Past Events

No Nazar is a non-profit creative collective based in Los Angeles. Representing a true global sound, No Nazar aims to build community and shared learning through music. The band's events are carefully curated experiences that promote cultural exchange and diversity on the dance floor. We strive to create safe spaces for people to come together, dance, and celebrate. Live in The Sultan Room. A new monthly residency with No Nazar, a Los Angeles-Based music & dance crew celebrating diverse south-asian diaspora.  

Slavic Soul Party can be described as fiery Balkan brass, throbbing funk grooves, Roma accordion wizardry, and virtuoso jazz chops. The nine musicians in the group have forged a virtuosic new brass band music in the heart of New York City; they have held their Tuesday bacchanal for now 18 years and - and it has become a destination for locals and brass band fans from around the globe. John Carlson & Kenny Warren on trumpet), Peter Hess on sax/clarinet, Peter Stan on accordion, Tim…

Kyle Thomas, known professionally as King Tuff,  is an American musician recording on Sub Pop Records. King Tuff and his band have released several music videos and have continually toured across the United States, Australia and Europe since 2012. He is also the lead guitarist and singer of stoner rockband Witch, and was a member of garage rock musician Ty Segall's backing band The Muggers, formed following the release of Segall's studio album, Emotional Mugger.

Since 2012, Dolunay has lured audiences with their approach to Turkish and Rumeli musical traditions.  With Jenny Luna on vocals and percussion, Adam Good on oud, and Eylem Basaldi on violin. At once ethereal and grounded, Dolunay flirts with the soundscape of the ancient Ottomans, tracing its migration through Balkan villages, coaxing it across seas and oceans, and grafting it onto a Brooklyn-based backdrop. The trio infuses classic and contemporary traditions with an urban grit that can only be found in New York City’s confluence…

The Soul Rebels are riding high in 2019, receiving national attention with recent performances with Katy Perryand DMX, and featured on NPR's Tiny Desk series, a debut late night TV appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and a headlining set at theTED Conference. The band continues to expand its international reach touring four continents including Europe, Australia, China, South Korea and Japan. Their explosive stage presence has led to live collaborations with the likes of: Nas, G-Eazy, Robin…

Elijah Wald has been performing for over forty years in a wide variety of styles, from blues, folk, swing, and cowboy songs to classic Swahili pop and the Bahamian guitar style of Joseph Spence. He studied and played with Dave Van Ronk, the Congolese master Jean-Bosco Mwenda, and the Black string band master Howard Armstrong. He is also one of the foremost historians of American roots and pop music, and his shows are an entertaining journey through evolving and overlapping…

Annika Bennett is an artist from New York City with a sound that fuses alternative, indie and a melodic instinct inspired by McCartney classic rock. Following the success of her debut EP "Only Emotion," Bennett went on a 10-week US tour opening for Andrew McMahon, LANY on their US and Canada amphitheater run (115K tickets), and Penny & Sparrow this fall (November) in the US. Check out her newest EP, "ROOM (DEMOS)," which released this August. She is currently working on…

Catalan folk duo Tarta Relena make their New York premiere at National Sawdust, performing work from the award-winning 2019 album Ora Pro Nobis. Started in 2016 as an acapella project between Helena Ros and Marta Torrella, Tarta Relena’s electronic-accented folk reimagines the traditional music of the Mediterranean as a growing form unbound by precedent. Together Ros and Torrella trace vocal styles across time and borders, revealing the universal nature of pain and joy and unearthing the ties that exist between…