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Aaaaaaand just like that, folks. We are back on the road this spring! Taking a second from finishing the next Sinkane album to have a lil fun.
Let’s get it, yall. Very excited to be out there again! Let’s dance!
Tickets available online via link in bio!

Logo: @alessio_vitelli
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Dear Mr. The Boss,

Martine surprised me with floor seats to my first Bruce show last night at Barclays.

During 10th Ave (my favorite), you shook my hand. A surreal moment. I wrote about it on my substack (sinkane.substack.com)

The following slide is Martine’s video capturing the moment.

Just wanted to say thank you for the music, the energy, and the reminder of what purpose looks like.

Dear Mr. The Boss,

Martine surprised me with floor seats to my first Bruce show last night at Barclays.

During 10th Ave (my favorite), you shook my hand. A surreal moment. I wrote about it on my substack (sinkane.substack.com)

The following slide is Martine’s video capturing the moment.

Just wanted to say thank you for the music, the energy, and the reminder of what purpose looks like.

More dates coming up! See you all in #July!

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

@sinkane & Friends brought music, movement and community to the Blue Note last night! Thank you to everyone who showed up, danced, sang, and made the night special 💙

📸: @drivenbycontent

Yesterday was my last class of the semester at Mercy University. Exam day. Which, in this case, meant everyone had to play a song they wrote using at least three music theory concepts from the semester. Secondary dominants. Modal interchange. Delayed resolution. Tiny emotional manipulations disguised as “assignments.”

And one by one, before playing their songs, many of them would issue a disclaimer.

“This is really simple.”
“Mine is kind of dumb.”
“I didn’t do much.”

It’s fascinating how human beings do this. We build a thing. Then we apologize for the thing. Before anyone can react. Like putting bubble wrap around your own self esteem.

Then they’d play the song.

And the class would applaud.

Not polite applause either. Real applause. The kind that says: you made something. We recognize that. We know how hard that is.

So I found myself becoming accidentally motivational. Telling them not to minimize themselves. Not to shrink in advance. A friend of mine says this to himself every morning before leaving the house:

“I am brave. I am strong. I am kind. I am smart.”

Yes, yes. I know. Very Stuart Smalley. Very public access television therapist. Very “live laugh love” adjacent.

But honestly? It works.

So after my little end of semester sermon, I wrote it on the board and made the entire class repeat it back to me. Over and over. A room full of college students chanting affirmations in a music theory classroom in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Strange world. Beautiful world.

Next semester they move on to higher levels of theory with another professor. More diminished chords. More suffering. Notation!

I’ll miss them though.

And I’m very proud of what they made this year.

Coming up! Join us as we welcome Sinkane & Friends to the Blue Note stage for one night only on Monday, May 11.

Experience the band up close in an intimate setting, with spontaneous moments and special guest collaborations unfolding live onstage.

2 shows at 8 pm & 10:30 pm. Grab your tickets now!

SUMMER SPOTLIGHT Meet Sinkane, who’ll perform at globalFEST’s August 1st event as part of @lincolncenter’s Summer For the City festival!

@sinkane blends krautrock, prog, electronica, free jazz, and funk with Sudanese pop to create irresistible grooves.

Swipe to see!

Additional artists at this free event in August include Elida Almeida @elidaalmeida.cv
Saha Gnawa @saha_gnawa
And a silent disco to follow.

Mark your calendar:
August 1 at 6pm
Lincoln Center’s Dance floor • Free Event

SUMMER SPOTLIGHT Meet Sinkane, who’ll perform at globalFEST’s August 1st event as part of @lincolncenter’s Summer For the City festival!

@sinkane blends krautrock, prog, electronica, free jazz, and funk with Sudanese pop to create irresistible grooves.

Swipe to see!

Additional artists at this free event in August include Elida Almeida @elidaalmeida.cv
Saha Gnawa @saha_gnawa
And a silent disco to follow.

Mark your calendar:
August 1 at 6pm
Lincoln Center’s Dance floor • Free Event

You don’t get many chances to flip the script in a room like Blue Note Jazz Club… so I figured: why not actually do it?

This one’s different.

Instead of just pulling up with the usual format, I wanted to open the stage up. Bring friends into the mix. Let the night stretch, bend, surprise us. Make it feel alive in a way that only happens when musicians are really listening to each other.

This is also a tribute to the room itself. Blue Note isn’t just a venue, it’s a lineage. So the idea is simple: honor that history by leaning all the way into musicality. No autopilot. No phoning it in. Just players playing.

Two sets.
Special guests.
Moments that won’t happen the same way twice.

If you’ve seen us before: this won’t be that.
If you haven’t: this is the one.

SINKANE & FRIENDS
📍 Blue Note Jazz Club
📅 Monday, May 11
⏰ 8PM
🎶 2 sets of live music

Come through

#DC #Tonight!
Last show of tour!

🏠: Comet Ping Pong
🚪: 9 PM
🔪 Knyves Escobar: 9:30 PM
🔥 Tahlele: 10:15 PM
😈 SINKANE: 11 PM

📸: @joerg_metzner_photography
#sinkaneontour

#Brevard #Asheville #tonight

🏠: 185 King St.
🚪: 7:30 PM
🎸 Loud Music Company: 8 PM
🔥 SINKANE: 9:15 PM

Shout out to Ian for making my night with his sign.

#sinkaneontour

#chatanooga #today!
🏠: Nightfall Chatanooga
Live in Miller Plaza & Park
Free outdoor show!

WE PLAY AT 8 PM!

📸 : @intheglasshole

#sinakneontour