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| Meetup | Location | RSVPs | |
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| Nov 19 8:00 PM |
2 attended (est.) – No rating yet Please come out this Thursday, Nov. 19, 8 - 10 p.m., to hear the Brazilian jazz. If you like bossa nova, samba, jobim, djavan, ocean breezes, caipirnhas, you'll love The Fernando Holz Band Vernissage Restaurant www.vernissagerestau |
Vernissage Restaurant
Brookline, MA, 02445 |
1 Yes |
| Nov 15 3:00 PM |
1 attended (est.) – No rating yet Cape Cod premiere of the music of G.I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann in concert with Elan Sicroff will be amazing. It takes place on Sunday Nov 15 at 3 p.m. followed by a talk and a reception. Gurdjieff collected tunes from all over middle and central Asia, many of which had origins in antiquity. "There is in our Nature as three-brained-beings "Performances of this quality and intentionality are extremely rare", says Robert Fripp of the music of Sicroff. Learn more at www.campcaravan.org. Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:00 p.m. First Parish Brewster Unitarian Church, Phone: 978-249-4725 Cost: Cape Cod Concert Premiere Enjoy the Cape Cod premiere performance of music written in collaboration by G.I. Gurdjieff and Thomas de Hartmann. Drawn from a wide variety of ancient and world music sources from Tibet to Armenia and Morocco, these unique sounds can bring the attentive listener into a deeper level of experience. Additionally, this is a rare opportunity to hear representative works from de Hartmann’s classical output. Inner Transformation The event includes a lecture on inner transformation given by historian George Bennett, “Changing Ourselves to Serve the Future”. Taught directly by J.G. Bennett, one of Gurdjieff’s greatest followers, George Bennett was raised in an experimental spiritual community at Coombe Springs in England, and attended Bennett's International Academy for Continuous Education at Sherborne, Gloucestershire, England. George spent seven years as an international truck driver before working for twenty years as a journalist and publisher. He currently teaches at the Village School, an elementary school in Royalston, Massachusetts focusing on academic excellence through nature’s classroom, founded by the Millers River Educational Cooperative. The school celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year. Together with Sicroff and others, George will co-lead a six-week residential Gurdjieff Intensive program this summer in Massachusetts. Elan Sicroff Elan SicroffSicroff trained at the Juilliard School with Jeaneane Dowis, protégé of the great Rhosinna Lhevinne. He attended Sherborne from 1973 to 1975. He received training directly from Mme. Olga de Hartmann, wife of the composer, and was with her at the end of her life. Through his highly acclaimed recitals worldwide, he is regarded as the leading interpreter of the music of Gurdjieff and de Hartmann. In January 2009 he toured Italy, England and Malta. and returns to England in January, 2010 for a performance in St. John’s Smith Square, in London followed by an appearance at Vatican City Sicroff’s CD recordings, Sicroff plays Gurdjieff and Journey to Inaccessible Places, are available at performances and at www.sicroff.com, with a new recording due out this winter. Click here for more information on the composers Gurdjieff and de Hartmann, and the pianist, Elan Sicroff. |
First Parish Brewster UU Church
Brewster, MA, 02631 |
1 Yes |
| Nov 14 7:00 PM |
2 attended (est.) –
Voices & Bodies Performance at Springstep This incredible performance features body percussion artist Keith Terry and Evie Ladin, and virtuoso vocalists Philip Hamilton and Kenny "The Human Orchestra" Muhammad. Come take part in this weekend of body percussion and vocal workshops and performances! Performance November 14, 2009, http://www.springste Also check out workshops on November 13, 14, & 15! Springstep is a non-profit cultural arts center devoted to bringing together people and cultures through music and dance. Directions & Transit Springstep is located at 98 George P. Hassett Drive in Medford Square—directly across from Medford City Hall, minutes from downtown Boston, and adjacent to I-93, Route 60, and Route 16. Contact Information |
Springstep
Medford,, MA, 02155 |
2 Yes |
| Nov 14 5:00 PM |
ACAS Activity Center
Woburn, MA, 01801 |
2 Yes |
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| Nov 10 7:30 PM |
13 attended (est.) –
