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Have you ever wanted to make art with food? Join educators from the Children’s Museum of Manhattan as they show you how to create an edible portrait! Spend 45 minutes getting messy and having fun, while making art using items from around your house.

Stephane Wrembel’s annual Django A Gogo Festival 2021 comprises four concerts and an intensive two-day guitar workshop celebrating the music and life of legendary musician and composer Django Reinhardt. The concert repertoire follows the Django canon and veers into reinterpretation, improvisation and interplay between artists from various backgrounds performed at the highest level of musicianship. Each show has a different theme and lineup of musicians. This year includes: Thursday, June 3—From Tarrega to Django: The Art of Guitar; Friday, June 4—The Django Experiment CD Release Show, The Django Experiment VI; and Saturday, June 5—Django New Orleans. Performers include: Stephane Wrembel, Thor Jensen, Ari Folman-Cohen, Nick Anderson, Daisy Castro, Nick Driscoll, Michael Sheridan, Joe Correia, Scott Kettner, David Langlois, and Mike Davis. Please check website for exact details.

Django A Gogo 2021 will conclude with a performance by The Django Experiment to celebrate the CD release of The Django Experiment VI, which was released digitally in January 2021, by performing the recording in its entirety. In addition to heralded guitarist Stephane Wrembel, the band includes Thor Jensen, guitar; Ari Folman-Cohen, bass; Nick Anderson, drums; Daisy Castro, violin; and Nick Driscoll, saxophone/clarinet. Drom is a gypsy-themed club in downtown Manhattan hosting a global roster of performers, ranging from jazz & funk to hip-hop. This show is open to all ages. Drom is adhering to the guidelines as issued by the N.Y. State Department of Health on April 1, 2021.

Jason Kao Hwang, Ken Filiano, and Andrew Drury in performance and conversation. Live stream presented by Arts for Art.

Patricia Nicholson, Jean Carla Rodea, Andrea Wolper, Ellen Christi, Ava Mendoza, and Val Jeanty in performance and conversation. Live stream hosted by Arts for Art.

Please join New York-based artist Margaret Cogswell on a journey to explore two of her multi-media RIVER FUGUES projects, ASHOKAN FUGUES and MOVING THE WATERS: CROTON FUGUES . These two mixed-media art installations focus on the New York City Water Supply System and combine artistic elements with public policies and historical details related to the political and socio-economic impact of developing NYC’s water system around semi-rural communities located in upstate New York.

The GRAMMY Award-winning string ensemble performs What's Past is Prologue, two digital concerts of music by female composers spanning the past millennia, filmed March 2021 at the studio of renowned sculptor Joel Shapiro. The phrase "what's past is prologue," from Shakespeare's The Tempest, "has become a modern shorthand for the notion that history set the context for the present," says Aizuri cellist Karen Ouzounian. "Contemporary composers reflect on the work of those who came before them as they push the string quartet medium towards the future." The dramatic setting for this two-part program is Shapiro's large-scale geometric sculptures that suspend from the ceiling and extend from the walls and floors of his studio in Long Island City, Queens. Program 1, available June 23 includes Benedictine composer, philosopher, and abbess Hildegard von Bingen’s (b. 1098) liturgical poem Columba aspexit, arranged for string quartet by Alex Fortes; composer and environmentalist Gabriella Smith’s (b. 1991) Carrot Revolution, written for Aizuri’s GRAMMY-winning album Blueprinting; and GRAMMY and MacArthur Award-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens’s (b. 1977) At the Purchaser’s Option, a haunting work inspired by an 1830s advertisement selling a young female slave with or without her 9 month old baby. Program 2, available June 30 offers Barbara Strozzi’s (b. 1619) L'usignuolo “The Nightingale” and L’amante modesto “The Modest Lover,” arranged by Alex Fortes; and British, Jamaican-born composer Eleanor Alberga’s (b. 1949) second movement from String Quartet No. 1, a life-affirming work inspired by a physics lecture in which the composer learned we are all made of star dust.

