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SUMMARY:Future Folklore with Karim Nagi
DESCRIPTION:“A physical manifestation of beauty & joy” – Chicago Tribune  \nKARIM NAGI creates a future folklore. He weaves Arab tradition with a borderless exploration. His traditional Arabic music and dance emanate brightly\, reworking into an original expression of diaspora folklore. A multi-instrumentalist\, recording artist of 18 albums\, movement artist and TEDx speaker\, NAGI’s performances are dynamic and rich. He creates partnerships with his audiences\, verbally guiding them\, transporting each member on a provocative cultural excursion. \nAdditionally\, NAGI has an educational school assembly performance Arabiqa which has toured the USA and received two Doris Duke Building Bridges grants. He is a former Board member of Chamber Music America\, and a former adjunct faculty at New England Conservatory. He currently performs his solo play Detour Guide\, and tours with Arabiqa\, plus the Chicago-based group The Arab Blues. \nKNOW BEFORE YOU GO:\nShow your ticket confirmation email at CHOP (Culinary Hub of Providence) just downstairs from the venue for 20% off dinner* on the night of the show!\n*211 Washington Street. Offer excludes alcohol purchases. \nWe’re running a food drive for Better Lives RI! Bring your non-perishable food donation to our event check-in table outside the Donald J. Farish auditorium. \nDoors open at 6:00 PM. Performance run time is 6:30-7:45 PM. No admission after 7:00 PM.\nThe library will be closed\, but we’ll have staff at the 150 Empire St. entrance to greet you and direct you to the Donald J. Farish auditorium on the third floor.
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/future-folklore-with-karim-nagi/
LOCATION:Providence Public Library\, 150 Empire Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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SUMMARY:BALA-BILA
DESCRIPTION:BALA-BILA brings together two African master musicians–Balla Kouyaté on balafon\, calabash\, bass guitar and voice\, and Matchume Zango on timbila\, mbira\, percussion and voice–through a live concert framed as an intercultural musical conversation between the two artists. Kouyaté\, from the West African country of Mali\, and Zango\, from the East African country of Mozambique\, are leading exponents of their respective principal instruments–BALAfon and timBILA–two world heritage instruments that are played together for the first time. \nThis living-room-style concert features Kouyaté and Zango as composers and multi-instrumentalists sharing the joy\, beauty and complexity of their music but also provides a unique opportunity for the audience to get to know Kouyaté and Zango as human beings\, artists\, ambassadors\, and global citizens as they explore their connection to each other\, their art\, and their cultural patrimony.
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/bala-bila/
LOCATION:Providence Public Library\, 150 Empire Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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SUMMARY:Jake Blount + Mali Obomsawin
DESCRIPTION:Jake Blount and Mali Obomsawin are award-winning musicians who have joined forces on their Smithsonian Folkways release\, symbiont (2024). Blount (pronounced “blunt”) is a renowned interpreter of Black folk music who is recognized for his skill as a string band musician and for his unprecedented Afrofuturist work in sound archives and song collections. In his hands\, the banjo\, fiddle\, electric guitar\, and synthesizer become ceremonial objects used to channel the insurgent creativity of his forebears. Obomsawin (Odanak First Nation) is a celebrated composer\, bassist\, and vocalist in free jazz and experimental music. Obomsawin’s work as a composer and bandleader centers on the imprint of Indigenous music traditions in jazz and “American” genres\, using historical\, archival\, and community research as a spine for improvisation. \nOn symbiont\, Obomsawin’s and Blount’s “genrequeer” approach to their respective traditions has earned a place in some of the very same archives from which they extract their repertoire. In defiance of genre categories\, revisionist histories\, and linear time\, Blount and Obomsawin have fashioned an Indigenous and Afrofuturist folklore that disintegrates the boundaries between acoustic and electric\, artist and medium\, and ancestor and progeny.
URL:https://firstworks.org/event/jake-blount-mali-obomsawin/
LOCATION:Providence Public Library\, 150 Empire Street\, Providence\, RI\, 02903\, United States
CATEGORIES:Season 2024-2025
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