In 'Soundscapes,' multi-disciplinary sound artist, saxophonist, DJ, and producer Eli Fola explores the healing potential of techno. Already well-known for pioneering the "Yoruba Tech Soul," Fola will expand on the live-hybrid set with National Sawdust's Meyer Sound spatial sound system.

February 18, 2023

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Brooklyn-based composer, musician, and producer Faten Kanaan brings her modern minimalism counterpoint to the National Sawdust stage with an opening improvised set from JJJJJerome Ellis on hammered dulcimer, tenor saxophone, piano, electronics, and voice.

February 24, 2023

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Tickets on sale Friday 11/18 at 10am

March 1, 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.

March 5, 2023

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Flutist and advocate Jennifer Grim shares music from her recent Afro-Modernist and post-minimalist release "Through Broken Time" (New Focus) with pianist Michael Sheppard.

March 7, 2023

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Join us in celebration of the winners of this year’s Hildegard Commission, National Sawdust’s mentorship initiative that highlights outstanding women and other marginalized genders in the early stages of their careers.

March 9, 2023

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Inspired by the concept of Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with gold to make it stronger and better than it was before, FRAG’MENTS is an hour-long meditative/healing audiovisual spatial work created by Ricardo Romaneiro.

March 11, 2023

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The Berklee Indian Ensemble is bringing its genre-bending sound to Brooklyn for the first time since 2018. Fresh off the release of their grammy-nominated debut album, Shuruaat, the Ensemble is on the road with a slate of originals, new arrangements, songs from the album, and crowd-favorite classics.

March 12, 2023

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Palaver Strings celebrates the joy and catharsis of music in a program featuring bassist Kebra-Seyoun Charles, winner of the 2022 Sphinx Competition. In a mashup of musical styles and eras, the ensemble combines string orchestra classics by Grieg and Bartók with fiddle tunes and “Feeling Good,” a song made famous by Nina Simone.

March 15, 2023

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With Billion Oyster Project's Danielle Bissett

March 23, 2023

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Hosted by writer Maria Popova and featuring cellist and composer Zoë Keating, Space & Time explores the fundamental dimensions of our world and our conscious experience through the twin portals of truth and beauty: music, poetry, and science.

March 25, 2023

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Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena make their New York premiere at National Sawdust, performing work from the award-winning 2019 album Ora Pro Nobis. Started in 2016 as an acapella project between Helena Ros and Marta Torrella, Tarta Relena’s electronic-accented folk reimagines the traditional music of the Mediterranean as a growing form unbound by precedent. Presented in partnership with World Music Institute. 

March 30, 2023

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Shirey tests the edge of music using his vast imagination to create playful and mischievous songs using familiar objects, mutant instruments, electronics and reconfigured sounds.

April 1, 2023

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Kalia Vandever and Joy Guidry, two rising stars in New York City’s jazz scene, unite on this double bill and will perform music from their albums We Fell In Turn and Radical Acceptance.

April 5, 2023

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Japanese sound artist Fuji|||||||||||ta and ambient musician claire rousay bring their textural sound art to the National Sawdust stage, performing contemplative works that take inspiration from our surroundings.

April 6, 2023

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caroline brings together their shared influences, including Midwestern emo, Appalachian folk, minimalist classical and various forms of electronic music on their eponymous debut album, mixed by John ‘Spud’ Murphy (black midi, Lankum).

April 7, 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.

April 9, 2023

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D. A. Mekonnen's new experimental jazz project dragonchild brings the debut performance of BLACK to National Sawdust in this immersive, multimedia spatial sound performance.

April 15, 2023

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With The Mega Lab's Kailey Pascoe

May 10, 2023

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Michael Hersch brings the U.S. premiere of his sprawling 11-hour new music cycle sew me into a shroud of leaves to National Sawdust for a powerful exploration of endurance.

May 13, 2023

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JG Thirlwell presents string quartets from his new album Dystonia on the National Sawdust stage performed by Mivos Quartet.

May 16, 2023

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National Sawdust member presale on sale now - on sale to the public Friday 1/27 at 9am EST

May 20, 2023

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

June 1, 2023

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Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

June 2, 2023

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Black Science Fiction welcomes you to an evening of Black sonic futurism, exploring a genre-bending, multi-format performance composed by contemporary jazz musicians.

June 4, 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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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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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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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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