Violinist, singer, composer Sarah Alden leads The Letter’s String Quintet. This project is a collection of new orchestrations based on Alden’s last album Up To The Sky which garnered favorable comparisons to Andrew Bird and Bjork, accolades that acknowledge its subtle sophistication and richly textured soundscapes of strings and poetic songwriting. New compositions feature letter’s that Sarah’s grandmother saved between women in the 1930’s. Stories told through letters, poems told through letters and notes of letters inspire this project of incredible musicians. Sarah Alden -Vocals, Lily Holgate- Violin, Rima Fand - Violin, Marandi Hostetter - Viola, Leah Coloff - Cello, Chris Tordini- Bass

Special guests Ledah Finck and Eli Greenhoe. This duo met at summer camp a decade ago, where they formed a bond over their love of folk music and composing. Now reunited in NYC, the two are working together to create the music they’ve been dreaming of for a long time that glides between Americana, fiddle, experimentation, and improvisation. 

www.ledahfinck.com www.eligreenhoe.com

Violinist, singer, composer Sarah Alden leads The Letters String Quintet. This new project is a collection of new orchestrations based on Alden’s last album Up To The Sky which garnered favorable comparisons to Andrew Bird and Bjork, accolades that acknowledge its subtle sophistication and richly textured soundscapes of strings and poetic songwriting. New compositions feature letter’s that Sarah’s grandmother saved between women in the 1930’s. Stories told through letters, poems told through letters and notes of letters inspire this project of incredible musicians. Sarah Alden -Vocals, Lily Holgate- Violin, Rima Fand - Violin, Marandi Hostetter - Viola, Leah Coloff - Cello, Chris Tordini- Bass

Barbès

376 9th St Brooklyn NY 11215

Corner of 6th ave.

7th Ave stop on the F/G
4th Ave stop on the R

I am thrilled to be performing at Sxip's Hour Of Charm this Sunday at National Sawdust, 7pm. I’ll be performing my new string quartet piece called “Mother Pearl”. It’s a night filled of beautiful women composers and musicians and of course the one and only host Sxip Shirey!!

SXIP SHIREY'S HOUR OF CHARM:
MOTHER TREE PRAYERS
A night of haunted songs and surprising sounds

National Sawdust

80 N 6th St, Brooklyn, NY 11249

"Shirey’s works embrace improvisation, a quirky strain of humor and an unusual palette that often includes blends of disparate timbres (harmonicas and a sousaphone, for example) or electronic sounds cobbled together from the sampled sounds of things like frying chicken, squeaking chairs, and ice cubes clinking in wine glasses."— San Francisco Classical Voice

Sxip’s Hour of Charm is iconoclastic composer, performer, and producer Sxip Shirey’s ongoing art variety show, now in its 17th year. Part of the lineage of art cabaret in New York City that began with punk cabaret and Klaus Nomi, this installment features excerpts from Precipice, an object-theater piece/chamber opera from visual artist Susan Zeeman Rogers; Laura Serna singing a Mexican Lament; Aimee Curl singing Baby Dee’s “The Robin’s Tiny Throat”; and much more.

BUY TICKETS – FEBRUARY 16TH

So excited to celebrate the release of Up to the Sky. We’ll have a great night at the cozy Rockwood 3 with the stellar band of Kyle Sanna, Rima Fand, Lily Holgate, Ben Gallina and Mathias Künzli. It’s early! Come on out and celebrate with us!

January 10th 2019 - 7pm

Rockwood 3 185 Orchard St. NY, NY

http://rockwoodmusichall.com/

It's finally here! The CD release of Up to the Sky. So many years have gone into making this record, so many hands have also helped in making it. I'm so excited to have the party at my favorite venue National Sawdust. It's been on my wish list since it opened to do my CD release there! I hope you will make it out to celebrate with us! 

National Sawdust @ 10pm

80 N. 6th Street Brooklyn, NY 

We are going to have a great band for this show! Biggest ever! 

