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Join us Saturday, June 6 for Asynchronous Duets, a series of encounters between four New York City-based artists and Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player and one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Dhrupad. On June 6, Dagar will be in musical dialogue with guitarist and composer Brandon Ross, of Black Rock power trio Harriet Tubman, and a collaborator with many important voices in American music, including Henry Threadgill and Cassandra Wilson.

Asynchronous Duets:
Bahauddin Dagar & Brandon Ross
📆 June 6
⏱️ 2 PM - 4:30 PM (doors 1:30)
📍873 Broadway, suite 503
New York, NY 10010
🎟️ Tickets $15 at the link in bio

Ross and Ustad Dagar will take turns listening to one another perform and talk about how they approach the fundamental materials of their art, from the perspectives of their personal practices and the historical traditions and communities that inform them.

Central to this event is the question: How do you engage with one form using the forms you already know? The content and flow of Saturday’s session—from conversation to music and back—will arise from informal, private meetings between Ustad Dagar and Ross in the week leading up the public events. Audiences will also have a chance to ask questions and engage with the performers, and the event will be followed by a short reception.

Asynchronous Duets:
May 23 - Shara Lunon
June 6 - Brandon Ross
June 13 - Anh Vo
June 20 - Aakash Mittal

Preparing Ustad Z M Dagar’s Rudra Veena (made in 1963 by Nitai Babu Kanailal in Kolkata) for Bahauddin Dagar’s concert on Friday, May 29th. Bridge work by Tomek Regulski, New York-based musicologist and student of Ustad Dagar.

Join us - buy your tickets now to get $10 off the door price!

Bahauddin Dagar in Concert
May 29, 7:30 (doors 7)
DiMenna Center
450 W 37th St
$40 adv/$50 door
Tickets at the link in the bio or www.fouroneoneprojects.org

#rudraveena #zmdagar #bahauddindagar #dhrupad #dagarvani

Four more days! Get your tickets now for Ustad Bahauddin Dagar in concert, shown here performing a brief alaap in Miya ki Malhar this past weekend at Asynchronous Duets with Shara Lunon.

Ustad Dagar’s major, evening-length concert on May 29 will feature Tejas Tope on pakhawaj and Ted Murano on tanpura.

Bahauddin Dagar in Concert
$40 advanced/$50 at the door
May 29, 7:30pm (doors 7)
The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
450 W 37th St.

Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player, is torchbearer of the Dagarvani tradition of Dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music. Dhrupad communicates principally through emotions expressed in its characteristic structures: long, achingly subtle melodic unfoldings that eventually yield to ecstatic, rhythmically explosive passages. A performance is at once spontaneous and deeply grounded in the framework of the raga (“that which colors the mind”). Ideally, the performer becomes a channel, allowing both themselves and the audience to inhabit states analogous to the “pure bliss of the realization of reality.” This is, above all, a music of feeling, one that has engaged listeners from all over the world at the deepest possible levels.

FourOneOne’s ongoing collaboration with Ustad Bahauddin Dagar revives and reimagines the dialogue between this profound tradition and Western audiences, performers, scholars and students, first initiated in the 1960s by the Senior Dagar Brothers Nasir Moinuddin and Nasir Aminuddin, and continued by Ustad Dagar’s father, Zia Mohiuddin Dagar, uncle Zia Fariduddin Dagar, and others from the 1970s through the present day.

Don’t miss it!

#dhrupad #dagarvani #bahauddindagar #rudraveena #veena

May 29th, I will be once again sharing the stage with Bahauddin Dagar, here in NYC at the Dimenna Center for Performing Arts.
It’s such an honor to be able to accompany him on the pakhawaj, and experience such an authentic and tradition-rich rendering of Dhrupad. I hope to see many familiar faces there — you will not want to miss this! #dhrupad #nyc #pakhawaj

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

The Melvin Gibbs Ensemble is Immanuel Wilkins, Chris Ryan Williams, deVon Russell Gray, Luke Stewart &
Tcheser Holmes. Don't miss it!

