This November, there’s a party we can all agree on: BKCM’s annual House Party!

For the ninth year running, we’re campaigning on a platform of incredible music, immersive experiences, and unimpeachable food and drinks. No pollsters. No Super PACs. Just a 143-year old Victorian home in Park Slope and the best party of the year.

Still undecided? Every ticket supports BKCM’s mission to transform lives through the expressive, educational and therapeutic powers of music. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

NIKARA presents The Queen of Kings County Album Release featuring members of Black Wall Street & a set from Corey Fonville (of Butcher Brown) at NuBlu 151 in New York City on October 28th, 2024!

Doors @ 7pm

Corey Fonville @ 8pm

NIKARA presesnts Black Wall Street @ 9pm

END @ 10pm

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EVENT from 6-12am

PERFORMANCES start at 8PM SHARP

featuring…

• TREWAY & THE NOW GENERATION

• DOWN TO MARS

• J.HOARD

• BRAYLA

• SEBASTIAN MIKAEL

• SOL CHYLD

• SOUNDS OF REALITY

• BLKIDTWINS

OPEN BAR & FOOD TIL 8PM. DRINKS FOR SALE AFTER 8PM.

TICKETS @ WWW.INTERTWINEDPRODUCTIONS.COM

J.Hoard, Beige Records and Railroad Hart present A LIVE RECORDING at Joe’s Pub!

Live Recording of "Let Love In Suite": one loop that carries three J. Hoard originals on piano/keys. First conceived during J. Hoard's opening set for the John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin's Cassette Roulette residency, the Suite is true to the title covering love in its varied manifestations. This is a literal 'in the moment' show to be experienced - one that is sure to be queer, gospel, filled with soundscapes, and plain ol from the heart.

featuring J.Hoard & band for a special night of beautiful new music!

9pm Doors

9:30pm Music starts

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—> Livestream HERE

San Jose Jazz Festival x The Break Room Stage present

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street

8-9pm

More information coming soon!

Nikara presents Black Wall Street performs LIVE

@ San Jose Jazz Festival’s Hammer 4 Stage

4-5pm

More information coming soon!

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 6 PM
J. HOARD (QUARTET)
Selected by Kassa Overall
J. Hoard - composer, vocals, loop station, Sean Richey- guitar, Daniel Winshall - bass, Dom Gervais-drums, TBD - keyboardist.

J. Hoard interweaves genres to articulate his vivid songwriting. This eclectic approach has yielded songwriting collaborations on two Grammy-award winning albums (Black Coffee – 2022 “Subconsciously” Dance Album & Chance the Rapper – 2017 “Coloring Book” Rap album). Additionally, he works closely with artists such as Brasstracks, Endea Owens, Jose James and the legendary Meshell Ndegeocello (credited vocalist on her 2019 Grammy nominated “Ventriloquism” album). No matter the genre, platform, or language (backing vocalist on the Latin Grammy winning “Sobrevolando” Cultura Profetica album) J. Hoard possesses the essence of the Black church and allure of the Great White Way, usually with his arms stretched out like Whitney Houston, to ensure the audience is enriched while being entertained.

MAE.SUN album release with support from Sheila Govindarajan

8pm Doors

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MAE.SUN album release show ft. Hailey Niswanger, Nikara Warren, David Frazier Jr, Aaron Liao, Axel Laugart & Asher Kurtz

with Opening Support from NIKARA presents Black Wall Street

**This is a 21+ event

**Presented by Nublu 151.

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Join us for a RSVP, outdoor concert in Jersey City at The Statuary featuring NIKARA presents Black Wall Street!

• 1st set @ 7pm

• 2nd set @ 8:30pm

• End @ 10pm

• SUGGESTED DONATION UPON ENTRY!

