PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SON JAROCHO LEGEND FROM VERACRUZ AND NYC STANDARD BEARERS
“Los Chiles Verdes” music video (OK to share): https://vimeo.com/268905401
The partnership between renowned NYC-based son jarocho band Radio
Jarocho and Veracruz-born son jarocho legend Zenen Zeferino will hit the
road in this summer on the heels of their album together ‘Rios de Norte
y Sur.’ The album is earning acclaim for its partnership between a
musician and poet who learned son jarocho through his family and
community; and a band in the diaspora that learned it via hearing field
recordings, as RJ’s leader Julia del Palacio did. Here’s what we’re
reading:
“The album is crafted with careful attention to the details of the
tradition, and in many ways the sound of Radio Jarocho hews closer and
more lovingly to son jarocho than other U.S. jarocho bands. Yet, the
band's beautiful execution of the classics, new compositions faithful to
the genre and gentle pushing of son jarocho's musical envelope refresh
the music for these times… The songs on ‘Rios de Norte y Sur’ are, in
large part, beloved exemplars of the son jarocho songbook, delicately
nuanced with contemporary flourishes.”
- Catalina Maria Johnson, NPR Music, May 11, 2018
“Amazing.”
- Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, May 8, 2018
“So beautiful… amazing… special.”
- Loren DiBlasi, Paste Magazine, April 4, 2018
“Radio Jarocho has become a live favorite… The joining of this act and
jarana player and singer Zeferino is especially inspired. Having come of
age in a celebrated family of traditional musicians who shared
indigenous Mexican and Afro-Mexican heritage, he has become a kind of
central figure in the music and an important influence on Radio Jarocho…
It's difficult, listening to this record, not to feel the celebration
escaping the speakers and inspiring the listener to pick up their feet
and move with the music.”
- Jedd Beaudoin, Pop Matters, May 8, 2018
“What happens when you pair a seasoned musician from a legendary son
jarocho family with a younger band working to keep the traditional vital
in the diaspora of New York City? You get a beautiful new album.”
- Gina Vergel, Sounds and Colours, May 11, 2018
“Lively… Buzz-worthy.”
- Tolly Wright, amNew York, April 2, 2018
Radio Jarocho & Zenen Zeferino Tour Dates:
May 30 – Metropolian Museum of Art – New York, NY
June 1 - 3S Artspace - Portsmouth, NH (supporting David Wax Museum)
June 2 - Port City Music Hall - Portland, ME (supporting David Wax Museum)
June 8 - Recovery Lounge, Upper Jay Art Center - Upper Jay, NY
June 15 - LeFrak Concert Hall - Flushing, NY
June 15 - Guadalupe Inn - Brooklyn NY
June 16 - Terraza 7 - Elmhurst, NY
June 20 - Victoria Event Centre - Victoria, British Columbia
June 21 - Duncan Showroom - Duncan, British Columbia
June 22 - Char's Landing - Port Alberni, British Columbia
June 23 – Mississippi – Portland, OR
June 24 – Casa de la Cultura Tlanese – Salem, OR
June 29 – The Governor’s Cup – Salem, OR
June 30 – World Beat Festival – Salem, OR
July 14 - Centro de las Artes - Queretaro, Mexico
July 20 - El Manojo - Cuernavaca, Mexico
July 21 - La Jacaranda Cultural - Patzcuaro, MexicoAugust 3 – Brillbox | Pandemic Dance Party - Pittsburgh, PA
July 25 – Summer Concerts on the Hudson – Weekhawken, NJ
August 3 – Brillobox | Pandemic Dance Party - Pittsburgh, PA
August 5 - Weather Permitting - Pittsburgh, PA
August 11 – O+ Festival – Kingston, NY
Here’s what other musicians are saying:
“Radio Jarocho light up the room. They draw from the past but its all
about this moment, this party, this heart swelling with joy and energy. I
imagine that all who saw them play, sing, and dance at our festival
went home humming one of their tunes - I know I did!”
- Ruth Ungar, Festival Organizer (Winter Hoot) and performer (The Mammals)
“I love Radio Jarocho & Zenen Zeferino because they play music that makes your skeleton shake and your heart sing.”
