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Pianist / Vocalist Marcia Ball to Perform in Camden
"A sensational, saucy singer and superb pianist...where Texas stomp-rock and Louisiana blues-swamp meet."—USA TODAY Texas-born, Louisiana-raised pianist/vocalist/songwriter Marcia Ball, touring in support of her Grammy-nominated CD Peace, Love & BBQ, will perform at the Camden Waterfront Backyard BBQ in Camden on Sunday, September 5, 2010. Ball's groove-laden New Orleans R&B, heart-wrenching ballads and driving Gulf Coast ...
Oreka TX: Once Endangered, Now on Tour
Oreka TX, North American Tour It can be a game, a friendly duel. It's a dialogue, where it's just as important to listen modestly as to make a bold statement. It can be made of wood, ice, stone. The answer to this riddle: a Basque percussion instrument, the txalaparta, wooden planks laid over trestles and struck ...
New Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live in Chicago Out September 28
Roadrunner/Loud & Proud Records is excited to announce that latest signing Kenny Wayne Shepherd is releasing Live in Chicago, available on 9/28/10. Recorded in Chicago's House of Blues during the critically acclaimed 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads tour, Live in Chicago showcases Kenny and his band, Noah Hunt, Chris Layton, Scott Nelson and Riley ...
Major Music Programming at 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival Includes Special Performance by Pianist Vijay Iyer
The 2010 Philadelphia Live Arts Festival will feature its first large-scale music programming this year with three major musical presentations. Jazz composer and pianist Vijay Iyer whose acclaimed album Historicity topped 2009 critics' lists, will offer a special performance at Eastern State Penitentiary on Saturday, September 11 where he will play within the art installation Release, ...
NPR Music Advance Streams New Albums from Ray LaMontagne & Esperanza Spalding
NPR MUSIC STREAMS ENTIRE ALBUMS FROM RAY LAMONTAGNE AND ESPERANZA SPALDING: “FIRST LISTENS" AVAILABLE AT NPR.ORG/MUSIC NPR Music offers advance album streams of new albums by Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs and Esperanza Spalding. Both are available for free, on-demand listening now until their release on August 17 at www.npr.org/music as part of the site's ...
Jacques Schwarz-Bart Featuring Stephanie McKay: 'Rise Above' on Dreyfus Jazz August 31
Soulful sax man Jacques Schwarz-Bart makes his Dreyfus Jazz recording debut with Rise Above, an eclectic blend of jazz and neo-soul featuring the stirring vocal stylings of former Brooklyn Funk Essentials singer Stephanie McKay. Rise Above is an epic culmination of this son of a Black Guadeloupean mother and a French Jewish father's diverse experiences. “The ...
Rahim AlHaj & the Little Earth Orchestra Find a Global Voice for Peace
Asylum in New Mexican Maqam: Rahim AlHaj and the Little Earth Orchestra Find a Global Voice for Peace Via Iraqi Sounds In the dry mountains of New Mexico, an Iraqi oud (lute) master raises homing pigeons. Persecuted for a single potent song, he fled his native land, only to be deprived of his beloved instruments at ...
Talking Drum Master, Ghana School Builder, Mohammed Alidu and the Bizung Family
Mohammed Alidu has ways of making drums talk. Centuries-old ways passed down through dozens of generations of Bizungs, the hereditary talking drum masters of Northern Ghana. These ways turn drum strokes into speech, transmit instructive proverbs and ancient histories, and spark new exuberantly danceable songs. Alidu takes the talking drums of his past into new territory ...
Galeet Dardashti Gives Voice to Provocative Women of the Bible
The Laughter and Crying of a Persian Jew: Galeet Dardashti Gives Voice to Provocative Women of the Bible This is the story of why the brilliant Queen of Sheba shaved her legs, how the stunning Vashti laid down the line for her drunken husband, and how a mysterious witch spoke King Saul's doom and then served ...
Antibalas 'Who Is This America?' Reissued by Ropeadope
Antibalas is set to have their modern day afrobeat classic, Who Is This America?, reissued by Ropeadope on August 17. While it's common for influential recordings to receive reissue treatment decades later or around specific anniversaries, Ropeadope has made the decision to bring back the Brooklyn-based collective's 2004 album just six years from its initial release ...
