Contemporary Asian / Asian American music calendar for February 2025
Date Artist(s)/Event Place Time Info./Tix
Feb 1 BettySoo (o/f James McMurtry) Jackson, MS - Duling hall 8pm (601) 292-7121
Feb 2 Vijay Iyer trio NY, NY - Village Vanguard 8pm & 10 (212) 255-4037
Feb 2 Hiroya Tsukamoto Easton, MD - Avalon theatre, Stoltz listening rm. 7pm (410) 822-7299
Feb 2 Psychic Fever Wash., DC - Howard theatre 7pm (202) 803-2899
Feb 3 Shubh Saran NY, NY - Racket NYC 8pm (332) 219-2151
Feb 6 Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East Raleigh, NC - NC State, Talley stud. u., Stewart theatre (rm. 3285 - talk) 7:30pm (6:30 - talk) (919) 5515-1100
Feb 7 Hiroya Tsukamoto Pt. Jefferson, NY - PJ village ctr. 7pm (631) 802-2160
Feb 7, 8, 9 The Big Swim opera (Meilina Tsui - composer) Houston, TX - Asia Society 7:30pm/Fri; 2/Sat, Sun (713) 496-9901
Feb 7 Vernaculars quartet plays works by Francis Wong SF, CA - Bird & Beckett 8:30pm (415) 586-3733
Feb 7 Joyce Kwon and Priska Tujunga, CA - McGroarty arts ctr. 7pm fb: tnproject
Feb 8 Hiroya Tsukamoto Teaneck, NJ - Puffin cult'l. forum 7pm (201) 836-3499
Feb 8 Kodo Mesa, AZ - Mesa arts ctr., Ikeda theater 8pm (480) 644-6500
Feb 8 Lunar New Year: SF Symphony, Wu Man (pipa), and Amos Yang (cello) play works by Shuying Li, An-Lun Huang, Tian Zhou, Zhao Jiping, and others SF, CA - Davies hall 5pm (415) 864-6000
Feb 10 Kodo Palm Desert, CA - McCallum theatre 7pm mccallumtheatre.org
Feb 11 JinJoo Yoo trio NY, NY - Another Country 7:30pm-9:30 anothercountry.nyc
Feb 11 Kodo Costa Mesa, CA - Segerstrom hall 8pm philharmonicsociety.org
Feb 13 JinJoo Yoo trio NY, NY - Hortus 7pm-10 (646) 858-3784
Feb 13, 14, 15, 16 Cambodian Rock Band play (music by Dengue Fever) LA, CA - David H. Hwang theatre 8pm/Th,Fr,Sa; 5/Sun. eastwestplayers.org
Feb 14 Akiko Tsuruga trio NY, NY - Midnight Blue 7pm, 8:45, 10:15 info[at}midnightblue.nyc
Feb 14 tripleS Tempe, AZ - Marquee theatre 7:30pm (480) 829-0607
Feb 14, 15 Kei Akagi trio Irvine, CA - UCI, Smith hall 8pm b.o.: (949) 824-2787
Feb 15 Hiroya Tsukamoto Wakefield, RI - Pump House music works ?pm (401) 824-9971
Feb 15 Daniel Garbin Teaneck, NJ - Puffin cult'l. forum 7pm (201) 836-3499
Feb 15 Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East Flushing, NY - Queens col., Kupferberg ctr., LeFrak hall 8pm (718) 793-8080

Date Artist(s)/Event Place Time Info./Tix
Feb 16 Kodo Colorado Springs, CO - Pikes Peak ctr. 7pm pikespeakcenter.com
Feb 18 Akiko Tsuruga trio NY, NY - Cellar Dog 7pm-11 (212) 675-6056
Feb 19 Folk Alliance Int'l: BettySoo Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, Jarry - Level A 8:15pm-8:45 folk.org
Feb 19 Kodo Muncie, IN - BSU, Emens aud. 7:30pm (765) 285-1539
Feb 19 Doos trio Santa Barbara, CA - UCSB, Campbell hall 8pm artsandlectures.ucsb.edu
Feb 20 Folk Alliance Int'l: Vienna Teng Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, Salon 1 - Level 2 7pm-7:30 folk.org
