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• Artist: Raya Brass Band
• Date: Friday, January 20th 2012
• Time: 9:00pm
• City: Raya Brass Band in Brooklyn
• Venue: Eris Benefit at Gowanus Ballroom
• Address: 55 9th Street
• Venue phone: 347.460.2687
• Country: US
• Admission: $10
• Notes: This Friday night at 9pm at the Gowanus Ballroom there is a great show for a great cause. All proceeds will go to the legal fees for the arrestees in last year’s Eris Parade in New Orleans. There is more info about that below, but first let us entice you with the show! It will Feature Tanya Solomon – mc and magic acts Morgan O’Kane – shredding banjo and ferocious foot stomping http://www.morganokanemusic.com/ Veveritse Brass Band – brass tapestry inspired by Romany style http://veveritsebrassband.com/ DJ Dusty Walker booty shaking beats straight from the living room Gltr Pnch Riot Grrl inspired Trans-core Punk! http://www.facebook.com/events/275236442538981/#!/gltrpnch Billy & Casbur frolicking malformations Raya Brass Band exuberant Balkan music from the village of Brooklyn http://www.rayabrassband.com/ It will also be a night to celebrate our friend Sarah Blust’s catapult into the land of 40 somethings! Show at 9pm, Friday January 20th, $10 Gowanus Ballroom is at 55 9th St in Brooklyn By Subway go to 4th Ave(F, G) or 9th St(D, N, R) Smith & 9th is closed!
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BARBES and ELECTRIC COWBELL 
TAKE MANHATTAN 
at DROM
Jan 7th, 2011 7:00pm-11:00pm

With
Smokey Hormel, Chicha Libre,
Raya Brass band, Cheick Hamala Diabate,
No BS Brass! and DJ Geko Jones.

For the past few years, Barbès has been presenting a Manhattan showcase timed to coincide with the APAP conference – an annual rite which, every January, brings musicians from around the world to New York. This year, Barbès has teamed up with fellow brooklynites, label Electric Cowbell, to bring a particularly exciting roster to the always suspect borough of Manhattan.

Electric Cowbell is a new record label dedicated to release 45rpm seven inch vinyl of new talent (from the Debo Band, to Talibam!, Khaira Arby and Superhuman Happiness). Like barbès, the label doesn’t believe distinctions of genre are always pertinent and promotes like-minded musicians who operate in mediums as varied as Funk, Afrobeat, Latin psychedelia, Balkan music or Second Line brass music.

Barbès is a Brooklyn club which, next spring, will be celebrating ten years of eclectic programming – from classical string quartets to Ukrainian polyphonies, Forro and American Qawwali.

This edition of our Manhattan invasion will feature the congolese musings of Smokey Hormel, the electric cumbias of Chicha LIbre, the improvisations of Malian griot Cheick Hamal Diabate, No BS! Brass‘ brand of funk, the Brooklyn Balkan hybrid that is Raya and the Pan-latin tropical sound of DJ Geko Jones.

8:00pm
NO BS! BRASS BAND
A powerful brass band from Richmond VA that infuses the spirit of New Orleans into its original East Coast modern funk. They draw inspiration from funk, jazz, klezmer, calypso, and Led Zeppelin and while most members have conservatory training, they strive for heart-pounding energy and uncontrollable dancing.

8:45pm
CHEIKH HAMALA DIABATE
Cheick Hamala Diabate is a Malian griot and a master of the ngoni, a traditional instrument. He started his career at a young age playing with Malian musical greats, including Toumani Diabate (a first cousin), Oumou Sangare, Ali Farka Toure and Salif Keita. Upon coming to the US, Cheick Hamala was intrigued by the resemblance between his ngoni and the American banjo, even sharing tunings and picking styles. He has since learned to play the banjo at a virtuosic level, including collaborations with Bela Fleck and Bob Carlin. Cheick’s album of banjo duets with Carlin, From Mali to America, was nominated for a grammy in 2007 for Best Traditional World Music Album.

9:30pm
SMOKEY’S SECRET FAMILY
Smokey Hormel’s résumé reads like a history of American popular music over the decades. He has worked closely with Beck, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, and Neil Diamond. His projects have included the Brazilian-influenced Smokey and Miho, as well as an ongoing tribute to Western swing. His latest endeavor is an idiosyncratic take on early Congolese rumba. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, African musicians looked to Cuba for inspiration. They recognized African roots in the music but were also captivated by its cosmopolitan aspect, which mirrored the evolution of their own culture. Using the electric guitar—fast becoming the symbol of urban culture—they forged a new hybrid that became an early soundtrack of decolonization. Hormel has hybridized the music further and taken it to the Americas for the second time. Keeping its pre-rock roots intact, he relies on a core sound of “wild guitars bursting through small amps afloat on a sea of hand drums and shakers.”

