Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
13th Oct - Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, SI
7:30pm
Details here
Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
14th Oct - Le Petit Faucheux, Tours, FR
8:00pm
Details here
Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
16th Oct - Fonomo Festival, Bydgoszcz, PL
7:00pm
Details here
Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
9th Oct - Bimhuis & Space is the Place, Amsterdam, NL
7:30pm
Details here
Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
8th Oct - Bozar, Brussels, BE
7:30pm
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Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
7th Oct - Atlantique Jazz Festival, Brest, FR
7:30pm
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Elder Ones (Kidambi, Nelson, Colon, Dunston, Nazary)
6th Oct - Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR
8:45pm
Details here
Amirtha Kidambi & Angel Deradoorian
4th Oct - Fundacja Palma, Gdańsk, PL
12:00 pm
Details here
Amirtha Kidambi & Angel Deradoorian
2nd Oct - UH Fest, Budapest, HU
Exact time TBD
Details here
Amirtha Kidambi & Angel Deradoorian, Laryssa Kim
30th Sept - ALICE, Copenhagen, DK
Exact time TBD
Details here
Tues 7/14, 7:30pm @ 360 Record Shop, Red Hook - $15-$20 suggested
Tuesday 7/14: Good Folks: Karen NG/Kenneth Jimenez/Kevin Murray/Samantha Kochis/Amirtha Kidambi, Max Hoffman, rocío sánchez/friends
Sunday June 28 @ 3pm
With Amirtha Kidambi on vocals and electronics and Matt Evans on drums and electronics, Neti-Neti channels the weight of modern atrocities through music that weaves syncopated grooves, cathartic outbursts, and meditative drones, blending South Asian vocal traditions with textured, treated percussion to create a devotional, ritualistic sonic space.
This performance and interview are presented in the ESS garden, and will premiere online on ESS’s YouTube.
This event is free and open to the public. Walk-ins welcome; reservations recommended.
The OPTION series is curated by Andrew Clinkman, Lily Finnegan, and Dorothy Carlos.
Friday 6/26 8:30pm
Duo with Allen Moore + Levi Dayan/Sarah Lutkenhaus at Marmalade Preserve
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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).
May 14th at Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville
Victoriaville Quebec Canada
Elder Ones (Alfredo Colon, Matt Nelson, Lester St. Louis, Jason Nazary)
Monday, May 4 | exact time TBD
Benefit for ICE Detainees @ Sisters, Bklyn: Elder Ones, TBD, DoYeon Kim, DJ Mariana Capriles (MPEACH)
Saturday, April 25 | Doors 7pm | Show 7:30pm
Collaboration with Music Research Strategies (Marshall Trammel) for Waterworks Festival of Experimental Sound
Presented by Non-Event Series, Boston
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.
Monday, March 30th at UC Irvine
Workshops and Class Visits
Exact time and more details TBD
Friday, March 27th at USC
Composer’s Forum Workshop
More details 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.
Live at the Crown: Amirtha Kidambi, Zekarias Thompson, Cheflee & Friends
The Crown: Royal Coffee Lab & Tasting Room, Oakland, CA
Saturday, Mar 21 from 8 pm to 11:59 pm
Presented by Eternal Now and Working Name Studios
Collaborative sound traveling with Zekarias Thompson, Phillip Laurent, and Lonald J. Bandz
Saturday, March 21st, Eternal Now and Working Name Studios present Amirtha Kidambi live in the Green Room at The Crown, joining Zekarias Thompson, Cheflee, Kevin Corcoran and Lonald J. Bandz.
A musician and composer, activist and educator, Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of "subversive, anti-hegemonic music," combining elements of free jazz, Indian devotional music, and other experimental forms. Running through her interwoven is practices is a strong spirit of collaboration across traditions and boundaries.
For this one, the multi-instrumentalist joins a trio of sets: a set each from Amirtha and from the trio of Thompson, Cheflee and Corcoran, plus a collaborative improvisation featuring all four.
Soundtracking the night — for dancing, communing, vibing — is DJ and producer Lonald J. Bandz, spinning all vinyl.
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
