Category Archives: Music Listings

Fatoumata Diawara brings her US tour to NYC with a concert tonight!

Date: Friday, September 28, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts (3 Spruce Street, New York, NY 10023, Located between Park Row and Gold Street (near Brooklyn Bridge and City Hall)
Ticket: $35
Genre: Malian pop

The extraordinary story of Mali’s Fatoumata Diawara’s meteoric rise as one of today’s most exciting artists. begins with her joining a theatre company, performing the classical Greek role of Antigone, starring in a string of successful films, running away to France and finally finding her calling as a musician. At the center of her music is a warm, affecting voice; spare, rhythmical guitar playing; and gorgeously melodic songs incorporating elements of funk, soul and jazz. This show marks her NY debut as a soloist and celebrates her latest CD Fatou on the Nonesuch label.

Music Listings – 9/13 through 9/30

1. Sanda Weigl

Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10003, 212-967-7555)
Tickets: $15
Genre: protest and revolutionary songs from all over the world

Sanda Weigl returns to the Pub with her new program of protest and revolutionary songs from all over the world. Romanian born singing-sensation Sanda Weigl blends gypsy music, cabaret and jazz, reflecting her own life story in every moment of her performance.

As outspoken politically as she is uncompromising musically, Sanda first achieved fame as a teen-age member of Team 4, East Germany’s most popular rock band of the 1960s. After publicly denouncing communism and Russia’s invasion of Czechoslovakia, she was banned from performing and sentenced to two years in an East Berlin prison; then, expelled to the West where she was free to continue crafting her art.
Since relocating to New York in the early nineties, Sanda has performed her singular interpretations to critical acclaim throughout the United States, Mexico, Poland, Germany, Austria, Israel, and an especially triumphant series of concerts in her native Romania. Continue reading →

Concert Recommendation: The Joshua Light Show w. Debo Band and Forro in the Dark

Date: Sunday, September 16, 2012
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: NYU Skirball Center (566 LaGuardia Place, New York, NY 10012)
Ticket: $20-32
Genre: Ethiopian funk, jazz, and rock/rural party music of NE Brazil

The Joshua Light Show, perhaps the most legendary visualists of live music are joined by Debo Band who harness the power of 1970s Ethiopian funk, jazz, and rock with rolling, psychedelic grooves and Forro in the Dark perform the hip-swiveling, rural party music of NE Brazil.

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