This Week — National Sawdust

James Rhodes
February 8, 2017 - 7:00pm Immortal piano music by history's finest composers performed in an intimate setting with the lights down low and an opportunity to disappear and escape from the world for an hour and a half. Along with a few jokes. And a bit of historical context.

Magos Herrera: Valentine’s Day
February 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Join Grammy Nominated Jazz Artist Magos Herrera for an evening of Romantic jazz music and fine food from Rider.

Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
February 12, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque.

Magos Herrera: Valentine’s Day Day 2
February 14, 2017 - 7:00pm Join Grammy Nominated Jazz Artist Magos Herrera for an evening of Romantic jazz music at National Sawdust.

Oh Land w/ support from Raia Was
February 14, 2017 - 10:00pm Danish singer-songwriter and producer Oh Land performs at National Sawdust on Valentine's Day.

The Mentoring Series at National Sawdust: Garrick Ohlsson and Eric Lu
February 15, 2017 - 7:00pm This concert features Garrick Ohlsson and Chopin Competition Finalist Eric Lu.

Yosvany Terry, Orlando Alonso, and Yves Dharamraj: Bohemian Trio
February 15, 2017 - 9:30pm The Bohemian Trio celebrates the release of their debut album Okónkolo. for Bohemian Trio’s restless mélange of old and new world music. As Larry Blumenfeld of the Wall Street Journal writes, the album “offers welcome liberation from the baggage of expectation ... heritages that blur more than reinforce borders [and] the sweet spot sought by many contemporary composers, especially in New York, grounded more in creativity than genre.”

Written for Talea: New Works by Diaz de Leon, Fineberg, Eckardt
February 17, 2017 - 7:00pm As a part of the Talea Ensemble’s ongoing series, Written for Talea, the ensemble presents an evening of world premieres composed by some of the world’s most exciting living composers. 2017’s edition will include Joshua Fineberg, a Berlin-based American spectralist, whose new work features performers spatialized throughout the venue; Jason Eckardt’s gnarly guitar concerto featuring rising star Nico Couck, and heavy metal hero; Mario Diaz de Leon, combining his Scelsi-inspired harmonies with blood curdling electronics.

DISRUPT (series): Collaboration of Jan St. Werner, Sufjan Stevens, Kid Millions and Benjamin Lanz with Special Guests
February 18, 2017 - 7:00pm Jan St. Werner (Mouse On Mars), Sufjan Stevens (The National, Danielson, Sisyphus), Kid Millions (Oneida, Man Forever) and Ben Lanz (Beirut, The National, LNZNDRF) have played together in various configurations, bands, projects and one-offs, but never as all four. This quartet, along with some special guests, will enjoy improvised moments of togetherness, communicating devices, turning knobs, mashing buttons, stomping boxes and dragging horns around a skyscrapered room.

The B(LA)K Experience
February 18, 2017 - 10:00pm The B(LA)K experience is a performative memoir of L.A.’s traumas and shifts growing up in Brooklyn, NY from the early 90’s til present day. The B(LA)K performance will dive deep into LA's personal stories that speaks towards the current climatic variables such as racism, police brutality, crime, gentrification, classim and how the these once implicit issues in NYC, now are at the forefront of changing Brooklyn natives lives forever. B(LA)K is how the surroundings effects the child, and how these effects transfer to the young adult, leaving valleys of issues that follow into adulthood. B(LA)K is for everyone but is dedicated to the stories of Black Womanhood in Brooklyn, NYC.

Attacca Quartet: Recently Added
February 19, 2017 - 7:00pm First Prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2011, top prizewinners and Listeners’ Choice Award recipients in the 2011 Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and winners of the Alice Coleman Grand Prize at the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition in 2006, the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet has become one of America’s premier young performing ensembles.

Stone Commissioning Series: Matt Mitchell
February 22, 2017 - 7:00pm These compositions are all related and part of a series, and they stem from one bar of music called “A Pouting Grimace’. It represents a desire to consciously integrate a higher amount of my sonic and compositional interests than previously attempted. We will record this music a week after this performance.

