[FA Worldmusic] 'Movers and Shakers' radio series starts this sunday evening; Tonic NYC

[charles blass]

Greetings:

A few items of note.
Best,
Charles


Sunday, April 15th, 11PM-2AM - WKCR.org 89.9FM NY presents the first of a
series,
-> In All Languages: "World Music Movers and Shakers"
featuring Guest Host, EVANGELINE KIM
with Special Guest, MEHMET DEDE, Giant Step's Director of Lifestyle
Marketing and New Media
"Essential rural and world-music influenced urban sounds from Brazil,
Senegal, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Sweden, the U.S. and beyond."
Ms. Kim is an exceptional journalist, vital advocate and mover/ shaker in
the global sphere.
Some of her recent work:
http://worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com/worldmusic/view/page.basic/article/c
ontent.article/toumani_diabate_carnegie_debut
and
http://www.afropop.org/multi/feature/ID/686/World%20Music%20Focus:%20Arts%20P
resenters%2050th%20Anniversary


May 6, 11pm-2am - WKCR.org 89.9FM NY continues its special series,
In All Languages: "World Music Movers and Shakers" featuring Guest Host,
EVANGELINE KIM
with Special Guest, BENJAMIN DE MENIL, Founder and Producer, IASO Records:
www.iasorecords.com
"From the Caribbean to West Africa:  The Rise of Modern Music.  Live guest
musicians: SUPER UBA from the Dominican Republic and LANKANDIA CISSOKO from
Casamance, Senegal."
See:  http://www.giantstep.net/features/164


June 9: WKCR's In All Languages: "World Music Movers and Shakers Series," w/
Guest Host, Evangeline Kim
+ Special Guest, Tom Pryor, Producer/Editor, National Geographic's World
Music Website: www.nationalgeographic.com
"Music journalist Tom Pryor is currently the senior editor of the
recently-launched National Geographic World Music website.  He's been avid
world music fan and collector ever since Ken Friedman made the mistake of
letting him loose in the WFMU music library as a student DJ in 1989. He'll
be playing some of his all time favorites and hot new picks, as well as
discussing the state of world music in the online space."


plus

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OPEN LETTER to the Musicians, Staff, and Fans of Tonic
PLEASE READ!
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An Open Letter to the Musicians, Staff, and Fans of Tonic

When Tonic closes this friday [Apr.13], we will have a lost a great club,
and
the last avant jazz/indie/new music club in manhattan with a capacity of
over 90
presenting music on a nightly basis.

Tonic's closing is not an isolated event: Coming on the heals of the closing
of CBGB's, Sini, The Fez, the Continental, this wave of club closings,
downsizings,
and displacements to Brooklyn constitutes a market failure.

But we don't have to accept the diminishment of our musical culture.  We're
organizing a response, and we intend to fight for the viability of new
music/
indie/experimental jazz traditionally based in the LES. We don't intend to
let Tonic's eviction pass without making some serious noise.

We hope you'll join us. If you'd like to help out or be kept informed of
upcoming events, please sign up for the mailing list by sending an email to:
indy_music_action-subscribe at lists.riseup.net

and if you just want to keep up to date with what we're planning, you should
go to:  http://www.takeittothebridge.com

We are an ad hoc coalition of musicians and supporters of new/ experimental
jazz/indie music. We represent a racially and culturally diverse community
united in our desire to preserve the cultural legacy and future viability of
the progressive jazz, experimental rock, and new music historically based in
the LES.

Thank you,
Marc Ribot


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Press Release: Avant Jazz/Indie/New Music Cultural Crisis

April 11, 2007 For immediate release
Contact: 646-250-9361/ 646-244-1886.
Or email - bridge3 at takeittothebridge.com

Avant Jazz/Indie/New Music Cultural Crisis

Responding to community outrage at the eviction of Tonic - a center of New
York City's new music cultural life for the last 9 years - an ad hoc
committee of musicians, cultural activists, and their supporters are
convening to call for public political intervention.

When: 11:00 am this Saturday April 14th

Where: Tonic, 107 Norfolk Street between Rivington and Delancey, NYC

Why: To ask for public political intervention to protect new
music/indie/avant/jazz in New York City and to ask the city to provide a
minimum 200 capacity, centrally located venue for experimental music.

What: From 11 am on April 14 -- musicians and other performers will stage a
musical protest against the planned closing of Tonic, a vital NYC new music
resource.


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