NARROWSBURG, NY — The Delaware Valley Arts Alliance (DVAA) invites all to Tusten Jazz. The two-day festival, featuring a lineup of local and international musicians, will take place on Saturday and Sunday, November 7 and 8, at DVAA’s Tusten Theatre and Krause Recital Hall in Narrowsburg, NY.

The weekend will feature groups Urbem, the Tree Trini Collective, and Joy In An Ugly World, as well as a duo performance by Matthew Albeck and Matt Hoffmann.

Urbem, featuring Ryan Keberle, will perform at the Tusten Theatre on November 7 at 2 p.m. Urbem is a jazz band all the way from Campo Grande, Brazil, and will provide an evening of music from Pantanal Jam, an original music and documentary project where nature is not the backdrop—it’s the composer. Real-life sounds of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland—spanning Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, were captured live and became the foundation of this contemporary jazz album recorded on site. More about the project can be found at www.pantanaljam.com.

Tree Trini Collective, performing at 7 p.m. on November 7 at the Tusten Theatre (210 Bridge St.), centers the long and often-undiscussed history of experimentation at the musical core of the sister island nations of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). Drawing on the ancestral resourcefulness of turning first bamboo, then discarded oil drums into instruments that would become the steelpan, Tree Trini Collective projects T&T’s musical diaspora into futures unknown. 

Joy In An Ugly World, also performing Saturday evening at the theatre, is fronted by Lee Taylor. Taylor is a singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actor and artist based in Brooklyn. Their sound draws on blues and jazz, delivered with the kind of grit that comes from years of paying dues on real stages rather than algorithms.

On Sunday morning at 11 a.m. at Krause Recital Hall (37 Main St.), vibraphonist Matt Hoffmann and guitarist Matthew Albeck will perform a program of improvisation and standards at the Catskill Jazz Brunch, featuring food by a selection of local purveyors.

More information and tickets are available at www.delawarevalleyartsalliance.org/tusten-jazz.