Jeff McErlain Presents: David Grissom
February 22, 2017 - 10:00pm I’m really excited to bring my unique blend of Texas blues and rock to National Sawdust. I’m especially fired up about the opportunity to collaborate and stretch out with the great Andy Hess on bass and to have Jeff McErlain sit in for a few tunes as well. It should be a great night! -David Grissom

Sxip Shirey Presents: Baby Dee
February 23, 2017 - 7:00pm One of the industry's most incredible musical discoveries of the last decade, Baby Dee is an enchanting song writer, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and west side street legend Her infectious cackle and extraordinary talent on piano, harp and accordion has caught her many musical admirers including Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Maxim Moston, and Andrew WK, all of whom have produced unique and magnificent albums for her.

Caroline Polachek: Drawing the Target Around the Arrow Night 1
February 23, 2017 - 10:00pm For the sole live performance of Drawing The Target Around The Arrow, CEP will be accompanied by NYC interdisciplinary vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon, directed by Vince Peterson.

Philip Glass @ 80 – The Complete Etudes with Maki Namekawa
February 24, 2017 - 7:00pm Following studies at the Kunitachi Music University in Tokyo, Maki Namekawa pursued advanced work under Pierre-Laurent Aimard at the Musikhochschule in Cologne as well as studies with Werner Genuit and Kaya Han at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe and Stefan Litwin in Saarbrücken.

Caroline Polachek: Drawing the Target Around the Arrow Night 2
Feb 24, 2017 - 10:30pm For the sole live performance of Drawing The Target Around The Arrow, CEP will be accompanied by NYC interdisciplinary vocal ensemble Choral Chameleon, directed by Vince Peterson.

Eric Owens Chamber Recital
February 26, 2017 - 4:00pm On his day off from singing in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Rusalka, opera star Eric Owens will travel to Brooklyn to perform an intimate chamber music and vocal recital with special guests. This unique presentation will feature Bach cantatas BWV 82 "Ich habe genug" and BWV 56 "Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen," as well as featuring Eric playing oboe.

Women in Music: A Tribute to Mercedes Sosa
March 2, 2017 - 7:00pm Magos Herrera brings together an international line up to celebrate the life and music of the iconic Latin American singer Mercedes Sosa.

Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra
March 2, 2017 - 10:00pm Josh Green & The Cyborg Orchestra will take on full-blooded human form for the live debut and release of their irreverent album, Telepathy & Bop — a quirky, colorful, approach to melding modern jazz and contemporary classical music.

Lost Spring
March 3, 2017 - 7:00pm One hundred years after the Armenian Genocide, a mother must explain this troubled history to her daughter. But how does one explain inhuman cruelty to innocence itself? Mixing theater, dance, and live music, and further brought to life by the visuals of artist Kevork Mourad, this multi-disciplinary creation is the poetic journey of a woman in quest of her history, in quest of meaning, in quest of a lost spring…

Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show
March 3, 2017 - 10:00pm This being the first edition of Doug Fitch’s Art Gallery Variety Show, we begin in the bubble of comfort of our own little room – so nice to come home to – only to find certain outside influences more pernicious and pugnacious than one might have envisioned. The demons of disingenuity are swarming about, filling the void with fallacious authenticity and threatening our exceptionalist contentment. Following a story-esque through-line presented in songful vignettes and other musical vehicles, some of the city’s most talented performers and cultural barometers inhabit National Sawdust, offering uplift in this downful time.

Joe Snape and ACM: Fleck Flob Flop
March 4, 2017 - 7:00pm Exploring new ways to tell musical stories, Snape’s Fleck Flob Flop chronicles the intersections of six lives through the combined powers of chamber ensemble, electronics and live-typed text projection, and comes to National Sawdust after two sell-out European tours with ACM.

Jeffrey Zeigler Presents: Touch/Feel
March 4, 2017 - 10:00pm TOUCH/FEEL performs experimental pop with a chamber music sensibility. Driving and raw dance rhythms, elegant melodic phrases, and an engaging dynamic move the audience from gentle meditations to head banging emotional workouts.

