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Group Name: Jef Stott CD Release Party for "Saracen" & Zeb LIVE + DJs Luxo 100
Event Time: 8 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Jef's sound is a powerful fusion of the traditions of the Middle East with breaks, dub and electro. His live performances feature a wide range of traditional instruments (oud, saz, percussion, vocals) mixed into up tempo DJ sets that always satisfy the dance floor. The release of his new album “Saracenâ€, from Six Degrees Records, is being celebrated with performances by Zeb and Luxo 100 DJs.
Saturday, July 5th
Group Name: Very Be Careful
Event Time: 10:00 pm
Admission: $12
Description: LA-based band Very Be Careful is bringing cumbia, the traditional music of Colombia , from its hometown's gritty streets to the rest of the world. Their live shows have a distinctly punky manic energy, but Very Be Careful's aesthetic harks back to the vintage '50 and '60s sounds of Colombian heroes like Alejo Durán and Alfredo Guttiérez. This respect for tradition gives their sound a raw authenticity.
Tuesday, July 8th
Group Name: Turkish Jazz: Timucin Sahin & Burak Akten
Event Time: 8:00 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Guitarist Sahin and pianist Akten’s performances will interpret and fuse the folkloric music of Turkey with an intriguing, rare blend of the contemporary and the classical. Their influences stem from a wide array of African, Indian, and western cultures.
Wednesday, July 9th
Group Name: Peacock’s Arcade & Moisturizer
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $12
Description: Peacock’s Arcade provides the soundtrack to Weimar America with guitar and accordion-driven, cabaret-inflected songs of lust and longing, vampirism and absinthe, of murder, mayhem and (Robert) Mitchum. Moisturizer is made up of baritone sax, bass & drums; hard hitting, original melodic funky rock music… or is it the new jazz?
Thursday, July 10th
Group Name: Dawn Drake and Shelley Nicole’s blaKbushe
Event Time: 9:00 pm
Admission: $12
Description: Two female singers and multi-instrumentalists living in New York take the stage, as Drake represents the Brazilian and Latin music scene, and Nicole blends elements of rock, funk, soul, and beyond.
Friday, July 11th
Group Name: Sofia Koutsovitis
Event Time: 8 pm
Admission: $12
Description: An active vocalist, composer and arranger, Koutsovitis mixes and elegantly fuses in her music South American rhythms with a jazz aesthetic in a unique, very attractive and extremely seductive way.
Wednesday, July 16th
Group Name: Brotherhood of Brass: Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar meets Frank London Klezmer Brass All Stars
Event Time: 10.30 pm
Admission: $25
Description: Feted at home and abroad as the greatest of Balkan trumpeters, Boban Markovic is the scion of a long line of gypsy musicians. From his home town of Vladicin Han in Serbia’s gypsy brass heartland, he has led his Orkestar to international acclaim, boldly going where no other brass band has gone before, enhancing the traditional repertoire with elements of the wider world from jazz to latin to pop.
Saturday, July 19th
Group Name: INSATIABLE with DJs Moma & DJ Dubz
Event Time: 10:30 pm
Admission: Ladies – Free; Gentlemen - $20
Description: Music by DJ Moma & DJ Dubz spinning hip-hop, classics, soca, rock and old school classics.
Sunday, July 20th
Group Name: Petros and The Banda
Event Time: 8 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Put together by pianist-composer Petros Sakelliou, the ensemble is comprised of a selection of professional musicians with diverse affiliations ranging from jazz to various world traditions; classically trained musicians as well as improvisers.
Tuesday, July 22nd
Group Name: Suphala
Event Time: 8 pm
Admission: $15
Description: Adding production chops to her many talents, Suphala produces primarily in her home based studio with her tabla, a computer, a keyboard, and microphone. Yet from this barebones beginning, she fleshes the songs out with rich melodies, harmonies, and a virtuosic display of tabla playing and programmed beats.
