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.'”
7pm doors 8pm music, seating first come first serve
performing live in the back room
Isaiah Collier is a Chicago/Brooklyn based multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, curator and educator. His style draws from master saxophonists such as John Coltrane, Roscoe Mitchell, and Wayne Shorter. Cosmic Transitions – his most recent album with The Chosen Few – received 5 stars from Downbeat magazine. He is a former fellow of the Dave Brubeck Institute, and one of the last musicians to work with the late Rudy Van Gelder.
with special guest
Shara Lunon a transdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She is the product of the evolution of Black American musical traditions. As a poet, vocalist, composer, and improviser, her art finds the ethereal in the chaotic. With voice as the foundation, Shara’s music is an exploration of text and sound that seamlessly weaves through the ongoing relationship of struggle, resilience, and resolution. Her goal is to challenge lassitude and in its place, instill hope.
is a new project led by composer and bassist, Kenneth Jiménez, and also features Ingrid Laubrock on tenor saxophone and Christopher Hoffman (cello). The trio moves between written music and improvisation, allowing them to explore a wide range of textures and sounds to create shape and form throughout their set. The band takes its name after the flower of the sugar cane plant that blooms during harvesting season. Jiménez draws inspiration from these images that inhabit his earliest memories to put together this band and create this music.
Moritz/Ali/Coast
photo by azumi oe
Jonathan Moritz, Sean Ali, and Carlo Costa have been playing together since 2013 in a variety of ensembles. Since 2017 the three have been performing as a collective trio and over time have honed a distinctive band sound. One of the primary pursuits of the band is to inhabit and explore the acoustic space they perform in. The trio generally never utilizes any amplification and more often than not performs in DIY spaces that are not meant for concerts. By establishing a fragile yet palpable atmosphere the band activates the space and gradually draws the audience into its pool of sound.
Hadi Eldebek is a musician, composer, and cultural entrepreneur based in New York City. He has collaborated with prominent figures and institutions in the Arts, Culture, and Education sectors, including Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, Harvard Graduate School of Education, The Kennedy Center, TED, Disney World Imagineering, and others. Hadi is the artistic director of The Brooklyn Nomads, a cross cultural band rooted in Arabic music traditions. He has also co-founded several cultural startups, including grantPA, a tool for artists to find grants and other opportunities.
“Eric Douglas Porter is one of the most expansive and intensive musical torch bearers of modern experimental composition. A self taught multi-instrumentalist and a true outsider, he challenges the canon and the limitations of musical expression through complex mind-opening rhythmic sonic woven formations.”
HxH
HxH is the improvisatory electro-acoustic duo of Lester St. Louis and Chris Williams. The duo utilizes a mix of trumpet, cello and electronics to build worlds traversing through acoustic sound, grainy textures, expansive pools of sounds, breaks, cuts and beats.
2 sets starting at 8pm / $20, no presale (cash/Venmo at the door)
Baklava Express is a Middle Eastern fusion project led by oud player Josh Kaye. The band mostly performs original music, influenced by the traditions of the Arab world, Turkey, and Greece, as well as Jazz, Flamenco, Rock, and Eastern European Folk music.
Classically trained and rigorously de-trained, possessor of a restless, semi-feral spirit, Lori Goldston is a cellist, composer, improvisor, producer, writer and teacher from Seattle. Her voice as a cellist, amplified or acoustic, is full, textured, committed and original. A relentless inquirer, her work drifts freely across borders that separate genre, discipline, time and geography. She came to prominence as the touring cellist for Nirvana from 1993–1994 and appears on their live album MTV Unplugged in New York.
MV CARBON
MV Carbon is a Brooklyn based trans disciplinary artist. Her work encompasses live performance, video, film, sound, and visual art. Carbon explores the phenomenological and metaphysical relationships of sound, space, image, materiality, the sonic spectrum, time / space cognition, psychoacoustics, and sound ecology. Carbon addresses feedback within sonic space through the use of magnetic tape, cello, and amplification. Sculptural objects function as musical instruments, heightening the ritual, rhythm, and momentum embedded in sound. Carbon taps into the mystery of the human mechanism, exploring themes such as interchangeability, regeneration, telpathy, and the transmogrification of mind and matter. + all night background sound with DJ RYAN SAWYER
8pm, $20 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)
March’s Balkan Mondays on March 2 will feature ROSA Vocal Group followed by a Balkan Jam. $10 suggested
8pm – ROSA
Traditional Vocal Group ROSA is a New York based, all-female vocal ensemble that unites singers from 4 different continents with a mission to preserve and nurture the authentic form of traditional, non-tempered singing from Serbia.
The group was formed in New York, in 2014, by Marija Stojnic, documentary filmmaker and traditional Serbian music vocalist and Aleksandra Denda, vocalist, composer and Berklee College of Music Alumna. The concept of the ensemble was inspired by Marija’s documentary titled Girl Who Opposed the Sun.
Songs that ROSA performs date decades, often centuries back, and have been surviving in rural areas of Serbia and the surrounding countries. Irreducible to the Western tonal system, these songs are impossible to write down with precision and are carried on as an oral tradition.
ROSA has performed at numerous and critically acclaimed venues – The Kennedy Center, MoMA, Carnegie Hall, Boston University Theater, The Collective School of Music, Mendocino Festival, Golden Festival, as well as at fund-raising events for Balkan communities in need.
In 2018 ROSA performed at a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall titled Sounds of Serbia and Peace First Summit hosted by the philanthropist and Barack Obama’s sister Maya Soetoro-Ng.
New York Folklore Society (NYFS), East European Folklife Center (EEFC), Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC), LeitMotiv Arts and Cambridge Global Arts have endorsed ROSA.
Today, ROSA members are Aleksandra Denda (Serbia), Shilpa Ananth (India), Astrid Kuljanić (Croatia), Raquel Rivera (Puerto Rico). Carolina Mama (Argentina) and Joanna Schubert (USA).
9pm – Balkan Jam
Bring an instrument if you want to sit in and get in touch for the playlist!
Greek, Turkish & Armenian tavern songs from the early 1900s, heard from Athens & Thessaloniki to New York. The Maeandros Ensemble released albums and performed regularly between 2006-2010. For this performance the old friends come together again to take you back in time to the sounds of the Cafe Aman.
8:00pm – Mavrothi Kontanis & The Maeandros Ensemble
9:00pm – Open Jam Session
Admission: $10
Doors at 7:30pm
