Date: November 13, 2010
Venue: Tribeca Performing Arts Center
Text by Augusta Palmer
Happy 50th Birthday, UHURU AFRIKA!
Category Archives: Reviews
World Music Institute features: dazzling Zakir Hussain on tabla and virtuoso sitarist Niladri Kumar!!!
Date: Friday, October 29, 2010
Venue: Town Hall
Text and photos by: Veronique Lerebours (HarmoNYom)
“DazzlingZakir Hussain on tabla and virtuoso Niladri Kumar on sitar delivered to the New Yorkers an incredible and astonishing performance. That was nothing short of majestic to mesmerize the bursting audience! The charisma of both artists, the geniality and creativity of their agile fingers flirting with their respective instruments and the brilliant combination of two gifted maestros where all there!
The Greene Space event: Cornel West and Randy Weston – Jazzmen in the World of Ideas!
Text by Augusta Palmer
Photo by Scott Smith
It’s rare to have the opportunity to listen to a conversation that is deeply intellectual, profoundly spiritual, and laced throughout with laughter. The Greene Space event “Cornel West and Randy Weston: Jazzmen in the World of Ideas,” ably moderated by Terrance McKnight, was just such a conversation. A lot of ground was covered: the nights a Harvard-educated West slept in Central Park because he was “broke as the 10 Commandments”; the inspiration to become an “Africanist in every sense” that Weston received from his Marcus Garvey-inspired father as well as his encounters with Morocco’s Gnawa, who once put him into a trance that lasted for 2 weeks; the impact of the prison-industrial complex; and the current prevalence of what West referred to as “the 11th Commandment: Do not get caught!”
Talvin Singh live: tabla vs. electronica!
Date: Thursday, October 7, 2010
Venue: Highline Ballroom (NY)
Photo: Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi
Text by Dawoud Kringle
HarmoNYom presents: Vishwa Mohan Bhatt & Subhen Chatterjee from India!
Date: October 2, 2010
Venue: St. John’s Lutheran Church (NY)
Text by Dawoud Kringle
The Music Room concert series presented by HarmoNYom got off to a very good start on the cool autumn evening of October 2nd, 2010 with the presentation of slide guitar virtuoso Pt. Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and tabla master Pt. Subhen Chatterjee.
