Music listings – 6/27 through 7/3/2011

Will be updated during the week!

1. Hot & Cold

Date: June 27, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: Freddys Bar (627 5th Ave at 17th Street – one block from the Prospect Avenue R-stop, Brklyn, N.Y. 1215)
Ticket: $10
Genre: guitar music

Hot & Cold will premier a few works they’ve been co-writing over the last year on their electric guitars. Fusing their common love of improvisation and composition, guitarists Anders Nilsson and Aaron Dugan create musical layers that transgress denominations and -isms and embrace the universe’s constant mandate to create anew.

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2. Leni Stern Band

Date: June 27, 2011
Time: 10pm
Venue: The Bitter End (147 Bleecker Street, New York City, NY 10012, 212-673-7030)
Ticket: $10
Genre: West African music

Leni Stern’s music is inspired by Malian and Senegalese culture. Clearly the German-born, New York-based singer-songwriter-guitarist has found her roots in West Africa. She recorded at singer Salif Keita’s studio in Bamako, Malis. The lineup is: Leni voc and guitar, Mamadou Ba on electric bass, Brahim Fribgane on oud and cajon, Kofu on talking drum and Harvey Wirht on percussion!