Saturday, March 21st at Working Name Studios, Oakland
Workshop and Concert
Time TBD
Wednesday, March 25th at 2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
Black Editions Presents guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer Ava Mendoza with composer-improviser, vocalist, scholar Amirtha Kidambi and mixed media sound artist, saxophonist and composer Matana Roberts.
Friday, March 27th at USC
Composer’s Forum Workshop
More details TBD.
Monday, March 30th at UC Irvine
Workshops and Class Visits
Exact time and more details TBD
Monday, April 13th at Poetry Project, NYC
Time TBD
Neti-Neti with Matt Evans and sinonó (isa crespo Pardo, Lester St. Louis, Henry Fraser)
Exact time and ticketing details TBD.
May 14th at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
Victoriaville Quebec Canada
Elder Ones (Alfredo Colon, Matt Nelson, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary)
May 15th at CEM, Chicoutimi, Saguenay
Elder Ones (Alfredo Colon, Matt Nelson, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary)
Chanteuse, compositrice et activiste, Amirtha Kidambi explore les zones de friction entre improvisation libre, jazz d’avant-garde et musique carnatique (sud de l’Inde). Figure majeure de la scène expérimentale new-yorkaise, elle collabore avec Darius Jones, Mary Halvorson et William Parker, et se produit autant dans les circuits underground que sur les scènes institutionnelles, dont le prestigieux Carnegie Hall.
Son projet Elder Ones a été salué par Pitchfork, le New York Times, The Wire et DownBeat pour son audace et sa puissance. Le quatuor navigue entre influences traditionnelles, envolées jazz et éclats noise pour faire émerger une musique à la fois incantatoire et contestataire. Chaque concert d’Elder Ones est une expérience unique, chargée d’émotion et de tension mystique — et cette soirée au Studio Desjardins ne fera pas exception!
Elder Ones réunit Amirtha Kidambi (voix, synthétiseur, harmonium), Alfredo Colon (saxophone ténor), Matt Nelson (saxophone soprano, Moog), Jason Nazary (batterie, percussions électroniques) et Lester St-Louis (contrebasse, synthétiseur).
Thursday, March 12th at People’s Forum, NYC
Palestinian Youth Movement Benefit for Middle East Children’s Alliance
Solo with guest Alfredo Colon
Time TBD
Fundraiser: Supporting Families of Sunset Park
Monday March 9th, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Sisters, Brooklyn NY
Amirtha Kidambi + Special Guest + Ka Baird / Chris Williams / Cleo Reed / DJ Haram
Support your neighbors in the face of detention & fascism
Suggested $20 / Give Generously / NOTAFLOF
No law enforcement may enter this event without a judicial warrant.
Neti-Neti with Matt Evans, workshop and concert @ UMass Amherst
Exact time and other details TBD
Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones
Brooklyn MARATHON @ Union Pool
Saturday, January 10, 2026 @ 10:15 PM
Tuesday Dec 16th @ Pioneer Works
Doors: 7pm | Start: 7:30pm
The concert features a live-album-release performance by Working Artist Fellow '25 Amirtha Kidambi's band Elder Ones, along with sets from electronic musician and Resident '25 Omar Ahmad and the Latin free folk trio sinonó, led by Resident '25 isabel crespo pardo, with Resident '23 Lester St. Louis (HxH) and Resident '25 Henry Fraser.
Free for Pioneer Works members. More details and tickets here.
Science Studios @ Press Play, Pioneer Works
Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 | 12:45pm - 1:20pm
Amirtha Kidambi's Outernational examines music's revolutionary power through conversations with musicians addressing global crises, exploring how music shapes social consciousness and collective liberation. At Press Play, Kidambi speaks with Pioneer Works resident Samora Pinderhughes about his activist work with incarcerated communities.
An Evening with Suneil Sanzgiri
Mon, Dec 8 | 7:00 p.m.
MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Brooklyn-based filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri presents two films exploring transnational solidarities and anticolonial movements as part of Modern Mondays at MoMA. The screening will be followed by a conversation with Sanzgiri, moderated by Sophie Cavoulacos, associate curator in the Department of Film.
Two Refusals (Would We Recognize Ourselves Unbroken?). 2024. USA/India. Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri. Film score by Amirtha Kidambi. 34 min.
