Previous Events
Tuesday, May 7
Hypnotic Chinese Jaw Harp
Wang Li
Elebash Hall, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
Chinese-born, Paris-based Wang Li is a master of the Chinese jaw harp, sheng reed wind, and calabash flute, creating atmospheric sounds with infinite nuances, using breath techniques and mouth, tongue, and throat vibrations. Contemplative and eloquent, Li’s playing on these ancient instruments produces surprisingly modern melodies—dark and dreamy, with almost an electronic dance music sound. Following a strict upbringing in China, Li travelled to France where he joined a monastery, discovering patience and silence, and an understanding that his musical expression comes from his roots. After studying jazz at the Paris Conservatory, he returned to his native region in China, learning from the few local musicians who play the jaw harp.
“… every touch and resonance was audible in detail. His pieces were fascinating, introspective perpetual-motion meditations.” – The New York Times
Tuesday, April 24
Trinidad
Orisha Drum, Song, and Dance
Elebash Hall, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
This concert features a typical Orisha religious service and includes spiritual Baptist hymns, plaintive prayers, lively songs for all the spirits, and closes with a somber song of thanks. All of the songs are sung in Yoruba, except for the opening hymns sung in English. Leading the ensemble of musicians and dancers will be master drummer and drum builder Earl Noel, who has been playing for over forty years in Trinidad and Brooklyn.
Tuesday, April 9
Budapest Bar (U.S. debut)
Hungarian Gypsy Cabaret from the 20s to the 50s
Elebash Hall, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
Budapest Bar, the hugely popular and original Hungarian Gypsy band, breathes new life into cabaret and chanson songs from the ’20s-’50s, re-creating the lively atmosphere of Budapest’s long-forgotten cafés. Leader Robert Farkas, an extraordinary violinist, guitarist, and arranger, is known for his work with Gypsy bands Besh o drom and Romano Drom and the quirky rock group Little Cow. He will be joined by his superb quartet on cimbalom, accordion, piano, double bass, and drums, with special guest vocalists Frenk, Juci Németh and Tania Saedi, from the rock, jazz, and underground music scenes. A U.S. debut.
Friday, March 15
globalFEST @ SXSW
Tuesday, March 12
Erdal Erzincan:
Turkish Sufi Improvisations
Elebash Hall, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
In his U.S. debut as a soloist, acclaimed baglama (plucked lute) virtuoso and vocalist Erdal Erzincan performs the exquisite and deeply symbolic music of the Alevi, a mystical Sufi order that boasts more than twenty million followers in Turkey. Erdal will perform on a variety of baglamas, and sing folk and sacred songs that aim to bring the listener into its trance-like realm by interweaving ecstatic rhythms with sensual melodic phrases.
Saturday, March 2
Jewish Gypsy Punk
Club Drom, Ave. A@5th St, NYC
Klezmer-folk-punk rockers Golem are known for their theatricality and fearless wild energy, which they combine with reverence for tradition.
“Stellar! A wild edgy approach with a reverence for Old World tradition.”
Friday, February 1
Music and Dance of Southern Italy
Canzoniere Ganzoniere Grecanico Salaentino
Pace Presents, 3 Spruce Street, lower Manhattan
The 7-piece group from Italy’s Puglia region is considered Italy’s leading and longest-standing traditional Puglian music ensemble. Acclaimed as prominent masters in the traditional Southern Italian “Pizzica” music form, these young musicians and dancer will evoke a range of emotions from energy to passion, from rhythm to longing, from love to entrancement.
Sunday, January 13
globalFEST 10th anniversary
Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking world music festival + non-profit organization.
A TRIBE CALLED RED (Canada)
Electric pow wow club beats from Native American DJ Crew
CHRISTINE SALEM (Réunion)
Maloya vocalist blending sounds of the Indian Ocean with African rhythms
FATOUMATA DIAWARA (Mali)
Powerful rising Wassoulou star
KAYHAN KALHOR AND ERDAL ERZINCAN (Iran/Turkey)
Riveting Persian and Turkish improvisations by masterful duo
LA SANTA CECILIA (USA)
Gutsy vocals and roaring accordion fuel a powerful pan-Latin hybrid
LA SHICA (Spain)
Nuevo Flamenco voice and dance meets funk-tinged rock
LO’JO (France)
Polyglot pioneers of border defying music from elsewhere and everywhere
MARTHA REDBONE ROOTS PROJECT (USA)
Native American and Appalachian roots commune with poetry of William Blake
MUCCA PAZZA (USA)
Circus punk marching band with a mischievous brass-band heart
OLIVER MTUKUDZI (Zimbabwe)
Legendary godfather of Afropop
STEPHANE WREMBEL AND HIS BAND (USA)
Virtuosic French jazz manouche
STOOGES BRASS BAND (USA)
Big Easy brass band blending second-line and hip hop beats
Save the date – 12 artists from around the word on three stages. With a finger on the pulse of the most interesting sounds from around the world, globalFEST has defined the leading edge of international music for a decade.
