 El Taller Latino Americano The Latin American Workshop |
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Broadway Uptown Music
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS | ||
"Cosas humanas, adentro y afuera"Saturday January 8Concert starts at 8:30pm Tickets: $10 |
"Cosas humanas, adentro y afuera" / "Human Things, Inside and Outside: Reflections on loneliness, good and evil, love, and war"
Featuring Mara Goodman, Martha Siegel, Gene Glickman, Sarah Safford, Ellen Davidson, Marie Robinson, Chrissy Word, Bernardo Palombo, Mike Tsukahara, Don Raphael, Ben Silver, Chris Carlson. Mara sings, accompanied by keyboard, cello, guitar, and vocalists. Dancer Sarah Safford collaborates. Songs will be in English, Spanish, Yiddish and Old French. | |
Obo Addy & Valerie NaranjoSunday January 9Concert starts at 3:00pm Tickets: $10 |
Igniting the Rhythm: Master Drummer Obo Addy with guest Valerie Naranjo
Valerie Naranjo has performed as a percussion, marimba and gyil soloist on six continents, and plays percussion and arranges for NBC´s Saturday Night Live Band and Broadway’s The Lion King.
 Obo Addy, master drummer, is a repository of Ghanaian music history, a brilliant musician who has traveled all over the world with his innovative compositions. Obo has also written orchestral pieces for Kronos Quartet and Third Angle New Music Ensemble & played jazz with Randy Weston and Andrew Cyrille.
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Guillermo CardenasFriday, January 21Concert starts at 9:00 pm Sunday, April 10 Concert starts at 3:00pm Tickets: $10. |
 Drumming in the Valley (a chant for peace)A concert in which the audience will be exposed to a wide variety of beat, color, and texture from different parts of the world, inter-related in a metaphorical way, providing plenty of aesthetic joy. "In addition to possessing expertise in the Cuban and Brazilian bass rhythms of most Latin Jazz, Guillermo Cardenas is a virtuoso performer of Afro-Dominican genres ranging from merengue to seldom heard forms such as gaga, palos and pri-pri. He fuses these expertise with an acute sensitivity to jazz aesthestics, thus representing a unique voice in contemporary improvised music." Professor Paul Austerlitz Music Department, Brown University | |
Michelle Manzo
Friday, January 28 |
Vocalist Michelle Manzo is as elegant as the timeless songs of her repertoire. Showing us the beauty and soul of simplicity, her performances betweeen Birdland & Zinc Bar have been a stripped-down honest affair with plenty
of emotion to spare.
Grupo Miguelito returns with a “conjunto pequeno” lineup for this affair. Performing songs from a forthcoming EP, singer songwriter Michael “Miguelito” LaMorte will be joined by Ze' Luis (Caetano Veloso,Bebel Gilberto), Guy Finley (Honeycomb,God's Green Earth), and Richard Padron. R-Status is the collective force of Cuban-born guitarist Richard Padron and alto saxophonist Benny Reid. They will be joined by Ernesto Simpson, Alex Hernandez, and Robert Rodrigez for this performance of explosive jazz with elements of every style of music as a focus. | |
"What a Neighborhood!"Saturday February 5Concert starts at 8:30 pm Tickets: $10. |
What a Neighborhood! Music by Neighborhood Composers A celebration of our neighborhood's abundance and variety of composers and of the community that supports them. This concert of beautiful music will be an occasion to meet terrific people who are creative and active in the community and be inspired by music and music-making that lives and breathes, speaks to the heart, and is created by our neighbors! Music by neighborhood composers, including Ishmael Wallace, Kate Ettinger, Franklin Latner and Bernardo Palombo, as well as Latin American music.  The first half of the concert will feature the Orfeo Duo, violinist Vita Wallace and her brother, pianist Ishmael Wallace, with guest artists clarinetist Anna
Maria Baeza and soprano Mary Ellen Callahan. They will perform: Journey to the South, a maverick waltz for violin and piano by Ishmael
Wallace (born 1971, lives on 113th St.), a new piece for violin and piano and finger cymbals, by Kate Ettinger (born 1989, lives on RSD at 113 St.),
Joy, Hope, Juke Box Love Song, and Harlem for soprano and piano, music by Franklin Latner, (1945-99, lived on102nd St.), texts by Langston Hughes (who also lived in the neighborhood), and Nickelodeon: Walk-Ons, Film Cards, Dramatis Personae; Love Song "Hearts and Flowers"; Chase: Trains, Fire Engines, Fancy Feet, Custard Pies, for clarinet and violin and piano, also by Franklin Latner.
 The Orfeo Duo's playing has recently been described by listeners as "tender," "healing," "splendid and inspiriting." Reviewers have called
their CDs "daring and fresh" and "magnificent." You can visit http://www.orfeoduo.com for more information.
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Marta GómezSaturday February 26Concert starts at 8:00 pm Tickets: $10. |
Marta Gómez started her musical studies at the age of six in her native Colombia when she entered the Liceo Benalcazar choir being its soloist for ten years. In 1993 Marta moved to Bogota to continue her musical studies at the Javeriana University and In the summer of 1999 she entered the Berklee College of Music where she received the "Best Achievement Scholarship" and the "Alex Ulanowsky" composition award before graduating magna cum laude under the Professional Music degree program. with more of 70 composed songs, She has also developed an extensive studio career recording for radio and TV for more than ten years in her native Colombia, and three years in the US.