Intermissions & Interludes was created to bring artists into conversation with their audience and celebrate how Black creativity encourages us to live audaciously. This specific showcase is in celebration of Black History month as well as Juneteenth featuring musical performances by 2-3 artists including Nikara Warren followed by a panel discussion with the performers - all at Brooklyn Art Haus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

More information coming soon…

Over the past several years, the ever-expansive singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon has explored questions of fellowship and activism with Lincoln Center programs that have united professional singers with audience members through shared performance, most notably in her innovative and participatory opera based on the work of author Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower. Reagon's program this year is a continuation of her Songs of the Living Community Choir project, and the Parable Path. This iteration of Songs of the Living is centered on freedom songs: drawing from 200 years of Black Music in collaboration with music across the global African Diaspora. This Juneteenth concert will be rooted in music Toshi learned as a child growing up during the Southern Freedom Movement which expanded into the 20th century American Civil Rights Movement and other revolutions in international human history. Reagon's multitudinous and intergenerational choir is supported by her band BIGLovely and joined by an array of special guests to be announced. It is a collaborative concert that first and foremost acknowledges the ongoing fight for justice and equality that is our necessary struggle and birthright.

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Featuring J.HOARD @ Damrosch Park for FREE!!!!

More information found here!

Jazz Power presents Uptown Festival @ Inwood Hill Park on Payson Ave. &, Seaman Ave ft. Nikara Warren on vibraphone.

More information found HERE

Live Recording of "Let Love In Suite": one loop that carries three J. Hoard originals on piano/keys. First conceived during J. Hoard's opening set for the John Cameron Mitchell & Amber Martin's Cassette Roulette residency, the Suite is true to the title covering love in its varied manifestations. This is a literal 'in the moment' show to be experienced - one that is sure to be queer, gospel, filled with soundscapes, and plain ol from the heart.

Doors @ 6pm

Recording/Show @ 7pm

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Rising Soul-Jazz Vibraphonist

NIKARA WARREN

JUNE 5-16 | 41ST ANNUAL SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ FESTIVAL

JUN 08, 2024

Joe Henderson Lab (7p + 8:30p)

MORE INFORMATION HERE!

Park Slope’s Favorite Music Fest is Back!

Join us for Open Stages 2024, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (BKCM)’s free spring music festival! On May 11 from 3-7pm, stoops, schoolyards, parks and local cafes throughout Park Slope will host 150+ inspiring artists sure to amaze families. Past acts have included Grammy Award-winners, talented teen rockers, high-octane marching bands, hip-hop artists, and music-makers of all kinds.

Don’t miss out on this unforgettable day of music, art, and community. Mark your calendars and join us for Open Stages 2024 – a world of music outside your door!

As always, Open Stages is free and open to the public, but we also offer a number of ways to support this annual festival and all of BKCM’s vital community programs, which bring the gift of music education and therapy to thousands across all five boroughs of New York City. Our VIP tickets give you access to private festival musical performances and delicious food and drinks from local vendors. For the first time ever, in gratitude for your support, we are also hosting an exclusive Rooftop Pre-party in a gorgeous penthouse overlooking Prospect Park on May 7. Space is limited – consider making a contribution today!

** J.HOARD WILL PERFORM @ 5PM **

Learn more HERE!

This two-day program of community, song, conversation, and food is catalyzed by artist Ines Doujak’s decades-spanning practice. Doujak’s work stages interventions into socially prescribed boundaries. In HOPE AGAINST HOPE sculptures and costumes move from display to play, asserting presences on the street, honoring women land defenders, anti-capitalist environmental movements, and the intersections between struggles for liberation across class, race, and gender.

HOPE AGAINST HOPE extends beyond the individual artist’s practice and invites feminist poets, activists, musicians, and more to raise questions about how activist histories can inform radical presents. The weekend begins with a parade on May 4 at 2pm, co-presented by CARA and New York City AIDS Memorial. Weaving together pasts and futures of hope, participants form a chorus of voices calling for liberation from patriarchal oppression.