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Wednesday, December 6
La Llorona: The Rebel Spirit of Chavela Vargas
Ely Guerra, Eugenia León, and Tania Libertad
Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
Passionate and powerful vocalists Ely Guerra, Eugenia León, and Tania Libertad perform one-of-a-kind acoustic sets in tribute to the legendary musical rebel Chavela Vargas.
A 92-year-old singer of Mexican rancheras and corridos, Vargas is a major influence throughout the Americas with her songs of struggle, defiance, and triumph. She is also highly influential in Europe, most prominently perhaps as a muse to Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, who prompted her to make her Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 83.
Produced with Claudia Norman Management.
November 27, 2012
West African Griot Summit
Popularly known as “praise singers,” griots also use their songs for gossip, satire, or political commentary. This show features Abdoulaye Diabate, Abdourahmane Mangara, Yacouba Diabate, Mamady Kouyate, Mamady Kourouma, Famoro Dioubate, and other griots from Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, the Gambia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, and Sierra Leone. They will perform on guitar, timbin (flute), gambare (lute), ngoni (lute), kora (harp/lute), balafon (xylophone), and djembe (drum), and they will be joined by special guest vocalists. Curated by Sylvain Leroux.
November 26-28, 2012
Griot Summit Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
A 3-day gathering with artists, scholars, folklorists, journalists and more to network and exchange music and ideas to preserve and strengthen Griot cultures in the United States. This Mid Atlantic Folk Arts Outreach Project is funded by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Tuesday, Oct 30
Matanë Malit: Albanian Songs
Elina Duni – A US Debut
Club Drom
85 Avenue A between 5th & 6th street
Matanë Malit (Beyond the mountain), Elina Duni’s ECM debut, is an homage to Albania. A singer looking at her roots from a present-day vantage point as a musician engaged in improvisational processes. Elina’s exploration of Balkan folk songs led her to uncover songs of the region’s troubled history, as well as of lovers, heroes, workers, shepherds, exiles, songs of resistance, and older songs from her homeland and from its vast diaspora. She will be joined by Colin Vallon on piano, Patrice Moret on double-bass and Norbert Pfammetter on drums.
October, 26-27
Justin Townes Earle – 2 nights!
In The Spirit of Woody Guthrie
10/26 with Joe Pug and John McCauley of Deer Tick
10/27 with Joe Pug and The Low Anthem
Pace Presents, 3 Spruce Street, lower Manhattan
Justin Townes Earle performs his original songs in the context of the continuing legacy of Woody Guthrie on the occasion of Guthrie’s centennial celebration year. Son of the great American troubadour Steve Earle, Justin won the coveted “Song of the Year” award at the Americana Music Awards in 2011. Earle’s latest album, “Nothing’s Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now,” has garnered critical acclaim.
Wednesday, October 24
Bachata Legends Unplugged
Edilio Pareles
with Ramon Cordero, Andre Veloz, and Silo “Jeremias” Jimenez
Elebash Hall, 365 5th Avenue at 34th street
with the cornerstone of the Dominican Republic’s racy, witty acoustic tradition, Edilio Pareles and special guests.
Saturday, October 13
Indian Tabla Maestro
Zakir Hussain and Rakesh Chaurasia
Pace Presents, 3 Spruce Street, lower Manhattan
Tabla superstar Zakir Hussain, India’s most celebrated living artist and an extraordinary percussionist of international renown will be joined for this evening of Indian classical music by bansuri flute prodigy Rakesh Chaurasia, a nephew of maestro Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia. The New York Times calls Hussain “(a) fearsome technician but also a whimsical inventor, so devoted to exuberant play that he rarely seems overbearing, even when the blur of his fingers rivals the beat of a hummingbird’s wings”.
