The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Tyler Hubbard followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of his solo sophomore album, Strong, his career, and more.

April 16, 2024

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Ancient City holds in its sound world of trombones, percussion and vocals-a beauty based on nature and rhythms of the land.

April 15, 2024

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Daniel Bernard Roumain and the DBR Lab return to National Sawdust to present cross-disciplinary talent by seven emerging artists from Arizona State University on Saturday, April 13, 2024.

April 13, 2024

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Jamaica-born and New York-based artist TYGAPAW asks, what if, instead of fleeing from the vitroil witnessed in our everyday lives, we sought to develop new languages to understand it through rage music? This bespoke performance for National Sawdust features new works entwined with alternate versions of highlights from the TYGAPAW catalog. The musician will join Resident Advisor critic Kiana Mickles for a conversation.

April 12, 2024

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Riddims of the Gods is the latest collaboration between dancer & choreographer Reggie ‘Regg Roc’ Gray, photographer Carol Dragon and DJ & Music Producer Epic B. Using the essential tools of storytelling through Flexn, the dancers will metamorphosize into Greek gods or goddesses, sharing their superpowers and leave us with a fragment of their glory.

April 11, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum in partnership with the Americana Music Association is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with T Bone Burnett followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of his new album, The Other Side, his career, and more.

April 10, 2024

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A new series co-produced by National Sawdust and The Metropolitan Opera that Navigates Questions of What Qualifies as Opera and Who Opera Is For Through Explorations of Modern Works

April 9, 2024

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Utilizing a series of drones, live cello loops, and National Sawdust’s immersive Meyer Sound Spacemap system, Maya Beiser pays tribute to Terry Riley’s classic work In C.

April 6, 2024

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Ran Blake (b. 1935) will perform a rare NYC concert in solo and duo format with special guests. To celebrate the release of Ran’s biography, this concert will be inter-spliced with a live interview and film clips to present a retrospective of the life and music of this iconic pianist.

April 5, 2024

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New York-based composer and producer Kelly Moran defies classical norms with a contemporary, experimental approach to the piano. Presented by AdHoc.

April 3, 2024

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“Roger Eno creates pastoral landscapes in sound, letting each simple melody unfold with patience.” - Pitchfork

March 30, 2024

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Our March 29th performance of Roger Eno with ACME is sold-out. Tickets are still available for our March 30th performance // We'll sell tickets to the March 29th performance at the door based on capacity on a first-come first-serve basis. Our standby line opens at 6:30pm.

March 29, 2024

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"Piano Realities" is a program of works for piano and electronics featuring excerpts from David Bird’s Iron Orchid; the US premiere of Joanna Bailie’s new work, Marblepark; Aaron Einbond’s Cosmologies; the world premiere of Heather Stebbins’ All Things That Disappear; and the first North American performance of Alec Hall’s A dog is a machine for loving.

March 28, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Beth Ditto followed by a performance with Gossip at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation, moderated by T. Cole Rachel, will include a discussion about the creative process of their new album, Real Power, punk rock, knitting, Rick Rubin, chosen family, and more.

March 26, 2024

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In an evening of kaleidoscopic sound and movement, Sugar Vendil shares a set of new solo compositions for piano, voice, and live electronics, as well as a preview of her ensemble piece Antonym: the opposite of nostalgia with her performance group and collaborators, Isogram.

March 23, 2024

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This one-hour program brings together music that is transcendent in nature, drawing inspiration from dreams, medieval chant, renaissance polyphony, spirituality, and the power of silence.

March 22, 2024

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Lætitia Sadier plays National Sawdust with support from Storefront Church

March 20, 2024

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Centered around autobiographical stories of Laudau’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Performance of Self takes us on a relatable, emotional, funny, and deeply personal journey about love, sex, queerness, gender, family, online dating, boy bands, and the boxes we don’t quite fit in. Fusing memoir, concert, cabaret, and music-theatre, the debut solo show from the GRAMMY™ Award-nominated vocalist, composer, and percussionist, features original chamber rock compositions written and performed by Laudau, backed by a six-piece band of contemporary music all-stars.

