Episodes

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Raun Ruffin and the Sons of Funk in rare concert performance at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on June 17, 2024. Raun Ruffin - Vocals The Sons of Funk: Venlo Odum - Drums Thomas Hutchings - Sax Jonathan Arons - Trumbone Ruben Austin - Bass Chris Militari - Guitar Perrita Kitson - vocals Howie Robbins - Keys

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Xianix Barrera Flamenco in rare concert performance at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on June 24, 2024. Featuring: Xianx Barrera, Alfonso Cid and Jackson Scott

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Liz Hanley and the Murphy Beds in rare concert performance at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on July 1, 2024.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Sloka Iyengar in rare Bharatanatyam dance concert performance at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on July 8, 2024. To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring The Uptown Guitars in rare Bharatanatyam dance concert performance at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on July 15, 2024.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring the Double Entendre Music Ensemble perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on July 22, 2024. Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves Michael Kamen Bassoon quintet (arr. Michael Elderkin) The Adventures of Robin Hood Erich Korngold (arr. Gilbert Dejean) The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex Erich Korngold (arr. Gilbert Dejean) Cantina Band from Star Wars John Williams (arr. Gilbert Dejean) Musicians: Michelle Farah,...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Derik Grant presents The NY Tap Ensemble perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on July 29, 2024. You can watch the video version of the performance on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/wUITZvdVne4

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Hot Glue & The Gun perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on August 5, 2024. To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Tessa Brickman is one half of the bi-coastal duo Caballito Negro, along with multi-percussionist Terry Longshore, it is known for its creative and compelling performances, and draws their name (“dark little horse”) from Federico García Lorca’s poem, Canción de Jinete (1860). Their first recording, the EP Songlines (2016), was praised for its “absolutely gorgeous tone”, “understated virtuosity” (Joshua Cheek) and being “expertly produced and played” (NFA Quarterly), featuring the music of William...

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring EDGE perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on August 12, 2024.  To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Welcome to a special concert edition of Live N’ Local featuring Dominican Folkloric Squad perform at Film Works Alfresco at The Hudson in Inwood on August 19, 2024. To watch this concert, check out the video version on Inwood Art Works YouTube Channel.

Enjoy our The Magic of Mozart concert featuring Inwood Chamber Players in a performance of arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. This concert was performed on September 22, 2024 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium. Program: The Magic Flute Overture Arias: · Der vogelfanger bin ich ja (I am the bird catcher) · Hm! hm! hm! (Papageno's mouth is locked) · Du feines Taubchen nur herein (Sweet little dove, come in) · Wie stark ist nicht dein Zauberton (How powerful must be your magic ...

Inwood Art Works presents On Air Concert: Birds, Bees and Electric Fish Enjoy this flute and percussion concert "Birds, Bees and Electric Fish" featuring Caballito Negro + Friends. Caballito Negro: Tessa Brinckman, flutes, Terry Longshore, percussion with Lisa Cella, flute and Dustin Donahue, percussion. Carlo Lopez-Speciale provided Spanish translation. This concert was performed on October 27, 2024 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium. PROGRAM (PROGRAMA) Two Seaming | Jane Rigler Lisa Cella...

Inwood Art Works presents On Air Concert: Selections from The Nutcracker A holiday concert performed by the Inwood Chamber Players with arrangements by Inwood resident, Gilbert Dejean. This concert was recorded on December 8, 2024 at 2pm at Good Shepherd Auditorium – 620 Isham Street. Program: Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky Excerpts from The Nutcracker · Overture miniature · Waltz of the Flowers · March · Trepak Benjamin Britten – Harp Interlude from A Ceremony of Carols Peter Ilyitch Tcha...

This is our 2024 Live N’ Local Seasonal Sampler – Volume 2. It’s where we recap and take a look back at the second part of 2024, and chose to highlight a musical performance from each Live N’ Local podcat that has appeared throughout the first half of the fifth season of our On Air podcast. This Seasonal Sampler is less of a greatest hits, and more of a critic’s pick. A curated mixtape of clashing styles and diverse forms with one thing in common – they all hail from the musical melting pot of ...

