1. Lovesphere 15 presents multimedia variety show, including music, dance & spoken word designed with ChromaDepth 3D Technology to heighten your depth perception experience. This years performers include: Judy Sky, Meg Montgomery, Emmallyea Swon Young, Lin Rivers, Grand Pepper of Reality, Dawoud (sitar & laptop) – Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi (vocal & sax) – Alex Obert (accoustic bass & other instruments), Dan Gaydos, Fist of Kindness, Alessandro, Orin Buck, Firefly Lab, Terri Ferrari & Vlad T.
For more information or to view live in ChromaDepth 3D on the Web: http://metal-tiger.com/lovesphere15/
Date: Monday March 22, 2010
Time: 8 pm to After Midnight
Venue: Theater for the New City (155 1st Avenue, between 10th & 11th street), New York City 10003, 212-254-1109
Ticket: $10
2.Roberto’s Winds Jazz In Times Square Calendar of Events
Roberto’s Winds is happy to announce the Jazz in Times Square series is resuming this month, starting March 15th and going every Monday through April 26th.
Date: Monday, March 15th Times/Artists: 8pm Bob Franceschini Quartet (Bob Franceschini – saxophone, Ben Perowsky – drums, Gene Perla – bass and Kevin Hays – piano) and 10pm Lew Tabackin Trio ( Lew Tabackin – sax, Mark Taylor – drums, Phil Palombi – bass) Venue: Rosie O’Grady’s Limerick Bar (149 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036) Ticket: $10-no minimum
Genre: Jazz Ticket: $10
3.Lukas Ligeti and Helga Davis
Date: Wednesday March 24, 2010
Time: 8:00pm
Venue: Ferus Festival/Galapagos Art Space (16 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY, 11201)
Ticket: $15
Genre: contemporary music
Imaginings, a new multi-media piece written and performed by Helga Davis, began as a response to “Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love,” the artists’ retrospective at the Whitney Museum. The evening includes original texts and music as well as supplemental texts by Daniel Alexander Jones, Carl Hancock Rux, and Sekou Sundiata. Lukas Ligeti explores unconventional approaches to looping and delay effects through live playing on the Marimba Lumina, an electronic marimba ingeniously designed by the synthesizer pioneer Donald Buchla.
4.Bassekou Kouyate presented by Carnegie Hall in partnership with World Music Institute
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 10:00PM
Venue: Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall (57th St. and 7th Ave., New York)
Tickets: $38, $46, WMI Friends $32, $40, Students $10
Genre: Mali music, Desert Blues
Mali’s extraordinary Bassekou Kouyate, whose credits include collaborations with Ali Farka Toure, Toumani Diabate and Taj Mahal, is acclaimed for his virtuosity and innovations on the ngoni, an ancient West African lute that is the ancestor of the banjo and a key instrument in griot (oral historians and praise singers) culture. He and his group Ngoni ba, Mali’s first ngoni quartet, are known for their exhilarating and riveting performances that take the ngoni into the 21st century. Performing music that is evocative of the blues, they are joined by Ami Sacko, Bassekou’s wife, who has been called “the Tina Turner of Mali.” New York debut.
5. ANGELIQUE KIDJO
Date: Friday, Mar 26, 2010
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: The Town Hall
Ticket: $45, $50
Over the course of her successful career, African-born songstress Angélique Kidjo has spread her rhythmic Afro-funk fusion to the four corners of the globe. With her fun-loving personality, on-stage charisma and totally unique voice, Ms. Kidjo is certainly one of the most popular artists on the current world scene. Her work cross-pollinates the West African traditions of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk and jazz, as well as influences from Europe and Latin America. Djin Djin, her 10th CD, garnered her a fourth Grammy nomination and her first.
6. Tribute to Yomo Toro: with Yomo Toro with Roswell Rudd
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 8:00pm through 11:00pm
Venue: Peter Norton/Symphony Space ( 95th Street & Broadway)
Tickets: $25, WMI Friends $21, Students $18
Genre: Latin Jazz & dance
The legendary Yomo Toro, master of the cuatro (10-string miniature guitar) and a longtime member of the famed Fania All-Stars, is acknowledged for his lively and innovative approach to the driving jibaro (mountain string band) music of his native Puerto Rico. Roswell Rudd, one of the greatest trombonists in jazz, is known for his groundbreaking cross-cultural collaborations, including Malicool and the Mongolian Buryat Band. Together with musical director/drummer Bobby Sanabria and Ascensión they create rousing and fiery music, rich in improvisation and Latin rhythms. David Oquendo (tres), a leading name in the new generation of Cuban artists; Louis Kahn (violin) of the Fania All-Stars; tango veteran Tito Castro (bandoneon); cuatro wizard Nelson Gonzalez; Aimee Allen (vocal), an inspiring new voice in New York’s jazz community, and dancers Nydia Ocasio and Jesus Tito Sandoval appear as guest artists in this joyous and riveting program which marks the first live performance of music from Toro and Rudd’s critically acclaimed El Espiritu Jibaro CD (Sunnyside). In addition to music from the CD, the program includes Puerto Rican classics and cuatro duets with Toro and Gonzalez.
7. Dendê and Hãhãhães: Bahia de Todos os Santos CD Release
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010
Time: 9:30 pm
Venue: Joe’s Pub (425 Lafayette Street between East 4th and Astor Place in NY, 212.254.1263)
Ticket: $12
Genre: traditional Afro-Brazilian Rhythms with the Global Pulse of Jazz, Reggae, Funk, Rumba and Afrobeat
Dendê is a percussionist, singer, composer, bandleader, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. He’s been a professional musician since the age of 14, when he appeared in the frontline of Timbalada, Carlinhos Brown’s superstar percussion ensemble. Since 2001, he’s been splitting his time between New York and Bahia. His own bands include the folkloric music and dance troupe Ologundê, the acoustic Samba de Três, and Arrastão do Dendê, a traditional Afro bloco (samba party band), but it’s as leader and principal songwriter of Hãhãhães that Dendê has made his greatest impact. Bahia de Todos os Santos, their debut album, showcases the band’s sizzling showmanship and versatility.
Dendê and Hãhãhães will soon be taking their music to the people with an energetic show that combines a relentless groove, first class musicianship, and socially conscious lyrics that will move your spirit as well as your body.
