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7:00 pm
Poetry off the Shelf: Tan Lin
Enjoy an evening of poetry and music with poet, novelist, filmmaker, and new media artist Tan Lin and sonic texture trio NbN. Tan Lin is the author of twelve books, most recently Heath Course Pak (2012), Bib., Rev. Ed. (2012), Insomnia and the Aunt (2011), and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (2010). Lin’s work is tied to cultural and media studies in a mode of literature he defines as...
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David Bromberg Quintet
Summer 2013: record heat wave, prolonged economic slump, music business under frontal assault. A bonafide legend could be forgiven for wanting to coast a bit or ride off into the sunset, but that’s not how this narrative goes: ladies & gentlemen, allow us to re-introduce David Bromberg, the Godfather of Americana, and his new album Only Slightly Mad (Appleseed Recordings). You can tell a lot...
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The Duhks
One of the most musically adventurous bands to come from the roots scene in the past decade, The Duhks return to the stage is definitely a cause for celebration. Hailed by The New York Times as one of the artists at the forefront of the neo-folk movement, The Duhks (pronounced Ducks) have won admirers as diverse as David Crosby, Dolly Parton and Doc Watson. The...
Find out more »South/North: Mesias Maiguashca
Located in Germany for much of his career as a composer and teacher of composition and electronic music, Ecuadorian native Mesias Maiguashca’s trajectory recalls that of Argentinian/German Mauricio Kagel. Descended from parents indigenous to the Andes and a student of Stockhausen, his musical language reflects the folklore and Andean cosmology of his youth and the rigor and mediums of the avant-garde scene in Europe. The Fonema...
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Noura Mint Seymali
Winner of the 2014 AFRIMA (All Africa Music Awards) for “Best Female Artist in North Africa,” Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries, having begun her career, aged 13, as a supporting vocalist with her legendary step-mother Dimi Mint Abba. Reared in a culture of collision where sounds from across the Sahara, the Magreb, and West Africa...
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