Omar Akram encourages listeners to come with him on an exotic Secret Journey, an appropriate title for his new Real Music album since he grew up traveling around the world as the son of a United Nations diplomat living in such diverse locales as France, Cuba, Afghanistan and the Czech Republic.
On Oct. 21 the Pipe Screams concert, presented by the 4 Heart Harmony will be held at the United Congregational Church in Bridgeport at 4 p.m. The entertainment includes performances by Sacred Heart faculty Dr. Joe Utterback, Dr. John Michniewicz, Galen Tate and Dr. Elina Christova Raynor. Other performances from around the area include [...]
MIAMI, Oct. 21 (UPI) — Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons took his message of financial responsibility for young people to Florida. Simmons’ “Get Your Money Right” tour uses the star power of celebrities like R&B crooner Ne-Yo and Latin music star Joell Ortiz to tell young people the importance of sound financial planning, including budgeting [...]
Dieses Bild im Gro format speichern (openPR) - Mandingo Trio is to perform at Smeltedigelen Jazz and Blues Festival in Mo i Rana, Norway, 12th October this year. The trio, consisting of highly talented and innovative artists from East and West Africa, fuses the sounds of ancient and modern Africa in a way that [...]
Prach Ly came to the United States as a child with his family to escape Cambodia’s killing fields. He grew up in Long Beach, California where he started rapping in English and Khmer about Cambodia’s genocide, his community and life as an immigrant. Then he became a star in Cambodia nearly overnight after he [...]
The concert will feature traditional and contemporary English choral music through solos, duets and choreographed chorales, led by the English Worship Choir of the Mar Thoma Parish, Dubai.
Therefore a Gangsta can become a Revolutionary. It is a progressive step and a life changing process that forever restructures an individual such as Malcolm-X- and founding members of the Zulu Nation. However, a Revolutionary that becomes a gangsta is usually one that has become corrupted by power. A gangsta is in the business [...]
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 84, has graduated from being an institution to being a phenomenon. It’s hard to think of another living musician who has trod a comparable path: from prodigy — he wrote his first orchestral composition at age 7 — to elder statesman. Both facets of the Polish-born composer-conductor, who has conducted the Minnesota Orchestra [...]
Directed by David Glenn Armstrong with musical direction by John Bell, the semi-staged concert production will run through Oct. 14. The cast features Brad Oscar, Cady Huffman, Megan Lawrence, Capathia Jenkins, Angie Schworer, Ryan Duncan, Stephen Bienskie, Jim Sorensen, Laura Marie Duncan, Amy Goldberger, Jonathan Kay, Mike McGowan, John Eric Parker and Patrick Richwood. [...]
Zhou is one of the star soloists and has also partially arranged some pieces, such as “High Mountain and Floating Water” from the new “Shanghai” CD (Manhattan Records). She plays the guzheng , a 25-string zither similar to the Japanese koto . “When I was a child most people liked Western music, like violin or [...]