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october
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How could you miss this? Our 2018 season culminates with a massive Latinx dance party featuring four bands with musicians from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, and Puerto Rico.
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How could you miss this? Our 2018 season culminates with a massive Latinx dance party featuring four bands with musicians from Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Brazil, and Puerto Rico. After three sold-out shows earlier this year, we’re excited to bring the World Music Collider to the beautiful Shea Theater in Turners Falls, with comfortable seating and plenty of space for dancing. Tickets are limited, so get yours early.
RIO MIRA (Colombia/Ecuador): A marimba super-group formed by artists across borders in a region connected by a shared history, their riverine ecology, and the cimarrones’ African roots. Cyclical, rippling marimba rhythms and call-and-response vocals flow like water over drums, shakers, and hand-claps. US-debut tour. Supported in part by the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
LADAMA (Colombia/Venezuela/Brazil/USA): is an all-woman collective hailing from Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the US. Their debut on the global music scene this year is like a full-on crackdown/reversal of Latino nationalism and machismo. The band combines the rhythms and traditions of their respective places into a sweeping pan-Latinx songbook with pop, rock, and jazz influences sung in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Frevo and maracatu from Brazil; joropo from Venezuela; cumbia, gaita, and champeta from Colombia. They are a glimpse into a future of communication, interconnectedness, gender equality, and the disintegration of borders.
ORQUESTA EL MACABEO (Puerto Rico): This 11-piece salsa band from San Juan is not a salsa band. They’re punk rockers who play salsa. One of the current sensations in Puerto RIco’s salsa scene, Macabeo refreshes the genre with infuences from rock, ska, punk, and reggae. They have a brazen, rebellious streak and a natural reflex for turning the stagnant salsa-pop formula on its head. Prepare to be surprised and entertained.
BERKSHIRE BATERIA (USA): If you heard any strains of samba in the New England jungle this Summer, they likely came from Master drummer Jim Weber and his lively ensemble, performing Rio’s rhythms on traditional Brazilian percussion instruments.
Tickets are $30 advance and $40 at the door. Kids twelve and under free. Doors open at 5PM with the PEACE & RHYTHM DJs spinning before and after all the music.
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(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm EST
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$30 in advance, $40 at the door
Tickets are not available for sale any more for this event!
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Start your Halloween Weekend at the crossroads of World Music with three bands who are honoring their ancestors by modernizing and preserving
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Start your Halloween Weekend at the crossroads of World Music with three bands who are honoring their ancestors by modernizing and preserving ancient traditions. From their village of San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia – the first free black community in the Americas – Kombilesa Mi refreshes ancient Afro-Latin rhythms from Angola by fusing their folk tradition with globally popular hip-hop. In New York City, Innov Gnawa secularizes Morocco’s ritual trance music under the guidance of Hassan Ben Jaafar, a Maȃlem master transplanted from the ancient city of Fez, inviting a broader audience to experience its powerful enchantment. To round out the night, Unifier Festival fave Incus will take serious dancers into the witching hour with songs inspired by countless fire circle ceremonies and an emergent new culture of honoring the sacred. We will conclude the evening on the dance floor with DJ Journey Weaver.
Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 door. The dance floor will be open and the Shea Theater is handicapped accessible.
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(Friday) 7:30 pm - 11:50 pm EST
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$20 adv / $25 at the door
Price $20.00
november
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When Daniel Kahn swings through Western Mass on his US tour this Fall, you may try but you will probably fail to put him in a box that
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When Daniel Kahn swings through Western Mass on his US tour this Fall, you may try but you will probably fail to put him in a box that doesn’t let air through somewhere. But since we have to: Klezmer punk folk with crooked clever songwriting, like Waits or Cohen. Kahn is an agitator, both moralist and anarchist. His show is shtetl, punk, cabaret, and protest march. His band takes the stage with accordions, clarinets, electric guitars, trombones, megaphones. Self-titled: “radical Yiddish borderland bandistas with punk attitude.”
When has music from another age sounded so keenly relevant? Hundred year old Yiddish songs are turned on their head to reflect on the 1%, on unemployment. Absolutely a must for lovers of unusual, intelligent, and challenging folk music. Kahn’s band will get you dancing like any other klezmer band, but your mind will be reeling as well.
Local Soul Jazz favorites The Boogalistics supporting.
$12 adv/$15 door. Kids under 12 free. New City Brewery. 6pm. Handicapped accessible.
This show is part of our Klezmer in the Brewery cycle. We’re taking klezmer out of the recital hall and into the working-class, proletarian establishments where it truly belongs. This is dancing music. This is drinking music. Come party with us.
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(Sunday) 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Price $12.00
december
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With solid klezmer roots, spectacular technical virtuosity, and a wry sense of humor, Ilene Stahl and an all-star line-up of Boston's best musicians re-groove traditional klezmer and Mediterranean
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With solid klezmer roots, spectacular technical virtuosity, and a wry sense of humor, Ilene Stahl and an all-star line-up of Boston’s best musicians re-groove traditional klezmer and Mediterranean melodies, rip up Romanian surf tunes, cover cop show themes and cumbias, slay a few standards, and burnish it all to a funky finish. Ilene is our local klezmer all-star; she is often found playing with Itzhak Perlman and the Klezmer Conservatory Band. With Klezperanto, she takes the genre entirely out of the box and into the dance hall, so make sure you’re dressed to boogie. Limited seating available.
Tickets are $15 adv / $20 door. Limited seating available Kids under 12 free.
This show is part of our Klezmer in the Brewery cycle. We’re taking klezmer out of the recital hall and into the working-class, proletarian establishments where it truly belongs. This is dancing music. This is drinking music. Come party with us.
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(Saturday) 8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
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