Music: Past
Roulette’s Concert Series for New + Adventurous Music, launched in 1978, presents a wide range of experimental music including avant-jazz, new music, opera, world music, and electronic. This eclectic series features the work of well-known innovators in contemporary music, but a large percentage of the Series is devoted to emerging artists and composers.
Long Play Festival 2025: Mary Halvorson & Bill Frisell // Nico Muhly by Stef Van Vynckt // Ringdown // Moritz von Oswald // Dave King Trucking Company
Saturday, May 3, 2025. 1:30 pm
Roulette hosts performances during Long Play's 4th annual three-day music festival featuring 50+ concerts across Downtown Brooklyn.
Long Play Festival 2025: Henry Threadgill (World Premiere) / Peter Evans’s Being & Becoming
Friday, May 2, 2025. 8:00 pm
Roulette hosts performances during Long Play's 4th annual three-day music festival featuring 50+ concerts across Downtown Brooklyn.
Squanderers (Wendy Eisenberg, David Grubbs, Kramer) // Lea Bertucci, Henry Fraser, Cleek Schrey, and Ben Vida (DOUBLE BILL)
Wednesday, April 30, 2025. 8:00 pm
Two groups make their NYC debut: a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist trio, plus a new ensemble joining two duets.
Oghlan Bakhshi & Zyyada Jumayeva: Turkmen Music from the Steppes of Iran and Central Asia (RBA)
Friday, April 25, 2025. 8:00 pm
Two virtuoso dutar players come together to perform an entrancing night of Turkmen music that is rarely performed in the US.
Henry Fraser // Miriam Elhajli (DOUBLE BILL)
Thursday, April 24, 2025. 8:00 pm
Two solo acts, starting with folk singer, composer-improviser, and musicologist Miriam Elhajli, followed by double bassist Henry Fraser.
FREE PALESTINE: Quartets by John King
Wednesday, April 23, 2025. 8:00 pm
An ongoing series, each named after a Palestinian village that has been ethnically cleansed since the Nakba in 1948, played by FLUX Quartet.
FourOneOne at Roulette: Alexis Lombre & Georgia Anne Muldrow
Friday, April 18, 2025. 8:00 pm
Pianist/vocalist/composer concludes her FourOneOne residency with a soulful, spirit-led evening with soon-to-be-announced special guests.
Nicole Mitchell Quartet: JAD – Life to the Fullest
Thursday, April 17, 2025. 8:00 pm
Compositions exploring a personal and lyrical side of flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell’s music, in tribute to her Godmother, Jean Ann Durades.
Wayne Horvitz: Collective Music Ensemble / Electric Circus
Wednesday, April 16, 2025. 8:00 pm
Composer and pianist leads two of his large ensembles incorporating Butch Morris's structural improvisation technique known as "conduction®."
claire rousay + more eaze: no floor
Sunday, April 13, 2025. 8:00 pm
Two boundary-pushing artists perform their new collaborative album of pastoral and melancholy collage music.