Saturday, October 6
Galicia’s Carlos Núñez (US Debut)
US debut
Club Drom
85 Avenue A between 5th & 6th street
The reedy, haunting sound of the bagpipe is heard all over the world, from the Celtic nations to Eastern Europe. One of the most fascinating traditions has developed in Galicia on the north-western coast of Spain. Their version of the instrument is called the gaita and Carlos Nuñez is its acknowledged master.
Friday, September 28
Mali’s Rising Star
Fatoumata Diawara
The woman Pitchfork calls “beguiling” has worked with some of Africa’s most successful artists, including Oumou Sangaré, Cheikh Lô, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Herbie Hancock, Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Flea and Bobby Womack. Diawara was raised on West African Wassoulou music; a style performed mostly by and about women and thought to be an ancestor of American Blues; she uses this style as the base for her own songs. Her marks Diawara’s NY debut as a soloist and will highlight music from her latest CD on the World Circuit label.
Saturday, September 22
Romania’s Gypsy Brass Band Legends
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Produced with The NY Gypsy Festival
Fanfare Ciocarlia, the 12-piece brass orchestra that The Independent UK calls “a Gypsy music phenomenon” is one of the world’s foremost Gypsy bands. Their sound has been sampled and covered, championed and emulated by countless DJs, bands and Gypsy orchestras. Their radical reinterpretations of popular Western standards like the James Bond Theme and Duke Ellington’s “Caravan” demonstrate how effectively and effortlessly this Romanian orchestra put a unique Gypsy spin on any music they get their horns on. This tour is made possible with the generous support of the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York
Thrusday, September 20
Crossing Boundaries
Vlada Tomova, Emeline Michel, and Martha Redbone
with the jazz-inflected Bulgarian traditional song of Vlada Tomova, the lush vocals of Haitian songstress Emeline Michel, and Martha Redbone’s stirring, Native American-influenced neo-soul.
Sunday, September 16
Joshua Light Show
globalFEST: Debo Band/Forro in the Dark
NYU Skirball is partnering with globalFEST to present two powerhouse ensembles with the otherworldly colorplay of The Joshua Light Show for a supercharged, diverse festival encore.
Debo Band, whose debut album was released by Sub Pop earlier this year to critical acclaim, harnesses the power of 1970s Ethiopian funk, jazz, and rock to unleash rolling, psychedelic grooves, serpentine melody lines, and urgently joyful vocals. Forro in the Dark perform forró, the hip-swiveling, rural party music of Brazil’s northeastern states. The collective includes Mauro Refosco (zabumba drum and vocals) who plays regularly with Thom Yorke, Red Hot Chili Peppers and David Byrne; Davi Vieira (percussion and vocals); Guilherme Monteiro (guitar and vocals) and Jorge Continentino (pifano flute, sax and vocals), who update this Brazilian party music for a 21st century urban cool.
With a finger on the pulse of the most interesting sounds from around the world, globalFEST has defined the leading edge of international music for a decade.
July 31
Songs of Cape Verde
Maria de Barros
“irresistible.” – NY Times
Maria de Barros was born in Dakar, Senegal, lived in Mauritania, and grew up in Rhode Island but her heart belongs to Cape Verde. This tiny island archipelago off the Western coast of Africa, is the birthplace of her parents and is home to some of the most beautifully melancholic music on earth, and to one of the 21st Century’s greatest singers Cesaria Evora who passed away in 2011, and was Maria’s godmother. Maria’s music combines West African, Latin and European styles alongside pop and soul, but stays rooted in the musical traditions of Cape Verde including haunting mornas (think Blues), lively coladeiras (think salsa) and joyful funanas from Cape Verde.
Website: http://www.mariadebarros.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/mariadebarros
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maria-de-Barros/78957182562
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eak0535FUFA
July 24
French Swing from the 20s, 30s + 40s
Les Chauds Lapins
“A lush, swinging, passionate performance of some very smart, funny, unabashedly romantic songs from 1930s and 1940s France.” – Lucid Culture
Les Chauds Lapins (“the hot rabbits”), lead by NY’s Kurt Hoffman and Meg Reichardt, specialize in a repertoire of French swing from the 1920′s – 40′s, an epoch when American jazz and swing was being absorbed into the witty, passionate, highly melodic tradition of French popular music. Their whimsical, sophisticated and poetic repertoire includes numbers popularized by the likes of Mistinguett, Lucienne Boyer, Edith Piaf, and features suave, swing-tinged gems from the enchanted catalog of songs by the great, late Charles Trenet. Their arrangements of long-forgotten French classics contrast scored strings and horns with vintage fretted instruments, most notably banjo ukuleles, a hybrid instrument popular in the 20s and 30s.
