Friday,
Sept. 29 - 7:30 pm
Serra Ballroom,
Monterey Conference Center
QUEEN IDA
ZYDECO BAND
" By the start of the second set, the audience had coalesced into a long conga line. The captivating rhythm fused together a crowd made up of all sorts of folks, from toddlers to senior citizens. …. Oldsters forgot their aches and pains to frolic on the dance floor with little kids up way past their bedtimes. It didn’t matter if you were too young, too old, too tired, too sad, too sick, too worried or too inhibited. Queen Ida made you forget all your cares and dance the night away." Los Angeles Times
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Serra Ballroom,
Monterey Conference Center
QUEEN IDA
ZYDECO BAND
" By the start of the second set, the audience had coalesced into a long conga line. The captivating rhythm fused together a crowd made up of all sorts of folks, from toddlers to senior citizens. …. Oldsters forgot their aches and pains to frolic on the dance floor with little kids up way past their bedtimes. It didn’t matter if you were too young, too old, too tired, too sad, too sick, too worried or too inhibited. Queen Ida made you forget all your cares and dance the night away." Los Angeles Times
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The
sounds of caressing tenderness, urgency and hope, a voice which
has been compared to fine chocolate --- this is the music of Irene
Farrera. "Many people tell me that my music is passionate. I like
to think it’s from the heart; that it awakens those places in
you that feel strongly about life and love. "
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Saturday , Sept. 30 - 2:30 pm
Custom House Plaza
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Diallo's
multi-cultural band both replicates the best in West African swing
music and avoids its cliches. His guitar lines, both electric
and, in many blissful instances, acoustic, are spare and well-stated,
never intended to overwhelm the balance of the composition. It's
the strength of Diallo's compositions, both his original pieces
and his interpretations of tradition, that make the group the
success it is: one of the very finest African bands on the North
American continent.
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With
a full rhythm section and two vocalists, Amandla Poets is a seven-member
band that offers an infectious South African groove. Their vocal
harmonies as piercing and sweet as fresh limes. The ensemble puts
on quite a show, garbed in colorful traditional African gear,
whirling, whooping and jamming like a guerrilla-theater troupe
with extraordinary musical skills.
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Saturday , Sept. 30 - 7:30 pm
Serra Ballroom,
Monterey Conference Center
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Often
achingly beautiful and starkly ornamented, the music called Yoik
resembles Native American music. Wimme Saari is from Finnish Lapland
and marries the traditional style of Saami music with New Age
sounds. His approach could be called "free yoik". He vocally mimics
airplane propellers and outboard motors…with expressive falsettos,
accompanied by modern percussion. .
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"You
will lose yourself in a primal rumbling reverberating through
time," according to one reviewer. Listening to Hedningarna’s music,
is like "eating black bread tainted with ergot and hallucinating
with a bunch of peasants from a Breughel painting" Drawing from
the ancient runosongs (poem-songs) which date to pre-Christian
times, their melodies and lyrics tell tales of love, maidens and
magic"
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Free Family Event!
Sunday, Oct. 1 - 2:30 pm
Custom House Plaza
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Verdell
Primeaux considers himself a living testimony to the healing power
of God and Peyote. In conjunction with colleague, Johnny
Mike, Verdell developed healing chants, which are peyote melodies
and harmonies sung without drum or rattle accompaniment...
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Sunday, Oct. 1 - 5:30pm
Steinbeck Forum,
Monterey Conference Center
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Imagine
Edith Piaf singing in Spanish and you have the idea of the soulful
sound of Lila Downs. Born to a Mexican Indian woman and a Minnesota
arts professor and raised on both sides of the border, Downs dedicated
seven years of her life to opera and four to jazz --- this, after
getting her start at the age of eleven singing with mariachis.
Lila Downs writes her own original material using images from
ancient pre-Columbian manuscripts. In addition to English and
Spanish, she sings in the ancient languages of her land: Mixtec,
Zapotec, or Nahuatl.
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This
delicately built singer with the great, enchantingly tender voice,
brings us melody-drunk songs in the Spanish language and folk
songs of the Sephardic Jews as well as songs from Corsica, North
Africa, and the Balkans. These songs could be called the Mediterranean
blues.
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