Nadia Sirota
yMusic touring, playing Sufjan Stevens, Chris Thile & more at Carnegie Hall
The December NYC show also includes songs by Son Lux, Missy Mazzoli and Caroline Shaw. In April, they play Hamburg with Anohni.
Nadia Sirota (yMusic, ACME) hosting four-night residency at Symphony Space w/ Nico Muhly, Richard Reed Parry & more
Nadia Sirota, violinist and founding member of ACME, yMusic, and the Wordless Music Orchestra, will be hosting a four-evening residency at NYC’s Symphony Space from February 1 – 5…
Williamsburg venue National Sawdust initial schedule (Bryce Dessner & Nico Muhly, Majical Cloudz, Punch Brothers, more)
Back in May, we posted details on the new non-profit Williamsburg venue National Sawdust, that’s set to open on the corner of Wythe Ave and North 6th Street on Octobe…
David Lang's 'collected stories' series at Carnegie Hall (with Aesop Rock, Kimya Dawnson, Sam Amidon, Kaki King, more)
Aesop Rock in Austin in 2012 (more by Tim Griffin)
Bang On A Can’s David Lang is the 2013-2014 season’s holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall, and for the season, he’ll be presenting his collected stories ser…
Rafiq Bhatia readies EP & LP, kicking off Pianos residency w/ Anti-Pop Consortium (BV presents) ++ other shows & streams
Anti-Pop Consortium
His set at Cameo Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, on Friday came at least partially from jazz. Not standards and bebop, but jazz of the past 30 years, let’s say, involving solid-bodied guitars…
Mariam Wallentin of Wildbirds & Peacedrums played w/ Mikael Karlsson & ACME @ the Ecstatic Music Festival (pics)
ACME is Nadia Sirota (viola), Clarice Jensen (cello), Chihiro Shibayama (percussion), Andrew Rehrig (flutes), and Alicia Lee (clarinets). On March 1st, ACME performed with Mariam Wallentin and Mikael Karlsson at Merkin Concert Hall as part of the ongoing Ecstatic Music Festival (which continues on March 17th with Oneida and Rhys Chatham)…
The National played 6 nights @ Beacon Theater (pics, setlist)
The guest-filled six-night run of National shows came to an end on Saturday night (12/17), complete with an opening set by Bristol, England-based group This is the Kit who the National discovered on their recent tour of Europe…
Trey Anastasio & others joined The National on Night 5 @ Beacon Theater (pics & setlist)
National week at Beacon Theater continued on Friday night, 12/16, for the fifth night in a row. Shara Worden‘s project My Brightest Diamond opened the show and she later joined The National on stage as did Thomas Bartlett aka Doveman, Richard Reed Parry of the Arcade Fire, Conrad Doucette, Rob Moose, Nadia Sirota and string quartet yMusic…
Owen Pallett, Thomas Bartlett, Nadia Sirota & friends got 'Ecstatic' @ Merkin Concert Hall (pics)
When you hear the word ‘ecstatic,’ chances are classical music isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind. Even Thomas Bartlett (aka Doveman), one of last night’s featured musicians, admitted that his music was “kind of quiet” and snoozy…
Ecstatic Music Festival continues (Dan Deacon is sold out)
Buke & Gass and Victoire @ Merkin Concert Hall – 1/17/11 ( at Merkin Concert Hall on Monday, the event was less a defining breakthrough moment than the establishment — temporary or not — of an uptown beachhead for a flourishing alliance normally encountered in downtown and Brooklyn spaces like Le Poisson Rouge, Galapagos Art Space, Issue Project Room and Joe’s Pub…
