The story of an extraordinary community museum for music, art, science, dance, poetry, and Black history in Brooklyn that most people have never heard of. Crown Heights in the 1970s: As New York City navigated economic disaster, and America at…
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Art Party Happening with Clara Joy
MOMENT NYC’s next event is this Saturday, June 29th at 8pm. Guest curator Clara Joy presents an evening with music and dance — traditional, of the moment, and bound only by the limits of imagination. This is guaranteed to be…
Giant Step – Retrospective 1990-1995
A convergent moment in downtown New York City club history MOMENT NYC invites you to a retrospective on the groundbreaking underground Giant Step party of the 1990s. This roving downtown party attracted generations of artists, jazzers, MCs, dancers, celebrities, and…
Everybody L.E.S. Culture Mash Music Fest
MOMENT NYC & Subterra Soundsystem present a live music mash-up party celebrating the diversity that has kept the Lower East Side / East Village so interesting and creative for over a century. Ticket Link DROM 85 Avenue A, NYC, Sunday,…
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Alice Barker, 102 Harlem Renaissance Dancer Relives Her Youth
102 year old Alice Barker, who danced at clubs such as The Apollo, Cotton Club, and Zanzibar Club, with legends including Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, recently got a chance to see footage of herself from the…
A Century of Lady Day
Born Eleanora Fagen Gough or Elinore Harris either in Philidelphia or Baltimore depending on who you believe…Apparently she was born into poverty and dropped out of school in the 5th grade, possibly running errands in a brothel and her father…
Free Jazz Still Alive and Young in Downtown NYC!!
These days we have to import some of it from Sweden, probably one of the few places you can afford to play free jazz, but it does feel like home to hear this, if a little unexpectedly from young blonde…
Roy Haynes Celebrates his 90th Birthday March 13-15 at The Blue Note
Master drummer Roy Haynes who deifies age will celebrate his 90th birthday with a series of performances with special guests at New York’s downtown jazz venue The Blue Note from March 13-15. Mr. Haynes has worked with such greats as…
Ornette Coleman Turns 85!
Happy Birthday Ornette! My dad took me to see him when I was a teenager and me and my friends used to dance around to”Dancing In Your Head” with its youthful, joyful energy. I met and talked to him at…