The Boys of Kingsbridge from Grammar School to Ground Zero is a documentary film by Thom MacNamara that recounts the childhood friendship between five boys as they grew up in Kingsbridge and how they were drawn back together by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. Enjoy this exclusive live post-screening conversation from the 2024 Inwood Film Festival with Daniel McNally, Mike Hussey, Brendan Carroll and Thom MacNamara with host, Aaron Simms.

Mateo Vintimilla is an Ecuadorian born Classical Guitarist who has performed in venues across the globe giving recitals in Dominican Republic, Iceland, United States, and Ecuador. A recipient of the Augustine Foundation Scholarship, he has collaborated with the Brooklyn Composers Society, premiering new music at Brooklyn College and commissioned and premiered works from several Ecuadorian composers. Mateo obtained his bachelor’s degree in classical guitar performance at the Manhattan School of M...

Keena Gonzalez moved from Hollywood to NYC in 2000 to pursue her work as a photographer. In 2008 she earned her BFA from the School of Visual Arts where she was mentored by singer-songwriter Anohni and interned for world renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz. Since graduating Keena has worked closely with the artist collective Openings, has had her photographs exhibited, and in 2023 she directed and produced her short film entitled "This Is Jane. See Jane..." Follow her at: www.keenagonzalez.com

As both a composer and singer, Kristin Norderval is inspired by hybridity, interactivity and the idea that everything we do is site-specific. In her operas, chamber works, sound installations, and music for dance and theater, she blends acoustic and electronic sound, de-tuned instruments, voices, machines, and the acoustic resonance of space. Having trained in both composition and classical voice, Kristin first earned her living as a soprano soloist with a focus on contemporary music, particular...

Tom Nelson is a pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. He is a busy freelance musician, performing with some of the top jazz and classical musicians in New York City. He is also the house pianist at the University Club. Tom performs all styles of music ranging from classical to jazz to rock to Broadway, but is especially fond of the Great American Songbook repertoire featuring such composers as George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Richard Rogers. Born in Logan, Utah, Tom received a Bachelor’s ...

As an actor, Lauren Sowa has been featured on FBI (CBS), The Plot Against America (HBO), and the recent cult release Terrifier 3. Other film credits include The Rainbow Experiment (Paramount+), The Devil's Well (Amazon Prime), and Paris is in Harlem (Slamdance ’22). She is the co-founder of Form & Pressure Films, a production company dedicated to impact and inclusion. Its first film, Marisol, won the 2019 HuffPost Impact Award and was licensed by HBO. Other films she’s produced can be seen on D...

Carlos Lample is a Washington Heights native and first generation Dominican American. He attended Bronx Community College where he majored in Media Technology, then went on to Hunter College where he continued his film studies to embark on a career in media. He has worked for companies such as All Mobile Video, Broadway Video, HBO, My Three Sons Productions, Disney and MTV. In 2018 he created Lample Media, his own content company that produces podcasts, web series, and short form content. Carlos...

Barbara A. Jones serves on the board of The Harlem Swing Dance Society (THSDS), the premiere Harlem non-profit organization with the purpose of promoting, propagating, protecting and preserving the Lindy Hop dance and various forms of Swing Dance culture in its Harlem birthplace. She longs to see the Harlem area once again embrace their signature cultural dance and energize community youth to be the future innovators of this unique art form. Also to see the Living Legends of this dance be honore...

Matt O'Shea was born and raised in NYC and attended local schools. A high school media class sparked his interest in film production which led to enrollment at Boston’s Emerson College. Without a compass pointing into any specific medium, he wound up working almost exclusively on the production of television commercials with occasional assistance to friends who needed help making short and long format films. This career began in 1986 as a production assistant and has continued to this day where...