Date: March 19, 2024
Time: 8pm
Doors 7pm, music 8pm
Full dinner menu available, seating first-come first-served
SAM WEINBERG Website
NATE WOOLEY Website
saxophone & trumpet duo
Jessica Pavone Website
solo viola
Chris Williams Website
Alex Zhang Hungtai Website
duo
Date: March 26, 2024
Time: 7:30pm doors
7:30pm doors, 8pm music
Brooklyn Maqam presents live in the back room
Sami Sings Umm Kulthum
Multi-instrumentalist Sami Abu Shumays returns to Sisters to perform the music of Umm Kulthum. For this special performance, Sami puts down his violin to sing several classic, full-length compositions that were written for and made famous by the one and only Umm Kulthum.
Featuring:
Sami Abu Shumays, vocals
Insia Malek, violin
Sarah Mueller, violin
Gideon Forbes, nay
Gabriel Lavin, oud
Johnny Farraj, riqq
Alber Baseel, tabla
About Sami Abu Shumays: One of the leading Arab violinists in the U.S., Sami Abu Shumays is internationally known as a master of the maqam system. He is co-author of the acclaimed book Inside Arabic Music (Oxford University Press 2019), He has a passion for Maqam – teaching; oral tradition – that include a YouTube series “Maqam Lessons,” and his contributions to Maqam World. Co-founder and director of the NYC-based Arabic music and dance ensemble Zikrayat, Sami has also recently released his first solo album Circles.
A second-generation Palestinian-American, Sami originally studied Western music before traveling to the Arab World to reconnect with his roots. He studied with Alfred Gamil in Cairo; Mohamed Qasas, Abdel-Basit Bakkar, and Abdel-Minaim Senkary in Aleppo; and Simon Shaheen and Yusuf Kassab in New York.
Stick around for the Arabic music jam after the set!
$20 at the door
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
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Date: April 9, 2024
Time: 7pm
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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
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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 contemporary jazz 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 sounds such as bird songs and the occasional printer or leaking faucet.
featuring
Willis Edmundson – 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.'”