Event Review: #IRespectMusic – Music Activism Event at the Legendary Bitter End Club

Date: October 14, 2014 Venue: The Bitter End (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle “We artists and musicians have the right to expect from our profession what others expect from their professions. That through hard work and determination, perspiration and inspiration, we’ll have the same fair shot to realize our dreams, answer our callings, support our […]

Music Listings – 10/20 through 10/26/2014

1. William Hooker w. THE DOUBLE QUARTET Date: Monday, October 20, 2014 Time: 7pm Venue: ShapeShifter Lab (18 Whitwell Pl, between Carroll St & 1st St, Brooklyn, NY 11215, 646-820-9452) Ticket: $15 Genre: jazz The William Hooker Double Quartet which premiered at The David Rubenstein Atrium  at Lincoln Center will appear – in concert – at Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, […]

Concert Review: Roopa Panesar, Sitar Virtuoso Makes Her New York Debut

Date: October 4, 2014 Venue: St. Peter’s Church (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle HarmoNYom in collaboration with Robert Browning Associates kicked off its Women’s Voices Festival at St. Peter’s Church with the New York debut of London based sitarist Roopa Panesar. Panesar began training at the age of seven under sitar maestro Ustad Dharambir Singh. She also studied under […]

Event Review: FlickerLab and Sosala Ask “Are We Already Gone?”

Date: September 21 through September 28, 2014 Venue: FlickerLab (NY) Review by Dawoud Kringle ARE WE ALREADY GONE? Artists on the Art of Leaving is an exhibit / art installation held at FlickerLab, curated by Negin Sharifzadeh. FlickerLab held its final showing in Soho from September 21st – 28th 2014 (before astronomical rents forced them […]

Concert Review: Brooklyn Raga Massive presents Paula Jeanine Bennett.’s Melody Sky

Date: October 1, 2014 Venue: Art Cafe (NY) Concert review by Dawoud Kringle On Wednesday, October 1st, the first real chill of autumn filled the Brooklyn night was swept up with the sound of a Rumi-esque poem leading the way into a serene flowing song. The vocals ecstatically glided through the crystalline guitar harmonies and […]