Cuban-Chinese artist, composer, and cellist SUUVI premieres Dark Therapy—a groundbreaking neuroarts album and immersive performance—on World Mental Health Day. A classically trained prodigy who began playing cello at age two and was accepted to Juilliard at ten, SUUVI is an emerging force in experimental music. Her work merges ambient cello, spatial electronics, voice, and multilingual storytelling—infused with healing frequencies and guided by scientific insight.

October 10, 2025

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Join us for an evening with psychedelic jazz visionary Cochemea, celebrating the release of his latest album “Vol 3: Ancestros Futuros”. // Tickets on-sale Friday, August 22nd at 10am.

October 11, 2025

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On the eve of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, join Keith Secola and Maria Esther Pallares for a magical evening of music celebrating LIFE, LOVE, & UNITY. They will be joined by special guest Bethany Yarrow, whose father, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, collaborated frequently with both Keith and Esther. He was a great admirer of these extraordinary performers and felt a connection to the sound, spirit, and messages of their music. This performance will also feature a photo exhibit by Alon Kaplun, a New York-based photographer who extracts unique perspectives from his urban surroundings and natural landscapes.

October 12, 2025

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Founded in 2015 and returning from a five-year hiatus, The Hum is BACK for one night only as part of Audiofemme's Agenda Grant Festival! The Hum is a concert series that celebrates and uplifts the community of womxn and gender-nonconforming musicians and artists in New York City. At its core is collaboration: each show features new ensembles composed entirely of womxn and nonbinary artists, curated and paired specifically for the series. These one-night-only “dream bands” perform original sets created just for the occasion, existing only in the moment and never to be repeated.

October 17, 2025

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Ava Luna’s celebrates the release of their sixth LP. The new self-titled album is a testament to almost twenty years of shared musical sensibility, now distilled into its barest elements. The album paints an intimate, exaggerated portrait of NYC, a cacophony of jagged post-punk, funk, and dance beats giving way to lush strings and spacious minimalism. It’s a sound that is both resilient and reflective, proving that even as the city and the band evolve, Ava Luna continue to take listeners somewhere urgent and new.

October 18, 2025

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Join us for an extraordinary evening as we launch ArtSmart’s 10th Anniversary celebration with our NYC gala. This milestone event marks the beginning of our tribute to a decade of transformative music mentorship.

October 20, 2025

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Join us at National Sawdust for our free October Community Happy Hour from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM. Attendees will have exclusive access to an intimate conversation with musician and Executive Director, Maya French of Palaver Strings, to learn more about Maya’s work and creative practice ahead of her performance on November 16th.And what’s Happy Hour without something tasty to sip? Our friends at BKE Kombucha are bringing the flavor with a lineup of their delicious kombuchas! Come and bring a friend or two to try them out!

October 21, 2025

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Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal presents an intimate performance with Puerto Rican star iLe as part of the Single Village Music Series. iLe will be performing her new album 'Como las canto yo' for the first time in the days prior to its release. The album is a covers project dedicated to her favorite traditional boleros. There will also be special surprises and complimentary drinks provided for attendees.

October 22, 2025

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Jog Blues brings together masters of Jazz, Blues and Indian Classical music in a 21st century mix, creating an experience drawing from deep traditions but swinging towards the future. The band is named for Jog, the Indian midnight raga, and the blues, the most American of music genres.

October 23, 2025

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Caroline Rose’s albums blend psychobilly, pop, shoegaze, alt-country, folk, electronic and experimental. They infuse satire, perspective-hopping, film-inspired narrative and an array of storytelling devices that transport listeners straight into Rose’s self-described “weird buffet” of a mind.

October 24, 2025

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The Fiery Furnaces is the long-running collaboration between siblings Eleanor and Matthew Friedberger. Renowned for their dense, allusive lyrics, formally inventive compositions, and unpredictable live shows, the band occupies a singular space in the landscape of experimental pop.

October 25, 2025

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Depending on the game, an Ace can be the highest or lowest card, zero or infinity. A breakup feels similar—one path crumbles, while all others remain infinitely possible. How do you write about heartbreak when you’re going through it? Ace, Grammy award-winner Madison Cunningham’s third record for Verve Forecast, tracks every part of it: falling out of love, having your heart broken, and then falling in love again. It’s about betrayal and betraying yourself. It is a stunning record and some of Cunningham’s best songwriting to date. It showcases her at the height of her powers.

October 26, 2025

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“It doesn't matter if you can sing, it doesn't matter if you're melodic, you are a vibrational being. We are a vibrational species. What we call ‘music’ now is our communicative contribution as a species on and to planet Earth -- and it's one of our best contributions of all.” (Toshi Reagon) Come sing with us this fall! Join Toshi Reagon, Alsarah and the Nubatones, Taína Asili, The Bruces, New York Arabic Chorus, DJ Bill Coleman, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Nona Hendryx, Baba Israel, Yasmin Lee, Legacy Women, Miguel Luciano, Nile Nights, Lizzie No, The Soapbox Presents, DJ Leecy T, and more as we collectively learn to sing songs of resistance and resilience together.

October 28, 2025

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Internationally acclaimed composer and arranger Miho Hazama brings her Grammy-nominated “jazz chamber orchestra” m_unit to National Sawdust. Known for her uncanny yet highly skilled ability to create new works for some of the music’s most compelling voices – including Joshua Redman, Lionel Loueke, and Christian McBride, among many others – Hazama bonds urgency, exploration, and sophistication in her soundscapes. Don’t miss this special one-night event!

