651 ARTS

05/28/2026

One of the most important parts of Song Salon is the conversation.

Not the formal interview kind. The kind that happens when people genuinely know each other. The kind that wanders, reveals, and opens something up in the room.

We asked the artists: who do you have the richest conversations with? Who helps bring out the fullest version of you?

And then we handed them the room.

SIIMBIIE LIIVES LONG in conversation with KAMAUU.
Elisabet Velasquez in conversation with AMYRA.

Come into the room with us. 🎶

🎟️ Link in bio.

05/26/2026

Meet AMYRA 
A Harlem-born artist whose work moves across music, story, and direction, AMYRA centers listening, honesty, and the power of personal narrative.
 
Song Salon invites you to step into the process and hear the stories and lived experiences shaping her work before the curtains open.
 
Part performance. Part conversation. 100% connection.
 
📍 651 ARTS | 10 Lafayette Ave
📅 May 29 & 30 | 8 PM
 
Take a seat in the Salon. Secure your tickets at the link in bio.

05/23/2026

Meet KAMAUU.

Knowledge of Ancestral Music Accesses the Unseen Universe. The Mighty ADRÀGUÀRÀNGOMH.

An artist blending music, poetry, and global influence.

Step into the process at Song Salon—get a closer look at the mind behind the music.

Part performance. Part conversation. 100% connection.

Be in the room.
Tickets available now: https://bit.ly/4v8wZnS

05/22/2026

Song Salon is back, and Brooklyn is paying attention.

This May, Song Salon returns home to L10 for the first time. Two nights. Two extraordinary artists. The kind of evening this room was made for.

AMYRA () | May 29
KAMAUU () | May 30
Doors at 7:30 PM | Show at 8 PM

Get your tickets now at the link in bio. Space is limited.

Thank you, , for the love.

05/12/2026

Welcome back to Song Salon.

We wanted to create a space that reimagined how we engage with artists and their work.

A space that centers the most interesting part - the people.

This year’s featured artists are visionary multidisciplinary artist AMYRA and sonic visionary KAMAUU - two powerful performers, brilliant storytellers, and artists we’re excited to hand the room over to for two nights.

Join us 🎶

🎟️ Tickets on sale now: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/651-arts-8027745594

05/06/2026

Song Salon returns.

First introduced in 2023, Song Salon is a live performance and exchange series that reflects the role 651 ARTS aims to play - a place for meeting, connection, and the sharing of ideas.

It’s built around the kind of relationships we want to foster: deeper, not wider. Ongoing, not transactional. An exchange that continues beyond the moment.

Now, settled in our home in Downtown Brooklyn, we’re excited to bring the series back and invite you to experience Song Salon here with us.

Thank you to The Billie Holiday Theatre, who partnered with us to bring this vision to life before we had a space of our own.

Now, we get to continue that story in our own home.

04/14/2026

04/10/2026

Valiant. Resilient. Women.

Night two of Fanm Vanyan. ✨

A crossing. A convergence. A meeting point of sound, spirit, and lineage.

KāFOU: Crossroads in Embodied Rhythm, with Val Jeanty() and Cassie Watson Francillon(), brought audiences into a space where the sacred and the electronic, the ancestral and the experimental, exist together.

Curated by Ariella Villefranche(), the inaugural 651 ARTS Curatorial Fellow, this work reflects an ongoing exploration of convergence, where music, identity, and community meet and transform.

Thank you to all who were part of this experience.🌃

📸 Photos by Alex Bershaw ()

04/09/2026

Valiant. Resilient. Women.⁠
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Night one of Fanm Vanyan. ✨⁠
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An evening of voice, sound, and image, honoring the artists and influences that shape how we listen, feel, and remember.⁠
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Featuring a performance by Ursula Rucker (), sounds by Tara (), and photography by Wanda Benvenutti (), the night held space for reflection, storytelling, and Diasporic connection. The exhibition remains on view throughout April.⁠
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Curated by Ariella Villefranche (), the inaugural 651 ARTS Curatorial Fellow, the program draws from a search for connection—“the connections within the music we love”—and the ways those sounds live within us across time.⁠
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Grateful to everyone who gathered with us.🙏🏾⁠
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📸 Photos by Alex Bershaw ()