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

Slide 1: Diagram courtesy of Melvin Gibbs.
2: Rog Walker
3: Carrie Thompson
4: Tcheser Holmes
5: Esmée de Vette
6: Luke Stewart

Ustad Bahauddin Dagar returns to the DiMenna Center on May 29 for a major, evening-length concert as part of his multi-year residency with FourOneOne.

Don't miss it!

Tickets $40 in advance, $50 at the door

Link in bio or www.fouroneoneprojects.org

Bahauddin Dagar in Concert
May 29, 7:30pm (doors 7)
The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
450 W 37th St
New York, NY 10018

Ustad Dagar will be accompanied by Tejas Tope (pakhawaj) and Ted Murano (tanpura).

Photo: Samraggi Debroy

#rudraveena #dhrupad #bahauddindagar #dagarvani #indianclassicalmusic

Get ready! May 29 is almost here. Tickets on sale now for Bahauddin Dagar in Concert, at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York. With Tejas Tope (pakhawaj) and Ted Murano (tanpura).

Don't miss it!
Bahauddin Dagar in Concert
May 29, 2026
7:30pm (doors 7)
450 W 37th St, NY
$40/$50 at the door

Plus:
Asynchronous Duets: Bahauddin Dagar with
Shara Lunon (May 23)
Brandon Ross (June 6)
Anh Vo (June 13)
Aakash Mittal (June 20)

873 Broadway, suite 503
2pm-4:30pm (doors 1:30)
$15

Link in the bio for tickets & more

Ustad Daagar is shown here at the @g5a.culture Baithak in 2021, accompanied by Shri Sanjay Agle on pakhawaj and Prerna Sridhar and Ipsita Bichkar on tanpura.

#dagarvani #dhrupad #ustadbahauddindagar #bahauddindagar #rudraveena #veena

June 10: Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici

Immanuel Wilkins: saxophone
Chris Ryan Williams: trumpet
deVon Russell Gray: piano, keyboards
Luke Stewart: bass
Tcheser Holmes: drums

June 10
ShapeShifter, 837 Union St.
8pm/doors 7:30

Tickets at the link in the bio

Melvin Gibbs Ensemble: Nzambici is the second extended musical work created by Gibbs in consultation with theoretical cosmologist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander. It uses a harmonic system Gibbs developed inspired by Alexander’s work. Ogodo Quanta, the first work using that system, was performed at the 2019 Vision Festival by an expanded version of Alexander and Gibbs’ group God Particle. Ogodo Quanta was a sonic meditation on the idea of the “Cosmic Fabric,” the interconnected cosmic force. Nzambici is the female counterpart to Nzambi, the name the Bantu Bakongo gave God the Creator. Nzambici is God as “She.” The music created under her name, featuring a group of creative musicians hand-picked by Gibbs and Alexander, will be a sonic meditation on the idea of Creative Force.

This event is the final performance in Melvin Gibbs’ multipart series with FourOneOne celebrating his singular life in music thus far and his highly anticipated new book, How Black Music Took Over The World.

Join us Saturday, May 23 for the first of this spring’s Asynchronous Duets, a series of encounters between four New York City-based artists and Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player and one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Dhrupad. On May 23, Dagar will be in musical dialogue with vocalist/electronicist Shara Lunon of improv cooperative History Dog and the incendiary punk band Blasé.

Asynchronous Duets:
Bahauddin Dagar & Shara Lunon
📆 May 23
⏱️ 2 PM - 4:30 PM (doors 1:30)
📍873 Broadway, suite 503
New York, NY 10010
🎟️ Tickets $15 at the link in bio

Lunon and Ustad Dagar will take turns listening to one another perform and talk about how they approach the fundamental materials of their art, from the perspectives of their personal practices and the historical traditions and communities that inform them. Central to this event is the question: How do you engage with one form using the forms you already know? The content and flow of Saturday’s session—from conversation to music and back—will arise from informal, private meetings between Ustad Dagar and Lunon in the week leading up the public events. Audiences will also have a chance to ask questions and engage with the performers.

Asynchronous Duets:
May 23 - Shara Lunon
June 6 - Brandon Ross
June 13 - Anh Vo
June 20 - Aakash Mittal

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka L&SD) in Greenpoint, for a presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community dance music, on Sunday, May 17th at 5p.

