When was the last time you really listened?
Live music, real community, and an Upper West Side neighborhood that shows up for its artists.
The Four Hands Collective helps performing artists thrive in New York City.
Paying them fairly, promoting their work, and building the neighborhood community that sustains them. Because a city is only as alive as its artists, and artists can only keep giving when their community shows up.
Friday September 18th
7-10pm (doors 6:15)
The Triad Theater
A Night at the Triad brings together the most talented musicians from the Upper West Side and beyond for an evening of world-class performances, surprises, and genuine community.
Real listening isn’t passive — it’s work, presence, and a kind of love. On the gift artists give, the gift we give back, and why the room changes both.
How the Four Hands Collective found its home at the Triad — a hidden Upper West Side theater with world-class sound, and the night it all began.
Creativity is the medicine. After three years of watching a room full of strangers become a community, here’s what we’ve come to believe — about music, listening, and what we’ve traded away.
Support live music!
Music that lifts a room and sends everyone home a little lighter.
A vocalist known to our community as one third of the Sunhouse Singers — the trio whose joyful, natural harmonies stopped the room at the 4th Night at the Triad — Joie brings her voice to an intimate three-Saturday run of jazz and jam sessions at Corner Lounge Bistro in Harlem, part of a series curated by Samara Joy.
A trumpeter so present he can weave whatever a room gives him — even a table's Happy Birthday — into the music, and make it more beautiful.
Vocalist Gabriela Allemana leads Sunday jazz brunch at Corner Lounge Bistro in Harlem, part of a series curated by Samara Joy.
Joie Bianco leads her own quartet at Mezzrow this Sunday — two sets, followed by a polite vocal jam. You may know Joie from the Sunhouse Singers; a small thing worth mentioning, she'll also be with us for our 10th Night at the Triad this fall. This is a lovely chance to hear her up close beforehand.
Escape the robots for one blissful evening in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s.
The storied New York Songwriters Circle at The Bitter End features a round of songwriters including Jacob Khalil, alongside Jeff Jacobs, Cole Clyde, Stephen Di Joseph, and Hera.
Each month, Jazz WaHi's Vocal Series presents some of New York City's finest jazz singers in an intimate club setting — a featured vocal set from 7:30–8:30 PM, followed by a vocal jam until 10:00 PM. This month features Angelina Miers, with Greg Ruggiero (guitar) and Joey Ranieri (bass). (Singers must attend the featured set to be invited to sing at the jam.) Presented by Jazz WaHi, a nonprofit promoting jazz performance and music education in Washington Heights.
Paris Move called Kieran Brown "an artist at the threshold of something remarkable." A NYC-based vocalist, composer, and arranger who earned a Berklee scholarship at 16 and sang the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden that same year, she has performed at Dizzy's, Birdland, and The Django, and released her debut album Loving You on Cellar Live.
Stephanie Nakasian brings her quartet to Mezzrow this Tuesday for two early sets. Some of you will remember her from our 9th Night at the Triad — a real treat to hear her again in an intimate room.
Matt Fox Band — Max Hoffman (vocals, guitar) and Neal Perrine (guitar, vocals) — celebrates the release of its debut full-length album, Matt, with a night of reverie and pastoral whimsy at Church Street School in Tribeca.
What happens when the romantic nostalgia of Italy meets the warm saudade of Rio de Janeiro? An evening only Simona Daniele could give you.
Three years ago, this started as conversations on a sidewalk outside a coffee shop. On Friday, September 18th, we take the Triad stage for the tenth time. Ten sold-out nights. Sixty-five artists performed and fairly paid. A thousand neighbors in the seats. One neighborhood that decided to show up for the musicians in its midst — and kept showing up. This one is a celebration — of the community that built all of it. Expect the world-class music and serendipitous magic that define a Night at the Triad, plus reprised moments from across the run, returning faces, and a room full of the people who made these ten nights possible.
Warsaw-born, NYC-based trumpeter Daniel Sky — a Berklee Global Jazz Institute graduate whose debut album Introduction to The Sky is out now — brings a late-night trio to Funny Bar: Daniel Sky (trumpet), Floyd Ding (guitar), and Marshal Herridge (upright bass).
Trumpeter Daniel Sky opens the Inwood Jazz Festival weekend with a pre-festival jam session, bringing a full quartet to Liffy II Bar: Daniel Sky (trumpet), Anastassyia Petrova (piano), Stefano Battaglia (upright bass), and Michael Shekwoaga Ode (drums).
A vocalist known to our community as one third of the Sunhouse Singers — the trio whose joyful, natural harmonies stopped the room at the 4th Night at the Triad — Joie brings her voice to an intimate three-Saturday run of jazz and jam sessions at Corner Lounge Bistro in Harlem, part of a series curated by Samara Joy.
WHCO opens its 2026–27 season — a year exploring Resilience — with a program celebrating bold artistic voices who challenged the expectations of their time: Igor Stravinsky's witty Dumbarton Oaks, Andrea Casarrubios's deeply personal Herencia, and Louise Farrenc's Symphony No. 3. Approximately one hour, no intermission.
A trumpeter so present he can weave whatever a room gives him — even a table's Happy Birthday — into the music, and make it more beautiful.
Vocalist Gabriela Allemana leads Sunday jazz brunch at Corner Lounge Bistro in Harlem, part of a series curated by Samara Joy.
Born in a trunk to jazz-singing parents, he sets the standards to the rhythm of his own tapping feet — song and dance, the way it was meant to be.
Ava Preston — Jazz & Jam (curated by Samara Joy)
A trumpeter so present he can weave whatever a room gives him — even a table's Happy Birthday — into the music, and make it more beautiful.
Marina Alba — Rosevale Live Jazz
This September Ava leads Sunday jazz brunches at Corner Lounge Bistro in Harlem, part of a series curated by Samara Joy. The Four Hands Collective is a nonprofit supporting artists — the best way to support one is to get out and see live music, listen deeply, and bring friends.
Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a singular sonority — Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova on the fadolín, a new instrument that spans the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello. For this pair of afternoon and evening sets, the trio is joined by composer and clarinettist Kinan Azmeh.
Trio Fadolín is a new ensemble with a singular sonority — Sabina Torosjan on violin, Valeriya Sholokhova on cello, and Ljova on the fadolín, a new instrument that spans the range of the violin, viola, and most of the cello. For this pair of afternoon and evening sets, the trio is joined by composer and clarinettist Kinan Azmeh.
Trumpeter Daniel Sky returns to Ornithology Café with a trio built for a room that comes alive after dark: Daniel Sky (trumpet), Matt Sewell (guitar), and Hamish Smith (upright bass).
Kieran Brown — a NYC-based vocalist, composer, and arranger whom Paris Move called "an artist at the threshold of something remarkable" — brings her trio to Five Spot Jazz. She's a Berklee scholarship recipient with a debut album, Loving You, on Cellar Live, and a familiar presence at Dizzy's, Birdland, and The Django.
An internationally acclaimed jazz voice reimagines the Burt Bacharach songbook. With Matt Baker on piano.
Kieran Brown brings her full band to One Flight Up. A NYC-based vocalist, composer, and arranger — a Berklee scholarship recipient who sang the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden at 16 and released her debut album Loving You on Cellar Live — Kieran is an artist Paris Move called "at the threshold of something remarkable."
Kieran Brown plays Mezzrow, one of the city's most intimate listening rooms — the perfect setting for a vocalist Paris Move called "an artist at the threshold of something remarkable." A Berklee scholarship recipient with a debut album, Loving You, on Cellar Live, she's performed at Dizzy's, Birdland, and The Django.
by Gus Saltonstall, West Side Rag