Tags archives: Rockwood Music Hall
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5 years ago
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Hot off a national tour and an acclaimed performance at Hulaween, Toubab Krewe will perform a special, intimate engagement Friday, November 30th to benefit arts education in New York City. The concert, Music For Progress, will take place at NYC's famed Rockwood Music Hall and proceeds will go to Art For Progress, a local 501(c)3 non-profit arts organization committed to bringing arts education to NYC's public schools in underserved communities. In a city that boasts world-class music and art programming every hour of every day, many public schools throughout the five boroughs lack the budget, funding and personnel for robust programs to empower young artists and musicians. Through the work of Art for Progress, even the most disenfranchised have an opportunity to learn and engage with music!
With a strong track record in partnering with mission-based cultural organizations, Toubab Krewe is thrilled to be working with AFP to share a message of global community and empowerment.
Special VIP donor tickets with be offered, which will include a private viewing platform, a signed vinyl copy of the band's recent album 'Stylo,' as well as a box of fruit and vegetable seeds which the band released in conjunction with the album to promote sustainability, and other surprise merch gifts!
Support will be provided by Bad Faces, a local power quintet as deeply rooted in traditional roots music as they are reaching for stratospheric heights in their improvisational explorations. The g[...]
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6 years ago
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Art for Progress (AFP) is thrilled and honored to present a night of empowering original music, created for a special evening to benefit AFP’s art education programs. Music for Progress will take place on Friday November 30th at NYC’s quintessential listening room, Rockwood Music Hall (stage 2) and feature psychedelic world-jam group Toubab Krewe, Brooklyn power trio Bad Faces, and 3Bridge Records and Flemcy Music recording artist and DJ, Gatto. Get your tickets [HERE]
Blending American and West African influences into a sound all its own, Toubab Krewe has set "a new standard for fusions of rock 'n' roll and West African music" (Afro pop Worldwide). Since forming in 2005, the magnetic Asheville, NC based quintet has won a diverse and devoted following while performing everywhere from Bonnaroo to the Festival of the Desert in Essakane, Mali. Mixing American rock with the musical traditions the band fell in love with on their travels to Africa, their sound also nods to surf and zydeco. This fusion of sound is what the Village Voice describes as "a futuristic, psychedelic, neo-griot frenzy" and Honest Tune hails as "one of the most innovative voices in music today."
Bad Faces are a Brooklyn power trio as deeply rooted in American traditional music as they are reaching for new stratospheric heights in their improvisational explorations. Led by singer/guitarist Barry Komitor, a fixture in New York's vibrant folk and bluegrass scene, the group has amassed a strong local foll[...]
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