Dave Wilson: Tenor and Soprano Saxophone Kirk Reese: Piano Blake Meister: Acoustic Bass Frank Russo: Drums Dave Wilson is a leading jazz saxophonist, recording artist, bandleader, composer, and educator in the Central PA/ Delaware Valley area, with a highly active venue and festival schedule as both a leader of his own contemporary jazz groups and as a sideman. The Dave Wilson Quartet is a Contemporary Jazz group whose aim is to further and bring to fruition the music and vision of Dave Wilson, the artist. Defying categorization, the music is "what sounds good, is what is true to our artistic vision, and can communicate with the audience on a deep level...it's jazz". Wilson has worked with pianists Mark Soskin, Jim Ridl, Phil Markowitz, Bobby Avey, Kirk Reese; bassists Tony Marino, Blake Meister, drummers Adam Nussbaum, Bill Goodwin, Frank Russo. He has also shared the stage with the likes of Tim Warfield, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Lou Soloff (BS & T), the late Steve Marcus, Conrad Herwig, Gary Smulyan, Steve Smith (from Journey), among others. The Dave Wilson Quartet’s fourth release There Was Never (ZOHO), featured an all-star lineup of Bobby Avey-Piano, Tony Marino-Bass, Alex Ritz-Drums (members of the Dave Liebman Group), for 6 weeks in 2016 was in the top 50 of the nation-wide Jazz Weekly Jazz Radio Countdown, reaching a high of #18 in the nation, received 3 stars in the February 2016 issue of Downbeat Magazine, and was placed in nomination for a Grammy. One Night at Chris’ (Dave Wilson Music) is the fifth release of The Dave Wilson Quartet, recorded live at the famous Chris’ Jazz Cafe ‘in Philadelphia and released in the summer of 2019. Featuring Dave on Tenor and Soprano Saxophones and his working band of Kirk Reese – Piano (East Coast Legend); Tony Marino - Acoustic Bass; Dan Monaghan – Drums (Legendary Philadelphia drummer). From writer Bill Milkowski. “The crackling intensity of One Night at Chris’ is a testament to what can happen on the bandstand on any given night. And this was a particularly good night indeed.” Achieving “Chartbound” status (top 50 nationwide), on jazz radio, and garnering positive reviews, One Night at Chris is perhaps Dave’s greatest work, yet! The album made the WRTI-FM, Philadelphia Jazz Radio Station “Jazz Album of the Week”, the week of August 26th, 2019. We have a new live recording coming out this spring, featuring, among other selections, several contemporary renditions of John Coltrane recordings, titled Stretching Supreme. Showtime is 7 pm ET/6 pm CT/5 pm MT/4 pm PT/11 pm GMT Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active through June 1

Monthly 2021 concert series with this iconic jazz pianist! Bill Heid, piano Blake Meister, bass Jay Jefferson, drums Bill Heid is an American soul jazz and hard bop jazz pianist and organist, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, probably better known for his work with musicians such as Koko Taylor, Henry Johnson and Fenton Robinson, among others. Bill Heid came of age in the crucible that was Pittsburgh in its jazz heyday, hanging out at legendary Hill District clubs like the Hurricane Bar and the Crawford Grill. All the jazz greats regularly played in town back in the sixties and young Bill took every opportunity to sit in and learn from these masters. In addition to the many musicians passing through town during that period, Pittsburgh had produced some of the greatest names in jazz “Ahmad Jamal, Art Blakey, Errol Garner, George Benson, Eddie Jefferson, Mary Lou Williams, Stanley Turrentine, to name a few, all called Pittsburgh their hometown. Bill took these lessons and experiences and headed West to Detroit and Chicago, where he built a solid blues resume, touring and recording as a pianist with Jimmy Witherspoon, Koko Taylor, Alberta Adams, Fenton Robinson, and many others. He also played jazz piano on two major Impulse!/MCA recordings for Chicago guitarist Henry Johnson, who called Bill’s piano playing “brilliant”, and adds that Bill “…brings fire, excitement and a feeling of the blues to any recording that he appears on.” It is as an organist though that Bill became better known, recording as a leader on several outstanding jazz organ dates in the mid to late nineties for the Muse/Westside and Savant labels. Bill’s organ sound is at once gritty and sophisticated and is flavored with Bill’s idiosyncratic style and unique vernacular. Now, after having spent a number of years working in Japan and touring all over the world for the U.S. State Department as a Jazz Ambassador, Bill is back stateside where he can be heard on organ and piano engagements at various venues in the Washington, D.C. area. Showtime is 3 pm ET/2 pm CT/1 pm MT/12 pm PT/7 pm GMT Streaming cost is $10 Donations are welcomed. The link will be revealed to you 15 minutes before the show and will remain active for one week.

The JB Abbott Trio is dedicated to conserving timeless jazz standards of the Great American Songbook with a touch of blues, including the works of Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Stanley Turrentine, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and many more. The trio is Michael Goetz (pronounced "Getz," like Stan) (bass), Alan Wish (saxophone), and John (JB) Abbott (guitar).