Celebrating the Music & Resilience of Manganiyar Musicians with Shalini R. Ayyagari

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

This program presents a combination reading and musical performance with author and ethnomusicologist, Shalini R. Ayyagari. In Shalani’s book, Musical Resilience: Performing Patronage in the Indian Thar Desert, she shows how professional low-caste musicians from the Thar Desert borderland of Rajasthan, India have skillfully reinvented their cultural and economic value in postcolonial India

Jazz Poetry Concert & Collaboration

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

This special program presents a jazz concert featuring Mat Maneri (performing with the ASH Quartet). The jazz set is followed by a jazz and poetry collaboration with poet Denver Butson and four poets from our partnership with the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program, Busisiwe Mahlangu, Saba Hamzah, Yashika Graham, and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho. 

A Night of Genre-Blending Jazz with Oscar Peñas

Alphabet City 40 W. North Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

In this concert we welcome Oscar Peñas and his quartet as they share Oscar’s new album, Chicken or Pasta. This is Oscar’s sixth self-produced album as a leader and features Sara Caswell, Motohito Fukushima, and Richie Barshay, as well as special guests Mike Stern and Greg Leisz.

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