[FA Worldmusic] WOMEX and free Amina concert at Joe's Pub tonight

[Bill Bragin]

(Sorry - finger slipped before I finished typing...)

Just making it back into the office, and yes, my bag finally arrived when I
landed in JFK, so I'm no longer wearing that pink shirt...

Would love to get people's impressions of WOMEX this year.  We all should talk
about how to approcah them collectively about the horrific sound at the
showcases, but leaving that aside for teh moment - does anyone want to comment
about interesting panels, new artist discoveries, key issues discussed etc?

Also, for those in NY, wanted to let you know that due to visa issues,
tonight's concert with the Icelandic group Amina, who toured with Sigur Ros
and played Bang on A Can Marathon this year, is now free admission for
everyone.

AMINA
HALLOWEEN CELEBRATION


Tuesday October 31
11:45 PM
FREE - First Come, First Served at the Door


http://www.aminamusik.com/

Amina is a string quartet comprising four icelandic young women, founded in
the summer of 1998. who met while attending the music school of reykjavmk.
Though trained classically, amina started doing lots of studio work with all
kinds of pop and rock bands because there weren't many string groups taking on
that sort of flexible and time-consuming work. In 1999 when Sigur Ros needed
string players for a album release concert because the album had had an octet
perfroming on it, Amina was called and have been touring with Sigur Ros ever
since which has organically lead and influenced Amina to perform less
classically by not over analyzing and over arranging tand to simply perform
music of pure atmosphere and spontaneity.







All the best,

Bill Bragin
Director of Joe's Pub
The Public Theater
425 Lafayette Street
New York, NY  10003

t/ 212.539.8512
f/ 212.539.8505
e/ bbragin at publictheater.org
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to make music more intensely,
more beautifully,
more devotedly than ever before."

Leonard Bernstein