Category Archives: Music Listings

Music listings – 6/21 through 6/27

1.Linebreak: Poetics of Iran

Date: Saturday, June 26, 2010
Time:7:30pm
Venue: Zora Art Space (315 4th Avenue between 3rd and 2nd streets in Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Ticket: $8 (donation)
Genre: Iranian poetry and music

Presenting a sampling of Persian poets, such as Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Balkhī, Baba Taher, Shams e Maghrebi, and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani, among others, through spoken word and music.

Performing members are: Sara Goudarzi (vocal & poetry)
Aida Shahghasemi (vocal & Daf)
Sinan Gündoğdu (Saz & Oud)

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Music listings – 6/14 through 6/20

1. The Mighty Alpacas ( before called The Energizers)

Date: Monday June 14, 2010
Time: 10:30pm
Venue: Otto’s Shrunken Head (538 East 14th. Street between Avenue A and B)
Ticket: no cover
Genre: Jazz/World/improve

4 gentlemen came together just recently to entertain New Yorkers in a free approach towards music. Their music is created in the moment and sounds very fresh.  The members are: Shakira’s percussionist Ravish Momin www.ravishmomin.com, Iranian saxophone sensation and leader of  THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS‘ Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi www.myspace.com/sohrabsaadat, New York’s most in demand session trumpeter Lex Samu www.lexsamu.com. and Stumblebum Brass Band founding member and tuba player Jesse Dulman www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW9HfTX9jlw

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Music listings – 6/7 through 6/13

1. TARANGA + Kevin Mambo from FELA!

Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, btw 4th St. and 5th St.)
Ticket: $10
Genre: World/Senegal/Mbalax/Afrobeat

TARANGA, NYC’s new M’Balax Band will be sharing the Stage with Kevin Mambo and his group BLAZ and the 88 SOUND. For those of you who don’t know already, Kevin plays Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the critically acclaimed Broadway show FELA! BLAZ and the 88 SOUND goes on at 10pm, TARANGA will be at 11pm.

Taranga is:
Backa Niang (lead vocals, sabar percussions)
Mahanta Faye (Drumset)
Arone N’diaye (Marimba Keyboards)
Raja Kassis (lead Guitar)
Mor Coumba Gueye (Sabar percussions/Animation)

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Music Listings – 5/31 through 6/6

1. Roberto’s invites you to “Yotam Silberstein Quartet & Sharel Cassity Sextet ”

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Time: 8pmYotam Silberstein Quartet (Yotam Silberstein – Guitar, Roy Assaf – Piano, Ulysses Owens – Drums and 
John Lee – Bass). 10pmSharel Cassity Sextet (Sharel Cassity – Alto Saxophone, Michael Dease – Trombone, Greg Gisbert – Trumpet, Ulysses Owens – Drum, John Lee – Bass, Roy Assaf – Piano)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. New Africa Live presents Meklit Hadero & The Olatuja Project

Date: Tuesday, june 1, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $22
Genre: folk, singer-songwriter, electronic, jazz, world

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Music listings – 5/24 trough 5/30

1. Roberto’s invites you to “Princeton Jazz Quartet and Steve Wilson Quartet ”

Date: Monday, May 24, 2010
Time: 8pmPrinceton Jazz Quartet (Tom Artin – trombone/flute, Dick LInciln – vibes, Ed White – bass, Alan Bergman – drums and special guest: Joe Cohn – guitar). 10pm –  Steve Wilson Quartet (Steve Wilson – sax, w/ Linda Oh, Rodney Green and Kerong Chok)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. Holy Fuck with Nice Nice

Date: Friday, May 28, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: Le Poisson Rouge ( 158 Bleeker St., Ny, NY 10012, Phone: (212) 505-3474)
Ticket: $16
Genre: electronica, experimental, noise, indie-rock

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