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Concert review: Jeremy Siskind…sometimes great music just falls into your lap!

Date: May 30, 2012
Venue: Carnegie Hall
Concert review by Dawoud Kringle

Sometimes great music just falls into your lap. The founder and editor of DooBeeDooBeeDoo called me at the last minute and asked if I would review a recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall. This was somewhat inconvenient for me, as I had an early performance of my own that day. But, I agreed. After my own performance on a pleasant summer evening, I ran home, dropped off my instruments and headed for the legendary venue to listen to a pianist I’d never heard of. 

That pianist is Jeremy Siskind.

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Event recommendation: Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris Conduction® Workshop/Atelier @ the FIREHOUSE SPACE (NY).

Date: Saturday, June 9 and June 16, 2012
Time: 2pm
Venue: The Firehouse Space (246 Frost St., East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211)
Genre: Jazz workshop

Over the last 25 years, Butch Morris has opened the door to a new understanding of musical language. It is called Conduction®. Employing 5,000+ musicians in 23 countries and 65 cities, Conduction® has amply demonstrated its capacity for cultural diplomacy, compelling and inspiring musicians and audiences alike.

A matinee performance by New York’s Gamelan Dharma Swara group @ Le Poisson Rouge

Date: May 20, 2012
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (NY)
Photos: C. Bay Millin
Review by Jim Hoey

Sunday, May 20, 2012 – On this bright Sunday, I found myself slipping into Le Poisson Rouge and down their steps for a matinee performance by New York’s Gamelan Dharma Swara group. The space was dark, set up with chairs for the sit-down lunch crowd, and the stage was curiously lined with the golden-hued gamelan instruments including the metallophones (gambang, slenthem, saron, gender), gongs, and other percussion instruments (like the kettle-like kenang and bonang) of the Balinese art form that predates the arrival of Hindu and Buddhist culture on the islands of Indonesia.

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Recommended event: FIGMENT NYC on Governor’s Island featuring Jason Candler’s installation

Text by Jason Candler 

in so many words is an 18 ½ hour time capsule of news radio, composed entirely of unedited sound bites, devoid of any newscasters, commentators, editorials or analysts (and is commercial free!).  it sequentially covers the time period of the last Presidential Election, and the first hundred days of the Obama Presidency (May 12, 2008 to May 12, 2009).  The edited result unfolds a mind-opening non sequitur narrative that informs you about the city, country, and world we live in, the scope of news reporting, the connections seemingly different stories have with each other, and how you relate to this reality.  The longer you listen, the more the puzzle pieces fall into place.

to commemorate the 4 year anniversary of when i started the project, i have posted here the first month of the story, which covers May 12 – June 12, 2008. (listen to soundfile here)

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Music listings – 6/4 through 6/10

1. Jimmy Cliff

Date: Tuesday, June 5, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Prospect Park Bandshell (9th St. and Prospect Park West entrance)
Ticket: free, but $3 donation
Genre: reggae/pops

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Jamaican independence, the 40th of the iconic film The Harder They Come, and 34 years of free shows at Celebrate Brooklyn!, reggae legend JIMMY CLIFF kicks off our season with a concert for the ages. Cliff’s musical legacy includes such classics as You Can Get It if You Really Want and Many Rivers to Cross, and his voice, true as ever, remains one of the wonders of popular music.

2. Martin Bisi with Emanuel And The Fear & Spaces 

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