Knockdown Center Announces Final Outline Festival of 2023, Featuring Tirzah, Erika de Casier & Nabihah Iqbal on October 22nd

Tickets On Sale at 12pm ET on September 1st:

International Showcase of Visionary R&B Brings The Venue's Flagship Series Into Fall, Following Spring & Summer Installments With Matmos, Jlin, Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji, Liv.e, Crumb, U.S. Girls, Model/Actriz, Palm, Grace Ives & Many More

Today, Knockdown Center announces its third and final installment of Outline festival for 2023, rounding out a year that has further extended the limits of what a venue can be for its artists and audience. Taking place the night of October 22nd, Outline's fall edition will shift the series' focus to an international showcase of rising R&B pathfinders, each pushing the genre's many sides into new terrain. Headlined by the off-beat melodies, mesmerizing vocals and textured production of London-based singer and songwriter Tirzah, the night will also feature performances from Denmark's Erika de Casier and London's Nabihah Iqbal. Between Tirzah's central role in the vital post-grime and UK garage scene of the past decade, de Casier's house, garage and techno-inspired take on turn-of-the-millenium sounds, and Nabilhah's wrenchingly intimate, sweetly playful lo-fi aesthetics, Outline remains "catnip for adventurous listeners" (The New York Times).

Tickets for Outline's fall edition are available at 12pm ET on Friday, Sept 1st, following a presale happening now. Find more information HERE

Outline's forthcoming festival follows three drastically different but uniformly thrilling, successful and inventive events throughout this year's changing seasons, from dual spring shows that brought together leaders of experimental electronic music (Matmos, Jlin, Pan Daijing, Meth Math, Golin, Joe Rainey), and an expansive vision of modern jazz(Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji, Liv.e), to this month's surreal, summertime barrage of indie rock, avant punk, and art pop (Crumb, U.S. Girls, Model/Actriz, Palm, Grace Ives, Pelada, Club Intl).

While no two Outlines are the same, each is ingeniously curated with the intent to bring out the best in the artists, as well as Knockdown Center's physical design. As much a celebration of cutting-edge music as it is an exhibit for the most singular, architecturally-stunning space in New York City nightlife, Knockdown Center's shifting stages and labyrinthine layout continually transform to enhance and react to each performance. The previous editions have spanned the historic factory floor that now serves as the venue's Main Hall and Atrium, and the century-old concrete Ruins that come alive for spring and summers full of open-air parties and concerts. Outline's fall event will once again offer fans a format they have yet to experience, before the festival returns to a full, quarterly format of four shows in 2024.

Outline is part of Knockdown Center's most eclectic, high-profile and highest-attended year of programming to date, with the fall season also including Bushwig, UNKLE, Black Country, New Road, Kamaal Williams, Tangerine Dream, James Blake, TV Girl,Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Beach Fossils, Deafheaven and many more listed here. No matter the occasion, attendees can now experience everything in the most pristine sonic detail that Knockdown Center has ever delivered, having recently completed a years-long sonic overhaul with the debut of a world-class sound system from L-Acoustics.

About Knockdown Center

Featuring programming of diverse formats and media, Knockdown Center aims to create a radically cross-disciplinary environment. The particularity of our architectural environment and history leads us to gravitate toward projects that demonstrate a sensitive reactivity to site and environment. This 50,000 square-foot building has seen continuous use for more than 100 years: first as the Gleason-Tiebout glass factory, then as Manhattan Door factory. It is named for the Knock-Down door frame that was invented here in 1956 by Samuel Sklar and remains an industry standard to this day. The frame could be shipped in pieces — or "knocked down" — and installed into existing walls, revolutionizing the speed and efficiency of building construction. The factory has since remained in the Sklar family and is again a site for innovation. Having undergone a renovation that is equal parts preservationist and state of the art, Knockdown Center now produces and hosts cultural events and exhibitions that respond to its unique architecture and dimensions.

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