Live Music at the Rubin Museum

The Rubin Museum's cherrywood-lined performance space allows for fully immersive acoustic concerts that provide audiences an opportunity to hear their favorite artists and music without the fetters of amplification.

 

 

Rosanne Cash will return to the Rubin Museum later this year for the thirteenth time in her individual series Acoustic Cash. To be placed on a mailing list, sign up here.

 

Singer/Songwriters

Naked Soul
Unplugged, but totally connected

Naked Soul presents performances from some of the country's top singer/songwriters without microphones or amplifiers, as if the music was, acoustically speaking, naked. The musicians in the series draw upon the universal themes inherent in Himalayan art—spirituality, peace, tolerance, wisdom, compassion—on select Friday evenings.

 

Jazz

Harlem in the Himalayas

A series of jazz performances, now in its fifth season, featuring works inspired by the art in the museum's galleries on select Friday evenings.

 

Classical

Resonating Light

A new Sunday night classical music series from the Rubin Museum of Art hosted by WQXR's Elliott Forrest.

 

Spiral Music

Spiral Music presents acoustic music every Wednesday evening at the base of the museum's spiral staircase. Artists who specialize in music from the Himalayas and South Asia are invited to forge a connection between their music and the art in the galleries.

 

All concert presentations at the Rubin Museum of Art are programmed to reflect the museum's exquisite collection and exhibitions and works of art that serve as inspiration are often projected behind the musicians during the performances.

"When musical artists discover themes that resonate with them in an artform they previously knew so little about—and find that their music can expand upon those ideas and act as a bridge between art and the audience—then I feel the museum is doing its job; providing a new way of seeing art and a new way of hearing music." —Tim McHenry, Producer, Rubin Museum of Art

 

Concerts at the Rubin Museum are made possible by a generous grant from the Carlo and Micól Schejola Foundation.

Yamaha is the official piano of the Rubin Museum of Art.

Naked Soul and Harlem in the Himalayas are made possible with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.