African, African Diaspora Transnational Musical Narratives

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Event Date: 
February 25, 2022 - 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Online Zoom Event
Description: 

Center for African Studies presents:
African, African Diaspora Transnational Musical Narratives

A Black History Month Tea Talk

Featuring Angel d'Cuba (Angel Badell & James Cornolo) and Roger Noel (Cuban Salsa Instructor, Writer, DJ)

A talk and live music performance on migrating African aesthetics and exchange in music across the Black Atlantic.

Registration required.

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2022 C-U Folk & Roots Festival Winter Weekend

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Event Date: 
February 10, 2022 - 5:00pm - 10:00pm
Description: 

Chase the winter blues away with this amazing lineup! Shows will be both in-person (Rose Bowl Tavern, 106 N. Race St., Urbana) and live-streamed. The live-stream link will be announced on Facebook and on our website right before showtime.

Thursday 2/10
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Dennis Stroughmatt and Friends
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Hobnob String Band

Friday 2/11
8:00 pm Castle Finn
9:30 pm Candy Foster and Shades of Blue

Saturday 2/12
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm The Young and The Fretless
7:30 pm Joe's Truck Stop (solo show with Joe)
8:30 pm The Landovers
9:30 pm Los Texano'z

$30 in advance, full weekend wristband (purchase online here)
$35 day-of-show, full weekend wristband
$10 day-of-show, individual shows

Folks watching the live stream are encouraged to donate online. Folks attending in person must show proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test taken within 72 hours; masks are required except when eating or drinking.

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Klezmer slow jams

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Event Date: 
April 25, 2022 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Illini Hillel
Address: 
Cohen Center for Jewish Life, 503 E John St., Champaign, IL
Description: 

Learn how to play Klezmer with Francis Harris at a monthly slow jam. All levels of musical talent welcome!

Jams run from 7:00pm - 8:30pm in the lovely first floor all-purpose room. First part of each session participants will learn a new tune or two, followed by time just PLAYING.

Participants are required to be vaccinated or have a negative Covid test within 48 hours prior to entry.

All are welcome - spread the word!

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Klezmer slow jams

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Event Date: 
March 22, 2022 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Illini Hillel
Address: 
Cohen Center for Jewish Life, 503 E John St., Champaign, IL
Description: 

Learn how to play Klezmer with Francis Harris at a monthly slow jam. All levels of musical talent welcome!

Jams run from 7:00pm - 8:30pm in the lovely first floor all-purpose room. First part of each session participants will learn a new tune or two, followed by time just PLAYING.

Participants are required to be vaccinated or have a negative Covid test within 48 hours prior to entry.

All are welcome - spread the word!

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Klezmer slow jams

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Event Date: 
February 22, 2022 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: 
Illini Hillel
Address: 
Cohen Center for Jewish Life, 503 E John St., Champaign, IL
Description: 

Learn how to play Klezmer with Francis Harris leading a monthly slow jam. All levels of musical talent welcome!

Jams run from 7:00pm - 8:30pm in the lovely first floor all-purpose room. First part of each session participants will learn a new tune or two, followed by time just PLAYING.

Participants are required to be vaccinated or have a negative Covid test within 48 hours prior to entry.

All are welcome - spread the word!

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Amir ElSaffar's Rivers of Sound Orchestra

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Event Date: 
April 19, 2022 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
500 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
Description: 

Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur (hammered dulcimer) player, vocalist, and composer Amir ElSaffar has mastered disparate musical styles and created a singular approach to combining aspects of Middle Eastern music with American jazz, extending the boundaries of each tradition. A recipient of the Doris Duke Performing Artist Award and a 2018 United States Artists Fellow, he is also a purveyor of the centuries old, now endangered, Iraqi maqam tradition, which he performs actively as a vocalist and santur player. ElSaffar’s Rivers of Sound Orchestra brings together 17 musicians from a broad spectrum of traditions, creating an entirely new musical vocabulary that transcends established notions of style. As the orchestra’s treatment of pitches and rhythms become fluid, so do cultural boundaries: elements that traditionally divide musicians into separate genres are recontextualized in a fresh transcultural soundscape. This musical alchemy led the Chicago Tribune to call ElSaffar “one of the most promising figures in jazz today.”