March 16, 2024

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Centered around autobiographical stories of Laudau’s childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, Performance of Self takes us on a relatable, emotional, funny, and deeply personal journey about love, sex, queerness, gender, family, online dating, boy bands, and the boxes we don’t quite fit in. Fusing memoir, concert, cabaret, and music-theatre, the debut solo show from the GRAMMY™ Award-nominated vocalist, composer, and percussionist, features original chamber rock compositions written and performed by Laudau, backed by a six-piece band of contemporary music all-stars.

March 15, 2024

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( (( PHONATION )) ) is a multimedia performance by Bora Yoon with live video manipulations by R. Luke DuBois, exploring where sound connects to the subliminal using found sounds, new and antiquated instruments, electronic devices, and voice.

March 9, 2024

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In this monthly interactive series, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves by making their instruments talk. Hosted by Timbalooloo founder Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet), featuring special guests!

March 3, 2024

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Critically acclaimed poet and rising novelist Phillip B. Williams presents a musical celebration of his novel Ours, featuring a live reading of excerpts and live musical interludes from Chicago’s genre-defying Akenya and UK sensation Jerome Thomas.

March 2, 2024

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Ahead of the release of her eleventh studio album, Lo, The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation moderated by songwriter and artist Joe Henry with GRAMMY-award winning artist Paula Cole followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about the creative process of Lo, her career, and more.

February 27, 2024

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Don't miss a zany evening devoted to "Insectum", a sonic exploration of the world of arthropods, featuring composer-musicians Susie Ibarra, Jeffrey Zeigler, Graham Reynolds, and evolutionary biologist Jessica Ware.

February 26, 2024

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“A Worthy Mirror” is a commissioning project of female and non-binary composers in response to 12th-century trobairitz texts.

February 25, 2024

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Irish piano trio Fidelio Trio make their much-anticipated debut at National Sawdust with an eclectic offering of works by Anna Clyne, Philip Glass, Linda Buckley, David Fennessy, John Zorn, and inti figgis-vizueta.

February 24, 2024

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American pianist Bruce Brubaker will take the stage on February 23rd for a concert highlighting his 12th studio album Eno Piano. This record, released November 10th on InFiné, encompasses a selection of Brian Eno’s iconic ambient music, including Music for Airports.

February 23, 2024

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A new series co-produced by National Sawdust and The Metropolitan Opera that Navigates Questions of What Qualifies as Opera and Who Opera Is For Through Explorations of Modern Works

February 22, 2024

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In Uptown Nights: Convent to Wythe, Harlem Stage and National Sawdust band together in a cross-borough collaboration to present yuniya edi kwon, SUN HAN GUILD, and Bora Yoon.

February 16, 2024

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Montclair State University’s John J Cali School of Music showcases the music of their year long Artist in Residence and award-winning multimedia composer, Paola Prestini.

February 10, 2024

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Join us for a roundtable discussion with the composers of A WORTHY MIRROR, moderated by poet and critic danilo machado. This roundtable will explore how A WORTHY MIRROR translates lyric poetry into new compositions, forefronts female and anonymous femme voices in medieval canon, and reflects upon themes of gender, self, and relationships across time.

February 7, 2024

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In this monthly interactive series, instruments come to life and speak through their music, so that children learn to conceive of music as a dialogue amongst instruments and feel empowered to express themselves by making their instruments talk. Hosted by Timbalooloo founder Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet), featuring special guests Vinicius Barros and Vitor Gonçalves.

February 4, 2024

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A chamber animated theater performance comprised of brown paper and a box of sand focusing on themes of transformation, loneliness, and the urge to fly featuring Julian Crouch, Saskia Lane, and Philip Roebuck.

February 3, 2024

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Sheik ’N’ Beik is aging one year older and just like red wine, we’re only getting tastier. What started as a weekly gathering in 2008 at The Belmont Lounge and brought us to the four corners of the planet, gave us emotions in all colors, and memories for a lifetime, is coming home to roost in the heart of Williamsburg. The evening will not only mark the 16th anniversary of SNB but will also be the release party for our seventeenth EP, YVVI, produced by Seattle artist “IVVY”.

February 2, 2024

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Featuring works by Dwight Andrews, Philip Glass, Libby Larsen, Paola Prestini, Javier Diaz, & more

January 31, 2024

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“Only Voice Remains” is a new sparksLIVE project premiering in January of 2024 and co-curated by Sparks & Wiry Cries and composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh. The title is inspired by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad’s poem of the same name, in a program that explores themes of exile, loss, and migration, using a diverse range of vocal traditions rooted in Iran and neighboring regions.

