Musical Saw Festival Tunes Up For Astoria

You won’t believe what you saw…or what you heard. On June 1, the NYC Musical Saw Festival will fill Astoria’s Trinity Lutheran Church with various art forms related to this bladed carpenter’s tool that is usually used for cutting wood. Organized by Natalia Paruz (seen above), this afternoon-long event will feature new compositions for the musical saw, a musical saw art exhibit, musical saw paintings, musical saw poetry, solos by musical saw players and musical saw workshops. Paruz, an Astoria resident who is affectionately called “The Saw Lady,” has dedicated her professional life to bringing her beloved-but-rare genre to audiences around the world. She has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra with Zubin Mehta and NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion, rocked MTV and VH1, and played on soundtracks to films such as El Carnaval de Sodoma. Event details on the jump…

NYC Musical Saw Festival
Trinity Lutheran Church
31-18 37th St., Astoria
Saturday, June 1
2 pm | $10

Image Source: Saw Lady