Rima Fand-violin and vocals, Ilusha Tsinadze-guitar and vocals, Kyle Sanna-Guitar, synths and vocals and Mathias Kunzli Drums all the way from LA!!!

It's the big time in the city! 

One of my favorite spots in Brooklyn, Jalopy.  They are sanctuary for not only brooklyn folk musicians but for so many traveling folk musicians. We'll be playing there with the full band. 

One of my hero's Baby Dee!! She is a beautiful songwriter that has inspired me so much. I actually wrote a paper about her in my Women and Music class at Brooklyn College! And on February 23rd I'll be doing one of her songs at National Sawdust with Ilusha Tsinadze. She'll be doing a whole set. Come and catch her she's not here often! 

Baby Dee is an enchanting song writer, classically trained harpist, circus sideshow veteran, and west side street legend Her infectious cackle and extraordinary talent on piano, harp and accordion has caught her many musical admirers including Will Oldham, Matt Sweeney, Maxim Moston, and Andrew WK, all of whom have produced unique and magnificent albums for her.

With special guests, including London composer Sarah Angliss and her robotic carillon, Theo Bleckman with Rima Fand, Sarah Alden with Ilusha Tsinadsze, baroque singer Lacy Rose, Blake Norris and your host Erin K. Orr.

http://www.babydee.orghttp://www.tinangelrecords.com/babydee/index.htmlhttp://www.dragcity.com/artists/baby-dee
http://www.sarahangliss.comhttp://www.theobleckmann.com
http://lacyrosemusic.com/

We are back at my most favorite venue in Berlin. We'll be joined by some great Berlin musicians. 

Πρόζακ. Καφενείο

prozak coffee shop

3A Medondos Str., 1060, Nicosia

telephone 22104244

Sept 17th

Come out to Ditmas park and bring picnic and a blanket. We will be playing at PS217 as part of the Garden concert series on June 8th from 6-7pm. And perhaps we can hope for the mosquitos to still be sleeping!

Corner of Newkirk ave and Coney Island ave.

Sarah Alden, 8pm, Myk Freedman and the Myk Freedman's 9pm

Sarah Alden Ensemble:
Sarah Alden-violin/vocal, Kyle Sanna-guitar Ben Galina-bass Mathias Kunzli Drums

Myk Freedman and the Myk Freedman's:
Myk Freedman-lap steel, Angela Morris-tenor, Kenny Warren-trumpet, Jason Vance-banjo, Carlo Costa-drums, Adam Hopkins-bass

$10 (neighborhood kids free)

Fire Sloths are medium-sized mammals belonging to the family Musiconychidae. They are part of the order creativia and are therefore related to anteaters, which sport a similar set of specialized claws, saxophones and teeth. Fire sloths are Brooklyn dwellers known for burning with passion while moving extremely slowly, hence named "fire sloths". They create beautiful and mysterious music while hunting for ants.

The Fire Sloth Music Series is a weekly celebration of their existence in the form of two sets of creative music performed by local sloths and humans.

Great Small Works year-end Spaghetti Dinner

http://www.greatsmallworks.blogspot.com/

Sliding scale donation $5-$25, no one turned away.

* Shadow Plays by Chinese Theatre Works with members of People's Puppets

* Enchanted Grove installation by Gregory Corbino with Great Small Works

* Performance by Betty's Daughter Arts Collaborative http://www.bettysdaughterarts.com/

* Music by Sarah Alden band:

Melissa Tong - violin, vocals
Rick Snell - guitar
Ben Gallina - bass
Richie Barshay - drums
Sarah Alden - violin, vocals


* Poetry by Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi http://www.ladydanefe.com/

* Music for year-end dancing with Michael Winograd's Brooklyn Waltz Factory! BRING YOUR DANCING SHOES! With: 
Binyomin Ginzberg
Joanna Sternberg
Adam Moss
Michael Bates
Matt Moran
Ben Syversen
Lauren Brody
Ari Folman-Cohen
Patrick Farrell
Sarah Alden
Brian Drye
Stefan Zeniuk
Jessica Lurie
Richie Barshay
Hadar Noiberg
Keryn Kleiman
Hannah Temple
Rebecca Steinberg
Jeff Warschauer
Lily Paulina
Alec Spiegelman
Taylor Ashton
Kristin Slipp
Dan Kahn
Marandi Hostetter

+ Other great surprises that GROW and MOVE

* And of course, spaghetti!


