BlackBox Ensemble performs the U.S. premiere of PIPA BOY: Three Scenes from the Post-Diaspora by Baldwin Giang, a multimedia work for ensemble and pipa player exploring global identity and the conditions of belonging and non-belonging. The video part features collaborations with three international filmmakers. The program also includes work by Anthony Cheung, Misato Mochizuki, and Giang's song cycle butterfly, posthumously.

Join us for a very special listening party, celebrating the release of Meredith Monk’s newest album, 'Cellular Songs,' on ECM Records. Performed by the women of the acclaimed Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble (Monk, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Joanna Lynn-Jacobs and Allison Sniffin) and percussionist, John Hollenbeck, 'Cellular Songs' features some of Monk’s most adventurous and daring writing for the voice, paired with violin, piano, body percussion and keyboard.

On the eve of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, join Keith Secola and Maria Esther Pallares for a magical evening of music celebrating LIFE, LOVE, & UNITY. They will be joined by special guest Bethany Yarrow, whose father, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary, collaborated frequently with both Keith and Esther. He was a great admirer of these extraordinary performers and felt a connection to the sound, spirit, and messages of their music. This performance will also feature a photo exhibit by Alon Kaplun, a New York-based photographer who extracts unique perspectives from his urban surroundings and natural landscapes.

Cuban-Chinese artist, composer, and cellist SUUVI premieres Dark Therapy—a groundbreaking neuroarts album and immersive performance—on World Mental Health Day. A classically trained prodigy who began playing cello at age two and was accepted to Juilliard at ten, SUUVI is an emerging force in experimental music. Her work merges ambient cello, spatial electronics, voice, and multilingual storytelling—infused with healing frequencies and guided by scientific insight.

On the heels of her 2025 Pulitzer Prize in music, singular Filipinx-American composer, percussionist, and sound artist Susie Ibarra returns to NS+ with a program featuring U.S. and New York premieres, as well as tales of collecting sound over time in remote, rustic corners of the world.

Zola Jesus aka Nika is an American born singer, songwriter and producer. Since 2008, she has released two EPs and seven (?) full-length albums majoratively on NY multi-decade tastemaker label Sacred Bones. Nika began training as an opera singer at the age of 10. She dismantled that training to deliver her breakthrough lo-fi record The Spoils in 2009, most of which she recorded as an undergrad in her dorm room at UW Madison.

After spending the majority of his adult life thus far in New York, Juan Wauters decides to revisit his native Montevideo, the culturally rich capital of Uruguay. Wauters explored the excitement of falling back in love with his birthplace on his subsequent record, 2023’s Wandering Rebel, but on his seventh studio album MVD LUV — due June 27 via Captured Tracks — Wauters doesn’t just introduce listeners to Montevideo; he invites them to feel at home within it. Having spent much of his career in the United States, Wauters has long carried the dual identity of immigrant and native son. With MVD LUV, a love letter to both his roots and his present, he set out to bridge those worlds by capturing the essence of Montevideo’s streets and communal spirit.

Join cellist and composer Tamar Sagiv for the release of her debut album Shades of Mourning, —an intimate journey through grief, memory, and hope that transforms personal loss into a powerful musical expression. Drawing on her Middle Eastern heritage and rigorous classical training, Sagiv creates a sonic landscape against the backdrop of ongoing conflicts in her homeland.

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome rising artist Lola Young to National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for a discussion about her new album, I’m Only F*cking Myself, her creative process, hit single "Messy" and more with a special live performance.

Babehoven is a band fronted by singer-songwriter Maya Bon and collaborator Ryan Albert in Hudson, NY. Their new album 'Water's Here In You' is available everywhere on April 26 via Double Double Whammy.

After a 3-year hiatus, Theophilus London returns to the stage for a one-night only event to lay the foundation for a new chapter in his music career. Hosted and curated by London, the evening will unfold in three parts, taking the audience on a sonic journey that will culminate with a world premiere performance of Awaken, his comeback track and the first single from his upcoming album.

Grounded in the lived experience of scientific practice, Meltdown is a one-act dramatic work for mezzo-soprano and piano trio that explores the intertwined dynamics of grief over the climate crisis, sexual harassment and violence, and the exploitation of people and land.

The GRAMMY Museum is thrilled to welcome Nick Lowe at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY for an intimate conversation moderated by SNL's James Austin Johnson about his first album in over a decade - Indoor Safari due out September 13 on Yep Roc Records - his career, and more, with a performance to follow.

TOTKV [tot-kuh]
AN EVENING TO BUILD EXCITEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIGENOUS SONGBOOK
A commissioning initiative of The Plimpton Foundation and a new partnership with National Sawdust

This May 18 event is generously sponsored by The Lostand Foundation.

Please join National Sawdust for a lively discussion and premiere performances of new compositions by Timothy Long and R. Carlos Nakai, performed by Martha Redbone, Mark Billy, Katelyn Morton, and Marion Newman.

Create space for a new generation of Indigenous artists and embrace a newly-developed library of repertoire written by descendants of the first inhabitants of North America, free from appropriation.

Moral Injuries of War is an immersive experience forging new ways to contemplate and heal from war through testimony, movement, and public conversation.

Perceive its Beauty, Acknowledge its Grace by multi-instrumentalist Shabaka Hutchings is, in a sense, a debut album. And yet, the album also serves as a reintroduction to the artist, a levitating, stunning work chock full of the lessons he’s learned over the course of his life and career. And perhaps, most importantly, it represents the spirit of exploration that the artist is most tapped into these days.

Prospect's annual Musical Theater Lab returns to the stage with a line-up of hot-off-the-presses, original short musicals created by a cadre of up and coming artists! This year, the lab brings together writers to "caption" photographic images, providing a story and character in response to a captured moment.

Resident Artist: Amy Toruño

An adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit. Three characters Emilia, Sarah, and Andres find themselves trapped in a New York G train; bound to nowhere for eternity. Together they navigate purgatory and quickly realize that "hell is other people."