A NationalSawdust+ evening weaving together sounds of deep nature, colorful stories from the field, and enthralling performances by the New Cicada Trio!

Singer-songwriters Claud and Elliott Skinner invite us into an intimate evening of music shaped by the city they call home. Together, they bring two singular approaches to songwriting and performance that reflect the expansiveness and creative energy of New York’s musical landscape.

Sonido Gallo Negro is a band from Mexico City going back to the roots of psychedelic tropical music with guitars, eccentric organs, analog synthesizers, theremin...they mix exotic rarity and esoterism, which will alter your perception and force you to dance until you get exhausted. Add to it visual hypnotics and live performance by Dr. Alderete.

Derya Yıldırım and Grup Şimşek are internationally recognized for their unique and infectious sound that combines Anatolian folk with psychedelia, pop and soul influences. Co-presented with World Music Institute

Inner Spaces is a duo project from trumpeter-composer Amir ElSaffar and sound artist Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch — two artists for whom microtone is mother tongue and silence is material. ElSaffar moves between trumpet, voice, and santur, drawing on the Iraqi maqam tradition alongside the language of contemporary jazz. Bianchi Hoesch surrounds and transforms this acoustic presence with live electronics, building immersive sonic environments in real time. Together they have developed a modular, collaborative form that weaves electroacoustic landscapes, maqam, microtonal harmony, and open improvisation into a continuous, breathing whole. Their album Inner Spaces (Maqam Records / Ornithology Productions) has received four-star praise from DownBeat, Songlines, and Jazz Journal, with reviewers describing a music that is at once "spiritually ancient" and rigorously forward-looking — a "sonic laboratory" and a "mercurial slice of ambient jazz" rooted in a shared Iraqi maqam. In concert, the duo extends the recorded work outward: the room becomes part of the instrument, and each performance finds its own shape through flexible structures and improvisatory space. This is music that does not move quickly. It asks to be inhabited — heard with the full body, not just the ears.

Join us on Monday, June 22nd for a FREE Community Happy Hour. Expect drink specials, lively conversation, and a tasting by Ten to One Rum! We're also proud to have Crystal Guardian joining us for this edition for a custom earplug pop-up. Come in get your earplugs fitted in 10 minutes and in just two weeks you'll have custom earplugs! RSVP for FREE today to reserve your spot.