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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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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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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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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FREE // Open House New York is a five-borough festival celebrating design, culture, and civic investment. With more than 300 destinations to explore over three days, the festival helsp participants understand why the city looks, feels, and functions the way it does. Experience the most high-tech artist’s playground in New York City! Housed in a former Sawdust factory in the heart of Williamsburg, National Sawdust is a dynamic non-profit that commissions, produces, presents, and supports multidisciplinary artists and arts organizations in creating innovative new work.

October 19, 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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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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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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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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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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On the heels of her 2025 Pulitzer Prize in music, singular Filipinx-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra returns to NS+ with a program featuring U.S. and New York premieres, as well as tales of collecting sound over time in remote, rustic corners of the world.

October 7, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome rising artist Addison Rae to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion about her debut album, Addison, her creative process, her career, and more, with a special live performance.

October 4, 2025

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Moderated by Journalist Nayeema Raza // The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome award-winning string duo ARKAI to National Sawdust for their NYC album release show of Brightside (out August 22), featuring an exclusive live performance and an inside look at their music, career, and creative process.

September 29, 2025

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Del Maguey Single Village Mezcal presents the first event in the Single Village Music Series with an intimate album listening event featuring Mexican indie star Silvana Estrada. Hear Silvana's sophomore album 'Vendrán Suaves Lluvias' ahead of its release on October 17 via Glassnote Records. Silvana will be in conversation with Rolling Stone editor Julyssa Lopez about the making of the album. There will also be special surprises and complimentary drinks provided for attendees.

September 28, 2025

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Zola Jesus aka Nika is an American born singer, songwriter and producer. Since 2008, she has released two EPs and seven (?) full-length albums majoratively on NY multi-decade tastemaker label Sacred Bones. Nika began training as an opera singer at the age of 10. She dismantled that training to deliver her breakthrough lo-fi record The Spoils in 2009, most of which she recorded as an undergrad in her dorm room at UW Madison.

September 27, 2025

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Zola Jesus aka Nika is an American born singer, songwriter and producer. Since 2008, she has released two EPs and seven (?) full-length albums majoratively on NY multi-decade tastemaker label Sacred Bones. Nika began training as an opera singer at the age of 10. She dismantled that training to deliver her breakthrough lo-fi record The Spoils in 2009, most of which she recorded as an undergrad in her dorm room at UW Madison.

September 27, 2025

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After spending the majority of his adult life thus far in New York, Juan Wauters decides to revisit his native Montevideo, the culturally rich capital of Uruguay. Wauters explored the excitement of falling back in love with his birthplace on his subsequent record, 2023’s Wandering Rebel, but on his seventh studio album MVD LUV — due June 27 via Captured Tracks — Wauters doesn’t just introduce listeners to Montevideo; he invites them to feel at home within it. Having spent much of his career in the United States, Wauters has long carried the dual identity of immigrant and native son. With MVD LUV, a love letter to both his roots and his present, he set out to bridge those worlds by capturing the essence of Montevideo’s streets and communal spirit.

September 26, 2025

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Join cellist and composer Tamar Sagiv for the release of her debut album Shades of Mourning, —an intimate journey through grief, memory, and hope that transforms personal loss into a powerful musical expression. Drawing on her Middle Eastern heritage and rigorous classical training, Sagiv creates a sonic landscape against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts in her homeland.

September 25, 2025

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Join us on Wednesday, September 24, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM for the first one of the season, featuring Brooklyn’s very own hot sauce brand Heatonist. Enjoy a curated tasting of their signature sauces paired with a spicy cocktail crafted by our beverage director, Ricky, as we toast to bold flavors and musical innovation. Spots are limited, RSVP today to save yours!

September 24, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome rising artist Lola Young to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion about her new album, I’m Only F*cking Myself, her creative process, hit single "Messy" and more with a special live performance.

