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Elysium Furnace Works Announces Its 2026 Season, Beginning With Tyshawn Sorey And Cooper-Moore On Saturday, March 14

Source: James Keepnews
January 28, 2026

Elysium Furnace Works is proud to announce the initial slate of performers for its 2026 season. March 14 Tyshawn Sorey / Cooper-Moore — our season kicks off with the first-ever appearance together of Pulitzer Prize-winner and MacArthur Foundation “genius grant" fellow, drummer, composer and University of Pennsylvania professor Sorey, teaming up with the multi-instrumentalist, instrument builder, educator and creative music titan Moore for this historic encounter. Advance tickets are on sale at eventbrite.com. April 11 “Strings & Things" with Jamaaladeen ...

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Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2025 Season With A Solo Piano Festival, Beginning With Dave Burrell on Saturday, March 1 in Beacon, NY

Source: James Keepnews
January 30, 2025

Elysium Furnace Works is proud the announce the initial concerts for its 2025 season. To kick off 2025, EFW will present its very first solo piano festival. On each Saturday in March this year, EFW will present five of the most brilliant pianists performing anywhere today. All five concerts as part of the EFW Solo Piano Festival will be presented at St. Andrew & St. Luke's Episcopal Church, located at 15 South Ave. in Beacon, NY — each concert will ...

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Elysium Furnace Works' 2024 Season Begins With Joe McPhee With Strings On March 16, 8 PM In Poughkeepsie, NY

Source: James Keepnews
March 4, 2024

Elysium Furnace Works is BACK in 2024 with our most exciting season yet! Uncompromising, boundary-pushing artistry is what EFW is all about and that's exactly what we have in store for you, all year long. All concerts will take place at the lovely 19th c. VBI Theatre, part of the Hudson Valley's outstanding Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center — the theatre is located at 12 Vassar St. in Poughkeepsie, NY. Elysium Furnace Works is thrilled and honored to kick off its 2024 ...

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Elysium Furnace Works Kicks Off 2023 Season With Elliott Sharp & Donald Sturge Anthony McKenzie—Saturday, March 25 In Poughkeepsie, NY

Source: James Keepnews
February 28, 2023

"One of the godfathers of the Downtown New York music scene, guitarist-composer Elliott Sharp has been conceiving experimental works for a variety of small and large ensembles over the past 40 years... he remains as restlessly creative as ever, continuing to churn out provocative new projects with remarkable regularity." —Bill Milkowski, JazzTimes “Don McKenzie is a powerhouse and a master of deep-pocket hip hop, funk, jazz and rock” —Vernon Reid, Guitarist Elysium Furnace Works is excited to announce the initial ...

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William Parker Biography Celebration With Joe McPhee And Cisco Bradley

Source: James Keepnews
April 12, 2021

Elysium Furnace Works is proud to present bassist, composer, bandleader and a signal figure in creative music worldwide, William Parker, as part of a celebration of the recent publication of his long-overdue biography, Universal Tonality—The Life and Music of William Parker. Written by Pratt Institute professor Cisco Bradley and published by Duke University Press, this biography has already been acclaimed as a major contribution to jazz scholarship and the sociocultural history of downtown New York City. This event—co-sponsored by Beacon, ...

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Jazz At Atlas Kicks Off 2019 Season With Thumbscrew

Source: James Keepnews
March 9, 2019

This cooperative project features a trio of gifted musicians and composers—guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Michael Formanek and drummer/percussionist Tomas Fujiwara—performing their own compositions and selected standards with an exacting prowess wed to a liberated swing that is glorious to behold. Thumbscrew performs on Saturday, March 30 at 8 PM. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door—advance tickets are on sale now. Atlas Studios is located at 11 Spring St. in Newburgh, NY. Ample onsite parking is available. ...

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Matt Mitchell Kicks Off Elysium Furnace Works' 2019 Season In Beacon, NY

Source: James Keepnews
February 21, 2019

The 2019 season for the Hudson Valley music series Elysium Furnace Works promises to be its most exciting yet. EFW is proud to launch this year's slate of concerts with one of the most remarkable and cutting-edge pianists and composers, Matt Mitchell. Hailed as “a pianist of burrowing focus and an indispensable fixture of the contemporary vanguard” by The New York Times, “smart and dazzling” by Philadelphia Magazine and “compelling, even startling two-handed abandon” by the Detroit Free Press, Matt ...

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11th Annual Red Hook Jazz Festival To Be Held Sunday, September 16 From 2-6 PM — Marc Ribot And The Jazzbeens To Headline

Source: James Keepnews
July 16, 2018

“The Red Hook Jazz Festival exists contentedly on the margins, like its namesake neighborhood and much of the music on its bill…The mood in the audience was neighborly, with a higher ratio of small children to youngish adults than I’ve seen at any musical event not expressly pitched as a kids’ show.” —Nate Chinen, New York Times “The lineup seems to get better every year at the Red Hook Jazz Festival, held on two successive Sundays at the Urban Meadow. ...

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