Birds & Brews: Bird Jazz in Harlem

Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Leaders: Amanda Bielskas, Alan Drogin, and Elijah Shiffer
Transportation: Public Transportation: Participants can use public transportation to arrive at the meeting location.
Meeting Point: After your registration is confirmed, the Registrar will share directions, the exact meeting place, and time with attendees.
Schedule: Evening meetup (around 8pm) at a bar/club in Harlem near West 116th Street.
Relative Difficulty: Easy, the group may not be able to sit together.

Trip Description: Join Linnaean member and saxophonist Elijah Shiffer and his City Of Birds quartet for an evening of music inspired by birds! Elijah’s project City Of Birds is a collection of instrumental jazz songs dedicated to all the birds he’s seen in New York City. Some of these compositions are directly influenced by specific birds’ songs or calls, while others are more abstract musical portraits of a species’ behavior, habitat, or even the circumstances of a specific sighting. For this show, the audience is encouraged to request songs for particular species; Elijah will hand out lists of available species to choose from, mostly those represented on the three albums he has recorded so far. https://linktr.ee/elijahshiffer

Please read The Linnaean Society of New York COVID-19 Field Trip Guidelines before registering.

Registration: Registration opens at 9 am on Monday, March 2. After that time, click here to register. Registration closes at 6 pm on Sunday, March 8. Members (and those who have applied for membership) will be prioritized over non-members.

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