Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Recommended Event: Musicians of NY PLEASE Join the J4JA’s May Day March!

Justice_4_Jazz_ArtistsFAIRNESS. DIGNITY. RESPECT. NOW’S THE TIME!

Join us on Wednesday, May 1st as Local 802 joins many other labor unions and activist groups to celebrate May Day!

We will be there to bring some music to the event, and also to bring our message that musicians are workers too, and we deserve fair pay and retirement benefits!

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Event Review: “Brooklyn Raga Massive” – A Stepping Stone for the Indian and Western Music Scenes

Date: April 18, 2013
Venue: The Tea Lounge (NY)

Review by Dawoud Kringle

My friend Veronique Lerebours (HarmoNYom), after attending one of my performances, advised me to check out the Brooklyn Raga Massive, which is held every Thursday night at the Tea Lounge in Brooklyn. She assured me I would like it. I had not heard of it before; and I knew this was something I needed to see. So; on a spring night I ventured to the Park Slope neighborhood in Brooklyn.

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Event Recommendation: “Maroon the Implacable” NYC Book Launch

2013-Maroon_NY_finalwebDate: Friday, May 3, 2013
Time: 7pm
Venue: The DiMenna Center for Classical Music (450 W 37th Street, New York, NY 10018)
Ticket: $20.00 (includes a copy of Maroon the Implacable: The Collected Writings of Russell Maroon Shoatz)

Featured speakers

Soffiyah Elijah, former Harvard Law Professor and anti-incarceration activist;
Ben Chaney, brother of martyred student activist James Chaney
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