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Alternative Rock with Eclectic World Instruments
“...cutting edge meets multi-cultural...” - Ken Sander, Former A&R, Electra
Records
“...a blend of rough distorted guitars, Native American Flutes, Tibetan
Singing Bowls, Tabla Drums and killer vocals.” - John Peet, Artlink Magazine
Featured on New England and East Coast Radio
Also Available: Lecture Programs About World Instruments
Abenaa
Soulful Multi-Culti Pop
Influences
from her Native Ghanian & Trinidadian Background
Music Video "Simple Life" featured on
HBO, MTV and MTV2
Grammy
Nominated, Top Ten International hits with Vanessa Williams & Kim Stockwood
Featured Artist: BET Nightly News, Movietunes,
WBLS, Conde Nast/Chevy Cavalier's Style Essential, Riverside Park
South Autumn Fest, Hammerstein Ballroom Benefit for Amadou Diallo, Bethlehem
Musikfest, Univ. of Delaware, Univ. of Hartford, Rutgers Univ., Great
Valley Performing Arts Center & London, Miami, Ghana & Trinidad
Hailed
by Q Magazine, Billboard, VIBE, The Washington Post and features
in Arise, Black Beat, Right On!, ICE Magazine, Urban Voices Newspaper
and ABC News Radio.
Also Available with String Orchestra Arranged by Famed Conductor, Arranger,
Composer, Clare Fischer
(pronounced "KAY-lee")
Celtic Flavored Pop Rock Also Available with Irish Stepdancers! 2005 and 2003 Unity Awards Selected 'Most critically acclaimed indie rock/pop band' for 2000 and 1998 by Billboard Magazine 1999 Nominated for Nashville Music Award 'Best Independent Album of the Year'
Featured Artists:
Irish Cultural & Heritage Center, RCA Dome, TWA Dome, US Air Force Academy, Slainte Irish Festival, Columbia Theatre - Fanfare, Berks Arts Council, World Youth Day (Canada & Italy), Great Valley Performing Arts Center, 2000 & 1998 Oswego Harborfest, Madison Civic Center, Disneyworld, Six Flags Darien Lake, Arts Jubilee Fest, Mill City Music Fest, Anaheim Convention Center, Carolina Theatre, The Bottom Line, The Iron Horse Music Hall, The Mint, College of the Albemarle, Marymount Univ.
"These guys deserve to be heard by the entire world. Their potential is limitless because they have an appeal that knows no boundaries." -Billboard Magazine
"A tight band comprised of solid vocal harmonies, tin whistles, fiddles, and Highland pipes, this six-piece group is led by singer/songwriter Bob Halligan, who is no stranger to composing killer hooks...Bob has written songs for Judas Priest, KISS, Blue Oyster Cult, Cher, Michael Bolton, and even Fabio." -CMJ
Award-Winning Contemporary Dance Company
Founded by Laurie Eisenhower in 1991 and dedicated to the performance of a diverse range of contemporary dance works. The company has toured theatres across the U.S. and internationally as far as St. Petersburg, Russia.
Programs Include:
Repertory Evening:
Selections from EDE's varied contemporary dance repertory. Acclaimed programs have included works by choreographers Laurie Eisenhower, David Parsons, Stephen Koester, Mel Wong, Pascal Rioult, Mark Dendy, Douglas Nielsen, Bill Evans, Lila York, Demetrius Klein, Colin Connor and Billy Siegenfeld, among others.
"A Soldier's Tale":
Multi-media work choreographed by Bill DeYoung to Stravinsky's "A Soldier's Tale", with live musical accompaniment by Detroit Chamber Winds & Strings. "Laugh Tracks":
Ingenious blending of comedy and contemporary dance, featuring inventive and humorous choreography from Laurie Eisenhower.
"Motown in Motion":
A visual salute to the tunes that made Motown Records famous. Includes live music from the legendary Motown group, The Contours featuring Sylvester Potts, and dance vignettes performed by EDE, with The Contours and to recordings from other top Motown artists. An entertaining and historical look at Motown, a distinctly American artistic and cultural legacy.
