The News Review:
- April Verch’s eclectic mix and music from the Sahara
- Blues musician brings music Katrina story to pupils.
- PERFRMING ARTS
- Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
- rder of the Eastern Star 89
- VH1 gala celebrates 10 years of promoting education
April Verch’s eclectic mix and music from the Sahara
Lahontan Valley News – Sep 21, 2007
and there will be a no-host bar. Then there’s "Abacabok" (Crammed Discs) by Tartit which is Malian blues music of the Tuareg recorded live in the Sahara at night under car headlights. The large ensemble – five women who provide drums and percussion and four men who play the stringed instruments – weaves mostly acoustic hypnotic songs that gradually build in intensity. There are dance songs with electric guitar intros that suggest Lightning Hopkins; songs of bad women the sudden appearance of death the need to leave ignorance behind and the importance of family ties. ne song is performed on imzad an ancient one-stringed gourd violin that sounds like a particularly melodic mosquito. But it’s the melding of sounds that amazes here propulsive call and response vocals – with an occasional zaghareet thrown in for good measure – laid over driving rhythms.
Blues musician brings music Katrina story to pupils.
Free with registration – Lima News – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 21, 2007
21–LIMA — Dressed in a casual shirt and ball cap Charles "Chucky C" Elam brought the sounds of New rleans to arts magnet pupils Thursday. His attire today is much d.
PERFRMING ARTS
Washington Post – Sep 21, 2007
Naylor who performed at Blues Alley on Wednesday night specializes in "acoustic smashes" — offbeat arrangements that feature her singing a well-known pop jazz or rock lyric in an unusual but oddly familiar setting. During her opening set at the. " Then she "smashed" a… The riffs were heavier and darker when the vocals came in and soon the double-bass drums were flashing. Later the tune breaks down into minor-key guitar arpeggios and as the song slowed it felt like a couples-only number for a goth high school dance. Finntroll’s music is such a bizarre hybrid — although two other Finnish bands Turisas and Korpiklaani are working along similar lines — and its lyrics so over the top (“Kitteldags” is about cooking priests) that the group can’t help but come off a bit gimmicky. But Finntroll’s musicianship is tops and these hairy lads are deadly serious about their ultra-fun music. Satan should get to party planning.
Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood
SFStation.com – Sep 21, 2007
We’re talking John Medeski Billy Martin and Chris Wood plus guitar guru John Scofield. n their new release UT LUDER they make music not of this world yet rooted in the earth tones of jazz funk and blues. Music from the heart for the mind and made to shake the earth not to mention the body. Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood first recorded together on Scofield’s A Go Go (Verve 1998) a disc that has become a must-have classic. That project united jazz guitarist Scofield with the improvisational jazz trio Medeski Martin & Wood on material composed by Scofield and interpreted by all four musicians. UT LUDER the inaugural release for MMW’s own Indirecto Records label is Medeski Scofield Martin & Wood’s first four-way collaborative recording.
rder of the Eastern Star 89
Hagerstown Morning Herald – Sep 21, 2007
$45 donation per person. “Hope of Spring” signed and numbered prints by Rebecca Pearl will be available. Soft blues music by Carl Disque and Prophets of the Abstract Truth. Benefits Breast Cancer Awareness – Cumberland Valley. All-you-can-eat spaghetti dinnerCHAMBERSBURG Pa.
VH1 gala celebrates 10 years of promoting education
USA Today – Sep 21, 2007
Also: James Blunt Russell Simmons and LA Reid. Jones said schools without music are “a mess and we need to fix that. ” What kind of music should be taught? Jazz and blues he said “the greatest gift Americans have given the world. “Some stars shared their own early experiences with music and school:•”Public schools don’t really appreciate the guitar” said John Mayer who was to entertain at the gala with Jon Bon Jovi and Roger Waters. “I don’t know why they wouldn’t put a turntable in a school or an electric guitar and an amplifier. I had to go home and do all that stuff. ” •”Music is a group effort” Mya said “and it felt really really good connecting with the other kids.