September 23, 2025

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When guitarist and composer Yasmin Williams sits down to compose music, she doesn’t scour her subconscious for unheard melodies or clever chord progressions. Instead, she goes granular—fixating on a single note. She’ll play it over and over, sustaining it, varying the attack or the release to change its essence, eventually adding notes to form chords. In addition to the crisp fingerpicked guitar that helped establish her as a fast-rising star of instrumental folk, Williams plays kora, harp guitar, banjo, and electric guitar and bass—all with authority.

September 20, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Wolf Alice to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion about their 4th album, The Clearing, creative process, and career with a special live performance.

September 18, 2025

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Devendra Banhart (b. 1980, Houston, Texas) lives and works in Los Angeles. An internationally renowned musician considered a pioneer of the “freak folk” and “New Weird America” movements, Banhart has toured, performed, and collaborated with Vashti Bunyan, Yoko Ono, Os Mutantes, the Swans, ANOHNI, Caetano Veloso, and Beck, amongst many others. His musical work has always existed symbiotically alongside his pursuits in the other fine arts.

September 17, 2025

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Devendra Banhart (b. 1980, Houston, Texas) lives and works in Los Angeles. An internationally renowned musician considered a pioneer of the “freak folk” and “New Weird America” movements, Banhart has toured, performed, and collaborated with Vashti Bunyan, Yoko Ono, Os Mutantes, the Swans, ANOHNI, Caetano Veloso, and Beck, amongst many others. His musical work has always existed symbiotically alongside his pursuits in the other fine arts.

September 16, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Yungblud to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a brief preview of his new documentary YUNGBLUD. ARE YOU READY, BOY, a discussion of his new album IDOLS, and a special live performance.

September 15, 2025

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Nina Keith and Rachika Nayar were drawn to one another like mirror images or two sisters reuniting after a lifetime of separation. Four years ago, the artists met in Brooklyn's two-block–by–two-block Maria Hernandez Park after fan-girling each other’s music online. Dishing about messy post-lockdown long-distance lesbianism, heartfelt investments in Buddhist and Hindu philosophies, and a shared high-school love of the Eternal Sunshine OST, the two found their surface similarities gesturing toward a deeper shared existential worldview. Presented in partnership with AdHoc.

September 12, 2025

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“Slathered in reverb and sent hurtling through a dizzying maze of guitar effects, Just Mustard document succumbing to the inertia of a panic attack with a biting urgency.” Ireland’s Just Mustard return with an intimate New York show on Tuesday, September 9th at National Sawdust.

September 9, 2025

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Join ShiShi for a one-night-only presentation of his latest album "Indigo," a 9 song body of work that blends rock, electronic and devotional music to tell a story of deep spiritual longing. "Indigo" is aptly titled in honor of the Hindu god of love and devotion "Krishna," whose name literally means "dark blue." In the ancient spiritual traditions of India, Indigo is said to be the color of the divine, celestial realm. ShiShi's latest offering traverses themes of loss, desire, devotion and ultimately the quest for unity with the divine. Together, we will journey through an opening sound meditation and a live performance of "Indigo."

September 6, 2025

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MODERATED BY WRITER, PRODUCER, AND MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLER J'NA JEFFERSON // The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome GRAMMY Award-winning artist Ciara to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to discuss her new album – CiCi (out August 22nd), career, and creative process with a special live performance.

September 5, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Ben Folds to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to discuss his latest music, career, touring, and creative process with a special live performance.

August 21, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Old Dominion to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to discuss their latest music, career, touring, and creative process with a special live performance. Moderated by music journalist Alan Light.

August 11, 2025

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Mohini Dey is a 28 year old Indian renowned bass guitarist, arranger, producer & vocalist who has gained international recognition for her extraordinary talent and versatility. With her unique style and impeccable technique, she has collaborated with numerous renowned artists and performed on prestigious stages around the world.

June 21, 2025

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Mohini Dey is a 28 year old Indian renowned bass guitarist, arranger, producer & vocalist who has gained international recognition for her extraordinary talent and versatility. With her unique style and impeccable technique, she has collaborated with numerous renowned artists and performed on prestigious stages around the world.

June 21, 2025

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Babehoven is a band fronted by singer-songwriter Maya Bon and collaborator Ryan Albert in Hudson, NY. Their new album 'Water's Here In You' is available everywhere on April 26 via Double Double Whammy.

