About Table Pounding Music 

Table Pounding Music is uniquely positioned as a force of cross-genre innovation in the performing arts, with an international reputation for bringing together creatives of diverse backgrounds to realize the intercultural aims of this project. TPM is part production company, part record label and part home to creation through supporting commissioning. Table Pounding Music has presented a number of self-produced major benefits, concerts, and tours at venues such as The Museum of Jewish Heritage, Symphony Space, Le Poisson Rouge and The Stone in New York, as well as performances on mainstage series at at places such as the Krannert Center, Wolf Trap, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, National Sawdust and the National Gallery of Art. 

In 2017, Table Pounding hosted a pair of ACLU benefit concerts featuring performances by Abraham Incorporated, members of the Silk Road Ensemble, Marc Ribot’s Songs of Resistance and more. Recent creative endeavours include record releases by klezmer-funk-hip-hop group Abraham Inc. celebrating the marriage of Jewish and African American traditions, South African pianists Tagg & Petersen’s musical dialogue project; and a genre-crossing work commissioned by the Borderlands Foundation/International Dialogue Center in Poland.  Table Pounding Music has been supporting Krakauer and Tagg’s creative ventures for nearly a decade, and its network and funds play a key role in making this project a reality.

Table Pounding Records was founded by clarinetist, composer, bandleader and cultural visionary David Krakauer in 2010 with the release of the 10-piece supergroup Abraham Inc's debut album Tweet Tweet. Since then, Table Pounding Records has expanded to include a roster of over 50 composers, songwriters, musicians, and production team members within its Community. At the heart of Table Pounding Records is a constant search for identity and a distinctive voice, and it is home to a collection of recordings that blur boundaries and genres.

In 2017, pianist, composer and producer Kathleen Tagg came on board to co-found Table Pounding Music, now an umbrella production company for concerts, residency activities, fundraising events, and musical dialogue and composition projects. In 2017, Table Pounding Music produced a series of concerts to benefit the ACLU at Symphony Space in New York featuring luminaries such as Abraham Inc., Marc Ribot, musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble and others; other recent project partners have included the National Sawdust Ferus Festival, Yellow Barn, and the Pierre Boulez Saal. All Table Pounding Music projects explore the idea of identity from multiple angles, in the knowledge that we are all connected, but that in each person’s individual quest to find their place in the world, we see our own quests reflected across cultural boundaries.