Fri, Nov 1

First Life – 7:00pm
Icons of Culture Festival

First Life is a dynamic hip-hop/jazz band formed in the heart of downtown Jersey City, New Jersey. The group features four talented members: Adam Lomeo on guitar, André Mayes on turntables, Emilio Guarino on bass, and Lateef Dameer on the MPC/drum machine. First Life emerged from a vibrant scene of performances and collaborations in record shops and local clubs, extending their reach from New Jersey to Brooklyn. Their unique blend of genres and exceptional musicianship has quickly set them apart in the hip-hop music scene.

Fri, Nov 1

Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 – 9:00pm
Icons of Culture Festival

Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 is a homegrown community effort to celebrate the music, memory, and history that comes with inherited family collections. Based in Manhattan Chinatown, artist and oral history educator YiuYiu 瑶瑶 is both DJ and researcher for the Chinatown Records archive, caring for and activating over 30 record/CD/tape collections inherited from her family and neighbors. Chinatown Records bridges generations of memories through music. With each beloved song and memory, Chinatown Records evolves as an ever-growing record of the people we love, who bring all this music back to life with us.

Photo: Cindy Linh

Sat, Nov 2

Nora Schell – 4:00pm
Icons of Culture Festival

Nora Schell is a Drama Desk, Drama League, and Clive Barnes Award nominated actor. Though they are primarily known for their theater career, they are just as passionate and dedicated to sharing their songwriting talents. Nora’s original music finds itself at the intersection of Y2K singer songwriter pop and early aughts pop punk, with faint echoes of 90’s grunge and riot grrrl influence…all funneled through the lens of Blackness.

Sat, Nov 2

Community Room with Elijah Amitin of Zopa – 7:00pm
Icons of Culture Festival

Community Room is the electronic synth project of Elijah Amitin, Combining elements of, disco, funk, soul, Latin, classic techno, and house with analog sound design, this native New Yorker aims to express the common heartbeat of the city through deep danceable grooves and lyrical melodies. Among his many projects, Amitin is also bass player and producer of the indie rock trio Zopa with Michael Imperioli and Olmo Tighe.

Photo: Danny Clinch

Fri, Nov 15

Marco Foster – 5:30pm
Park Avenue Artists’ Spotlight

Marco Foster is a recording artist based in Brooklyn, New York, who has found a musical home reinventing classic songs of the past for a modern world. Having performed at venues as historic as Wembley Stadium and as intimate as the coffee shops of New York City, Marco’s extensive repertoire and dynamic ability in any setting has led to a career spanning over a decade. With his unique acoustic style, Marco has built a following of over 250,000 fans and amassed over 30 million streams on all platforms.

Sat, Nov 16

Stephan Said – 7:00pm
Annie O Presents at PAC NYC

Stephan Said is an internationally acclaimed musician, writer and activist, and the host/cofounder of borderless, a global movement, docuseries, and platform promoting a pop-culture revolution for a better world. His songs have helped build movements for social justice across the world. Billboard Magazine called him “this generation’s Woody Guthrie.” This performance will kick off Stephan’s expanding tour for global unity to the heart of a world in crisis, singing songs, bridging divides, and lifting voices at the frontlines of climate change, war, inequality, racism, natural disasters, and the refugee crisis.

Photo by Sam Erickson.

Thu, Nov 21

Break Out The Crazy – Katya Diaz and Chris Hierro – 7:00pm
¡OYEME! Music Series

Chris Hierro and Katya Diaz met while both were accompanying Alejandro Sanz on his 2021 tour. Their chemistry was undeniable, leading to the formation of the duo who went on to collaborate with notable Latin artists like Debi Nova, Andrea Echavarría, Andres Levin, Ceci Bastida, hit writer Claudia Brant, and Latin Grammy-winning producer/DJ Cruz, among others. Chris and Katya’s work can be heard on the soundtrack of the Netflix original series It’s Bruno and on Trinidad’s beloved Kes the Band’s Latin/Soca fusion turned Carnival hit Body Talk. They lent their voices to the hit Lejos de Ti, serving as the backdrop to the climactic scene of the 2018 remake of the classic Hollywood film Overboard.