Thursday, March 17th @ 7:00pm

Raised in poverty in Pennsylvania’s coal-mining country, Jordan began singing as a child and by the time she was in her early teens was working semi-professionally in Detroit clubs. Her first great influence was Charlie Parker and indeed, most of her influences have been instrumentalists rather than singers. Working chiefly with black musicians, she was initially met with disapproval from the white community, yet persisted with her career.

Friday, March 18th @ 9:00pm

The 10th Annual Persian Arts Festival will feature multiple art forms including short films by Iranian Americans, performances by established poets, curated by Zohra Saed and Sara Goudarzi, the NYC premier of vocalist and daf player, Aida Shahghasemi, who fuses her exquisite Persian classical vocal training with indie-rock tendencies, and Mitra Sumara, a big-band of NYC-based musicians dedicated to Pop/funk music from Pre-Revolutionary Iran.

For more information, visit www.persianartsfestival.org.

Saturday, March 19th @ 10:00pm

Marrying the conceptual tactics and noisy textures of object-based musique concrete to a rhythmic matrix rooted in electronic pop music, the two quickly became known for their highly unusual sound sources: amplified crayfish nerve tissue, the pages of bibles turning, water hitting copper plates, liposuction surgery, and many more.

Their new album, Ultimate Care II, was recorded in the basement studio of their home. The album is constructed entirely out of the sounds generated by a Whirlpool Ultimate Care II model washing machine.

Sunday, March 20th @ 12:00pm

Norman Krieger’s piano recital is a celebration of the revolutionary composers and virtuoso pianists who wrote great music for the piano over the past 200 years.
Beethoven, Chopin, Gershwin and Lazarof celebrate the infinite myriads of dynamics, color, passion, and what is often called ‘the universal language’ through which music written for the piano speaks.

Monday, March 21st @ 7:00pm

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Finnegan Shanahan wrote his song cycle The Two Halves for the powerhouse ensemble Contemporaneous. Based on a map ca.1852 of the Hudson River Railroad, The Two Halves exists in a world somewhere between memory and imagination. It is divided into six songs, each one its own small piece of a dream-like narrative — beginning along the Hudson River and gradually moving out over the Catskills, hurtling across the country to the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, and eventually leaving the planet.