BXIndie artist series

UPCOMING

BXindie music:
alma micic

Thursday, August 26, 7:30pm

Train Park at Amalgamated Houses (on the corner of Orloff Ave and Gale Place)

An evening of jazz for a hot summer's night. "Alma personifies what jazz singing is all about." - Ron Della Chiesa, WGBH Radio.

The Bronx Council on the Arts and Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz proudly present a free concert by jazz vocalist Alma Micic on Thursday, August 26th, from 7:30-9:00pm, at Train Park at Amalgamated Houses on the corner of Orloff Avenue and Gale Place in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. The concert is open to the public and all are welcome. Admission is free.

Rain Location: In the event of rain the performance will be moved indoors to Vladeck Hall, Amalgamated Houses, 74 Van Cortlandt Park South at Hillman Avenue (718-601-7399).

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BXINDIE Music:

lunchtime concert series
at the hutch metro cafe

Thursday, August 12,

12:15 and 1:15pm

                                                                                  1200 Waters Place

                                                                                  Bronx, NY 10461

Cool Latin Jazz with Maestro Willie Rodriguez and Andy Gonzalez

Latin Jazz pianist Willie Rodriguez has been a fixture in Latin and Latin/Jazz music since the 1970s. Among his many recordings he is on Machito's 1982 Grammy award-winning 1Salsa Big Band and on Celia Cruz' 2002 Grammy award-winning album. He has also recorded with Luis "Perico" Ortiz, Johnny Pacheco and Steve Turre.

Andy Gonzalez is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent Latin Jazz bassists.  He has held the bass chair with greats Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Barretto, McCoy Tyner, Don Grolnik and countless others. His new Latin jazz ensemble: Andy Gonzalez and Friends play a repertoire combining instrumental original Latin jazz, popular Puerto Rican and Afro Cuban compositions.

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BXINDIE Music:

lunchtime concert series
at the hutch metro cafe

Thursday, August 5, 12:15 and 1:15pm

1200 Waters Place, Bronx, NY 10461

Jazz & Pop by Robert Silverman, a pianist, trumpeter, and composer who has been a fixture in the New York Jazz scene since 1985. After a stint in Europe and assorted gigs with Albert King, Jimmy Heath, George Russell, Cecil McBee and the Ron Levy Bluesman band, Robert went on to form his own ensemble featuring original compositions, the blues, and standards. Mr. Silverman has been featured in New York on NBC TV, WKCR, WBAI, and WNYC Radio's Around New York. He is the recipient of two "Meet the Composer Grants".

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BXindie music: 8 Y Más

Wednesday, August 4, 7:30pm with intermission

52 Park/Teatro Miranda
Kelly St between Ave. St. John and Leggett Ave.
(2, 5 train to Prospect Ave)

One of the hottest new bands to burst onto the Latin music scene. The band is the cooperative effort of internationally recognized Latin musicians/producers, Bobby Allende, Angel Fernandez, Ricky Gonzalez and Marc Quiñones. Although the band is new, its members are anything but new to the industry.

8 y Más is destined to take salsa back to its original flavor as they play, “La Musica de Ayer, Con El Sonido de Hoy,” Yesterday’s music with Today’s Sound. Part of First Wednesdays Bronx Culture Trolley.

BXINDIE Music:
lunchtime series
at the metro cafe

Thursdays, July 29*, August 5, and August 12*, 2010, 12:15 and 1:15pm

1200 Waters Place, Bronx, NY 10461

Free lunchtime concerts at the Metro Cafe! Gospel, Latin Jazz, Pop. Featuring artists Jacqueline Flowers, Robert Silverman, Maestro Willie Rodriguez, and Andy Gonzalez. *Plus visit the artisan boutique!

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BXINDIE Music:

Melissa Primavera

and Brandon Mcreynolds

Award-winning soprano Melissa Primavera and tenor Brandon McReynolds perform operatic selections for opera lovers of all ages. Both are both winners of 2009 BRIO (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award for vocal performance.

Tickets are $10  for adults and $8 for students and seniors and can be purchased at www.riverdaley.org. A $2.00 discount will be given to holders of BCA's Bronx Cultural Card.

