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"Transpacific Sound Paradise: Popular and Unpopular
Music from Around the World" can be
heard Saturdays 6-8pm New York / New Jersey time on WFMU 91.1 FM in the New York Metropolitan area and 90.1 in New
York's Hudson Valley.
Listen
to WFMU’s Transpacific Sound Paradise past shows any time (and see
corresponding playlists): http://www.wfmu.org/Playlists/Robw
Visit the Transpacific Sound Paradise homepage for info on
upcoming shows, recent specials etc: http://www.wfmu.org/tsp.
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Click
here
for a short directory of world music presenters and NYC summer concert series.
Other Concert Listing Pages
Africasounds (Africa in NYC): http://www.africasounds.com/concerts.htm
Afropop Worldwide NYC concert listings via http://www.afropop.org/
Brazilian music in NYC: http://www.brazilny.org/cultural/boletip.htm
Brazil Society calendar: http://www.braziliansociety.org/call/default.asp
Brooklyn live venues (especially small / indie) from GO Brooklyn: http://www.go-brooklyn.com/index.html?html/venues/nightlife.html
Dirty Linen state-by-state (folk/world): http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/special/bystate1.html
Flamenco in New York:
http://www.flamencomania.com/NYC.html
Indian/South Asian dance parties and shows in NYC, NJ and beyond: http://www.desiparty.com
New York Led: Free concerts in NYC: http://www.newyorkled.com/nyc_events_Free_Concerts.htm
NYC Mosaico: Hip and rootsy Latin-tinged happenings: http://www.nycmosaico.com/
World Music Institute (WMI - presenters of world traditional concerts)
calendar:
http://www.worldmusicinstitute.org
NYC Cool Music Listings: General page, but lots of free,
less-publicized events.
http://newyorkcool.com/listings/music.html
WFMU’s Arbitrary Guide to Popular Culture (Music of
all types):
http://www.wfmu.org/arbguide.php
Upcoming
NYC Area Concerts
All events take place in New York City, borough of Manhattan unless indicated.
Any copy in italics is courtesy of
program presenters or artists.
Important:
Confirm all dates / times with the venues – there may be errors, or changes not
reflected in this calendar (follow the web links!)
Aug 28 (Thurs)
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: West Indian Carnival festivities begin with Ladies Nite featuring 2008 Trinidad and Tobago Road March Queen Fayann Lyons + Nadia Batson, Zoelah, Lima Calbio, Tizzy and many others. 7pm. http://www.wiadca.org
SOBs, 204 Varick St: Machel
Montano – soca superstar.
10pm. http://www.sobs.com
In 1987 Machel Montano became the youngest performer to win the Caribbean song
festival, this came as no suprise to the people of his native Trinidad, he had
already won the Junior Monarch contest at the tender age of 9. In 1997 he would
also win the Road March King competition in Trinidad and Tobago's Carnival. His
band Xtatik has toured the world with it's entergetic soca music, and won fans
all over. Their debut album in 1986 was titled to young to soca, he appeared
the following year on the U.S. televsion show Star Search. He has continued to
release hit songs every year such as "Big Truck", "The
Water", "Toro Toro", in 1999 he released a duet with a popular
East-Indian/Trinidadian singer Drupatee titled "Real Unity" urging
the people of various descent to come together and celebrate their
diversity. He’s still going
strong: One of the biggest hits of Trinidad and Tobago's (T&T) Carnival
2008 was Machel Montano's irresistibly upbeat "Blazin D Trail." The
song's lyrics capture the effervescence of carnival's climactic street parade,
while its title provides an accurate summation of Machel's exhaustive musical
pursuits.
Barbes, 376 9th St., Park
Slope, Brooklyn: Samurindo. 10pm. Also, Oscar Noriega trio at 8pm. http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
Samurindo explores and blends Colombian traditional music with different
genres such as jazz, punk, funk and anything that comes out on stage.
Oscar Noriega: Original compositions and re-interpretations of Mexican
standards including Boleros penned by Oscar Noriega's grandmother.
Aug 29 (Fri)
NJPAC, 1 Center Street, Newark
(outdoors): Sounds of the City
special season-ending Friday salsa dance party featuring Mayra Casalas &
CoCoMaMa, and Luisito Rosario y Su Orq.
http://www.njpac.org. 5-9pm, free.
Today’s artists include DJ Danny Ramirez; Mayra Casalas & CoCoMaMa, a
sizzling, new, all-female salsa band led by renowned Afro-Cuban percussionist
Mayra Casales, and Luisito Rosario y Su Orq, led by Hoboken-based salsa
vocalist Luisito Rosario, who specializes in charanga, son, mambo and guajira
as well as straight-forward, old-school salsa selections.
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: West Indian Carnival festivities with Gal Farm at 8pm. Featuring Shurwayne Winchester, Edwin Yearwood, Berbice, Kerwin Dubois, Traffix, Dill-e-Dana and Krosfyah plus Kutters Rhythm Section and DJs. http://www.wiadca.org
Barbes, 376 9th St., Park Slope,
Brooklyn: Mandingo
Ambassadors. 10pm. Also, Austin TX singer/songwriter Dana
Falconberry at 8pm. Plus New Orleans-infused piano
with Bill Malchow at midnight. http://www.barbesbrooklyn.com
This legendary band was originally formed in Guinea, West Africa, in the
late 1960’s by Guitarist Mamady “Djelike” Kouyate and singer Emile Soumah.
Their music became some of the most beloved and influential of their generation
and their songs were widely imitated. Mamady later went on to perform for many
years with Guinea’s most popular group, Bembeya Jazz National. Now based in New
York, Mamady Kouyate has decided to revive The Ambassadors. His electrifying
guitar-work is supported by the new Mandingo Ambassadors, a crew of Guinean and
American musicians who have steeped their glorious sound in classic 60's
guinean mandingo music.
August 30 (Sat)
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn: West Indian Carnival festivities continue with the annual Steel Band Panorama. 8pm. http://www.wiadca.org