Monthly Archives: June 2010

Music listings – 6/14 through 6/20

1. The Mighty Alpacas ( before called The Energizers)

Date: Monday June 14, 2010
Time: 10:30pm
Venue: Otto’s Shrunken Head (538 East 14th. Street between Avenue A and B)
Ticket: no cover
Genre: Jazz/World/improve

4 gentlemen came together just recently to entertain New Yorkers in a free approach towards music. Their music is created in the moment and sounds very fresh.  The members are: Shakira’s percussionist Ravish Momin www.ravishmomin.com, Iranian saxophone sensation and leader of  THE TEHRAN-DAKAR BROTHERS‘ Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi www.myspace.com/sohrabsaadat, New York’s most in demand session trumpeter Lex Samu www.lexsamu.com. and Stumblebum Brass Band founding member and tuba player Jesse Dulman www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW9HfTX9jlw

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Music listings – 6/7 through 6/13

1. TARANGA + Kevin Mambo from FELA!

Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time: 9:00pm
Venue: Nublu (62 Ave C, btw 4th St. and 5th St.)
Ticket: $10
Genre: World/Senegal/Mbalax/Afrobeat

TARANGA, NYC’s new M’Balax Band will be sharing the Stage with Kevin Mambo and his group BLAZ and the 88 SOUND. For those of you who don’t know already, Kevin plays Fela Anikulapo Kuti in the critically acclaimed Broadway show FELA! BLAZ and the 88 SOUND goes on at 10pm, TARANGA will be at 11pm.

Taranga is:
Backa Niang (lead vocals, sabar percussions)
Mahanta Faye (Drumset)
Arone N’diaye (Marimba Keyboards)
Raja Kassis (lead Guitar)
Mor Coumba Gueye (Sabar percussions/Animation)

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India’s Debapriya Adhikary and Samanwaya Sarkar: Jugalbandi in the Village!

Date: May 18, 2010
Venue: St. John’s Lutheran Church, NY

Text by Dawoud Kringle


Photos by courtosy of Veronique Lerebours (HarmoNyom’s production)

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