Noted for her "glowing" and "sumptuous" voice, Soprano Melissa Primavera has become a favorite with audiences in the greater New York City area. Highlights of Melissa’s operatic roles include works by Puccini (Magda,) Verdi (Nannetta,) Offenbach (Antonia,) and Mozart (Despina, Susanna.). www.melissaprimavera.com

One who "delivers considerable thrills" is how the New York Times describes young, American tenor Brandon McReynolds. He has most recently been seen on stage as a member of the Sarasota Opera Studio and il Conte d'Almaviva with Oklahoma University Opera. Upcoming engagements include il Duca di Mantua with Montana Lyric Opera and Alfredo with Volkstheater Rostock in Germany. He holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School.

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BxIndie Literary: Camille Darby

Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 6:45pm

Mott Haven Branch of the New York Public Library

321 East 140th St, Bronx, NY 10454

718-665-4878

Staged reading by BRIO winner Camille Darby of her original one-act play Sweetest Taboo.
This event is a feature of June 2's First Wednesday Bronx Culture Trolley. more...

BxIndie Music:
Mary courtney

Sunday, May 2, 2010 at 2:30pm

On Stage @ Woodlawn Chapel

Concert Admission: $10 Adult, $5 Senior & Students, Children under six free.
Reservations recommended.

Irish folk singer/songwriter Mary Courtney performs her lyrical and haunting traditional Irish music in this evocative venue. Mary is a founder of the all female traditional band, Morning Star. Before the performance, walk the Irish Eyes Are Smiling Tour. Visit the resting places of some of New York’s most prominent Irishmen and women including George M. Cohan, Victor Herbert and Chauncey Olcott. (Tour Admission: $10 per Person, $5 for Seniors & Students. Meet at the Jerome Avenue Entrance at 1:00pm. 25% discount available for attending both the tour and concert.)

Directions: The Jerome Avenue Gate of The Woodlawn Cemetery is the last stop on the IRT #4 Train. The cemetery is also accessible from the Metro North Railroad Harlem Line (Woodlawn Station). For those traveling by car, Woodlawn can be reached from the E. 233rd street exit off the Major Deegan (#13) and the Bronx River Parkway (#10).

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BxIndie Music: Jen Shyu

Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 8:30pm

Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center

Broadway between West 62nd St & 63rd St

The Bronx Council on the Arts and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts present Asian-classical jazz fusion with BxIndie musician Jen Shyu. Ms. Shyu, a vocalist, composer, dancer, multi-instrumentalist, and band leader, will perform at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium. All are invited. Admission is free

Internationally-known lead vocalist in Steve Coleman’s Five Elements, Jen Shyu will present “Jade Tongue”, original music for voice, piano, dance, erhu, and moon guitar. She sings in various “tongues” including Taiwanese, English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Mandarin, featuring her own arrangements of Taiwanese folk music on piano and the two-stringed moon guitar. Jen’s music is set to poetry by Brazilian poet Patrícia Magalhães and Tang Dynasty poets Li Bai and Mengjiao with text by Cuban slave Esteban Montejo. Her haunting and powerful music is influenced by jazz, classical music, her research in Cuba, Brazil, and China, and indigenous music from Taiwan and other parts of the world. Born in Illinois from Taiwanese and East Timorese parents, Bronx-based Jen Shyu has established herself as a pioneer and original voice in the improvisational, experimental jazz, and creative music worlds. Her work has been influenced over the years by her musical collaborations with Asian improv artists, poets, duo artists, and additional New York City artists on the burgeoning improvisational scene. Among her achievements, Jen is a 2008-2009 MacDowell Colony National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, an awardee of fellowships and commissions from the Asian Cultural Council, Jerome Foundation, Roulette Space, the Jazz Gallery, and the Bronx Council on the Arts -

Ms. Shyu is a two-time winner of the Brio award in 2009 for instrumental performance and in 2007 for music composition. During her 2009 tour in Taiwan, the mayor of Hengchun named her the first “Ambassador of Hengchun Folk Song.” Tracts from Jen’s albums, “For Now” and “Jade Tongue”, can be downloaded from www.jenshyu.bandcamp.com.

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JEN SHYU at LINCOLN CENTER

BxIndie musician Jen Shyu and her group wowed the crowd at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium on April 22nd.

bxindie music:

prima divas

Wednesday, April 7, 7:00pm

Hostos Repertory Theater at Hostos Community College

450 Grand Concourse

Bronx, NY 10454

Teana “Alkebulan” Rodriguez, 2009 BRIO winner for vocal performance, began to trace her roots back to her African ancestors, drawing on their legacy as she embarked on her mission to not only honor their memory, but to break the stereotypes in popular music, thus giving birth to a style she has dubbed "Rebel Soul," a unique blend of R&B, Jazz, Soul, Hip Hop, Pop, Rock, Dance & Reggae. She has been winning the hearts and souls of audiences wherever she performs with her powerful vocals and thought provoking messages.

BxIndie artist Melissa Diaz is a singer, songwriter, percussionist and member of Puerto Rican roots group "Yerbabuena", as well as Dominican "Musica Tipica" group "Kombacarei". Sleeping Phoenix, Melissa’s new solo project, is a fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Alternative rock and Latin pop. Sleeping Phoenix is a search to discover identity through the blending of major cultural influences and an attempt to give voice to the subculture of first generation Americans from different ethnic backgrounds who belong neither "here nor there" culturally.

BxIndie music:
Antonio polanco

Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 8:00pm

Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos

450 Grand Concourse

Bronx, NY 10454

718-518-6728

BxIndie musician and BRIO winner Antonio Polanco is a Bronx-born Dominican who bills himself as a DJ, a music composer, and a music producer who now spends much of his time in the recording studio.

BxIndie Music: Muhamadou Salieu Suso

Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 8:30pm

Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium

at Lincoln Center

Broadway between West 62nd St & 63rd St

Muhamadou Salieu Suso was born into a family of traditional Gambian musicians, historians, and storytellers that extends nearly one thousand years. From the age of eight, he was trained to play the 21-stringed kora (West African harp) by his father, renowned kora player Alhaji Musa Makang Suso. Muhamadou is a descendant of JaliMady Wulayn Suso who is the actual inventor of the kora instrument. A master musician and composer, Muhamadou also has an established reputation as a Griot or djeli — poet or storyteller. An official MUNY artist since 2007, he is a leader in the United States' African music scene. He has performed throughout Africa and Europe with various groups and is the leader of the Jaliya Kafo! Extended Family Music Ensemble. His work has been recorded solo, in variety of compilations as well as ensemble groups. In 2004, he and Kevin Nathaniel received the Parent’s Choice Award for the album “African Dreams”. Suso, on Gambian kora, was featured on the popular "Travel Series" (Six Degrees Records) "African Travels," along with NYC collective of DJs and musicians known as Organic Grooves (O.G.). Mr. Suso won a BRIO award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) award in 2007 for instrumental music from the Bronx Council on the Arts. For more information on Mr. Suso, visit www.salieususo.fourfour.com.

BxIndie Dance:

Christal Brown and Alethea Pace

Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 8:00pm
Riverdale Y
5625 Arlington Avenue, Bronx, NY
718-548-8200

Christal Brown, a two-time BRIO winner for choreography, is the founder and artistic director of INSPIRIT, a dance company, which creates contemporary works that are woven
with themes of spiritual exuberance and ancestral strength from her African heritage. The dances range from postmodern forms to traditional West African, from ballet to yoga. INSPIRIT has shown work at Aaron Davis Hall, St. Marks Church, Joyce Soho, The Lincoln Theater of Washington, DC, and other venues across the country.

Alethea Pace, a two-time BRIO winner for dance, was trained in her native Bronx. She was a member of the Arthur Aviles Typical Theater for eight years where she was committed to creating dance works for her community. Alethea has also performed with Karl Anderson, Doug Elkins, Erick Montes, Sipa Fredrick and Marta Renzi. She will be performing with the Physual Dance Company choreographed by Richard Rivera.