Colombian and Latin American Songs with Lucía Pulido
2025-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | The Sanctuary, 3361 6th Ave, Troy, 12180, United States
Join us for Lucía Pulido Quartet in concert, performing Colombian and Latin American songs, infusing Afro-Colombian, Mexican, Venezuelan folk sounds with experimental arrangements. Lucía Pulido is a torrent of sound and emotion that mesmerizes with its energy and captivates with its sensibility. Spanish flyer below.

*Tickets are priced at $30 for General Admission and $20 for Sustainer, Student, or Low-Income Admission. The Sanctuary recognizes that even with a sliding scale, cost can affect the accessibility of any event. We want to emphasize that no one will be turned away at the door for a lack of funds. Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Become a Sanctuary Sustainer and get access to our special event ahead of the concert! Details below

Hear some of Lucía Pulido’s music here

The Lucía Pulido ensemble pays homage to Colombian music through a highly experimental style. Traditional genres such as cumbia and bullerengue from the Atlantic Coast, currulaos from the Pacific Coast as well as joropos of the Colombian Eastern Plains are the point of departure for musical creativity. Lucía’s vocal sophistication is enhanced in genres such as herding songs (cantos de vaquería), funeral laments (alabaos) and harvest chants (cantos de zafra) which give the singer the liberty to explore her voice fully. The ensemble also performs songs written for Lucía by composers Iván Benavides and Sebastián Cruz.

The quartet, comprised of guitar, bass, drums, and voice, generates a unique sound, allowing each member to explore their instruments, and making each presentation an incomparable and entertaining experience. The program includes traditional Colombian and Latin American songs, and original compositions.

Line Up:Lucía Pulido, voice, percussionSebastian Cruz, guitarStomu Takeishi, BassMichael W. Davis, drums

Sustainer Event

We couldn’t do our work without the support of our sustainers! As a thank you for the regular support, we are inviting Sustainers for a special event from 6-7pm ahead of the concert with special mixed drinks, light bites, a special live DJ set, and an artist talk with Kathy High, Bio-Artist and co-Director of NATURE Lab, about Microplastics: A BioArt Exhibition. More information to come!

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Taína Asili’s Fever Pitch
2025-10-04 19:00 - 21:00
Join us for Taína Asili’s interdisciplinary production of Fever Pitch, uniting decades of her original work into a one-hour spectacle designed to ignite climate justice action on local, national, and global scales. This tapestry of sound, movement, and imagery is a celebration, a ritual, and a bold vision for a just and sustainable world.

*Tickets are priced at $20 for General Admission and $10 for Student or Low-Income Admission.The Sanctuary recognizes that even with a sliding scale, cost can affect the accessibility of any event. We want to emphasize that no one will be turned away at the door for a lack of funds. Please contact us at info@mediasanctuary.org with any questions or concerns.

The Rhythm of Rebellion: BTM! workshop, 10/3, 5pm

Fever Pitch is more than a performance—it is a celebration, a ritual, and a bold vision for a just and sustainable world. At its heart is Taína Asili, a dynamic singer, composer, interdisciplinary artist, and educator carrying on the tradition of her Puerto Rican ancestors, fusing past and present struggles into one soulful and defiant voice. She is celebrated by NPR, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Democracy Now! for her soulful, genre-blending music echoing calls for love and liberation. For the past 30 years she has offered energetic performances at diverse venues nationwide – from iconic stages such as Carnegie Hall, to renowned festivals like San Francisco Pride, to historic events like The Women’s March on Washington – inspiring audiences to dance to the rhythm of rebellion.

The liberation themes in Asili’s work are deeply rooted in her involvement in local and national activism, collaborating with numerous organizations throughout the years. As U.S. Coordinator for One Billion Rising and Board Chair of Soul Fire Farm, Taína’s artistic and activist work sits at the intersection of racial, gender, food, and climate justice. Her Resiliencia album embodies this mission, drawing from interviews with women of color across the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico—stories of resilience in the face of cancer, hurricanes, migration, and sexual violence. This project extended into an award-winning documentary series, offering a powerful musical and visual exploration of these lived experiences. Additionally, during her residency with the Social Justice Portal Project, Asili created The Justice Suite, a multimedia trilogy of music and video interventions addressing abolition, climate justice, and economic democracy.

Fever Pitch, Asili’s latest interdisciplinary production, unites decades of her original work into a one-hour spectacle designed to ignite climate justice action on local, national, and global scales. Collaborating with choreographer Gregory Theodore Marsh and dancer/vocalists Eliane Rowe and Hettie Barnhill, she has crafted a mesmerizing fusion of live music and movement. Media artist Joseph Amodei adds another layer of depth with stunning projections featuring footage from Asili’s award-winning documentaries and music videos. The result is a breathtaking tapestry of sound, movement, and imagery that demands our attention and stirs our collective imagination.

Ethereal Egyptian Rhythms with Abu Zeyn
2026-10-09 19:00 - 21:00
Bass, clarinet, and vocal loops weave rhythmic tapestries of original Sufi and Ancient Egyptian spiritual compositions. …more info coming soon

Abu Zeyn أبو زين creates rhythmic tapestries by weaving live bass, clarinet and vocal loops with soulful improvisation. He is a child of the Nile River and the Arabian Desert. The date palm shaded and nourished his youth. His tongue was tuned to cardamom and tangerines. The salt of the Red Sea cured his infant skin and the sands of Alexandria baked his tender feet. His ears were raised on the sounds of braying donkeys, the call to prayer and tuktuk soundsystems.
