DakhaBrakha
Blending urban avant-garde and Ukrainian village culture, the self-proclaimed “ethno-chaos” group refreshingly revisions Eastern European roots music.
Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?
Memories of the Holocaust inoculated Europe against overt anti-Semitism for over half a century, but recent fatal attacks and mounting hatred have left the continent confronted with a crisis and its Jews with an agonizing choice. Atlantic national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg discusses his reporting for the April cover story with James Bennet.
Sixth & I Tour
Uncover the unexpected story of renewal, revitalization, and reinvention of our building that has led to what Sixth & I is today.
Rodrigo Amarante
with Big Search
The Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist sings his stripped-down and tender songs to our Downstairs stage.
Candice Bergen
In Conversation with Madhulika Sikka
In A Fine Romance, Candice Bergen shares with humor, honesty and wisdom the big events of her life: her marriage to a famous French director, the birth of her daughter, Murphy Brown, widowhood, falling in love again, and watching her daughter blossom.
- Date:
- Apr 13, 2015 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
-
Ticket: $20
1 ticket + 1 book: $32
2 tickets + 1 book: $45
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Jennifer Teege
Holocaust Remembrance Day Program
In 2008, Teege, a German-Nigerian woman who was given up for adoption as a child, discovered that she is the granddaughter of the Nazi commandant portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me recounts the shocking discovery that profoundly disrupted her sense of herself.
- Date:
- Apr 15, 2015 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
-
Ticket: $12
2 FREE tickets with book purchase: $25
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
Andrea Gibson
with Amber Tamblyn
Now on her fifth full-length album, Flower Boy, and her second book, The Madness Vase, Gibson’s raw fearlessness has led her to the forefront of the spoken word movement.
- Date:
- Apr 16, 2015 • 8:00 pm ET
- Admission:
-
$20 in advance
$25 on day of show
- Category:
- Authors & Talks
The Hot Sardines
The Sardine sound—wartime Paris via New Orleans—is steeped in hot jazz, salty stride piano, and the kind of music Louis Armstrong, Django Reinhardt, and Fats Waller used to make: straight-up, foot-stomping jazz.
An Evening with Vijay Iyer Trio
Levine Music Jazzfest 2015
The GRAMMY-nominated group updates the sound of their classic jazz piano trio, creating a powerful, cutting-edge new music firmly grounded in groove and pulse, but also rhythmically intricate and highly interactive.
Nora Pouillon
In Conversation with Nancy McKeon
Spanning the last forty years of our culinary history, My Organic Life: How a Pioneering Chef Helped Shape the Way We Eat Today tells the story of the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyone else, made it her mission to bring organic foods to the American table.
- Date:
- Apr 20, 2015 • 7:00 pm ET
- Admission:
-
Ticket: $14
2 FREE tickets with book purchase: $27
- Category:
- Authors & Talks