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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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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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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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 29, 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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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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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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“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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“Classical music gamechanger” –The Line Of Best Fit

October 5, 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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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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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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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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These intimate performances will see Barnett perform with collaborator and producer Stella Mozgawa.

October 12, 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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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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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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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 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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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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Interdisciplinary artist and musician Chris Williams and Brooklyn-based trio Alaara take the stage at National Sawdust for this double headline performance of improvisation, experimentalism, jazz, and minimalism.

October 27, 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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Tickets on Sale Friday 6/30 at 10am EST

October 29, 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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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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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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Media Art Xploration (MAX) and National Sawdust co-present MAXlive 2023: Where Is My Body? Dancer-choreographer Kate Ladenheim makes herself into a playable avatar by falling repeatedly, 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? 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? Experience the enchanting world of winged wonders through the magical harmony of music with a world premiere and selections from a variety of cultures and epochs.

November 11, 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A curated program of new solo works composed by members of the Iranian Female Composers Association.

December 11, 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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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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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 culminating with an artist talk from 10-11pm. Tickets on sale this September.

December 16, 2023

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