Sarah Kirkland Snider

As previously announced, the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival, presented by New York City’s Merkin Concert Hall in association with New Amsterdam Records, is a showcase of imaginative collaborations between more than 150 genre-pushing composers, songwriters and performers who represent a new generation of artists combining diverse influences and techniques to explore the intersection of classical and pop music…

today in NYC * Jay-Z @ NYPL * Whiplash @ UCB * Leni Stern @ Barbes * Chicha Libre @ Barbes * DJ Shadow, Pigeon John @ Irving Plaza * Sufjan Stevens, DM Stith @ Beacon Theatre * Minor Stars, Parlour, Kordan, deVries @ Pianos * Easy Action, The Men, Pregnant @ The Acheron * Adam Rudolph’s Go Organic Orchestra @ Roulette * Cheer-Accident, Stats, Inzinzac, Xaddax @ Cake Shop * Steve Lewis & the Vagrants, Oh Land @ Mercury Lounge * Mumford & Sons, Cadillac Sky, King Charles @ Terminal 5 * Fiction Plane (Sting’s son), The Globes @ Mercury Lounge * Jason Anderson, Mount Moriah, Modest Midas @ The Rock Shop * Charlie Hunter Trio, Mark Guiliana’s Beat Music @ Le Poisson Rouge * Feather and Folly, Zachary Cale, La Defense, Plates of Cake @ Zebulon * Jimmy Herring & Jamie Mclean of Widespread Panic @ Highline Ballroom * Vicky Emerson, The Bowmans, Tony Scherr Trio, Jim Campilongo Electric Trio, Tony Mason @ The Living Room * Jonsi, Kjartan Sveinsson of Sigur Ros, The Hilliard Ensemble, Latvian National Choir, Wordless Music Orchestra @ The Church of St…

DOWNLOAD: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “This Is What You’re Like” (feat. Shara Worden) (MP3) DOWNLOAD: William Brittelle – Dunes of Vermillion (MP3) New Amsterdam Records is pleased to announce a very special evening of complete performances of two upcoming albums by two of our co-Directors: Sarah Kirkland Snider’s PENELOPE, featuring the extraordinary vocalist Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) with New York “supergroup” Signal (conducted by Brad Lubman), and William Brittelle’s TELEVISION LANDSCAPE, featuring an ensemble comprised of members of Alarm Will Sound, NOW Ensemble, The Long Count, and more…

There were (more) strings at September 25th’s inaugural show for the Archipelago music series, which happens at Galapagos one Friday a month through next May…

New Amsterdam Records is putting on Undiscovered Islands, a month-long exhibition of work by label artists and friends at Brooklyn’s Galapagos Art Space (16 Main St in DUMBO)…