11/1 Saturday
8:30 pm
QUARTET
Mat Maneri (viola) Cory Smythe (piano) Sara Schoenbeck (bassoon) Mark Dresser (bass)
11/5 Wednesday
8:30 pm
DARSHAN—Basya Schechter and Eden Pearlstein
Basya Schechter (guitar, ukulele, vocals) Eden Pearlstein (vocals) Shai Wetzer (drums) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar, vocals) Micha Gilad (keyboards) Shanir Blumenkranz (bass) Eleonore Weill (flutes, vocals) Chaia Berman Peters (accordion, vocals, electronics)
Darshan is a kaleidoscopic interdisciplinary collaboration between polymathic poet and rapper Eden Pearlstein (ePRHYME) and world-soul singer-songwriter Basya Schechter (Pharaoh's Daughter). Breathing new life into ancient Hebrew and Aramaic texts through a combination of Poetic/Rap Commentary and Musical Midrash, Darshan Samples, remixes, and creatively transforms mystical Jewish teachings and prayers into a truly unique form of Sacred Pop Art. In their latest recording project, Songs From the Void, Darshan takes the radically creative teachings of Hasidic master Rebbe Nachman—on doubt, depression, fear, and imagination—and transforms them into "spiritual sheet music" for these tumultuous times.
11/6 Thursday
8:30 pm
KHUMESH LIDER—Avi fox Rosen and Basya Schechter
Avi fox Rosen (vocals, guitar) Basya Schechter (vocals) Yoshie Fruchter (guitar) Eleonore Weill (vocals) Chaia Berman Peters (electronics) Shai Wetzer (drums)
"Khumesh Lider" is a tragicomic retellings of Bible stories, from Eastern European Yiddish poet Itzik Manger’s 20th century collection of Genesis poetic satire. Characters we know and love like Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah are plucked out of Canaan and set in interwar Eastern Europe. Hasidim, Turks, Egyptians, and Canaanites collide in the mythical geography Manger creates. The music weaves together a singer-songwriter aesthetic with theater, pop, and world music influences, arranged with lush vocal harmonies throughout.
11/7 Friday
8:30 pm
MEG OKURA PROJECT
Meg Okura (violin) and guests
11/8 Saturday
8:30 pm
KABBALAH KIRTAN
Basya Schechter (shrutivocals, percussion) Deep Singh (tabla) Jessica Lurie (flutes, sax, vocals) and special guests
The Zohar, in English the Book of Splendor, has been described as both the most important literary work of Kabbalah, written in Aramaic, and as a mysterious and inaccessible sacred subtext of the Bible, carrying spiritual secrets from mystics who went into trances. Using kirtan chant, we’ll swim with the words and open the space with instrumental avante garde improvisations to break open the genre.
11/12 Wednesday
8:30 pm
TALAMANTI
Patricia Brennan (vibes) Sylvie Courvoisier (piano)
11/13 Thursday
8:30 pm
Percussion QUARTET
Patricia Brennan (vibes) Melissa Almaguer (tap dance) Mauricio Herrera (percussion) Noel Brennan (percussion)
11/14 Friday
8:30 pm
TRIO
Patricia Brennan (vibes) Kim Cass (bass) Noel Brennan (drums)
11/15 Saturday
8:30 pm
TRIO
Patricia Brennan (vibes) Josh Modney (violin) Dan Weiss (drums).
11/19 Wednesday
8:30 pm
Conspiracy Brass
Frank London (trumpet) Marcus Rojas (tuba) Josh Roseman (trombone) Onel Matos (congas) Javier Diaz (drums)
11/20 Thursday
8:30 pm
Loisaida Fife & Drum Corp
Frank London (trumpet) Elijah Thomas (piccolo) Ron Caswell (tuba) Charles Burnham (violin) Reut Regev (trombone) Satoshi Takaeshi (bass drum) Brian Chase (snare drum)
11/21 Friday
8:30 pm
Meditations on Resilience
Frank London (trumpet) Ben Stapp (tuba) Knox Chandler (guitar)
11/22 Saturday
8:30 pm
Conspiracy Brass with guest Steven Bernstein—My Favorite Things
Frank London (trumpet) Steven Bernstein (trumpet) Kenny Wollesen (drums) José Davila (trombone) Marcus Rojas (tuba)