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

[evangelinekim at att.net]

Charlie,
Thanks for the unexpected post.  I am by no means "exceptional."  Look to many I admire - Jon Pareles with the NY Times for his brilliant coverage of New York's world music concerts, Afropop's great radio programs, KEXP's Jon Kertzer and his "Best Ambiance" and Darek Mazzone's "Wo Pop," Tom Frouge's http://www.radioio.com/radioioworld.php and so many more great world music radio stream djs including Delphine Blue and Rob Weisberg in the NY region..  and of course, the dedicated world music publicists including Dmitri Vietze - rockpaperscissors.biz, Mark Gorney, Carla Sacks - 
The main reason I've decided to help WKCR's  (Columbia University)"In All Languages" program is that I am convinced that the world music category is lost in a regrettable "niche" mentality. Most all world music fans don't realize is that in most all countries of origin, what we seem to understand as 'world music' is actually 'mainstream' music.
It's also bizarre to me that in New York, we don't have any real decent world music radio program!  But we're lucky to have the streams above... 
Let's see how this radio program progresses.  And, I'm hopeful to be able to invite a few more 'movers and shakers' who have the word  on the world.  
I will make sure that the programs will be archived so anyone who should be sleeping at the hour will be able to access if inclined.
Thanks very much!
Evangeline


-------------- Original message from "charles blass" <lovolution at gmail.com>: -------------- 


> 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! 
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
> 
> 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. 
> 
> 
> ~'^<:>^<:>^<:>^<:>^'~ 
> 
> 
> Snailings: 
> 
> AudioGumbo > 89.9FM NY www.wkcr.org 
> Lovevolv, Inc > Lovolution > LiveWired 
> 161 W54 #1403 
> NYC 10019 USA > 
> 1.212.642.8473 > charles.blass at gmail.com 
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