This late afternoon hang of global rhythms, live machines and expert selections will feature a rare solo electronic excursion by the mighty more eaze, a typically bonkers drum-machine-circle by the collective A.B.E.L.A. (Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika), and a special “cosmic jazz dance set” by DJ Monk-One.

The evening is produced with the generous help of FourOneOne.

Dada Strain @ L&SD is a bi-monthly series of live performances by (primarily) local musicians, improvisers and DJs, that encompasses elements of deep listening and body movement.

Flyer by @okaymissalicia

Tix/RSVP at the link in the bio. More info on Dada Strain (also at link in the bio).

I look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you for reading, listening, following and supporting!

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka L&SD) in Greenpoint, for a presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community dance music, on Sunday, May 17th at 5p.

This late afternoon hang of global rhythms, live machines and expert selections will feature a rare solo electronic excursion by the mighty more eaze, a typically bonkers drum-machine-circle by the collective A.B.E.L.A. (Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika), and a special “cosmic jazz dance set” by DJ Monk-One.

The evening is produced with the generous help of FourOneOne.

Dada Strain @ L&SD is a bi-monthly series of live performances by (primarily) local musicians, improvisers and DJs, that encompasses elements of deep listening and body movement.

Flyer by @okaymissalicia

Tix/RSVP at the link in the bio. More info on Dada Strain (also at link in the bio).

I look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you for reading, listening, following and supporting!

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka L&SD) in Greenpoint, for a presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community dance music, on Sunday, May 17th at 5p.

This late afternoon hang of global rhythms, live machines and expert selections will feature a rare solo electronic excursion by the mighty more eaze, a typically bonkers drum-machine-circle by the collective A.B.E.L.A. (Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika), and a special “cosmic jazz dance set” by DJ Monk-One.

The evening is produced with the generous help of FourOneOne.

Dada Strain @ L&SD is a bi-monthly series of live performances by (primarily) local musicians, improvisers and DJs, that encompasses elements of deep listening and body movement.

Flyer by @okaymissalicia

Tix/RSVP at the link in the bio. More info on Dada Strain (also at link in the bio).

I look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you for reading, listening, following and supporting!

Bklyn Live Music PSA! Dada Strain returns to its favorite NYC arts loft, Light & Sound Design Studios (aka L&SD) in Greenpoint, for a presentation of rhythm-improvisation-community dance music, on Sunday, May 17th at 5p.

This late afternoon hang of global rhythms, live machines and expert selections will feature a rare solo electronic excursion by the mighty more eaze, a typically bonkers drum-machine-circle by the collective A.B.E.L.A. (Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika), and a special “cosmic jazz dance set” by DJ Monk-One.

The evening is produced with the generous help of FourOneOne.

Dada Strain @ L&SD is a bi-monthly series of live performances by (primarily) local musicians, improvisers and DJs, that encompasses elements of deep listening and body movement.

Flyer by @okaymissalicia

Tix/RSVP at the link in the bio. More info on Dada Strain (also at link in the bio).

I look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you for reading, listening, following and supporting!

See you Sunday! Don't miss the debut performance of the Issa Iyer Gibbs coalition, a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music: emcee Kokayi Issa, keyboardist Vijay Iyer, and bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs. With Fatboi Sharif, May 10 at Market Hotel.

The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif
Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World
📆 Sun, May 10
🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK
📍8pm (doors 7)
🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org - link in bio

🎼 Burnt Sugar the Arkestra Chamber’s 2002 “The Rites,” a collision between Butch Morris’ Conduction and “Uncle Igor,” conceptualized by Greg Tate as a series of adapted motifs from Stravinsky’s Le Sacre Du Printemps, and featuring a remarkable lineup, with Pete Cosey on lead guitar, Melvin Gibbs on electric bass, and Vijay Iyer on acoustic piano.

Vijay Iyer and Melvin Gibbs reunite next weekend to debut the Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition with emcee Kokayi Issa—a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music.

Get your tickets now!

The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif
Part of Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World
📆 Sun, May 10
🌏 Market Hotel, 1140 Myrtle Ave., BK
📍8pm (doors 7)
🎟️ Tickets at fouroneoneprojects.org