{"title": "Julia Wolfe & Bang on a Can All-Stars: Anthracite Fields", "start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "NYU Skirball", "address": "", "price": "USD 102", "price_from": "66.00", "price_to": "102.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.todaytix.com/booking/seating-plan?product_id=47744&content_product_id=47744&venue_id=12525&product_type=show&qt=2&showtime_id=2534456&slot=19:30&date=2026-10-29", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/vocal/oratorio", "history/industrial-history"], "description": "Julia Wolfe & Bang on a Can All-Stars: Anthracite Fields is a concert evening at NYU Skirball pairing ambitious music with American history. NYU Professor Julia Wolfe joins the Bang on a Can All-Stars for her Pulitzer Prize-winning oratorio Anthracite Fields, with commentary from the composer herself. The work gives voice to the lives, labor, and endurance of Pennsylvania coal miners and their families, drawing on oral histories, speeches, work songs, and local lore. Written for chorus and six instrumentalists, it transforms industrial history into a vivid musical portrait of community, hardship, and survival.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/julia-wolfe-bang-on-a-can-all-stars-anthracite-fields-66925/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4bab4466f666618363bc30706832eeabdb6afe1b02bc9639584f35b3b3e1bb7d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-29T19:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "NYU Skirball", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down", "start": "2026-11-05T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper Union", "address": "7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues, New York, NY", "price": "Free, first-come-first-served with registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["society/indigenous", "stage/opera"], "description": "Native Voices Karenna—Lay Our Vibration Down is an evening in the Gardiner Foundation Great Hall Forum presenting the New York-stage premieres of two short operas, Trials and Tears and Sacajawea: Women of Many Names. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent, with Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) as music director and original video design by Kate Freer. Trials and Tears, a collaboration with artist Ty Defoe commissioned by New Music Theatre Alliance in 2022, responds to Benny Andrews' painting Trail of Tears and connects the forced resettling of Indigenous people with trials leading to incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names, made with librettist-soprano Blake Hill-Saya and Shoshone Advisor Francesca Mason Boring, shows Sacajawea from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/native-voices-karennalay-our-vibration-down-75364/", "official_url": "https://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/native-voices-karenna-lay-our-vibration-down", "image": "https://noky.io/images/30e9c4439e2e624271c3021d72aaf341e5043b486c586d78e474d967d1eb8b40-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Iron + Palm Wine: Koneh Pelawoe", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-12-19T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Recess", "address": "46 Washington Ave. Brooklyn. 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Through Rogie's musical legacy, YATTA explores the entanglements of Blackness, land, leisure, and extraction, asking what healing possibilities the sounds of West Africa may hold when the psychic weight of labor, migration, and extraction is set down.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe-55301/", "official_url": "https://www.recessart.org/projects/613-iron-palm-wine-koneh-pelawoe", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d73c4aa3a9b5027995631c146a051af6f07fec49bb03fa8002e1497ba0e181eb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Singing the Alan Lomax Archive: A Benefit for the Association for Cultural Equity", "start": "2026-11-05T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Ann's and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church", "address": "Montague Street 157, 11201", "price": "$50 – $100", "price_from": "50.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.stannholytrinity.org/event/singing-the-alan-lomax-archive-a-benefit-for-the-association-for-cultural-equity-2", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk"], "description": "A benefit concert in which renowned singers give their own takes on music documented by Alan Lomax, following a New York premiere screening of Lomax's rarely seen 1961 film \"Ballads, Blues, and Bluegrass\". The evening is hosted by Dom Flemons and features Peter Stampfel, Kyp Malone, Catherine Russell, Luther Dickinson, Laura Cantrell, Grace Bergere, and Stephanie Jenkins performing songs from the digital archive of the Association for Cultural Equity. The film's screening shows performances by Doc Watson, Roscoe Holcomb, Willie Dixon, Memphis Slim, Clarence Ashley, The New Lost City Ramblers, Jean Ritchie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Peter LaFarge, Ernie Mars and The Greenbriar Boys. The concert is the kick-off event of the Brooklyn Folk Festival, presented by the Jalopy Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/singing-the-alan-lomax-archive-a-benefit-for-the-association-55511/", "official_url": "http://culturalequity.org/benefit", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5cc578fb2ff067f287c145009e54ee3de2be40fd6b97e1e2c27976047bc78f81-2000.webp"}, {"title": "LPR Presents: Carsie Blanton w/ The Burning Hell", "start": "2026-11-01T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Littlefield", "address": "Sackett Street 635, 11217 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": "40.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lpr-presents-carsie-blanton-w-the-burning-hell-tickets-1992001143042", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk"], "description": "A live concert evening presented by LPR at Littlefield in Brooklyn. It stars Carsie Blanton, a radical folk songwriter in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, performing with her band alongside The Burning Hell. Blanton blends infectious melodies, lyrical wit, vaudeville, campfire singalongs and punk rock into a show of humor, hope and solidarity. Beyond music, she works as a political organizer and activist, having joined the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza by sailboat.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/lpr-presents-carsie-blanton-w-the-burning-hell-53613/", "official_url": "https://lpr.com/lpr_events/carsienov126nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/20d15d21aeedf9df65f8361d79223e70c7987a16087ef583d8c2fd6538defbc1-600.webp"}, {"title": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama", "start": "2026-11-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "La MaMa", "address": "East 4th Street 66, 10003 New York", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/42/production/1294622", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/rock"], "description": "Kate Rigg with Slanty Eyed Mama is a residency at La MaMa built around the spoken word, rock and comedy duo of the same name. Slanty Eyed Mama is award-winning lyricist and singer Kate Rigg (Lady-K) and electric violinist Lyris Hung, who met while studying at the Juilliard School and create a fresh American Asian sound. Their work has taken them twice to the Smithsonian Institute, to headline the PBS Special \"Race is the Place\", and to stages such as LA Grand Performances, the Perth International Festival and the Vancouver Comedy Festival. On November 1 they lead \"Speak Up! Speak Out! 