 OTHER NEWS & EVENTS: The Spring Fling was a great success - stay tuned for news about next year, but for now you can see what we did in May: And here's the photographic evidence, courtesy of Mike Melnyk: Coming up August 20-22, 2010 is the Golden Old Time Camp Out in Boonville, CA, presented by the California Bluegrass Society and the Sonoma County Folk Society with the Berkeley Old Time Music Convention: |
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Avatar Ensemble Bazaar with Les Trois Petits Oiseaux
11 September · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Cafe Royale
800 Post St. @ Leavenworth
San Francisco, CA
This evening the Doug Martin's Avatar Bazaar will be performing a mixture of high energy gypsy jazz and latin grooves featuring the WONDERFUL bellydance trio Les Petite Ouiseaux on select compositions adding their breathtaking movement, poetry in motion, to the music of the night. Come experience this special treat in a rare showing. The perfect marriage of musical and physical expression!
For those of you who missed us last month, here's your chance to see us in action again!
Gypsy Jazz & Belly Dance - Who could ask for anything More!?!!?!--- Well, Maybe a musical... ? ... Musical to come, don't worry........for now,
Who are we?
Les Trois Petits Oiseaux:
Joie Mazor
Elana Brutman
Kristine Adams
Avatar Ensemble:
Doug Martin - guitar
Jason Vanderford - guitar
Clint Baker - bass
4th musician TBA
See here: www.caferoyale-sf.com and www.dougmartinguitar.com
Zaryab Ensemble and Ballet Afsaneh
September 19 · 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702
(510) 525-5054
$10 Advance/$12 At-the-door
Created By Shirin Hedayati, Sia Nazari, Fares Hedayati, Mojan Norouzi
An unforgettable evening of exquisite Persian Music and Dance, unlocking hidden treasures from an ancient past...
Featuring...
Miriam Peretz,
Farima Berenji,
& Leila Sadeghi
with members of the
Afsaneh Dance Academy
musicians:
Kaveh Hedayati, setar
Babak Tamaddon, guitar
Pedram Heydari, kamanche
Fares Hedayati, tonbak, daf
Farshad Madhi, ney
Neema Hekmat, santur
More: www.dancesilkroad.org and www.dancesilkroad.org/zaryab/
Lúnasa
Tuesday 21 September at 7:30pm
Kuumbwa
320 Cedar St.
Santa Cruz
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay proudly presents Lunasa, ‘the hottest Irish group on the planet’, according to the Irish Voice.
Celebrating the release of their eighth CD, Lá Nua (‘New Day’), the
Quintessential Quintet of our time performing traditional Irish
instrumental music, Lúnasa, makes an eagerly-awaited return to
Santa Cruz. Internationally renowned for Fiery, Ferocious &
Frenzied renditions of reels & jigs, played with Power, Panache
& Passion on uilleann pipes, fiddle, flute, whistles, guitar &
upright bass, Lúnasa’s concerts & recordings have earned
numerous Rave Reviews, including "an Irish dream team. Music that
moves, pulsates and thrills to the very marrow," from Folk Roots and "a
potent force; live-wire excitement! fresh intricate arrangements of
traditional tunes performed with ear-pinning virtuosity. The band has
the best one-two rhythm punch in Irish traditional music today and has
a melody of frontline players second to none," from The Irish Echo. For
more such hyerbole, plus some real info, visit the Lúnasa web
site at www.lunasa.ie.
On Tuesday the 22nd at the Freight and Salvage | $24.50 advance / $25.50 at door
Wednesday, September 22, 8:00 pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
taking Irish trad where few bands have gone before—CD release show
$24.50 advance / $25.50 at door
Purchase tickets online
Joel Savoy and Jesse Lege
Doors at 7:30 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Cajun/Zydeco dance lesson with Diana Castillo at 8:00 pm
Joel and Jesse will be playing with Eric Thompson, and Foghorn Sammy Lind and Nadine Landry from Portland.
BeauSoleil avec (who else?) Michael Doucet
Tuesday 28 September 2010
Ashkenaz
1317 San Pablo @ Gilman in Berkeley
Doors at 7:30 pm; Show at 8:30 pm
Cajun/Zydeco dance lesson with Diana Castillo at 8:00 pm
At the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Bob Dylan said of fellow performers BeauSoleil, “That's my kind of music!” Led by virtuoso fiddler Michael Doucet, BeauSoleil takes Doucet’s Louisiana Cajun roots (heard in more traditional form from the Savoy-Doucet Band) and artfully blends elements of zydeco, New Orleans jazz, Tex-Mex, country, blues, and more into a satisfying and irresistibly danceable musical recipe.