An Impossible Address. 2025. USA/India/Angola. Directed by Suneil Sanzgiri. Commissioned by Mercer Union, Toronto; and EMPAC—Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York. Film score by Amirtha Kidambi. 38 min. New York premiere
Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Amsterdam
Saturday 21:00 - 23:00
COSMOS Foyer / Pandora Studio - TivoliVredenburg
Outernational - workshop, improv and panel session with Saul Williams, Dirar Kalash and Masello Motana
Musician, activist, podcaster and LGW 2025 co-curator Amirtha Kidambi invites us into her vision of ‘Outernationalism’, a concept introduced by the late composer Ryuichi Sakamoto to describe his belief in a world without borders or national identities. At Le Guess Who?, Kidambi presents her own interpretation, Outernational, which focuses on how music can play a central role in building global cultural solidarity and community.In this dynamic 2 hours session, Amirtha will sit down with a number of surprise guests from her curation this year, picking their brains and facilitating a one-off jam session live at COSMOS Foyer.
Elder Ones performance at Le Guess Who? Utrecht, Netherlands
Friday 17:45 - 18:45
Ronda - TivoliVredenburg
Fasching, Stockholm, Sweden
Thursday 6 November 2025
On stage: 20:00
Doors open: 18:00
October 18, 2025: Ava Luna / Elder Ones / Benét
Ava Luna Album Release Live at National Sawdust @ 7:30pm
Doors @ 6:30 pm
Ava Luna’s celebrates the release of their sixth LP. The new self-titled album is a testament to almost twenty years of shared musical sensibility, now distilled into its barest elements. An extended lineup for the album release celebration at National Sawdust brings the recorded arrangements to life. Featuring support from Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones and Benét.
Neti-Neti release at Rhizome. Presented by Outside Time
Nik Francis, Layne Garrett, Sarah Hughes, Nate Scheible, and Max Hamel
October 6th, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Tickets here.
Presented by Arts for Art
Amirtha Kidambi + Cooper Moore @ InGardens
Children’s Magical Garden
3pm
More details and tickets here.
Asian American Arts Alliance @ The Clemente - Panel and Performance: Who Is This Music For? with Che Chen, Shahana Hanif, Amirtha Kidambi, Ravish Momin, Leo Chang
September 3rd, 2025 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm
The Clemente, New York NY
More details here.
COLPIT&CORPRÈS @ CAFÉ JAZZORCA
23 de Agosto - Con Amirtha Kidambi, Germán Bringas, Joan Torné Palau, Carles Medina a Jazzorca, Sabado, 21:00hrs,
$120MX
Eje 7 Sur (Municipio Libre) 37-A, Portales Oriente, 03300, CDMX
Viernes 22 de agosto, 20:00. Venas Rotas, CDMX.
Con: Corprès, Colpit, Rodrigo Ambriz, Amirtha Kidambi, Aleida Pérez y Alex Motta.
Entrada: MX$150.
Venas Rotas Discos.
Morelia #77, Roma Norte, CDMX.
Another World
Friday July 25, 2025 @ 7pm
Amirtha Kidambi - an evening of experimental jazz, rooted in the ethos of protest and anti-colonial struggle
Details here
June 29th, 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Creative Music Studio Workshop at Ibeam, Brooklyn
Amirtha Kidambi, Farida Amadou, & Luke Stewart
Tickets and more info here
June 24th, Doors at 7:00 PM | Show at 8:00 PM
Neti-Neti at Artifact Sound Series with Jordan Sand and Glasspack (Ian McColm + Henry Birdsey)
Ticket info here
Thursday June 12th, 2025. 6-8 PM
Creative Time Sonic Commons
With Amirtha Kidambi, Maia Chao, Erik DeLuca, Matt Evans
More info + RSVP here
Wednesday June 11th at 7pm
Pioneer Works x Ace Hotel Crit Night with Amirtha Kidambi, Azikiwe Mohammed and Morgan Bassichis
Free — RSVP here.
Friday June 6th, 2025 at 5pm
Vision Festival, Roulette NYC
Mini conference on building “the heart to resist”
Vision Festival
Tuesday 6/3 at Roulette Intermedium | 8pm | $100 / $40 / $60
Amirtha Kidambi's "Elder Ones", Miriam Parker, Gabby Fluke-Mogul's "The Thread", Ellen Christi's "Flux in Chaos", Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble, "Portraits of Sonic Freedom"
The Thing in the Spring Festival
Sunday 5/18 in Keene, NH | 12pm - 7:30pm | $40
Elder Ones, Califone, Joan Shelley, Aisha Burns, Sam Moss, Maryse Smith, Derek Sensale, Sunburned Hand of the Man
My Body My Festival
Friday 5/16 at 7pm (doors at 6pm) | $25 / $30 / $50
Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, Kalia Vandever, Cecily, Zoë Jorgenson
Sun 5/11 at Union Pool, NY | 7:00 PM EDT | $24.21
Elder Ones, History Dog, Qasim Naqvi
Physical ID required
