MUSIC / PERFORMANCE

A Matta Prayer

FRIDAY & SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27 & 28, 2023
7:00 PM

The Great Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan

Free
FRIDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION
SATURDAY TICKETS + INFORMATION

Amidst an installation by Jacolby Satterwhite (who’s pretty great himself) multidisciplinary musical performances will occur. Friday is Hairbone, which you could call Art Cabaret except you’d be wrong (and also they’re a lot louder than that would suggest). Saturday, you could call the duo of Patrick Belaga and Jazmin Romero Central European Freak Folk (with visual elements) except you’d also be wrong (and that’s only like a tenth of what they do anyway). You can call Ahya Simone a multimedia bard of Black Detroit, and there you’d be right. What I want to know is, how come the Met Museum can honor diversity while still programing high-quality performances that are true to its mission while Lincoln Center — which unlike the Met Museum is an actual performing arts center — has apparently decided that the way to address such concerns is to pretend it’s a BID street fair?

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Truly good bistro at Quatorze.