January 20, 2024

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Fashioned after traditional poetry slams and storytelling events like The Moth, each SWC’s songSLAM gives teams of composers and performers a chance to present world premieres of art song and compete for audience-awarded cash prizes totaling up to $2,000.

January 19, 2024

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‘Apollonian Circles’ is a multi-disciplinary musical concert and art installation experience that combines elements of electronic music, jazz, theater, and performance art. National Sawdust member presale begins 10/23, public on sale begins 10/25

January 17, 2024

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‘Apollonian Circles’ is a multi-disciplinary musical concert and art installation experience that combines elements of electronic music, jazz, theater, and performance art. National Sawdust member presale begins 10/23, public on sale begins 10/25

January 16, 2024

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An opera of the elemental, of pre-deities, and illusions of containment, How does it feel to look at nothing is an embodied, interdisciplinary performance emerging through a story of transitional states. Composer-performers, multi-instrumentalists, and extended technique vocalists Andrews and kwon co-create this work through composition, improvisation, dance, physical theater, and ritual.

January 12, 2024

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This captivating durational duet pairs dancer/choreographer/engineer Catie Cuan with an industrial robot arm for an eight-hour dance performance that unfolds over the timespan of a single American workday, beginning at 2pm and concluding with an artist talk with Cuan and Goldberg at 10pm, moderated by NS+ curator Elena Park.

December 16, 2023

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Natti Vogel returns with an all-star chamber orchestra forged among classically-trained, genre-fluid musician friends to disrupt societal norms surrounding music and present a uniquely emotive, seductive sound unhampered by class or cultural conditioning.

December 15, 2023

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JJJJJerome Ellis' work features contemplative soundscapes that explore relationships among blackness, disabled speech, divinity, nature, sound, and time.

December 14, 2023

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A curated program of new solo works composed by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association.

December 11, 2023

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Composer and electronic musician Matt McBane returns to National Sawdust to present Topography, the “terrestrial companion” to 2022’s aquatic Bathymetry, written for cellist Ashley Bathgate and percussion sextet Mantra Percussion with an opening set from cellist Ashley Bathgate.

December 6, 2023

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Brooklyn-based Tiffany Mills Company and Ensemble Ipse join together to create three live music and dance-theater works featuring seven dancers and seven violists.

December 3, 2023

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Brooklyn-based Tiffany Mills Company and Ensemble Ipse join together to create three live music and dance-theater works featuring seven dancers and seven violists.

December 2, 2023

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Using her harp as a musical passport, Bridget Kibbey synthesizes the past with the vanguard of the new with works by J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz, Paquito d'Rivera, Kati Agócs, David Bruce, Samuel Torres, Bridget Kibbey, José Barros, Jacob de Bandolim, and Juan Manuel Plaza.

November 30, 2023

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with GRAMMY and Tony Award-winner Leslie Odom, Jr. followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation moderated by journalist Marcus J. Moore will include a discussion about Leslie’s brand-new studio album, When A Crooner Dies, his creative process, career, and more.

November 28, 2023

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Craig Harris, a student of and performer with the late Afrofuturism pioneer Sun Ra, is a trombonist, composer, bandleader, and gifted sonic shaman. He presents Brown Butterfly, a multi-media work based on the life and movement of Muhammad Ali, the world-renowned heavyweight champion boxer revered as one of the greatest athletes of all time.

November 26, 2023

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With lyricism influenced by the poetry of Eastern Europe and Armenian folk songs and the modalities of classical, jazz, and improvisational music, Astghik Martirosyan’s compositions reflect the sensitivity and vulnerability of a particular moment in time.

November 19, 2023

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El Khat is a homemade junkyard band led by multi-instrumentalist Eyal El Wahab. Named for the drug used so widely chewed across the Arab Peninsula, The band brings original compositions inspired by the music of the golden age in Aden, Yemen. - co-presented by World Music Institute

November 18, 2023

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Born in Mexico City and currently based out of New York City, Magos Herrera is a dazzling jazz singer- songwriter, producer, and educator declared as "One of the greatest contemporary interpreters of song” by The Latin Jazz Network.

