Author: Laura Ho

What does it take to reopen New York City’s newest arts center on the heels of a pandemic? Located in Hudson Yards, the Shed was not even a year old when it was forced to close due to Covid-19. The organization would celebrate its second anniversary by welcoming back New Yorkers with a five-performance series, An Audience With, which was a celebration of the irreplaceable, communal experience of an audience with live music and comedy. Join members of the Shed’s production team as they reflect on how they made it happen.

Date: Tuesday, June 22, 2021,  5:00 – 6:00 PM

Renee Goust joins NYFA’s Program Officer Anna Wang in conversation as they talk about the creative process of Goust’s new album, Resister.

Resister, funded by the The NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre, combines Mexican and American folk traditions with queer forward lyrics to express personal and political empowerment. Performed and engineered by a team of women and queer identifying artists, Renee and Anna discuss the creative process of the creating album and reflect on the challenges and successes along the way. Resister was released on May 29.

Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 11:00 AM

Bronx Music Heritage Center Artistic Directors Bobby Sanabria and Elena Martinez interview authors of recent books with topics covering all things musical. The authors will take questions from viewers during the program.

Prof. Ivor Miller will discuss his new book, The Sacred Language of the Abakua, and discuss the references to rumba and other forms of Afro Cuban music.

Date: Wednesday, June 23, 2021, 8:00 PM

New York’s Tin Pan Alley on West 28^th Street between Broadway and 6^th Avenue was the birthplace of American Popular Music due to the many sheet music publishers based there in the late 19th and early 20th century.  On Tin Pan Alley, African American artists lived, interacted, and worked in Harlem with Jewish talents and theatrical producers who resided and worked there too in what was then the second largest Jewish community in New York.  Drawing from his research and extensive collection of sheet music and theater memorabilia, John Reddick’s talk weaves together this Black & Jewish collaboration that crafted the American songbook evolving from relationships rooted in Harlem and Tin Pan Alley.

Date: June 2021