10:10pm
CHICHA LIBRE
Chicha LIbre is a Brooklyn collective made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians who mix up covers of Peruvian electric cumbia with original compositions in French, Spanish and English, re-interpretation of 70’s pop classics as well as cumbia versions of pieces by the likes of Satie, Love and Joe Dassin. In the past year, the group has brought its music to Istanbul, Madrid, Berlin and Copenhagen, but has been especially welcome in South America where its mix of Tropical experimentation and psychedelia has proved extremely popular. Chicha Libre’s second album is a psychedelic bender with a majority of original compositions and nods to Wagner and Los Mirlos. It will be released by Barbès Records and Crammed disc in April of 2012.

11:00pm
RAYA BRASS BAND. 
Raya Brass Band gleefully mashes up the music of Eastern Europe with funky American dance grooves. Featuring odd meters, unusual scales and a fine helping of gorgeous Balkan and Romany (Gypsy) melodies played on reeds, trumpet, accordion, tuba and drums, Raya Brass Band slakes the thirst for something old and new at the same time, unusual and catchy, spiritedly played by some of NYC’s finest Balkan folk musicians. Greg Squared (clarinet), Ben Syversen (trumpet), Matthew Fass (accordion), Don Godwin (tuba) and EJ Fry (tupan).

11:30pm and In between sets
GEKO JONES
Geko Jones is a Brooklyn-based Puerto-lombian DJ and Producer. He is a founding member of both the New York Tropical and Que Bajo?! party franchises in New York. He is also a partner and co-owner of the Dutty Artz record label with producer Matt Shadetek and DJ /Rupture. His mixes span the tropical hemispheres and collage together globally sonic hours of dancefloor mayhem. Renowned by top DJ’s and producers of the digital cumbia scene in Latin America and European bass-pundits alike, Jones is one of the select few DJ’s pushing forward the Latin agenda in a world wide tropical bass scene. The past five years have found him sharing a booth or collaborating with a long roster of A-list globalistas like Uproot Andy, Radioclit, ZZK, Maluca, Dub War, Toy Selectah and more.

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Barbès & Electric Cowbell Takes Manhattan
Saturday January 7th
DROM
Doors open at 6:30pm
Admission $10
Free with APAP badges
Drom is located at 85 Ave. A in Manhattan
(212) 777-1157
http://www.dromnyc.com/

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• Artist: Raya Brass Band
• Date: Saturday, January 7th 2012
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: Raya Brass Band in New York, NY
• Venue: Barbes and Electric Cowbell APAP Showcase
• Address: 85 Avenue A
• Country: US
• Admission: $10
• Age restrictions: No Minors
• Notes: BARBES and ELECTRIC COWBELL TAKE MANHATTAN at DROM With Smokey Hormel, Chicha Libre, Raya Brass band, Cheick Hamala Diabate, No BS Brass! and DJ Geko Jones.
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-Raya Brass Band (Brooklyn Balkan brass)
-Apocalypse Five and Dime (street band dance party pop)
-Mommy? (all Misfits covers only polka band!!!)
-Morgan O’Kane
+ more special guests yet to be announced!

Dance Party (to actual records, no less) afterwards w/ DJ Dusty Walker. Expect a mix of rare groove, Jamaican, Latin Boogalo, cumbia, and booty shaking beats!

@ C-Squat
155 avenue C (between 9th + 10th st) NYNY
Doors at 7pm.

Fundraising at the door! $7-$15 sliding scale. Does not slide below 7, but slides as far past 15 as you’d like to go. So slide on, generous sliders, slide on!

This show is a fundraiser for the legal defense of the 12 people arrested at the Eris Parade in New Orleans this past March. It is thrown by a group of musicians who were participating in the parade when the police shut it down.

For seven years the Krewe of Eris has rolled the Sunday before Mardi Gras. Musicians, artists, and puppeteers from all over the country travel down there every year to join creative forces with the amazing community of artists and musicians who live there. It is an unpermitted community parade with an open band that has been growing every year. This past Mardi Gras, the NOPD stopped the nonviolent parade and proceeded to wreak havoc by using tasers and pepper spray, manhandling attendees, and then arresting 12 people with charges which ranged from disturbing peace to resisting arrest to battery. One participant, a warm and quiet boy, was tased, his clarinet was broken, and his face was smashed so hard that he had to get corrective surgery for his broken cheekbone. For all of this, he got charged with battery of a police officer.

