Andrew Bird at Central Park Aug. 6 | 8:00 pm | FREE Twenty years ago, Andrew Bird announced himself as a singular figure on the indie rock scene with his album The Mysterious Producti...

Nadia Sirota at Lincoln Center Aug 5 | 7:30 pm | FREE Violist Nadia Sirota won a Peabody Award for hosting our podcast series called Meet The Composer. She’s also played with musician...

Talib Kweli at Blue Note Aug. 4 & 5 | 8 pm + 10:30 pm | $38.10+ Both on his own and as half of the duo Black Star in the 90s, Brooklyn rapper Talib Kweli has been a leading figure in ...

New York Guitar Festival: The Messthetics With Marc Ribot at Bryant Park, Aug. 15 Aug. 15. 7PM. FREE The Messthetics is a punk-jazz trio consisting of improvising guitarist Anthony P...

Goran Ivanovic & Fareed Haque at New York Guitar Festival at Bryant Park Aug. 14. 7PM. FREE This year’s New York Guitar Festival takes over Bryant Park on Aug. 14 and Aug. 15. The li...

The South African pianist and composer Abdullah Ibrahim died last month at the age of 91. He had a long and eventful career, and his best-known piece, known variously as “Mannenberg” ...

globalFEST: Sinkane at Lincoln Center Summer for the City Aug. 1. 6PM. FREE. Sinkane is the musical project led by Ahmed Gallab, a Sudanese-American singer and bandleader based here i...

The Lone Bellow at 92NY July 30. 7PM. $45+up The Lone Bellow is a trio that got its start in New York - in Brooklyn, actually, and if you want to be really precise, at a diner that us...

MIZU at Joe's Pub July 29. 9:30PM. $30.  The Brooklyn-based cellist and composer MIZU creates music that deals with transformation. She uses live electronic processing and layering of...