Website: http://www.leschaudslapins.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/chaudslapins
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Les-Chauds-Lapins/180931681943573
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D00Z0u6Kl7o
July 22, 8pm
Niyaz
CD release party
Niyaz, the Eastern electronic trance supergroup group, create music centered on the ethereal, unmistakable voice of Azam Ali with the acoustic/electronic instrumentation of Loga Ramin Torkian, and the cutting-edge electronic artistry of two-time Grammy nominee producer-remixer Carmen Rizzo. Niyaz create mystical music with a modern edge effortlessly bringing together Sufi poetry and folksongs from the Middle East with intense acoustic instrumentation and modern electronics. Musical groundbreakers since the release of their debut album in 2005, Niyaz now celebrate their third cd Sumud (steadfastness in Arabic – on the Six Degrees label), which delves deeper still into the philosophical quest of the human soul and brings a message of hope against injustice and oppression of ethnic and religious minority groups. Sumud is a universal tribute to cultural and spiritual diversity, freedom and dignity for all.
Drom: http://www.dromnyc.com/events/1672/niyaz
85 Avenue A btwn 5th and 6th Sts
Website: http://www.niyazmusic.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/niyaz1
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Niyaz-Official-Site/29368606358
July 17
The Lion of Zimbabwe
Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited
Thomas Mapfumo, the Zimbabwean artist, activist and icon has used his revolutionary, spiritually charged chimurenga (Shona for “struggle”) music to decry injustice and highlight the historical and cultural issues that underlie the news headlines of his native land. Mapfumo, who lives in the US in exile due to political unrest under the Mugabe regime, is a musical visionary and a fearless social critic and considered by many one of the greatest African bandleaders of the past century. He will be joined by his band on mbira (thumb piano), bass, guitar, percussion, keyboard.
Website: http://thomasmapfumo.blogspot.com
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thomasmapfumounlimited
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGXSNVOQ53Q
July 10
Locos Por Juana – River 2 River Festival
This party band with an Afro-Colombian heart and soul creates the perfect urban-alternative musical experience. Locos Por Juana seamlessly blends elements of rock, funk, and hip-hop with a wealth of Latin-American rhythms like cumbia, champeta, and salsa and the Caribbean groove of reggae and ska. Locos Por Juana are Itagui Correa on vocals, Mark Kondrat on guitar, and Javier Delgado on drums, joined by trombonist Lasim Richards and percussionist Carlos Palmet
Website: http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/node/1196
Saturday June 9
globalFEST is going on the road to Bonnaroo – America’s biggest, best-lovedsummer music festival
Join us at the globalFEST Tent in Manchester, TN
with Janka Nabay and the Bubu Gang
Debo Band
Khaira Arby
La-33
Red Baarat
Spectrum Road
Pedro Martinez
Plus Radiohead, Tune Yards, Das Racist, Bon Iver, Feist, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
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May 22, 2012
FLAMENCO GITANO The Legendary Manuel Agujetas – Live@365
THIS CONCERT IS SOLD OUT!!
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Outstanding Gypsy singer Agujetas performs in NY for the first time since 1976!
Joined by the superb young Gypsy guitarist Manuel Valencia.
April 13 & 14, 2012 at 7:30pm
Direct from Argentina
Tango Connection: Love Stories – Pace Presents
The artists conjured some real chemistry in their closely linked, swirling duos and their taut, whiplash footwork. — NY Times
Fourteen of Argentina’s leading tango dancers and musicians will perform a passionate, sensuous evening of tango under the direction of world-renowned dancer, producer and choreographer Mariela Franganillo. In this program entitled Love Stories, the company of eight dancers, four musicians and vocalist direct from Argentina, celebrate love. Dancers include Mariana Parma (Evita, Swing, the musical, USA Tango Champion) and Hernan Brizuela (Let’s Speak Tango, Gardenias); Ana Padron and Diego Blanco (Tango 4 All); Walter Perez (Malevaje, Tangou, Fusion Tango, manoAmano) and Leonardo Sardela (Malevaje, Cacho Castagna, Queer Tango Festival) and Jerry and Christine Perez (USA Tango Champions, Gypsy Tango, Amor de Tango, Eras del Tango, Tony Tango). Musicians include Pedro Giraudo, musical director and bass, Octavio Brunetti, composer and piano, Juan Pablo Joffre, bandoneon and composer and Nick Danielson, violinist and vocalist Sofia Tosello.