The next day, the police retaliated by closing the Iron Rail (the local anarchist bookstore and info shop) and Plan B (the bike co-op), simply because the people who ran those were also involved in the parade.

If you can’t come yet are just yearning to support then visit www.eris12.org !!!!

ALSO!! if that’s not enough to grab your attention: marching band mercenary Leslie Wacker is turning 30 this day so bring cake. Yes, there might be cake! Also, as we all know, the apocalypse is coming next year so who knows if she will get another party! We all want to dance to some brass with you before the world ends but more important than any of that! Back to your Krewe of Eris education + required reading…

Below are links to some articles and videos about what happened:

Report from NOLA.com

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/03/nopd_reviewing_arrests_of_12_a.html

Local news

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5uOZjVavnc&feature=related

More video footage

A blog post

http://nolaslate.blogspot.com/2011/03/permitting-culture-crimes.html

First-hand account from one of 12 arrestees

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2011/03/15776.php

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Below are links to some video clips for what is about to happen:

Raya (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWOqOeRF7Vo)

Apocalypse Five and Dime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8ZXsgGEki0)

Mommy?

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Every Saturday from 4 pm to 7 pm in Williamsburg.

No shows booked at the moment.

Live from Barbes: Sanda Weigl + Alexandros Papadakis + TriBeCaStan + Raya Brass band 

Saturday, December 10th, 6pm – 9pm on Transpacific Sound Paradise with Rob Weisberg 

Another action-packed evening of wall-to-wall live music from Barbes, the intimate music-lover’s haven at 376 9th St (corner of 6th Ave) in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Featuring the splendid chanteuse Sanda Weigl accompanied by keyboardist extraordinaire Shoko Nagai;Alexandros Papadakis, a master of the spellbinding lyra (fiddle) and other traditional instruments from Crete; sonic globetrotters TriBeCaStan and their array of exotic instruments from everywhere; and the incomparable Balkan brass bashers Raya Brass Band.

As usual the tireless Irene Trudel will be both technical guru and co-host with Rob. Admission is free during the broadcast (although performers may pass the hat for voluntary donations) and we’ll be doling out free FMU swag.

No shows booked at the moment.

No shows booked at the moment.

HALLOWEEN 2011: Master & Margarita: The Witch’s Ball
When: Oct 30  6:00pm
Where: Galapagos Art Space – Brooklyn

Russian Mix and Galapagos Art Space present The Master and Margarita: The Witches Ball! Celebrate Halloween weekend featuring music, magic and mystery. Dress up as your favorite character from the novel or as you please and join us for an evening featuring live music, a Tarot card reader, face painting, photography booth, magic acts and more! $15.00 onlne and $20.00 GA at the door.

PROGRAM:

6pm – Doors Open – Bar Specials
7pm – “Raya Brass Band” Band – act 1
8pm – Magic Performance
9pm – Red Hook Ramblers” Band ” – act 2
10pm – Dance with DJ Vovan & DJ Budulai; Live percussion by Teddy B

Also in Program:
* Face/Body Painting by Gulchik
* Professional Photo shoot
* Tarot Reading
… and more

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Reservations:  http://galapagosartspace.com/
Tickets: $15 advanced at http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&eventId=4023635 or $20 at doors

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• Artist: Raya Brass Band
• Date: Sunday, October 30th 2011
• Time: 6:00pm
• City: Raya Brass Band in Brooklyn, NY
• Venue: Galapagos Art Space
• Address: 16 Main Street
• Country: US
• Admission: $15 advance/$20 door
• Notes: Russian Mix and Galapagos Art Space present The Master and Margarita: The Witches Ball! Celebrate Halloween weekend featuring music, magic and mystery. Dress up as your favorite character from the novel or as you please and join us for an evening featuring live music, a Tarot card reader, face painting, photography booth, magic acts and more! $15.00 onlne and $20.00 GA at the door. PROGRAM: 6pm – Doors Open – Bar Specials 7pm – “Raya Brass Band” Band – act 1 8pm – Magic Performance 9pm – Red Hook Ramblers” Band ” – act 2 10pm – Dance with DJ Vovan & DJ Budulai; Live percussion by Teddy B Also in Program: * Face/Body Painting by Gulchik * Professional Photo shoot * Tarot Reading … and more
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