In 2001 Marta recorded a self-titled CD and in her new one called "Solo es vivir" the singer and songwriter not only traverses a whole range of Colombian cumbias and bambucos, Argentine zambas, Cuban sones and Peruvian landos but she also writes the kind of melodies and refrains that translate across whatever language she is singing in. In March of 2003, Marta’s song "Paula Ausente" based on the book "Paula" by Isabel Allende, won the The SIBL Project International songwriting contest as the best song inspired by a South American book. The song was included on a CD among others by artists such as Tom Waits and David Bowie.Only a month later the same year, Marta was chosen by Bonnie Raitt to open her concert at the Orpheum Theater in Boston with Grammy winner John Mayer. The Boston Globe called her show "A piece of South America brought by a world-class singer full of passion". | |
Rhythm HarvestSunday February 27CANCELLED |
Formed by noted percussionists Montego Joe and Guillermo Cruz, Rhythm Harvest draws upon the rhythms of Africa, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Brazil, India, the Middle East, Ireland and American Jazz to create a unique aural experience.
Now including percussionists Vivian Warfield, Glen Fittin, Robert Stoy, and singer/dancer Sandra Rodriguez, Rhythm Harvest unites their collective rhythmic knowledge and performance skills with the unique joy that comes from creative expression. | |
Los ChangosFriday March 11Concert starts at 9:00 Tickets: $10 |
 Julio Santillan (guitar/composition) -- Fernando Huergo (bass) -- Franco Pinna (drums) Marta Gomez (voice) -- Yulia Musayelyan (flute) -- Felipe Salles (clarinet) -- David Hodges (bandoneon) Los Changos' music mixes jazz concepts with argentine folk rhythms. The group started performing in the U.S.A. in 1998. Since then they have participated in many concerts and festivals in east coast including: XIII° International Folk Festival (Boston, MA); III° & IV° Argentina Jazz Festival (New York, NY); II°,III° & IV° Latin Culture Week (Boston, MA). The group has toured Argentina in two opportunities. In 2001 the trio released their first CD called "Desde el Norte" (BigSur Records). In 2003 Los Changos released "Anit Negra" (BigSur Records) , their first CD as a septet. Los Changos play Julio A. Santillán's compositions and arrangements. Some of the rhythms they perform are: Chacarera, Zamba, Vidala, Tango, Huayno, Milonga and Candombe. La música de Los Changos mezcla ritmos argentinos con conceptos de jazz. El grupo se formó en U.S.A. en 1998. Desde entonces ha tocado en numeros conciertos y festivales como: XIII° International Folk Festival (Boston); III° & IV° Argentina Jazz Festival (New York); II°,III° & IV° Latin Culture Week (Boston). El grupo estuvo de gira por Argentina en dos oportunidades. En 2001 el trio editó su primer album "Desde el Norte" (BigSur Records). En 2003, Los Changos editaron "Anit Negra" (BigSur Records) , su primer disco como septeto. Los Changos tocan composiciones y arreglos de Julio A. Santillán. Algunos de los ritmos que tocan: Chacarera, Zamba, Vidala, Tango, Huayno, Milonga y Candombe. | |
Peña de las AmericasSunday, April 3Concert starts at 4:00 Tickets: TBD |
 April 3 concert will feature Gastón Pourrieux (more info coming...) | |
Trio ChaskinakuyFriday April 15Concert starts at 8:00 Tickets: $12 |
Deeply rooted in mountains that rise well above 10,000 feet, the traditional music from the Andes is both profoundly earthbound and joyously uplifting. As the trio Chaskinakuy (Cha-ski-NOCK-wee),Andean music masters Edmond Badoux, Francy Vidal and Daniel Zamalloa bring this music to life, performing the compelling melodies and infectious rhythms of high mountain festivities in Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, northern Chile and Argentina. Equipped with an extraordinary, museum quality collection of regional instruments that includes flutes and panpipes of bamboo, bone and feathers, goatskin drums, the 10-foot long Peruvian trumpet, fiddle, harps, guitars, mandolins and more, the trio explores musical terrain travelled by few. Taking its name from the native Quechua word that means "to give and receive from hand to hand among many", Chaskinakuy charts new territory for Andean and world music lovers alike. Of Chaskinakuy’s 2002 CD, A Flor de Tierra, Dirty Linen Magazine writes: "With its exquisitely played traditional selections that are as transcendent as they are infectious, these left coast statesiders are the real thing."En el idioma Quéchua, Chaskinakuy significa "recibir de mano en mano entre muchos". Con este espíritu, los músicos Edmond Badoux, Francy Vidal y Daniel Zamalloa ejecutan melodías sentidas y ritmos contagiantes propios de las festividades celebradas en las altas montañas de Sudamérica. Ellos cuentan con una extraordinaria colección de instrumentos regionales que incluye flautas y zampoñas de bambú, hueso y plumas, una trompeta de 10 pies de largo, violín, arpas, guitarras, mandolinas y tambores de cuero de cabra. Este virtuoso trío recorre el territorio musical de Ecuador, Perú, Bolivia y Argentina y traza nuevas rutas para viajeros musicales por los Andes y el mundo. La revista Dirty Linen elogió el CD "A Flor de Tierra" producido el 2002: "Con su repertorio tradicional exquisitamente ejecutado, que es tanto trascendente como contagiante, estos músicos residentes en la costa oeste son realmente genuinos." Andean Village Music PO Box 11421, Santa Rosa, CA 95406 (707) 571-1377 info@chaskinakuy.com www.chaskinakuy.com | |
Samuel TorresSunday April 24Concert starts at 6:00 pm Tickets: $12 |
"... a keen-eared, light-handed percussionist [who] can draw a rainbow of intriguing sounds. " The Washington Post "...a ferocious conga solo by Samuel Torres that seemed not humanly possible. " The Boston Globe | |