April 10, 2012
SIMON SHAHEEN The Call: Songs of Arab Pride, Dignity and Liberation – Live@365
Marking the First Anniversary of the Arab Spring, the impeccably creative Palsetinian-American oud and violin virtuoso and composer Simon Shaheen will perform an evening of songs and freedom anthems of the 1950s that have found new resonance in the recent Middle Eastern and North African revolutions. He will also perform the New York premiere of his composition “The Call” with a guest dancer. Simon will be joined by Nidal Ibourk, vocals; Najib Shaheen: oud; Bassam Saba: ney; Peter Slavov: bass; Ali Amr: qanun and vocal; Tareq Rantisi, Percussion and guest dancer Elena Lantini.
Catch globalFEST at SXSW this Friday 3/16!
Speakeasy @ 412 N. Congress Ave (btwn E. 4th & E. 5th)
8:00 pm Janka Nabay & The Bubu Gang (Sierra Leone/NYC)
9:00 pm M.A.K.U. SoundSystem (Colombia/Queens)
10:00 pm Chicha Libre (Peru/Brooklyn)
11:15 pm Debo Band (Ethiopia/Boston)
12:45 am Balkan Beat Box (Israel/USA)
Friday, March 9 and Saturday, March 10 7:30pm
Laurie Anderson’s Delusion, last 2 performances – Pace Presents
Final 2 performances of Delusion, her meditation on language, longing, memory and identity.
Combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals, Delusion tells a complex story about longing, memory and identity in the colorful and poetic language that has become Anderson’s trademark. At the heart of the piece is both the pleasure of language and a terror that the world is made entirely of words. Inspired by the breadth of Balzac, Ozu and Laurence Sterne, and employing a series of altered voices and imaginary guests, Anderson conceived Delusion as a series of short mystery plays that jump-cuts between the everyday and the mythic.
email isabel@livesounds.org for discount code
March 13, 2012
THE PITJANTJATJARA MAN
Songs from Aboriginal Australia: Frank Yamma – Live@365
We are so sorry to announce that Frank was not able to get a visa to the US and we must cancel this event. We hope this matter will be resolved and we will be able to bring back to NY some time in the future.
March 2, 2012 7:30pm
2011 Grammy Award Winners
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Pace Presents
Rooted and trained in the tradition of old-time African American string bands music from the South, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are a delectable treat. With their own distinctive style, this boldly dynamic quartet has been climbing the charts since forming in 2005. Just last year they won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album for Genuine Negro Jig. Band member Rhiannon Giddens explains their authentic approach best by describing, “Tradition is a guide, not a jailer.” This is bound to be an evening of rip-roaring fun. Celebrating their new cd on Nonesuch and produced by Buddy Miller.
Read the 4 star review in Rolling Stone
February 10, 2012 7:30pm
Portugal’s Fado Star Ana Moura – Pace Presents
[Moura makes] each song a series of small dramatic surges: glimmers of hope, hints of sensuality, passages of melancholy, glints of determination. — NY Times
Portuguese vocalist, Ana Moura’s soulful and riveting interpretation of her land’s captivating fado tradition, has led her to become one of the country’s biggest stars. This young star has garnered a loyal following and has captivated hearts and minds world-wide through her exquisite vocal technique as well as her collaborations on stage with the likes of The Rolling Stones and Prince.
Sunday January 8, 2012
9th ANNUAL globalFEST 2012 is SOLD OUT!
- BélO: Haiti’s acoustic innovator and social activist
- Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino: Passionate and exuberant trance and dance music from Southern Italy
- Debo Band: Slinky Ethiopian funk and searing jazz grooves
- Diogo Nogueira: Rio’s red-hot samba star
- M.A.K.U. Sound System: Furious rhythms of NY’s Afro-Colombian underground
- Mayra Andrade: Golden-voiced Cape Verde-born singer
- The Silk Road Ensemble: Virtuoso collective from around the globe
- SMOD (U.S. Debut): Hard hitting, political folk-rap from Mali
- The Gloaming (U.S. Debut): Virtuoso Irish and American supergroup explore new traditions
- Wang Li (U.S. Debut): Sublime Chinese jaw harp master-improviser
- Yemen Blues: Electrifying Yemeni sounds meet jazz, blues and funk
- Zaz: Chart-topping French chanteuse
Each January, musicians from around the world gather in New York to kick off a new year with one amazing night of live music. – All Songs Considered
The preeminent springboard for global music in North America globalFEST has been exploring and presenting a deeply rooted, sonically diverse world to influential North American arts professionals and avid music fans for eight years. Keen to find global performers—both veterans and newcomers—perfectly poised for wider notoriety, globalFEST throws one of the year’s best international music parties while expanding the horizons of musicians and audiences alike.
