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Kakande with Special Guest Mory Kante in New York |
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 On Sunday February 24th, S.O.B.'s welcomes Kakande, a 9-piece West African band based out of New York City, celebrating the release of their much anticipated album, Dununya (Jumbie Records). The West African music scene has been steadily growing in the U.S. in recent years and it is sure to explode when this groundbreaking new disc hits stores. To ceebrate Dununya's release, African superstar Mory Kanté will join Kakande on stage, in a rare U.S. appearance, and an once-in-a-lifetime chance to see this legendary musician supporting another group.
Kakande is a 9-piece collective that demonstrates how the balafone (xylophone) has electrified African music for 800 years. Lush vocals, flutes, sinewy guitars, cellos and countless melodic textures are propelled by the power of Famoro Dioubate's balafon virtuosity. Layers of intricate melody ...
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2nd Annual Celtic Concert Series Brings Back the Band That Started It All at The ArtsCenter |
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 Carrboro (North Carolina), USA - The ArtsCenter in Carrboro (located in the Durham-Chapel Hill area) unveiled its 2nd annual Celtic Concert Series, which will take place February 24-March 28, 2008. Unlike last year’s series, which featured Irish performers exclusively, this year the music of Scotland is also being brought into the mix. Scotland’s Boys of the Lough, performing Sunday, February 24, is the first of five phenomenal Celtic concerts within the five-week span.
With over thirty years experience in the world of traditional Scottish and Irish music and two Grammy nominations, Boys of the Lough has reached legendary status. This group, according to The ArtsCenter’s founder Jacques Me...
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 Cañizares
Suite Iberia (Sony BMG, 2007) Flamenco guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares ventures again into classical music with his adaptations of Albeniz's Suite Iberia. Albeniz and other Spanish classical music composers were deeply influenced by Spanish folk music and specially Flamenco. So it is not are for a Flamenco musician (many of which are conservatory trained) to interpret classical works.
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Cosmopolitan Acoustic Music Variations |
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 Compass Rose Quintet
Cosmopolitango (2007) The Compass Rose Quintet is an acoustic ensemble that features four stringed instrument players and one percussionist. The mandolin, violin and guitar play the leading roles, performing rich melodic world music inspired by a wide range of elements, including South American dances, Spanish jota and bolero, French Gypsy swing, Moroccan griha, jazz, classical music and much more.
The Chicago-based virtuoso musicians have varied backgrounds, David Effgen (guitar) and Larry Howe (mandolin) grew up playing rock ’n roll together in Boston, only to end up neighbors in Chicago. Gary Cleland soon joined their Sunday morning sessions on bass, providing his classical and jazz background. Two additional musicians were added to complete the quintet: percussionist Atiba Y. Jali a...
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Amparanoia's Final Tour and Boxed Set |
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 Amparanoia will shortly release a new CD/DVD boxed set 'Séguiré Caminando'. This release will be the final act for Amparanoia, whose singer-leader Amparo Sanchez is currently working on her first solo-album, which will be released early in 2009. But before that, Amparanoia is preparing a 'Bye Bye Tour’ in a luxuriant style for this Summer 2008.
"Those 10 years of Amparanoia were really great", comments Amparo Sanchez, "I arrived in Madrid in '97… A young women coming from Granada in Andalucia arriving in a big city, with only my son and guitar with me. I had to start singing in bars, not for fun, but to survive. Imagine how happy I was when I could start recording my first album, finding musicians and starting that great adventure call...
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