Your guide to N.J.’s massive North 2 Shore music and arts festival

With more than 200 performances at over 100 sites over three weeks, North To Shore is billed, understandably, as “the festival only Jersey can handle.”

This massive undertaking by the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in three cities — Asbury Park, Atlantic City and Newark — has big-time national acts, including Kevin Hart, Matchbox Twenty, Keyshia Cole, and the B-52s. But the strength of the festival is in the hundreds of other performances by artists from our own backyard.

Mosaic is New Jersey Advance Media’s new website, with a mission to celebrate the richness of the state’s diverse cultures. Our new site is showcasing all that North 2 Shore has to offer with wall-to-wall coverage. We’ve written extensively about the flurry of musicians, dancers, comedians, and other festival artists, including stories about Clarence Clemons’ son, Jarod, and his planned tribute to his father on Father’s Day and how Gary Clark Jr., a Texas-bred star, brought his “new brand of swagger” to Asbury Park.

And with so many acts to consider, each week we’ll pick a few performances as Mosaic’s Pick of the Week. Typically, the events we pick are fun, educational and free.

If you’ve missed some of coverage, you can stillfind it on Mosaic. But here are some of the highlights from our coverage:

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