Sofia Rei Koutsovitis 'Sube Azul' CD Release Party Sofia Rei Koutsovitis is releasing her fabulous new album 'Sube Azul' and you can hear the live version because she is playing in Boston - come celebrate her new release: November 10 - 7:30 “ As the Argentine singer Sofía Rei Koutsovitis led her multinational band,(…) the passion and clarity with which she assayed a tricky mix of South American rhythms and jazz-inflected harmonies made clear why she has been embraced by New York City audiences from Carnegie Hall to the hippest downtown haunts. ” FEATURING: Sofía Rei Koutsovitis,“one of the most versatile and in-demand singers on the New York music scene” (All About Jazz), is a Buenos Aires native, a vocalist and a composer who mixes and elegantly fuses South American rhythms with a jazz aesthetic in a unique and extremely seductive way. Singing in Spanish, Portuguese or English, Sofia's voice is so graceful as sophisticated and reflects her immersion in modern and progressive jazz while also responding to the pull of ancestry and the appeal of organic, pan-musical connections. In Danilo Perez' words: "She knows how to combine the best of her Argentine roots with the skills and passion necessary to make many contributions to our music community". Her own project is grounded in traditional South American rhythms such as chacarera, zamba and vidala from Argentina, Afro-peruvian festejo and lando, Afro-Uruguayan candombe, Colombian cumbia and bullerengue and other Brazilian genres that merge involving jazz harmonies and rich improvisations. Her ensemble produces a range of textures as diverse as the cultural roots of its members, an international cast that includes some of the most exiting young talent from North and South America. Her debut CD, Ojalá, received great critical acclaim and was chosen a top 10 album of 2006 by the Jazz Journalists Association. A follow-up CD “Sube Azul” is being released in Europe by the label World Village (Harmonia Mundi) in the Summer of 2009. Sofia has also recorded, performed and collaborated with renowned artists and bands such as Lionel Loueke, Danilo Perez, Folklore Urbano, Russ Ferrante (Yellow Jackets), Alcatraz, Pavel Urkiza (Gema y Pavel), Avantango, John Scofield, Bob Moses, Aquiles Baez and Hector Martignon. She toured Europe with the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and premiered with the group Cerulean Skies, a piece commissioned by the New Crowned Hope Festival in Vienna. She was recently featured with vocal giant Bobby McFerrin in Instant Opera at Carnegie Hall. Sofia has toured Europe, Asia, North and South America singing at renowned international festivals and venues such as the Carnegie Hall (NYC), Kennedy Center (Washington DC) , Lincoln Center (NYC), the Blue Note (NYC), the Chicago World Music Festival (Chicago, IL), Aspen/Snowmass Jazz Festival (Aspen, CO), the International Jazz en Lima Festival (Peru), the Festival Iberoamericano de las Artes (Puerto Rico), Cite de la Musique (Paris, France), the Festival de Jazz de Barcelona (Spain), the IAJE Conference 2008 (Toronto, Canada), the Lapataia Jazz, the World Music Festival (Uruguay) and the International Jazz and Modern music Festival (Bogota, Colombia). more: PURCHASE TICKETS $15.00 |
Regattabar
Cambridge, MA, 02138 |
13 Yes |
| Nov 8 9:00 PM |
8 attended (est.) –
Debo Band and Ansambl Mastika at Midway Cafe Sunday 11/8 Jamaica Plain's Ethiopian Groove Collective meets Brooklyn's New Balkan Uproar! Some of the New York Balkan music scene's smokin'est musicians have teamed up to form Ansambl Mastika, playing original compositions by virtuoso clarinetist Greg Squared, and featuring musicians from Slavic Soul Party, Raya Brass Band, and more. They're making a rare trip to Boston to play with Boston's 10 piece Debo Band, bringing back the irresistible sounds of 1960s and 70s Swinging Addis. Midway Cafe, Jamaica Plain (accessible by the Green St station on the Orange Line) 3496 Washington Street, Jamaica Plain $10 cover, 9 pm doors The facebook invite: http://www.facebook. |
Midway Cafe
Jamaica Plain, MA, 02130 |
6 Yes |
| Oct 24 6:30 PM |
11 attended (est.) –
Six Styles of Music and Dance from Around the World In Benefit Concert for Climate Change October 24, 2009 is Order here via CCNow Tickets ($20) or On Saturday, October 24, six different Boston-based performers of international music and dance will join together to draw attention to the global climate crisis. Featured artists include: Balkan and European music by members of the internationally acclaimed ensemble Libana; contemporary Indian classical dance with the Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater; Japanese classical music for koto and shakuhachi with Ayakano Cathleen Read & Elizabeth Reian Bennett; Hindustani classical music with Warren Senders and The Raga Ensemble; middle-Eastern music with Beth Bahia Cohen, and traditional drumming and dance of Ghana with the Agbekor Drum and Dance Society. The music begins at 6:30 pm, at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA. Tickets are $20; $15 students/seniors. All proceeds will go to the environmental organization www.350.org. For information, please call 781-396-0734. About the Performers: Libana is New England’s internationally-tour Now in its 30th season, Libana presents an exhilarating cross-cultural