[UC-Announce] Sat 4/29 - afternoon concert of Indian classical music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music and Sruti, the India Music and Dance Society present

Vibrations - A fusion ensemble headed by Sri Tiruvarur Vaidyanathan and 
combining Carnatic (South Indian) classical , blues & jazz music.

Saturday, 29 April at 4:30 pm at St Mary’s Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk

Video, tickets, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 4/23: Lakou Mizik, Haitian roots music (concert+free kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Lakou Mizik - A collective of musicians from around Haiti blending troubadou, 
vodou, rara and rap into a deeply danceable bouyon of modern roots music.

“An act of national regeneration. a joyous, glad-to-be-alive affair, packed 
with voices, chants and call-and-response songs, their origins in church choir 
and street carnival.” – The Guardian

Sunday, April 23

Concert at 7:30 pm, $10-$30
Free children’s program at 6:00 pm

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Video, tickets, and more information at:
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[UC-Announce] Sat 3/25, Dolunay (Turkish/Balkan folk trio)

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Dolunay: Turkish and Balkan folk trio

“The band weave a bristling tapestry that runs the gamut from quiet and moody, 
to suspenseful and serpentine, to a sort of elegantly feral dancing quality. 
The material mixes traditional Turkish and Rumeli (Balkan-Turkish) songs as 
well as originals” – New York Music Daily

Saturday, March 25 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, in Calvary Church
Co-sponsored by TAFSUS - Turkish American Friendship Society of the US

Video, tickets ($10-30), and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sat 3/18: Tango concert at Crossroads Music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Tinta Roja
Bandoneon-guitar duo showcasing the intimate, lively, lyrical sound of tango.
​
“Other unmissable moments? The arrival of the young Argentinian prodigy Alejo 
de los Reyes.” – Tribune de Genève

Shinjoo Cho's "Oscuro Quintet is a modern “supergroup” of sorts, ushering in 
the evolution of tango while respecting its traditional roots." – WHYY

with special guests:

Cast Shadows - music for accordion & cello, inspired by Eastern European folk, 
fog machines & Erik Satie.

At Crossroads Music,  801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

​Tickets, video, and more information​ - www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 3/5: Ani Cordero at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents

Ani Cordero
Original political protest and love songs in the nueva canción, world music, 
and rock traditions

“Downright gorgeous Latin-tinged indie-rock. Sings like an angel crying into 
her drink. The band can surround and buoy her vocals with exquisite grace.” – 
Chicago Reader

Sunday, 5 March at 7:30 pm

801 South 48th Street (Calvary Center)
Philadelphia

Video, tickets, and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org



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[UC-Announce] Sun. 26 Feb: Noura Mint Seymali, Mauritanian singer

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Noura Mint Seymali -  One of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries.

“The absolutely spellbinding vocalist Noura Mint Seymali from Mauritania is 
ready to claim the role of her famous stepmother the late Dimi Mint Abba… With 
her strong charisma and appeal to the audience she will become a major star… 
Noura is incredible!” Afropop Worldwide

Sunday, 26 February at 7:30 pm

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets, video, and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Fri 2/3: International Guitar Night, Lulo Reinhardt, Debashish Bhattacharya, Luca Stricagnoli, Christiyan Dozza

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

International Guitar Night, featuring

Lulo Reinhardt (Germany)

Luca Stricagnoli (Italy)

Christiyan Dozza (Brazil)

Debashish Bhattacharya (India)

“One of the most important showcases for contemporary finger-stylists.” –San 
Fransisco Chronicle

Friday, 3 February at 7:30 pm

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Video, tickets ($10-30), and more info at
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[UC-Announce] Sun 1/29: Cecilia Zabala (Argentina) + Philippe Baden Powell (Brazil) at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Fronteras: Cecilia Zabala (Argentina) and Philippe Baden Powell (Brazil)

“Argentine guitarist Cecilia Zabala and Brazilian-French pianist Philippe Baden 
Powell express the intensity and richness of the relationship of loans, 
appropriations and potential exchanges between the music of the two Latin 
American countries.” – Télam

Sunday, 29 January at 7:30 pm

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Video, tickets ($10-30), and more info at
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[UC-Announce] Winter concerts and children's programs at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music's Winter Schedule

Sunday 29 January 2017
FRONTERAS: Cecilia Zabala (Argentina) & Philippe Baden Powell (Brazil)

Friday 3 February 2017
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT: Lulo Reinhardt (Germany), Luca Stricagnoli (Italy), 
Christiyan Dozza (Brazil), Debashish Bhattacharya (India)

Sunday 19 February 2017 (Concert + free children's program)
AURELIO: Garifuna music from Honduras

Sunday 26 February 2017
NOURA MINT SEYMALI: One of Mauritania’s foremost musical emissaries.

Sunday 5 March 2017
ANI CORDERO: Original political protest and love songs in the nueva canción, 
world music, and rock traditions

Sunday 12 March 2017 (Concert + free children's program)
LOW LILY: String & vocal trio exploring the roots & branches of American folk 
music

Saturday 18 March 2017
TINTA ROJA: Bandoneon-guitar duo showcasing the intimate, lively, lyrical sound 
of tango.
with special guests CAST SHADOWS: Film noir cabaret sorcery in Philadelphia

All these events will take place at Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street, in 
West Philly

Tickets, video and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Spring concerts will be announced soon!

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[UC-Announce] 12/11: Japanese, Brazilian, and Korean percussion

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

ARRASTÃO DO DENDÊ - Afro-Brazilian samba
“If this performance from the Afro-Brazilian percussion and dance troupe 
doesn’t get you tapping your feet, your feet have been glued to the floor and 
you should look into that.” – Philadelphia Magazine

KYO DAIKO - Japanese taiko drumming
“An ex­plo­sion of sound, matched by uni­form cho­reo­graphed move­ments, 
cre­at­ing an ava­lanche of sight and sound.” – Philadelphia Weekly

with special guests
DULSORI - Korean percussion ensemble
“Traditionalism and spectacle merged in Dulsori…. Huge drums placed overhead, 
along with flutes…. Deep, pounding rhythms derived from outdoor farmers’ 
festivals that could probably be heard in the next village.” – New York Times

Sunday, 11 December at 7:30 pm 
Crossroads Music 
801 South 48th Street (Calvary Church)

Tickets and more info: 
www.crossroadsconcerts.org/kyo-daiko-arrastao-dende

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[UC-Announce] Sun. 12/4 - Dirk Powell & Reily Baugus, Appalachian old-time multi-instrumentalists (concert + free kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Dirk Powell & Reily Baugus - Appalachian old-time multi-instrumentalists 

“Two of the most visionary old-time musicians today. A joy to listen to and 
discover. Depth that is so often lacking these days in any genre.” – Bluegrass 
Situation

Sunday, 4 December, 2016 at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street in West 
Philadelphia

Concert at 7:30 pm, free children's program at 6:00

Video, tickets, and more information: 
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[UC-Announce] Sun 11/20: Irish fiddler Kevin Burke at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Kevin Burke, virtuoso Irish fiddler

Sunday, 11/20 at 7:30 pm

at Crossroads Music
801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Center)

“Lyric, fluid and precisely as tricky as he needs to be… probably the greatest 
Irish fiddler living.” – The Village Voice

“Burke imparts a rhythmic intensity that is remarkably powerful. A superior 
instrumentalist in any idiom. Impressively virtuosic.” – The New York Times

Tickets and more info at http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/concert-16-11-20

Presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Ceili Group

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[UC-Announce] Sun. 11/13: Trio Da Kali, Malian griot supergroup, at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

TRIO DA KALI - Malian griot supergroup

Sunday, 13 November, 2016 at 7:30 pm
at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary United Methodist Church)

“Trio Da Kali purveyed a lovely blend of griot music plus something close to 
jazz, led by singer Hawa Kasse Mady Diabate whose sound has been aptly compared 
with that of the American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson.” – The Independent

Video, tickets, and more information: 
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[UC-Announce] Su 11/6: Las Cafeteras (evening concert + free afternoon kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, 6 November, 2016 

Crossroads Music at the Rotunda, 4040 Walnut Street

Concert at 7:30 pm • Free children's program at 6:00 pm

Las Cafeteras - A uniquely Angeleno blend of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia 
and rock

“I left not sure what I had just experienced. A concert? A square dance? A 
political rally? A community meeting? A ballet? A trip back to 1961 with Rosie 
and the Originals? A fiesta? All of the above? I also walked out asking two 
questions: Why doesn’t Las Cafeteras have a Grammy, and when do you play at the 
White House?” – Music Fridays

Video, tickets, and more information: 
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[UC] Sun 10/23: Sahba Motallebi, Iranian tar & setar. Concert + free kid's program.