Feb 20 Folk Alliance Int'l: Sauljaljui Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, Salon 6/7 - Level 3 7:30pm-8 folk.org
Feb 20 Folk Alliance Int'l: Melo'n Jimenez & Lara Wong Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, West - Level 4 7:30pm-8 folk.org
Feb 20 Hard Nips New London, CT - 33 Golden Street ?pm (860) 443-1193
Feb 21 Folk Alliance Int'l: affinity grp - pan API Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, Salon 1 - Level 2 10am-11 folk.org
Feb 21 Folk Alliance Int'l: Alex Wong Montreal, QC - LC Sheraton, Salon 1 - Level 2 8:30pm-9 folk.org
Feb 21 Hard Nips South Bridge, MA - Starlite Gallery ?pm (774) 262-2994
Feb 21 Hiroya Tsukamoto Lakeway, TX - Lake Travis lib 3pm (512) 263-2885
Feb 21 Prithvi Prakash LA, CA - The Mint 9pm (323) 954-9400
Feb 21, 22, 23, 24 Cambodian Rock Band play (music by Dengue Fever) LA, CA - David H. Hwang theatre 8pm/Fr,Sa,Mo; 2/Sat; 5/Sun. eastwestplayers.org
Feb 22 Hard Nips Providence, RI - The Parlour ?pm (401) 383-5858
Feb 22 "Intersegmental 38": works by Jin-Hwa Choi, Se-Yeon Oh, Anna Rubin, Ha-Eun Lee, Young-Wook Lee, Keith Kramer, Garth Baxter, Janice Macaulay, Gavin Brown, Ljiljana Becker, Ian Rashkin and Ariyo Shahry Towson, MD - Towson U, Arts ctr., recital hall 6:30pm baltimorecomposersforum.com
Feb 22 Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East Miami, FL - Moss cult'l, arts ctr. 8pm (786) 573-5300
Feb 22 Hiroya Tsukamoto Elgin, TX - The Clever Tiger 6pm (512) 667-8515
Feb 22 Jon Jang, Francis Wong, and others SF, CA - Japan Ctr. E. mall, 2nd flr., Studio Gen 6:30pm Insta: fwong57
Feb 23 "Live Constructions": Kevin Sun quartet NY, NY - WKCR 89.9 fm 10pm studio: (212) 854-9920
Feb 23 Hiroya Tsukamoto Austin, TX - First unitarian church 2pm brentbaldwinmusic.com
Feb 27 Kodo Blacksburg, VA - VT, Moss arts ctr. 7:30pm (540) 231-5300
Feb 27 Leah Dou LA, CA - Avalon Hollywood 7pm (323) 462-8900
Feb 28 Hiroya Tsukamoto Opelika, AL - The Sound Wall 7:30pm (334) 575-3477
Feb 28 Vijay Iyer trio Portland, OR - Rose theatre pm (

Date Artist(s)/Event Place Time Info./Tix
Feb BettySoo & Pat Byrne New Braunfels, TX - Redbird Listening Rm. 4pm (830) 606-7886
Feb Yuto Mitomi trio NY, NY - Tomi jazz 6pm (646) 497-1254
Feb Hui-Kuan Lin (pipa), Lung-Yi Huan (sheng), Houston sym. musicians, & Shepherd school (Rice) musicians play works by Shih-Hui Chen, Chen Yi, Hwang-Long Pan, and Xu Shuya Houston, TX - Asia Society 7:30pm (713) 496-9901
Feb Oort Smog and Paul Lai LA, CA - The Smell 8pm thesmell.org
Feb Akiko Tsuruga Baltimore, MD - An die Musik (+ livestream) 7pm andiemusiklive.com
Feb M2duO NY, NY - Rockwood 7pm rockwoodmusichall.com
Feb Nagavalli (with BettySoo, Carrie Rodriguez, Oliver Rajamani, Patrice Pike, and Indrajit Banerjee) Austin, TX - Paramount, Stateside 8pm (512) 474-1221
