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NIKARA presents Black Wall Street LIVE @ Bar LunAtico (Brooklyn)

  • Bar LunAtico 486 Halsey Street Brooklyn, NY, 11233 United States (map)

***TWO SETS: 9PM & 10:15PM***
***$10 (CASH) SUGGESTED DONATION***
***LUNATICO HAS A FULL DINNER AND COCKTAIL MENU SO COME EARLY TO EAT!***

LunÀtico is excited to present Nikara Warren’s Black Wall Street! BUY TICKETS HERE!

NIKARA PRESENTS BLACK WALL STREET explores the rich tapestry of Black American Music including Brooklyn’s Caribbean heritage, blending feel-good melodies, improvisation, rap, and electronic elements to create a sound that is both reflective and revolutionary.

Vibraphonist, composer, arranger, and educator NIKARA WARREN is a Brooklynite, born and raised. Granddaughter of world-renowned jazz pianist Kenny Barron, daughter of a half Trinidadian soca/dancehall lover father and a classic 90s “Brooklyn ’Round the Way” girl mother, Warren is taking vibes to the people with her infectious compositional sense, her post-modern patchwork of influences and cultural signposts, and her fearless musicality. Her quest comes from being well-versed in the vibraphone lineage, but seeking to adventure beyond it. Music critic Kira Grunenberg writes that NIKARA presents Black Wall Street “doesn’t project its versatility and creative range through scholarly jazz arrangements or covers chasing perfectionism. Instead, it offers original music converged around a stylistically fluid foundation.”

The Black Wall Street album, which was made with support from a prestigious grant by the NYFA Women’s Fund for Music, is a deeply personal homage to Warren’s hometown of Brooklyn. “This album emerges from the complex realities of Brooklyn, says Warren, “a place where dreams are pursued relentlessly against a backdrop of gentrification: affluence mixed with social struggle. Through my compositions and arrangements, I explore the rich tapestry of Black American Music including Brooklyn’s rich Caribbean heritage, blending feel-good melodies, improvisation, rap, and electronic elements to create a sound that is both reflective and revolutionary.”

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