Raven Chacon + thingNY @Fridman Gallery, NYC
Date: April 13, 2026
Time: 7:00 pm
thingNY will be in DC in Sat 4/11 and NYC on Mon 4/13 playing the music of Diné composer Raven Chacon. Members of thingNY, joined by Olivia Shortt (Anishinaabe, Nipissing First Nation, Ireland) perform vocal, instrumental, and electronic works by Raven Chacon (Diné) including the thingNY co-commission Wave Upon Wave (2023) and For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020). This evening will also feature a solo set by Raven.
MON APR 13 @ 7pm
TICKETS
$22.47
New Ear
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery
NYC
7:00 pm
Raven Chacon
For Zitkála-Šá (2017-2020)
Wave Upon Wave (2023)
solo electronics set
Players:
Gelsey Bell
Isabel Castellvi
Raven Chacon
Paul Pinto
Erin Rogers
Dave Ruder
Olivia Shortt
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music and a MacArthur Fellowship, Diné composer and sound artist Raven Chacon is known for poetic works that summon a sense of landscape, space and spirit. Experience an evocative, unique sound world when Chacon and colleagues from thingNY perform an evening of his recent chamber and conceptual compositions, and the world premiere of his 2025 commission from the Library’s Strickland Fund.