Program Description
The Selections series is equal parts DJ set and dialogue, where creative practitioners utilize the mix as a medium for sharing both their personal histories and reflections on how music culture has shaped their lives.
A central figure in Brooklyn’s ongoing nightlife renaissance, JADALAREIGN joins us for our summer 2025 season finale with Selections No.3. As a DJ and producer, events curator, and community archivist, Jada specializes in stories of Great Black American Music’s continuum and its role in birthing modern dance rhythms and soundsystem culture.
About JADALAREIGN
To anyone who devotedly follows her, JADALAREIGN's meteoric rise in New York's underground scene comes as no surprise. The New York native's staunch effort to preserve the origins of Black American dance music has made her synonymous with the city's emergent house renaissance.
Her expansive mixes are suffused in an indefinable funk, rifling through house history and techno—punchier sounds occasionally softened by hazy soul and sumptuous jazz. It's a dynamic and encyclopedic style that looks to the Northeast, the Midwest, and the diaspora to pay tribute to the Black musicians, old and new, who crafted this culture from the ground up.
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