Amirtha Kidambi+Angel Bat Dawid feat Eva Supreme & Discussion + Womens Jam

Amirtha Kidambi+Angel Bat Dawid feat Eva Supreme

Discussion + Womens Jam Session Sunday, March 30th @ The Blk Room

Join us for a special Sunday Morning Service at The Blk Room featuring the incredible Amirtha Kidambi, bandleader of The Elder Ones, all the way from New York, alongside Chicago's own Angel Bat Dawid. These two remarkable BIPOC women in music are coming together for a vibrant celebration of Women's HerStory Month that includes a captivating and engaging discussion on the role of women in music.

We’ll also be graced by the extraordinary Eva Supreme, plus an empowering women’s jam session that you don't want to miss. Women musicians come through with your instruments!!
Come for fellowship, delicious food, refreshing libations, and an uplifting celebration of women's contributions to music at The BLK Room. We can't wait to see you there!

Amirtha Kidambi

https://www.amirthakidambi.com/

@kidominator

“Amirtha Kidambi is heavily invested in decolonization and deconstruction of borders physical, mental and musical” (NPR, 2024). Spanning free jazz, punk, noise and South Asian devotional music, Kidambi crafts subversive sounds challenging hegemony. Based in Lenapehoking-NYC, Kidambi is an improviser, composer, organizer and scholar focused on critical intervention, responding to our fraught times, in collaboration with potent musicians including Luke Stewart, Angel & Demons with Darius Jones, Neti-Neti with Matt Evans, Mary Halvorson and William Parker. She is also the composer for the anticolonial films of Suneil Sanzgiri, exhibited at Brooklyn Museum and winner of Best Experimental Film at Blackstar Fest. Leading the protest ensemble Elder Ones which recently released its third album New Monuments on We Jazz, her work garners critical acclaim from the NPR, Wire, Fader, Pitchfork,The Quietus and Bandcamp Daily, and tours internationally at venues festivals including Rewire (NL), Unsound (PL), Big Ears (US), SESC (Brazil), CNA (Colombia) and others. Kidambi has received grants and residencies from Pioneer Works, Roulette, Mid-Atlantic Arts, NYFA, EMPAC, Bucareli 69 (CDMX), Asian Cultural Council and Jerome Foundation. She organizes with several artist-organizer collectives including South Asian Artists in Diaspora, Musicians Against Police Brutality and Musicians Amplifying Palestine organizing panels, events, outreach and actions in DIY spaces such as Silent Barn to institutions including MoMA PS1. As a scholar and educator she works on decolonizing curriculum, sonic arts and creative music practices at Brooklyn College, Bennington College and The New School.

Angel Bat Dawid

https://www.abatdawid.com

@angeltheoracle

Angel Bat Dawid is a Black American composer, improviser, clarinetist, pianist, vocalist, educator, and DJ known for her significant contributions to contemporary jazz. She released her debut album, The Oracle, in 2019 with Chicago's International Anthem Recording Co., which received critical acclaim for its exploration of Black life and culture.

In 2024, she composed "The Black Queen of Italy Strolls Through Her Garden," a solo clarinet piece premiered at the Villa Medici in Rome. Her other works include "Requiem for Jazz," performed at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival, and "Peace: A Suite for Skylanding," created for the Art Institute of Chicago as part of Yoko Ono's "Sky Landing" installation.

Dawid has performed at notable venues, including Carnegie Hall during the Afro-Futurism Festival. She leads the ensemble "Tha Brothahood," whose album LIVE (2020) was recognized as one of NPR Music’s “Best Albums of 2020,” and she is a member of the all-women group Sistazz of the Nitty Gritty

.In addition to her performance work, Dawid teaches “Great Black Music” at  Imagine Englewood If and Simpson Academy for Young Women through the Old Town School of Folk Music's Moves Program.

Dawid is also a clarinetist in Damon Locks’ Black Monument Ensemble and hosts a monthly show on NTS Radio. She has been featured in Pitchfork’s “Pitchfork 25 Next” and served as the Winter JazzFest’s ‘Artist-in-Residence’ in 2022. Currently, she is the 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Northwestern University’s Black Arts Consortium.Her performances include appearances at the Newport Jazz Festival, the Montreal Jazz Festival, and a myriad of international festivals and venues. In film she has composed music for  HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness.  Angel also serves as  2025 United States Artist Fellow in Music.

Eva Supreme

@evasupreme444

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