June 20, 2025

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The Messenger follows a community of seekers whose leader has gone missing. They have always lived in harmony with the land, their ancestry, and beliefs. What will they do in his absence? In this fusion of classical, jazz and new music, the community sets out to answer this very question.

June 19, 2025

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National Sawdust is thrilled to partner with Domino Park's inaugural Sugar, Sugar! festival for a night of music set against unparalleled views of the Manhattan skyline. Join us at our neighborhood park for a twilight jazz performance of "Back to Nature" featuring Isaiah Barr, David Frazier Jr. and William Parker. Admission is free with reservations.

June 18, 2025

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This immersive, multimedia experience will invite audiences to envision worlds beyond the limits of their present. Willie Mae students will present original 20-channel sound experiments alongside live performances from the Black Sound Salon and Wille Mae Alumni.

June 13, 2025

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Blue Note Jazz Festival presents Rosali with special guests J.C.R.G and Edsel Axle.

June 12, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Tony and Academy Award-nominated artist John C. Reilly to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate his upcoming album, What’s Not To Love?, with a discussion about his creative process and a special live performance accompanied by GRAMMY Award-winning musician and co-producer of What's Not To Love? Davíd Garza (Fiona Apple, Sharon Van Etten).

June 10, 2025

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We Don’t Need the Sea to Drown is a multi-disciplinary performance from Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol that combines stories gleaned from Karol’s movement interview with NY-based artists and community leaders with Shirey’s renowned use of sound objects with the duo’s celebrated choral form, the Gauntlet, where corridors of singers pass a libretto downstream in cascadinging tones and phrases, as audiences experience waves of sound.

June 7, 2025

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We Don’t Need the Sea to Drown is a multi-disciplinary performance from Sxip Shirey and Coco Karol that combines stories gleaned from Karol’s movement interview with NY-based artists and community leaders with Shirey’s renowned use of sound objects with the duo’s celebrated choral form, the Gauntlet, where corridors of singers pass a libretto downstream in cascadinging tones and phrases, as audiences experience waves of sound.

June 6, 2025

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Known for his buttery voice and distinct strumming, guitarist, singer-songwriter and bandleader John Roseboro has been making a name for himself in the Brooklyn indie scene, redefining and innovating the genre with Brazilian jazz and mysticism.

June 4, 2025

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Musicians from the New York Youth Symphony's Orchestra, Chamber Music and Jazz ensembles perform world premieres of original works by NYYS composers. The performances are led by members of the Robert L. Poster Apprentice Conducting program.

May 19, 2025

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Poems of Consumption turns Amazon customer reviews into “pop songs” written, composed, arranged, and produced by H.Sinno and their collaborators. The harsh electronica and lush string quartet are accompanied by video work by Sinno and Matteo Zamagni which further saturates the performance with a relentless barrage of phantasmagorical visuals.

May 14, 2025

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No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler. After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country rearing and classical enthusiasm with his ardor for postmodern experimentation, field recordings and static drifts folded beneath exquisite melodies.

May 13, 2025

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Student CoLab is National Sawdust’s flagship education program for middle school composers. This free concert is the culmination of the 4-month commissioning program, featuring performances by the students, including original music for voice, guitar, bandola, and cello, as well as electronics and visual art — all written and designed by the students.

May 11, 2025

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A Dance for Birds is a nine-movement suite of music crafted by the visionary composer and percussionist, Samuel Torres. Showcasing his latin chamber ensemble featuring the Bergamot Quartet with special guest vocalist Lucía Pulido. A Dance for Birds tells a story of migration with the congas (the bird) as the narrator. This work brings Afro-Latin rhythms, jazz and classical music together, defying musical stereotypes and expanding the horizons of chamber music.

May 9, 2025

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SYML is the solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell. Welsh for “simple”— he makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person.

May 8, 2025

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SYML is the solo venture of Seattle artist Brian Fennell. Welsh for “simple”— he makes music that taps into the instincts that drive us to places of sanctuary, whether that be a place or a person.

