Notes in the Brooklyn Night: Music for a Cause

Top Donation $1,000.00

Average Donation $275.33

Join us for an exciting fundraiser supporting Brooklyn Porch Music!

Notes in the Brooklyn Night: Music for a Cause is an exclusive evening of music, poetry, food and drinks, PLUS a silent auction of curated gifts. Step into the Brooklyn night for an evening that is low-key luxe and just the right kind of secret, as we celebrate the expressive outlet that Brooklyn Porch Music brings to youth in the heart of Brooklyn and raise essential funds to keep the beat going into the future.

WHEN: Thursday, July 3, 2025, from 6:30 – 9:00 PM

HOW MUCH: Tickets start at $100, with options to donate more. Just click the blue DONATE button above!

WHERE: Brooklyn Music Kitchen, 177 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11205

WHO: Musical performers include Roy Nathanson, Aidan Scrimgeour, Isaiah Barr, Evan Lawrence, with special guests Nick Hakim and Bill Ware! We’ll also have poetry and music appearances from Porch students.

Nick Hakim and Roy Nathanson’s collaboration…

An early pandemic collaboration, executive-produced by Isaiah Barr of Onyx Collective and The Jazz Passengers, the album SMALL THINGS sees two artists who are staples in the Onyx Collective universe join forces. The creative process behind the record was an organic one: Hakim read some of Nathanson’s poetry which in turn inspired several chords that became the foundation of Small Things. Nathanson puts it best: “it seems we were lucky. Looks like we got ourselves on the moon the old fashioned way […] long story shortish, Nick finally came by my house in Flatbush and we went down to my fusty old basement and I handed him some poems from my new book. And just like that, Nick just stood behind my old fender Rhodes played the chords for ‘Moonman’ and ‘New Guy to Look At’ and I played along and that was that. Of course we spent the next almost year working out the arrangements re-recording and doing the work that you do but that’s was really that.” 

Bill Ware and John Murchison’s collaboration…

Also an early pandemic collaboration, Bill Ware created his original live score for the 1926 silent film, The Adventures of Prince Achmed, around the haunting pulse of the guimbri, a traditional musical instrument, also known as the sinter which is a three-stringed, skin-covered, bass-plucked lute played by the Gnawa people of Northern Africa, and expertly played by the much sought after master musician John Murchison.  Bill also created an original score for The Spanish Dancer, inspired by John’s masterful playing of the Oud, with a strong rhythmic drive and a propulsive underlying beat. Stick around after the benefit to hear Bill and John explore themes from their musical collaborations in this unique duo performance.

WHAT IF I CAN’T MAKE IT? You can still support this event by donating a custom amount using the donate button above!

DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE AUCTION? Please email dana@jpmpinc.org to help make our auction amazing with your luxury item, service, tickets to events or sports, artwork or other appealing auction donation.

The event is presented by Jazz Passengers Music Projects, Inc., a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization dedicated to community building through the transformative power of music, word, and image.

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