Friday, April 7, 2006
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Friday, April 7, 2006 Support Local Musicians Ras Lidj and The Deep Band will be performing at the Phish Tea located on H Street, N.E. Washington, DC. They will be bringing you their ReGGG-Go music (the fusion of Washington DCs local sound Go Go, and Reggae) ..."The Raw Energy and Positive Vibrations of Roots, Dancehall, Reggae and a strong DC Pocket Beat Fusion" "Go-Go music is Washington D.C.’s own home grown staple music form. It was first started in 1966 by the “Godfather of Go-Go”, Chuck Brown. Chuck, as he is affectionately called by his legion of fans, combined Afro/Latin percussion, jazz improvisation, Afrikan call and response, and hard funk energy over a continuous drumbeat to create a new non-stop live dance musical form"
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Monday, April 10, 2006
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Howard
University Poutre, Coskel University & Crown Bakery
Present
Masquerade
Poems
of Calypso & Home
by
Roger
Bonair-Agard
Competitor in National Poetry Slams, Featured Poet on HBO's Def Poetry Jam
Location:
Howard University Main Campus
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Date:
April 10, 2006
Time: 8:00 pm
Host:
Niama Sandy - niamasandy@gmail.com
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An Open Mic Hour Will Take Place before the Featured Performance
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Free Admission & Caribbean Style Refreshments!
About
Masquerade
Through
poetry and song, Masquerade explores the ways in which distance,
remembrance, and seventeen years away from home shape a man. Masquerade
critiques and celebrates the Trinidadian ethos by examining the influence
its seminal music -- Calypso -- exerts on a poet and the larger world.
One hour in
length, the poetry concert provides Caribbean and American audiences the
opportunity to experience this historically significant and politically
relevant art form through the lens of one man's life in poem and song.
Whether reinterpreting the tale of a calypso's central character, relating
his mother's early advice on race, or conjuring the sights, sounds, and
scents of Carnival, Masquerade offers intelligent entertainment of
the most enjoyable order.
