MUSIC
Ava Mendoza: First Tuesday
TUESDAY, MAY 2, 2023
7:00 PM
Union Pool
484 Union Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Avant-shredder Ava Mendoza isn’t playing tonight. Rather, she presents the second of four first-Tuesday-of-the-month shows that she curated — and if you like the kind of music she makes, you’ll probably like the kind of music she programs. Tonight’s program is especially strong: experimental vocalist Ka Baird, who could be said to respire more than she sings; vanguard jazz+ guitarist David Torn; and two equally exploratory but very very different violinists playing together: gabby fluke-mogul, who maintains an inner logic even while eschewing standard notions of form, and Charlie Burnham, whose free playing is always rooted in something like the blues.
MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: It remains very big news that Windsor Terrace’s Dog Day Afternoon (located on the very block the movie was filmed on) is now serving their supernal Chicago-Style Hot Dogs at a new Williamsburg bar (H&H Reserve) at reasonable hours!