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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Original works by emerging artists from Arizona State University

April 2, 2023

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Experience 2022 Hildegard Commission composers' Andrea Guterres, Hannah Ishizaki, Yaz Lancaster, DM R, Kelley Sheehan and Foteini Tryferopoulou works at Rockefeller Center.

April 3, 2023

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May 6, 2023

Kalia Vandever and Joy Guidry, two rising stars in New York City’s jazz scene, unite on this double bill.

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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Communally-read hand-made art-books accompanied by a live-score inspired by the poet C.P. Cavafy’s journal as his family fled Alexandria to sail to Constantinople.

April 28, 2023

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A public mural on the north-facing wall of National Sawdust

April 29, 2023

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April 30, 2024

A multimedia performance that meditates collaboratively on the sensuality of C.P. Cavafy.

May 3, 2023

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A multimedia performance that meditates collaboratively on the sensuality of C.P. Cavafy.

May 4, 2023

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A musical performance & nightlife celebration of Cavafy featuring Juliana Huxatable and her band Tongue in the Mind.

May 6, 2023

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Colombian-born and Berlin-based musician, sound artist, performer, and composer Lucrecia Dalt makes her National Sawdust debut - bringing her distinctive, warm experimental sound that melds musical influences from her varied career.

May 9, 2023

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With The Mega Lab's Crispin Nakoa

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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Billboard called Stréliski "one of the foremost new stars in modern classical"

May 27, 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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In 'Home is Here' Felipe focuses on the theme of immigration in the jazz community.

June 22, 2023

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