Feb Silkroad Ensemble musicians (Gotoh -vln.; Perez - bass; Shanahan -perc.) play music of the Transcontinental railroad workers origins (particularly Irish, Chnz., African Amer., Indigenous) Sacramento, CA - Calif. St. Rail museum 2pm (916) 758-6975
Feb Anju NY, NY - Rockwood 6pm rockwoodmusichall.com
Feb Miki Yamanaka trio NY, NY - Smalls 10:30pm & 12 (jam) smallslive.com
Feb AppalAsia (banjo/erhu/dulcimer) accompanies silent film "Broken Blossoms" (DW Griffith, 1919) Pittsburgh, PA - Alphabet City (+ livestream) 7pm cityofasylum.org
Feb UPS jazz orch. featuring Grace Kelly Tacoma, WA - Univ. of Puget Sound, Schneebeck concert hall 7:30pm pugetsound.edu
Feb Oort Smog and Chris Icasiano Portland, OR - No Fun bar ?pm (503) 236-8067
Feb Jen Shyu (voice/gayageum), Kenny Barron (piano), Lesley Mok (perc.), & Kalia Vandever (trbn.) NY, NY - New School, Glass Box theater 8:30pm events.newschool.edu
Feb Kevin Sun quartet Brooklyn, NY - Lowlands bar 8pm & 9:30 (347) 463-9458
Feb Jen Shyu (voice), Ben Monder (guitar), & Reggie Workman (bass) NY, NY - New School, Glass Box theater 8:30pm events.newschool.edu
Feb New Voices II (sound movement, texture, and spatialization) : Sharmi Basu and Alex Abalos SF, CA - Audium theater 7:30pm (415) 771-1616
Feb Hiroya Tsukamoto Andover, NH - Highland Lake Grange hall 7pm andovercoffeehouse.org
Feb Asian American Jazz symposium: "Past, Present, Future" NY, NY - Columbia U. faculty house 9am-6pm jazz.columbia.edu
Feb Miki Yamanaka trio + Jamile (vocals) NY, NY - Birdland theater 7pm & 9:30 (212) 581-3080
Feb Sumi Tonooka NY, NY - Columbia U. , Miller theater 8pm jazz.columbia.edu
Feb Jen Shyu (voice, Twnz. moon lute, piano, Jpnz. biwa) NY, NY - New School, Glass Box theater 8:30pm events.newschool.edu
Feb RAW (Raging Asian Womxn) taiko Swarthmore, PA - Swarthmore, Lang PAC, P-H hall 7pm jmurphy2[at}swarthmore{dot]edu
Feb Hiroya Tsukamoto Lyndon, VT - York St. mtg. house 7pm (gtr. workshop - 4) Catamount: (888) 757-5559
Feb Miki Yamanaka trio + S. Wilson (sax.) & S. Moullier (vibe.) NY, NY - Birdland theater 7pm & 9:30 (212) 581-3080
Feb Tsutomu Nakai quartet NY, NY - The Django 7:30pm-10 (212) 519-6649
Feb Jen Shyu (vocals), Val Jeanty (eltrnx./beats), & Sumi Tonooka (piano) NY, NY - New School, Glass Box theater 8:30pm events.newschool.edu
Feb RAW taiko Philadelphia, PA - Asian Arts Initiative 2pm (215) 557-0455
Feb Gamin (Korean winds), Mat Muntz (Croatian & Bulgarian bagpipes / bowed Korean zither), & gamelan (Nataraja/Midyanto/Parris/Liddell) Berkeley, CA - CNMAT 8pm (510) 643-9990
Feb Oort Smog SF, CA - Ctr. f New Music ?pm (415) 275-2466
Feb Anju Philadelphia, PA - Twelve Gates Arts 3pm (215) 253-8578
Feb David Yee quartet NY, NY - The Django 7:30pm-10 (212) 519-6649
Feb Noise Pop: No Vacation and Wabie SF, CA - The Chapel ?pm (415) 551-5157
Feb Jihee Heo (piano), L. Plaxico (bass), & M. Whitfield (drums) NY, NY - Mezzrow 10:30pm & 12 (jam) smallslive.com
Feb Noise Pop: Noso SF, CA - Rickshaw Stop ?pm (415) 861-2011
