Photo by Dawoud
Date: September 29, 2011
Venue: Baruch College
Concert review by Dawoud Kringle
Concert review: Shahid Parvez Khan – Navigating the Ocean Wherein There Is No Fear of Drowning.
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Occupy Wall Street: CNN iReporter Paul Richards reports from Time Square (NY) & Jello Biafra praises the OWS and gives the demonstrators some advice!
Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
My friend and CNN iReporter Paul Richards aka Shaky Jones, on October 15, 2011 (Report 2) reporting from Times Square (NY) as part of the Occupy Wall Street movement (OWC). The below two videos are telling things which I also observed last Saturday. There is one thing I would like to point out, is that the OWC is not only a protest movement, but also a movement which wants to confirm with a loud physical voice that wrong doing has been happening for a long time. It’s about enough is enough. Do they know how to correct all the misdoings? At this time no, but I think if this movement gets bigger and spreads through the whole country, somebody will come out and become a spokesman and leader of this movement.
Occupy Wall Street – again another victory!!!! And music was an important part of it!
Text and video by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Today, October 15th, was a special day for this movement: International Day of Action – Massive Global Uprising…here in NY city, in America and abroad (Italy, Japan, Canada, etc.). Read more about this unspoken revolution in http://www.occupywallstreet.com.
DooBeeDooBeeDoo was at Times Square in Manhattan when thousands of locals and tourists gathered to demonstrate their dissatisfaction about anything. Today our interest was to find out whether music was a positive force in this big rally. And YES it was! Music was everywhere. Either people were rapping slogans, singing folk songs, playing all kinds of instruments or even when discussing things, you could hear and feel music. – Personally I was very happy when I saw this sign (watch below video).
The legendary Malian blues guitarist and singer Boubacar “Kar Kar” Traoré at The Bell House (NY)
Date: September 27, 2011
Venue: Bell House (Brooklyn, NY)
Concert review by Chris Arnold
This past Tuesday Brooklyn was blessed with a very special visitor: the legendary Malian guitarist and singer Boubacar “Kar Kar” Traoré. With long-time friends percussionist Madieye Niang playing a simple upturned gourd and French harmonica player Vincent Bucher, Traoré laid down a mellow yet infectious groove for about 90 minutes at the Gowanus club The Bell House.
Music festival report: The Brooklyn Independent Music Fest 2011
Date: September 16th to 18th, 2011
Venue: Littlefield (Brooklyn, NY)
Text by Jim Hoey
Video intererview and first two videos shots by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
The Brooklyn Independent Music Fest took place at Littlefields in Brooklyn, near Gowanus, and for 3 days over 60 bands took to the two small stages to showcase a hell of a lot of pop,blues, soul, rap, and old timey music. This matches the borough’s return to oyster bars, tile floor restaurants, brick oven pizza shops, and speakeasy-looking venues that sell absinthe. With this festival though, the old and the new vaguely mixed on the stages, followed each other, and generally, what the promoters were going for, was a complete celebration of all the different musical elements that find their way to Brooklyn.
