New Ear Festival

MUSIC / PERFORMANCE
MONDAY - SUNDAY, JANUARY 6 - 12, 2020
7:00 PM MONDAY & WEDNESDAY
8:00 PM TUESDAY & THURSDAY - SUNDAY

Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery, Lower East Side, Manhattan

$20 per night/$30 Wednesday; $15 per night students/$25 Wednesday
https://www.fridmangallery.com/new-ear-festival-2020

A really great festival encompassing a lot of the different kinds of stuff you've read about here ad nauseum, from experimental multi-media to jazz on the sonic frontier.  Every night there's an ongoing sound installation in the front by Aki Onda, recreating a legendary participatory radio broadcast soundwork done in Manila on New Years Day 1974.  Beyond that, here are few highlight performers:  Adelaide Damoah (TUESDAY), William Hooker (SATURDAY), TAK Ensemble (doing a new Brandon Lopez piece) (THURSDAY), Muyassar Kurdi and MV Carbon (SUNDAY),  Susie Ibarra and her great Dreamtime Ensemble (FRIDAY), Sophia Petrides (SATURDAY), Speaker Music (SUNDAY), and . . . Black Thought of the Roots (WEDNESDAY)!

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  Flushing skewer sensation Friendship Barbecue has opened a branch on the Bowery!