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

SAHBA MOTALLEBI
Iranian tar and setar

Sunday, 23 October 2016
at 801 S. 48th Street, Philadelphia (Calvary Church)

Concert at 7:30, free children's program at 6:00 

“Revered among aficionados of Persian classical and folk music, Sahba Motallebi 
is a virtuoso performer on the long-necked stringed instruments known as tar 
and setar. ” – LA Weekly 

Video, tickets, and more information - www.crossroadsconcerts.org


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Director, Crossroads Music, Philadelphia

Concert schedule and general information: http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/crossroadsconcerts

Cell: 215-285-2307

[UC-Announce] Free international music for kids at Crossroads this fall

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Once a month, Crossroads presents a free pre-concert performance for kids and 
their families, usually at 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church). 

Our Fall 2016 schedule is as follows:

Sunday, September 25
Eva Salina & Peter Stan - Balkan Romani song and accordion

Sunday, October 23
Sahba Motallebi - Iranian tar and setar

Sunday, November 6  (at the Rotunda)
Las Cafeteras - a uniquely Angeleno blend of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia 
and rock

Sunday, December 4
Dirk Powell & Reily Baugus - Appalachian old-time multi-instrumentalists

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Children’s programs begin at 6:00, last 30-40 minutes, take place at the same 
location as the main concert (801 South 48th Street, unless otherwise noted), 
and are free to children under 12 and their parents or other caregivers. 
Seating is first come, first served.

Children must be accompanied by parents or other adults at all times. We don’t 
have the staff or clearances to supervise unattended children.

Current information about children's programs is always available at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/category/children/

--

Keeping this program free depends on your support – it costs us an average of 
$500 per event. Please make a donation online 
(http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/membership/#!/Donation/p/5952981/category=1477189)
or at the concert to ensure that it continues.

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[UC] Sun 9/25: Balkan Romani song & accordion (concert + free kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, 25 September 2016

Concert at 7:30 pm, free children's program at 6:00
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Eva Salina & Peter Stan - Balkan Romani song and accordion
with special guests West Philadelphia Orchestra

“A triumph. Salina sings passionately and powerfully. The instrumentation — 
which features Peter Stan’s magical accordion work — is marvelous.” – No 
Depression

Video, tickets, and more information: www.crossroadsconcerts.org

--

Eva Salina is a renowned singer, interpreter, and teacher of traditional and 
traditionally-based Balkan music. Nurtured through years of mentorship by some 
of the greatest living Balkan musicians, Eva has devoted her life to the 
longevity and evolution of East European musical traditions. Eva’s rich, supple 
voice moves effortlessly through the intricate and demanding expression 
inherent in Romani songs, intertwining vintage pop sounds with her singular 
interpretations. Eva is a 2012 OneBeat Fellow, a 2015 NYFA Fellow in 
Folk/Traditional Arts, and a 2016 OneBeat Istanbul Fellow; she is also an 
experienced, devoted educator and an in-demand vocal instructor and consultant, 
working internationally with singers of all levels of experience.

Peter “Perica” Stan is a Serbian/Romanian Romani accordionist known equally for 
his playfulness and innovation as he is for his undeniably soulful, intuitive 
improvisations. Thirty years working as a freelance musician in New York City 
have broadened the spectrum of his musical influences far beyond his direct 
cultural heritage, so you never know what Peter will coax out of his 
instrument, what story he will weave—each song different, every time.

Together, Eva and Peter draw on a strong musical friendship, the diversity of 
their creative professional experiences, and their shared love of Balkan Romani 
music, creating a welcoming space where joy and sorrow seamlessly coexist. In 
their performance, mournful ballads nestle gently among songs of celebration, 
bringing the listener on a journey that encapsulates both the beauty and the 
complexity of daily life.

For the last few songs of the second set, Eva and Peter will be joined by the 
West Philadelphia Orchestra. 

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[UC-Announce] Sat 9/10: Mehmet Polat Trio (Turkish oud & ney + West African kora) at Crossroads Music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, 10 September 2016 at 7:30 pm

Mehmet Polat Trio

“Evocative melodies, intricate arabesques, and sparkling cascades over the 
mystical-spiritual aura of the ney flute. Contemplative or rhythmic, the trio 
produces a unique magic.” – Frankfurt Journal

Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Video at youtu.be/XgAPBEET_a0

Tickets ($10-$30) and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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The Mehmet Polat Trio is a spiritual yet adventurous meeting of three masters 
of their magical instruments: ney, kora and oud rooted in Ottoman, Anatolian, 
Balkan and West African music traditions. Their original compositions are 
colored by daring improvisations and grooves, presented in an atmosphere of 
chamber music. The Mehmet Polat Trio invites you to a sincere musical journey 
from the past to the present.

Mehmet Polat was born and raised in Urfa, Turkey, and studied Ottoman music in 
Istanbul. His new approach to the oud – a close relative of the lute common not 
only in Turkey but also North Africa, the Arab world, and the Caucusus — and 
his broadened vision towards music making brought him to Amsterdam in 2007, 
where he collaborated and experimented with many other musicians from around 
the world and became fascinated by the inner world and spiritual side of 
African music, especially the timbre of the harp-like kora. With kora as the 
earth element, oud as space and ney as air, the idea of Mehmet Polat Trio was 
born.

Victor Sams was born and raised in the Dutch Antilles, and grew up playing 
reggae. Seeking to learn more of his African roots, he studied kora in Mali. In 
addition to several percussion instruments, he plays kamale ngoni, a small kora 
first used in Wassoulou popular music in the 1960s and derived from the ancient 
ceremonial donso ngoni (hunter’s harp) of southern Mali.

Ney player Pelin Başar studied classical Turkish music and composition in 
Istanbul, was an accompanist for the Turkish State Choir of Samsun, and now 
lives in Paris. She joined the trio in 2016. The ney, a type of reed flute, is 
one of the most ancient instruments of Turkey and the region and an important 
solo instrument in both secular classical Turkish music and the ritual music of 
the Mevlevi Sufi order.



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[UC-Announce] Sat 4/16: Sikkil Gurucharan w/ Anil Srivasan - S. Indian vocal & piano duet

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Presented in collaboration with Sruti - please note time and location.

Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 4:30 pm

Sikkil Gurucharan + Anil Srinivasan
Carnatic (South Indian) vocal and piano duet.

“Devastatingly Beautiful.” - John McLaughlin

At St. Mary's Church, 3916 Locust Walk

Tickets ($15-20 advance, $30 at the door) , video, and more information: 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4899

Sikkil Gurucharan and Anil Srinivasan join the classical piano and Carnatic 
vocal music to create a new and “devastatingly beautiful” (John McLaughlin) 
synthesis. Their music presents and preserves South Indian classical music and 
appeals to both younger listeners with more experimental tastes and 
traditionalists with purist aesthetics. In a short span of time, they have 
gathered followers in India, Singapore, Australia, USA and Europe.

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[UC-Announce] Sat 4/2: Jaffna at Crossroads Music (concert + afternoon kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Jaffna
“Brings together traditional Middle Eastern melodies with Indian rhythms. The 
area that turns me on is that marriage. It's a pretty unique concept.” - 
Philadelphia Inquirer

April 2, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Free children's program at 6:00

Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-$30) and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Jaffna plays original acoustic music rooted in the Indian and Middle Eastern 
backgrounds of its members, who have worked for decades to create a musical 
universe where oud, guitar, tabla, and dumbek can live together, argue, eat and 
stay good friends.