"Kids 'n Motion":
Inspires students of all ages about learning, creating and enjoying dance. Includes narration, audience participation and repertory excerpts in many styles of dance.
Latin, Classical Folk-fusion and Originals
Flutes, Saxophone, Native American Instruments and Guitars
Awarded Official Title of: "Artistic Ambassadors of the United States" by USIS
Featured Artists: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, 1998 Hispanic Heritage Awards, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institute Museums, Central American Summit
1998, 1992, 1991 Central American Tours
"synthesizes(s) culturally diverse stylistic elements into a fresh artistic idea of genuine sincerity and conviction" - Steve Seidenman, Washington Guitar Society
Also available: Residencies and Children's Programs
written & performed by Letitia Guillory
A testimony of African-American women and a tribute to their endurance, strength and faith.
This performance trilogy is woven together by the spirituality of survival and the celebration of the human spirit. Using poetry, dance, music, installation art and storytelling, these pieces explore themes of struggle, loss, poverty, identity, redemption, sexuality and family. Above all, The Further Adventures of Gussie Mae in America is, a healing ritual...... clearing the way for what is to come.
"a captivating piece" -The New York Amsterdam News
"Ms. Guillory represents one of the finest actresses and writers on the scene today."
"The Further Adventures Of Gussie Mae In America, written and performed by Letitia Guillory and presented by Harlem's National Black Theatre, was a captivating, one-woman tour de force." -Theatremania.com
Guillory's acting credits include: The Taking Circle, Black Medea, As You Like It and the national tours of For Colored Girls... and Whatever Happened to Black Love?. Directing credits include: Fragmented Frontlines, The Waiting Room, Trip This and My Darling Gremlin. Guillory's play Free at Last was part of the Harlem Renaissance II Festival at the Apollo Theater, and Shelter: A Photograph of Hope was part of Community Works' Theater Connections program, at Aaron Davis Hall. Guillory was commissioned by Mind Builders Inc.. to write Dancing in Her Head: The Life & Times of Katherine Dunham, which toured NYC schools. As an Arts Educator, Guillory has worked with HAI, Community Works, Periwinkle National Theater, Brooklyn AIDS Task Force and served as the Artistic Director of the AIDS Theatre Project. She continues her work in Educational Theatre, presenting workshops in homeless shelters in NYC, on national college campuses and in communities.
Front Porch Workshop Series - programs developed for audiences of all ages, engaging the participants in history and the creative process.
Original and traditional Latin American music, including Cumbia, Bomba, Rumba, Afoxe, Joropo, Argentine Folk and Brazilian. Instruments include siku, quinna, flute, saxes, clarinet, guitar, charango, bass, congas/percussion & drums.
"Tango and Folklore Argentina": with acclaimed dancers Los Pampas
Featured At:
The United Nations, Thalia Spanish Theatre, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Trinity Concert Series, Great Valley PAC, The Knitting Factory, Brooklyn Museum, Music for Montauk, Duke Univ., UNC, Rutgers, Fairleigh Dickinson, Japan tour, WADO, RCN, Oscar Award winning film "Frida" and "Mambo Kings" and "Flawless".
Band members have also performed and recorded with Sean Lennon, Placido Domingo, Celia Cruz, Johnny Pacheco, Ray Barretto
"The range of sounds is so wide and unexpected that you feel spellbound; it is as if Orpheus were in your midst and you weren't able to move." - Miguel Falquez-Certain, Billboard Magazine "
...most rewarding. Every place is tuneful, happy, interesting and unique. It is hard not to keep listening over and over..." - Dennis Prager, Nationally Syndicated Radio talk show host
"...very few jazz musicians have ventured into using the cumbia as an improvisational texture. That is until now, with Greg Ribot...like a musical cruise on the Magdalena River in Colombia that cuts across the heart of the country." - Jesse "Chuy" Varela, JazzTimes
World heralded JUNKMAN, percussionist, Donald Knaack
Music composed for and performed on junk and found discarded objects
Spokesperson for Vermont's Agency for Natural Resource's campaign for recycling and reuse, including TV & radio ads.