Admission: 
Advocate 50 / Standard 25 / Senior citizens 20 / Non-U of I college students 15 / U of I student & Youth 10
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Small Island Big Song

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Event Date: 
March 10, 2022 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
500 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
Description: 

This oceanic showcase features eight Indigenous musicians from Taiwan, Madagascar, Mauritius, Marshall Islands, and Papua New Guinea. Through music, spoken word, and cinema, the audience experiences a musical journey across the breadth and into the soul of island nations of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, meeting an ancient seafaring ancestry and confronting the impacts of climate change as the performers share their islands’ voices.

Recommended for ages 7 and up.

This performance will last approximately 90 minutes including a 20-minute intermission.

Admission: 
Advocate 50 / Standard 25 / Senior citizens 20 / Non-U of I college students 15 / U of I student & Youth 10
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Afro-Brazilian Percussion Workshops with Bloco Gavião

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Event Date: 
January 22, 2022 - 2:00pm - 3:50pm
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
500 S. Goodwin Street, Urbana
Description: 

Afro-Brazilian Percussion Workshops with Bloco Gavião

The Robert E. Brown Center for World Music is pleased to offer Spring 2022 dates for our community samba group - Bloco Gavião - developed in collaboration with Capoeira Angola Center of Mestre João Grande – Illinois and supported by Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Open to campus and community members, these workshops introduce Afro-Brazilian drumming traditions including samba-reggae and maracatu. The workshops are led by Mark Becker, a Capoeira Angola student of Contra-Mestre Denis Chiaramonte and a musician experienced with samba “blocos” in both Brazil and the United States.

Workshops are admission free. Instruments will be provided. Bringing a related ensemble instrument is welcome.

Schedule:

2:00 - 2:50 pm - Introduction to basics (open to the public)

3:00 - 3:50 pm - Bloco Gavião practice session

Orchestra Rehearsal Room at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, located at 500 S. Goodwin Street in Urbana.

Please note we are following COVID-19 protocols of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts requiring participants to provide proof of full vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the workshop, and that masks to be worn throughout the session.

For more information, please contact:

Jason Finkelman finkelma[at]illinois.edu

Mark Becker mbbecker[at]illinois.edu

Admission: 
Free Admission
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Jane Bunnett and Maqueque

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Event Date: 
February 4, 2022 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
Description: 

What started five years ago as a project to mentor and record promising Cuban female musicians has become one of the top groups on the North American jazz scene led by internationally acclaimed, five-time Juno Award-winner Jane Bunnett. The veteran jazz icon and composer is joined in Maqueque by Dánae Olano on piano, Tailin Marrero Zamora on bass, MaryPaz Fernández on percussion, Yissy García on drums, and the vocals of Joanna Tendai Majoko in a fresh, inventive exploration of Afro-Cuban melodies. Together, they have played in major jazz festivals including Newport and Monterey, have been featured on NPR’s Jazz Night in America, were nominated for a Grammy Award for their 2016 release Oddara, and were voted as one of the top 10 jazz groups in the most recent critics poll by DownBeat magazine, which has described the band’s live performance: “Maqueque entranced listeners with a clave-induced set of Afro-Cuban, booty-shaking world jazz that would have made Dizzy smile.”

If you can, show your love for the arts by purchasing an “Advocate” ticket; the additional ticket cost directly benefits Krannert Center.

Tickets for this event will go on sale to the public at 10am on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.

Admission: 
Advocate 50 / Standard 25 / Senior citizens, retired U of I faculty and staff 20 / Non-U of I college students 15 / UI students & Youth 10
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Tango Argentina

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Event Date: 
January 27, 2022 - 7:30pm
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana
Description: 

Marcos Ayala, award-winning artistic director, dancer, and choreographer, has created a thrilling program for Tango Argentina’s inaugural tour of the United States. Twelve of Argentina’s greatest tango dancers and musicians, including featured couple Ivana Ayala and Pedro Sanchiz, express tango’s elegance, sensuality, and charisma from its historic roots through the present day. The quartet Tango Bardo performs Tango Argentina’s live music and is made up of Juan Miguens on double bass, Lucas Furno on violin, Santiago Polimeni on bandoneon, and Hugo Hoffmann on piano. This spectacular music and dance performance carries audiences on an unforgettable tango journey!

This performance will last approximately 85 minutes including a 20-minute intermission.

If you can, show your love for the arts by purchasing an “Advocate” ticket; the additional ticket cost directly benefits Krannert Center.

Tickets for this event will go on sale to the public at 10am on Tuesday, December 14, 2021.

Admission: 
Advocate 50 / Standard 25 / Senior citizens, retired U of I faculty and staff 20 / Non-U of I college students 15 / UI students & Youth 10
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