November 17, 2023

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Breaking stigma about queer sexuality featuring music alongside local sex educators and public health experts.

November 16, 2023

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Blonde Redhead followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY.

November 14, 2023

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Media Art Xploration (MAX) and National Sawdust co-present MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body? An evening of music by world renowned musicians from The Knights with a world premiere by electro-acoustic composer Paula Matthusen.

November 11, 2023

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Media Art Xploration (MAX) and National Sawdust co-present MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body? Allow us to serve you a cocktail made of DNA.

November 10, 2023

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Media Art Xploration (MAX) and National Sawdust co-present MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body? Artist-choreographer Kate Ladenheim falls repeatedly to various pop songs and you, the audience member, rate her level of commitment to falling.

November 9, 2023

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Media Art Xploration (MAX) and National Sawdust co-present MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body? What if the body’s movement creates the score?

November 8, 2023

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Mathis Picard is a French-Malagasy pianist, composer, producer, and bandleader who currently resides in New York City. Rooted in the tradition of live acoustic jazz performance while incorporating the latest technology, Mathis creates his own musical style that is influenced by his multinational background.

November 5, 2023

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For this Fall 2023 installation of True To Our Native Land, Chief Ayanda Clarke will draw inspiration from contemporary expressions of African musical sensibilities worldwide as he reimagines traditional rhythms, songs, and folklore from across the African Diaspora.

November 4, 2023

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John Raymond and S. Carey bring Shadowlands, their stunning genre-bending collection of songs, to National Sawdust.

October 29, 2023

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Hearing Memory tells the story of a forgotten East German avant-garde, asking how an overlooked cultural history might inform our political present.

October 28, 2023

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As DJ and producer Nosaj Thing, Los Angeles born and raised Jason W. Chung has been actively releasing music and performing for 15 years.

October 25, 2023

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A new series co-produced by National Sawdust and The Metropolitan Opera that Navigates Questions of What Qualifies as Opera and Who Opera Is For Through Explorations of Modern Works

October 24, 2023

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Learn about our distinct architecture and experience interactive demonstrations of our Meyer Sound spatial system in this free event as a part of Open House New York weekend

October 22, 2023

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THE RASA PROJECT is a multimedia performance that confronts the escalating climate crisis featuring works by inti figgis-vizueta, Reena Esmail, and John Cage.

October 21, 2023

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On October 20th, National Sawdust has the honor of opening the Forró New York Weekend (Autumn Edition) Festival with a large chamber ensemble performance directed by Latin GRAMMY-nominated composer Rafael Piccolotto.

October 20, 2023

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation with Jon Batiste followed by a performance at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY.

October 17, 2023

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Brooklyn-based composer, arranger, conductor, and 2022 Toulmin Fellow Jihye Lee presents the world premiere of her new work Infinite Connections, performed by her 18-piece jazz orchestra.

October 15, 2023

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The Harvest Time Project is an ever-evolving concert which will happen around the world, featuring a selection of different musical ensembles who will come together in different iterations to reinterpret Pharoah Sanders' seminal composition Harvest Time (1977). Each performance will diverge from the others as much as Pharoah’s own wildly different live performances.

October 14, 2023

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These intimate performances will see Barnett perform with collaborator and producer Stella Mozgawa.

October 13, 2023

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These intimate performances will see Barnett perform with collaborator and producer Stella Mozgawa.

October 12, 2023

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The songwriter, pianist, vocalist, and producer has become known for her darker take on art-pop, with ruminative lyricism that oscillates between brooding intensity and cathartic euphoria.

October 11, 2023

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At “Drum Talk,” the GRAMMY Award-winning master percussionist will discuss some of the concepts, folklore, and aesthetics that inform and inspire his approach to music-making.

October 9, 2023

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Jazz vocalist and native New Yorker Martina DaSilva brings her project LIVING ROOM to a live audience for the first time ever at National Sawdust.

October 8, 2023

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In this performance, flutist Elsa Nilsson, pianist Santiago Leibson, bassist Marty Kenney, and drummer Rodrigo Recabarren’s “Pulses” explores the intersection between jazz and communication by highlighting the subtle melodic development and deep groove in Dr. Angelou’s reading of her poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” replete with the sounds of rocks, rivers, and trees.