The world’s best-known Cajun band, BeauSoleil championed the popularization of home state Louisiana’s indigenous French-language dance music in the 1970s and ’80s, helping turn a near-derogatory term, “Cajun,” into a label of pride for members of its Southwest Louisiana culture. BeauSoleil has a Grammy win and 10 nominations over its 30-plus-year career and is one of the most frequent guests on National Public Radio’s “A Prairie Home Companion.”
Doucet
and
band have performed in such films as “Belizaire the Cajun” and “The
Big Easy” and the documentary film “American Roots Music.” They have
also collaborated on record with, among others, Mary-Chapin Carpenter
(her No. 1 hit “Down at the Twist and Shout”), Keith Richards of the
Rolling Stones, English rock guitarist Richard Thompson, and the
Grateful Dead. BeauSoleil has long been a Bay Area favorite, recording
a series of popular and award-winning albums for El Cerrito’s Arhoolie
Records. Along with Doucet on violin, guitar, accordion, mandolin, and
vocals, BeauSoleil features his guitarist-singer brother David Doucet,
accordionist Jimmy Breaux, drummer Tommy Alesi, percussionist Billy
Ware, and Mitch Reed on bass, fiddle, banjo, and electric guitar.
Solas - canceled/postponed until 2011
Wednesday 29
September 20010 7:30pm
Kuumbwa
320
Cedar
St.
Santa
Cruz
Admission: $20, or $18 to Celtic Society
members.
The Celtic Society of the Monterey Bay proudly presents Solas, ‘the first truly great Irish band to arise from America.'
Since forming in 1996, Solas (the Irish word for ‘Light') has been loudly proclaimed as the most popular & exciting Celtic band ever to emerge from the United States. The Wall Street Journal has raved, ‘Solas has electrified crowds everywhere it has played; it's an Irish traditional band bearing all the marks of greatness' & The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote they make ‘mind-blowing Irish folk music, maybe the world's best.' The internationally acclaimed supergroup performs traditional Irish music as well as anyone alive or departed, pens powerful originals & covers contemporary material in a variety of genres. Celebrating the release of their 10th CD, ‘The Turning Tide,' on Compass Records, the Solas sound is anchored by founding members, the astonishing multiple All-Ireland Champion on 4 different instruments, Seamus Egan on flute, banjo, mandolin, whistle, guitar & bodhran & fiery fiddler Winifred Horan, joined by Mick McAuley on accordion & concertina, singer Mairead Phelan & guitarist Eamon McElholm. For more, visit the band's website at www.solasmusic.com.Tickets are on sale at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/110394 and from 7/14 on at More Music, 512 Front St. in downtown Santa Cruz. Reservations: contact the Celtic Society at (831) 704-7038, (408) 847-6982 or celtsoc@aol.com.
Kabile
Wednesday 29 September 2010
Live Oak Grange Hall
1900 17th Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Tickets: $15 sold at the door (Student and Senior discounts available)
Contact: Dena Bjornlie (831) 458-1340
One of Bulgaria's premier bands has reunited after 14 years, recording and now touring a CD of traditional Bulgarian dance and vocal music. This multi-talented group of six musicians from Thrace, in southern Bulgaria, played together for nearly 20 years until two key members emigrated to the U.S. in 1995, after the collapse of the various Communist regimes in Eastern Europe. In late 2007, the two émigrés returned to Bulgaria to record Kabile Reunion with their former band members. The debut CD contains 11 of the most popular numbers from their years as a group and includes both vocal and instrumental versions of native Bulgarian songs. Based in the city of Yambol, the group took its name from the village of Kabile, where they performed their earliest gigs. The group specialized in performing native music on traditional village instruments.
Kabile features the incredible Donka Koleva on vocals, Ivan Handzhiev on accordion and vocals, Nikolay Doktorov on kaval (flute), and Dzhenko Andreev on gaida (bagpipe). And maybe Angel Krastev (tapan),and Nikolay Kolev (gadulka). Or perhaps not. In any case, get ready to kick up your heels to authentic, live Balkan music and dancing in exotic Live Oak.
Check your local listings for other area appearances.
Their website: http://balkandance.net/kabile/
Hot Club Pacific, the aggregation of Marc Schwartz and Jack "Monterey Jacques" Fields on guitars along with Matt Bohn on bass and occasional other guests such as Dale Mills and his clarinet, hold forth on Mondays at Soif, at 105 Walnut Avenue, right off Pacific, in downtown Santa Cruz. 7 - 9 pm. No cover. Great wine bar and food. And particularly good, swinging music.
