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DooBeeDoo Recommends: HarmoNYom and Make Music NY, in association with Navatman Present…”A Solstice Summer of Indian Music” at Central Park tomorrow!
FRIDAY JUNE 21, from 4 PM to 8 PM
Great event for Indian music lovers and fans!!!
VISION FESTIVAL 18 Report P.1: feat. Steve Dalachinsky/Connie Crothers Duo and Bern Nix Quartet
Date: June 14, 2013
Venue: the Roulette (NY)
Concert review by John Pietaro
While the Vision Festival stands out as perhaps the preeminent vehicle for experimental, improvisation-based musics in the nation, it has also been controversial in its dogged pursuit of star-status performers that are can draw large audiences. Sad that the scheduling continues to make lesser-known performers feel closed out but one cannot deny that the organizers know how to program concerts that never fail to blow the roof off of the house. This year’s Festival was packed with brilliance but time constraints allowed me to choose but part of one evening and so, as legendary harmolodic guitarist Bern Nix has finally been called to the Vision stage, I couldn’t miss this one. Happily, the noted poet Steve Dalachinsky, a welcome mainstay of Vision from the start, had the opening set of the evening, one he performed with long-time jazz pianist Connie Crothers. This pairing of spoken word/piano and guitar-based combo appeared to be opposing forces initially but the evidence was in quickly, proclaiming that this was another Vision Festival bit of programming genius…
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Event review: Questions, Challenges And New Visions In A Conversation Between Fred Ho & Eric Mann
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.