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Rachel Feldhaus on viola, ROHANA on cello, and Warner Meadows on keyboard and electronics will improvise together in their distinct styles of classical, folk, jazz, and experimental music. Alexandra Hodkowski, Curator of Public Programs, will give a welcome. Hosted by Cooper Hewitt curators, educators, conservators, and librarians, the hour invites visitors to sit by the fireplace, listen, and ask questions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/at-the-hearth-live-music-with-rachel-feldhaus-rohana-and-war-76947/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/at-the-hearth-live-music-with-rachel-feldhaus-rohana-and-warner-meadows-11-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/14821da9c871e6ea43ba17dc9affd86191f3620f28c8a4516ad124db7e1ff1bf-2000.webp"}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Tenebrae: The Journey", "start": "2026-11-05T19:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T21:30:00-05:00", "place": "Saint Thomas Episcopal Church", "address": "West 53rd Street 1, New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35174/production/1278550", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/choral"], "description": "A choral concert marking the 25th anniversary of Tenebrae, the world-renowned professional UK choir, on the first US stop of its anniversary tour. Founder and artistic director Nigel Short conducts the programme 'The Journey', which charts journeys of many kinds, from physical adventures to the spiritual passage from life to death, across centuries and continents. It gathers works significant to the choir's history, including music from Russian Treasures, Brahms and Bruckner, and Poulenc's Figure Humaine, alongside a recording of Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir, pieces linked to Max Richter's soundtrack for Hamnet, and brand-new commissions, with two works receiving their North American premieres.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tenebrae-the-journey-55665/", "official_url": "https://www.saintthomaschurch.org/events/tenebrae-the-journey-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1d700b141d06797e05958509e1050e49e7c4988a5d602410983d57260b873133-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Unsound New York: Listening session: Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi present 'Kotonski Reworked'", "start": "2026-10-30T17:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Public Records", "address": "Butler Street 233, 11217", "price": "Gratis", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/experimental-electronic"], "description": "A listening session with music presented in playback. Jim O'Rourke and Eiko Ishibashi apply their bespoke processes to the work of Włodzimierz Kotoński, a Polish composer, teacher and music theorist and one of Poland's most radical 20th century musicians, who pioneered tape music. This is a 21+ event.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/unsound-new-york-listening-session-jim-orourke-and-eiko-ishi-55031/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Matana Roberts Presents: “off the record…”", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/36368/production/1282037?performanceId=11836634", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A live solo performance by composer, saxophonist, and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts, presented as part of the ongoing COIN COIN project. The piece moves between memory, imagination, and lived experience, following association rather than chronology, with language, gesture, silence, humor, and chance shaping each telling. Conceived as a celebratory postscript to the COIN COIN recordings, part of which began at this venue, it makes space for ideas and questions beyond those recordings. A free livestream will be available the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/matana-roberts-presents-off-the-record-55464/", "official_url": "https://roulette.org/event/matana-roberts-presents-off-the-record/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f48fb3c356ab5c14465012ab327ef41ed586b612fda649508a1affe6e27a42a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chamber Music Season Finale & Halloween Bash", "start": "2026-10-31T10:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T13:00:00-04:00", "place": "Nolan Park - Building 14", "address": "", "price": "free; donation optional", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://luma.com/gupa7e9a", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/chamber-music", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "A season finale chamber music concert and Halloween bash with string trio and soprano, ending in an end-of-season party. Glass Clouds Ensemble, a 2026 Organization in Residence on Governors Island, performs shimmery, shadowy, and festive music, featuring a premiere by composer in residence Tyson Gholston Davis. After the concert, visitors can celebrate the ensemble's first season in residence and enjoy art by artists in residence Katy Pinke and Lara Lewison and designers Claire Caverly and Meredith Newman.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/chamber-music-season-finale-halloween-bash-52851/", "official_url": "https://www.govisland.com/things-to-do/events/chamber-music-season-finale-halloween-bash", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d99f3a19e4d269da2eca6cbb9566387329cfb5b93b07cde07995b10e02521b93-2000.webp"}, {"title": "House of Time: Circle of Life", "start": "2026-11-07T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Saint Ignatius of Antioch Church", "address": "West End Avenue 552, New York", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://gemsny.org/event/house-of-time-26", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical/baroque"], "description": "A concert titled Circle of Life by the ensemble House of Time, with music by Biber, Strozzi, Purcell, Handel, and Bach. Spectacular soprano Ah Young Hong, praised by The New York Times for her \"expressive intensity and fervor,\" joins the group in a musical tapestry following the course of a woman's life. Childbirth, adolescent pangs of love, marriage, the wisdom of old age, and the end of life are depicted through Baroque music that speaks as vividly today as it did to audiences of the past.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/house-of-time-circle-of-life-55563/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cfcaf80c304b09a53a18fd7c89a5b6a0a39695ba3fe62ca06bc3406e0c0704fb-2000.webp"}]}