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DITMAS PARK – In an age when digital distribution renders the avant garde just another playlist on Spotify, the Endangered Heart Quartet is making unique music not by going further out but by finding spaces in between. As violinist Jesse Mills [http://www.jesse-mills.com/JM/Jesse_Mills,_violin___Welcome.html]
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – A Prospect Heights musician uses an instrument often associated with weird and spooky sounds to create a plaintive and evocative version of Kurt Weill’s [https://www.kwf.org/] “Lost in the Stars [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQhUkT32H5A]” on his new album, scheduled for release Friday.
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BEDFORD-STUYVESANT – Fifty years ago, Albert Ayler [https://www.discogs.com/artist/202309-Albert-Ayler] attempted a musical experiment—recording an album combining the spontaneity and iconoclasm of free jazz with more traditional song structures and a strong R&B groove. New Grass [https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/albert-ayler/new-grass-6/] was a
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BROOKLYN NAVY YARD – Works created by the first graduating class of the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/mediaarts/schools/feirstein.php] will be screened for an invitation-only audience of industry professionals at the Brooklyn Academy of Music [https://www.bam.org] on
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FLATBUSH – If you watch the credits roll at the close of Flatbush Luck [http://www.flatbushluck.com], you’ll see actors Tanner Novlan and Robby Stahl listed in the leading roles. But anyone who has seen the film can tell you that the Brooklyn neighborhood that lends its name to
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FLATBUSH – Growing up as the daughter of immigrants in Flatbush, Ashley August hid her dreams of being a performer from her parents using the duffle bag she carried her high school volleyball uniform in. Ashley August (Photo courtesy of the artist)“My parents are immigrants and there’s only about
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BROOKLYN HEIGHTS – “Everybody always wants to look forward to the next thing,” said Eli Smith. “For me, I prefer to turn the other way and look as far backwards as I can, try to get at something elemental.” For the next couple of weeks, at least, Smith, a banjo player
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CROWN HEIGHTS – A one-woman show inspired by the exploits of an octogenarian jewel thief is one of the plays the Onstage@Weeksville [http://www.weeksvillesociety.org/onstage-at-weeksville/] theater series has scheduled for the Weeksville Heritage Center [/weeksville-heritage-center-preserving-history-weeksville-community/]. Doris Payne, already the subject of a f [http://www.imdb.com/title/
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FLATBUSH – Evander Holyfield’s Real Deal [http://therealdealboxing.com/site/] promotion company will stage the first of a series of boxing matches at the Kings Theatre [http://www.kingstheatre.com/] on Saturday, March 10. According to Real Deal COO Eric Bentley, the partnership with the venue will bring at least
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PROSPECT HEIGHTS – As the final stop on a world tour that began at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum five years ago, the David Bowie Is [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/davidbowieis] exhibition will make its home at the Brooklyn Museum from March 2 to July 15. Prospect Heights bar
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Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/IrondaleCenter/photos/gm.2064650020430677/10155258900202444/?type=3&theater] FORT GREENE – With Oprah Winfrey’s galvanizing speech at the Golden Globes demonstrating the power for change that can live within a single woman’s voice, the program scheduled this month at the Irondale Theater
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Pianist and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_O%27Farrill] will present his father’s rarely performed seasonal composition “Oro, Incienso y Mirra” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvcFbbq2mgk] (“Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh”) in a free performance on Christmas Eve at All Saints’ Church. The