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...

Keyon Harrold at Blue Note July 27-28. 8PM and 10:30PM. $38.10-$54.99 Trumpeter Keyon Harrold first came to wider attention by taking on the unenviable task of playing Miles Davis’s ...

Gracie and Rachel – "Myself Again" (Soundcheck Podcast) For over a decade now, Gracie and Rachel have been making songs that draw on indie pop and chamber music. Gracie is a singer an...

Hanggai at Lincoln Center July 25 | 7:00 PM | FREE The band Hanggai is based in Beijing, but they don’t play Chinese music – they specialize in combining traditional Mongolian music w...