Dive Right In!

FED's Global Jam Session continues with an immersive experience

Indofunk Satish kicked off FED’s Global Jam Session last May, and you can check it out here. Jake Owen followed suit in September, and you can check it out here. These wonderful offerings begin to hint at the range of the feast we’re serving up, but there’s no real way to explain the depth and scope of music and history radiating out of New York City’s Lower East Side and currently finding a vibrant nexus of celebration at, and through, the conduit of the nonprofit, MOMENT NYC. It’s just that big.

I’ve been lucky enough to be present for some of it, and even so, it’s hard to believe or understand fully. For me, this scene is as pleasurable and confounding as trying to understand and experience the whole of the planet at once. I can’t do it consciously. Instead, I can only begin to tap in and engage by surrendering to it and allowing the whole of it access to all my senses. It’s a body, mind, heart, and spirit experience and phenomenon that defies capture.

That said, we’re going to do our best to bring you into the scene so you can experience it for yourself. This week, FED invites you to dive in to your very own immersive experience via a montage of MOMENT NYC shows and events.

Project this link on as big a screen as you have, with your best speakers, and immerse yourself in culture and context, in great music, in history, in community, in a historical and ongoing global jam session that includes the likes of: the Honk Family Band, Frank London with the Now Solstice Collective, and Stefan Zeniuk’s Ghost Band; a Giant Step retrospective including archival audio, photos by Alice Arnold, live musicians and DJ Smash; House of Drums featuring Anthony Carrillo at Otura Rigbe and a celebration of Afro-descendant music and culture and African Diasporic music and culture; a rumba dance class and drum masterclass with Bárbaro & Yniscleyvis Ramos of the Muñequitos; a taste of the MOMENT after school program and the first MOMENT LES Music Fest; Craig Harris with Jazz Encounters mentoring students in the Bowery Messengers; Inside Mambo at the Palladium Ballroom; and so much more.

In the coming weeks, we’ll hone in on discreet bits and bites of this scene, but for now, drink in as much of the whole of it as we can offer you via this medium. Imagine yourself there. And, if you were lucky enough to be there, relish the memories.

FED’s Global Jam Session is curated by musician, producer, and founder-director of MOMENT NYC, Genji Siraisi. Genji also contributed original tracks and more to FED’s inaugural season, which you can check out here: 3 Organic Music Cuts Served with a Free-range Emotion Medley & a Word Salad, Infused with Young Feels and Matured Memories and Genji’s Shepherd’s Pie, a Family Recipe.

Big love, Ashley

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