May 7, 2025

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Kronos Quartet reunites with Jeffrey Zeigler for a one-night only performance at National Sawdust, dedicated to compositions that "Awaken the Future." The evening includes a world premiere by 2019 Hildegard Commission Winner and composer Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and features a sound sculpture by Roxanne Nesbitt. Former quartet member and acclaimed cellist Jeffrey Zeigler will perform with Kronos, reuniting with the contemporary music champions for the first time in more than ten years. The program also explores the fantastical worlds of Kronos' friends Nicole Lizée, Peni Candra Rini, and Gabriella Smith. Smith's epic work "Keep Going" highlights the issues surrounding climate change, and celebrates those individuals who keep fighting for solutions and for our future.

May 3, 2025

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SOLD OUT /// After a 3-year hiatus, Theophilus London returns to the stage for a one-night only event to lay the foundation for a new chapter in his music career. Hosted and curated by London, the evening will unfold in three parts, taking the audience on a sonic journey that will culminate with a world premiere performance of Awaken, his comeback track and the first single from his upcoming album.

April 29, 2025

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Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and DBR Lab return to National Sawdust to present cross-disciplinary talent by emerging artists from Arizona State University on Saturday, April 26, 2025. Original projects explore dance, original music compositions, digital media and spoken word. Featuring special guest Carl Hancock Rux.

April 26, 2025

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Join composer-instigator Jad Abumrad and virtuoso trio Ji Hye Jung and Sō Percussion’s Eric Cha-Beach and Jason Treuting in this playful evening highlighting maximum efficiency with minimal waste. They will be joined by New York Times food writer Melissa Clark, and induction chef extraordinaire Rachelle Boucher of the Building Decarbonization Coalition (BDC), with NS+ curator Elena Park.

April 25, 2025

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From Mickey Mouse to Michael Jackson, and traditional Hawaiian song to Kabuki, the falsetto sound is deeply ingrained within our global consciousness. But what does it evoke, and what does it express? This synesthetic concert experience blends the intangibility of the countertenor voice with the invisibility of smell molecules. It explores how unseen elements––sound and smell––can provoke emotion and imprint long-lasting memories.

April 18, 2025

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From Mickey Mouse to Michael Jackson, and traditional Hawaiian song to Kabuki, the falsetto sound is deeply ingrained within our global consciousness. But what does it evoke, and what does it express? This synesthetic concert experience blends the intangibility of the countertenor voice with the invisibility of smell molecules. It explores how unseen elements––sound and smell––can provoke emotion and imprint long-lasting memories.

April 17, 2025

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Join us for an unforgettable evening at the intersection of jazz and chamber music with Ravinia On Tour's Bridges Composition Concert. This captivating fusion of genres promises to spark the joy of jazz aficionados and classical music enthusiasts alike.

April 16, 2025

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In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums – and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow.

April 12, 2025

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“Since Glenn Gould’s visit to Moscow and Van Cliburn’s victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition in the heat of the Cold War, never has a foreign pianist provoked such frenzy”. THE HUFFINGTON POST 

April 11, 2025

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“Ko te reo Māori, he matapihi ki te ao Māori” goes the Māori whakatauki (proverb) that has guided Aotearoa singer/songwriter Marlon Williams’(Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) fourth solo album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Translated, it means “The Māori language is a window to the Māori world” and expresses Marlon’s motivation behind his first te reo Māori album. “Through the process of constructing these songs,” Marlon says, “I’ve found a means of expressing my joys, sorrows and humour in a way that feels both distinctly new yet also connects me to my tīpuna [ancestors] and my whenua [land, home].”

April 10, 2025

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A showcase of Montclair State University’s 2024-2025 year-long residency with composer and violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), featuring cutting edge acoustic and electronic music by Roumain and Cali School of Music composers, with performances by the university’s flagship young artist ensembles Trillium String Quartet and Cali Collective.