The band features Roger Mgrdichian (oud, saz, cumbus), Raji Malik (guitar, 
sarod), Branavan Ganesan (tabla, kanjira), and Joe Tayoun (dumbek, riq, cajon). 
The easy description of their music points to the geographical heritage of the 
musicians, but that’s really just a starting point. Along with the strong 
Mid-East and Indian flavor come unmistakable flamenco, rock, Balkan and jazz 
influences, the result of jamming in and around the vibrant Philadelphia world 
music scene of the 1990s. 

In the early 2000s, Branavan moved to North Carolina, so chances to hear Jaffna 
in recent years have been few and far between. Fortunately, he’s recently moved 
back to Philly and they have developed a lot of new music for their first 
Crossroads — and West Philadelphia — show since 2005.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 2/14 - Matuto (evening concert + free afternoon children's program)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Matuto
"The joyous, ebullient music of Matuto merges the forró folkloric music of 
Brazil with the sounds of all-American bluegrass. Violin, accordion and a range 
of Brazilian percussion give this band a seductively cross-cultural appeal.” - 
Chicago Tribune

February 14, 2016 at 7:30 pm
Free children's program at 6:00

Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-$30) and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Matuto's core members share a combined obsession with connecting the dots 
between Brazil, rural America, and creative reinterpretation of long-standing 
party-hardy forms. You'll hear Brazil in the rich tones of Rob Curto's forró 
accordion playing, in the rural rhythms of maracatu (from the Pernambuco 
region), in the urban beats of Rio's samba, and in the intricate, 
chorinho-inspired melodies and American jazz, blues, bluegrass, and folk in 
Clay Ross's virtuoso flat-picked guitar and colorfully satiric lyrics.

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[UC-Announce] Fri 12/18: Irish music with Lúnasa and Karan Casey

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents

Lúnasa with Karan Casey

Friday, December 18 at 7:30 pm
At St. Mary's Hamilton Village, 3916 Locust Walk

"The hottest Irish acoustic band on the planet." - Dirty Linen 

"Maintains the taut, quivering ornamentation of old ballad style, singing tales 
of love, war and murder with a gentle gravity.” - New York Times 

Since 1997, Lúnasa has become one of the most sought-after bands on the 
international Irish music scene. The band’s inventive arrangements and 
bass-driven grooves are steering Irish acoustic music into surprising new 
territory. Karan Casey has long been one of the most innovative, provocative, 
and imitated voices in Irish traditional and folk music. During a twenty-five 
year career ranging from her early days as a jazz performer in in Dublin to 
fronting the supergroup Solas in New York to her current status as one of 
Ireland's top soloists, she has sold over half a million albums.

Tickets ($10-30), video, and more information: 
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[UC-Announce] Wed. 9/30: Krar Collective - Ethiopian roots-rock

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

We're resending this in case the original message got lost in the papal visit 
chaos. Please note this concert is on a Wednesday!

Krar Collective
Ethiopian roots-rock

This dazzling trio performs traditional Ethiopian songs with influences from 
rock and jazz. Temesgen Zeleke’s krar, a six-stringed lyre played by azmari 
singers and said to have been invented by King David himself, takes on the role 
of an electric guitar, sometimes echoing vocalist Genet Asefa’s soaring 
melodies and sometimes backing them with strummed rhythmic riffs. Meanwhile, 
Grum Begashaw’s double-headed kebero drum, traditionally used to accompany the 
services of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, provides a spellbinding back beat.

Wednesday, September 30 at 7:30 pm
At Calvary United Methodist Church, 801 South 48th Street

Tickets ($10-30), video, and more information:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

We hope to be announcing more fall shows very soon - we can't confirm them 
until Calvary has finalized some construction dates.

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[UC-Announce] Sat 7/25: Joe Hill Roadshow (Magpie, Charlie King, George Mann)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Joe Hill Roadshow
Honoring the labor activist and songwriter on the centenary of his execution

Featuring labor  folk songs performed by:
Magpie (Terry Leonino  Greg Artzner)
Charlie King
George Mann
with special guest John Braxton

University Lutheran Church, 3637 Chestnut St.
Saturday, July 25 at 7:30 pm

Hosted by Crossroads Music in collaboration with the American Swedish 
Historical Museum and the Industrial Workers of the World Hungarian Literature 
Fund

Tickets and more information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4806

The Joe Hill Roadshow is a traveling concert commemorating the centennial of 
the execution of the leading songwriter of what Pete Seeger would later call 
the singing-est union America has ever had.

Joe Hill was born in Sweden in 1879 and moved to the US in his early twenties 
as a migrant worker. In 1910, he joined the Industrial Workers of the World 
(IWW or  Wobblies), a radical labor union well known for its use of music and 
singing to encourage marchers, strikers, and picketers. His talent at writing 
new, political, lyrics to popular songs and hymns was soon made him a prominent 
figure in the union: he had written nearly third of the songs in the 1916 
edition of its famous Little Red Songbook. In 1914, Hill was arrested in Salt 
Lake City following a murder. Although no evidence connected him with the crime 
and and an eyewitness testified that he was not the murderer, he was convicted 
and executed November 19, 1915.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 5/3, Noura Mint Seymali (Concert + free kid's program)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Noura Mint Seymali - One of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries.

Sunday, May 3 at 7:30 pm
Children's program (free to kids and their parents or other caregivers) at 6:00
At Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

The absolutely spellbinding vocalist Noura Mint Seymali from Mauritania is 
ready to claim the role of her famous stepmother the late Dimi Mint Abba... 
With her strong charisma and appeal to the audience she will become a major 
star... Noura is incredible! - Afropop Worldwide

Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star and one of Mauritania's 
foremost musical emissaries. The daughter of two of Mauritania's most famous 
musicians, Noura Mint Seymali carries her family's legacy forward as one of the 
most adventurous young artists of a culture at the meeting point of sounds from 
across the Sahara, the Magreb, and West Africa.

Tickets, audio, and more information:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4753

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[UC-Announce] Sat 3/25: Muralidharan Sriram Nagai, South Indian classical music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Muralidharan Nagai and Sriram Nagai
Carnatic (south Indian) violin duet

Saturday, April 25 at 4:30 pm
Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Presented by Crossroads Music, Sruti, and the UPenn South Asia Center

More information, video,  tickets ($20 advance, $25 at the door)
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Muralidharan Nagai began his violin studies under his mother Smt. R. Komavalli 
and underwent further training from Sri. R. S. Gopalakrishnan. His first public 
concert was at the age of 10 and his career as a violinist has spanned for over 
4 decades. Today, he is a top-ranking violinist, noted for his clarity, rich 
tonal quality, and crispness, as well as deep scholarly understanding of 
Carnatic music. He is a regular feature at the Radio Sangeetha Sammelan 
concerts in Doordharshan was a resident artist for All India Radio, Trichy from 
1978 to 2003. Over the years, Nagai Muralidharan has traveled and performed in 
North American, Europe, and the Middle East as well as India. He has received 
numerous awards, including the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the highest recognition 
given to practicing artists by the government of India.

Nagai Sriram is Muralidharan Nagai's nephew and disciple. He began his studies 
with his grandmother before proceeding to more advanced training with his uncle 
and gave his first public concert at the age of 12 in New Delhi. All India 
Radio rates him as an A-grade artist and he has accompanied many leading 
artists including R.K. Srikantan, M. Balamuralikrishna, P. Unnikrishnan, T. N. 
Seshagopalan, T.V. Sankaranarayanan, O. S. Thyagarajan, Madurai Seshagopalan, 
K.V. Narayanaswamy, S. Sowmya, Hyderabad Brothers, Dr. N. Ramani, Sanjay 
Subramaniam, T. M. Krishna, and the Carnatica Brothers.