Featured Artist: "Full Metal Edges", CBS "Sunday Morning", "Late Night with Conan O'Brien", The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Van's Warped Tour, Kansas City International Jazz Festival, The Great Went and Lemonwheel with PHISH, Lincoln Center Out-of Doors Festival, Boston Millennium Project, Mountain Creek, Stratton Junkjam '98, World Environmental Day at the United Nations, Discover Jazz Festival, and upcoming: Sundance Film Festival
European tours to Germany, Belgium, Italy and Croatia*
1998 finalist for Grammy Nomination for Junk Music™ CD - Best Classical Composition
Commissions by Twyla Tharp for American Ballet Theatre & Twyla Tharp Dance
Concerts, Audience junkjams, Lectures, Community Based Projects & Workshops
Hailed by The New York Times, The Washington Post & Billboard
South African composers, vocalists, and musicians: Morris Goldberg (saxophone, flute, penny whistle) renowned for performing with Paul Simon, among others, especially Paul's "Graceland" album, and Morris' tenure on "The Rosie O'Donnell Show"; Anton Fig (drums), renowned by his tenure on "Late Night with David Letterman" and performing with Paul Simon; and Simon tour mate - Tony Cedras (keyboards, trumpet, accordion, vocals) who also toured with Amandla Cultural Ensemble in exile; and Chulo Gatewood, who toured with Harry Belafonte and accompanies Tony Bird on the album "Sorry Africa".
The acclaimed musicians have also performed and recorded with exiled singer Letta Mbulu, Harry Belafonte, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Jonathan Butler, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and more. The OJOYO sound is Safrojazz, a combination of South African and American music. Cape Town born Morris Goldberg combined the sounds of his Township heritage, with the American music he learned to love. OJOYO members also include Richard Cummings (keyboards), Damon Duewhite (drums) and Dan Carillo (guitar).
Offering concerts, masterclasses and interactive lecture/demos utilizing music and stories about living in South Africa under apartheid, struggles for both black and white musicians, and valuing hard won freedoms.
*New show featured at John Drew Theater of Guild Hall, in East Hampton, NY:
Township Jive Meets Rhythm and Blues
In this production, Cameroon diva Kaïssa meets R&B dynamo Ty Stephens and Branice McKenzie. They are joined by OJOYO, in a fusion concert of World Music. The ensemble plays and sings a selection of songs made popular by Miriam Makeba, plus Rhythm and Blues original and standard material, and original compositions by Morris Goldberg. The production's musical directors are Morris Goldberg and Richard Cummings.
Multi Media Flute
"American Orchestras should take note" -Bernard Holland, The New York Times
"cutting edge music" -The New Yorker
Featured Artist: United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing, St. Petersburg Mozarteum Orchestra - Russia, Matsumoto Hall - Japan, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Harvard University, Princeton University
"[Ms. Siesel] is poised in the avant-garde of an evolving field…integrating musical performance with other media…including film, photography, art [and] computer animation…" - Norma Hurlbert, Executive Director, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Also available: Workshops and Residencies
Jamaican Reggae Artist
Winner 1998 JUNO Award for "Vision" - Best Reggae Recording in Canada
Winner 1999 Canadian Reggae Award
Featured Artist: City of Montclair Reggae Fest, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Rochester Civic Music Series, Bethlehem Musikfest, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Washington University in St. Louis, Rutgers University, Mountain Creek, 1999 Pan Am Games, World Beat Festival, Celebrate Toronto Festival, It's Friday Night-Caribbean Sunfest, Concert Aid-Chernobyl, Reggae Sunsplash-Jamaica
New Album: "Dreader Than Dread"
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