MUSIC
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019
7:00 PM

Jen Shyu: Zero Grasses
John Zorn's Stone Commissioning Series
National Sawdust
80 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn

$25
https://nationalsawdust.org/event/jen-shyu/

Jen Shyu is one of those scarily accomplished people: she speaks something like 10 languages, and she's trained in classical violin and piano, as well as opera singing and ballet. She initially emerged as an exotic singer with progressive jazz bands; she then took up several Asian string and percussion instruments and started creating these unique quasi-theaterical shows that draw on her ballet training as well as her wide-ranging vocal and instrumental skills and her immersion in various Asian cultures. These pieces are usually deeply felt as well as sonically and visually arresting. If you haven't seen Shyu, you should.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Sardinia in Williamsburg at the charming and homey D.O.C. Wine Bar.