Date: Monday, March 21, 2016
Time: 8pm
Venue: The Roulette (509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217)
Ticket: $20
Genre: multi-media performance
A multi-media performance conceived, created, developed and designed by Haeyoung Kim (aka Bubblyfish)
Directed by Josh Chambers
Artist: Dahlia Dumont & The Blue Dahlia
Title: The Blue Dahlia
Label: self produced
Genre: Pop-Reggae/French Reggae-Ska
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
The second decade of the 21st century ushered in an unforeseen phenomenon: pretty young women with ukuleles. Those of us who were born in the 60s and 70s sure didn’t see this coming! And with such women who seek a serious professional career, they have a lot of preconceived ideas to get past. So, with as much of an open mind as I could muster (suppressing the subtle sexism I was programmed with in my native culture), I wondered what The Blue Daliah had to offer.
Date: Monday, March 14, 2016
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker St, New York, New York 10012)
Ticket: $15/$20/$25
Genre: classical and contemporary
Praised as “superbly subtle and virtuosic” (The Arts Desk) and “an amazingly accomplished artist” (Classical Source), Russian Ksenija Sidorova is the leading ambassador for the accordion.
In 2009 Ksenija made her debut at London’s Wigmore Hall and appeared in the Park Lane Group Young Artists Showcase prompting The Times to single her out as“one of the real finds of the series”. In May 2012 she became the first International Award winner of the Bryn Terfel Foundation, and this year appears at the Royal Albert Hall as part of his 50th birthday celebrations alongside Sting. Ksenija Sidorova official site
Text by Dawoud Kringle
Musicians in the USA have often been the victim of political candidates appropriating their music for the purpose of campaigning and propaganda. This is always done without the artist’s permission.
Artist: David Belmont With With Brent Arnold
Title: International Steel Guitar
Label: Windwater Productions
Genre: World/blues/ambient soundscapes
CD Review by Dawoud Kringle
New York City based guitarist / composer / producer / co-director of the Castillo Theatre David Belmont has a history of producing music from ambient soundscapes, jazz / rock / world fusion and avant garde jazz. In International Steel Guitar, joined by Brent Arnold (cello) and Michael Walsh (keyboards), he takes things to musical places not normally associated with the Dobro guitar.