October 29, 2025

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Bajo El Radar is more than just an album—it’s a declaration. Nino Augustine uses this project to explore what it means to be a Black, independent artist navigating the music industry. The title, which translates to Under the Radar, reflects the experience of being overlooked despite making undeniable contributions to the global music landscape. For generations, Black and Afro-Latinx creators have been the backbone of cultural and musical innovation, yet their stories often remain untold. With this project, Nino proudly steps forward to amplify those voices and remind the world: We’ve been here from the very beginning.

October 30, 2025

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For the longing listener… The music of composer Dan English is the communing of the head and the heart sharing secrets. The songs subsume time into feelings and images of purity, sonically and spiritually, and then, somewhat masochistically, play with lyrics drawn from the dingier parts of life: love, family, and capricious head-spaces. It’s movie-music; eternal scores for an espionage film with a protagonist who’s a clandestine, time-traveling romantic tailing the spirit itself.

November 1, 2025

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Luna Composition Lab and ChamberQUEER present the second installment of The Nebula Project on November 3. This ongoing partnership, supported by the New York Community Trust, aims to foster emerging composers of diverse identities from Luna Composition Lab and cultivate their authentic voices through mentorship and the commissioning of new work.

November 3, 2025

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Born and raised in São Paulo, Plínio Fernandes fuses the tradition of classical guitar with Brazilian folk music. An exclusive Decca Gold recording artist, Plínio released his debut album “Saudade” in 2022, which hit Number One on the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums Chart. His second album, “Bacheando”, released in September 2023, explores Bach’s influence on Brazilian music and contrasts to his recently released EP, “Cinema”, which dives into five iconic movie soundtracks.

November 7, 2025

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Flock of Dimes – the solo project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Jenn Wasner – releases her third album, The Life You Save, worldwide on October 10th, 2025, on Sub Pop Records. Across the last few decades – whether it be as Flock of Dimes, as half of beloved duo Wye Oak, or via one of her many collaborations with Bon Iver, Sylvan Esso, and a sprawling list of other musical juggernauts – Wasner’s extensive catalog displays her gift for balancing authenticity and directness with an unmistakable left-of-center sensibility. Her songwriting has always found her as a keen-eyed observer, a deeply empathetic and thoughtful storyteller with a skill for probing memory, heartbreak, and unhealed trauma, a shroud of syncopation or off-kilter guitar taking a song somewhere quietly prodigious.

November 8, 2025

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BOLDEN. is a fast-rising jazz house duo blending the soul of jazz with the rhythm of electronic music. Emerging from the UK’s vibrant underground scene, Reuben Barrett and Catherine Rannus, both gifted multi-instrumentalists with contrasting but complementary musical journeys, are forging a new path for modern jazz and electronic fusion.

November 12, 2025

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Hannah Frances (b. 1997) is a vocalist, guitarist, composer, and poet that NPR’s Ann Powers calls “a stunning vocalist and songwriter, making monumental and mythic freak folk,” and was awarded Pitchfork’s Best New Music for her triumphant new album Keeper of the Shepherd. Through cutting lyricism and astute fingerpicked polyrhythms, Frances’ perennial sound melds avant-folk, progressive rock, and jazz.

November 14, 2025

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Port City explores tango music throughout the genre’s history, and features bandoneon visionary Heyni Solera as soloist and composer. Palaver will perform danceable classics alongside contemporary tango-inspired compositions.

November 16, 2025

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BlackBox Ensemble performs the U.S. premiere of PIPA BOY: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora by Baldwin Giang, a multimedia work for ensemble and pipa player exploring global identity and the conditions of belonging and non-belonging. The video part features collaborations with three international filmmakers. The program also includes work by Anthony Cheung, Misato Mochizuki, and Giang's song cycle butterfly, posthumously.

December 5, 2025

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“No harpist thus far has been more capable of combining all of the modern harp traditions — from Salzedo, through Dorothy Ashby, through Alice Coltrane — with such strength, grace and commitment.” - The New York Times

December 13, 2025

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The UK-born and New York-based singer, songwriter, producer, doula, and mother Domino Kirke brings MAMA WAS A ROLLING STONE to National Sawdust. Featuring Domino Kirke and fellow mama musicians, this evening will fundraise for Carriage House Birth. A portion of all proceeds will be donated to a scholarship fund to support training and birth education for doulas and families.

December 17, 2025

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For the fourth year in a row, on January 10, Winter Jazzfest’s signature Marathon heads to Brooklyn for its second night; a night of expansive sounds spread across Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn Bowl, Superior Ingredients, Loove Labs Annex, Baby’s All Right, National Sawdust, and Union Pool. Like our Manhattan Marathon, our Brooklyn Marathon highlights artists who blur genre lines while staying rooted in jazz’s spirit of invention.

January 10, 2026

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What is the sound of our personal histories? What happens when our family stories become melody and rhythm, and when that music fills the air in a room of listeners? Join Kaoru Watanabe and a dynamic ensemble of artists at National Sawdust for Bloodlines Interwoven—an evocative evening of original music and storytelling that honors the beauty of cultural inheritance and collective memory.

January 29, 2026

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What is the sound of our personal histories? What happens when our family stories become melody and rhythm, and when that music fills the air in a room of listeners? Join Kaoru Watanabe and a dynamic ensemble of artists at National Sawdust for Bloodlines Interwoven—an evocative evening of original music and storytelling that honors the beauty of cultural inheritance and collective memory.

February 25, 2026

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“The hyphen-rich vocalist-percussionist-speaker-producer-activist’s vibe isn’t so much “singer-songwriter” as “icon of empowerment.” Her frenetic odes to feminism, fluidity and freedom — carried off with the assistance of an entirely female or nonbinary band — mash together fragments of electro-pop, trap, Afrobeat and R&B, carried off with endless swagger.” – NPR

March 20, 2026

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