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[UC-Announce] Su 4/19: Music from Newfoundland Cape Breton Island (concert + free kid's program)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, April 19 at 7:30 pm
at Crossroads Music (in Calvary Center at 801 S. 48th Street)

Matthew Byrne - Traditional music from Newfoundland
Matthew Byrne sings with a voice as true as a compass needle and is a dab hand 
on his instruments as well. His Ballads is one of the finest english language 
traditional albums to come out in many a year. - James Keelaghan

Andrea Beaton, Dick Hensold  Troy MacGillivray - Cape Breton fiddle, pipes and 
piano
“Beaton is a force to be reckoned with, a powerful player with great technique 
and tremendous passion - The Guardian, Charlottetown
“Dick Hensold is a master piper with an exquisite touch.” - City Pages, 
Minneapolis

Free children’s program (with the Cape Breton trio) at 6:00

Tickets ($8-24), videos, and more information at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Matthew Byrne was born into a family of Newfoundland music makers and his 
repertoire is heavily influenced by his unique musical lineage. This tradition 
thrives on the song - the weaving of a great story with a beautiful melody - 
and Matthew's music reminds us how satisfying traditional songs can be when 
stripped down to these basic elements.His live performance offers tasteful and 
honest interpretations of folk songs delivered with polished guitar work and 
powerful vocals. His repertoire transcends time and place with traditional 
songs from both sides of the Atlantic. 

The fiddle and the pipes have had a long, close, and mutually influential 
relationship in the Gaelic communities on Cape Breton Island. This island, 
located at the eastern end of the Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia, 
was settled about 200 years ago by Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders. 
Because of their isolation both before emigration and after, the people of Cape 
Breton have preserved many aspects of 18th-century Highland Scots Gaelic 
culture, particularly music and dance. Although the cultural achievement and 
legacy of Cape Breton music is internationally recognized, this concert is a 
rare opportunity to see top Cape Breton artists in the U.S.

Andrea Beaton is one of the most accomplished and well-known Cape Breton 
fiddlers. Her lively music is characterized by her powerful bow, the drive and 
swing of her timing and the crispness of her attack. Dick Hensold, joining 
Andrea on various bagpipes and whistle, is known throughout North America as a 
performer of the traditional music of Scotland, Cape Breton Island, and 
Northumberland and was the 2006 Bush Artist Fellow in traditional music. 
Pianist, fiddler, and stepdancer Troy MacGillivray of Lanark, Nova Scotia is 
the recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for outstanding 
contributions to culture in Canada.

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[UC-Announce] Sa 4/11 Martin Eliza Carthy + Su 4/12 Taina Asili y la Banda Rebelde

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music has two concerts this weekend!

--

Saturday, April 11 at 7:30 pm

Martin  Eliza Carthy
A rare father and daughter concert from the first family of English 
traditional music
The folk dynasty father and daughter's first outing as a duo counterpoints 
their voices, guitar and fiddle to enthralling effect. - The Guardian

801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-$30), video, and more information at 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4707

--

Sunday, April 12 at 7:30 pm

Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde
High energy Afro-Latin, reggae and rock fusion
Taína'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. - Ricanstruction

801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-$30), video, and more information at 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4708

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[UC-Announce] Sun 3/29: EZUZ (Jewish world music meets universal spirit) + Whirled Music (Ulansey Chappel)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents:

EZUZ: Jewish world music meets universal spirit

“Those attending [EZUZ's] next concert will get a first-hand taste of Roemer's 
style of wall-shaking, roof-raising and spirit-raising songs.” - Philadelphia 
Jewish Exponent

Whirled Music: Ken Ulansey  Phyllis Chapell

A lot of players look up to Ken Ulansey. And rightly so; he is indeed a 
musician's musician. Ulansey freelances all about town, as he puts it, 
'dabbling in seven or eight traditions of music.' If you consider all the 
awards Ulansey has collected throughout his career, it's obvious the 
instrumentalist does more than 'dabble.' - Philadelphia Jewish Times

Phyllis Chapell is an elegant singer who will steal your heart away. Her music 
is tasteful, eclectic and real. - Philadelphia Inquirer

During the intermission, EZUZ band leader Jessi Roemer will teach songs for 
Pesach in English, Yiddish, Ladino, and from the Middle East. Learn some new 
songs for this year’s seder or just have fun singing with your neighbors. 

Cosponsored by Kol Tzedek

Sunday, March 29 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Center)

Tickets ($8-24) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org



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[UC-Announce] Sat 3/21: Crossroads presents Ensemble N_JP featuring Naomi Sato (Japan, sho) and Naoko Kikuchi (Japan, koto)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Ensemble N_JP, featuring Naomi Sato (Japan, sho) and Naoko Kikuchi (Japan, koto)

With special guests Franz Hautzinger (Austria, quarter-tone trumpet) and 
Isabelle Duthoit (France, clarinet and voice)

First set: Japanese traditional music and works by Toshio Hosokawa
Second set: Music and video work by Gene Coleman from his Kirigami series 

Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 pm at Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street
Co-sponsored by Soundfield

Tickets ($10 to $30) and more information at
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4706

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[UC] Sun. 3/1: Ethiopian music at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Feedel Band
Ethiopian jazz and funk

Sunday, March 1 at 7:30 pm (free children’s program at 6:00)
Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street in Calvary Church

Feedel Band, the first all-Ethiopian-born group in North America, was founded 
by keyboardist Araya Woldemichael in Washington DC in 2010. They blend 
Ethiopian music and jazz into a simmering stew of musical genres with textures 
and feelings that evoke sounds both ancient and modern, creating and 
re-creating the musical language of what has been called EthioJazz. 

The members of Feedel Band are acclaimed musicians in their own right. You may 
have heard Feedel's sax player Jim Jarmusch's 2005 film Broken Flowers, which 
features music from Feedel's sax player Moges Habte and his Walias Band, one of 
many groups from the 1960s and 70s Addis Ababa scene that have become an 
underground obsession due to the Éthiopiques anthologies issued since 1997. 
Feedel's bass player Alemseged Kebede's bass lines can be heard on many of 
Aster Aweke and Tilahune Gessesse's CDs. Araya Woldemichael is a well-known 
composer and arranger.

Video and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/

Tickets ($10-30) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/

[UC] Crossroads schedule correction

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

There was an error in the date for one of the children’s concerts. Both Feedal 
Band events are on March 1, the children’s program at 6 and the concert at 
7:30. Sorry for the confusion.

Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Feedel Band - Ethiopian jazz and funk 
Inspired by Ethiopian legends the likes of Ibex and Roha Band, the ethio-jazz 
group have been making waves around DC with their vintage Ethiopique sound.” 
okayafrica.com http://okayafrica.com/

[UC] Spring concerts and children's programs at Crossroads Music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

More information, audio, video, and tickets are available at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

CONCERTS

Sunday, March 1, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Feedel Band - Ethiopian jazz and funk 
Inspired by Ethiopian legends the likes of Ibex and Roha Band, the ethio-jazz 
group have been making waves around DC with their vintage Ethiopique sound.” 
okayafrica.com

Saturday March 21, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Co-sponsored by Soundfield
Ensemble N_JP featuring Naomi Sato (Japan, Sho) and Naoko Kikuchi (Japan, Koto)
Japanese traditional music  works by Toshio Hosokawa
Music  music video works by Gene Coleman from his Kirigami series

Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Co-sponsored by Kol Tzedek
EZUZ - Jewish world music meets universal spirit
Those attending Sonic Theology's (EZUZ's former name) next concert will get a 
first-hand taste of Roemer's style of wall-shaking, roof-raising and 
spirit-raising songs. - Philadelphia Jewish Exponent
Second band to be confirmed

Saturday, April 11, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Martin  Eliza Carthy - A rare father and daughter concert from the 'first 
family of English traditional music'
The folk dynasty father and daughter's first outing as a duo counterpoints 
their voices, guitar and fiddle to enthralling effect. The Guardian

Sunday, April 12, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde - Fusing present and past struggles into one 
poetic voice
Taína'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. Ricanstruction

Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Matthew Byrne - Traditional music from Newfoundland
Matthew Byrne sings with a voice as true as a compass needle and is a dab hand 
on his instruments as well. His 'Ballads' is one of the finest English language 
traditional albums to come out in many a year. - James Keelaghan
Cape Breton Trio - Andrea Beaton (fiddle  step dancing), Dick Hensold 
(bagpipes and whistles) and Troy MacGillivray (piano  step dancing)
Beaton is a force to be reckoned with, a powerful player with great technique 
and tremendous passion - Charlottetown Guardian

Saturday, April 25, 2015 at 4:30 pm 
B1 Meyerson Hall, University of Pennsylvania
Co-sponsored by Sruti and the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center
Muralidharan Nagai  Sriram Nagai - Carnatic (South Indian) violin duet
Nagai Muralidharan on the violin delighted the rasikas with brilliant raga 
essays and supportive repartees. The Hindu

Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Noura Mint Seymali -One of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries.
The absolutely spellbinding vocalist Noura Mint Seymali from Mauritania is 
ready to claim the role of her famous stepmother the late Dimi Mint Abba... 
With her strong charisma and appeal to the audience she will become a major 
star... Noura is incredible! Afropop Worldwide

CHILDREN’S PROGRAMS

Friday, March 20, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Feedel Band - Ethiopian jazz and funk
Inspired by Ethiopian legends the likes of Ibex and Roha Band, the ethio-jazz 
group have been making waves around DC with their vintage Ethiopique sound.” 
okayafrica.com

Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Cape Breton Trio - Andrea Beaton (fiddle  step dancing), Dick Hensold 
(bagpipes and whistles) and Troy MacGillivray (piano  step dancing)
Beaton is a force to be reckoned with, a powerful player with great technique 
and tremendous passion - Charlottetown Guardian

Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street
Noura Mint Seymali - One of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries.
The absolutely spellbinding vocalist Noura Mint Seymali from Mauritania is 
ready to claim the role of her famous stepmother the late Dimi Mint Abba... 
With her strong charisma and appeal to the audience she will become a major 
star... Noura is incredible! Afropop Worldwide

More information, audio, video, and tickets are available at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

[UC-Announce] Su 2/8: International Guitar Night returns to Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, February 8 at 7:30 pm

International Guitar Night

One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar - San Francisco 
Chronicle

Featuring:
Andrew York (US)
Diego Figueiredo (Brazil)
Maneli Jamal (Iran/Canada)
Brian Gore (US)

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-30) and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/

International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has 
featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. 
Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to 
join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the 
virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the 
beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the 
performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express 
reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one 
another.

For the January/February 2015 North American tour, IGN founder Brian Gore will 
be joined by classical innovator and fellow Californian Andrew York; Brazilian 
jazz master Diego Figueiredo and contemporary Iranian-Canadian steel string 
prodigy Maneli Jamal. Andrew is a Grammy winner both for his work with the Los 
Angeles Guitar Quartet and for his own brilliant compositions. Diego is one of 
the most sought-after jazz artists in the United States and around the world, 
and Maneli has won guitar competitions around the world.

More information, tickets, audio, and video
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/

[UC-Announce] Su 11/23: Aurelio, Garifuna music from Honduras

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, November 23 at 7:30 pm 
Crossroads Music at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street

Aurelio
Garifuna music from Honduras
“Searing vocal melodies and delicious grooves. Aurelio, in fine voice 
throughout, has an uncanny knack for melding joy and sorrow with his vocal 
delivery. These are songs of hope and striving; you hear it in every note.” - 
Banning Eyre, Public Radio International

Born in the tiny hamlet of Plaplaya on Honduras’ Caribbean coast, Aurelio 
Martinez grew up steeped in the Garifuna traditions of his ancestors, a group 
of shipwrecked slaves who intermarried with the indigenous people of the island 
of St. Vincent, only to be deported to the Central American coast in the late 
eighteenth century. He went on to sing and play guitar and percussion in groups 
performing in a variety of styles before returning to his roots in the late 
1990s. Since then, he has become one of Garifuna culture's leading voices as 
both a musician (he is often seen as the successor to the late Andy Palacio) 
and a politician (he is currently a member of the Honduran Congress).

More information, video, and ticket sales: 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=4666#more-4666

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[UC-Announce] Sun 11/16: blues with Corey Harris (concert + free kid's show)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Corey Harris
Embodies and transcends blues tradition

Sunday, November 16 at 7:30 pm (free children’s program at 6:00)
Crossroads Music at the Rotunda
4014 Walnut Street in West Philadelphia

Magnificent. Harris is as powerful a vocalist as he is a string-bender, 
capable of varying his deep, rich voice from wind-through-the-treetops sighs to 
thunderclap howls to beautifully controlled crescendos. Harris embodies and 
transcends tradition. - Chicago Tribune 

As a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and band leader, Corey Harris is both a 
leading voice of the generation of acoustic blues musicians that came of age in 
the 1990s and an innovative composer exploring the connections between blues 
and other musics of Africa and the African diaspora. He has recorded many 
traditional classic while creating an original vision of the blues by adding 
influences from reggae, soul, rock and West African music. Some of his 
imaginative compositions are marked by a deliberate eclecticism; other works 
stay true to the traditional blues formula of compelling vocals and down-home 
guitar. With one foot in tradition and the other in contemporary 
experimentation, Harris is a truly unique voice in contemporary music.

Harris began his career as a street musician in New Orleans and travelled 
throughout the southern US playing music. In his early twenties he spent a year 
in Cameroon, which has had a profound effect on his later work. He has recorded 
fourteen albums and worked with BB King, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, R.L.Burnside, 
Ali Farka Toure, Tracy Chapman, Olu Dara, Wilco, and others. In 2003 Harris was 
a featured artist and narrator of the Martin Scorcese film, Feel Like Going 
Home, which traced the evolution of blues from West Africa to the southern 
U.S. In 2007, he was awarded a genius award by the MacArthur Foundation in 
recognition of his adventurous path marked by deliberate eclecticism. That 
same year, he was also awarded an honorary Doctor of Music degree by Bates 
College, his undergraduate alma mater.

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Tickets ($10-30) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Crossroads Music update

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

As you may have noticed, Crossroads has not yet announced any events for the 
fall. 

Over the summer, a section of plaster fell from the chapel ceiling at Calvary 
Church. This has been repaired and a professional conservator, who will 
complete a full assessment in December, has told the church that the rest of 
the ceiling is currently stable.

Because Crossroads schedules concerts months in advance, we can't afford to 
sign artist contracts unless we are certain that the space will be usable. In a 
few weeks, we will announce some November and December concerts at other West 
Philadelphia locations and hope to return to Calvary for a normal winter/spring 
schedule. 

Information about our events and programs is always available at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Thank you for your patience and support.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 5/4: Ani Cordero - Latin American Songs of Love Protest

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Ani Cordero
Recordar: Latin American Songs of Love  Protest

Sunday, May 4 at 7:30 pm (free children’s program at 6:00)
At Crossroads Music
801 S. 48th Street in West Philadelphia

Downright gorgeous Latin-tinged indie-rock. Sings like an angel crying into 
her drink. The band can surround and buoy her vocals with exquisite grace. - 
Chicago Reader

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Ani Cordero most recently toured as the 
drummer and back-up singer for the legendary Tropicalia band Os Mutantes, and 
is also touring Europe with Rasputina, the cello-rock band. A founding member 
and drummer for the celebrated Mexican rock band Pistolera, and front person of 
the critically-lauded bilingual band Cordero, she has been in the vanguard of 
Brooklyn’s burgeoning arts/rock scene for 15 years.

Ani was born to Puerto Rican parents from San Juan and the town of Camuy. She 
grew up in the states and on the island, surrounded by music. At nineteen, Ani 
found a friend and mentor in Dr. Juan Allende, a nephew of Salvador Allende, 
the Chilean president overthrown in the 1973 military coup. While studying with 
Dr. Allende that Ani became passionate about the struggle for democracy in 
Latin America during which artists were arrested, exiled, or killed because of 
their music’s message of democracy and social justice.