April 5, 2025

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“Avishai Cohen has rather quietly become one of the most creative trumpet players in jazz.” (JazzTimes)

March 29, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 11x GRAMMY Award-nominated artist Anoushka Shankar to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to have a discussion moderated by WNYC’s radio host and author John Schaefer about the creative process behind her latest album, Chapter III: We Return To Light, with a special live performance.

March 26, 2025

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(LATE SHOW) Shimizu’s boundary-breaking approach to music goes beyond composition and performance. He views physical space as an extension of his instrument, and often “plays the space,” making use of unique acoustic environments in which to record and play.

March 21, 2025

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Shimizu’s boundary-breaking approach to music goes beyond composition and performance. He views physical space as an extension of his instrument, and often “plays the space,” making use of unique acoustic environments in which to record and play.

March 21, 2025

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Shimizu’s boundary-breaking approach to music goes beyond composition and performance. He views physical space as an extension of his instrument, and often “plays the space,” making use of unique acoustic environments in which to record and play.

March 20, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Japanese Breakfast to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate her new album, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women), with a discussion about her creative process and a special live performance.

March 19, 2025

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In Timbalooloo, 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 in the language of music. For this concert Etkin invites accomplished Palestinian musician Zafer Tawil, on Oud and Arabic percussion. Clara Net will meet the Oud and Arabic percussion instruments as they take the children on a journey full of song and dance.

March 15, 2025

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Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and performer Du Yun presents an evening featuring the artist's rock band and chamber ensemble OK Miss along with her friends NOMON and DJ Rekha. NOMON will perform music from their EP 'Card II' and new work from an upcoming album. Du Yun's rock band and chamber ensemble OK Miss headlines with songs from their forthcoming album and new material from an upcoming project with children of the Jinuo ethnicity from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. DJ Rekha closes out the evening with an alchemy of sounds from their NYC based global musical palette.

March 8, 2025

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Experience the uniquely stirring voice of singer-songwriter Tenzin Choegyal. The Tibetan artist will perform solo and be joined by special guests including the Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet and pianist Alex Gray. Riverkeeper’s Executive Director Tracy Brown and Nepali waterkeeper Megh Bahadur Ale highlight the NYC-based group's urgent advocacy to protect our global waterways in this intimate evening, hosted by NS+ curator Elena Park.

March 7, 2025

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Join us in celebrating the winners of this year’s Hildegard Commission, National Sawdust’s groundbreaking mentorship initiative dedicated to empowering extraordinary women and marginalized genders in the early stages of their careers.

March 6, 2025

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Join us for our March Member Happy Hour on Monday, March 3rd starting at 6:30PM. We are excited to partner with Brooklyn local brand, Kato Sake Works who will lead us in a sake tasting of their popular beverages. Kato Sake Works is a neighborhood craft sake brewery in Bushwick, Brooklyn where you can enjoy handcrafted small-batch sake on draft at our taproom with live music and food popups. We look forward to seeing you there!

March 3, 2025

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KLARA is a chamber dance-opera in four Haikus for two pianos and soprano, exploring what it means to be human through the lens of artificial intelligence.

February 28, 2025

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Drawing from their NPR Album Of the Year Transylvanian Folk Songs featuring legendary reeds-man John Surman and their new ECM duo release Transylvanian Dance pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri will reimagine through improvisation the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of folk songs from Transylvania using the unique acoustic possibilities of the National Sawdust space to bring back to life century old songs using live performance, audio from the original Edison wax cylinder recordings, rare handwritten manuscripts and photographs taken by Bartók himself in his field trips. Co-Presented with World Music Institute.

February 26, 2025

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The New York Times proclaims “Rafiq Bhatia is writing his own musical language,” heralding him as “one of the most intriguing figures in music today.” A guitarist, producer, and Academy Award-nominated composer “who refuses to be pinned to one genre, culture or instrument,” Bhatia makes sculptural, meticulously crafted music that finds common ground among ecstatic avant-garde jazz, mournful soul, fractured beats and building-shaking electronics.

