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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

7pm doors, full dinner menu available, seating is first come first-served

Two sets: 8pm & 9:30pm

JONATHAN SHILLINGFORD QUINTET

Jonathan Shillingford is a jazz trumpet player based in New York City. Born and raised in Miami, Florida, he draws inspiration from his hometown’s rich culture, especially from his Caribbean heritage.

‍A current student of the Manhattan School of Music, Shillingford has studied with Stefon Harris, Marc Cary, and Jon Faddis. In 2023 herecieved his masters degree from Berklee Global Jazz Institute on a full scholarship playing and studying alongside Danilo Perez, John Patitucci, Terri Lyne Carrington, Adam Cruz, Ben Street and Joe Lovano

Since arriving in NY, Jon has played on historic stages (such as Lincoln Center’s Rose Hall, Birdland Jazz Club, Smoke Jazz Club, the Jazz Gallery, Dizzy’s Club and Smalls Jazz Club) in service of expanding the boundaries of his musical voice and fully surrender to the creativity of the moment. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music.

Kevin Oliver Jr – alto sax

Mwanzi Harriot – Guitar

Gervis Myles – bass

Gary Jones III – drums

and featuring Mar Vilaseca & Haku Leaf – vocals

Doors 7pm, music 8pm

Full dinner menu available

DUAL is a new back room series curated by Savannah Harris featuring fresh stylistic pairings & novel genre cross-pollination

performing live

Zoh Amba & Savannah Harris

Aden Website

+ more info TBA

Doors 7pm, music 8pm 

Full dinner & cocktail menu available 

performing a set of live electronics & trumpet

TAKUYA NAKAMURA 

Takuya Nakamura is a Tokyo born multi-disciplinary musician. He has a formal musical education from both Japan and the U.S and received his masters degree at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Takuya’s creative spectrum includes piano, trumpet, turntable and keyboard.
​His collaborates are as eclectic as his musical styles and he had worked with John Cage, Sun Ra Arkestra, CocoRosie, Quincy Jones, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn among others. Takuya has performed at the Louvre, Burning Man and everywhere in between. When he is not touring across the globe he can be found DJ’ing and playing piano across New York city, his adopted home.

plus selectors Mr_Lem & Delmar

visuals by Ron Jean-Gilles 

Doors 7:30pm 

Full dinner & cocktail menus available 

Bergamot Quartet is Ledah Finck and Sarah Thomas, violins; Amy Tan, viola; and Irène Han, cello. Founded at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore in 2016, Bergamot Quartet is based in New York City and was the Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music for 2020-2022.

The Quartet is fueled by a passion for exploring and advocating for the music of living composers, continually expanding the limits of the string quartet’s rich tradition in western classical music. With a priority given to music by women, they aim to place this new, genre-bending music in meaningful dialogue with the histories that precede it with creative programming, community-oriented audience building, and frequent commissioning.

Described as “virtuosic” (NY Times) and “barrier-defying artist” (Mix Magazine), Osaka-born and New York-based pianist Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. From highly polished traditional classical to bold improvisation, she is a dynamic performer whose timeless style and unidiomatic technique sets her apart in contemporary NYC avant-garde circles

Doors 7:30pm, music 8:30pm

Full dinner & cocktail menu available 

JOSEPHINE (solo)

Transfeminist power pop Bandcamp

Reckless arrangements of highlife guitars, doo wop harmonies, chopped up samples, samba and psychedelia

Doors 7pm, music 8pm

Full dinner menu available

Seating first-come, first served

Astral Spirits & Cow Arts present,  live in the back room

LUKE STEWART

Celebrating 5 years of Music For Upright Bass & Amplifier Vol 1

Luke Stewart is a musician, performer, improviser-composer, organizer, and writer-researcher whose work represents a deep reverence for the history and tradition of Creative Music: a tradition which encompasses the diverse styles of expression within the body of Black Music in the United States, Africa, and throughout the world. Stewart’s regular ensembles include Irreversible Entanglements, SILT Trio, Exposure Quintet, and the experimental rock duo Blacks’ Myths; he also performs regularly in numerous collaborations.

In his Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier and Works for Upright Bass and Amplifier Vol 1 and Vol 2 (Astral Spirits, 2018, 2021, 2022), Stewart explores real-time harmonic and melodic possibilities, as well as the intersection of the acoustic and the electronic—the relationship between wood and electricity. He uses the resonant qualities of the bass and one or more amplifiers to create reverberations from the plucking of strings, his bow, and moving the instrument itself back and forth in space. Website

KONJUR COLLECTIVE Baltimore, MD

Bashi Rose

David Diongue

King Solomon

Existence is vibration, movement in a constant state of flux. Rhythm is the joyful translation of this phenomena and the tangible yet intangible pulse of that which allows all things to be. The collective experience of this pulse allows us to experience freedom. With that said, rhythm created with an intention of liberation holds radical possibilities. It’s within this context that Konjur Collective seeks to make music. Drawing from musical sensibilities throughout the African Diaspora, Konjur Collective articulates the past, present , and future of Black expression Website