Concert Recommendation: Morocco’s Ribab Fusion…Bringing the Big, Bold Funk with a Single String

Artist: Ribab Fusion Date: September 24, 2014 Venue: Rockwood Music Hall II , New York, NY Genre: world music/modern Moroccan traditional music To really make a monochord like the Amazigh (Berber) ribab sing, you have to have the chops of Jimi Hendrix. Or so insists Foulane Bouhssine of Ribab Fusion, who’s on a mission to turn the bowed, […]

Music Listings – 9/1 through 9/7/2014

1. Sweetcane Date: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 Time:  10pm Venue: Drom (85 Avenue A, NY, NY 10009, 212- 777-1157) Ticket: $10 Genre: REGGAE & AFROBEAT Sweetcane‘s distinctive vocal and innovative Reggae blends draw from a diverse background highlighting musical nostalgia in the afro cultural experience. From vintage beginnings in Jamaican group Waterhouse/Chicago, rocking an early guitar skank, […]

Music Listings – 4/28 through 5/4

1. Evolving Music Date: Monday, April 28, 2014 Time: 7:30pm to 11pm Venue: Clemente Soto Velez Center (107 Suffolk St, New York, NY 10002) Tickets: $11 per set Genre: jazz/improv 7:30 Jonathan Finlayson Tribute to Tchicai Jonathan Finlayson – trumpet Brian Settles – sax Mike Pride – drums 8:45 Friends of John Tchicai Rosie Hertlein – […]

Music Listings – 2/10 through 2/16/2014

1. The Multi-Organic Trio Date: Monday, February 10, 2014 Time: 8:30 & 10:30pm Venue: Bar Next Door (129 MacDougal St., New York, NY 10012, Tel: (212) 529-5945) Ticket: $12 Genre: Jazz/improv Multi-Organic Trio is: Nora McCarthy – voice, Aruan Ortiz – piano and Ratzo Harris – bass Three dynamic innovators, each richly expressive, sensitively powerful and eloquently versed in […]