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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: 8pm – Yotam Silberstein Quartet (Yotam Silberstein – Guitar, Roy Assaf – Piano, Ulysses Owens – Drums and 
John Lee – Bass). 10pm – Sharel 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: 8pm – Princeton 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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Music listings – May 17 through May 23

1. Roberto’s invites you to “Ellery Eskelin Trio and Hayes Greenfield Trio ”

Date: Monday, May 16, 2010
Time: 8pm Ellery Eskelin Trio (Ellery Eskelin – Tenor saxophone, Gary Versace – Organ and Tyshawn Sorey – Drums)  – 10pm Hayes Greenfield Trio (Hayes Greenfield – Sax, Dean Johnson – Bass and Rob Garcia – Drums)
Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s (149 West 46 Street, New York, NY 10036)
Ticket: $10 each set
Genre: Jazz

2. Debapriya Adhikary & Samanwaya Sarkar premier in NY!

Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Time: 8pm
Venue: St. John’s Lutheran Church (81 Christopher Street, corner of 7th Ave., NY 10014)
Price: $25
Genre: World/India

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