Category Archives: Musicians

DooBeeDoo Recommended KICKSTARTER Campaign: Grammy Award Winner Bootsy Collins #iGiveAFunk CD/DVD/TOUR

Grammy Award Winner/Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bootsy Collins is planning a new CD/DVD/TOUR and wants YOU along for the ride! Let the man himself talk to you.

Welcome Funkateer!

I hope you are have’n a funky good time! You’re here because I know you believe in the #iGiveAFunk Groovement. There’s millions of Funkateers out there just needing one taste of the Funk and that’s what #iGiveAFunk is all about, feeding people’s minds (and stomachs too). So, please take a few seconds to spread the Funk.

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Interview: John Pietaro – musician, activist & producer of the Dissident Arts Festival 2013 – speaks out!

Interview by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (DooBeeDooBeeDoo’s chief editor), August 20, 2013

All photos by John Pietaro

946305_10201375067076280_1897149628_nSohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (S): John, let’s talk about your festival “baby” first: the annual Dissident Arts Festival 2013. Why and when did you start this festival?

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DooBeeDoo Event Recommendation: Memorial For Steve Berrios This Coming Thursday

image001 (1)Date: Thursday, August 1, 2013
Time: 5 p.m.
Venue: St. Peter’s Church (619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, NYC)
Ticket: suggested donation of $25

The music world lost another great musician: jazz drummer/percussionist and Ft. Apache founding member Steve Berrios passed away, July 25, 2013. The born and bred New Yorker (February 24, 1945) was a founding member of the groundbreaking Ft. Apache Band alongside brothers Jerry and Andy Gonzalez and pianist Larry Willis and often performed in the Afro-Cuban jazz medium.

Berrios was highly regarded amongst the community of musicians and also played and recorded with Randy Weston, Art Blakey, Kenny Kirkland, Michael Brecker, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Panama, Mongo Santamaría and others.

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