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Afro Yaqui Music Collective
August 5, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$12
Hope Academy teaching artists, Ben Barson and Gizelxanath Rodriguez, bring jazz, funk and soul into dialogue with indigenous music of the 21st century.
The Afro Yaqui Music Collective (AYMC) is a 9-piece outfit which descends from the ensembles of Guggenhiem award winner Fred Ho, whose work was influenced by West African, global Indigenous and East Asian musics. The AYMC is co-led by Gizelxanath Rodriguez, an internationally performing soprano and activist, who is also a winner of the 2014 ACE Award. The band is also led by her partner, Ben Barson, Fred Ho’s Baritone protege who “he felt has the heft and sound to represent [Ho’s] assertive approach (The New York Times).” The band includes New York based koto player Kento Iwasaki; Aaron J. Johnson (Trombonist and alumni of Aretha Franklin’s groups); and hip hop artists such as Brooklyn-based multimedia artist, Nejma Shea.
MUSIC: 8 PM
DOORS: 7 PM
TICKETS: $12 in advance; $15 at the door
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