Project Misik HAITI 2010

Friday, July 30

8:30-11pm @ ZUMIX Firehouse

This Friday join ZUMIX in support of Project Misik for a fundraiser and instrument drive with special performances in Haitian and African music & dance. Featured artists include Sankofa (Ghanaian drum & dance), Yanalou Drum and Dance Ensemble, Jean Appolon of JANBE Dance Institute and Zili Misik, they are sure to shake the stage. You can enjoy the show by a door donation of $5-10 or donating an instrument in working condition.

Project Misik is an effort led by the Best-in-Boston all female band, Zili Misik, who will travel to Haiti August 10th to conduct musical workshops  with more than 200 students at the C-CLAK school, founded by the Gawou Ginou Foundation, near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The donated instruments will be used in the transnational "School of Misik" and left for permanent use thereafter.

Please visit Project Misik to learn more about the band and their journey.

Al Natale

Sunday, August 1st

5pm @ Piers Park

Al Natale, well known big band era trumpeter and his 17 piece classic swing band will appear at Piers Park East Boston on August 1st 2010 from 5-7 PM. Playing many of the great tunes made famous by Glenn Miller, Harry James, Artie Shaw, Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie, and featuring vocals by Jim Bramante. Bring a picnic and your dancing shoes!

OUT OF THE BOX: Media and

Literary Artists Studio

Monday, August 2nd

6-9pm @ ZUMIX Firehouse

Queer Women of Color and Friends (QWOC+ Boston) in collaboration with Rising Voices Press present an evening gathering of literary artists of all kinds — poets, playwrights, songwriters, novelists, photographers, media artists, and more, gathered to support a diversity of voices and talent in music and the arts during QWOC+ Boston's annual multicultural festival. ZUMIX is hosting OUT OF THE BOX: Media and Literary Artists Studio in the Firehouse as part of our Open Door art series. The event is free and open to the community. Co-hosted by Somos Latinos and Massachusetts South Asian Lambda Association (MASALA), featuring readings from Uriah Bell, Letta Neely, and Vivek Shraya, and a spectacular lineup of New Voices, with jazz/acoustic music accompaniment from the ZUMIX Jazz All Stars.

Receita de Samba

Tuesday, August 3rd

5-7pm @ Bremen Street Park

Receita de Samba is a joint venture between husband and wife duo Bill Ward and Anna Borges. Through several incarnations since its founding, Receita de Samba has showcased Brazilian musical styles such as Chorinho, Samba de Roda, Bossa Nova, and MPB, as well as the northeastern rhythms Xote, Baião, and Forró. Currently, their sound is somewhere between Samba and Bossa Nova; highly rhythmic and energetic (and danceable), yet pared down to a quintet consisting of voice, guitar, bass, drums, and piano, with the occasional addition of flute and/or percussion. Within this formation, they seek to combine the excitement of a Brazilian batucada with the refinement and subtlety of the more jazz-tinged sounds of the Bossa Nova era, to the delight of their listening public.

http://www.myspace.com/receitadesamba

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