Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Migration, Movements, and Music

Jazz Museum In Harlem 58 West 129th St, Harlem, NY, United States

How can music connect resistance, celebration and communal survival among migrating peoples? Can music project a vision of justice? How has music been mobilized during periods of mass migration? The Afro Yaqui Music Collective, a multilingual jazz band based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, explores these questions through its multidisciplinary, activist-engaged art. The group will perform songs

Eli Wallace Group

Spectrum 70 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Improvised set at Spectrum. Eli Wallace - Piano Ben Cohen - Saxophones Kenneth Jimenez - Bass Dan Kurfirst - Drums

Nani Noam Vanzana

The Kennedy Center 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC, United States

Nani Noam Vanzana’s hypnotizing vocals breathe new life into jazz, flamenco, North African, Sephardic, and Ladino traditional songs. Her voice is mesmerizing: pure and simple, powerful and precise, and imbued with the traditions and the emotional journey of the migrant people who first took their culture across the globe following the Jewish expulsion from Spain

Brandon Terzic Xalam

Barbes 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Brandon Terzic - Oud Matt Darriau - Reeds Rufus Cappadocia - Cello Dan Kurfirst - Percussion

The Tributary Project

Bossa 2463 18th st, Washington, DC, United States

Afro/Balkan/Arabic material led by Rob Coltun

Nakshatra

Barbes 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Led by violinists Trina Basu and Arun Ramamurthy, NAKSHATRA reimagines the potential of string Chamber Music for our global times. The New York City based group explores beauty found at the intersections of their musical paths, where original compositions weave together threads of South Indian classical, Western chamber music, jazz and creative improvisation.

TomChess

Bunna Cafe(Brooklyn, NY) 1084 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY, United States

Tomchess - Oud DK - Percussion

dankurfNakshatra at Global Music Initiative/Little Stony Point