Chris is a drummer, multi instrumentalist, songwriter, & producer based in Brooklyn NY. Born on July 15th, 1996, on Long Island, NY at 4:20 AM, Chris began playing drums at the age of 10 after his mom got him a drumset as a suprise. He began playing gigs around Long Island at 16 with local musicians. Chris attended Loyola University in New Orleans where he studied Jazz Performance and Composition for 2 years, until he dropped out to tour with his friend from home Mac Ayres. 

After living in LA for 2 years, Chris moved back to New York. He currently spends his time playing shows with his quartet, doing session work, and writing music at his studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NYC.

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Catbus Collective is a seven piece jazz ensemble known for its unique fusion of Ghibli, anime, and City Pop soundtracks blending with jazz music. Founded by Jasper Dutz, the ensemble showcases the talent of NYC AAPI musicians who share a collective interest in Japanese pop, folk, anime and video game music.

Be sure to join us for a pre-concert friending Happy Hour event hosted by Anime Social Nexus involving anime-themed icebreakers and tier list/ranker boards.

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The Brooklyn Drum Collective is hosting a special BDC OPEN JAM! 2 drink minimum. Doors at 7:30, 8-11pm. 21+. Bring your guitars and drum sticks! Backline is provided. Sign-up sheet at the event. House band starts off the night. Then the host, Carlo Minchillo, will call people up to play, in no specific order, max 5 minutes per song, with a focus on musical improvisation (this is not an open mic or karaoke).

Brooklyn-based, bedroom pop outfit Pon Far will be playing a set to celebrate the release of their upcoming album, Little Grains!

Yuika Abe (known professionally as Yuwy) is an acclaimed Japanese-American songwriter, singer, producer and keyboardist based in NY. Her music plays with a blend of many genres such as pop, jazz, funk, experimental electronics and indie, drawing influences from artists ranging from Fiona Apple to James Blake. 

Hailed as “the next Adrianne Lenker” by The Revue, Yael released her debut album Mellow Submarine to critical acclaim. Her music has been featured on KEXP, Spotify, and Apple Music editorial playlists, and she’s performed an Audiotree session. A regular in the NYC live music circuit.

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Join us for an evening of jazz, klezmer fusion, and a sneak peak of kaddish (how to be a sanctuary), a new play written by Sam Sherman, directed by Lila Weitzner and produced in collaboration with Thomas Walter Booker’s Purp Door Productionz. We’re selling tickets to help bring this play to its world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe festival this coming August. Your tickets will go towards production costs, festival registration fees, and compensating artists we’re working with!

Tickets start at 20 dollars. For those of you who want to reserve a table (and help us cover more costs) we’re also offering a limited number of 40 and 60 dollar tickets.

Michael Talento is a  Brooklyn based saxophonist and songwriter whose music is an ethereal blend of rich textures and melody. Originally from Philadelphia, Michael began his musical life in the rich Philly jazz scene. He received his masters degree from New England Conservatory and moved to New York, where he has been living and playing ever since. His latest album, “Sunrise” is a genre bending experience, drawing influences from a wide array of music from Miles Davis to Radiohead and Paramore, and aiming to push the boundaries of improvised music.

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We're excited to announce that we'll be celebrating the one-year anniversary of our opening on Sunday, June 1st! To mark this special milestone, we're hosting an all-day party showcasing many of the talented musicians who have graced our stages over the past year. We'll have a "battle of the bands" featuring a fantastic lineup of both familiar Umbra residents and some exciting new faces. Doors are at 2pm, with music from 3pm-9pm, and an open jam to follow!

Adding to the festivities, our friends at Suyo will be offering pisco tastings, and there will be $5 beers on tap all day courtesy of our pals at 18th Ward.

Tickets will be available on a sliding scale, pay-what-you-can basis, ranging from $5 to $20. Click here to grab yours today!

Meet Kobie Dozier. Hailing originally from Los Angeles, California, Kobie has been making his way in New York as a saxophonist, composer, and producer. Stemming from a background primarily in jazz, he has played at venues such as NUBLU and FirstLive, and he has sold out SOBS twice along with DJ Anastazja back in 2024. As a bandleader and composer, Kobie has recently released his debut EP, For The People and performed at the venue Public Records.

Following the release of his EP, Kobie is continuing to make waves as an artist. He has garnered over 200k views highlighting his band on platforms such as Instagram and Tiktok. Currently, he is preparing for his next big show, his first headline festival debut at H0l0 NYC’s Summer Music Festival, which will be in June 2025. With the goal to become one of the leaders of the west coast music scene, Kobie's trajectory is on the rise to become a musician presence with a message to self determination and unity.

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Friday night marks the return of local artist Brunson, as part of his monthly residency at Umbra.

Brunson (he/him/we) is a Brooklyn-based multitalented creative. Passionate about the connections made possible only through shared vulnerability, Brunson leads with his humanness. Brunson is a vocalist, pianist, poet, and writer. He has written, recorded, and toured his debut EP with his indie R&B duo, Bluesoul, and is currently working on his first solo project as well as his debut writing publication.

