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Halyard’s is a low-key bar in the heart of Gowanus. Known for its “local-bar” attitude, good but not pretentious cocktails, and light and simple food, it’s got a great neighborhood comfortability that is charming and relaxed. Quietly, however, it’s been doubling as a great place for music, and has been turning into a musicians’ hang. For over two years, there […]
On February 15th, Abby Hertz will be presenting her final LUST event. After three years, she is ending the series that has fused music, fire performance, art history, and eroticism. Begun on Valentine’s Day 2015, it has more of a nod to Meret Oppenheim’s 1959 “Cannibal Feast” than to an erotic party. While guests eat a feast of food off […]
On February 16th, Colombian composer and sound artist Lucrecia Dalt will be giving her first U.S. performance since 2014 at Issue Project Room, in Downtown Brooklyn. Dalt calls on her training as a former geotechnical engineer to create hypnotic and poetic improvisations, fusing a sense of time and space, earth and breath. Sounding like something between Laurie Anderson and early […]
Hank Roberts Trio at The Owl Music Parlor Friday, Jan 18, The Owl Music Parlor (497 Rogers Ave.), 7pm : Hank Roberts will be performing with his trio featuring Vinnie Sperrazza (drums) and Jacob Sacks (piano). If you’re not familiar with Roberts, he is one of the true iconoclasts of the cello, using it to invoke the heart of Americana […]
