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The Seattle-based drummer melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions.
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Drummer Mike Mitchell aka Blaque Dynamite follows no formula. He reimagines jazz as a cross-genre Hummer driving across challenging, fantastic landscapes.
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The Guatemalan-born, L.A. based singer-songwriter is bridging the worlds of Latin folk and Americana with her warm, soulful songwriting.
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A five-piece Congolese funk rock explosion led by Jupiter Bokondji. A recombinant breed of soukous music powered by Western styles of funk, soul, and r&b. Highly danceable.
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KASSA OVERALL
w/ MTALI BANDA + KENDRA MCKINLEY
APRIL 4
Hawks & Reed
Greenfield, MA
8PM (7:30PM doors)
Kassa Overall is a Grammy-nominated musician, emcee, singer, producer and drummer who melds avant-garde experimentation with hip-hop production techniques to tilt the nexus of jazz and rap in unmapped directions.
BLAQUE DYNAMITE
co-presented with laudable productions
APRIL 23
Marigold Theatre
Easthampton, MA
8PM (doors 7:30PM)
Drummer Mike Mitchell aka Blaque Dynamite follows no formula. He reimagines jazz as a cross-genre Hummer driving across challenging, fantastic landscapes: “The shit that’s pushed and most represented in jazz is the old swing shit, which is badass, but nobody gives a fuck about swing no more. We on some new shit.”
Mike got on the kit when he was two years old and was an endorsed drummer by the time he was 11. He held down the drums for Stanley Clarke before graduating high school. Other collaborations incude the likes Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Erykah Badu, Kamasi Washington and MonoNeon.
Mind-blowing, genre-defying, skull-shaking stuff.
For fans of Flying Lotus, BIGYUKI, and Domi & JD Beck.
”…No words can describe this man’s extraordinary power, speed, velocity, feel and groove…” - The Blue Note NY
GABY MORENO
co-presented with DSP SHOWS
MAY 11
The Drake
Amherst, MA
8PM (doors at 7PM)
Armed with a warm, soulful sound, Gaby Moreno creates music that offers an intoxicating invitation into her musical world for English and Spanish speakers alike. Since moving to Los Angeles from her native Guatemala, singer-songwriter-producer Gaby Moreno has been a force briding Latin roots with American folk — and recently came home with her second Latin Grammy.
Moreno has shared the international stage with pop music luminaries such as Bono, Andrea Boccelli, Tracy Chapman, Ani DiFranco, Punch Brothers, Hugh Laurie, Buena Vista Social Club, Calexico, David Gray, and many more.
If you like Silvana Estrada, Natalia Lafourcade, Violeta Parra
COMBO DAGUERRE
co-presented with NEXT STAGE ARTS SUMMER BANDWAGON
JUNE 15
Outdoor Location TBD
Putney, VT
6PM (gates at 5PM)
Combo Daguerre, based in Brooklyn, performs original psychedelic chanson with a mostly Latin crew and a a hybrid style informed by boleros, cumbia, 60's rock, French chanson and 1930s surrealism. It is music filled with joy and darkness, deep grooves and dirges, nostalgia and futurism.
With Olivier Conan (Chicha Libre) - cuatro, vocals; Adele Fournet - keyboards and Felipe Wurst - guitar (Banda Chuska/Tipa Tipo); Andres Fonseca - drums; Neil Ochoa (Los Crema Paraiso, Chicha Libre) - percussion and Dan Martinez - bass.
Combo Daguerre’s bandleader is Olivier Conan — notably, the founder of NYC’s Barbès and our past partner-in-crime in producing the Barbès in the Woods music festival.
JUPITER & OKWESS
co-presented with DSP SHOWS & THE IRON HORSE
JULY 27
The Iron Horse
Northampton, MA
8PM (doors at 7PM)
“We all have ancestors in Africa,” Jupiter says, “and they also played music. And if Africa looks like a revolver, its trigger can be found…in the Congo!’
Jupiter & Okwess is a five-piece Congolese funk rock explosion led by Jupiter Bokondji. The Rebel General, steeped in the myriad musical styles of the Kinshasa of his youth, delivers a recombinant breed of soukous music powered by Western styles of funk, soul, and r&b. They first hit Western Mass last year at the Green River Festival — if you were there… it was unforgettable.
If you like Congotronics, Staff Benda Bilili, James Brown