Her latest project, “Recordar” (Spanish for “to remember”), brings together 
classic folk ballads, protest anthems, and love songs from the 1930’s to the 
1970’s. Authors and composers represented include Victor Jara and Violeta Parra 
(Chile), Bobby Collazo (Cuba), Gilberto Gil (Brazil), Atahualpa Yupanqui 
(Argentina), and many more. For the tour she is joined by friends, former 
bandmates, and multi-instrumentalists Eileen Willis (Pistolera’s Maria Elena) 
and Erich Hubner (Man or Astroman), for trio arrangements including vocals, 
accordion, drums, bass, and guitar.

Ani’s mission is to bring these songs and their message of social justice to as 
many cities, countries, and people as possible, and to be a reminder of all 
that has been sacrificed and all that remains to be done.

Video and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Tickets ($10-30) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sat 4/12: Singing Praying Bands of Maryland Delaware

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, April 12 at 4:00 pm

Crossroads Music and Calvary United Methodist Church present:

The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware

“One of the oldest surviving forms of African American music, the a capella 
gospel of the Singing and Praying Bands can fill prayer meetings that last 
hours on end. Emotionally intense, bathed in ritual and seemingly timeless.” - 
Washington Post

Video and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Tickets are not required. Donations to cover travel expenses will be requested 
at the event.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 3/9: Former Solas singer Karan Casey performs Irish traditional music at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents:

Karan Casey Trio - Traditional Irish music from Solas' original singer 

In arrangements that mix traditional and modern instruments, she maintains the 
taut, quivering ornamentation of old ballad style, singing tales of love, war 
and murder with a gentle gravity. - New York Times

Sunday, March 9 at 7:30 pm

801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church), West Philadelphia 

Video, tickets ($10-30) and more information at crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 3/2: Nation Beat, Thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming meets New Orleans second line rhythms (concert + free children's program)

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Crossroads Music presents:

Sunday, March 2, 2014
Concert at 7:30 pm / free children's program at 6:00 pm
801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Nation Beat - Thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming meets New Orleans second 
line rhythms
“A revelation. The most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in 
years!” - Banning Eyre, NPR

Video, tickets ($10-30) , and more information at crossroadsconcerts.org

The heartbeat of Nation Beat’s sound lies in a deliciously original 21st 
century fusion between thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming and New Orleans 
second line rhythms. It is also the vibrant force of their explosive live show, 
which is frequently known to burst into crowd-wide Carnival-style drumming and 
singing. Nation Beat’s audacious energy seamlessly bridges folkloric Brazilian 
maracatu with classic NOLA roots music attracting an ever-growing legion of 
fans from across a wide demographic. Nation Beat plays the best kind of fusion 
in the world, the kind that doesn’t try to fuse anything. An American/ 
Brazilian collective, Nation Beat belongs to both sides of the equator.

At once following the path of such Brazilian luminaries as Lenine and Chico 
Science, and forging new trails with a distinct, contemporary interpretation of 
the traditional 19th century Pernambuco-born rhythm. Percussionist Scott 
Kettner, a former Latin Jazz Ambassador heads up the band with soaring 
powerhouse vocalist and rising Brazilian Fabiana Masili and raucous guitarist 
Mark Marshall whose singular style effortlessly encompasses a wide range of 
musics – funk, blues, soul and a bit of twang. The band is further propelled by 
fluid animated bass and two driving maracatu percussionists. 

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[UC-Announce] Su 2/23: Romano Drom - Contemporary Roma music from Budapest - at Crossroads Music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, February 23, 2014 at 7:30 pm

Romano Drom - Contemporary Roma music from Budapest

Larynx-straining ecstatic male vocals. - fRoots
Distinct and personal, yet traditional Roma sound. - Budapest Times

at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church), Philadelphia

Video, tickets ($10-30), and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org



Playing household items — pots, cans, and spoons — alongside conventional 
instruments like guitar, violin, bass, and drums, Romano Drom is one of the 
most prominent representives of contemporary Roma (“Gypsy”) culture in Hungary. 
Since 1999, they have travelled the world from Korea to Norway, Canada to 
Serbia, and Ukraine to Portugal, becoming one of the most sought after Roma 
bands.

Romano Drom (Road of the Roma) play original compositions in the Olah Romani 
language in arrangements that integrate Tsollar, Lovar, Beash, and Romanian 
melodies with modern music from many parts of the world: Catalan rumba and 
Arabic and Balkan rhythms. Singer-guitarist-composer Antal “Anti” Kovacs’ 
founded Romano Drom in 1999 with his father, Antal “Gojma” Kovacs (1951-2005), 
a singer and dancer at the heart of a great revival of Olah music and culture 
at the end of the 20th century.

Their repertoire ranges from songs from childhood that are rarely performed now 
to new compositions on both contemporary political issues affecting European 
Roma and lighter subjects like love and drinking with friends. Their profound 
emotions, energy, and honesty carry on the traditions of their ancestors while 
attesting to the vitality and relevance of modern Roma culture in the face of 
marginalization and oppression.



Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the 
Samuel S. Fels Fund.

This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state 
agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts 
funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an 
annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National 
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by 
the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

Romano Drom's U.S. tour is made possible in part by the Trust for Mutual 
Understanding and presented in association with the Balassi Institute-Hungarian 
Cultural Center

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[UC-Announce] Sun 2/9, Dirk Powell and Riley Baugus at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, February 9 at 7:30 pm

Dirk Powell  Riley Baugus, Appalachian old-time masters

“Quintessential American old-time music. The instrumental component is 
impeccable, while Baugus’ vocals sound like they’ve been echoing through the 
Appalachian Mountains for about 150 years.” - Billboard Magazine

Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street (in church at the corner of Baltimore Ave)

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[UC-Announce] Sat 1/25: Kavkasia (Republic of Georgia) Svitanya at Crossroads, concert + children's program

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, January 25
- Concert at 7:30 pm
- Free children's program at 6:00 pm
- Singing workshop (all levels) at 4:00 pm
- All events at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Trio Kavkasia - Music from the Republic of Georgia
They render Georgian vocal polyphony's often weird-sounding harmonies and 
scale tunings with precision and panache. Lush and resonant... nimble 
counterpoint, angular voice-leading, and strident chord tunings in all their 
dissonant glory. - BBC Music Magazine

Svitanya Eastern European Women's Vocal Ensemble
Pure, unaccompanied voices rising and resounding as one. It's angelic. - 
Philadelphia City Paper 

Concert tickets ($10-30), sounds, and more information:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 1/19: International Guitar Night - Pino Forastiere, Mike Dawes, Quique Sinesi Brian Gore

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, January 19 at 7:30 pm
(workshop January 20 at 7:30 pm)

International Guitar Night

One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar - San Francisco 
Chronicle

Featuring:
Pino Forastiere (Italy)
Mike Dawes (England)
Quique Sinesi (Argentina)
Brian Gore (California)

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Tickets ($10-30) and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has 
featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. 
Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to 
join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the 
virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the 
beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the 
performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express 
reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one 
another.

This year's tour includes the classically-trained Italian experimentalist Pino 
Forastire, Quique Sinesi, whose original compositions are rooted in the tango 
and folkloric music of his native Argentina, the brilliant young British 
fingerstyle guitarist Mike Dawes, and the program's organizer, California 
guitar poet Brian Gore.

More information, tickets, audio, and video
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Yiddish Arts Trio is still on for tonight

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Tonight's show is still on - the afternoon will be warmer and the streets 
should be clear.

Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 7:30 
at Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Yiddish Art Trio 

Redefining the sound of contemporary klezmer

Thoroughly at home with traditional klezmer repertoire, he is able to 
powerfully summon the wild tragicomic essence of this music in his original 
compositions. - Jewish Daily Forward

Tickets ($10-30) and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Support Crossroads; Yiddish Arts Trio this Sunday

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads in 2014; Yiddish Arts Trio this Sunday

Community arts programs depend on community support.

