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| 23-October-2006 - Issue No: 12 | ||
Welcome to our latest e-newsletter... |
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| OUR NEW-LOOK WEBSITE IS FINALLY UPDATED AND UPLOADED!! we hope you find it attractive, inspiring even...and most of all useful. Meanwhile... here's the latest news and info for October 06 including>>2007 tour programme>>from Cuba..Rumba Morena>>NuRootsLive! touring bands.. availability dates for booking>>recommended featured artists/bands available Jan-May 07>>free music downloads from featured artists etc...>> read on>> |
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| upcoming NuRootsLive! 2007 touring bands | ||
| …first thing to do is click on the download link below to get acquainted with the sounds of Havana’s cultured all-women rumba outfit Rumba Morena. We’re touring them across the UK in October 2007 as part of our NuRootsLive! national touring programme…so if you’re a promoter and you want to book them, you’ve got a whole 12 months to prepare the ground for their visit! For their tour shows, Rumba Morena will double-bill with Manchester’s vibrant all-women contemporary dance group AfroCats, in a Black History Month programme inspired by Bi-Centenary celebrations of the Abolition of Slavery. Contact tour coordinator martine@konimusic.co.uk 07903 010019 for more info. www.konimusic.co.uk/data/images/mp3s/RUMBA_MORENA.mp3 |
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| ..staying on the UK touring topic…. | ||
| From Feb 15 to March 3 Trinidadian steel-pan veteran BRAVO BRAVO links up with young Senegalese kora griot KADIALY KOUYATE for a prominent national tour showcasing the vibrant cross-cultural mixes that feature so strongly on their recent release ‘Small Talk’. For booking enquiries don’t hesitate to contact us. BBC R3 DJ Andy Kershaw says ‘ it’s one of my Cds of the year, rather wonderful. Rather remarkable. Great!’…… meanwhile….here’s a quick summary of availability dates for the rest of our exciting national NuRootsLive! tours for 2007…or go to our lovely new-look website for full information……… >>March-April tbc STELLA CHIWESHE BAND (ZIMBABWE) ‘a true Zimbabwean original’ >>May-June IMBIZO (ZIMBABWE) new acapella from 10 man Zulu imbube ‘n dance troupe >>June-July MABULU (MOZAMBIQUE) - stunning & slick marrabenta hiphop crew >>Oct-Nov RUMBA MORENA (CUBA) with AFROCATS (UK-AFRICA) see above >>Nov-Dec PA BOBO JOBARTEH & RAFIKI JAZZ (GAMBIA-UK)>>ambitious roots-jazz fusion collective …and here’s a link to a full download track from BRAVO & KADIALY www.konimusic.co.uk/data/images/mp3s/FIMBER_BRAVO.mp3 |
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| shifting the spotlight… | ||
| …to our inspiring range of NuRootsLive! featured bands and artists generally available in 2007 for one-off performance and workshop bookings, here’s a few recommendations for the Jan-May period….full info & downloads available on the Artists pages of the Konimusic website………….. >>FANTAZIA (ALGERIA/UK) 'if all the pirate radio stations of east London were playing together on the same channel, it would sound like Fantazia!' (Financial Times)>> >>HARARE (ZIMBABWE/UK) ‘Reviving the thrill and spirit of the much-loved Bhundu Boys’ >> >>MADIOKO & RAFIKA (FRANCE/PAN-AFRICA) ‘fine Afrofunk-Oriental meeting of ethnic, rhythmic & electronic minds’ >> >>QUINTETO MAMBOJAMBO (UK) ‘Effervescent Latin dance outfit’ >> >>RAGA NOVA (INDIA/UK) ‘boundary-hopping British-based Indian band’ >> >>THE MATZOS (UK-EUROPE) ‘soulful-but-kickin’ Klezmer outfit’ >> ….and for a taster here’s a download or listen link to a MAMBOJAMBO track…and there’s full info on our website of course.. www.konimusic.co.uk/data/images/mp3s/QUINTETO_MAMBOJAMBO.mp3 |
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| Focus On…one of our monthly live world music series..NuRootsLive! @ The Castle.. | ||
| Theatre and music venue The Castle, Wellingborough, has hosted our monthly programme of the best of current roots dance bands in performance for the last decade. Originally branded as ‘Deep Roots’, this pioneering live world music series kicked off in 1996 with Virginia Mukwesha’s Jiti Dance Express from Zimbabwe, and has since continued to feature the best of both upcoming and world famous roots bands…sharing a workshop with the audience, then onstage playing til the curfew. The list of bands we’ve programmed at this wonderful Midlands venue is by now extensive, but a few memorable names include Kathryn Tickell, Bollywood Brass Band, Chartwell Dutiro’s Spirit Talk Mbira, Ifang Bondi, Stella Chiweshe’s Earthquakes, Batanai Marimba, African Jazz Pioneers, Zubop…and many, many more. These days, Deep Roots have surfaced, to become NuRootsLive!, and some of the workshops and performances have become outreach ventures,bringing some amazing international personalities, instruments, sounds and dances to local communities… For details of this Autumn’s Castle programme just follow the link below. If you think you’d like Konimusic to programme a world music series at your venue, then please get in touch with us.. www.thecastle.org.uk/home/ |