Wednesday, July 23rd
Group Name: Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $25
Description: Feted at home and abroad as the greatest of Balkan trumpeters, Boban Markovic is the scion of a long line of gypsy musicians. From his home town of Vladicin Han in Serbia’s gypsy brass heartland, he has led his Orkestar to international acclaim, boldly going where no other brass band has gone before, enhancing the traditional repertoire with elements of the wider world from jazz to latin to pop.
Thursday, July 24th
Group Name: Allison Scola
Event Time: 8 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Allison creates songs that weave hues of her Italian heritage and fascination with Mediterranean folk culture together with personal accounts of her experience as a modern American artist taking risks in love and life. With a voice that's been described by Music-Reviewer.com as "comforting and all-embracing, like being in the presence of your long lost best friend," Allison transports listeners to a world where hearts are bursting and dreams come true.
Thursday, July 24th
Group Name: Helder Moutinho
Event Time: 10 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Helder Moutinho was born in Oeiras, Portugal, where the Tagus meets the Ocean, and maybe it was from this daily intimacy with the sea that emerged the major characteristic of his career: a multiple capacity of understanding and living his music, by singing, composing, producing, managing, constantly probing wider horizons, of solid and neat banks and rich, steady stream.
Saturday, July 26th
Group Name: INSATIABLE with DJs Moma & DJ Dubz
Event Time: 10:30 pm
Admission: Ladies – Free; Gentlemen - $20
Description: Music by DJ Moma & DJ Dubz spinning hip-hop, classics, soca, rock and old school classics.
Wednesday, July 30th
Group Name: Quimbombó CD Release Party
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Quimbombó is dedicated to creatively interpreting the Cuban són (the contagious dance music championed by Buena Vista Social Club that is the main ingredient in salsa) by maintaining strong elements of improvisation and spontaneity in its sound.
Tuesday, August 5th
Group Name: Brave Combo
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $15
Description: If Brave Combo has a credo it is "Do Something Different." From the band's inception more than 25 years ago they have dared to go musically where few musicians would - or could. From polka-tinged rock, pop, salsa and beyond, Brave Combo has created a dizzying repertoire that thrills long-time fans and captivates curious newcomers.
Wednesday, August 6th
Group Name: Charlie Hunter
Event Time: 10 pm
Admission: $15
Description: Grinding out an album nearly every year since 1993 on various labels, Charlie Hunter pursued solo, duo, trio, quartet, and quintet combinations while experimenting with diverse recipes of instrumentation. Saxes, trombones, vibes—it all depended on where his evolution was taking him.
Saturday, August 9th
Group Name: Chicago Afrobeat Project
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $10
Description: Afrobeat cannot stand still. As the genre’s tempting sounds continue a resurgence across the globe, Chicago Afrobeat Project (CAbP) remains true to its original vision of breathing the intensity of Chicago’s rich music scene into the infectious sounds of afrobeat. Rather than become caricatures of the genre, CAbP slips a reverent nod to the tradition while delivering an energized originality different from any other band on the afrobeat scene today. At each of its 100+ live performances a year, the group’s frenzied songs hit audiences with a big enough one-two punch to tirelessly knock them onto the dance floor time and time again.
Wednesday, August 13th
Group Name: Charlie Hunter
Event Time: 10 pm
Admission: $15
Description: Grinding out an album nearly every year since 1993 on various labels, Charlie Hunter pursued solo, duo, trio, quartet, and quintet combinations while experimenting with diverse recipes of instrumentation. Saxes, trombones, vibes—it all depended on where his evolution was taking him
Wednesday, August 20th
Group Name: Charlie Hunter
Event Time: 10 pm
Admission: $15
Description: Grinding out an album nearly every year since 1993 on various labels, Charlie Hunter pursued solo, duo, trio, quartet, and quintet combinations while experimenting with diverse recipes of instrumentation. Saxes, trombones, vibes—it all depended on where his evolution was taking him
Thursday, August 21st
Group Name: Groove Collective & Rubblebucket
Event Time: 9 pm
Admission: $15
Description: New York City's Groove Collective transcends musical categories with one goal in mind: to move listeners' minds and feet. For over a decade, this legendary group has refined the stylistic cross-pollination of funk, jazz, house, Latin, hip hop, rock and every party-inducing sound in-between