Music by Public Records
NOMON performing at Free Friday Nights at the Whitney Museum of American Art, August 9, 2024. Photograph by Summer Surgent-Gough
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The Whitney continues its partnership with Brooklyn-based performance venue and community space Public Records to bring music to Free Friday Nights. Admission is free to all visitors every Friday evening from 5–10 pm, and Public Records will present music on select Free Fridays Nights throughout the Museum. In addition to music, join us on Friday evenings for performances, world-class exhibitions of contemporary American art, cocktails with views at Studio Bar, and more. Upcoming live music performances from Public Records include:
November 1, 2024, 7 pm
Miriam ElHajli
Folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist Miriam Elhajli will perform original and folkloric ballads from around the world concerning the geography of gardens and fruit trees in context with the exhibition Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard. Matthew Jamal will be accompanying on upright bass and voice.
November 15, 2024, 7 pm
Lea Bertucci
Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer, and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind instruments, her work incorporates multi-channel speaker arrays, radical methods of free improvisation and creative misuses of audio technology.
December 13, 2024
Mary Halvorson and Tomas Fujiwara
Guitarist, composer, and MacArthur Fellow Mary Halvorson has been called “the most forward-thinking guitarist working right now” (Lars Gotrich, NPR). She collaborates with Brooklyn-based drummer Tomas Fujiwara, who leads the bands Triple Double, 7 Poets Trio, amongst others.
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