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Rain: for babies and their carers
Rain is a gentle sensory performance for babies and their carers, combining cello, voice and movement. The environment is designed specifically for lap or crawling babies, rather than walking toddlers.
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Live music in New York
Our concert selection is taking shape. Shows appear here once their details are checked.
This is our growing New York selection. Follow each listing for checked practical information and the official source.
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THE DANISH GIRL in Concert
Breaking the Binary Theatre presents the first public concert material from The Danish Girl musical. Nora Brigid Monahan's book and lyrics meet Alex Parker's score in a Transgender Day of Remembrance programme.
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Ju Percussion
Taiwan's Ju Percussion Group marks forty years with music by its resident composers. The ensemble combines theatrical presentation with percussion traditions from East and West for an energetic return to Lincoln Center.
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Thought Daughter Live with Tatiana Frank
Tatiana Frank brings her Thought Daughter online series into a live variety-show format. Stand-up, crowd work and guests expand her comedy about everyday situations and the expectations attached to gender.
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Él y Ella
Él y Ella follows two Mexican artists building a life in New York through a Spanglish musical score. Four multi-instrumentalists move between mariachi, cumbia, ranchera, corrido and norteña traditions.
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Magnificent: Celebrating Disability and the Power of Difference
Lachi leads a family musical programme celebrating disability and difference. Pop, hip-hop and R&B help make this an accessible introduction to the singer's work in disability culture and advocacy.
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Songs of the Season
Sing seasonal hymns and carols with New York Philharmonic musicians and members of The Unsung Collective. This participatory gathering places shared music-making at the centre of a winter afternoon.
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Art Bath
Art Bath mixes music, dance, theatre, opera and visual art in one interdisciplinary evening. Mara Driscoll and Liz Yilmaz's project returns to the Atrium with an emphasis on close encounters between different forms.
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DeliaDelia! The Flat-Chested Witch!
Amando Houser's clown alter ego DeliaDelia pursues two ambitions: becoming a real girl and joining a human basketball team. The performance brings an absurd, physical theatre adventure to Lincoln Center.
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Sole Blue: Michela Marino Lerman
Tap artist Michela Marino Lerman and Love Movement explore the connections between the blues and percussive dance. Sole Blue traces shared rhythms through multiple traditions, treating the feet as both instruments and storytellers.
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cOsmO
Puppetry, clowning and textured sound introduce young audiences to worlds at different scales. Haydeé Boetto and Hélène Ducharme's cOsmO uses a cocoon-filled visual environment to invite close looking and listening.
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César Orozco & SonAhead
Cuban-born pianist and vocalist César Orozco brings SonAhead to the ¡VAYA! dance floor. Cuban son and timba meet jazz and electronic influences in a set built for a moving audience.
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Lyricist Lounge Presents Origin Stories
Lyricist Lounge revisits hip-hop histories through an onstage conversation in its Origin Stories series. The host and guest are still to be announced, so check the programme before choosing this particular date.
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Spotlight: Boombox Burlesque
Boombox Burlesque joins hip-hop performance with burlesque in Remixes and Reveals. The collective foregrounds Black culture and multidisciplinary performance; this programme includes partial nudity and adult themes.
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Stand Up for Heroes
Comedy and music share the bill at the twentieth Stand Up for Heroes benefit. Announced performers include Josh Johnson, Hasan Minhaj, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart and Alex Warren, with proceeds supporting the Bob Woodruff Foundation.
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John Coltrane Centennial Celebration
Geoffrey Keezer curates a centennial tribute to John Coltrane across several changing lineups. The remaining dates move between Blue Train material, a classic-quartet approach and a set featuring harpist Brandee Younger; choose the session for its musicians.
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Joe Block Quintet: There is Always Hope Album Release Show
Pianist Joe Block launches There Is Always Hope with a group built around his own compositions. Horns, piano, bass and drums frame a set focused on melody and improvisation.
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YoungArts 45th Anniversary Jazz Celebration feat. Emmet Cohen & Friends
Emmet Cohen, Russell Hall and Jake Goldbas celebrate YoungArts' forty-fifth anniversary with fellow alumni. The piano-led lineup makes this a sociable entry point into the organisation's jazz community.
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Atom String Quartet
Poland's Atom String Quartet brings jazz improvisation into a classical chamber-music formation. Two violins, viola and cello give the evening a different texture from a conventional jazz-club set.
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Paula West
Singer Paula West moves between jazz standards and material drawn from folk, rock and soul. Her contralto is joined by guitar, bass and drums for a song-focused evening at Dizzy's.
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Songbook Sundays: Kander & Ebb
Deborah Grace Winer's Songbook Sundays explores the writing partnership behind Cabaret and Chicago. Karen Ziemba, Matthew Scott and Vanisha Gould join an intimate band for a club-scale encounter with Broadway songs.
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Ted Nash Big Band: Presidential Suite
Ted Nash leads a large ensemble through Presidential Suite, with guest reader Okema T. Moore. Brass, reeds and rhythm section bring his politically themed writing into Dizzy's close listening environment.
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Bluesday: Doug Wamble Blues In The Present Tense
Guitarist and singer Doug Wamble brings Blues in the Present Tense to the Bluesday series. The advertised live band includes Wycliffe Gordon, John Murray and Beckett Miles, distinct from the album's guest lineup.
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Papo Vázquez Mighty Pirates Troubadours
Papo Vázquez leads his Mighty Pirates Troubadours through music connecting jazz with Puerto Rican bomba and plena. Trombone, percussion and voice give the band a particularly rhythm-led character.