Back in October, we sent you an email asking for your help in supporting 
programming in 2014. Thanks to friends like you, we met our first goal of $3750 
by November 1 and will be presenting a full schedule through mid-March. In 
order to complete the season through May, we still need to raise $7500 by 
January 1.

We have only $472 to go! If you haven't yet, please consider making a 
tax-deductable year-end donation at www.crossroadsconcerts.org. Thank you for 
your contribution!

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2014 events are all at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary 
Church), Philadelphia

More information, audio  video, and tickets ($10-30 for concerts, $15 for 
workshops, no charge for children's programs) at:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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Sunday, January 5, 2014 at 7:30

Yiddish Art Trio 

Redefining the sound of contemporary klezmer

Thoroughly at home with traditional klezmer repertoire, he is able to 
powerfully summon the wild tragicomic essence of this music in his original 
compositions. - Jewish Daily Forward

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Sunday, January 19, 2014 at 7:30 
(Workshop on January 20.)

International Guitar Night

Pino Forastiere (Italy), Mike Dawes (England), Quique Sinesi (Argentina) and 
Brian Gore (California)

One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar - San Francisco 
Chronicle

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Saturday, January 25, 2014 at 7:30 
(Children's program at 6:00, Afternoon singing workshop, time tba)

Trio Kavkasia

Music from the Republic of Georgia

They render Georgian vocal polyphony's often weird-sounding harmonies and 
scale tunings with precision and panache. Lush and resonant... nimble 
counterpoint, angular voice-leading, and strident chord tunings in all their 
dissonant glory. - BBC Music Magazine

Svitanya

Eastern European women's vocal ensemble

Pure, unaccompanied voices rising and resounding as one. It's angelic. - 
Philadelphia City Paper

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February concerts and children's program to be announced
(We're still confirming details).

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Sunday, March 2, 2014 at 7:30
(Children's program at 6:00)

Nation Beat

Thunderous Brazilian maracatu drumming meets New Orleans second line rhythms

A revelation...the most original and alluring fusion band I have heard in 
years! - Banning Eyre, NPR

In arrangements that mix traditional and modern instruments, she maintains the 
taut, quivering ornamentation of old ballad style, singing tales of love, war 
and murder with a gentle gravity. - New York Times

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Sunday, March 9, 2014

Karan Casey

Traditional Irish music from Solas' original singer

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[UC-Announce] Su 12/15: Orpheus Supertones oldtime concert workshop at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, December 15, 2013

The Orpheus Supertones: The Delaware Valley's old time supergroup
Orpheus Supertones have captured the essence of early country music. - 
Bluegrass Unlimited

With the Dill Pickle Old Time Orchestra

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street in Philadelphia

Concert at 7:30 pm
Workshop at 3:30 pm

Tickets, video, and more information:
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[UC-Announce] tango concert children's program are still on

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Tonight's Crossroads events are still on!

Hector del Curto Trio, Argentine tango

Tango lives or dies by the quality of its accordion-like bandoneón and Héctor 
Del Curto was a splendid player. - New York Times

Concert at 7:30 pm tonight ($10-30).
Free children's program at 6:00. 

Calvary Church, 48th and Baltimore, in West Philly.

www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 12/8: Argentine tango w/Hector del Curto + pre-concert children's program

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, December 8 at 7:30 pm
(Children's program at 6:00 pm)

Hector del Curto Trio - Argentine tango
Tango lives or dies by the quality of its accordion-like bandoneón and Héctor 
Del Curto was a splendid player. - New York Times

Argentinean bandoneónist Héctor Del Curto has captivated the audiences around 
the world as a soloist and chamber musician, sharing the stage with the 
world–renowned tango legends Astor Piazzolla and Osvaldo Pugliese, pianist 
Pablo Ziegler, clarinetist Paquito D ́Rivera, ballet dancer Julio Bocca, 
National Symphony Orchestra (Washington D.C.), Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra, 
and Teatro Colón Ballet ,among many others. At the age of 17, he joined Osvaldo 
Pugliese's legendary orchestra as the youngest bandoneonist in its history. He 
now lives in New York, where he directs North America's only ten-piece tango 
orchestra as well as several smaller ensembles.

Concert is $10-30. The children's program is free, but donations are 
appreciated.

More information, tickets, audio, and video:
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sat 11/16 - Bangladesh's Shafi Mondol sings gorgeous praise songs to spiritual love

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, 16 November at 7:30 pm

Crossroads Music presents

Shafi Mondol

Baul folk music from Bangladesh

Calming the inner being, Shafi Mondol sings gorgeous praise songs to spiritual 
love. It's a rare privilege to hear music like this. - The Scotsman, Edinburgh

801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

More information, tickets, audio, and video
http://crossroadsconcerts.org

The Bauls of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal wander from village 
to village performing a unique devotional music that UNESCO has included in its 
register of the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. 
Members of a religious community influenced by both Hindu and Sufi mysticism, 
they sing songs that represent spiritual love with very earthly metaphors, all 
accompanied by the one-stringed ektara and four-stringed dotara, along with 
dhol drum and other hand percussion.

Shafi Mondol is one of their leading practitioners, performers, and teachers. 
He ­received his training from Shadhon Mukherjee, and he specializes in the 
music of Lalon Phakir, a 19th-century Bengali Sufi saint and song-maker. Mondol 
tours ­internationally and runs the Bhabnagor Shongeet Ashram (school), where 
many of his disciples are among the foremost singers of Bangladesh. His 
­contribution has been pivotal in the continuation of the Baul tradition. 



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[UC-Announce] Sun 11/10: Shtreiml, Ismail Fencioglu, W. Phila. Orchestra (both concert children's program)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents

Ismail Hakki Fencioğlu and Shtreiml
 Turkish roots and Jewish blues
 Fresh, inspired, funny, moving, and creative. The concoction of sounds, 
melodies, and techniques is startling, but the result is exhilarating. - 
Rootsworld 

West Philadelphia Orchestra
 Philly's Balkan village band
 This one million-member Balkan folk music monster is the only band in 
Philadelphia that can make you dance till you drop
 using solely acoustic instruments. A horn section, percussion section, 
tuba, sax, traditional vocals – this is by far one of the
 most energetic acts in the city. -  Get Lucid

Sunday, November 10 at Calvary Church, 801 South 48th Street
 Concert ($10-$30) at 7:30 pm
 Children's program with West Phila. Orch. (free) at 6:00

Tickets, video, and more info:
 http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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Without Crossroads, where would you find events like ours?
 Ticket sales cover only a fraction of our costs. We have reached our 
November 1 fundraising goal of $3750
 and are currently finishing up programming for winter and early spring. 
Our January 1 goal is $7500
 and will allow us to confirm events through the end of the 2013-14 season

To become a member or make a tax deductible donation today, please visit:
 http://crossroadsconcerts.org/support

Crossroads Music is a 501(c)3 organization registered with the Pennsylvania 
Bureau of Charities. Contributions are fully and membership dues partially 
tax-deductible.

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[UC-Announce] first fall 2013 children's concerts this Sunday at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Free Children's Concerts at Crossroads Music

This Sunday (October 20) at 6 pm, Crossroads begins our 2013 series of 
children's programs with Sanhita Nandi (North Indian classical music).

Future events include West Philadelphia Orchestra (Balkan brass), and Hector 
del Curto (Argentine tango).

If you agree with us that all children should be able to grow up listening to 
music from diverse cultural traditions, please consider making a donation at 
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org so that we can keep this program accessible 
to all the kids in our community.

All children's programs begin at 6:00, last 30-40 minutes, and are free to 
children under 12 and their parents or other caregivers. Unless otherwise 
noted, all take place at 801 South 48th Street (Calvary Center for Culture and 
Community) in West Philadelphia. No advance registration is required, but 
seating is first come, first served. Please, no unaccompanied children. 