– Nick Panken, Spirit Family Reunion
“Incredible… Radio Jarocho & Zenen Zeferino are some of my favorite performers, period.”
- Eli Smith, Brooklyn Folk Festival, April 6, 2018
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
GRAMMY AWARD WINNER DOM FLEMONS, “THE AMERICAN SONGSTER” PERFORMS ON THE GRAND OLE OPRY, MAKING HIS SOLO DEBUT
FLEMONS PLOTS NATIONAL TOUR
‘BLACK COWBOYS’ CHARTS FOR 7 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ON BILLBOARD BLUEGRASS
PERFORMED AND INTERVIEWED ON WORLD CAFÉ AND NPR’S ‘HERE AND NOW’
NPR’s Ann Powers recently did a performance/chat on “The American Songster” Dom Flemons’ new Smithsonian Folkways album ‘Black Cowboys,’ an exploration of the often prominent role that African-American pioneers played in the westward expansion: https://www.npr.org/sections/
Ann Powers said, “The work Dom Flemons is doing on the West is flat-out revolutionary. Take the time to listen to him talk about 'Black Cowboys.'”
Flemons, who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry on Friday May 11, plans to hit the road this year for a series of tour dates. As a founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, they were the first all-black string band to perform at the Opry ten years ago. This time he was the only solo performer on a night that celebrated Carrie Underwood as a 10-year Opry member and also showcased Old Crow Medicine Show, Riders in the Sky and others.
‘Black Cowboys’ has spent seven consecutive weeks on Billboard Bluegrass, charted up to #2 on the Folk radio chart, and has garnered other spotlights in Wide Open Country, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Washington City Paper, American Blues Scene, and American Songwriter.
Dom Flemons Tour Dates:
June 2 – Spirits of Summer Festival – Winston-Salem, NC
June 9 – Kingman Island Bluegrass & Folk Festival – Washington, D.C.
June 10 – Sellersville Theater 1894 – Sellersville, PA
June 17 – Birchmere Old Time Banjo Festival – Alexandria, VA
June 23 – Salute! Music and Brew Fest – Greensboro, NC
June 24 – Athfest – Athens, GA
June 29 – OK Theatre – Enterprise, OR
July 6 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO
July 7 – Crystal Bridges Museum – Bentonville, AR
July 15 – 3rd & Lindsley – Nashville, TN
July 19 – Ace Hotel – Pittsburgh, PA
July 26 – Eddie’s Attic – Decatur, GA
July 28 – Harvest House Performing Arts Venue – Boone, NC
August 8 – Hopewell Theater – Hopewell, NJ
August 31 – Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival – Woodstown, NJ
September 1 – Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center – Greenfield, MA
September 13 – Americana Music Festival – Nashville, TN
September 15 – Pickin’ in the Pines Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival – Flagstaff, AZ
September 22 – The Grand Annex – San Pedro, CA
September 25 – The Side Door @ The Fifth String – Sacramento, CA
September 27 – Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse – Berkeley, CA
February 21 – Oxford American Concert Series – Little Rock, AR
The first album of its kind, 'Black Cowboys' takes the listener on an illuminating journey "from the trails to the rails" of the Old West. The 18-song set traverses a varied soundscape featuring string blues, old-time square dance music, and cowboy poetry. Flemons is joined by a celebrated group of backing musicians throughout the record, such as GRAMMY-winning bluesman Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and decorated folklorist and Folkways' director emeritus Dan Sheehy, who co-produced the album.
‘BLACK COWBOYS’ CHARTS FOR 7 CONSECUTIVE WEEKS ON BILLBOARD BLUEGRASS
PERFORMED AND INTERVIEWED ON WORLD CAFÉ AND NPR’S ‘HERE AND NOW’
NPR’s Ann Powers recently did a performance/chat on “The American Songster” Dom Flemons’ new Smithsonian Folkways album ‘Black Cowboys,’ an exploration of the often prominent role that African-American pioneers played in the westward expansion: https://www.npr.org/sections/
Ann Powers said, “The work Dom Flemons is doing on the West is flat-out revolutionary. Take the time to listen to him talk about 'Black Cowboys.'”