performance that opens windows into diverse, rarely heard, women’s musical expressions from around the world, from exquisite Balkan harmonies to the rooted pulses of Latin American rhythms, from hauntingly beautiful sounds of Hungarian Slav music to a riveting ritual exorcism dance with percussion from Egypt, all woven into a collage of shifting colors and rhythms. They perform with an array of instruments including oud, hammered dulcimer, clarinet, accordion, double bass, dumbek, riqq, and bombo. Libana Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater (ASDT) has a wide repertoire of solo and group works in classical and contemporary dance and theater. Inspired by Indian classical and folk dance forms, theater (both Western and Indian), world music, martial arts (Kalari ppayattu), aerial dance, yoga, live singing and storytelling, Sindhoor’s work is dynamic, radical, and original in style and content. The company has been touring all over the world including USA, Canada, Germany and India. ASDT is known for its work with themes that deal with human issues in a meaningful way that makes audiences enjoy and be touched at the same time. Aparna Sindhoor Dance Theater Ayakano Cathleen Read began studying Yamada School koto music in 1969. On Jan. 7, 1974 she became the first non-Japanese to join the shachu (musicians guild) of Nakanoshima Kin’ichi, and given the performing name Ayakano. Ms. Read has concertized widely in the United States, Japan and West Africa. She is adjunct professor in the Music Department of Tufts University. The koto is a traditional Japanese instrument with a long neck and rectangular sound box. It has thirteen strings and adjustable bridges to change the pitch of various strings. Elizabeth Reian Bennett is the first woman to play professionally as a Grand Master of the shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flute, and stands out as one of only a handful of western players trained in traditional Japanese music. She has studied and performed with Living National Treasure Aoki Reibo, recognized as Japan’s foremost shakuhachi instrumentalist, for 30 years. Elizabeth Reian Bennett Ayakano Cathleen Reade Warren Senders and The Raga Ensemble present “khyal,” the richly ornamented improvisational artsong of North India. Accompanied by the harmonium of Dr. George Ruckert, the tabla of Akshay Navaladi, and the tamboura and supporting vocals of Vijaya Sundaram, Warren Senders weaves a hypnotic tapestry of sound in his rendition of traditional ragas. Acclaimed as the foremost non-Indian performer of this beautiful idiom, Senders lived in India for many years, learning the khyal style from master teacher Pt. S.G. Devasthali. He has performed throughout the world, enrapturing audiences and critics with a unique combination of authenticity and originality. Warren Senders Beth Bahia Cohen is of Syrian Jewish and Russian Jewish descent and has spent many years exploring the ways the violin and other bowed string instruments are played in Greece, Turkey, Hungary, and the Middle East. She plays several Greek lyras, the Turkish bowed tanbur and kabak kemane, the Egyptian rababa, the Norwegian hardanger fiddle, and more. She was a Radcliffe Bunting Fellow and has been the recipient of many travel and research grants, including an NEA/Artists International grant to study the classical music of Turkey. In addition to performing throughout the U.S., she teaches workshops and ensembles on Middle Eastern, Eastern European, Greek and Turkish music in conservatories and universities throughout the U.S as well as teaching privately in her studio in Watertown. She performs solo concerts of traditional and original music on various bowed string instruments from many countries (The Art of the Bow), as well as concerts exploring traditional Jewish music from all over the world. Beth Bahia Cohen The Agbekor Drum and Dance Society is a group of friends who have been studying, teaching and performing the music and dance of the Ewe tribe of Ghana, West Africa for the past three decades. Under the direction of Tufts Professor Dr. David Locke, the members of ADDS present an energetic and tightly synchronized blend of drumming, singing and dancing. While pieces like the intricate “Adzogbo” and “Yeve” are multi-part suites of extraordinary richness and complexity, “Gahu” and “Kinka” are vibrant and kinetic dance music that gets listeners up and moving. The Agbekor Drum and Dance Society About www.350.org and the number 350: Co-founded by environmentalist and author Bill McKibben, 350.org is the hub of a worldwide network of over two hundred environmental organizations, all with a common target: persuading the world’s countries to unite in an effort to reduce global levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide to 350 parts per million or less. Climatologist Dr. James Hansen says, “If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on Earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm.” (Dr. Hansen heads the NASA Institute for Space Studies in New York City, and is best known for his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.) Activists involved in the 350 movement include Rajendra Pachauri (Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), Vandana Shiva (world-renowned environmental leader and thinker), Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1984 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and a global activist on issues pertaining to democracy, freedom and human rights), Van Jones, Bianca Jagger, Dr. James Hansen, Barbara Kingsolver and many more. (complete list of “350 Messengers here) About the Global Day of Climate Change Action on October 24th, 2009: “Playing for the Planet” is just one of over a thousand actions which will be taking place all over the planet. The organizers explain: “We’re calling on people around the world to organize an action on October 24 incorporating the number 350 at an iconic place in their community, and then upload a photo of their event to 350.org website. We’ll collect these images from around the world and, with your help, deliver them to the media and world leaders. Together, we can show our world and its decision-makers just how big, beautiful, and unified the climate movement really is.” The photographs of 350-themed actions will be delivered to delegates at the December Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, in order to underline both the importance of the number and the broad international support for an agreement limiting atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm. Warren Senders is the contact person for “Playing for the Planet.” He is one of thousands of concerned global citizens hoping to trigger positive change through social action and the arts. He can be reached at warvij@verizon.net or by telephone at 781-396-0734. Here is the action page at www.350.org Here is a discussion of the science behind the number 350. Here is a description of the Day of Action on October 24th. |
First Church in Cambridge
Cambridge, MA, 02138 |
11 Yes |
| Oct 10 9:00 PM |
150 attended (est.) –
Atlas Soul is playing Ryles Jazz Club Saturday October 10 2009 at 9:00 PM Atlas Soul a cross-cultural music experience group- is performing songs from their 2008 Independent Music Award finalist CD: “Maktoub” (destined) at Ryles Jazz Club Saturday October 10 at 9:00 PM. "Atlas Soul's blend of jazz, funk and Middle-Eastern/Arabi World Music journalist Banning Eyre (Afrobeat worldwide) writes: Atlas Soul’s music bridges the gap between Eastern and Western cultures. This is why they have been described as “cross-cultural-musi Atlas Soul sings in Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, Hebrew and English. The lyrics speak of love, natural wonders, oppression, poverty, and of the melancholy of immigrants longing for their homelands. Their motto is world-music-for-worl Philosophically and politically, Atlas Soul hopes to inspire world peace through a fusion of music and culture that gets people to the dance floor. Effortless cross-cultural blend with enticing results! The hallmark of the North African musical tradition is an openness to others. Musicians from this culture effortlessly blend centuries-old rhythms, instruments and melodic concepts with modern ideas and innovations from the world over, creating a constantly changing panorama of styles. Jacques Pardo and Atlas Soul exemplify this spirit. In their second CD, Mabrouka, the group serves up a tantalizing stew of musical styles. The delighted listener hears the influences of jazz, Latin, flamenco, French hip-hop and the traditional North African music, all blended with the deft and sure hand of a master chef. Great vocals top off the warm and savory instrumental mix. Mike Crager - CDbaby.com Thank you for sending on this C.D. This is to use the old "cliche " something totally different. It is an exciting cornucopia of world music, and cultural rhythms blended and fused together to produce a sound which is both melodic and exciting. Superbly played, arranged, and produced this recording is highly innovative and listenable, and conjures up vivid images of exotic and far away places. I would certainly like to hear other work by Jacques Pardo and his group of talented Musicians. Great rhythms. John Reid - Keith Community Radio 102.8 FM Keith Fantastic Album. Great stuff for our Radio Station Alex Pijnen - BRTO Radio Kate Martinelli - Ozcat Radio 91.5 James Cervantes - KWVA Dr. StrangeDub (Michael Rose) - KFAI-FM Graham J Barclay - Soundwave FM |
Ryles Jazz Club
Cambridge, MA, 02139 |
10 Yes |
| Sep 23 8:00 PM |
Ryles Jazz Club
Cambridge, MA, 02139 |
1 Yes |
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| Sep 15 7:30 PM |
Basha Café
Cambridge, MA, 02138 |
1 Yes |
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