Table Music Brunch: New Vintage Baroque
March 5, 2017 - 12:00pm Table Music at National Sawdust is a one of a kind music series created and curated by Juilliard graduate and historical oboist Lindsay McIntosh, featuring a fresh and innovative young Baroque ensemble, New Vintage Baroque. Inspired by Café Zimmerman, the largest and most popular Kaffeehaus in Leipzig and a center for the middle classes during the eighteenth century, National Sawdust and James Beard Award-winning chef Patrick Connolly bring you a Sunday brunch series.

Bridging the Gap III
March 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Featuring music by Philip Glass, Paola Prestini, and John Zorn.

ETHEL’s HomeBaked Round III
March 8, 2017 - 7:00pm The musically omnivorous string quartet ETHEL, whom The New York Times has described as “indefatigable and eclectic” and The New Yorker has deemed “vital and brilliant,” returns to National Sawdust to present the third chapter of ETHEL’s HomeBaked project. With its focus on emerging NYC-based composers, the project, which began in 2010, has already produced eight compositions, many of which have entered the quartet’s repertoire.

Opera on Tap and The Curiosity Cabinet Present: One Night of Excess
March 8, 2017 - 10:00pmOne Night of Excess is a sensual one-act opera that explores darkness, sexuality, sensuality, and their co-mingling. The work encourages the audience to abandon self-consciousness and explore their own role as voyeur for an evening of seduction and storytelling. This work marks the first collaboration between composers Whitney George and Daniel Felsenfeld - co-directors of The Curiosity Cabinet.

Vital Signs Screening
March 9th, 2017 - 7:00pm This is the premiere of Vital Signs - a documentary series about the future of classical music by director J.M. Harper (produced by Lonelyleap). Made over the last four years, it features artists like Richard Reed Parry (Arcade Fire), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caroline Shaw, yMusic (The National, Bon Iver, St. Vincent), Son Lux, Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, Missy Mazzoli, Timo Andres and many more.

Divinity Roxx
March 9, 2017 - 10:00pm With limited funds, a heart full of passion and an energy that exudes resilience, she auditioned for Beyoncé and was selected in her all female band and eventually became the assistant Musical Director. While touring and working with the super-star for over 5 years, Divinity appeared on countless television shows including: The Grammy’s, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Saturday Night Live, Good Morning America with personal highlights including a special performance at The White House for President Barack Obama.

A Mouth is Not for Talking: La voix humaine
March 10, 2017 - 7:00pm In this theatrical concert, Poulenc and Cocteau’s cautionary tale La voix humaine receives a reflective update when paired with world premiere songs from Forrest Pierce’s The Burning Harp, set to texts of Rumi. Soprano Laura Bohn and pianist Mila Henry’s dual conversation forces listeners to ask: in this age of technology, can we connect with others without losing ourselves?

Jungle Party
March 10, 2017 - 10:00pm Amy Leon, Bush Tea, and Lylo Omolayo

Inn-fest: Innova Recordings Label Showcase
March 11, 2017 - 7:00pm Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, innova has produced an ever-growing catalog that currently stands at over 550 albums, and promotes a staggering array of idiosyncratic genres and voices. This micro-marathon will celebrate the variety and vision that is a hallmark of the award-winning label.

Inn-fest: Innova Recordings Label Showcase
March 11, 2017 - 10:00pm Inn-fest is a two-act mini-festival curated by innova Recordings and showcasing an all-star cast of composers and performers fro its New York contingent. As the label of the Minnesota-based American Composers Forum, innova is dedicated to expanding the boundaries of new music. Since 1982, innova has produced an ever-growing catalog that currently stands at over 550 albums, and promotes a staggering array of idiosyncratic genres and voices. This micro-marathon will celebrate the variety and vision that is a hallmark of the award-winning label.

Glass @ 80: Philip Glass & Foday Musa Suso with Jeffrey Zeigler
March 12, 2017 - 7:00pm Known for his hypnotic performances of traditional Kora (Harp/Lute) music, as well as his cutting edge musical encounters, Kora virtuoso Foday Musa Suso is a direct descendent of Jalimadi Wulen Suso, the inventor of the Kora.

