Tickets
[art-event id="6726"]
In Situ: Brooklyn Youth Chorus & Friends
Oct 6, 2015 • 7pm
Brooklyn Youth Chorus presents a curated evening of music featuring some of today’s most sought-after contemporary composers. Accompanied by American Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), the Chorus performs excerpts from National Sawdust director Paola Prestini’s newest musical theatre piece Aging Magician. The evening also features works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, National Sawdust curator and Arcade Fire core band member Richard Reed Parry plus world premieres by San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone and Sarah Small of The Delirium Constructions. Joining the Chorus will be Bulgarian a cappella trio Black Sea Hotel (Small, Shelley Thomas, Willa Roberts).
Other In Situ events
Psychic Twin
Sep 24, 2016 - 7:00pm In dreams, we rarely know what we are running from or toward. We only know we must keep running, continue searching. Psychic Twin’s debut album, Strange Diary, lives in that state of surreal urgency. What’s in front of us or behind us can’t be described, but we are sure in our bones that what we are searching for exists just a few steps away.
In Situ: Corinne Bailey Rae
August 2, 2016 - 10:00pm Originally the front-woman of an indie band, Corinne Bailey Rae's music spans indie, electronic, soul and experimental. Bailey Rae has just completed her highly anticipated third studio album and she recently performed in Los Angeles for The Grammys’ MusiCares Foundation with Pharrell, The Roots and Leon Bridges just prior to the first track launch and album announcement.
In Situ: The Revolution Vol. 4
June 29, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.
The Revolution Vol. 6
August 20, 2016 - 10:00pm THE REVOLUTION is an emerging musical series that highlights artists and musicians that not only represent the core of independent pop culture in 2016 but who are standing in the breeding ground of an evolution within their genre.
Axel Tosca: Live Performance and Album Debut
July 28, 2016 - 7:00pm Axel Tosca has been playing Cuban-inspired piano since childhood. He has performed with Quest Love and the Roots, and his band, (U)nity, has produced two critically acclaimed albums during their 7 years together.
Sacred Geometry
July 16, 2016 - 7:00pm National Sawdust invites you to Sacred Geometry, a meditative electro-acoustic improvisation on visual sound patterns generated by resonances of sound waves. Music by Ricardo Romaneiro with live projections by Christian Hannon.
In Situ: Radical Face Night 1
May 26, 2016 - 9:30pmBen Cooper, AKA Radical Face, has spent over a decade crafting a trilogy of albums that is tied together in the theme of a fictitious family spanning over a century. The third installment of the album Trilogy, "The Family Tree: The Leaves" will be released on March 25th, 2016, and in celebration Radical Face will be doing a series of intimate concerts inspired and themed around characters and stories from The Family Tree.
The Last Samurai, An Evening of Music and Reading
July 30, 2016 - 7:30pm Helen DeWitt's first novel, The Last Samurai, was published in 2000 by Talk Miramax Books and subsequently in nineteen other countries. Timo Andres is a composer and pianist who frequently performs with the new music ensemble ACME and is one sixth of the Sleeping Giant composers’ collective.
National Sawdust and Rider Community Day
Apr 30, 2016 - 10am-2pmYou're invited to the National Sawdust and Rider Community Open House. This free celebration of our whole building being officially open will feature live music from local musicians and NS groups in residence, as well as tasty treats prepared by Rider's executive chef, Patrick Connolly.
Paul de Jong
June 30, 2016 - 10:30pm Paul de Jong, formerly of the Books presents his new solo performance, with his 2015 debut album ‘IF’ on Temporary Residence Ltd as a musical starting point. De Jong shines new light on his signature musical blend of odd spoken word samplings, mashed studio recordings and live instruments.
In Situ: Salute Flying w/Yuan Liu & Kalmia Traver
Apr 30, 2016 - 11:00pm Yuan Liu is a filmmaker, technology and art researcher and curator. She has been a resident researcher and artist at Waag Society in Amsterdam and Museum of Human Achievement in Austin Texas. She has also been the official video journalist for The Last Weekend, The Internet Week NYC and Eyebeam Art and Technology.
In Situ: Fellow Travelers
Mar 20, 2016 - 4:00pm National Sawdust will host a piano-vocal showcase of scenes from Fellow Travelers, the first full-length opera by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce. Fellow Travelers premieres at Cincinnati Opera on June 17 with eight performances through July 10, directed by Kevin Newbury (Bel Canto, Kansas City Choir Boy, Doubt). At National Sawdust, a cast of five singers headed by tenor Aaron Blake and baritone Joseph Lattanzi will perform nearly an hour of excerpts from the eagerly awaited two-act work
Click here to add your own text
Click here to add your own text
