Laurie & Friends

Part of the 2009 Spring Season

Wed, Jan 21 at 8pm

A concert to launch the BAM Next Stage Campaign
Curated by Laurie Anderson

Featuring:
Laurie Anderson
Brightblack Morning Light
Dirty Projectors
James Hall Worship & Praise
Nona Hendryx
Arturo O'Farrill
Poor Baby Bree
A new work by Sarah Michelson

This January, Laurie Anderson helps kick off the BAM Next Stage Campaign with an evening of music and performance celebrating the adventurous creativity that defines BAM. The incomparable Anderson, known for her own groundbreaking work, brings together a group of diverse artists who all share a drive to create new and original art.

Among those joining Anderson is the "fearless, witty and completely individual" (Time Out New York) choreographer Sarah Michelson, last at BAM with her sold-out work DOGS (2006); experimental indie rockers Dirty Projectors; Poor Baby Bree—aka Bree Benton—a fast-rising star in New York's cabaret scene, bringing her vaudevillian persona and an arsenal of parlor tricks to the stage; dreamrock band Brightblack Morning Light, illuminating the evening with their distinctive brand of Southern psychedelia; funk to punk musical chameleon Nona Hendryx belting out a siren's song; Afro-Cuban jazz master Arturo O'Farrill imparting his signature Latin sounds; and James Hall Worship & Praise filling the house with their roof-raising gospel hits.


BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
Tickets: $25, 35, 50


Lighting design by Matt Frey
Sound design by David Meschter

New York Magazine
New York Magazine deems Laurie & Friends highbrow and brilliant! More

The New York Times Dance Review
Read a review of Sarah Michelson's "Daylight". More

Pitchfork album Review
Pitchfork reviews BBML's latest album. More

SPIN Magazine Review
SPIN sounds off on Dirty Projectors. More