Love Shadows
February 6, 2027 @ 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm
$45.00Love Shadows
Saturday, February 6, 7:30 PM (Doors 7 PM)
Cabaret Show: 7:30 – 9 PM
Open Mic: 9 – 10:30 PM
Tickets $45
Featuring:
- Shabnam Abedi, Vocals
- Joe Block, Piano
Shabnam Abedi and Joe Block met as classmates at Juilliard and have since formed a powerful duo. They perform their diverse repertoire frequently around New York at clubs such as Mezzrow and Dizzy’s. Their music is a spiritual journey of lyrical, textural, and harmonic storytelling. As artists, Abedi and Block are vulnerable, dramatic, and spontaneous, aiming to create a space to reflect and feel our inner emotions. Together, they embrace true improvisation, and their shows are always fresh, daring, and captivating.
Join in on the fun! The main show will be followed by an open mic.
The Art of Cabaret
If you’re a fan of the American Musical Theater, you’ve probably heard of the genre known as Cabaret. Cabaret offers audiences a chance to hear performers, many of them steeped in theater practices and repertory, in a relaxed and intimate setting. Cabaret is all about a singer’s connection with you, the audience. It’s all about ‘breaking the fourth wall’-and that’s the excitement inherent in this format.
MEET THE ARTISTS
Shabnam Abedi, Vocals
A multi-genre vocalist, composer, and arranger, Shabnam Abedi is known for her beautiful tone and “lovely warmth” (NY Times). Her debut jazz album with virtuoso pianist Joe Block, “Love Shadows” was released last year, showcasing her wide range of stylistic depth. She is one of the six founding members of Voces8 Foundation’s treble ensemble Lyyra and has made her stamp in the choral world with her arrangement “Jhoro Jhoro”. She also sings with premier vocal ensembles like the NY Philharmonic Chorus, Yale Choral Artists, Kaleidoscope Vocal Ensemble, Downtown Voices, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Voices of Ascension, and many more.
Shabnam studied classically at Mason Gross School of the Arts and jazz at The Juilliard School, making her Juilliard’s first South-Asian American jazz voice graduate. Having played and sung Indian classical music from a young age, Shabnam’s first album “Amar Bijon Ghore” is praised widely in South Asia.
Joe Block, Piano
Joe Block is a New York-based pianist, composer, bandleader, and educator. He started playing classical piano at age 2, and has worked with Wynton Marsalis, Kurt Rosenwinkel, and Leslie Odom Jr. He is hailed by Jazz at Lincoln Center as one of “jazz’s most promising young composers,” and is a musical director for select JALC performances.
Block is a graduate of Columbia University and The Juilliard School; most recently, he was named a semifinalist in the 2023 Herbie Hancock International Piano Competition.
