The five musicians come together to create a unique traditional Latin sound. Band leader Greg Ribot is an accomplished composer and his skills on the flute, siku, quena, saxophone and clarinet are renowned. Francisco “Pancho” Navarro is on the Argentine guitar or “charango virtuoso,” Vince Cherico and Nydia “Liberty” Mata sit at percussion and Andy [...]
“I was not up against amateurs or in a talent search, the contestants were all professionals, and you have rock; R jazz and blues; reggae and all of that. And out of all of that, they felt that Abijah’s music was different and it appeals to a wider audience,” added the singer who has [...]
Arturo Sandoval © Pemela Espeland Granted political asylum in July 1990 and US citizenship in 1999, Sandoval and his family now call Miami, Florida home. A protйgй of the legendary jazz master Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval was born in Artemisa, a small town in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, on November 6, 1949, just [...]
The initiative comes as California arts education advocates spot signs of daylight after a long dark night. Proponents trace the decline of the arts in public schools to Prop. 13, the property tax-freeze initiative of 1978, which in many districts led arts instruction to be jettisoned in favor of other subjects deemed more essential. There’s [...]
In my opinion, these songs epitomize the spirit of New Orleans. Bound up in the people through families that have lived here for generations and have been passing the traditions about music, dance, and style down the line, you can t see one existing without the other.
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EPHRATA, Pa. - Godspell is an offbeat, modernistic, somewhat free-spirited look at the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and it s sure to entertain. That s what director Jody Reppert said about the show, now on stage at Ephrata Performing Arts Center. It s a great, high-energy show that I think everyone walks away [...]
The most moving sequence in all of “War/Dance” follows the Patongo students as they walk wide-eyed down city streets for the first time, sip from Coke bottles, look at airplanes and watch television. The gratitude with which they partake in rituals so common to most of us highlights the difficulties pervading their lives. A simple [...]
ATLANTA — Its breakthrough album was called 3 Years, 5 Months and Two Days in the Life of . . . — a nod to the long struggle that the rap group Arrested Development faced between the day it was formed and the day it signed a record deal.