NIKARA presents Black Wall Street LIVE @ Joe's Pub (NYC)
Feb
18
9:00 PM21:00

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street LIVE @ Joe's Pub (NYC)

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Doors Open @ 9PM -

Music @ 9:30PM -

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street will showcase their sophomore album The Queen of Kings County (October 18, 2024 release, Switch Hit Records). The album, which was made with support from a prestigious grant by the NYFA Women’s Fund for Music, is a deeply personal homage to Warren’s hometown of Brooklyn. “This album emerges from the complex realities of Brooklyn, says Warren, “a place where dreams are pursued relentlessly against a backdrop of gentrification: affluence mixed with social struggle. Through my compositions and arrangements, I explore the rich tapestry of Black American Music including Brooklyn’s rich Caribbean heritage, blending feel-good melodies, improvisation, rap, and electronic elements to create a sound that is both reflective and revolutionary.”

****There is a 2 drink or 1 food item minimum, per person, during every show at Joe's Pub.

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NIKARA presents Black Wall Street LIVE @ Bar LunAtico (Brooklyn)
Nov
21
9:00 PM21:00

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street LIVE @ Bar LunAtico (Brooklyn)

***TWO SETS: 9PM & 10:15PM***
***$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION***
***LUNATICO HAS A FULL DINNER AND COCKTAIL MENU SO COME EARLY TO EAT!***

LunÀtico is excited to present Nikara Warren’s Black Wall Street! BUY TICKETS HERE!

NIKARA PRESENTS BLACK WALL STREET explores the rich tapestry of Black American Music including Brooklyn’s Caribbean heritage, blending feel-good melodies, improvisation, rap, and electronic elements to create a sound that is both reflective and revolutionary.

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator NIKARA WARREN is a Brooklynite, born and raised. Granddaughter of world-renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron, daughter of a half Trinidadian soca/dancehall lover father and a classic 90s “Brooklyn ’Round the Way” girl mother, Warren is taking vibes to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it. Music critic Kira Grunenberg writes that NIKARA presents Black Wall Street “doesn’t project its versatility and creative range through scholarly jazz arrangements or covers chasing perfectionism. Instead, it offers original music converged around a stylistically fluid foundation.”

The Black Wall Street album, which was made with support from a prestigious grant by the NYFA Women’s Fund for Music, is a deeply personal homage to Warren’s hometown of Brooklyn. “This album emerges from the complex realities of Brooklyn, says Warren, “a place where dreams are pursued relentlessly against a backdrop of gentrification: affluence mixed with social struggle. Through my compositions and arrangements, I explore the rich tapestry of Black American Music including Brooklyn’s rich Caribbean heritage, blending feel-good melodies, improvisation, rap, and electronic elements to create a sound that is both reflective and revolutionary.”

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Nikara Warren duet LIVE @ Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's HOUSE PARTY 2024 (Brooklyn)
Nov
7
7:00 PM19:00

Nikara Warren duet LIVE @ Brooklyn Conservatory of Music's HOUSE PARTY 2024 (Brooklyn)

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This November, there’s a party we can all agree on: BKCM’s annual House Party!

For the ninth year running, we’re campaigning on a platform of incredible music, immersive experiences, and unimpeachable food and drinks. No pollsters. No Super PACs. Just a 143-year old Victorian home in Park Slope and the best party of the year.

Still undecided? Every ticket supports BKCM’s mission to transform lives through the expressive, educational and therapeutic powers of music. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION!

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May
4
2:00 PM14:00

HOPE AGAINST HOPE: A Weekend of Community and Song (ft. Nikara Warren)

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HOPE AGAINST HOPE:

A Weekend of Community and Song,
Co-Presented by CARA & the New York City AIDS Memorial

Featuring Batalá New York, BRUJAS, Christen Clifford, Paloma Contreras Lomas, Ines Doujak, Nimmi Gowrinathan, Loretta Ross, Pamela Sneed, The Blacksmiths, and more.

HOPE AGAINST HOPE extends beyond the individual artist’s practice and invites feminist poets, activists, musicians, and more to raise questions about how activist histories can inform radical presents. The weekend begins with a parade on May 4 at 2pm, co-presented by CARA and New York City AIDS Memorial. Weaving together pasts and futures of hope, participants form a chorus of voices calling for liberation from patriarchal oppression.

The parade opens at CARA with an invocation by poet Pamela Sneed, who will read work that honors the lives lost to AIDS through mourning and action. Her words will lead us into the streets, guided by the heart-beat of the parade: the percussion of Black-led, Afro Brazilian, all-women musical troupe Batalá New York. Joined by Brujas, a New York-based experimental union and skate collective, we will process towards St. Vincent’s Triangle (the New York City AIDS Memorial), which will act as a space for performances and gathering. At the memorial four artists from The Blacksmiths, a coalition of artists and organizers committed to using the arts to support direct action and civic engagement in the service of Black liberation and equity, will perform with vibraphone, trumpet, vocals, and percussion. Artist and writer Christen Clifford, whose work centers reproductive justice and organizing against gender-based violence, will perform. Free food will be available as an invitation for collective nourishment. The afternoon will be book-ended by a final offering from Sneed to close out the day.