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Andrew Pereira is a saxophonist and composer currently residing in Brooklyn, NY. Andrew became steeped in the vibrant Philly music scene in his younger years, learning from the established musicians in town while developing his creative concept of the saxophone with the talent present on the scene. His skills at interpreting music of many eras led to big band engagements that featured artists such as Peter Erskine, while his versatile sound made him a valuable side-man on a wide range of recording projects. During this time, Andrew was also awarded 2nd place in the North American Saxophone Alliance 2016 jazz competition.  

Since his move to NYC in 2018, Andrew has doubled down on honing his skills in composition, and received a Master’s Degree in Jazz Studies from The City College of New York. He continues to expend more of his time and energy into bandleading, taking on the ambitious task of performing all-original sets of music, and continues to expand his catalog of compositions ripe for recording. Andrew’s debut album, Lost In Plain Sight, was released in December of 2023 under the Fresh Sound New Talent label.

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The Amick Ambach Experiment is the duo project of Felix Ambach and Noah Amick. Usually playing drums and bass together in other people’s projects, they use this duo as a chance to play improvised electronic music. Their sets are high energy and fully improvised, exploring sound design and groove. 

This open jam will feature Mylo McGowan.

It’s jam night, so bring your instrument and hop onstage!

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Cat Evers first started writing music as a young girl growing up in Malibu, California. Her unconventional youth culminated in a devoted relationship to music through lyrics and melodies. Piecing together bits of alt-R&B, Pop, and Rock, she forms a cross-genre experience driven by story, using her voice as an evocative vessel of reflection. Having studied Vocal Performance and Literary Studies at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, she has also played her original music at local New York venues such as Nublu and The Sultan Room.

Dreamphone is an indie dreamwave duo project by vocalist Hattie Simon & producer Seb Zel, swimming between worlds of lush orchestration, ethereal vocals, textured soundscapes, and poignant lyrics. Driven by radical shifts in texture and dynamics, their music reveals influences ranging from Sufjan Stevens, James Blake, and beyond.  

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Fresh off the New England Folk Festival circuit, Crystal (Crys for short) has been applauded for her rich vocals, astral subject matter, and deft banjo playing. Influenced by Patsy Cline, Curtis Mayfield, and The Chicks, she has shared bills with Allison Russell, Kaïa Kater, Yasmin Williams, Brennen Leigh, and the California Honey Drops. Check out two singles from
her forthcoming EP, Indigo Child.

Lila Bloom is a born and raised New Yorker. With a wide range of musical influences from Ella Fitzgerald to Bjork, and Radiohead to Jeff Buckley, Lila explores grief, awe, and surrender through her relationship to nature, her body, and conversations with a higher self. Lila Bloom plays the role of the bard sharing a range of songs from tender lullabies to rage filled war cries dedicated to the wary hearts of those who dare to interrupt generational cycles, refuse complacent living, and reclaim their lives.

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Every month, Natie hosts her Sunday Art Hang series, growing a space for creatives to practice being present through Creativity.

This is her 4 year anniversary of hosting Sunday Art Hang, 4 years of creative community, 4 years of improvisation. Ajani will kick off the evening at 8pm with a solo set, while William Gomez will take over the upstairs mezzanine to share portraits from around the world.

It’s jam night, so bring your instrument and hop onstage!

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One of Rolling Stone's "20 Best Jazz Albums of 2018", JP Schlegelmilch (organ/keyboards), Jonathan Goldberger (guitar) and Jim Black (drums) present a 21st-century take on the organ trio in their debut album coming out on Skirl Records in September 2018.

“Visitors” charts a course between blurry shoegaze textures, frenetic avant-garde jazz, and drone-heavy psychedelic rock.

Trombonist and singer/songwriter Natalie Cressman and composer, guitarist, and singer Ian Faquini have created a uniquely intimate duo collaboration, drawing from impressionism, jazz, and the great Brazilian songwriting tradition. Their original material features songs in three different languages and encompasses a vast spectrum of musical ground. With the warm instrumentation of acoustic guitar and trombone and two-part vocal harmonies hugging the Brazilian-accented Portuguese, Cressman & Faquini weave their musical voices together to create a fully orchestrated sound befitting a much larger ensemble.

Perkhuli is a genre-defying project by Khondzi, blending traditional Georgian folk dance rhythms with jazz. Named after an ancient circle dance, Perkhuli reimagines the communal spirit and hypnotic energy of Georgian heritage through original compositions.

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The Amick Ambach Experiment is the duo project of Felix Ambach and Noah Amick. Usually playing drums and bass together in other people’s projects, they use this duo as a chance to play improvised electronic music. Their sets are high energy and fully improvised, exploring sound design and groove. 

It’s jam night, so bring your instrument and hop onstage!

Formed by Andrew Spaulding (Pill) and Oscar Allen Guinn (Rhinestone), Quartz Casino Band thrives in the Brooklyn soil: watered by whiskey, fertilized by lead paint flakes, and the J train’s lullaby.  Where the train goes the track goes first; respect to those who sang before is the key to country. QCB touches on the music of Steve Earle, Eagles, Lee Hazlewood, and, of course, George Jones.  The diversity of songwriting is apparent, no one song sounds the same as the last, but they’re all complimentary like a good plate of country cooking should be.  Share a beer and a tear, have a party if it’s hearty, Quartz Casino Band will be there for both.  