Tibet House: Robert Thurman and Philip Glass Talk
March 12, 2017 - 7:00pm

Unremembered w/ The Knights
March 16, 2017 - 7:00pm Unremembered is an hour-long, thirteen-part song cycle for seven voices, chamber orchestra, and electronics by composer Sarah Kirkland Snider, inspired by poems and illustrations by writer and visual artist Nathaniel Bellows (W.W. Norton, HarperCollins).
DISRUPT (series): Collaboration of David Grubbs, Eli Keszler, Benjamin Lanz and Jan St. Werner
March 16, 2017 - 7:00pmDISRUPT (series) at National Sawdust is about artist + audience taking risk, causing reactions, triggering emotion, and finding the present together. This second show of the series delves deep into the core of this mission, featuring four unparalleled voices of experimental music, also widely known for their many explosive collaborations: David Grubbs (Gastr del Sol, the Red Krayola), Eli Keszler (Tony Conrad, Christian Wolff, Phill Niblock), Benjamin Lanz (Beirut, The National, Sufjan Stevens), and Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria). Here they come together in concert for the first time as a quartet.

Bluegrass Situation: Michael Daves Plays Orchids and Violence
March 23, 2017 - 7:00pm The Bluegrass Situation is thrilled to partner with National Sawdust for a series of intimate performances featuring some of today's best modern roots acts. The first concert in this series will feature Grammy-nominated guitarist and singer Michael Daves.

Spring Revolution: Jog Blues w/ Jonathan Rose and Jeffrey Zeigler
March 24, 2017 - 7:00pm Jog Blues brings together Jazz, Blues and Indian Classical music in a 21st century mix, ranging from deep introspection to joyous romps

Latasha Alcindor presents Women’s Truth
March 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Women's Truth is a raw and honest exploration into the minds and hearts of an array of women's theory and experiences. Curated by Artist in Residence - Latasha Alcindor, Women's Truth allows the audience to feel out the challenges and triumphs of womanhood through women living in different walks of life, finding common grounds for communication to begin, especially generationally and racially.

Rudresh Mahanthappa and DJ Logic: Alternative Facts
March 25, 2017 - 10:00pm This is a debut of what will hopefully evolve into a long standing collaborative relationship between Rudresh Mahanthappa and DJ Logic. Rudresh and Logic met while playing with Arturo O’Farrill’s Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra and were immediately keen to work together. We are very excited to see what happens!

Harold Meltzer @ 50
March 26, 2017 - 7:00pm Mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer and all-star collection of musicians will perform the New York premiere of Harold’s complete song cycle Variations on a Summer Day, for voice and nine instruments, setting the twenty stanzas of the Wallace Stevens poem of the same name

Stone Commissioning Series: Nicole Mitchell
March 29, 2017 - 7:00pm Nicole Mitchell, flutist and composer, presents "Maroon Cloud" as part of the Stone Commissioning Series.

Time for Three
March 30, 2017 - 10:00pm The groundbreaking, category-shattering trio Time for Three (Tf3) transcends traditional classification, with elements of classical, country western, gypsy and jazz idioms forming a blend all its own. The members — Nicolas (Nick) Kendall, violin; Charles Yang violin; and Ranaan Meyer, double bass — carry a passion for improvisation, composing and arranging, all prime elements of the ensemble’s playing.

Brooklyn Art Song Society: In Context: Jake Heggie
March 31, 2017 - 7:00pm Brooklyn Art Song Society’s innovative series continues to push the boundaries of what an art song recital can be. This season’s featured composer is Jake Heggie, world renowned for smash-hit operas like Dead Man Walking and Moby Dick. His works are paired with the French masters who inspired him: Claude Debussy, Reynaldo Hahn, and Francis Poulenc.

Beans Record Release
March 31, 2017 - 10:00pm Accomplished abstract poet. Early architect of electronicinfused beatscapes. Founding member of legendary leftfield rap act AntiPop Consortium. Childhood Kiss fan. So reads the résumé of the estimable Beans, a New York native raised in the suburb of White Plains.

National Sawdust Percussion Festival
April 1, 2017 - 2:00pm The National Sawdust Percussion Festival draws together all groups and genres within the percussion community to give artists a platform to share their latest work and hear works of other trailblazers in the field.

National Sawdust Percussion Festival
April 1, 2017 - 8:00pm The National Sawdust Percussion Festival draws together all groups and genres within the percussion community to give artists a platform to share their latest work and hear works of other trailblazers in the field.

