Elsa Nilsson - Band of Pulses

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$35 TICKETS | ALL AGES Flutist and composer Elsa Nilsson explores unlikely connections across society and the natural world. The Gothenburg native left Sweden for Seattle in 2005 before settling in Brooklyn in 2010. Her openness and refinement have prompted collaboration with Ravi Coltrane, Steve Cardenas, Jon Cowherd, Chris Morrissey, Karl Berger, Robert Dick, Jamie Baum, Jessica Lurie, Rodrigo Recabarren, Marty Kenney, Santiago Leibson, Mark Ferber, Sebastian Noelle, Tina Raymond, Emma Dayhuff, the CMS improvisers Orchestra, Vinny Golia, Brad Shepik, Jovino Santos Neto, Chuck Deardorf, Jim Knapp, Dawn Clement and Bill Frisell. Elsa has appeared at Winter Jazzfest, Earshot Jazz Festival, Nublu Jazz Festival, National Sawdust, Blue Note Jazz Club, Nefertiti Jazz Club and Victoriateatern (Sweden), Cornelia Street Cafe, 55 Bar, The Owl Music Parlor, Shapeshifter Lab, Roulette and Rockwood Music Hall, with Ravi Coltrane at Carnegie Hall among other venues. Solo leader releases include Atlas Of Sound - Quila Quina (2024), Pulses (2023), Atlas Of Sound - Coast Redwoods (2022), Dark Is Light Is (2021), Hindsight (2020), After Us (2018) and Salt Wind (2017). During her tenure with acclaim