Toshi Reagon’s 42nd Annual Birthday Concerts
Wed-Sat, Jan 21-24
42nd Annual Birthday Concerts featuring Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely
Sunday, May 10
The Sacred Music Show featuring The Bernice Johnson Reagon songbook
Due to the impending (severe) storm that is headed toward the tri-state area, Toshi Reagon’s Sacred Show featuring the Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook is being rescheduled to Mother’s Day 2026, Sunday, May 10. If you have a ticket for Jan 25 please check your email for further instructions or call 212-967-7555 with questions.
Tickets for the Sunday, May 10 performances will be on sale on Monday, January 26 at 2P.
Toshi Reagon is a multi-talented and versatile singer, composer, musician, curator, and producer with a profound ear for sonic Americana. Her expansive career includes residences at Carnegie Hall, the Paris Opera House, and multiple festivals and venues nationally and internationally. A highly collaborative artist, she has worked with many musicians, choreographers, film and theater makers, including Meshell Ndegeocello, Alsarah, Lizz Wright, Urban Bush Women, Dorrance Dance, Ananya Chatterjea, Nona Hendryx, Carl Hancock Rux, Rhiannon Giddens, Robert Wilson, her band BIGLovely and many more.
Toshi co-composed music for two Peabody Award-winning films. She is a 2015 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, a 2018 United States Artist Fellow, an Andrew W. Melon Creative Futures Fellow Carolina Performing Arts. She is currently a Met Museum Civic Practice Fellow and a Bowdoin College Joseph McKeen Visiting Fellow. In 2021, Toshi received the APAP Award for Merit in the Performing Arts and was a recipient of the Herb Alpert Award in Music.
In 2022 Toshi received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Emerson College. In 2011 she founded the Community based festival Word*Rock*& Sword. In 2018 she created the production company Wise Reagon Arts which produces the opera Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower Created by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon w/ Music and Lyrics by Toshi Reagon and Bernice Johnson Reagon. As of 2023 the opera has been presented on 4 continents and has been seen by over 40,000 audience members.
Ongoing projects include Songs of the Living Community Choir, Sacred Revolution (A Song Cycle), The Bernice Johnson Reagon Songbook. LongWaterSong- Marine Mammal Meditations w/ Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Octavia’s Parables Podcast w/ adrienne maree brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs. Toshi continues produce, present and collaborate with artist and practitioners of all kinds. She continues to tour as a solo artist and with her band Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely. Her music can be found on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
The band includes:
Bobby Burke
Carla Duren
Ganessa James
Karma Marco
Allison Miller
Mishti
Morley
Josette Newsam
Jason Walker
Adam Widoff
The line-up will change each night.
Photo Credit: Ehud Lazin
Venue Joe's Pub
Runtime 75 minutes
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Pricing
Tickets are $42 on 1/21, 1/22, 5/10 and $36 on 1/23 and 1/24 (inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price).
There is a 2 drink or 1 food item minimum, per person, during every show at Joe's Pub.
Doors Open
6PM on 1/21, 1/22 and 9PM on 1/23 and 1/24
5:30PM and 8PM on 5/10
For Last-Minute Tickets
For last-minute tickets, please visit our Box Office at 425 Lafayette Street. Web Sales and phone sales end when doors open, and tickets may be available for in-person, walk-up sale right before the show begins.
