February Jazzlounge Supperclub with singer Pyeng Threadgill 2/1/23 6pm/8pm

2 Union Street,Sparkill NY 10976

01 February, 2023

Description

Roost Restaurant is happy to invite you to the February Jazz Lounge at Union Arts Center! Presented by Mz. Valentine, February's Jazz Lounge will showcase Pyeng Threadgill. Ms. Threadgill is an American vocalist, songwriter, writer, video artist as well as a voice and movement teacher. As a vocalist/performer she creates what she calls New Porch Music, a form based on the traditions of Black American Folk, Soul, Jazz and improvisational music. She uses these traditions to create connected conversations whereby audiences may reflect on their own life stories and identities for healing and empowerment. In her fourth solo album and multimedia project entitled "Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song", Ms. Threadgill shines a light on hair, adornment and ancestry and the political as well as spiritual implications of race, hair and identity. She sees this album in particular as a digital talisman for young Black women and girls to use as they move through the world. Prior to the release of “Head Full of Hair, Heart Full of Song”, Ms Threadgill began researching the dire circumstances of climate change, unearthing a new song cycle, “Songlines”. “Songlines: Singing The Land” explores the foundational contributions of African and Indigenous people to farm to table and sustainability movements. In 2008 Pyeng was awarded a fellowship in Music Composition from New York Foundation for The Arts for her third solo album “Portholes To A Love & Other Short Stories”. “Portholes To A Love” traverses concepts of reality and magic, humanity and nature as shared in the short stories of well renowned authors. Taking inspiration from writers such as Isabelle Allende, Jamaica Kincaid, Jumpa Lahiri and others, Pyeng absorbs their words to convey the love, pain and longing of being human. With her two first albums “Sweet Home: The Music of Robert Johnson” and “Of The Air” Threadgill began to tour both nationally and internationally headlining music venues and festivals around the globe. She has performed at Montreal Jazz Festival, Atlanta Jazz Festival, Yoshi’s San Francisco, Banlieues Bleues, Cognac Blues Festival, The Sunset Sunside Jazz Club, Blue Note Late Night Series, the Clifford Brown Jazz Festival, The Jazz Standard, The Iridium, Detroit Institute for The Arts, San Sebastian Jazz Festival, Earshot Jazz Festival, Scullers, The Half Note in Greece as well as iconoclast downtown New York venues such as Rockwood Music Hall, Nublu and others. In 2007 Pyeng was a featured artist in the music documentary “Retour A Goree” starring Senegalesse vocalist/composer Youssou N’Dour. She later appeared at Montreux Jazz Festival with this project. As a guest artist Pyeng has appeared with Marc Cary, Urban Bush Women, hattie gossett, Contra Tiempo and others. Currently Ms Threadgill is writing her first book, later to be released with a companion album, on the power of finding one’s voice. ******** We have two dinner seatings upstairs with the concert: Doors open at 5pm first come first served 6pm (arrive by 5:30) and 8pm (arrive by 7:30) Please arrive promptly. Seating is first come first served. Roost will be offering a delicious seasonal menu with the concert ($25 minimum per person at tables) We recommend purchasing tickets at least 48 hours in advance. Entrance to the concert is through the door on the LEFT NOTE: Concerts take place on the second floor. Roost and Union Arts Center are located in a one-hundred-year-old restored firehouse without an elevator. For more information, call 914-488-4698 Follow on IG: @mzvalentinepresents