Tag Archive for world music

Paul Cebar Brings Experimental Rock to Helsinki

(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound bring their funky brand of world-beat-influenced rock ‘n’ roll to Club Helsinki Hudson on Thursday, July 4, at 8pm. Cebar’s quirky take on bluesy rock with an underpinning of R&B and jump blues, laced with his witty vocals, buzzfeed guitar licks, and gritty percussion raised on African, Latin and Caribbean influences, is like a Midwestern version…

Haitian Musician Belo to Perform at MCLA

(NORTH ADAMS, Mass.) – Haitian guitarist and singer BélO brings his high energy mix of jazz, worldbeat, rock, reggae and Afro-Haitian traditional rhythm known as Ragganga to MCLA’s Church Street Center on Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2012, at 8 p.m. as part of the MCLA Presents! performance series. Born in Haiti in 1979 as Jean Bélony…

Tanglewood Season Curtain Rises on Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble

(LENOX, Mass.) – The 75th anniversary season of Tanglewood,  the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will kick off with a performance by The Silk Road Ensemble with its founder, the world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, at Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 22, 2012, and again on Sunday, June 24. Performances begin at 8…

New Age Earth-Jazz Artist Paul Winter to Perform at Mahaiwe

(GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.) – Paul Winter, the composer, bandleader, saxophonist, musicologist and naturalist who combines all his interests and skills into a unique style he calls “Earth Music,” brings his ensemble, the Paul Winter Consort, to the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center on Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 8 p.m. Winter’s music and wildlife odysseys have…

(Concert Review) Montreal Jazz Festival (III)

(photo by Seth Rogovoy)

(photo by Seth Rogovoy) Montreal International Jazz Festival June 27-28, 2011 Review and photos by Seth Rogovoy (MONTREAL) – I am only being slightly facetious when I say that whenever I heard anything that sounded remotely like jazz over the last four days at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, I quickly fled in the opposite…