In early August each year, the critically acclaimed 1920s Dixieland musician, Bix Beiderbecke, is celebrated in the neighborhood he once called home. The cornetist once lived in a building that still stands in Sunnyside. The Bix Beiderbecke Sunnyside Memorial Concert, organized by Sunnyside Shines, took place on 46th Street, between Queens Boulevard and Greenpoint Avenue, which was transformed into a pedestrian mall on Saturday afternoons throughout August and featured live music performed by the South Shore Syncopators, Sunnyside Wolverines and the Sunnyside Drum Corps.

Photos Walter Karling

The South Shore Syncopators bringing back the 1920s.

The Sunnyside Wolverines perform jazz for the crowd.

The Sunnyside Drum Corps practiced hard for this day.

Jazz fan Don Donaldson, whose father arranged music for Fats Waller, attended to help celebrate.

The audience was treated to a musical feast at the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial Concert.

The Sunnyside Arch and a poster for the concert featuring Bix Beiderbecke.