World Music Festival in Cleveland



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22 MARCH, 2006 CLEVELAND OH:. Detroit Avenue Arts announces Resonance: a Festival of World Music to be held April 28 and 29, 2006, featuring ten groups performing music from four continents. In addition to attending an outstanding line-up of concerts, the audience will be able to become active participants in the festival through dance parties with live music both nights and hands-on workshops on Saturday afternoon. The events will take place at Orthodox - the old Romanian Orthodox Church - and The Old Parrish Hall, part of the Detroit Avenue Arts Complex located at 6415 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.

The festival kicks off Friday night, April 28th in the Old Parish Hall with an East European concert featuring Gypsy-Punk Balkan brass band Slavic Soul Party! from New York City, the Polish highlander fiddle band Goralska Muzyka from Chicago and the Cleveland based East European band Harmonia. A dance party with live music by all three groups follows the concert. On Saturday April 29th, afternoon workshops and concerts run from 12 noon to 6 PM featuring the Eternal Tango Quartet from Buenos Aires and New York, Harmonia, The Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus, mbira (African thumb-piano) virtuoso, Monatho Masani, South Indian veena player Shiva Sastry, the Nadeem Dlaikan Arabic Ensemble , the Mamadou Diabate Ensemble from Mali and Goralska Muzyka. A tango and Milonga dance workshop will be part of the Saturday afternoon line up. Saturday evening concerts begin at 7 PM in both spaces. Immediately following the evening concerts, a milonga and tango dance party with live music by th
e Eternal Tango Quartet takes place in the Old Parish Hall and a World Music Café in Orthodox featuring acoustic performances by the other festival artists.

Single session tickets are $15 and $25 for a Festival Pass; dance party only tickets are $10. Student tickets are $10 with ID. For general information about the festival and a detailed schedule, please visit www.detroitavenuearts.org For further information and to order tickets, call 216-333-5075.

More info, including artists links here: http://www.detroitavenuearts.org/pages/worldmusicfest.html

Posted: Mon - March 27, 2006 at 07:48 PM           |

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