February 22, 2025

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U2, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young and Peter Gabriel are just some of the legendary artists whose sound has been shaped by the visionary work of music producer, musician, and songwriter Daniel Lanois. Not to mention his contribution to the creation of ambient music, collaborations with Brian Eno, ground breaking film scores and his own catalog of ethereal and experimental music works that span the last 40+ years.

February 21, 2025

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Composer and National Sawdust Co-Founder Paola Prestini sits down with Jad Abumrad, creator of “Radiolab,” for a riveting interview about a decade of the state-of-the-art cultural institution.

February 21, 2025

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Art of Time Ensemble is proud to present A Singer Must Die, a concert in tribute to the legendary literary and musical icon Leonard Cohen. Featuring singers Steven Page, Sarah Slean, Tom Wilson and Gregory Hoskins, in a program that reimagines Cohen’s songs with the ensemble’s masterful, unique arrangements.

February 20, 2025

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Can certain frequencies shape human psychology? Could the science of sound unlock the mystery of ghosts? And what’s the story behind Pink Floyd’s infamous backward message? Sound always tells a story—but beneath every note, every frequency, lies something deeper, something hidden. Join “Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know” and special guest Justin Richmond of “Broken Record,” for a unique live performance event as they explore how sound reveals the secrets of life’s most intriguing mysteries. Presented by iHeartPodcasts and On Air Fest.

February 19, 2025

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Jake Charkey performs Rasika: Beyond the Bounded Territories, a compilation of commissioned works for the Indian cello and Hindustani music. Rasika explores hybridity, the overlapping spaces between Western music and Indian music, points of tension or commonality, and new ways of synthesizing Indian techniques and musical grammar.

February 15, 2025

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Singer and composer Magos Herrera celebrates 25 years of discography with her New York musical family, her jazz trio featuring Vinicius Gomes on Guitar, Matt Penman on bass and Alex Kautz on drums and a string quartet with members of The Knights Orchestra lead by violinist Colin Jacobsen. A retrospective that will evoque music from her recording carrier with some special guests including vocalists Theo Bleckmann, Melissa Stylianou and Chiara Civello.

February 14, 2025

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“Animals make me laugh. They are tender, they are funny, they do things differently and it is fascinating,” says Mama Farm's Isabella Rossellini

February 13, 2025

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Immerse yourself in the contemplation of the beauty and significance of the night sky in this enthralling NationalSawdust+ evening, featuring music by Kaija Saariaho, Caroline Shaw, Andrew Yee, Philip Glass, and John Glover, with DarkSky International Delegate and photographer John Bulmer, hosted by NS+ curator Elena Park.

February 12, 2025

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Custom of the Coast is a new opera interweaving the life stories of Anne Bonny, an 18th century Irish pirate who escaped execution by “pleading the belly,” and Savita Halapannavar, the Indian-born, Irish-based dentist who died in 2012 having been denied an abortion.

February 9, 2025

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Grounded in the lived experience of scientific practice, Meltdown is a one-act dramatic work for mezzo-soprano and piano trio that explores the intertwined dynamics of grief over the climate crisis, sexual harassment and violence, and the exploitation of people and land.

February 8, 2025

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The Sparks & Wiry Cries songSLAM is a unique and energizing community event for composer/performer teams to premiere new art songs and compete for cash prizes. Each team presents a new song of no more than 5 minutes for voice and piano, in any language, for the voting audience, who—in the poetry slam tradition—will then vote on their favorites and award prize money to the winning competitors!

February 7, 2025

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Michael Hersch's wrenching fourth opera, and we, each, with a libretto after the poetry of Shane McCrae, is an exploration of the treacherous territories of relationships—between individuals, within societies and, ultimately, the collapse of both.

February 6, 2025

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First Sounds is the debut album of the new, neoclassical group hailing from Montreal, consisting of violinist Sarah Neufeld, multi-instrumentalist Richard Reed Parry and cellist Rebecca Foon. The trio originally met in Montreal during the late 1990s while independently finding their footing in the local arts and culture community. For two years, Rebecca, Sarah and Richard collaborated in various capacities before embarking on their respective musical careers.

