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This video, “a rousing musical plea to guarantee human rights for all” from Amnesty International, features some of my favorite world musicians – Hugh Masekela, Angelique Kidjo, and Yerba Buena – and introduced me to a bunch of other wonderful musicians. Very powerful music and a very powerful message. Check it out at The Price [...]
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Honk Fest West is a way-too-fun weekend-long celebration of street music. This year’s fest is scheduled for April 10-12.
Last year I saw great bands from New York, Chicago, Seattle, etc. and had a great time. I hope this year is even better. Last year two of the most obvious local bands – Portland’s March Fourth [...]
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Seattle’s samba group, VamoLa, will be drumming and dancing in the streets Tuesday night 7:00-10:00 pm to celebrate Obama’s inauguration.
Here’s what Carl of VamoLa sent to a local online discussion list:
“Meet at 7:00pm at the chrome statue in front of Seattle Central Community College, on Broadway, just north of the NW corner of Broadway & [...]
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Wow! Just when you thought the Sunday-night African music scene at Hidmo couldn’t possibly get any better, Mohammed Shaibu and company start tearing it up. Tonight’s show was some of the most inspired African music ever to grace a Seattle stage (not that there’s actually a stage at Hidmo, which is part of the appeal).
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The music in Lara McIntosh’s Sunday-morning Wassa Dance class has been really hot lately. This morning, though,Thierno Diop took it up a notch with some of the wildest djembe phrasing I’ve ever heard.
It was improv as always. I was playing a modified Soli Rapide sangban part on my dununba and kenkeni:
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Two of the better world music acts I’ve ever seen were in town over the weekend. Both the Sweet Honey in the Rock show on Saturday night at the Paramount and the Hugh Masekela 9:30 show at Jazz Alley on Sunday night were very lightly attended. Where were you guys?
About half the seats at [...]
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I played dununs with Naby’s band Lagni Sussu at Hidmo last night. It was a very fun gig, one of those nights where pretty much everyone in the place was up dancing.
As is often the case with Naby, it was a bit of a pick-up band, with Etienne Cakpo, Souleymane N’Daiye, and me (if you [...]
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As always, there is tons of world beat drum and dance music at Northwest Folklife this year. Here is a partial list of the 2007 line-up. I have only listed groups that I know to be really good and friends who I can only assume will be great, as well as some [...]
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Paul Wagner’s Sahlee Ensemble will play for Soleil’s ecstatic dance class at the Women of Wisdom conference this Saturday, Nov. 5, 2005, at 8:30 pm. I play drums and percussion in this ensemble. Here’s how Paul describes it: “A journey of transformational music and joyous dance. With a tantalizing variety of rhythms and energies – [...]
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Rhythm Church, the group I play with on Sunday mornings for Lara MacIntosh’s Positive Sweat class, is playing again this year at the 2005 Sacred Music Festival at the Center for Spiritual Living. This is a very nice, well-organized festival, and Rhythm Church was a hit there last year. We (Bill Matthews, Caxambu, Mohammed Shaibu, [...]
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Issa Bagayogo plays the kamele n’goni, a contemporary stringed gourd instrument from Mali, over pre-mixed percussion tracks with live guitar and vocal accompaniment. This is some of the freshest Afro-pop around. I’ve been listening to his albums non-stop for the past several months, and I really enjoyed his free show at St. Edwards Park last [...]
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