We’ll have a set of electrifying jazz from our friend Cole Stone-Frisina and his band as part of their monthly residency at Umbra. Cole is a genre-bending and virtuosic saxophone player based in Brooklyn, New York. He originally hails from Atlanta, Georgia. 

Montana raised, Brooklyn based producer and instrumentalist DILLRD creates music that intersects electronic soundscapes and jazz influenced improvisation, while drawing inspiration from the natural world. He seeks to expand upon electronica culture in a way that is compelling to listeners of improvised music, while not losing sight of the spirit and energy of electronic music.

Olli Hirvonen’s guitar sound has its roots in his origins in Finland, where he was able to soak up the Nordic flavors of jazz, progressive rock, and metal. After finishing his studies at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Hirvonen moved to New York City in 2011 to study at the Manhattan School of Music, where received his master’s degree. He since has made New York his home and has found opportunities as a freelance musician, but most notably as a member of Brian Krock’s bands, Big Heart Machine and Liddle.

TIGER is an instrumental rock band based in Brooklyn featuring Dan Montgomery on bass, Olin Clark on guitar and Evan Hyde on drums. Their original music combines elements of metal, prog rock and jazz, blending heavy riffs with catchy melodies and high-energy improvisation.

Eve Essex and Kevin Kenkel perform at Umbra as a double bill including two solo sets plus collaborative tracks. The music is primarily instrumental and vocal pieces with experimental electronics, synthesizers and woodwinds.

Eve Essex is a composer and multi-instrumentalist based in Brooklyn, NY. She performs with woodwinds and voice, accompanied by instrumental ensembles, and by electronic arrangements that use synthesizers, drum machines, live processing, and other sounds. Her work slides easily from structured electronic pop to open-ended melodic explorations and big-band arrangements.

Kevin Kenkel is a Brooklyn-based composer and performer whose most recent album “Break All The Bones in Your Heart” was released by Soap Library in June 2024. His music comprises elegiac compositions for analog synthesizers and sampler, filled with pathos, heady atmospheres of longing and loneliness, unanswered calls, and missed connections. The exploration and exploitation of developing technologies — especially chatbots and other AI-powered systems for communication — are of paramount interest in his work and performance.

6:00 PM - Doors

8:00 PM - Kevin Kenkel

9:00 PM - Eve Essex

10:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Kevin Kenkel (DJ Set)

Brunson (he/him/we) is a Brooklyn-based multitalented creative. Passionate about the connections made possible only through shared vulnerability, Brunson leads with his humanness. Brunson is a vocalist, pianist, poet, and writer. He has written, recorded, and toured his debut EP with his indie R&B duo, Bluesoul, and is currently working on his first solo project as well as his debut writing publication.

Friday night Catbus Collective will be playing two sets! Catbus Collective is a seven piece jazz ensemble known for its unique fusion of Ghibli, anime, and City Pop soundtracks blending with jazz music. Founded by Jasper Dutz, the ensemble showcases the talent of NYC AAPI musicians who share a collective interest in Japanese pop, folk, anime and video game music.

And be sure to join us for a pre-concert friending Happy Hour event hosted by Anime Social Nexus involving anime-themed icebreakers and tier list/ranker boards. 

For 420, we're having a special daytime-into-evening music festival celebrating the holiday and the music of The Grateful Dead!

There will be 420-friendly vendors and artwork for sale, including Rare Dead Posters and more.

The afternoon will kick off with a collective drum circle, followed by an opening set from All Things Garcia.

Into the evening, there will be two high-octane sets of music from local favorites Shakedown Citi.

Heady vendors will include:

Katy Lynn (@crossstitchandpainless) – Knit hats and wristbands

Smoking Crater (@the_smoking_crater) – Glass and pipes

Devandresearch (@devandrsrch) – Shirts

Lilly from Philly (@diamond.lil.designs) – Design and paintings

Kyle Cochran (@kylecochran) – Shirts and sweatshirts

Dave Gem (@gratefulartists) – Grateful Dead-inspired jewelry

Terpin Terrapin (@the_terpin_terrapin) - 420 items

Community Drum Circle

3:00 PM

All Things Garcia

4:20 PM

Shakedown Citi

6:00 PM

Music Ends (Bar Still Open)

9:00 PM

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Nev Sings is a local singer songwriter performing soul & jazz, both solo and with a larger ensemble.

Join us on Friday, April 18th, to celebrate the publication of my Naomi Falk’s new book entitled THE SURRENDER OF MAN, published by Inside the Castle. ꥟ With a reading by Sydnie Hyams, a conversation with Claire Donato, and music of wonder and darkness by Moment of Terror and Tek Nena. Hosted by the Queen of the Moon, Mina Hamedi. The festival of Ishtar is upon us! Come enjoy broody mezcal cocktails or a refreshing NA bev of your choice.