 

This Sunday we gather in New York City, the theme is DIRT, perfect for this mulchy, muddy moment of the year. Here's our roster of artists and performers:

• Multi-disciplined artist, Dove Drury Hornbuckle will share ceramics, sculpture and drawings
• John Brodeur, who plays in The Secret City Band, will present a number of his own as our featured musical guest
• The lovely Marianne Cohen will present her famous apple butter
• Our dear Stephanie Summerville will read the Cultural Calendar
• One of our favorites, Sarah Alden will play the fiddle and there will be some flatfooting!
• The wonderful poet Lee Ann Brown will read a poem called DIRT
• And I think we're going to play a game about GOSSIP.

There will be a bunch of songs about DIRT and a story about a trip to the southwest--a dirt colored wonderland.  

Come get dirty with us! 

Come out to Ditmas park and bring picnic and a blanket. We will be playing at PS217 as part of the Garden concert series on June 11th from 6-7pm. And perhaps we can hope for the mosquitos to still be sleeping! It will be the full band with Kyle Sanna on guitar, Melissa Tong on violin, Chris Tordini Bass, and Richie Barshay on drums. Hope you'll come down for the evenings show!

PS 217 6-7pm.

1100 Newkirk Ave (corner of Westminster road) Brooklyn, NY

Kyle Sanna and I will be playing a duo set maybe with a couple of special guests on June 10th at Jalopy as part of their Wednesday series called Roots and Ruckus.  We will be on at 9pm sharp, don't miss us we play a 30 minute set. come out and catch the sunset in Red hook then come for a drink at jalopy!!! :)

Jalopy Theatre and Music School 

315 Columbia St, Brooklyn, NY 11231
(718) 395-3214

Howard Fishman has been curating Secret Saturdays at Pete's Candy Store and they are such a lovely event. Hope you will join Rima Fand, Kyle Sanna and I this Saturday May 16th at 5pm. A sweet trio playing my original music. We may have some special guests! 

Pete's Candy Store  http://www.petescandystore.com.

709 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, between Frost and Richardson Streets. 

Playing songs from the latest record. It's a story of openings, stillness, blurring desires and soundscapes of ethereal string sounds. Kyle Sanna-Guitar, Rima Fand-violin and vox, Sarah Alden Violin,vox

Red Hot Rubies at Superfine- Sean Condron on guitar, Peter Bitnec on Bass. Come down for some western swing and early jazz while you have the best pork chop in town! 

January 18th 8:30pm 

The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra presents the Waltz ball. 

Bring yer honey or come find a new honey and come dance in three. We encourage your fancy frocks and sharpest duds. We supply the victorian dance cards, the music, the very simple dance instruction complete with visual aids and a general encouragement and support in your dancing and socializing with nice strangers throughout the night!

Superfine

Rubies trio, Raphael Mcgregor (lap steel, guitar), Peter Bitnec (bass). We'll be playing the classics from western swing, early jazz and maybe a little splash of some old-time. Hope to see you there!

Jalopy Theatre- The Golden Angel Waltz Orchestra presents the Waltz Ball

The next installment of the waltz ball will be June 27th!! Mark your calendars, polish your shoes, fix up your prettiest frock and start counting in three. As usual we will have Victorian style dance cards that means you get ask total strangers to dance and they sign your card in a fancy script writing, we'll have visual aids for learning the intricacies of the waltz, and of course an amazing band playing classics from the early 1900's with violins accordions and tenor banjos! I do hope you will come and share in the joys of waltzing with us!

St. Mazie -Red Hot Rubies 

345 Grand St. Brooklyn, NY http://stmazie.com