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United Palace: KAT Modiano Group (Urban jazz / beat / electro-acoustics / screening)

KAT Modiano Group

Urban jazz / beat / electro-acoustics / screening

Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Doors: 6:30pm, Show: 7:00pm

 

TICKETS: https://unitedpalace.boletosexpress.com/kat-modiano-group/79574/

Date: Tuesday, January 14th | Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7–8:30pm | $20 general admission, $10 seniors & students, children FREE 

Led by NYC based award winning, multiple genres flutist/composer/educator Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano, this cutting-edge urban jazz & beat ensemble “KAT” Modiano appeared at Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola, nublu NYC, Iridium, BAMcafe (NYC)), Newark Museum, NJPAC (NJ), Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Cph Jazz House (Denmark), Jazz i Malmö (Sweden), Jazzahead! Bremen, Germany, and more. “KAT” Modiano’s latest album title NOMAD Imagination – Roots of Love is out on the Grammy nominated Aliud Records.

“KAT” Modiano Group
Line up:
Yael Acher “KAT” Modiano – Flute & EFX, Compositions, Video
Carlos Del Pino – Upright Electric Bass
Jhair Sala – Percussion

Dedicated to raising awareness for Peace, Social change and Nature, this Multimedia show merges jazz-funk-blues, indigenous beats, with electro-acoustics and video-collage screening. 

Links:

https://modianomusic.net/

 

Album streaming: https://open.spotify.com/album/0FCPntD5HrY7HqoE66lMvX?si=oXxOz3XATv2fW8YNAFSCuw

 

Live video clips from nublu NYC, August 2024:

Blue KAT Moves 

Ritual for Peaceful Spirits

United Palace – The Muse: Giving Back to Our Caregivers

Date: Thursday, May 29th | Time: 7:00pm–9:00pm | Free with Registration

Doors open at 6:30pm. The Muse begins at 7:00pm.

Join us for The Muse: Giving Back to Our Caregivers, a heartfelt gathering honoring the spirit of Mother’s Day and Father’s Day by celebrating those who have nurtured, guided, and cared for us—whether they are parents, chosen family, or community mentors. Through art, reflection, and shared stories, we will honor the many forms of caregiving that shape our lives and spirits. Come to connect, express gratitude, and be inspired by the power of love in action.

 

The Muse is a monthly program dedicated to celebrating inspiration, the arts, and community. It brings together open-minded artists and art lovers to explore the many ways inspiration, or The Muse, elevates our daily lives. Through shared human experiences, creative expression, and a deep love for the arts, we reflect on life’s biggest questions, uncovering new meaning in the world around us.

 

This event is free with registration, and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome as we give back to those who have given us so much.

 

Event Schedule:

  • Doors – 6:30PM
  • The Muse – 7:00PM
  • Refreshments – 8:30PM
  • Event Concludes – 9:00PM

United Palace – SAMARA JOY: A JOYFUL HOLIDAY

Samara Joy: “A Joyful Holiday” featuring the McLendon Family
Friday, December 13, 2024; 8:00pm
Presented by Absolutely Live Entertainment

Jazz’s newest star, GRAMMY® Award winner Samara Joy, travels further uptown to the United Palace, following her two sold-out Apollo Theater concerts last December, for the Holidays with her “A Joyful Holiday” tour.

Joined by members of her talented musical family who have shared the influences of gospel, Motown, and jazz across the generations, Samara delivers a sparkling evening brimming with the most time-honored songs of the season.

At only 24, her voice is wise beyond her years — a reincarnation of Sarah, Ella and Billie, with a special something all her own. She recently won three well-deserved GRAMMY® Awards: Best Jazz Vocal Album for Linger Awhile, Best New Artist of 2023, and Best Jazz Performance. The New York Times praises Samara for “helping jazz take a youthful turn,” while NPR calls her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.”

United Palace: Twelfth Night

Date: Wednesday, October 23 | Time: 7–8:30pm | FREE
Twelfth Night

David Belkovski and Rachell Ellen Wong, directors

Nola Richardson, soprano
Roderick Williams, baritone
Ximenez & Handel

Twelfth Night presents a night of unforgettable music in a spectacular venue. Divided by an ocean and living more than a century apart, Pedro Ximenez and George Frideric Handel represent the two vibrant cultures of Peru and Italy. In spite of any differences, they eagerly drew on the artistic traditions buzzing around them. Ximenez’ music deftly weaves folk song around classical structures while Handel derived his inspiration from ancient Roman stories. Join Twelfth Night at the United Palace for this special night!

Based in NYC, Twelfth Night is an ensemble of historical performance specialists led by David Belkovski and Rachell Ellen Wong, formed with the firm belief that art is best explored as a meeting place of the past, present, and future. Twelfth Night projects and engagements range from small chamber music (2-5 musicians) to larger orchestral and operatic productions. Inspired by Shakespeare’s play of the same name, the ensemble strives to invoke a spirit of boundless revelry, celebration, and community in their programming. The two co-founders are regarded as key young representatives of early music: Rachell is the only baroque artist to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant and David is the only recipient in the field of early music to receive the Levinson Arts Achievement Award.

 

This program is supported by the United Palace of Cultural Arts, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

United Palace: Little Women

Sunday, December 15 | Doors & Book Swap: 2:00pm | Pre-Show Caroling: 2:30pm | Screening: 3:00pm | $5 Tickets 

In 19th century Massachusetts, while the March sisters – Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth – enter the threshold of womanhood, they go through many ups and downs in life and endeavor to make important decisions that can affect their future.

We continue to honor our past as a vaudeville house with live entertainment before the main feature on the big screen. This holiday season screening of Little Women (2019) will include pre-show caroling on stage, led by the talented young performers of Statement Arts, and a medley of songs from the musical version of the story, performed by Ridgefield High School thespians who mounted the show earlier this year.

Also before the main feature, we will honor the literary roots of Little Women with a “book swap” in the Grand Foyer. In collaboration with Word Up Community Bookshop, we encourage you to contribute gently loved books and take home new reads. Please bring a book if you wish to participate.

 

DETAILS

Starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, and Eliza Scanlen. Directed by Greta Gerwig. Written by Greta Gerwig and Louisa May Alcott. The movie runtime is 2 hours and 15 minutes, Rated PG, and will be screened on DCP.

Little Women (2019) continues the Movies at the Palace Season of Friendship. We chose that theme after asking ourselves what we need most to get through 2024. Our supporters and fans helped us select the movies in the series, including Rebel Without a Cause, The Producers (1967), Duck Soup, Hidden Figures, Finding Nemo, Thelma & Louise, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Please note: The Season of Friendship is a different series than Movies at the Palace with Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is not scheduled to be at this screening.

 

UNITED PALACE HISTORY 

The ornate United Palace opened in 1930 as the Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, a deluxe movie theatre and vaudeville house, the last of the five Wonder Theatres in New York City and New Jersey. Its first act as a movie theatre ended in April 1969 with a screening of “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

With a groundswell of community support and our good friend, patron, and neighbor Lin-Manuel Miranda, movies returned to the United Palace in 2013. Since then we have screened over 100 feature films, from world premieres (“In the Heights” and “Halftime” as part of the Tribeca Festival) to all-time classics (“It’s A Wonderful Life”), to community favorites (the documentary “Mad Hot Ballroom” about local school children winning a citywide dance contest).

Our goal is to have the cinematic experience come alive for audiences too used to watching movies on their phones or TVs.

One of our highest compliments came from Robert DeNiro who, speaking before a 50th anniversary screening of “The Godfather,” described watching a movie at the United Palace as: “The moviegoing experience doesn’t get any better.”