Date: March 28, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music Full dinner menu available
performing live in the back room
Miriam Elhajli
“Miriam Elhajli has carved out a distinctive sound that draws equally on jazz, 70s South American nuevo cancion and levantine sounds, reflecting her Venezuelan-Moroccan heritage. She cuts loose with an expressive, constantly mutable voice, likes fingerpicking her acoustic guitar in odd tunings and writes intriguing, thoughtfully imagistic lyrics.” – New York Music Daily
Caracas Trio
Caracas Trio is a New York-based Venezuelan musical group with a captivating sound that blends traditional folkoric styles with contemporary compositional flair and improvisation.
Gabriel Chakarji — piano, keyboards, vocals
Juan Diego Villalobos — vibraphone, percussion, vocals
Daniel Prim — drums, percussion, vocals
+ all night selector Omo Igi
$20 at the door, cash/Venmo at the door (no advance tickets)
Date: April 2, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available
performing live in the back room
ALAARA & QASIM NAQVI
Brooklyn-based trio Alaara (pronounced ahlah-ahrah) includes Grey McMurray on guitar, Sonya Belaya on piano, and Nicole Patrick on drums. The trio creates long form improvisations that prioritize patience, effortlessly traversing the spaces of jazz, experimental minimalism, and ambient music.
Pakistani-American composer Qasim Naqvi might be best known as drummer in lauded trio Dawn of Midi. When he’s not on tour he creates original music for film, dance, theatre and international chamber ensembles. His most recent works delve deep into the timbres of analogue synthesizers and orchestral configurations.
CHRIS WILLIAMS
solo work for expanded trumpet
Date: April 7, 2024
Time: 7pm
Continuum Culture & Arts Presents
7pm doors 8pm music
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
performing live in the back room
Judy Dunaway (Boston, MA)
“…is primarily known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including sculptural sonic performances, sound installations, interactive pieces and acousmatic works. She has presented these works at premier venues, festivals, museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe.” Balloon Music Manifesto
Devin Gray
Devin Gray’s fresh approach to modern drumming has enabled him to play with many of the world’s great jazz musicians. He is interested in a multitude of musical directions and prioritizes sincerity.
TACTICAL MAYBE
Tom Blancarte – bass
Nana Pi Aabo-Kim – saxophone
Louise D.E. Jensen – saxophone
Halym Aabo-Kim – drums & euphonium
$15
Date: April 9, 2024
Time: 7pm
doors 7pm
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
performing live in the back room
Music Research Strategies + andrea haenggi + Luke Stewart
drums + movement + bass
WINDSCOUR
Joe Moffett – trumpet
Zach Rowden – electronics
Jessie Cox
expanded percussion
$20 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)
Date: April 14, 2024
Time: 7pm
doors 7pm music 8pm, seating is first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
ARLEN HART GINSBURG TRIO
reflective & playful chamber-folk compositions
Evan Harris – guitar
Alix Tucou – trombone
Arlen Hart Ginsburg – keyboard
+ opening set by EVAN HARRIS BAND
Date: April 15, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, table seating first-come first-served
performing live in the back room
Gian Perez & gabby-fluke mogul
Lesley Mok & Shara Lunon
Sonya Belaya
MORE INFO TBA
Date: April 16, 2024
Time: 8:00pm
Doors 7pm, music 8pm
Full dinner menu available, seating first-come first serve
Sam Weinberg 2024 Back Room Residency April Edition
featuring poets Joey Yearous-Algozin (Website) & Bahaar Asan (Website)
and a special set by The Sam Weinberg Trio (Bandcamp) with Jason
Nazary & Henry Fraser
Date: April 21, 2024
Time: 7pm
doors 7pm music 8pm
full dinner menu available
seating is first come-first served
performing live in the back room
MINNIE JORDAN QUARTET
Minnie Jordan is a violinist hailing from Texas and living in Brooklyn. Her compositions draw inspiration from jazz tradition, but are also informed by the distinctive flavor of Texan roots music, as well as diverse non-musical sources such as bird songs and the occasional printer or leaking faucet. Her sound has been described as “elegant & cinematic,” “not undramatic,” and “lowkey prog rock vibes but jazz fiddle.”
featuring
Eliza Salem – drums
Evan Main – keyboard
Charlie Lincoln – bass
+ special guest LILY TALMERS
“Lily’s sound is rooted in the 60’s folk revival, but includes broader fascinations, like the influence of Greece, Portugal and the European classical music canon all subtly swirl around in her melodies. She strives to to engage with “folk music” as it is most loosely defined: ‘the music of the people.'”
Date: April 23, 2024
Time: 8pm
Tickets
7:30pm doors 8pm music, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served
Brooklyn Maqam presents New York Oud Festival Day 1
The New York Oud Festival is a multi-day, multi-venue music festival that displays the oud and its versatility as it exists in New York’s diverse musical culture.
performing live in the back room
Brandon Terzic has performed with everyone from rising Sudanese pop Diva Alsarah to master composer Henry Threadgill. Drawing on his blues guitar roots, he absorbed the wellspring of Malian griot and Moroccan Gnawa traditions, as well as the downtown NYC improv aesthetic, and forged it into the sonic calligraphy of the Arabic Oud. Alongside cellist Rufus Cappadocia and percussionist Matt Kilmer, Brandon leads the transcendental Trio Xalam.
Adam Good is a Brooklyn-based multi-instrumentalist and composer working with contemporary modal music in the traditional styles of Turkey, Greece and Eastern Europe. His musicianship on guitar, Turkish ud, tanbur, and knowledge of Turkish makam has made Adam a fixture of the Balkan and Middle Eastern music scenes in the US and abroad. He plays with the ensembles Dolunay (Turkish music), Brenna MacCrimmon, Greek Judas (heavy metal Greek rebetika), Pontic Firebird (Greek Pontic), and with clarinet master Souren Baronian’s ensemble Taksim.
Brooklyn Maqam is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in January 2018. Its mission is: to foster community engagement with maqam-based music; presenting & promoting music from Middle Eastern (especially Arabic) musical traditions; preservation of the art form through education & mentorship; and providing performance opportunities for both established masters & emerging talents.
Date: April 24, 2024
Time: 7pm
7pm doors
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
8pm music
performing solos, duos and as a trio:
LAO DAN is a classically trained Chinese flutist at Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM), Lao Dan sticks to his own vision of and approach to the bamboo flute and its sounds. His playing continues to push the limits of artistic expression on this instrument, exploring the possibilities of free, energetic, and nonconformist ways of sound-making confined by neither Jazz nor traditional Chinese musical conventions. His improvisation often brings to the audience an overwhelming sonic experience in which the East and the West, the ancient and the modern clash dramatically on each other. Bandcamp
JOHN MCCOWEN‘s musical life has become an obsession with discovering a polyphonic language on a historically monophonic instrument – the clarinet. This has led him to a unique acoustic vocabulary that is akin to a shifting soundscape of electronic feedback. John’s multi-phonic approach is based in drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to showcase the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. His work has been described by The New Yorker as “the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide” and by The Wire as “an astonishing demonstration of pure sound & human will.”
CHARMAINE LEE is a New York-based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, and favors a uniquely personal approach to vocal expressed concerned with spontanaeity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice.