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6:30 - 8:00 JONI LAURENCE/ACOUSTIC
$3-5 SLIDING SCALE.
A recent transplant from Champaign, IL to Portland, OR,
Joni Laurence
strives to live with no regret, no remorse and no apology.
A peculiar path
of advanced degrees and a 10 year career in labor relations
has led her to
become a thirty-something, full-time touring
singer-songwriter of the modern
folk kind. With No Apology the title of her newest CD,
recorded live in
Champaign, IL, will be released July 14, 2006 at Cozmic
Pizza located at 199
W. 8th Ave. at 7:00 p.m.
With No Apology, Laurence`s fourth recording, is a
collection of songs
from the rockier side of folk written during the two years
after she left
her day job to face the challenges and rewards of pursuing
her passion for
making music. With vocal stylings a combination of Mary
Chapin Carpenter
and Helen Reddy, Laurence sings originals tunes that touch
the hearts and
minds of her listeners.
Welcome Joni Laurence to Oregon at her CD release concert
on Friday, July
14, 2006 at Cozmic Pizza located at 199 W. 8th Ave. at 7:00
p.m. For more
information about Joni Laurence visit www.jonilaurence.com.
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8:30 - 11:00 MUSEKIWA/Zimbabwean Mbira Virtuoso Musekiwa Chingo
$5-15 SLIDING SCALE.
Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center presents the Mbira Artistry of Musekiwa Chingodza, Vakasara Mbira and Friends. One of Zimbabwe`s most talented and deeply spiritual mbira artists and vocalists, visiting Eugene under the sponsorship of Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center, joins forces with some of the best mbira players in the Pacific Northwest to present an evening of powerful and joyful music. This is the music that calls the spirits in ancient Shona tradition; it will call to your spirit too, to reverie and to dance!
Vakasara Mbira Group, based in Eugene, plays traditional mbira music from Zimbabwe. This intricate and beautiful music has both a spiritual and celebratory function in the traditional Shona societies of Zimbabwe, and has caught the ears of many Western musicians as well, with its haunting melodies and rhythmic complexity. The particular instruments played in Vakasara performances are called mbira dzavadzimu, the mbira of the ancestral spirits, and have 22 to 24 metal keys on a wooden soundboard. Accompaniment with gourd hosho (shakers) and Shona singing provide an authentic and lively sound experience.
Vakasara members Marilyn Kolodziejczyk, Jerome Hobbs, Joel Lindstrom, Marilyn Mohr, Bud Cohen and Ian Campbell have studied and performed with some of the greatest living masters of Zimbabwean mbira, hosho and singing, including Cosmas Magaya, Ambuya Beauler Dyoko, Musekiwa Chingodza, and Tute Chigamba
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