Feb Noise Pop fest.: Covet Berkeley, CA - UC Theatre ?pm (510) 356-4000
Feb Miki Yamanaka quartet NY, NY - Cellar Dog 11:45pm-2 (212) 675-6056
Feb Kodo Santa Fe, NY - Lensic 7:30pm (505) 988-1234
Feb New Voices II (sound movement, texture, and spatialization) : Sharmi Basu and Alex Abalos SF, CA - Audium theater 7:30pm (415) 771-1616
Feb San Jose Jazz Winter Fest: Vân-Ánh Vő & Olesya Zdorovetska with Alina Sokulska "Magura" San Jose, CA - Tabard theatre 7:30pm (408) 679-2330
Feb Harish Raghavan quartet LA, CA - Sam First 7:30pm & 9 (424) 800-2006
Feb Akiko Tsuruga quartet NY, NY - The Django 10:30pm-1 (212) 519-6649
Feb Mandy Moon Nashville, TN - Aiyara Thai & Sushi 7pm-10 (615) 942-6208
Feb Jinjoo Yoo quartet NY, NY - Cellar Dog 11:45pm-2 (212) 675-6056
Feb Arun Luthra's Konnakol Jazz Project Brooklyn, NY - Ibeam. 8pm ibeambrooklyn.com
Feb Wu Man & Verona quartet play works by Zhao Jiping, Wu Man, Tsintsadze, Dowland, and Dvorak Oberlin, OH - Oberlin, Warner concert hall 7:30pm CPO: (440) 775-8610
Feb Junny Austin, TX - Sunset Rm. ?pm ticketweb.com
Feb Wynston Minckler trio plays Yellow Magic Orch. Vancouver, BC - Frankies jazz club 11pm (604) 688-6368
Feb Stephen Hung Arbutus, MD - OCA Mocha noon (410) 501-3138
Feb San Jose Jazz Winter Fest: Ambrose Akinmusire (trpt.) & Rafiq Bhatia (gtr.) San Jose, CA - Tabard theatre 5:30pm (408) 679-2330
Feb Sean Hong Wei quartet NY, NY - The Django 7:30pm-10 (212) 519-6649
Feb Miki Yamanaka trio NY, NY - Smalls 10:30pm & 12 (jam) smallslive.com
Feb Kodo Nashville, TN - Symph. ctr. 7:30pm (615) 687-6400
Feb Junny San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick ?pm (619) 276-3990
Feb Kevin Sun trio Brooklyn, NY - Lowlands bar 8pm & 9:30 (347) 463-9458
Feb Kenji Tokunaga band NY, NY - Silvana 10pm-12 (646) 692-4935
Feb Dreamcatcher Atlanta, GA - The Battery, Coca Cola Roxy 7:30pm (470) 351-3866

Date Artist(s)/Event Place Time Info./Tix
Feb Richard Thai duo NY, NY - Tomi jazz 11pm-12:30 (646) 497-1254
Feb Sharon Minemoto hosts jazz jam Vancouver, BC - Patricia hotel, Hastings MIll pub 7:30pm-11 (604) 255-4301
Feb Miho Hazama and m_unit NY, NY - Jazz Standard 7:30pm & 9:30 (212) 576-2232
Feb Sounds Global ensemble Vancouver, BC - UBC music school , Barnett hall noon music.ubc.ca
Feb Jared Redmond (piano) plays works by Park Jung-eun, Noh Ji-ye, M. Finnissy, K. Rohde, W. Rihm, and himself SF, CA - Ctr. for New Music 7pm (415) 275-2466
Feb ”The Revolution” Vol. 47: includes The Either Brooklyn, NY - Nat'l. Sawdust ?pm (646) 779-8455
Feb Yoshiki Miura trio and Shu Odamura trio NY, NY - Tomi jazz 7:30pm-10/YM; 10:30-1/SO (646) 497-1254
Feb Everything Turned to Color [sold out] NY, NY - Rockwood 8:30pm (212) 477-4155

Date Artist(s)/Event Place Time Info./Tix
Feb Shu Odamura trio and Yuto Kanazawa NY, NY - Tomi jazz 8p-11/SO; 11-12:30/YK (646) 497-1254


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