Tag Archives: Arturo O’Farrill

#GivingTuesday 2016: MFM’s Counting On You Today!

#Givingtuesday 2016 logo#GivingTuesday 2016 is here: please make a money contribution to Musicians For Musicians (MFM) on New York’s first ever statewide day of giving!

Please contribute here today (we appreciate any kind of amount of money): http://musiciansformusicians.org/contributions/

None of MFM’s forthcoming activities will be possible without your help. You are: the music loving public, music business people, the media, music companies, politicians who care for musicians rights AND the musicians who haven’t joined MFM yet. Without your support, it would be impossible for MFM to continue serving her members and the community both near and far in this way. We’re counting on you to take MFM to an higher level as an organization empowering musicians and fighting for their rights.

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MFM Mixer: Musicians for Musicians Brings More To The Table

Paul Testagrossa, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi & Arturo O'Farrill

Paul Testagrossa, Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi & Arturo O’Farrill

Text By Dawoud Kringle

Wednesday, October 26th, 2016, Musicians for Musicians conducted (what was for them) an experiment: a semi-informal mixer. Members and non-members were all welcome. It was held at WeWork Wall Street in Lower Manhattan.

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2016 Grammy Award Winner Arturo O’Farrill Needs Your Support

Arturo O'FarrillSupport “The Cornel West Concerto” recording featuring Arturo O’Farrill
and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra

Arturo O’Farrill‘s The Cornel West Concerto is a tour-de-force musical and oratorical plea for justice, love, and respect… with text by Dr. Cornel West – based on questions proposed by W.E.B. Dubois at the turn of the 20th Century – questions as relevant today (if not more so) as they were then:

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Concert Review: Forró in the Dark / Cyro Baptista & Banquet of the Spirits / Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz

Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015
Venue: Damrosch Park @ Lincoln Center
Concert review by Constance Cooper

Featured bands: Forró in the Dark / Cyro Baptista & Banquet of the Spirits / Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz with Arturo O’Farrill, piano; Steven Bernstein, trumpet

Photo from F.I.T.D. FB page

Photo from F.I.T.D. FB page

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Music listings – 1/24 through 1/30

1. Arts For Arts Rucma Evolving Voice and Music Presents: 4 SETS OF MUSIC EVERY MONDAY NIGHT! A MINI JAZZ FESTIVAL EVERY WEEK!

Date:  Monday, January 24, 2011
Time: 7pm
Venue: Local 269 (269 E. Houston, NY)
Ticket: $10 per set/$15 for 2 sets/$20 for the night
Genre: Jazz/improve

Perfroming bands: Yoni Kretzmer Trio, Nora McCarthy-Dom Minasi-Ras Moshe, Avram Fefer & Charles Downs’ Centipede. Continue reading