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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.
The Blueprint Bridge Fellowship, in partnership with The Juilliard School, is an annual National Sawdust mentorship and commissioning initiative that connects Juilliard alumni and current student composers with career and project mentorship, culminating in a concert of their commissioned projects.
Algiers with amani, Big Rube, billy woods, DeForrest Brown Jr., desde, Dreamcrusher, ELUCID, Fatboi Sharif, King Vision Ultra, LaToya Kent, maassai, Mark Cisneros, Nakama, and Patrick Shiroishi.
Chamber quartet Sandbox Percussion will perform composer and violinist Matt McBane’s Bathymetry in its entirety in this celebratory world premiere performance featuring an opening set by Matt McBane.
Since its founding in 2005, Winter Jazzfest has cemented a reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, presenting new and exciting sounds and scenes throughout New York.
Rescheduled to January 26th, 2023 due to unforeseen circumstances.
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.
Tickets on sale Friday 11/18 at 10am
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.
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Brooklyn institution the Reverend Vince Anderson and the Love Choir bring their Dirty Gospel to the Sawdust stage, followed by a DJ set at the intersection of African, Latin-American, and electronic music from Salt Cathedral's Nico Losada.
French pianist Sofiane Pamart, a.k.a. ‘Piano King,’ has made a name for himself by bridging the traditionalist western classical world and the always-innovating realm of hip-hop. Pamart’s collaborations with rappers like Koba LaD, Vald, Joey Starr, and more have helped piano music shed its staid facade and become more accessible to new listeners.
Experience the most high-tech artist’s playground in New York City, from our acoustically pristine space to our Meyer Sound spatial system, with Founder Kevin Dolan, Director of Sound and Technical Design Garth MacAleavey, and Architect Peter Zuspan in this free panel and spatial sound demonstration as a part of Open House New York.
The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to present an intimate conversation and performance with Noah Cyrus at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY. The conversation will include a discussion about Noah's career, including her new debut album The Hardest Part, her tour, as well as her musical influences and background, creative process, and more. Following the conversation, Noah will perform.
Electronic composers weaves soaring strings and pristine vocals for a web of ethereal otherworldliness.
Trevor Dunn’s trio-convulsant, birthed in 1997 on the tails of a second Mr. Bungle record, will perform in its third manifestation while maintaining the guitar-trio-core with Mary Halvorson & Ches Smith; South Korean bassist Jeong Lim Yang’s Zodiac Trio will present the music of Mary Lou Williams in a recreation of her Zodiac Suite from 1945.
This fall our neighbors at Disco Tacos bring the party next door to National Sawdust in a special monthly edition of their hallmark dance party Spin Days. Get down in Sawdust’s state-of-the-art venue home with special guest DJs while sipping natural wines and mezcal from partner brands.
This “Musicians as Activists” panel will feature tap dancer and choreographer Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement’s music director Russell Hall. Lerman and Hall are two of the founding members of The Blacksmiths, a coalition of artist-activists that formed in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder to use the arts to support direct action and civic engagement in service of Black liberation and equity.
A GOD OF HER OWN MAKING is an immersive opera in which the human vessel serves as a primary instrument and conduit for sound as a healing pathway to the divine. Incorporating both old and new technologies, woman and machine come together in sacred co-creation.
Fast-emerging British singer, songwriter and pianist Reuben James’ virtuoso jazz techniques and soulful, evocative voice have led him to be widely regarded as one of the most exciting and creatively assured artists to have emerged in recent years.
Renowned Avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan, known as the “Queen of the toy piano” and “the world’s premiere string piano virtuoso,” will present a program honoring the late American composer George Crumb and his late wife Elizabeth May Brown.
French pianist Sofiane Pamart, a.k.a. ‘Piano King,’ has made a name for himself by bridging the traditionalist western classical world and the always-innovating realm of hip-hop. Pamart’s collaborations with rappers like Koba LaD, Vald, Joey Starr, and more have helped piano music shed its staid facade and become more accessible to new listeners. (sold out)
Tap dancer and choreographer Michela Marino Lerman and her band Love Movement will present a multidisciplinary musical experience about love, self love, self acceptance and healing.
PUBLIQuartet perform in full for the first time their latest album “What is American,” which highlights our country’s complex histories with the Black and Indigenous roots of contemporary, blues, jazz, free, and rock music. Presented in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.