Flemons, who appeared at the Grand Ole Opry on Friday May 11, plans to hit the road this year for a series of tour dates. As a founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops, they were the first all-black string band to perform at the Opry ten years ago. This time he was the only solo performer on a night that celebrated Carrie Underwood as a 10-year Opry member and also showcased Old Crow Medicine Show, Riders in the Sky and others.
‘Black Cowboys’ has spent seven consecutive weeks on Billboard Bluegrass, charted up to #2 on the Folk radio chart, and has garnered other spotlights in Wide Open Country, Cowboys & Indians Magazine, Washington City Paper, American Blues Scene, and American Songwriter.
Dom Flemons Tour Dates:
June 2 – Spirits of Summer Festival – Winston-Salem, NC
June 9 – Kingman Island Bluegrass & Folk Festival – Washington, D.C.
June 10 – Sellersville Theater 1894 – Sellersville, PA
June 17 – Birchmere Old Time Banjo Festival – Alexandria, VA
June 23 – Salute! Music and Brew Fest – Greensboro, NC
June 24 – Athfest – Athens, GA
June 29 – OK Theatre – Enterprise, OR
July 6 – Off Broadway – St. Louis, MO
July 7 – Crystal Bridges Museum – Bentonville, AR
July 15 – 3rd & Lindsley – Nashville, TN
July 19 – Ace Hotel – Pittsburgh, PA
July 26 – Eddie’s Attic – Decatur, GA
July 28 – Harvest House Performing Arts Venue – Boone, NC
August 8 – Hopewell Theater – Hopewell, NJ
August 31 – Delaware Valley Bluegrass Festival – Woodstown, NJ
September 1 – Hawks & Reed Performing Arts Center – Greenfield, MA
September 13 – Americana Music Festival – Nashville, TN
September 15 – Pickin’ in the Pines Bluegrass & Acoustic Music Festival – Flagstaff, AZ
September 22 – The Grand Annex – San Pedro, CA
September 25 – The Side Door @ The Fifth String – Sacramento, CA
September 27 – Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse – Berkeley, CA
February 21 – Oxford American Concert Series – Little Rock, AR
The first album of its kind, 'Black Cowboys' takes the listener on an illuminating journey "from the trails to the rails" of the Old West. The 18-song set traverses a varied soundscape featuring string blues, old-time square dance music, and cowboy poetry. Flemons is joined by a celebrated group of backing musicians throughout the record, such as GRAMMY-winning bluesman Alvin "Youngblood" Hart, Jimbo Mathus (Squirrel Nut Zippers), and decorated folklorist and Folkways' director emeritus Dan Sheehy, who co-produced the album.
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Kevin Gordon short bio
Kevin Gordon’s Louisiana is a strange place. It’s a place
where restless teens road trip to where the highway dead-ends at the Gulf of
Mexico; a place where prisoners who are in for life compete in a rodeo while
the town watches; where a character can get lost in the humid afternoon and
where religion may not signify hope; and where rivers, never far away, carry
secrets behind levees. “One of the things I like about it and am mystified by
is that what passes for normal in Louisiana would not make the grade
elsewhere,” he says.
The kicker? All of these postcards are based on true
stories. It’s a place that he’s been exploring for twenty years now, on the eve
of the release of his astonishing new album ‘Tilt & Shine’ on Crowville
Media. It is work that has earned him fans like noted author and Elvis Presley
biographer Peter Guralnick; New West Records artist Buddy Miller; journalist,
songwriter, and Country Music Hall of Fame staffer Peter Cooper; Todd Snider;
head of the Americana Music Association Jed Hilly; and Lucinda Williams, with
whom he dueted on the song “Down To The Well” (which was featured prominently
on an Oxford American compilation).
Before you even hear his vivid lyrics, you start feeling the
sound of that ’56 Gibson ES-125 tuned down to open D, often with the tremolo
flowing like a river, and an unstoppable groove distilled from swamp blues and
Sun Records. His MFA from the Iowa Poetry Writers’ Workshop allows him to
capture it with a degree of precision. As the New York Times put it in its
headline of a feature on Kevin, “A Musican Or A Poet? Yes to Both.”
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
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