City of Asylum
Giving Voice.
Yamaha pianist Orrin Evans delivers “50 Shades of O” to Alphabet City audiences as part of his 2025 tour and birthday celebration.
Lifelong guitarist and imaginative jazz musician Mila Shadel presents original arrangements of some of her favorite hard rock & grunge songs.
Taras Filenko makes a long-awaited return to City of Asylum, joined by violinist Jennifer Orchard, pianist Pauline Rovkah, and Peter Fung and the Broad Street Collective, to perform a concert that connects North America and Ukraine.
This concert will feature all original compositions by Scott Boni in what will be his first performance as a bandleader at City of Asylum.
Jazz musician Jerome Jennings and his group iLL Philosophy perform in a signature jazz poetry collaborative, improvisational concert and reading.
Musician James Brandon Lewis and poet Huang Xiang present a jazz poetry concert of improvisational and collaborative performance.
This evening’s performance from The Happy Lovers will accompany contributions and readings from other City of Asylum writers-in-residence and visiting ICORN residents.
A dynamic DJ set from DJ Cielo (known in the literary scene as Aleksandar Hemon) featuring Afro House and Organic House music.