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NIKARA presents Black Wall Street @ The Battery SF
Feb
5
7:00 PM19:00

NIKARA presents Black Wall Street @ The Battery SF

The masterful young vibraphonist and composer Nikara Warren brings her Black Wall Street project that explores jazz, hip-hop, neo-soul, Afro-Latino and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, abstract sound-collage and more.

"Black Wall Street isn’t a record of jazz shaped by truths. It’s a record of truths shaped by jazz." – Downbeat Magazine.

Warren will peform works as part of a quintet from her debut project, Black Wall Street, named for the affluent black neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma that was burned to the ground during the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, as well as samples from her upcoming sophmore album Ode to the Sample. This event is co-hosted by Black + Society.

Band will be featuring Hailey Niswanger, Mike Blankenship, Gulio Xavier Cetto, & James Small.

TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE!

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KENNY BARRON: BRAZILIAN EXPLORATIONS
Feb
3
7:30 PM19:30

KENNY BARRON: BRAZILIAN EXPLORATIONS

SFJAZZ Resident Artistic Director

KENNY BARRON: BRAZILIAN EXPLORATIONS

with Anne Drummond, Nikara Warren, John Patitucci, Rafael Barata, & Valtinho Anastacio

FEB 03, 2024 ~ Miner Auditorium ~ 7:30 PM

Kenny Barron’s third night brings the Bay Area premiere of a new sextet project embracing the music of Brazil and beyond. No stranger to Brazilian rhythms, Barron recorded his first album of samba-influenced compositions three decades ago with 1993’s Verve date Sambao.

He is joined for this special night by flutist Anne Drummond and percussionist Valtinho Anastacio from his 2002 Sunnyside release Canta Brasil, along with drummer Rafael Barata, whose scintillating playing propelled the pianist’s 2013 Rio-recorded session Kenny Barron & the Brazilian Knights. Rounding out the band is Barron’s granddaughter, the masterful vibraphonist Nikara Warren, and virtuoso bassist John Patitucci.

$35 | $55 | $75 | $100 | $110 —— FIND TICKETS HERE

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Jazz Lab: Nikara Warren LIVE in concert
Jun
8
4:00 PM16:00

Jazz Lab: Nikara Warren LIVE in concert

JAZZ LAB: NIKARA WARREN LIVE

in collaboration with Burlington City Arts

June 8th @ 4pm in Burlington, VT at City Hall Park

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren celebrates Black excellence in music with her triumphant debut album, Black Wall Street, which she performed in City Hall Park in 2022. Like her grandfather (world-renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron) did with the piano,

Nikara is reimagining vibes. Warren is taking the instrument to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her bold quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it. 

Ahead of Nikara’s 4 pm performance, join the artist at 2 pm in City Hall Park for her workshop Composing in Black. This clinic uses recorded music from the 1920s to the present day to explore composition trends in all music that descends from the African diaspora. This clinic will explore the history of Black humans in America, and how it affected the sound of the music. It will also explore specific harmonies and rhythms often used which are commonly used, and discuss the impact of sampling on Black music culture. 

MORE INFO HERE!

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Jazz Lab: Composing in Black workshop presented by Nikara Warren
Jun
8
2:00 PM14:00

Jazz Lab: Composing in Black workshop presented by Nikara Warren

Jazz lab:

composing in black workshop

presented by nikara warren

Burlington, VT in collaboration with Burlington City Arts

Thu, Jun 8 2023, 2 - 3pm at City Hall Park in Burlington, VT

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren brings her workshop Composing in Black to Jazz Lab. This free clinic uses recorded music from the 1920s to the present day to explore composition trends in all music that descends from the African diaspora. This clinic will explore the history of Black humans in America, and how it affected the sound of the music. It will also explore specific harmonies and rhythms often used which are commonly used, and discuss the impact of sampling on Black music culture. 

And stay to hear Nikara in concert at 4 pm, as she celebrates Black excellence in music with her triumphant debut album, Black Wall Street, which she performed in City Hall Park in 2022. Like her grandfather (world-renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron) did with the piano, Nikara is reimagining vibes. Warren is taking the instrument to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her bold quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it. 

MORE INFO HERE!

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Nikara presents Black Wall Street @ Jersey City Jazz Fest
Jun
4
4:30 PM16:30

Nikara presents Black Wall Street @ Jersey City Jazz Fest

Jersey City Jazz Festival 2024 presents Nikara Warren

with her quintet for a live performance of her debut record “Nikara presents Black Wall Street”

featuring…

  • Nikara Warren - vibes

  • Axel Tosca - keys

  • Craig Hill - tenor sax

  • Parker McAllister - electric bass

  • Corey Fonville - drums, spd

FREE SHOW — 4:30PM IS THE SET TIME

Venue Location: **Exchange Plaza Place on the PLAZA STAGE **

3 Exchange Pl. Jersey City, NJ

More Info HERE!

