Past Events

For years, composer and multi-instrumentalist OSCAR NORIEGA brought his Crooked Trio to Barbès every Friday from 5 to 7 - which he had conceived as a vehicle for his drumming. Oscar is back with his crooked ways, but concentrating on his main instruments, alto saxophone and clarinets. The sets will retain the casual vibe of the trio, with a mixture of standards and Oscar's compositions. Among other things, Oscar Noriega is a member of Tim Berne’s Snakeoil,Endangered Blood (Chris Speed,…

Drawing from their NPR Album Of the Year Transylvanian Folk Songs featuring legendary reeds-man John Surman and their new ECM duo release Transylvanian Dance pianist Lucian Ban and violist Mat Maneri will reimagine through improvisation the Béla Bartók Field Recordings of folk songs from Transylvania using the unique acoustic possibilities of the National Sawdust space to bring back to life century old songs using live performance, audio from the original Edison wax cylinder recordings, rare handwritten manuscripts and photographs taken…

Home by 7 is a Manhattan-based group specializing in a sound that fuses rap, jazz, rock, and pop into a smooth blend of intricate piano and percussive verses.

Tipa Tipo is a tropical yacht rock trio that fuses the spirit of 70s soft rock and disco with latin rhythms. Their debut album “Cintas” was released last spring to much deserved acclaim. The band is a collaboration between producers Adele Fournet (vocals, keys) and Felipe Wurst (vocals, guitars), with Jordan Auber on drums.

Braden Bales is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Oakville, Ontario, known for his introspective and emotionally charged music. He gained widespread recognition with his viral hit *Chronically Cautious*, which amassed millions of streams and views across platforms. Now signed to Geffen Records, Bales continues to craft songs that reflect his personal experiences, blending vulnerability with sharp lyrical storytelling.

Ramona & the Holy Smokes is a Honky Tonk band from Charlottesville Virginia, whose original country music recalls classic country from the 1950s and 60s. The Holy Smokes are fronted by Ramona Martinez, a prolific singer-songwriter whose sincere and heartfelt music has been described as "incredibly relatable" and "earnest." She also pulls from her Mexican-American roots to perform and compose traditional Mariachi music in a Country Western style. The current line-up of the Holy Smokes includes: Kyle Lawton Kilduff (Electric…

Stefan Zeniuk leads The Green Mambo through the joyous and infectious music of 50s-era Latin mambos, rockambos and danzons of Perez Prado and other mambo pioneers. The band filters their sound of slinky grooves and joyful humor through vintage organ sounds, infectious percussion and an all-star horn front-line.

Avishai Cohen is globally recognized as a musician with an individual sound and a questing spirit, an ever-creative player-composer open to multiple strains of jazz and active as a leader, co-leader, and sideman. Aside from the acclaimed work with his quartet over the last several years, and previously his trio work under the moniker Triveni, the trumpeter has also recorded and toured the world as part of the Mark Turner Quartet, the SFJAZZ Collective, Jazz100, Zakir Hussain, and the 3…