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| Konimusic development projects.. | ||
| Here’s a couple of interesting things we’re currently working on…one for the musicians and promoters, the other for venue & events marketing people looking for ways to boost and diversify those sometimes elusive audiences for world music gigs…………………. PLANET DIDJ & THE SABARISTAS… With an impressive new CD ‘Soul of the Didgeridoo’ (ARC) out right now, the internationally acclaimed didgeridoo master Michael Edwards starts an innovative rehearsing, touring & recording collaboration with us. Provisionally titled ‘Planet Didj & The Sabaristas’ Michael will be working on completely new material with a small team of outstanding young Senegalese percussionists (sabar-players…hence ‘The Sabaristas’…)The new project makes much of putting the unique percussive didge-blowing technique used by the Yolngu players of NE Arnhem Land into the mix with the crackling mbalax rhythms of Senegal…Exciting stuff! ..Watch this space! Early Enquiries Welcome………….a DIGITAL MARKETING TOOLKIT is the other thing we’ve currently got onstream…created through a series of consultations with the audience development initiative MAXIMISE, an Arts Council England funded project which aims to develop audiences for black and minority ethnic work in the mainstream. We hope pretty soon to be able to offer this DIGI-TOOLKIT as a plug-in to venues’ & promoters’ own websites, to enhance (or maybe supercede..?) more traditional print & press marketing of our NuRootsLive! tour productions. Content is still being developed, but expect podcasts, blogs & streamed sound and video to be up there… …meanwhile here’s a link to one of Michael Edwards eerie didji tracks .. www.konimusic.co.uk/data/images/mp3s/MIKE_EDWARDS.mp3 |
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| some news from our featured NuRootsLive! artists… | ||
| >>outstanding Fula fiddle player JULDEH CAMARA takes the eerie desert sounds of his 1-stringed nyanyeru (riti) off to the Yorkshire Dales for Ilkley’s annual Fiddlers Meet, plus a few days of schools & community workshops 8-12 November. More info from host organisation Yorkshire Dales Workshops http://www.ydw.org.uk >>>>worldbeat whizzes ZUBOPGAMBIA make a rare London appearance on Thursday November 2nd at Darbucka, London, at a party celebrating two years of Chillie Fried world music nights there. The band showcase West African master musicians Mosi Conde (vocals, kora, balafon, guitar, djembe) and Njega Sohna (djembe, talking drum, vocals). More info from http ://www.zubop.com>>>>Yorkshire’s own CHARANGA DEL NORTE play the Twelfth Night Salsa Extravaganza on January 5th 2007 at St Johns College, Lord Mayor's Walk,York., and bandleader/composer Sue Miller says ‘I'm hoping to do a project in Havana next year prior to a UK Tour with veteran Cuban Charanga musicians in the UK for 2008’ …more info http://www.charangadelnorte.com >>>>THE SECKOU KEITA QUARTET finish off their national tour to promote an outstanding new CD release ‘Tama Silo’ (ARC) with the following dates this month: 24/10 Norwich Arts Centre www.norwichartscentre.co.uk/ Box office : 01603 660 352>> 25/10 Phoenix Arts Centre, Leicester www.phoenix.org.uk Box office : 0116 255 4854>> 26/10 Spitz, London www.spitz.co.uk Box Office: 020 7392 9032>> 27/10 South Hill Park, Bracknell http://www.southhillpark.com Box Office: 01344 484123>>>>MATICES LATINOS..acoustic quartet led by outstanding Colombian singer Luz Elena Caicedo, appear at THE CASTLE, Wellingborough Fri Nov 17…whilst, as part of the same NuRootsLive! programme, vibrant young Congolese singer-songwriter ROBERT MASEKO appears with his band CONGOBEAT on Thurs Dec 21 at The VICTORIA CENTRE, Wellingborough..details at www.thecastle.org.uk >>>> for more info about all these artists, and more about Konimusic’s featured bands available for bookings go to… www.konimusic.co.uk/artists.aspx |
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| other news round-up | ||
EXCITING NEWS! The new, expanded, and lavishly re-designed edition of the Rough Guide to World Music, Volume I: Africa & Middle East, is now available through all the usual outlets, including http://www.roughguides.com/store/details.html?ProductID=253, www.amazon.co.uk, and your local high-street bookstore. Price: £19.99>>>> >>>>HARMONIA MUNDI’S WORLD VILLAGE recent CD releases include Konimusic featured band FANTAZIA’s glorious ‘Mul Sheshe’..Buy It! >>>> and finally DO NOT MISS!!! Tuesday 14 November Nuru Kane / afro-fusion from Senegal + DJ Greg Sonata @ Momo Kemia Bar 25 Heddon Street, W1....at 7.30PM on stage….PS!! signing off with a nice track from London-based Nu-Jit 4-piece HARARE…(Ed) www.konimusic.co.uk/data/images/mp3s/HARARE.mp3 |
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