Author Archives: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Music Listings – 1/26 through 2/1/2015

1. Adam Maalouf: WORLD PERCUSSION WORKSHOP

Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Time: 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Sacred Arts Research Foundation (107 Green St #G55, Brooklyn, New York 11222)
Ticket: $20
Genre: percussion workshop

Join us in for a hands-on musical experience led by hand percussionist and musical messenger Adam Maalouf. The workshop will focus on rhythms and techniques for hand drums of the Mediterranean, including Frame Drums, Doumbek (goblet shaped drum), and Riq (Middle Eastern Tambourine). The workshop will also explore ways of approaching and composing on the Hand Pan (commonly known as the Hang Drum). No experience is necessary! Drums will be provided at no extra cost, and you are welcome to bring your own to play and share. Dust off your drum and Pre-Register today!

Multi-Instrumentalist Adam Maalouf is a performer, composer, educator and musical messenger. As a specialist in world percussion, Adam produces his own music live and in the studio, in which he incorporates instruments such as the Hand Pan, cello, vocals, drum set, world percussion, marimba, and electronics.

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CD Review: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb…It is within our power to be as we ought to be

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb CD coverArtist: Ayelet Rose Gottlieb
Title: Roadsides
Label: Arogole Music
Genre: world music/traditional/jazz
Review by Dawoud Kringle

Ayelet Rose Gottlieb’s music blends Jazz, Middle-Eastern & Jewish music, combined with her innovative approach to composition & improvisation. Her history is fascinating.

Gottlieb was born in Jerusalem, to a background of mixed cultures and a musically seasoned family. She was exposed to Oum Kalthoum, J.S. Bach, The Beatles, Andres Segovia, Laurie Anderson, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Dylan, Thelonious Monk, Fairuz, and many others. In her childhood, she played the classical flute until graduating from the High School For the Arts in Jerusalem.

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Attention: 37 Galleries with a Diverse Cross-section of Cultures and Time Periods, Historic to Contemporary

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The 2015 METRO Curates opens this Week at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea

Forum Gallery Metro Curates will take place January 22-25 with an opening night preview on Wednesday evening, January 21.

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Indiegogo Camapign: Create An Album With Ted Drozdowski’s Scissormen! Bridge the future and history of great American roots music — real stories, epic sounds, surprises

Text by  Ted Drozdowski

Over the decades I’ve earned an international reputation as an inventive, hard-working musician and entertainer, and respected and award-winning journalist, historian, educator and advocate. Every project I’ve undertaken has had the mission of bringing great American roots music to more people while making them happy. The next step in this mission is a new album called Love & Life, which will bridge the past and present in a fresh and authentic way with the best music I’ve ever made. It’s joyful music that touches the mind and inspires the soul.

To do this, I need funding to create, mix, master and manufacture Love & Life, and to take it to the world with a marketing campaign that speaks to a broader audience. With your support, I can build a new, vital, living perspective on American roots music.

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