Invisible Colors: Miranda Cuckson Album Release
April 5, 2017 - 7:00pm Violinist Miranda Cuckson celebrates the release of her new Urlicht Audiovisual album. The album features five solo works by three composers who radically rethought how we perceive time, musical space, simultaneity, and continuity.

Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 1
April 5, 2017 - 10:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 2
April 6, 2017 - 10:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

Opera Cabal Presents: Ken Ueno’s Aeolus
AEOLUS is a new opera combining throat singing, multiphonics indie-rock and electronics with a concert premiere at National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) April 7, 2017.

Saltland
April 7, 2017 - 10:00pm Cellist and composer Rebecca Foon has been a fixture of the Montréal music community for two decades. She co-founded the Juno Award-winning contemporary chamber group Esmerine in 2002 and was a core member of the celebrated cult post-punk band Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra from 2001-2008 and the experimental instrumental collective Set Fire To Flames. Foon was also a founding member of the instrumental trios The Mile End Ladies String Auxiliary and Fifths of Seven.

On Fillmore: Happiness of Living + Every Other Summer Film Screening
April 8, 2017 - 7:00pm On Fillmore’s newest album Happiness of Living moves effortlessly between deep cosmic pockets, celestial vocals and occasional pop tunes to create a glowing mood unlike anything previously released from percussionist Glenn Kotche (Wilco) and bassist Darin Gray (Tweedy).

Solid Sound Film Screening
April 8, 2017 - 10:00pm Directed by Christoph Green and Brendan Canty, Every Other Summer is a documentary about the Solid Sound Festival, Wilco’s three day music and arts gathering that takes place once every two years at MASS MoCA.

FLEXN with Reggie Roc Gray, Glenn Kotche, Jeffrey Zeigler, Andy Akiho and Special Guests
April 9, 2017 - 4:00pm Reggie Roc Gray will be composing, creating, and producing a live professional recording with cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, pianist Andy Akiho, percussionist Glenn Kotche, and other special guests to combine FlexN Dance with original music for the first time.

Helga Davis: My Favorite Things Night 3
April 9, 2017 - 8:00pm National Sawdust Artist in Residence Helga Davis returns with a barrage of incredible artists of all mediums showcasing all of Davis’ Favorite Things, culminating in an fantastical dance party with DJ Richard Baretto.

Nordic Affect
April 19, 2017 - 7:00pm Nordic Affect performs a selection of works that features the intimate and unique music that has emerged from the Icelandic scene in recent years.

Sasha Velour’s NIGHTGOWNS
April 20, 2017 - 10:00pm Drag queen Sasha Velour (from Rupaul's Drag Race Season 9) presents NIGHTGOWNS, an evening of short performances dedicated to celebrating the diversity, depth, and wild power of drag. Each month features a new lineup of performers, using gender, dance, music, fashion, and visual art in combination to explore both the political and the personal...surprisingly funny, moving, and glamorously queer!

Live/Late Night at National Sawdust Vol. 2
April 21, 2017 - 9:30pm Podcast and live radio collide in an evening of music inspired by fractals, dynamic systems, feedback loops and nature. Open G Records and Access Contemporary Music present Caroline Mallonee's Butterfly Effect, a string quartet inspired by the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings in Australia could cause a tornado in Texas, Chin Ting Chan's gorgeously abrasive Fractals, Lyudmila German's nod to organic systems Six Fragments, David Glaser's haunting Moonset No. 1 and two world premieres written for acclaimed soprano Sharon Harms and clarinetist Mark Dover of Imani Winds.

NS Jazz For Kids: Timbalooloo Duo Workshop
April 22, 2017 - 11:00am Oran Etkin is a critically acclaimed clarinetist and composer who can be heard on major concert stages throughout the world and numerous recordings including a recent Grammy Award Winning compilation. Yet Etkin feels equally at home when he is in New York, surrounded by a gaggle of spellbound children, presenting a riveting story about Herbie Hancock, Tito Puente, or Etkin's musical travels in Indonesia.

Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert: The Canales Project
Founded by mezzo-soprano Carla Dirlikov Canales, The Canales Project’s Between Two Worlds gives voice to issues of identity and culture through a powerful musical message. Canales hosts this event that features music and discussion in three fascinating segments with young activist-artists.

FOLIO: Eco-Music Big Band plays Earle Brown & more
May 7, 2017 - 7:00pm The Eco-Music Big Band is proud to present FOLIO, an evening of works by cross-genre composers. This dynamic evening that promises to be an aural experience transcending genre, style, and expectation: excerpts from the jazz reimagining of Igor Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale (featuring actor/writer John Palladino); composer/bass trombonist David Taylor's mini-opera, The Banned Bamboozler; and our interpretation of Louis Andreissen's Worker's Union; plus more. Each work provides a complement to the centerpiece and grand finale to the concert, Earle Brown's FOLIO; each work, too, requires virtuosity in both notated and improvised forms.

Third Man Books & BHQFU present: Third Man Showcase
May 20, 2017 - 8:00pm Nashville's THIRD MAN BOOKS, the publishing wing of Jack White's Third Man Records, & BHQFU, New York's freest art school, present an unforgettable evening of music, poetry, prose & revelry.

NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase
August 5, 2017 - 1:30pm The NYU Sandbox Percussion Showcase is the culminating concert following a week of intensive chamber music study at the second annual NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar and it features Sandbox Percussion and Simon Boyar performing alongside an international group of students.

Burnt Sugar Arkestra
August 23, 2017 - 10:00pm “BSA's Groiddest Schizznits” or for those unfamiliar with Greg Tate speak BSA’s Greatest Hits (1999-2017) will include tunes from their latest release "All You Zombies Dig The Luminosity" which in the current issue of The Wire Michael A. Gonzales writes " the multiracial group sound like the big poppas and mommas of baby boogie Childish Gambino as they cosmic slop bop across musical high wires."

Timeslow Interactive Screening with Live Score
August 31, 2017 - 8:00pm An interactive feature film screening, with live music, foley, performers, and audiences gift boxes of sensory stimulants.

10th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival: Im-migrations
Oct. 14, 2017 - 7:00pm Opening with a live performance by Paris-based artist Rachel Marks exploring the border-crossing migratory monarch butterfly, the program will then move into film for cutting-edge views inside the chrysalis, animal transformations, the migrations of human populations across the globe, and at last, an unusual bird-eyed view of Puerto Rico's Arecibo observatory and our place in the larger cosmos.

Stone Commissioning Series: Brian Marsella
Oct 25, 2017 - 7:00pm Gatos do Sul features premieres of compositions by Brian Marsella inspired by classical, jazz, and folkloric Brazilian music. Influenced by composers from Ernesto Nazareth, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Pixinguinha to Baden Powell and Egberto Gismonti, Marsella combines samba, bossa-nova, choro and more and turns it all on its ear.

National Sawdust+ presents Wide Angle with Gene Smith: An evening with Sam Stephenson + The Paris Review
Oct. 26, 2017 - 7:30pm Author and documentarian Sam Stephenson (The Jazz Loft Project) and The Paris Review host an NS+ evening of readings, music, and film inspired by pioneering American photo-essayist W. Eugene Smith, whose beguiling life and legacy are explored in Stephenson’s new book, Gene Smith’s Sink. Jazz musicians and members of Wordless Music Orchestra will perform.

Irish Arts Center Co-Presentation: This is How We Fly, Album Launch: Foreign Fields
Oct 27, 2017 - 7:00pm The Irish Origins: Samhain Festival at National Sawdust will be co-presented by Irish Arts Center. Throughout the weekend we will hear a wealth of talent and music from Irish and American artists and composers.

This Is How We Fly In Concert
October 28, 2018 - 3:00pm The Irish Origins: Samhain Festival at National Sawdust will be co-presented by Irish Arts Center. Throughout the weekend we will hear a wealth of talent and music from Irish and American artists and composers.

Iarla ó Lionáird and Contemporaneous, perform works by Dan Trueman and Donnacha Dennehy Isabelle O’Connell, piano and electronics
October 28, 2017 - 7:30pm The Origins Season continues with an exploration of classical Irish music.
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