Out Music Festival: Day 3 Honoring Cecil Taylor at The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center

A Love Letter from the Past : RESIST
SAVE THE DATE!

Thursday, February 27 thru Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Arts for Art presents the Third Annual OUT FESTIVAL
History of FreeJazz in the Lower East Side!

DAY 3 Continued: HONORING CECIL TAYLOR
Location: 1st Floor Theatre of The Clemente
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, USA
Time: 7:00


6:30pm HS ICE Band led by Karen Borca

7:30pm Matthew Shipp Solo

8:15pm Fred Moten Poetry

8:45pm Andrew Cyrille Drum Solo

9:15pm William Parker Song for Cecil with John Blum, William Hooker, Aakash Mittal...

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A Love Letter from the Past : RESIST
SAVE THE DATE!

Thursday, February 27 thru Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Arts for Art presents the Third Annual OUT FESTIVAL
History of FreeJazz in the Lower East Side!

DAY 3 Continued: HONORING CECIL TAYLOR
Location: 1st Floor Theatre of The Clemente
107 Suffolk Street, New York, NY, USA
Time: 7:00


6:30pm HS ICE Band led by Karen Borca

7:30pm Matthew Shipp Solo

8:15pm Fred Moten Poetry

8:45pm Andrew Cyrille Drum Solo

9:15pm William Parker Song for Cecil with John Blum, William Hooker, Aakash Mittal




The OUT Fest tracks the history of FreeJazz development on the LES and surrounding areas. It was where the music and art developed in an intensely creative unbounded scene. We will celebrate and make space for this creativity to bring Light into these times with older and younger artists, as we build a future from the best of our past.

Arts for Art is PARTNERING to bring cutting edge Music and Art into the Future:
NuBlu Classic
Artists Space
Fridman Gallery


About Arts for Art
Founded in 1996, Arts for Art (AFA) is a New York City based nonprofit dedicated to the promotion and advancement of FreeJazz, which is recognized for its variety of highly developed and personalized improvisational languages. The music, dance, poetry and visual arts that AFA presents holds deep roots in Black and multicultural creativity. Moreover, it derives its energy from the tradition and power of free improvisation that was inspired by the Civil Rights struggle of the 1950’s and 60’s.

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