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Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!
Apr
26
7:30 PM19:30

Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends – SOLD OUT!

Pianist, composer, and educator Jason Moran returns to Harlem Stage with a reimagining of Pianos For Duke, a Harlem Stage program dedicated to the music of Duke Ellington, first presented at our previous home Aaron Davis Hall in 1999. Moran performed in the ’99 program, at the time a young up-and-coming pianist, featured alongside superstars of the instrument.

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Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends—Benefit Concert – SOLD OUT!
Apr
27
7:30 PM19:30

Pianos for Duke Reimagined: Featuring Jason Moran, Abdullah Ibrahim & Friends—Benefit Concert – SOLD OUT!

Join us for a BENEFIT CONCERT supporting Harlem Stage at its 40th Anniversary! Experience an intimate evening of Ellington’s music played by Jason Moran; Abdullah Ibrahim;  Bertha HopeJoanne Brackeen, and Matthew Whitaker. Plus a post-performance discussion between Moran and Ibrahim on Ellington’s significance, followed by a lively cocktail reception.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
3
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents concert performance excerpts from The Swann an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto
May
4
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Tamar-kali—The Swann, Carl Hancock Rux, Libretto

Composer, vocalist, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali presents concert performance excerpts from The Swann an opera she is developing about the life and times of William Dorsey Swann, the first known person to identify as a “queen of drag.”

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed
Mar
30
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed – SOLD OUT!
Mar
29
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Established Artist Commission: Ambrose Akinmusire—banyan seed – SOLD OUT!

Ambrose Akinmusire has made a home at the crossroads of different musical forms and languages, from post-bop and avant-garde jazz to contemporary chamber music and hip-hop to singer-songwriter aesthetics.  He returns to Harlem Stage during its 40th Anniversary Season to present banyan seed.

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RESCHEDULED FROM 2/23  |  Uptown Nights: An Evening of Chamber Music presented with Sugar Hill Salon & Concert Artists Guild
Mar
8
7:30 PM19:30

RESCHEDULED FROM 2/23 | Uptown Nights: An Evening of Chamber Music presented with Sugar Hill Salon & Concert Artists Guild

As part of its Uptown Nights music series, Harlem Stage collaborates with Harlem-based Sugar Hill Salon — one of the first chamber music series and artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music — and Concert Artists Guild.

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WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!
Dec
9
7:30 PM19:30

WaterWorks Emerging Artists Showcase – SOLD OUT!

In this culminating WaterWorks Emerging Artists program work-in-progress showcase, Harlem Stage presents works by the 2023 WaterWorks Emerging Artists cohort: interdisciplinary performing artist and painter Shantelle Courvoisier Jackson; singer/songwriter Hannah Lemmons aka LEMMONS; choreographer and dancer Bobby Morgan; interdisciplinary artist, composer, and pianist Mary Prescott; and trumpeter and composer Kalí Rodríguez-Peña.

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Uptown Nights Latin Music Series: Yasser Tejeda & DJ Sabine Blaizin
Dec
1
8:00 PM20:00

Uptown Nights Latin Music Series: Yasser Tejeda & DJ Sabine Blaizin

Harlem Stage presents Afro-Dominican bandleader and guitarist Yasser Tejeda performing a combination of traditional folkloric music, jazz, rock, and Caribbean rhythms. Keeping us moving before and after the performance, DJ Sabine Blaizin (Oyasound) will spin Global House and Soul, Afrotech, Afrobeat, and other diasporic Afro-Caribbean dance music with a nod to her Haitian roots.

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E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE-SOLD OUT!
Oct
14
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE-SOLD OUT!

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

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E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE - SOLD OUT!
Oct
13
7:30 PM19:30

E-Moves: Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE - SOLD OUT!

First presented at our previous home, Aaron Davis Hall, in 1998, Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE returns for two nights of not-to-be-missed performances featuring dances that are “pure Brown: otherworldly, charged, urgent in their undulating sweep and unaffectedly fervent” (The New York Times).

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