January 30, 2025

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Join us as we launch the 2025 Composers Now Festival with an electrifying evening hosted by Tania León, the visionary Founder and Artistic Director of Composers Now. This event kicks off a month-long celebration spotlighting the voices of living composers across the nation.

January 29, 2025

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Girl From the 905 is a genre-busting presentation from a powerhouse operatic team working within their usual roles, but completely outside the lines. A classical score that rattles alive with electronic textures, performed completely raw and unfiltered by a classical trained soprano, rooted in an auto-biographical story of women living between the lines in a multi-cultural family, who come to accept and love themselves for who they are.

January 26, 2025

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We Were Fridays follows a story that began in the Griot tradition of West Africa, travels to South Carolina by way of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, then north by way of the Great Migration, and then continues through Vietnam and Japan. Through deep investigation and collaboration, the team led by Zeigler explores the music of the Gullah community of the Low Country of South Carolina, a community which to this day has preserved more of their West African linguistic and cultural heritage than any other African American community in the United States.

January 13, 2025

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Discover something new at The Winter Jazzfest 2025 Brooklyn Marathon at National Sawdust, featuring Vijay Iyer Trio + 1 Featuring Adam O'Farrill, Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn, Keyon Harrold, and the Zoh Amba Sun Ensemble.

January 11, 2025

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome 2025 GRAMMY Award-nominated Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album artist Norah Jones to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY to celebrate her album Visions with a discussion of her creative process and a special live performance.

December 17, 2024

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Highly acclaimed songwriter Joan As Police Woman returns to the stage performing key songs from throughout her career alongside new music from her essential new album: “Lemons, Limes and Orchids.”

December 13, 2024

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The electric Bang on a Can All-Stars play an intimate concert of music by Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe – a set of new, recent, and ‘classic’ works featuring Wolfe’s signature combination of driving rock energy and minimalist serenity. Join Bang on a Can and National Sawdust for this end-of-year holiday hang as the All-Stars offer a sneak-preview of Wolfe’s Flower Power and more. Limited seating!

December 12, 2024

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Grammy Award Winning operatic baritone Will Liverman presents a multi-layered interdisciplinary experience revolving around the World Premiere of a new song cycle, specifically created for National Sawdusts' mainstage Williamsburg-based space, set to poetry by Liverman himself, long-term collaborator, pianist / poet, Jonathan King, Tesia Kwarteng and Sara Teasdale.

December 8, 2024

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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.

December 6, 2024

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Celebrate composer Karen LeFrak with a program featuring works for solo piano, chamber ensemble, and the New York Premiere of the Miami Guitar Concerto. Featuring performances by Sharon Isbin, Forrest Eimold, Jeffrey Zeigler, Javier Diaz, Mariana Rodriguez, Grant Braddock, Victor Pablo García-Gaetán, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.

December 4, 2024

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The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Thurston Moore to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The evening will celebrate his latest album Flow Critical Lucidity on Daydream Library Series – praised by NPR, Rolling Stone & more – along with his recent memoir & audiobook Sonic Life on Doubleday – a Vanity Fair Favorite Book of 2023 and Vogue Most Anticipated Book. This will include a discussion moderated by Jenn Pelly about his creative process behind the releases, his career, and more, with a special performance to follow.

December 2, 2024

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BMP: NEXTGEN 3 showcases the most innovative work from future industry innovators. These ten up-and-coming composers--selected from a pool of over 140 applicants--write in a dazzling array of musical styles. This concert will feature one piece from each composer, and will be adjudicated by a panel of industry experts. Following this concert, two finalists will be chosen and commissioned to compose a 30 min vocal-theatre work. Ultimately, one of these finalists will be selected for a full evening-length commission.

November 24, 2024

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BMP: NEXTGEN 3 showcases the most innovative work from future industry innovators. These ten up-and-coming composers--selected from a pool of over 140 applicants--write in a dazzling array of musical styles. This concert will feature one piece from each composer, and will be adjudicated by a panel of industry experts. Following this concert, two finalists will be chosen and commissioned to compose a 30 min vocal-theatre work. Ultimately, one of these finalists will be selected for a full evening-length commission.

November 23, 2024

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