Stuart Bogie & Buck McDaniel

TEMPO Concert Hall — Doors 7 PM | Show at 8 PM

This is a special opportunity to experience Tempo Performing Art Center's restored 1907 Emmons Howard tracker pipe organ.

Following the release of their widely acclaimed series of live albums November Variations, Stuart Bogie and Buck McDaniel perform an evening of lush, improvised music that invites the listener into their unique world of ideas. Formed by their eclectic backgrounds in Rock, Jazz, Sacred Music and the NYC experimental scenes, this program brings together the sounds of clarinet and organ, melding McDaniel’s expansive harmonic voicings and deft melodic interplay with Bogie’s rhapsodic solos to create an immersive, horizonless sound.

Clarinetist Stuart Bogie and organist Buck McDaniel perform as a duo combining influences from French organ improvisation, ambient soundscapes, and New York’s experimental scene. Their partnership was launched in 2024 with November Variations, a five-part fully improvised morning concert series at Church of Our Savior in Manhattan that received universal acclaim. They reprised the series in 2025, receiving coverage from WNYC’s New Sounds and Relix, who described the project as 'authentic and experimental'.

Stuart Bogie is a composer, arranger, and improviser whose work spans contemporary music. He has contributed to hundreds of albums as a guest artist, including releases by Arcade Fire, Antibalas, The Sway Machinery, The Hold Steady, Goose, Meshell Ndegeocello, Run the Jewels, Iron and Wine, Florence and the Machine, Angelique Kidjo, Zach Bryan, Matana Roberts, and TV on the Radio. He received a Meet the Composer grant and composed the score for the Oscar-nominated documentary How To Survive a Plague. As a recording artist he has released a dozen albums, including collaborations and projects such as Morningside, Patient Music, and The Prophets in the City.

Buck McDaniel’s compositions have been performed and broadcast internationally, including on NBC’s Saturday Night Live, BBC Radio 3, WQXR, and NPR’s The Moth Radio Hour. His work appears in Oliver Hermanus’s film The History of Sound, which premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. He is a former Kulas Composer Fellow at Cleveland Public Theatre; his projects have been supported by institutions such as MASS MoCA, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art. He serves as Artist-in-Residence at The General Theological Seminary and Director of Music at the Church of Our Saviour, Murray Hill and Chapel of the Sacred Hearts, Kips Bay.

• Advance tickets: $25 community / $35 standard / $50 supporter
• Day-of / Door price: $35, subject to availability
• All tickets are general admission open seating

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