Produced and curated by Isabel Soffer, Bill Bragin and Shanta Thake.
November 22, 2011
AZAM ALI From Night to the Edge of Day – Live@365
Iranian-born, Indian-raised Azam Ali, one of the most seductive and disciplined voices today, sublimely interprets songs through ultra-modern beats and ambient drones.
November 17, 11 – US Debut
David Murray plays Nat King Cole en Español – Skirball
Few musicians in jazz history have proven more vigorously productive and resourceful than David Murray. His new album, and live project, are akin to a heartfelt love letter to one of the great figures in popular music and a phenomenally gifted jazz musician, Nat King Cole. More than 50 years after their original release, we hear the fruit of one of Murray’s most improbable and effective projects: an interpretation of two albums “Cole Español” and “More Cole en Español” recorded by Nat King Cole in Spanish and Portuguese. With a Cuban ensemble giving the original repertoire a lush sonic canvas full of shimmering, sensual hues.
October 21, 2011 – 7:30pm
Tales from the Sahel
An Evening with West Africa’s Legendary Baaba Maal – Pace Presents
Baaba Maal is one of the finest singers in the world. — The Guardian
One of Africa’s reigning stars, Senegal’s Baaba Maal is renowned for his skill at mixing traditional music with modern beats and as one of Africa’s most influential and thought-provoking spokesmen. Tales from the Sahel is an intimate evening of acoustic music and discussion with renowned music journalist and author Chris Salewicz.
October 18, 2011
PORTUGUESE FADO Antonio Zambujo – Live@365
A US Debut! The exceptional, angelic voice of a Portuguese fado artist who created
a quiet revolution when he won the coveted Amália Rodrigues Foundation’s prize for
Best Male Fado Singer.
9/29/11 – US Debut
Staff Benda Bilili – Skirball
TOUR CANCELLED DUE TO VISA PROBLEMS
9/27/2011
CHAMBER MUSIC Ballake Sissoko and Vincent Segal – Live@365
A stunning collaboration between Mali’s Ballake Sissoko on the 21-stringed harp/lute
kora and elegant cellist Vincent Segal. Chamber music for the 21st century.
June 19 – July 16 – In its 10th year
RIVER 2 RIVER
Contrary to popular belief, the best things in life are not actually free; but thanks to the River to River Festival, some of the summer’s best art and music is.”
— Time Out New York
The River To River Festival is Lower Manhattan’s largest FREE summer arts festival featuring music, film, dance, theatre, art and play elements in a variety of public venues that canvases the beautiful backdrop of Downtown New York-from Chambers Street down to Battery Park and across the island from the Hudson River to the East River.
Inspired by the Public Art Fund’s Sol LeWitt installation in City Hall Park, Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006, River To River Festival has created three special programs that engage with similar aesthetic concerns as the noted artist. This track of programs includes a series of three concerts at The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge. All programs are free and open to the public.
Theo Bleckmann’s Future Quest with Fula Flute
June 25, 7:30
The first in a series of concerts programmed to coincide with The Public Art Fund’s Sol LeWitt installation in City Hall Park, Theo Bleckmann will perform with Future Quest, a quintet devoted to “re-imaginings” of Meredith Monk’s music. Future Quest is Bleckmann on vocals, saxophonists Ellery Eskelin and Tony Malaby, pianist Gary Versace, and John Hollenbeck on percussion. They will be joined on the bill by Guinean music group Fula Flute Fula led by Bailo Bah, the foremost, internationally recognized master of the instrument and will be joined by Sylvain Leroux on tambin; Karl Berger on piano and vibes; Mamadou Ba on bass; Adam Rudolph on percussion and special guest vocalist Abdoulaye Diabate.