The parade opens at CARA with an invocation by poet Pamela Sneed, who will read work that honors the lives lost to AIDS through mourning and action. Her words will lead us into the streets, guided by the heart-beat of the parade: the percussion of Black-led, Afro Brazilian, all-women musical troupe Batalá New York. Joined by Brujas, a New York-based experimental union and skate collective, we will process towards St. Vincent’s Triangle (the New York City AIDS Memorial), which will act as a space for performances and gathering. At the memorial four artists from The Blacksmiths, a coalition of artists and organizers committed to using the arts to support direct action and civic engagement in the service of Black liberation and equity, will perform with vibraphone, trumpet, vocals, and percussion. Artist and writer Christen Clifford, whose work centers reproductive justice and organizing against gender-based violence, will perform. Free food will be available as an invitation for collective nourishment. The afternoon will be book-ended by a final offering from Sneed to close out the day.

Saturday, May 4, 2-5PM
Co-presented with New York City AIDS Memorial
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Nikara Warren trio LIVE @ Bar Bayeux in Brooklyn - New York on March 20, 2024.

• 2 sets

• featured players - TBA

**This is a closed, private event/workshop for upper school students attending Berkeley Carroll School.

The masterful young vibraphonist and composer Nikara Warren brings her Black Wall Street project that explores jazz, hip-hop, neo-soul, Afro-Latino and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, abstract sound-collage and more.

"Black Wall Street isn’t a record of jazz shaped by truths. It’s a record of truths shaped by jazz." – Downbeat Magazine.

Warren will peform works as part of a quintet from her debut project, Black Wall Street, named for the affluent black neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that was burned to the ground during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, as well as samples from her upcoming sophmore album Ode to the Sample. This event is co-hosted by Black + Society.

The Band will be featuring Nikara Warren, Hailey Niswanger, Mike Blankenship, Gulio Xavier Cetto, & James Small.

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street @ Black Cat in San Francisco

featuring Hailey Niswanger, Mike Blankenship, Gulio Xavier Cetto, & James Small.

*7:00 show: Doors @ 6:00 [1st set]

*9:15 show: Bar @ 6:00, Doors @ 8:30 [2nd set]

TICKETS FOR BOTH SETS HERE !

KENNY BARRON: BRAZILIAN EXPLORATIONS

with Anne Drummond, Nikara Warren, John Patitucci, Rafael Barata, & Valtinho Anastacio

FEB 03, 2024 ~ Miner Auditorium ~ 7:30 PM

Kenny Barron’s third night brings the Bay Area premiere of a new sextet project embracing the music of Brazil and beyond. No stranger to Brazilian rhythms, Barron recorded his first album of samba-influenced compositions three decades ago with 1993’s Verve date Sambao.

He is joined for this special night by flutist Anne Drummond and percussionist Valtinho Anastacio from his 2002 Sunnyside release Canta Brasil, along with drummer Rafael Barata, whose scintillating playing propelled the pianist’s 2013 Rio-recorded session Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights. Rounding out the band is Barron’s granddaughter, the masterful vibraphonist Nikara Warren, and virtuoso bassist John Patitucci.

$35 | $55 | $75 | $100 | $110 —— FIND TICKETS HERE

MAE.SUN performs LIVE in Los Angeles @ Resident DTLA

**Arc Iris will be the support act.

Music starts @ 8pm

Tickets are HERE!

Nikara Warren Quartet LIVE @ Smalls Jazz Club on January 24th, 2023

featuring Mike King / Piano - Jonathon Muir-Cotton / Bass - Jonathan Barber / Drums

• Set 1 - 7:30pm

• Set 2 - 9pm

Tickets can be purchased HERE!

Jazz Night @ 333 Lounge presents Nikara Warren trio LIVE.

7-11:30pm

Check out www.333lounge.com for more information!

J.HOARD will be performing a LIVE set at this year’s 2024 Winter Jazz Fest.

*12:15AM SET @ Zinc Bar

Tickets available HERE!

