Ian Nagoski is a Baltimore-based music researcher of early 20th century music in languages other than English. Ian will transport the audience with an immersive 90-minute exploration of disappearing music he has unearthed and its social/cultural roots and routes. He’ll also share the love of his findings both by listening and discussing various carefully chosen pieces that are like shellac gems.

Recently, he has published acclaimed collections of Hindustani classical vocal music (100 Moons and Kesarbai Kerkar 1944-54), Greek urban folk music (Rita Abatzi - 1933-37), music from the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Widow’s Joy: Eastern European Immigrant Dances, 1925-30), and has published writings for Yeti, Sound American, Ephemerotera Quarterly and The Wire.

His Canary Bandcamp site was compared favorably by Damon Krukowski in Pitchfork to Revenant Records and Jack White’s Third Man label. Nagoski’s deep views on music and recording caused Krukowski and Marcus Boon in the Wire to put him side by side with Harry Smith. In recent years, he has published compilations on the Dust-to-Digital (Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics) and Tompkins Square (To What Strange Place: Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora) labels. Nagoski’s work is now highly regarded, with high profile admirers ranging from DJ/rupture to Henry Rollins. You can read several interviews with him and articles by him from 2013 at the Sound American site or in Amanda Petrusich's lauded Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World's Rarest 78s.