MUSIC

Eldorado Ballroom: Kelela/Res/keiyaA

THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 2023
7:30 PM

BAM Opera House
30 Lafayette Avenue, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$35-$45
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I was beginning to doubt it, but BAM proves it is still the Cool Institution. In the current climate, your Big Arts Institutions want to do Outreach. Now you can do what Lincoln Center is doing, and present a lot of generic “nonclassical” stuff in an anodyne, “uplifting” way — while seemingly abandoning what had been your core mission. Or you can do what BAM has done: get Solange Knowles to program an astonishingly good series for you, with work that challenges rather than affirms — and rather than being generic, that challenges the whole idea of genre, so that the Outreach stuff becomes (as it should be) an extension of your core mission rather than a replacement. Solange’s Eldorado Ballroom series continues on into September, but this opening show has one of those line-ups that make you ask, “is this really happening?” Nu R&B at its finest.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly exciting pizza at Oma Grassa.