Photo by Jan Rusek/Jazz Jantar Festival in Poland

Hi friends

I truly cannot believe it is already Fall. As Seal once sang on the Space Jam soundtrack “time keeps on slipping, into the future”.

I want to invite you to a very special show this week on Friday September 1st with my band Elder Ones at Public Records. It is the first time we're playing in NYC in two years, after working on a bunch of new music with a very exciting line-up in preparation for our third album out in Spring 2024! Yes, I am still railing against the white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy, but I promise it will be a good time.

The new line-up includes Lester St. Louis on bass, Jason Nazary on drums, Matt Nelson on soprano saxophone and Alfredo Colon on tenor saxophone, with an array of electronics. The bill is a really good one, with the excellent musicians of Darlin', the group of Wendy Eisenberg, Ryan Sawyer and Lester on cello!

We’re also super thrilled to have joined the No Earplugs fam for our European booking. Malwina is super passionate and dedicated, the next generation of fan turned industry, who we met through her super fan parents in Poland!

I've also got some nice gigs coming up including a CECIL TAYLOR OPERA, a benefit for The Freedom Theater, an arts organization for refugees in Jenin, occupied Palestine, and later in the fall a new trio project with Qasim Naqvi and Rafiq Bhatia for the Ragas Live Festival at Pioneer Works, a mini-tour with Neti-Neti my duo with Matt Evans, and more!

In addition to gigs I'm excited to return to teach at Brooklyn College next week and later in the season, as a first-time visiting professor at Bennington College!

Thanks for reading if you got this far :)

In solidarity,

Amirtha

DETAILS + TICKETS

Friday September 1st @ Public Records, 8pm: Elder Ones & Darlin'

Darlin’ (Wendy Eisenberg, Ryan Sawyer, Lester St. Louis) and Elder Ones (Matt Nelson, Alfredo Colon, Lester St. Louis and Jason Nazary). This is an brand-new Elder Ones line-up and the first show in NYC since 2021!

Saturday September 9th @ The Morgan Library, 2/3pm FREE with Museum Admission

Touching Leaves Woman by Brent Michael Davids honoring Lenape teacher and herbalist Nora Thompson Dean, with Gelsey Bell, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Ashley Perez Flanagan, Ethan Philbrick, Eddy Kwon, Erin Rogers and Sugar Vendil

Friday September 22nd @ Starr Barr, 7pm

Benefit for The Freedom Theatre, a theatre and cultural centre in Jenin refugee camp, occupied Palestine. More than 200 Palestinians, many of them children, have been killed in 2023.

Thursday September 28th @ CUNY Grad Center, 6:30pm

A Rat's Mass an opera by Cecil Taylor is an operatic re-staging of Adrienne Kennedy’s one-act play, premiered at La Mama Experimental Theater club in 1976.

Monday October 2nd + Tuesday October 3rd @ DC + Philly

Neti-Neti (me + Matt Evans) mini tour in DC + Philly, details TBA!

Saturday October 14th @ Pioneer Works

A new Trio with Qasim Naqvi and Rafiq Bhatia for the 24-hour Ragas Live Festival

Tuesday October 24th @ Bennington College

Duo with bassist Luke Stewart