Text by YaliniDream
Photos from top to Bottom by: Dan Woulfin/Charles B. Wang Center, AbsolutQueer Photography,, BJ Watkins
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Benji Rogers (photo by Matt Furman)
Benji Rogers founded Pledge Music to help musicians and fans share in the experience of creating albums. 6 years ago when Benji started Pledge Music, there were fan-funding platforms popping up left and right, but nothing that really focused on fan participation.
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Today I would like to announce my endorsement of Alejandro Castellano’s fundraiser campaign, who is a dear music colleague and friend of mine. I met him at a Bedford music club in Williamsburg in 2009 when his band INDRA opened up for a friend’s band. I loved his guitar sound and invited him to join my band SoSaLa. His guitar playing and guitar sounds are captured on four tracks of my CD SoSaLa Nu World Trash.
Please listen to “Ja-Jou-Ka” below which will tell you why his guitar sound is so special to me.
Date: Wednesday, June 11 thru Sunday, June 15, 2014
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY)
Tickets: Daily Admission: $30 per day / $20 students & seniors
5-day pass: $140 / VIP Pass $270
At the door or online vf19.bpt.me
INFO: Email info@artsforart.org / Call (212) 254-5420
Photos courtesy of the Vision Festival
3 Panels Honoring The Legacy of Amiri Baraka June 13, 14, 15
Each Night a poet will read from the words of the Great Amiri Baraka
6/11 Quincy Troupe, 6/12 Steve Dalachinsky, 6/13 Ramya Ramana,
6/14 David Mills, 6/15 David Henderson
Date: Monday, May 26, 2014
Time: 7:30pm to 11pm
Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002)
Tickets: $11 per set
Genre: jazz/improv
7:30 – Avram Fefer Quartet
Aruan Ortiz – piano
Avram Fefer – tenor & alto sax
Michael Bisio – double bass
Michael Wimberly – drums
8:45 – Alex Harding Trio
Alex Harding – bari sax
Hill Greene – bass
Reggie Nicholson – drums