Headliner

• MAE.SUN

Support

• Danae Greenfield

About this event

—— TIX AVAILABLE HERE ——

MAE.SUN, alternately known as Hailey Niswanger, is a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer. In 2016, Hailey started branching out from her jazz roots, and through meditation, began to channel music that was inspired by a multitude of influences and sounds. “My music started to come from a place that felt so much more than just ‘me’. I wanted to depart from my birth given name, and put music out under a new moniker. MAE is my middle name, and SUN, was chosen from inspiring words by Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, who said, “The sun is our second heart…[the] great heart outside of our body.” Essentially, our universal, collective heart. MAE.SUN’s music is mindful and eclectic, pushing boundaries and defying genres. Her music taps into the collective consciousness, serving as an engaging mediation for all. Though she can be primarily heard playing her saxophones, flute, and singing, MAE.SUN also plays clarinet, piano, and guitar. MAE.SUN’s cosmic debut album ‘Vol. 1: Inter-be’ was released in 2017, followed by ‘Vol. 2: Into The Flow’ in 2019. Vol. 3 is set to be released in 2023.

Before 2016, Hailey recorded 3 albums under her original name, and received many accolades in the jazz community; including winning first place at the Mary Lou Williams saxophone competition at age 19, charting on Billboard, plaudits from esteemed writer Nat Hentoff in the Wall Street Journal, rave reviews in JazzTimes, Jazziz, NPR, and DownBeat, including being listed on their critics poll for rising star on alto and soprano saxophone for the 9 consecutive years. She has toured and performed with a number of notable artists including, Esperanza Spalding, Kenny Barron, Harvey Mason, Wolff & Clark Expedition, Mulatu Astatke, Ralph Peterson, and Terri Lyne Carrington whose GRAMMY award winning album ‘The Mosaic Project’ she recorded flute on. In the pop realm, she has performed with Demi Lovato, Sleigh Bells, and can be heard playing flute on Beyoncé’s ‘Black Parade’. Most recently Hailey has been touring with pop/folk artist Clairo.

MAE.SUN has performed at notable venues including SFJAZZ Center, PDX Jazz at Lan Su Gardens, Music Hall of Williamsburg, National Sawdust, Mercury Lounge, Elsewhere, and Bowery Electric. MAE.SUN has also performed at BRIC Jazz Fest, San Jose Jazz Summer Fest, and New York’s Winter Jazz Fest. She performed a live set on WBGO’s The Checkout, and most recently was the featured demo performer for Roland’s new Aerophone Pro. Hailey can also be heard in collaboration with Mia Garcia as part of their newest project OHMA. Their first album ‘Between All Things’ was released September 2022, and they just completed their first tour opening for FKJ across North America.

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Danae Greenfield is a pianist, keyboardist, and synthesist born and raised in Seattle, Washington. After graduating from Newport High School, Danae moved across the country to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts on a full tuition scholarship. While in Boston, Danae had the privilege of sharing the stage with Chick Corea, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tia Fuller, and Jason Palmer. Danae graduated from Berklee with a Bachelors of Music Degree in Performance and Professional Music and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, where she aims to develop her sound as a pianist and performer of creative music. Danae released her debut EP "Shelter" in May 2019 with her acoustic jazz quartet. She also plays regularly with her fusion quintet, and is working on her debut album with this group as we speak! Danae is sponsored by Nord Keyboards and Earthquaker Devices. Since moving to New York, Danae has had the opportunity to work and perform with artists such as John Legend, Clairo, Ben Platt, Amber Navran, Raveena, and Fatai, among others.

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21+ , No refunds

Resident

428 S Hewitt St

Los Angeles, CA

Join rum.gold at Brooklyn's Roulette Theater for a cathartic evening with one of r&b's purest and most distinct emerging vocalists.

**Opener: KAMILAH will be supporting him with her vibrant set featuring Corey Sanchez on guitar.

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Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music performance and arts education, celebrates Women’s History Month throughout March 2023, featuring the extraordinary talents of two exceptional musicians. Nikara Warren, vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator, joins JPI’s acclaimed monthly concert series, Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam with performances from Ms. Warren’s debut album, “Scenes From Black Wall Street,” on March 19 at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and on March 23 at the Alizana Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights.

March 23, 2023, at 7pm
Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washinton Heights, 530 W 166th St, New York, 10032

— FREE EVENT —