Crossing Boundaries: TomChess/Dan Kurfirst @ CRS
CRS NYC 123 4th Ave #2, New York, NY, United StatesWe invite you into our sacred circle to commune with the divine through the ecstatic music, dance, and poetry of Sufism with musicians Tomchess (ney, oud) and Dan Kurfirst (daf) of the American Sufi Project and our Sufi Dance student community. This concert, curated and directed by Sufi Dance Artist Lâle Sayoko, is CROSSING BOUNDARIES Concert Series Vol. 9, and will take place
Afro Yaqui Music Collective – Migration, Movements, and Music
Jazz Museum In Harlem 58 West 129th St, Harlem, NY, United StatesHow 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 StatesImprovised set at Spectrum. Eli Wallace - Piano Ben Cohen - Saxophones Kenneth Jimenez - Bass Dan Kurfirst - Drums
Cheikh Hamala Diabate
Bossa 2463 18th st, Washington, DC, United States
Nani Noam Vanzana
The Kennedy Center 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC, United StatesNani 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 StatesBrandon Terzic - Oud Matt Darriau - Reeds Rufus Cappadocia - Cello Dan Kurfirst - Percussion
Cheikh Hamala Diabate
Bossa 2463 18th st, Washington, DC, United States
The Tributary Project
Bossa 2463 18th st, Washington, DC, United StatesAfro/Balkan/Arabic material led by Rob Coltun
Eric Plaks/Nick Lyons/Evan Crane/Dan Kurfirst
Pete's Free Jazz 166 n 12th st, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesEric Plaks - Keys
Nick Lyons - Sax
Evan Crane - Bass
Dan Kurfirst - Drums/Percussion
Nakshatra
Barbes 376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesLed 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.