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Saturday, December 17, 2005
Live from Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn!
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A live music quadruple-header from Barbes, 376 9th Street near 6th Avenue,
Park Slope, Brooklyn. Performances
by Chicha Libre, Andy
Statman, Mavrothis Kontanis
and Marta Topferova. With co-host / tech guru Irene Trudel and engineer Gil
Shuster.
Special thanks to volunteer Greta and board ops Robin Edgerton and Mark Allen!
About the Performers:
Andy Statman began his career in the 70's
as a virtuoso mandolinist who studied and performed with David Grisman. He went
on to study clarinet with the klezmer legend Dave Tarras, becoming one of the
original driving forces in the Klezmer revival.
Chicha Libre plays Chicha music from Peru. Chicha
is the name of a corn-based liquor enjoyed by the Incas. Chicha is also the
name of a South American music craze which started out in the late 70's in the
Peruvian Amazon. These were songs loosely inspired by Colombian
accordion-driven cumbias but blended with the distinctive sounds of Andean
melodies, Cuban son, and the psychedelic sounds of surf guitars, farfisa organs
and moog synthesizers.
Marta Topferova composes and performs
beautifully lyrical music rooted in Latin rhythms such as Venezuelan vals,
merengue and gaita, Cuban son and Argentinean zamba while adding her
sensibility to it all with her background in classical music and the folklore
of her native Czechoslovakia. She accompanies herself on the 4-string-cuatro.
Mavrothis
Kontanis performs a variety of traditional and classical music from Greece
and the Near East with oud, voice, and percussion. His focus is on the folk and
urban music of Asia Minor's Greek population, but also touches upon the songs
of the Greek mainland and islands which were influenced by the music of Asia
Minor refugees.
This Week's Playlist:
Chicha Libre:
Live set
Marta Topferova:
Two songs live
Mavrothis Kontanis and Timothy Quigley:
Live set
Marta Topferova:
Two songs live
Andy Statman and Jim Whitney:
Live set
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