Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm HAROON BACHA Contemporary traditional Pashto song "To better understand the predicament of Pakistan’s Pashtun population, one can turn to the songs of Haroon Bacha, a legendary Pashtun singer." - The Dawn (Pakistan)
Co-sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia & Middle East Centers Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Ave. (in Calvary United Methodist Church) http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 Tickets are $20, $10 discount, $30 for supporters, $5 for 12 and under. Haroon Bacha was born in Swabi, in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province, in 1972. A social worker by training, he first developed a flair for music while a student at the prestigious Edwardes College in the Frontier capitol of Peshawar. Trained in the art of the tabla and the harmonium, Haroon has become best known for his voice. Since his debut cassette in the mid-1990s, Haroon's renditions of traditional Pashto-language poetic genres, classical lyric, and neo-folk melodies have revolutionized contemporary Pashto music while not breaking with traditional rural roots; and have solidified his status as one of the most popular representatives of a new generation of Pashto musicians in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Pashtun diaspora. Haroon's high profile has been a mixed blessing in the contemporary era, however. In the increasingly desperate political struggles between social movements such as the Taliban and more elite traditionalist Pashtun interests, culture wars over Pashtun and Muslim identity have been at the forefront. Centuries-old hotbeds of music production and circulation, such as in Peshawar's fabled "Storytellers' Bazaar", have been decimated over the past decade; and Haroon himself has become a target of the Taliban's puritanical cultural activism along with numerous other performers. Unshaking in his love for Pashto's rich humanist tradition of performed language, the cornerstone of Pashtun cultural heritage, Haroon Bacha has continued to record as an expatriate in the United States. He also currently hosts and directs cultural programming for the Voice of America’s Pashto service. (biography by James Caron, University of Pennsylvania) Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 3:00 am All Around This World presents KIDS EXPLORE AFRICA, featuring Mogauwane Mahloele, Adwoa Tacheampong & Chuckie Joseph of the Mewa-Nsoromma Dance and Drum Ensemble, Adimu Kuumba, Debra E. Johnson, and Penn African Performing Arts. An afternoon of hands-on presentations for children 1-7 years old and their parents and caregivers. Please note: you or another adult needs to stay with your children during the event. Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 7:30 am TAINA ASILI y La Banda Rebelde "Taina’s voice speaks from a place of soul and struggle. Listen closely with your heart and hear with your spirit; it sounds like rebellion and feels like revolution." - Not4Prophet, Ricanstruction MONICA MCINTYRE - Blues/soul cello and vocals "While Monica’s sounds are truly and uniquely her own, one cant help but run into the ghosts of Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, and others on the way." - MagnaPhone Magazine Saturday, April 3, 2010 at 7:30 pm CHULRUA - Irish traditional music "Adept at finding unusual tunes and variants, and in celebrating the individual voice in the flow of traditional practice: a reminder of the things that matter in Irish traditional music." - Irish Music Saturday, April 10, 2010 at 7:30 pm ARCHIE FISHER - Scottish songs and ballads "One of Britain's finest song interpreters." - Sing Out. "Quietly poetic ballads haunt like a shadowy specter." - St. Paul Pioneer-Press Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm MICHAEL WINOGRAD TRIO, with special guest Dan Blacksberg - New & traditional klezmer, Yiddish song & improv "The wedding band of choice for the hippest of shtetls." - City Paper "Formerly deceased, the music now enjoys rude good health. A perfect example of this sea change in musical fortunes." - The Forward Saturday, May 1, 2010 at 7:30 pm Generations of Resistance, featuring: ANNE FEENEY - unionmaid, hell raiser, and labor singer "Congratulations on your fine songwriting!" - Pete Seeger "Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America." - Utah Phillips EVAN GREER - Songs to inspire hope, build community and incite resistance "Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come." - Tom Morello, Rage Against the Machine "An eloquent and energetic writer." - Howard Zinn ROY ZIMMERMAN - Funny songs about ignorance, war, and greed "Lacerating wit & keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer." - Los Angeles Times "Reintroducing literacy to comedy songs." - Tom Lehrer Friday, May 21, 2010 at 7:30 pm BRUCE MOLSKY & ALE MOLLER - Appalachian old time and Swedish traditional music "The Rembrandt of Appalachian fiddling." - Darrol Anger. "Among the most talented, active and prolific on the Swedish scene." - Dirty Linen -- Daniel Flaumenhaft Director, Crossroads Music Concert schedule and general information: http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org Recorded concert information: 215-729-1028 Cell: 215-285-2307 Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crossroads-Music/52505738666 MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/crossroadsconcerts ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
