Category Archives: Music Listings

Music listings – 8/2 through 8/8

1. SPANGLISH FLY

Date: Monday 2, August 4, 2010
Time: 9;30pm
Venue: Barbes (376 9th Street, Brooklyn, NY)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Boogaloo, Latin Swing and Shingaling

SPANGLISH FLY. Every Monday in August.
The sounds of 1960’s Spanish Harlem. With Atsushi Tsumura, trumpet; Charly Rodriguez, timbales; Christelle Durandy, percussion; Dmitri Moderbacher, bass; Erica Ramos, lead vocals; Gabo Tomasini, percussion; Jonathan Flothow, bari sax; Jonathan Goldman a/k/a Jonny Semi-Colón, trumpet; Martin Wallace, piano; Mick Santurio, congas; Rose Imperato, tenor sax; Sebastian Isler, trombone. “What Sharon Jones did for oldschool soul, what Antibalas did for Afrobeat and what Chicha Libre is doing for chicha, Spanglish Fly is doing for bugalu. . As dance music, it’s irresistible.” — Lucid Culture

2. Natacha Atlas

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Music listings – 7/26 through 8/1

1. Darius Jones Trio

Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: The Roulette (20 Greene St, NY)
Ticket: $15
Genre: Jazz

Darius Jones Trio
Adam Lane: Bass
Jason Nazary: Drums
Darius Jones: Alto Sax and Composition

Darius Jones is a Brooklyn-based alto saxophonist, composer, and producer. He joined the New York music community in 2005 after living and studying in Richmond, Va. Jones graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a Bachelors in Jazz Studies in 2003 and received a Master’s Degree in Jazz Performance/Composition from New York University in 2008. He received an Advanced Certificate in New Music Education at…(more)

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Music listings – 7/19 through 7/25

1. New York Sufi Music Festival hosted by Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon and Pakistani Peace Builders – from July 20 through July 22, 2010

Concert I

Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Time: 5:00 – 8:00 pm
Venue: Union Square Park (north end, opposite Barnes & Noble, East 17th Street , btwn. Park Avenue South and Broadway)
Ticket: free admission

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Music listings – 7/12 through 7/18

photo by Augusta Palmer

1. THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS

Date: Monday, July 12, 2010
Time: 8:30pm
Venue: THE LOCAL 269 (269 East Houston St, NY, 212-228-9874)
Ticket: $10
Genre: Nu World Trash

THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS are back! Haven’t played for almost six months in NY. The band members are: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (Iran, leader, sax & voc), Derek Nievergelt (bass), Swiss Chris (drums) and Alejandro Castellano (guitar). Of course performing their hit song Welcome New Iran!

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Music listings – 7/5 through 7/12

1. Itutu: Armitage Gone! Dance featuring BURKINA ELECTRIC at Prospect Park.

Date: Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: The Prospect Park Bandshell , Brooklyn
Ticket: free, but $3 donation
Genre: Dance and Burkina Faso Pops

Former “punk ballerina” Karole Armitage, who has choreographed for everyone from Baryshnikov to Michael Jackson, “is always pushing the limits of possibility, spectacularly deconstructing the body with a diabolic flair” (Le Nouvel Observateur, France). In ITUTU, her company shares the stage with the West African band Burkina Electric to create a haunting amalgam of dance and live music that combines ballet and African dance, electronica and ancient rhythms—a uniquely modern synthesis of new and old, pop and tradition.

More about Karole Armitage and Electric Burkina in DBDBD.

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