{"title": "Southern Oracles", "start": "2026-10-28T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Adam Space", "address": "", "price": "FREE", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/57930", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["literature/spoken-word", "music/jazz"], "description": "Southern Oracles is a multidisciplinary concert by The Black Air Poets exploring the touchstones and mythology of South Side neighborhoods everywhere. It was conceived and produced by slam poet and author Scott Woods with music director and drummer Dr. Mark Lomax II. 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It celebrates Locke's first career monograph, Steve Locke: I Said What I Said, and accompanies his exhibition of the same title at the gallery. 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It features Jardineros, a trio of Cuban improvisers (Hery Paz, Román Díaz, Francisco Mela) working within and beyond Cuban musical and religious traditions and contemporary jazz; Tree Trini Collective (Fay Victor, Lyndon Achee, Jessie Cox), a steelpan-centered trio drawing on the experimental history of Trinidad and Tobago's music; and DJ Sabine Blaizin of Oyasound Productions, who spins Afro-diasporic rhythms and electronic music between sets. All ticket proceeds are donated to Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, a Brooklyn organization supporting Haitians affected by the termination of Temporary Protection Status. 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The play, by Naima Ramos-Chapman, centers the friendship of two Black American and Caribbean friends and examines how state-sanctioned violence threatens to tear their family and community apart. Through recalling memories across time and incorporating movement and dance, it aims to create a portal for audiences to envision more just and liberated futures for Black and Brown people. The reading is followed by a talkback with the creatives.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/naima-ramos-chapman-in-place-of-monuments-51069/", "official_url": "https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-new-works-naima-ramos-in-place-of-monuments", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9358ca52963fb66e5e081b518918365f8df1020d3d1e3843395423eec923c3ca-2000.webp"}, {"title": "the olllam", "start": "2026-11-07T19:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Le Poisson Rouge", "address": "Bleecker Street 158, 10012", "price": "$27", "price_from": "27.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "https://kyd.to/CTEl5gO3", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/folk/irish/irish-trad"], "description": "A live concert at the music venue Le Poisson Rouge in the Main Space, open to ages 16 and up. It is headlined by The Olllam, a band led by uilleann piper John McSherry that fuses Irish traditional music with the modern jazz and post-rock energy of Detroit, featuring Joe Dart (Vulfpeck), Michael Shimmin, Ross Ainslie, Seán O'Meara, and Joe Hettinga. After their acclaimed album elllegy, they have collaborated with GRAMMY-nominated producer Zedd and reinvent the tradition from ancient airs to future soundscapes. They are joined by faiith, a NYC-raised artist with West Indian roots whose jazz training and R&B roots shape her debut album Answer to Love.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-olllam-66782/", "official_url": "https://lpr.com/lpr_events/olllam26nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/48ec86a9ceeaa32bc6293d045c06a26d9eae2f0c37d9ebbb23883944625ff0e6-2000.webp"}]}