SOUP & SOUND

Over 220 performances since 2009. Beginning in Andrew Drury’s house in Brooklyn, Soup & Sound expanded to community centers, libraries, community gardens, Lincoln Center, and other cities across the US and internationally.

Joseph Daley w/ Warren Smith, Scott Robinson, Bill Cole, Althea SullyCole, Craig Harris.

Henry Threadgill and Oliver Lake at Soup & Sound’s “Black Composers Upsouth” festival featuring Oliver Lake and others, 2025


“Black Composers Upsouth” festival 2025

Hemphill Stringtet cd release performance

Dance Clarinets (directed by JD Parran)

Marty Ehrlich

Dance Clarinets (Hill Greene, Lee Odom, Ivan Barenboim, Dr. Paul Austerlitz


Earl Howard Gerry Hemingway, 2024

at Sunset Park Library (Sam Bardfeld, Joe Fonda, Barry Altschul) 2023

Michael Wimberly and Warren Smith duo, 2019 R: Darius Jones, Amirtha Kidambi, 2021

Korean Sundubu Jjiggae soup

Megha Rawoot, 2025

at Zurcher Gallery (Terry Jenoure, Joe Fonda, Reggie Nicholson)

Darius Jones, Amirtha Kidambi, 2021

Pozole Rojo

SOUP & SOUND UNDER 30 SERIES

Featuring artists ages 16 and up, mostly under 30. Curated by Ashera Schwartz, Chai Smith, Aine Pearson, Ezra Moran—all under 25

ABELA (Associación de Bateristas Electrónicas de Latinoamérica) 2025

LGBTQ+ Teen Anti-Prom, Brooklyn 2019    

Frankie Consent (from Atlanta) 2021

Tricycle at the 200th Soup & Sound, 2024

 The Forest

(D)RUMINATIONS for Edward Blackwell project

Roulette

cd cover

Performances with Warren Smith

Roulette, 2022

Krannert Art Center, 2024

The Forest: Coyote Makes a World vinyl album cover

Globalquerque World Music Festival, Albuquerque, 2024

Globalquerque World Music Festival, Albuquerque, 2024

Globalquerque World Music Festival, Albuquerque, 2024

The Forest: Seattle, premiere performance at The Chapel, 2022

At Lincoln Center Atrium: JD Parran

At Lincoln Center Atrium: Warren Smith & Lesley Mok

 Continuum Brochures

Soup & Sound Flyers

 

LINCOLN CENTER

LINCOLN CENTER

LINCOLN CENTER

FLY!

Continuum program with people in historically marginalized communities

The Forest with Jay Rodriguez at New Lots Library, East New York, Brooklyn, 2015

The Forest with Jay Rodriguez at Westhab (recovery clinic, Brooklyn) 2015

The Forest with Jay Rodriguez at New Lots Library, East New York, Brooklyn, 2015

The Forest with Jay Rodriguez at Westhab (recovery clinic, Brooklyn) 2015

 

FLY! residency at Red Hook Initiative, 2024

FLY! residency at Red Hook Initiative, 2024

FLY! residency at Red Hook Initiative, 2024

South African musician Melanie Scholtz at Red Hook Initiative, Brooklyn, 2024

 

Sitarist Megha Rawoot in two of 9 classes in NYC public schools in 2025. Through CCA’s International Cultural Exchange program sponsored Rawoot’s P3 visa allowing her to 

Sitarist Megha Rawoot in two of 9 classes in NYC public schools in 2025. Through CCA’s International Cultural Exchange program sponsored Rawoot’s P3 visa allowing her to 

Sitarist Megha Rawoot in two of 9 classes in NYC public schools in 2025. Through CCA’s International Cultural Exchange program sponsored Rawoot’s P3 visa allowing her to 

 

Ahmed Abdullah (trumpeter with Sun Ra Arkestra) and Ytasha Womack (Chicago based author of books on Afro Futurism) visit P448K 7th grade class that was doing a semester long study of Sun Ra. April 2025

Ahmed Abdullah (trumpeter with Sun Ra Arkestra) and Ytasha Womack (Chicago based author of books on Afro Futurism) visit P448K 7th grade class that was doing a semester long study of Sun Ra. April 2025

 

Ahmed Abdullah & Ytasha Womack visit P448K, April 2025

Ahmed Abdullah & Ytasha Womack visit P448K, April 2025

Ahmed Abdullah & Ytasha Womack visit P448K, April 2025

 

Workshops at P448K Brooklyn Collaborative Studies—The Forest

workshops at P448K Brooklyn Collaborative Studies—Andrea Wolper

 

FLY! Southern African Artists Series flyer, 2024

FLY! Southern African Artists Series flyer, 2024

FLY! Southern African Artists Series flyer, 2024

 

FLY! with immigrant children, Seattle, Low Income Housing Institute

FLY! with immigrant children, Seattle, Low Income Housing Institute

FLY! with immigrant children, Seattle, Low Income Housing Institute

 

FLY! with homeless adults, Seattle, Low Income Housing Institute

Workshop with Navajo teens, Flagstaff, Arizona 2024

Workshop with Navajo teens, Flagstaff, Arizona 2024

FLY! with homeless adults, Seattle, Low Income Housing Institute

Workshop with Navajo teens, Flagstaff, Arizona 2024

Workshop with Navajo teens, Flagstaff, Arizona 2024

 INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL EXCHANGE

L: Jason Kao Hwang (violin NYC), Miyama Tokita (koto, Japan), Sun Li (pipa, NYC/Beijing), Ken Filiano (bass, NYC)