1. The Danil Ponce MemorialDate: Monday, June 17, 2013
Time: 6:30pm
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York, NY 10022, Telephone 212 935 2200)
Ticket: free
Genre: latin jazz
Daniel Ponce the brilliant Cuban conguero/rumbero died in March of this year. If you heard him you remember him. Musicians are gathering as a musical tribute . Continue reading
Date: May 28, 2013
Venue: Littlefield (NY)
Review by Dawoud Kringle
On an unseasonably cold, and wet, spring night, at Littlefield, a venue in a dark street in Brooklyn, Bell Cycle celebrated the release of their new CD. Bell Cycle is an ensemble led by Isabel Castevelli. Rob Chaimberlain played guitar, drums, electronics; at the same time, mind you.
Isabel Castevelli is a graduate from Manhattan School of Music, where she earned a Master’s Degree in 
Contemporary Music Performance and studied with Fred Sherry. She earned her bachelor degree in music performance from DePaul University, where she studied with Katinka Kleijn and Steve Balderston. Previous teachers include Fred Zlotkin, Danny Morganstern and Myriam Santucci. She has toured and recorded in the US, Europe, Asia, South America and the Middle East with the Mivos Quartet, Diane Cluck, Katie Mullins, Marc Farre, Lewis Lazar, Sasha Siem, J.G. Thirwell’s Manorexia, Diane Cluck, CocoRosie, Ned Rothenberg, Tori Ensemble, Timucin Sahin, Beth Nielsen Chapman, CelloVox, Copal, and ThingNY. She lives in New York City.
Date: June 3, 2013
Venue: the National Black Theater (Harlem)
Event review by Quincy Saul (Ecosocialist Horizons)
The event on June 3rd at the National Black Theater in Harlem, hosted by Scientific Soul Sessions, contained more than met the ear or eye. It was buttressed with next-level music; a soulful solo performance by the Iranian music activist Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi in the lobby prepared us for holding nothing back. We then flowed into the otherworldly wonder of the Scientific Soul Band, led by Ben Barson, premiering an original composition titled “Insurrealista.” The ensuing debate between veteran revolutionaries Fred Ho and Eric Mann (the Strategy Center) could only have been a beginning. But for those of us reading between the lines (and quite a few of the people in the audience certainly were) we can detect in this beginning what is and will be the debate of the century. It is not a debate about the problems but about the solutions.
Pussy Riot another photo shoot by Vanya Berezkin (2012)
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
This morning I read the Saturday issue of the New Times and found out that two members of the Moscow based activist group Pussy Riot visited New York last week. How could DooBeeDoo miss them??? Continue reading
