the founders and directors of the NYC LGBT Sites Project.

Tickets are available here.

Woodlawn’s Historic Landscapes and Architecture Walking Tour

Sunday, June 22, 2025 1:00PM

Join Andrew Dolkart for a special walking tour highlighting Woodlawn’s notable landscape design and historic architecture. Woodlawn’s noted landscapes and mausoleums are the work of many famous architects such as McKim, Meade and White, William Welles Bosworth, and Hunt and Hunt, and landscape designers including Ellen Biddle Shipman and the Olmsted Brothers. Andrew Dolkart is  a noted architectural historian and Professor of Historic Preservation in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. He is the author of several award-winning books, including The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929Biography of a Tenement House in New York City: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street; and Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development. He is also the author of the first edition of the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s Guide to New York City Landmarks.

For Tickets, please click here.

 

Welcome To Woodlawn – Free Trolley Tour

Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 12:00 PM – Sold Out

Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – Sold Out

Hop aboard the Woodlawn Trolley for a complimentary Welcome To Woodlawn. Learn about Woodlawn’s rich history, notable individuals, remarkable art and architecture, and natural beauty. Our Woodlawn docents will choose the route. These tours are currently at capacity.

 

Jazz and Vaudeville Greats Trolley Tour

Sunday, August 24, 2025 11:00 AM

Join us for a Trolley Tour visiting the final resting place of the Vaudeville and Jazz Greats at Woodlawn Cemetery. The stops on the tour will include George M. Cohan, Nora Bays, Duke Ellington and many more. You will listen to the music of these notable musicians played on a Victrola. Take a step back in time with you host Michael Cumella, aka DJ MAC and join us for the Jazz Age.

For Tickets, please click here.

The Woodlawn Suite – CD Now Available.

The sounds of Madam C. J.  Walker strutting down the street, Dorothy Parker raising a glass, and Cicely Tyson whispering to Miles Davis are all part of The Woodlawn Suite, Victor Goines’ 13 movement work celebrating the lives of New Yorkers now at rest within the historic Woodlawn Cemetery. Commissioned by the Woodlawn Conservancy to create a modern memorial, the saxophonist and composer created these biographical sketches that link listeners to the lives of those who impacted our culture. Join Victor and his ensemble of creative musicians to be part of the premier of The Woodlawn Suite. A long-time member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and former director of the Jazz Studies Program at Northwestern University, Goines serves as President and CEO of Jazz St. Louis.

To purchase the CD – please click here.

 

 

At Woodlawn, we have ongoing tours and events taking place throughout the year.

Contact our staff for further details. We look forward to welcoming you and your family!

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