651 Presents: Song Salon | AMYRA

Song Salon is a 651 ARTS series centered on live exchange between artist and audience, inviting you into the stories, influences, and lived experiences that shape the work.

In a world shaped by algorithms and performance for the screen, Song Salon offers something different: a shared, in-the-room experience.

Part performance. Part conversation. 100% connection.

Featuring: AMYRA
Friday, May 29, 2026
Doors: 7:30 PM | Performance: 8:00 PM

May 29

This evening of Song Salon features AMYRA, whose work moves fluidly across music, literature, and performance.

Through voice, storytelling, and improvisation, she shapes sound into memory, ritual, and release - creating a live experience where the composed and the spontaneous meet in real time. This performance invites audiences into an exploration of presence, testimony, and connection.

About AMYRA

Amyra León is a vocalist, composer, and multidisciplinary artist from Harlem whose work spans music, literature, and performance. Rooted in liberation, communal healing, and testimony, she treats the voice as both instrument and archive.

She has released two studio albums, Something Melancholy and WITNESS, with a forthcoming album set for release this year. León is also the critically acclaimed author of Concrete Kids (Penguin Random House) and Freedom, We Sing (Flying Eye Books).

Her work has been featured in a PBS American Masters documentary, earning an NAACP Award nomination. A MacDowell Fellow and Artist in Residence at The Vineyard Theatre, León has performed internationally and collaborated with artists including KAMAUU, Theo Croker, and Chief Adjuah.

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About 651 ARTS

Since its founding in 1988, 651 ARTS has become a trusted convener of contemporary African Diasporic artistic expression, a champion and nurturer for emerging artists and their work and a vital cultural resource for its surrounding community. As it moves forward, part of 651 ARTS’ mission is to preserve the legacy of Black culture in Brooklyn, celebrate the eclecticism of Black performance and to pioneer new visions of African Diaspora artists. This year is integral for the institution as it continues to lay the framework that will further help to reinforce 651 ARTS’ role as a leader of African Diasporic culture while also establishing it an incubator for artistic innovation in the 21st century.

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