Performance

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

1 upcoming performance in New York

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is a live, stage-based program now running at Symphony Space, built around stories and songs that trace Harlem’s cultural life and its afterlives. Featured performers include Ani DiFranco, Tony Trischka, Abby Jimenez, Annabelle Gurwitch, and Caro Claire Burke, moving between music, narration, and personal testimony. In a city that often treats Harlem as shorthand for a single era, the piece insists on a longer timeline and multiple viewpoints. It plays like an oral-history collage, where the seams are part of the meaning.