by PLGArts.org | May 13, 2019 | Music
Slightly out of step with time, haunted by the echoes of decades past, rolling in with the fog from the harbor, there is something quite Southern Brooklyn about Myrna. There is a carefree naiveté in their music, unconcerned with the anarchic present-day broadcasts...
by PLGArts.org | May 6, 2019 | Announcements, Events, Jazz, Music, Quartet, R&B
PLG Arts presents the third annual PLG Arts Music Festival 2019, a weeklong event June 15-22. The schedule features over 50 prominent and upcoming New York musicians in 12 locations throughout Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, a Brooklyn neighborhood that is home to many...
by Bob Treuber | Feb 18, 2019 | Music, Theater
Saturday, March 23 11:30 AM Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush Ave, Prospect Lefferts Gardens Co-hosted by PLG Arts Broadway alum, multi-instrumentalist, and indie accordionist-chanteuse Mary Spencer Knapp premieres the ensemble version of her original musical...
by Bob Treuber | Feb 16, 2019 | Jazz, Music
A singer with a unique and deft ability for vocal improvisation as well as a trumpet player with a warm, golden tone, Leala Cyr is a rare “double threat.” Cyr was a touring member of Grammy-winning Esperanza Spalding’s “Radio/Chamber Music...
by PLGArts.org | Jan 25, 2019 | Music
For the February 20, 2019 event in the PLG Arts Music Series, Rachel Therrien, locally based French-Canadian trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and member of the DIVA Jazz Orchestra, will present her Latin Jazz Quartet, performing her original compositions as well as...
by PLGArts.org | Nov 26, 2018 | Music
From Carnegie Hall to refugee camps in the Middle East, Brooklyn-based violinist and composer Megumi Saruhashi has delivered her music to people of all circumstances around the globe. Megumi’s wide range of influences includes Arabic music, jazz, classical,...
