Carnegie Music Hall (Oakland) – The Andy Warhol Museum

Sound Series: Waxahatchee with special guest Tré Burt

Rick Armstrong — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 15:00:36 +0000

We welcome back singer-songwriter, Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield), from her solo performance at the museum in 2018, this time with a full band at the Carnegie Music Hall, on a tour supporting her latest album, Tigers Blood. Having released six critically acclaimed albums since 2012, Crutchfield’s aesthetic evolved into more reflective alt-country with 2020’s Saint Cloud, released on Merge Records, which appeared on several best of lists including Stereogum and Fader. In 2022, Waxahatchee provided the soundtrack to the animated television series El Deafo. Singer-songwriter, Tré Burt, opens the evening.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

John Waters Live

Charlene Bidula — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 14:00:53 +0000

We welcome back the incomparable writer and director, John Waters, to the Carnegie Music Hall with an all-new version of his solo stand-up performance, and his first in-person performance since the start of the pandemic. Waters’ joyously devious monologue celebrates the film career and obsessional tastes of the man William Burroughs once called “The Pope of Trash”. His latest book, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder, was published in 2019.

Please note: This performance contains adult subject matter and strong language.

Doors open at 7 p.m.
Please note: For your safety and the safety of those around you, all those attending this performance must show proof of a Covid-19 vaccination (final vaccine must be dated at least 14 days prior to the performance) or negative Covid-19 test taken within 48 hours of the performance at their time of entry with a valid ticket. Proof of vaccination can be shown via the physical card, a photo of your card, or digital vaccination passport apps. In addition, all those in attendance must wear a face mask that covers both the nose and mouth. Guests who do not follow posted safety guidelines or instructions from staff will be asked to leave the premises. Failure to comply with this policy or rude or aggressive behavior will not be tolerated. Please see our Visitor Conduct Policy for more information.
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An Evening with Reza Aslan

Charlene Bidula — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 17:41:47 +0000

Reza Aslan is an internationally renowned writer, commentator, professor, producer, and scholar of religions. In God: A Human History, he thoughtfully explores the history of religion as an attempt to understand the divine by giving God human traits and emotions. In layered prose and with accessible scholarship, Aslan cohesively roots out this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality.

Aslan’s books, including his #1 New York Times Bestseller Zealot, have been translated into dozens of languages. He is a recipient of the prestigious James Joyce Award, a tenured Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside and serves on the board of trustees for the Chicago Theological Seminary and The Yale Humanist Community. Born in Iran, he lives in Los Angeles with his wife, author and entrepreneur, Jessica Jackley, and their three sons.

Join us in the Music Hall Foyer after the lecture to get your book signed or personalized. White Whale Bookstore will have books for sale.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Andy Warhol: Revelation.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Sound Series: Belle & Sebastian with special guest Men I Trust

Charlene Bidula — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 15:00:45 +0000

We welcome back Belle & Sebastian to the opulent Carnegie Music Hall, six years after co-presenting their Pittsburgh debut in 2013. Since emerging out of Glasgow, Scotland in ’96, the band has been hugely influential in the broad realm of indie-pop, with multiple albums in the UK top 20. Their most recent output, a trio of EPs titled How To Solve Our Human Problems, Parts 1-3 was a return to an earlier format, allowing the music to emerge organically on EP sessions. New music in the form of a soundtrack to Simon Bird’s upcoming film, Days of The Bagnold Summer, due for release later this year. Still regarded as “One of the most thoughtful and compelling bands out there” (The Times), Belle & Sebastian are soon to head to The Mediterranean to launch their four-day festival at sea, The Boaty Weekender. The Montreal-based trio, Men I Trust, open the show.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Sound Series: A Night of Deep Listening, featuring Joe McPhee, Claire Chase, and Peter Evans

Charlene Bidula — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:00:14 +0000

Organized in collaboration with Carnegie International, 57th Edition, 2018, this evening program is a musical synthesis of the exhibition-within-the-International-exhibition Dusty Groove II: Space Is a Diamond. Working in collaboration, John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, and artist Josiah McElheny have presented a gallery of artifacts anchored by sculptural portraits of four maverick musicians of the twentieth century: John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, and Sun Ra, plus an homage to the “cosmic explorations” of the twenty-first century musical visionary, Joe McPhee. The performance brings together Joe McPhee himself, with Claire Chase, and Peter Evans, three giants of contemporary of music, in turn inspired by these four historical figures, and a revival of composer Lucia Dlugoszewski’s “Space is a Diamond”, performed for the first time in over 40 years.

Doors open at 7:30 p.m.

