PRESS RELEASE........... OneHamtramck ………….. July 14, 2010 Re: The Home Suite: Coming to Hamtramck
Website: www.onehamtramck.org Contact: Bill Meyer, (313) 207-3904, b...@onehamtramck.org The Home Suite: Coming to Hamtramck is a live music/video concert that will be performed on • Fri. July 23rd, 7 pm and 8:30 pm. Detroit Institute of Arts: 5200 Woodward Ave, north of Warren, FREE to Detroit residents with proof of ID (7pm show is music only) • Fri. July 30th, 7 pm. Hamtramck Gates of Columbus: 9632 Conant, north of Holbrook FREE to Hamtramck residents with proof of ID The Home Suite: Coming to Hamtramck features the newly formed Hamtramck World Music Ensemble composed of six noted local musicians. Under the direction of jazz keyboardist and Hamtramck resident, Bill Meyer, the group blends styles and ethnic influences from around the world. The partly improvised music is filtered through an American lens while it accompanies interviews of Hamtramck immigrants from countries as diverse as Bangladesh, Bosnia, Poland, Nigeria, England, and Yemen. The theme of ‘home’ is explored in the various musical styles and interplays with the sentiments of leaving one’s home and finding a new one in the multi-ethnic city of Hamtramck. The video interviews alternate with five music movements that explore the many meanings of home and the passions that accompany it. The five music movements written by Bill Meyer include: Prelude, Memories, Leaving, The Journey, Finale: Home Alternating with four question segments from 18 Hamtramck immigrants answering: (1) WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? (2) WHY DID YOU LEAVE? (3) DESCRIBE THE JOURNEY TO HAMTRAMCK? (4) HOW IS YOUR NEW HOME IN HAMTRAMCK? Hamtramck World Ensemble (Instrumental) performing live: Bill Meyer – piano, accordion, synthesizer, percussion Ramsey Hussein – electric bass, acoustic bass Javier Barrios - percussion, tabla, doumbek, drums Dave Reinstein – soprano and tenor sax, flute, wood flute, percussion Cecilia Sharpe (CC) – cello, percussion Alan Ayoub – acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar, electric sitar 18 Hamtramck immigrants interviewed: Adjoko Wilson, Lome, Togo Andre Pietrucha, Warsaw, Poland Anees Sous , Anabta, Palestine Babajide Aje , Lagos, Nigeria Delawar Hussain, Sylhet, Bangladesh Dilruba Islam, Sylhet, Bangladesh Dino Mahmutovic, Doboj, Bosnia Saima Mahmutovic, Tesanj, Bosnia Greg Kirchner, Poznan, Poland Karolina Husar, Gdynia, Poland Lorraine Robinson, Birmingham, UK Mohamed Zokari, Ibb, Yemen Nashwan Zokari, Ibb, Yemen Nevrus Nazarko, Erseke, Albania Norman Ferizovic, Celic, Bosnia Azra Ferizovic, Brcko, Bosnia Salah Hadwan, Manzal Ali, Yemen Steve Shaya, Baghbad, Iraq The 60-minute multimedia performance will soon be available on DVD _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
