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Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

Some moments from last weekend’s super wholesome show at @thebrooklynartery organized by the amazing @d.o.ree debuting my originals with new group for the first time with @yuhansuyuhan @sunjayjayaram #satoshitakeishi and special guest @jud_ette_bagu_ette ✨💜

Also looking forward to playing the amazing @christinagalisatus and I’s music at

THURSDAY JUNE 4th @mudhouse.nychi (trio with @yoohurd and sharing bill with the amazing and sharing bills with @alanaamore @juney_tunes_ ) and

SATURDAY JUNE 6th @nyc_close_up next week!! Featuring new arrangements for strings and woodwinds with a sweet band @angelavaromusic @queraltgiralt @noralstanley @sickwormfacts 🌸🌸hope to see you there ok byeeee

The full calendar for JGI New York’s Black Music Month series has arrived 🪩✨⁠
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Throughout June, we’ll gather at 651 Arts @651arts and Cafe Erzulie @cafe.erzulie for performances, conversations, screenings, and celebrations tracing the many ways Black music continues to shape how we remember, resist, improvise, and imagine.⁠
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Each week opens a different chapter in the sound, featuring Kofi Hunter, Irwin Hall, donSMITH, Devon Gates, Liany Mateo, Melanie Charles, Faith Quashie, and more 🤩⁠
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Save + share the calendar and make plans to join us throughout the month!⁠
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#freedomsounds #blackmusicmonth #jgi #livemusic #nyc

🪬Dear friends!! We want to invite you to the first concert of our Summer concert residency at our beloved @barzakh.cafe on June 5th at 6PM. During the whole summer we are going to be exploring our way of continuing to honor our roots, their connections with each other, and sisterhood.
We hope to see you there!
Zambra Collective:
@devongatesmusic , bass - vocals
@ria_modak , guitar - vocals
@queraltgiralt , cello - vocals
@baharbadiei , oud - vocals
@angelavaromusic , violin - vocals
@barzakh.cafe is located at 157 Utica Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11213

May 16 all out for Lebanon! Tickets are moving quickly, so If you’re in NYC, please join us Saturday, May 16 @ 4:30pm - 8pm at @peoplesforumnyc 🇱🇧

🎟️ tinyurl.com/May16LebanonFundraiser

& we’ve added @devongatesmusic to our lineup!🙏

@layalechaker has gathered us to share our music to raise money for the @gabusittahchildrensfund, which supports urgent medical care for children in Lebanon and Palestine and is currently supporting medical teams responding to the situation in Lebanon. Limited prints by artists from Lebanon will also be on display and available for purchase. Please come and show your support for this urgent cause!!!! Your presence, your energy, and your passion are needed in this moment.

🎟️ : https://tinyurl.com/May16LebanonFundraiser
May 16, 2026 @ 4:30pm until 8pm ET
The People’s Forum @peoplesforumnyc
320 West 37th Street
New York, NY 10018

FEATURING:
Aakash Mittal • Aaron Edgcomb • Cleo Reed • Devon Gates • Elsa Saade • Golkou • Isaiah Barr • Jen Shyu • Kaoru Watanabe • Kinan Azmeh • Kyle Sanna • Layale Chaker • Tan Haw • miriam elhajli • Mobéy Lola Irizarry • Samora Pinderhughes • Shahzad Ismaily • T A Thompson • William Parker
Limited prints by artists from Lebanon will also be on display and available for purchase.

If you’re not in NYC, please donate to the @gabusittahchildrensfund from afar.
#lebanon #ghassanabusittah #ghassanabusittahchildrensfund

@aakashmittalmusic • @aaron.edgcomb @cleoforshort • @devongatesmusic • @elsa.saade • Golkou • Isaiah Barr • @jenshyu • @kaorufue • @kinan_azmeh • Kyle Sanna • @layalechaker • @tan___haw • @miriamelhajli • @lola.machine • @samorapinderhughes • @ectoderm88 • T A Thompson • @littlehueymusic

@devongatesmusic on why she’s playing the @roulette_intermedium show this Tuesday, and why you should be there! Event link in bio.

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

Spring greetings to all 🌸🌸 just hopping on to share some upcoming shows this month:)) tickets/more info on my website calendar! Plus a few photos of wholesome moments where I happened to remember to capture them, with people I love :)

“A room is just a room until you make it something.”

TREE GREETINGS is bassist @devongatesmusic and guitarist @ria_modak! Here’s part of their song “A Room,” performed live at GBH Jazz Nights at the @bplboston.

#bass #guitar #jazz #jazztok #bassist

Bassist and educator Devon Gates shares what she’s excited to learn during the 15th annual International Jazz Day in Chicago.

@devongatesmusic @chicagojazzalliance @intljazzday

Join us in Chicago for @intljazzday!

She Real Cool: Jazz Expansion, Cultivation, and Liberation

Join Terri Lyne Carrington @terrilynecarrington, Joel Ross @imjoelmross, Nicole Mitchell @blackearthmuse, Devon Gates @devongatesmusic, and Aja Burrell Wood @ajatheethnomusicologist for a discussion about the future of jazz and how it can evolve into a more inclusive, accessible, and sustainable art form while honoring its roots.

Let’s get into it!

There will also be a live performance from the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice.

FREE - Open to the public.
🔗 in @jazzandgenderjustice bio to register!

Tuesday, April 28 | 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Chicago Cultural Center | G.A.R. Hall

@chicagoculturalcenter @chicagodcase @berkleecollege

***She Real Cool is an ongoing initiative dedicated to reframing ideas surrounding jazz practice and promoting objectives that disrupt bias, expand the form, and include adjacent methodologies and disciplines inspired by the Gwendolyn Brooks poem, “We Real Cool” and bell hooks’s book of the same name.

Introducing one of this year’s Next Jazz Legacy awardees: @devongatesmusic. 🎶

A bassist, vocalist, and composer from Atlanta, Georgia, now based in Brooklyn, Devon Gates has worked with esteemed artists including Next Jazz Legacy Artistic Director @terrilynecarrington,@vijayiyer, and @jenshyu, and performed at venues including The Jazz Gallery, the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the London Jazz Festival. Most recently, she is featured on bass and vocals in Terri Lyne Carrington's and 2024 Next Jazz Legacy awardee @christiedashiell’s GRAMMY-nominated release, ‘We Insist 2025!’. Devon's bandleader is @thejasonmoran, with @diannereeves as her Creative Mentor.

Now in its fifth year, Next Jazz Legacy offers intergenerational apprenticeship, mentorship, and professional development opportunities to emerging jazz artists who contribute to the future of jazz. The program is led by GRAMMY-winning artist and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington and is funded by the @mellonfoundation.

🎥 Featured video: Devon Gates x @liveroommusic; Video courtesy of the artist

#WeAreNewMusic #NextJazzLegacy

About last night at smoke - 🎶❤️