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Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam concerts with NIKARA WARREN, “SCENES FROM BLACK WALL STREET”
Mar
23
7:00 PM19:00

Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam concerts with NIKARA WARREN, “SCENES FROM BLACK WALL STREET”

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Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music performance and arts education, celebrates Women’s History Month throughout March 2023, featuring the extraordinary talents of two exceptional musicians. Nikara Warren, vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator, joins JPI’s acclaimed monthly concert series, Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam with performances from Ms. Warren’s debut album, “Scenes From Black Wall Street,” on March 19 at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights on March 23.  

March 23, 2023, at 2pm
Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center, 530 W 166th St, New York, 10032

— FREE SHOW —

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Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam concerts with NIKARA WARREN, “SCENES FROM BLACK WALL STREET”
Mar
19
2:00 PM14:00

Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam concerts with NIKARA WARREN, “SCENES FROM BLACK WALL STREET”

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Jazz Power Initiative, an Inwood-based non-profit organization founded in 2003 with the mission of transforming lives through jazz music performance and arts education, celebrates Women’s History Month throughout March 2023, featuring the extraordinary talents of two exceptional musicians. Nikara Warren, vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator, joins JPI’s acclaimed monthly concert series, Intergenerational Jazz Power Jam with performances from Ms. Warren’s debut album, “Scenes From Black Wall Street,” on March 19 at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights on March 23.  

Suggested Donation ——

March 19, 2023, at 2pm
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, 58 W 129th Street, New York, 10027

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Uptown Nights: Nikara presents Black Wall Street
Feb
11
7:30 PM19:30
Live Shows

Uptown Nights: Nikara presents Black Wall Street

NIKARA WARREN PRESENTS BLACK WALL STREET @ HARLEM STAGE

Live/Reserved Seating
Priority Seating: $35
General Seating: $25

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Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren is a true Brooklynite. Born and bred in the eclectic and electric enclave, her family, her friends, her band, and her musical pedigree are a microcosm of the county at large. Granddaughter of world-renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron, daughter of a half Trinidadian soca/dancehall lover father, and a classic 90s “Brooklyn ’Round the Way” girl mother, Warren is taking vibes to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her bold quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it. Music critic Kira Grunenberg states, “Nikara Presents Black Wall Street doesn’t project its versatility and creative range through scholarly jazz arrangements or covers chasing perfectionism. Instead, it offers original music converged around a stylistically fluid foundation.”

Warren’s debut album, Black Wall Street, represents a convergence of Nikara’s personal, cultural, familial, and musical journeys. Here, she explores abstract sound-collage, hip-hop, jazz, neo-soul, Afro-Latino and Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and more. The through-line here being for Nikara — it’s all dance music. Her vision is cohesive but eclectic — just like how people’s identities are a product of their varied heritage and associations. Join us at Harlem Stage for an evening of rare and exceptional talent.

This program is supported, in part, by, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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MLK Celebration with Nikara Warren Trio in Saratoga, NY @ Caffé Lena
Jan
15
6:00 PM18:00
Live Shows

MLK Celebration with Nikara Warren Trio in Saratoga, NY @ Caffé Lena

FREE EVENT —-> RSVP HERE!

Presented by MLK Saratoga as part of our 2023 Dr. King Celebration Weekend

Before the show at 6:30 join us for a special pre-show interview with Nikara. Learn about her life, music and latest album "Black Wall Street" which came out on November 12th. Interview included in ticket reservation.

“Songs are the soul of a movement.” Music and song give expression to pain and grief as well as joy, hope and the resilience of the human spirit. It has been three years since we have gathered in person for this annual tradition. We want to come together to grieve and heal, learn and grown, connect and celebrate. MLK Saratoga is honored to present Nikara Warren and Black Wall Street as part of our 2023 Dr. King Celebration Weekend.

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator Nikara Warren is reimagining vibes. She is taking her instrument to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her bold quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it.

Today, Nikara celebrates Black excellence in music with her triumphant debut album, Black Wall Street. The provocative and evocative title commemorates the horrific Tulsa massacre when white mobs in Tulsa, Oklahoma attacked Black residents and their destroyed homes and businesses. It’s a day that has cast a dark shadow on Black achievement, though Nikara prefers to honor her Black ancestries’ splendor with a joyous celebration of cultures, genres, identities, and resilience.

The 10-album explores topics of race, gender, body positivity, personal-revelation, and acceptance. These weighty subjects are contextualized within a feel-good sensibility. “There is so much pain associated with the Black experience and within Black music. It was important to me to offset this by expressing joy, and making the music fun,” Nikara notes.

Stream this show live at caffelena.tv!

Enjoy one week of access with your $5 live stream ticket.

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