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The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition / Fatboi Sharif
May 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Market Hotel
The second performance in Melvin Gibbs' multi-part residency with FourOneOne, The Issa Iyer Gibbs Coalition is a new collaboration between three of the deepest practitioners working in the overlapping worlds of hip hop, go-go, jazz, rock and electronic music: emcee Kokayi Issa, keyboardist Vijay Iyer, and bassist/producer Melvin Gibbs. The debut performance by this trio of singular artists will fuse the charged unpredictability of human improvisation with the relentless precision of machine music, and the sheer volume of sound system culture. Rahway, NJ underground rapper and Backwoodz associate, Fatboi Sharif, will open. Doors 7pm, show 8pm.
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Bahauddin Dagar: Asynchronous Duets
May 23, 2026–June 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
873 Broadway, suite 503
On four Saturday afternoons in May and June, Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player and one of the world’s foremost practitioners of Dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music, will meet with four New York City-based artists—Shara Lunon, Brandon Ross, Anh Vo, and Aakash Mittal—for a series of one-on-one encounters. Central to these meetings is the question: How do you engage with one form using the forms you already know? Framed as asynchronous duets, Ustad Dagar and his collaborators will take turns listening to one another perform and talk about how they approach the fundamental materials of their art, from the perspectives of their personal practices and the historical traditions and communities that inform them. The content and flow of each event will arise from a series informal, private meetings between Ustad Dagar and each artist in the week leading up these public convenings. At each event, audiences will also have a chance to ask questions and engage with the performers. Doors 1:30, event 2pm.
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Bahauddin Dagar in Concert
May 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The DiMenna Center, Cary Hall
Ustad Bahauddin Dagar, renowned rudra veena player and torchbearer of the Dagarvani tradition of Dhrupad, the oldest living form of Indian classical music, returns to the DiMenna Center for a major, evening-length concert as part of his multi-year residency with FourOneOne. Ustad Dagar will be accompanied by Tejas Tope (pakhawaj) and Ted Murano (tanpura). Doors 7pm, music 7:30.
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Melvin Gibbs: How Black Music Took Over The World
Residency
April 15, 2026–July 1, 2026
This spring and summer, FourOneOne collaborates with producer, bassist, and writer-thinker Melvin Gibbs on a series of events celebrating his singular life in music thus far – a path that has always been both absolutely of the moment and intimately linked to the ancestral knowledge that shapes our sense of music, community and history – and his highly anticipated new book, How Black Music Took Over The World.
From April through July, at venues around the city, Gibbs and a constellation of collaborators and friends—including Vijay Iyer, Immanuel Wilkins, Ben LaMar Gay, Kokayi, Tcheser Holmes, Chris Williams, Luke Stewart, Warren “Trae” Crudup III, Paul Wilson Bae, James Francies, choreographer Leslie Parker, and theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander—assemble to explore and respond to the book’s major themes through listening, conversation and performance.
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Bahauddin Dagar
Residency
May 23, 2026–June 23, 2026
In May and June, 2026, renowned rudra veena player and 20th generation practitioner of the Dagarvani tradition of Dhrupad, Bahauddin Dagar, returns to New York for a series of programs that revive and reimagine the dialogue between this profound tradition and Western audiences, performers, scholars and students. This residency fosters new convergences through a major, evening-length concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music on May 29, and a series of intimate performance/conversations with four artists from New York City’s rich web of performance histories: guitarist Brandon Ross; vocalist/electronicist Shara Lunon; Vietnamese decolonialist ritual performance artist Anh Voh; and saxophonist and composer Aakash Mittal.