Terry Reilly with Ronu Majumdar and George Brooks
July 5, 7:30
The second in a series of concerts programmed to coincide with The Public Art Fund’s Sol LeWitt installation in City Hall Park, legendary composer Terry Riley returns to NYC to celebrate his post-75th Birthday. R2R is honored to present Minimalism pioneer Terry Riley as he performs Indian ragas with arrangements played by the ever progressive saxophonist George Brooks and Indian bansuri flute maestro Ronu Majumdar and tabla virtuoso Samir Chatterjee.
Brooklyn Rider with Kojiro Umezaki
July 12, 7:30
Brooklyn Riderare masters of new music that draws inspiration from diverse cultures and disparate artistic traditions. One of the nation’s most prominent young quartets, they will illustrate their ideas with performances of short pieces from their eclectic repertoire interspersed with, and joined by, amazing Japanese bamboo flute master Kojiro Umezaki, performing his electric shakuhachi.
NY Times review to Brooklyn Rider performance
June 14
6:30pm
Museum Mile
World Music: Tablaphilia- A Tabla Symphony
The steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
81st Street & 5th Avenue
Tablaphilia, a symphony for 24 Indian tabla (Indian drum) players (more than 50+ tablas!) and 4 vocalists is under the musical direction of tabla maestro and composer Samir Chatterjee. Tablaphilia interprets the four stages of life (asharamas) of Hindu philosophy — Brahmacharya, Gruhasta, Vanaprasta and Sanyasa, through complex rhythmic patterns.
June 21, 2011 all over NYC
MAKE MUSIC NY
“An eleven-hour escapade of musical creativity.”
— The New Yorker
Make Music NY, celebrating its 5th Anniversary is a live, free musical celebration across the city that takes place each June 21 — the longest day of the year from 11am to 11pm
Hundreds of public spaces throughout the five boroughs — sidewalks, parks, community gardens, and more — become impromptu stages for over 1,000 free concerts. And this year some spectacular world music participation on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bryant Park, Cornelia Street, Wave Hill and the Americas Society with 100 Indian tablas, the NY Arabic Orchestra, A Japanese Shakuhachi ensemble, A West African Griot Summit and 7-17 year olds form the NY Mariachi Academy.
World Music: Shakuhachis
5:10-5:40
Cornelia Street Festival
The Kyo Shin An Shakuhachi Dojo will play traditional music of the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). James Nyoraku Schlefer and seven students will perform the haunting, penetrating music performed in Japan for centuries in an unbroken tradition associated with the practice of Zen Buddhist meditation.
www.corneliastreetcafe.com
World Music: West African Griot Summit
1-4pm
BronxWave Hill ~ a public garden and cultural center
675 West 252nd Street
www.wavehill.org
A historic meeting of NY’s West African Griot (poet/storyteller/musician/historians) community performing in the spectacular gardens of Wave Hill overlooking the Hudson River. Artists from Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Ivory Coast including Abdoulaye Diabate, voice, guitar; Tapani Sissoko, voice; Mai Kouyate, voice; Mmah Doumbouya, voice; Ayiba Bangoura, voice; Bebe Camara, voice; Sonah Dioubate, voice; Bailo Bah, timbin flute; Abdourahmane Mangara, gambare lute; Yacouba Sissoko, kora harp/lute; Salieu Susso, kora; Lankandia Cissoko, kora; Yacouba Diabate, kora; Mamady Kouyate, guitar; Mamady Kourouma, guitar; Famoro Dioubate, balafon marimba; Abou Sylla, balafon; Toumany Diabate, balafon, djembe percussion; and Makane Kouyate, percussion – will perform throughout the garden and together.
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World Music: Mexican Ballads with Mariachi Academy of NY
6:00pm
Americas Society
680 Park Avenue @ 68th St
www.americas-society.org/
The community-based Mariachi Academy of New York brings 15 students, aged 7-17, to perform the quintessential Mexican folk-derived music, mariachi. Performing classic rancheras and romantic boleros on vocals, violin, guitar, vihuela (guitar), guitarrón (bass guitar) and trumpet.
World Music: NY Arabic Orchestra
5:30 – 6:30pm
The Fountain at Bryant Park
6th Avenue at 41st Street
www.bryantpark.org
Members of The New York Arabic Orchestra takes it to the streets at Bryant Park! Director Bassam Saba and his electrifying cast of musicians will perform an exciting set of dance-inspired music from the Arab World. Bring a picnic, or put on your dancing shoes to enjoy this upbeat set of popular Arabic rhythm and song! www.newyorkarabicorchestra.org