Rashaad Newsome: Shade Compositions

Charlene Bidula — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:00:59 +0000

Rashaad Newsome, renowned New York based artist, will make his Pittsburgh debut of Shade Compositions, an ongoing performance project that launched in 2005. Throughout the Fall of 2018, Newsome will be working in Pittsburgh, casting local performers, and staging rehearsals for Shade Compositions, the artist’s critically acclaimed performance. In this performance, Newsome is both conductor, composer and vocal choreographer, leading an ensemble of locally cast self-identifying black female and femme performers, whose individual voices and gestures are synthesized to form improvisatory orchestral music. Newsome explores the complexities of social power structures and questions of agency.

During the performance, Newsome collages video and audio using hacked video game controllers. For over a decade Newsome has engaged in casual, but extensive ethnographic and linguistic research into global iterations of “Black Vernacular”—a variety of English natively spoken by most working and middle-class African Americans, particularly in urban communities. Through his visually engaging and dynamic style of live performance and video, Newsome explores the complexities of social power structures and questions of agency.

This event is organized by Jessica Beck, the Milton Fine Curator of Art at The Andy Warhol Museum in conjunction with the exhibition Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby.

Rashaad Newsome was born in 1979 in New Orleans, and lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited and performed in galleries, museums, institutions, and festivals throughout the world including: Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Whitney Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Brooklyn Museum, MoMAPS1, SFMOMA, New Orleans Museum of Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, and MUSA, Vienna, Austria, and the recently inaugurated National Museum of African American History and Culture. Newsome’s work is in public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The SFMOMA, The Studio Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and The McNay Art Museum of San Antonio. In 2010 he participated in the Whitney Biennial, and in 2011 in Greater New York at MoMAPS1.

Castings will take place at The Warhol and PearlArts Studios on the following dates:

The Warhol:
Wednesday, November 14, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Thursday, November 15, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Friday, November 16, 12–7 p.m.

PearlArts Studios, 201 N. Braddock Avenue, Pittsburgh:
Saturday, November 17, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Sunday, November 18, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Monday, November 19, 12–4 p.m.

Sound Series: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir

Charlene Bidula — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:00:26 +0000

We’re thrilled to welcome back The Magnetic Fields to Pittsburgh, on their three-city limited 50 Song Memoir tour, which chronicles the 50 years of songwriter Stephin Merritt’s life with one song per year. The show is performed over two nights (songs 1–25 on night one, songs 26–50 on night two). The band is led by Stephin Merritt, who is widely considered one of the most talented songwriters of this generation. Beyond writing and recording numerous albums, Merritt has also written songs for the books of Lemony Snicket, composed music for stage adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline, and was the subject of the feature documentary Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and The Magnetic Fields.

Ticket options

Get tickets for both nights (June 19 and 20, 2018).

Get tickets to night one (June 19, 2018).

Get tickets to night two (June 20, 2018).

Sound Series: Beyond: Concert 1 featuring the Beyond Festival Orchestra

Charlene Bidula — Mon, 23 Oct 2017 18:31:00 +0000

The first concert of the Beyond Microtonal Musical Festival and Symposium features NYC chamber group LOADBANG, clarinettist David Krakauer, famed oud-player Rahim Alhaj with percussionist Issa Malluf, and the Beyond Festival Orchestra conducted by Gil Rose.

This season’s Festival and Symposium focuses on the theme of “Cultural Roots/Cultural Intersections” and explores compelling microtonal music that travels across cultural boundaries.Through three days of concerts and symposia, Beyond addresses the nature and current status of “microtonal music” and especially its relationship to World Music as well as the diversity within our own community.

Sound Series: Kid Koala: Nufonia Must Fall

desi — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:10:12 +0000

Part film, part puppetry, part live music, and 100% award-winning storytelling, Nufonia Must Fall is a multidisciplinary performance piece created by internationally renowned Canadian DJ and musician Kid Koala and directed by KK Barrett (Being John Malkovich and Her). Critics have tagged it as “modern primitive multimedia” because it mixes live puppet theater, video, a live string quartet, and a nest of electric instruments to tell the story of a tone-deaf and completely unemployable robot who falls in love with its human creator, a brilliant but unwitting scientist. Get ready for romancing the Anthropocene. Nufonia Must Fall is fun for the whole family.

This performance is co-commissioned by BAM, Luminato Festival, Adelaide Festival, Banff Centre, Internationales Sommerfestival Hamburg, Roundhouse UK, and Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival Groningen.

Sound Series: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

desi — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:09:51 +0000

The Warhol in association with Goldenvoice welcomes Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the opulent Carnegie Music Hall on a 19-date North American tour supporting their sixteenth studio album Skeleton Tree. It was released in September 2016 along with the companion film One More Time With Feeling directed by Andrew Dominik. The new album has topped the chart across the globe and its songs are featured heavily in this performance along with classics from the band’s more than 30-year catalog. The touring line-up includes Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, Thomas Wydler, Jim Sclavunos, Conway Savage, George Vjestica, and Larry Mullins.

Doors open at 6:30. This show does not include an opening artist.