October 6, 2023

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“Classical music gamechanger” –The Line Of Best Fit

October 5, 2023

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“Matching R&B grooves with silky, jazzy, pop-tinged vocals, Niia has character and musical dexterity in abundance.” - Clash Magazine // tickets on sale Friday, May 12th at 10am EST

October 4, 2023

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TENGGER is a traveling musical family who create their brand of psychedelic New-Age drone magic through the use of Indian harmonium, voice, synths, and electronics.

October 2, 2023

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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of guitarist and composer Kaki King's debut album with a new show based on the music of Everybody Loves You.

October 1, 2023

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Emile Mosseri creates a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating his heartfelt debut album Heaven Hunters, featuring an orchestra of his own design adapted specifically for National Sawdust.

September 30, 2023

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Freedom Doll represents a special iteration of Abyss X’s new material featuring a blend of folk, rock, and gospel music, dance, performance, and spoken word.

September 28, 2023

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Award-winning jazz vocalist, composer, and educator Kavita Shah brings her latest album, Cape Verdean Blues to National Sawdust.

September 27, 2023

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Norwegian duo Lost Girls, artist and writer Jenny Hval and multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden, release their first album after collaborating for more than ten years // Tickets on sale Friday 7/21 at 10am EST

September 26, 2023

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“Infinite Staircase” brings together 18 contemporary composers from diverse backgrounds who lend their compelling musical voices to new piano works for Chen, all inspired by the canonic piano etudes of the György Ligeti.

September 24, 2023

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Los Angeles-based composer, vocalist, and producer Julianna Barwick brings her deep, reflective compositions to National Sawdust for an intimate, headlining performance.

September 21, 2023

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Jeremy Dutcher is a Two-Spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation in Eastern Canada whose musical style blends the songs of his community with neoclassical, jazz, and pop influences.

September 19, 2023

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Composer John Zorn and lyricist Jesse Harris have created sixteen new songs fashioned in the form of an Off-Broadway musical featuring Petra Haden accompanied by Brian Marsella on piano, Jorge Roeder on bass, and Ches Smith on drums.

September 17, 2023

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Composer John Zorn and lyricist Jesse Harris have created sixteen new songs fashioned in the form of an Off-Broadway musical featuring Petra Haden accompanied by Brian Marsella on piano, Jorge Roeder on bass, and Ches Smith on drums.

September 16, 2023

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Alicia Hall Moran brings an indoor ice-skating show to National Sawdust, featuring a quartet of exceptional performers and dynamic percussionist Jacquelene Acevedo.

September 15, 2023

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Alicia Hall Moran brings an indoor ice-skating show to National Sawdust, featuring a quartet of exceptional performers and dynamic percussionist Jacquelene Acevedo.

September 15, 2023

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7th Jazztopad Festival NYC presents two world premieres: Craig Taborn’s premiere of the 1st part of “Luminous Grid,” written for piano and the Lutosławski Quartet, and a premiere of Don Davis' "Screeming into the Void" written for Lutoslawski Quartet

June 24, 2023

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The French Brooklyn-based duo Cosmic Gardens presents an immersive multi-sensorial show that combines indie electronic music, stunning visuals and tantalizing smells to take you on an introspective exploratory journey.

June 23, 2023

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In 'Home is Here' Felipe focuses on the theme of immigration in the jazz community.

June 22, 2023

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New York Music Month, an initiative of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, presents an essential primer for live performers.

June 20, 2023

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New Latin Wave and National Sawdust present Paraíso, an experimental chamber opera that follows a mother and child from Puebla, Mexico as their lives are shaped by the political and economic factors that govern who gets to cross the U.S.-Mexico border and how.

June 16, 2023

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Donnacha Dennehy writes a startling, powerful piece for piano, performed by Eliza McCarthy; Tonia Ko pens a solo for amplified bubble wrap, an innovative instrument she invented and plays; and Dan Trueman teams up with legendary Irish fiddler Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh on a piece for 10-string fiddle that brings the history of Irish traditional music in dialogue with the orchestra.

June 14, 2023

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An interactive concert series that celebrates music and diversity with special guests that will introduce children and families to the rich global culture in New York and beyond.

June 11, 2023

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Brooklyn composer and drummer Chase Elodia presents the world debut of his interdisciplinary project Walking in the City, which illustrates Brooklyn in words and music.

June 10, 2023

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