New York Festival Of Song

Pianists Michael Barrett (7) and Steven Blier founded New York Festival of Song (NYFS) in 1988 to produce this series of unique song programs, each unified by a theme, drawing together rarely-heard songs of all kinds, overriding traditional distinctions between “high” and “low” performance genres, exploring the character and language of other cultures, and the personal voices of song composers and lyricists. “New York Festival of Song is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humour into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among performers and audiences, in a spirit of shared adventure.”