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Thirsty for Chicha (Music)?
Cultural phenomena streak through popular consciousness like meteorites. There's a significant, even life-changing, impact made somewhere, but for many it's only a moment that flickers by, soon to be swallowed back into the cosmos. Chicha might have been like that. Instead, a once-obscure music that enjoyed a fanatic embrace in the Peruvian slums of the 1970s ...
JazzFest Berlin 2010 Programme Available & Tickets On Sale
JazzFest Berlin 2010—Goes Europe! This year's edition of the Berlin Jazz Festival (JazzFest Berlin 2010) will take place from November 3 to 7. Artistic director Nils Landgren and the Berliner Festspiele treat you to a resounding jazz experience with 23 events, more than 30 jazz ensembles and roughly 250 musicians. The recent festival focusses on the ...
Debut Theatrical Screenings of Leonard Cohen's "Songs from the Road"
Emerging Pictures and Legacy Recordings have joined forces to present the US theatrical premiere of Leonard Cohen's Songs From The Road, a concert film comprised of a dozen exceptional performances, each taken from a different city along Cohen's highly-acclaimed 2008/2009 concert tour. Following the celebration of his 40th year as a Columbia artist in 2007 and ...
Ramsey Lewis Will Premiere Major New Composition "Colors" at Blue Note Tokyo
Legendary jazz pianist Ramsey Lewis is currently putting the finishing touches on a major new work entitled Colors—The Ecology of Oneness. Written for his jazz trio, the piece will be performed against a dazzling visual backdrop designed by acclaimed Chicago-based photographer Michael Coakes. The new work will receive its World Premiere at the renowned Blue Note ...
Putamayo to Release "Yoga" Music September 14
Yoga, scheduled to be released on September 14th, is Putumayo's first CD release featuring songs selected to accompany yoga practice and serve as a relaxing soundtrack for daily life. Yoga features renowned musicians from around the world. British-born, South Indian artist Susheela Raman duets with Kenyan singer Ayub Ogada on the harmonious “O Rama." Krishna Das, ...
Soulsville Charter School Orchestra Concert at Metal Museum
On Thursday, September 2nd, The Soulsville Charter School Philharmonic Orchestra will perform at the National Ornamental Metal Museum's Thursday Night Live Family Fun Night, in a concert on the grounds overlooking the Missisippi River. Event is from 6:30 to 9 p.m. $5 Admission | FREE to Metal Museum Members For more information, ...
Bohemian Philanthropy: Songs from the East Village
Bohemian Philanthropy: Songs from the East Village Taps Deep Roots, Bolsters Unique Public School Most public schools facing the current funding crunch mount desperate donation drives or bake sales. But at the arts-based East Village Community School in the heart of one of New York's historically bohemian and global neighborhoods, parents, students, and school staff opted ...
Soulful Samba Transcendence: Brazilian Star in the US
If Pedro Moraes had a muse, she'd shake up sweaty samba bars, hips swaying, and turn heads dancing in the street, snaking her way from Rio's bohemian quarter to Bahia and Recife (and on to Mexico City and Liverpool). She'd boogie between the earthy and the erudite, with heady tropicalismo and brainy modernism. She'd embody the ...
Fat Freddy's Drop Jamming Live & Taking Names
Fat Freddy's Drop Captured in Their Natural State: Jamming Live and Taking Names at the Roundhouse Fat Freddy's Drop has battled mad scientists and unleashed mad skills. An unlikely band of sons of the Pacific, they can flip on the fly from Maori reggae to sweet Yankee soul with near psychic precision. Like kungfu masters, they ...
Memorial for Vibraphonist Carl Leukaufe to be Held at Chicago's Jazz Showcase
Chicago, IL: Carl Leukaufe, a vibraphonist who was considered a treasure of the Chicago jazz scene for the past several decades, passed away on August 18 after a brief illness. He was 76. Hazel, his wife of 53 years, passed away in November, 2009. A memorial to celebrate his life and music will take place on ...