More information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=4064  

Information on adult concerts, including Sanhita Nandi's performance at 7:30 on 
October 20, is available at www.crossroadsconcerts.org



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[UC-Announce] Sun 10/20: Sanhita Nandi, Indian classical vocalist

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Sunday, October 20

Crossroads Music presents

Sanhita Nandi
Indian classical vocalist of the Kirana gharana 
Serious, imaginative and inspired. Excellent voice quality and tremendous 
breath control. The best vocal performance at [Crossroads' Raga Samay] 
festival. - Friday Times, Pakistan

 7:30 pm at Calvary Center for Culture  Community, 801 South 48th Street, 
Philadelphia
(Free children's program at 6:00 pm)

More information, tickets, audio, and video

Cosponsored by the Sangeet Society

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Crossroads needs your help to continue our programming.

Ticket sales only cover about 60% of our costs, and delays in grant processing 
means cash flow this winter will be very tight. Please help ensure we will be 
able to present a complete season by becoming a member or making a donation 
today. 

Become a member or make a tax-deductible donation at:
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org/

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[UC-Announce] Sun 10/6: Sidi Toure (Malian guitarist) Cedric Watson (Louisiana Creole fiddle accordion)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents:

Sidi Touré
Songhaï blues from northern Mali
A worthy successor to Ali Farka Touré. Sidi Toure has all the talent. It's 
incredible. - Bassekou Kouyaté

Cedric Watson
Louisiana Creole fiddle  accordion 
Early brushstrokes of a life's worth of possibilities, not only for himself, 
but also for the identity survival of [Louisiana] culture. - Michael Doucet

Sunday, October 6 at 7:30 pm at Crossroads Music
801 South 48th Street (Calvary Church), Philadelphia 

Audio, video, tickets ($10-30), and more information:
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[UC-Announce] Sat. 9/28: Harpists Grainne Hambly William Jackson at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents

Saturday, September 28 at 7:30 pm

Gráinne Hambly  William Jackson

Masters of the Celtic Harp

Soaring airs and more down-to-earth dance music. Both genres are beautifully 
handled. - Irish Music Magazine

Quite simply, Gráinne Hambly and William Jackson are two of the foremost 
harpers of Ireland and Scotland. Combining their extraordinary talents on harp 
as well as concertina, tinwhistle and bouzouki, these masters of the celtic 
harp have dazzled audiences worldwide. Gráinne Hambly has both garnered an 
ever-growing following among devoted harp enthusiasts and captivated Irish 
music fans with the fast, driving reels and jigs of traditional music. She has 
broken the genteel parlor image, placing the harp with the fiddle and pipes in 
the realm of dynamic dance music. Adding the unsurpassed expressive quality of 
her renditions of age-old airs and laments, you have the masterful performance 
of an experienced and renowned player. William Jackson of Glasgow has been at 
the forefront of Scottish traditional music for more than 35 years. One of the 
leading harpers and multi-instrumentalists in Scotland, William has also gained 
an international reputation as a composer. William was a f!
 ounding member and creative tour de force of Ossian, one of Scotland’s 
best-loved traditional bands and an influence on a generation of musicians. 
Besides harp, he also plays tinwhistle and bouzouki.

At Calvary Center for Culture  Community
801 S. 48th Street, Philadelphia

More information, tickets ($10-30), audio, and video at:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Su 5/5: old time trio Stolen Thyme at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, May 5 at 7:30 pm

Crossroads Music (at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut)

Stolen Thyme, neo-traditional old time string band

“This album is one to be listened to over and over and with each listen, the 
subtlety and nuance will recapture the listener. A beautiful and successful 
debut.” -- Power Pickin' 

Stolen Thyme is a neo-traditional Old Time string band based in Colorado 
Springs and Philadelphia and made up of John Weathers (guitar), Stacy Olitsky 
(banjo), and Ben Lewis (fiddle). Their music celebrates the everlasting joys of 
life and explores the dark depths of human nature. The trio embraces the 
American folk music tradition and transforms it for a modern sensibility. The 
timeless truths and ancient melodies carried by the ballads and fiddle tunes of 
Appalachia and British Isles resonate in Weathers, Olitsky, and Lewis’ hypnotic 
arrangements. Whether chilling the spine with a dusky ballad, entertaining with 
a meandering, golden melody or lighting the place on fire with a rip-roarin’ 
barn-burner, Stolen Thyme always shares a transcendent, emotional musical 
experience with its audiences.

Tickets, audio, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sun 5/5: free children's concert with Stolen Thyme

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

May 5 at 6:00
Crossroads Music (at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street)
Stolen Thyme, old time string band

Crossroads currently offers free pre-concert events for children about once a 
month. Children's programs are free to children and caregivers, but continuing 
them next fall depends on your support. Startup funding has been provided by 
the Union Benevolent Association.

More information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=4064

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[UC-Announce] 24-hour Indian music concert this weekend; film screening tonight

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

The Raga Samay Festival
Presented by Crossroads Music in collaboration with the Sangeet Society and the 
University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center

Film Screening Wednesday, April 3
Concerts Saturday, April 6 to Sunday, April 7, 2013
Panel Discussion Monday, April 8

Reserve tickets now! - http://www.ragasamay.org/category/tickets

--

Tonight: screening of Play Like A Lion: The Legacy of Maestro Ali Akbar Khan 

Wednesday, April 3 at 7:00 pm
International House, 3701 Chestnut Street

American born Alam Khan, son of legendary Indian sarodist Maestro Ali Akbar 
Khan, is traveling from California to India on his first concert tour without 
his ailing father. Alam finds it's not always easy following a legend, so when 
he feels the weight of living up to his family's North Indian Classical music 
tradition, he remembers his father's advice: Don't worry, Play like a Lion! 
Featuring Carlos Santana, Mickey Hart, Derek Trucks, John Handy, Zakir Hussain, 
Swapan Chaudhuri, G. S. Sachdev, Aashish Khan, and Alam Khan. With narration by 
Mark Cohen.

Tickets and more information - 
http://ihousephilly.org/events/play-like-a-lion-the-legacy-of-maestro-ali-akbar-khan/

--

This Saturday and Sunday: The first 24-hour concert of Indian classical music 
in the Americas in decades. 

Saturday, April 6 at 6:00 pm to Sunday, April 7 at 7:30 pm
Main Building, Drexel University, 3141 Chestnut Street

Ten soloists from India and the US will perform fifteen consecutive concerts, 
each improvised within a raga (melodic system) traditionally reserved for that 
time of day or night. The festival will include vocal solo performances 
accompanied by tabla and harmonium, instrumental solo performances accompanied 
by tabla, and instrumental jugalbandi (duets), and other activities that will 
add to the enjoyment and understanding of novices and experts alike.

Highlights include:

• sunset performances by top vocalists Arati Ankalikar and 
Kaivalyakumar Guruv
• a unique sunrise duet dedicated to the memory of Pt. Ravi Shankar, 
featuring santoor maestro Tarun Bhattacharya (his student) and mandolin 
virtuoso Snehasish Mozumder (who performed with his ensemble)
• a midnight sarod solo by Alam Khan, American-born heir to a legendary 
family of Indian musicians
• a noon performance on flute from Steve Gorn, jazz saxophonist turned 
bansuri adept
• Kala Ramnath's famous singing violin
• the versatile Nayan Ghosh, one of the few masters of both sitar and 
tabla
• concerts by two world-class Philadelphia-area artists: vocalist 
Sanhita Nandi and sitarist Allyn Miner
• Philadelphia's first screening of Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of 
Maestro Ali Akbar Khan
• a panel discussion on Keeping Time: Ragas in Contemporary Settings
Tickets, audio and video, and schedule - http://www.ragasamay.org

--

Panel Discussion - Keeping Time: Ragas in Contemporary Settings

Monday, April 8 at 5:00 pm
200 College Hall, University of Pennsylvania

Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center. 

The Raga Samay Festival will conclude with an informal discussion reflecting on 
how the weekend’s concerts fit into the world of Indian classical music today. 
Panelists will include scholars, artists, concert organizers, and teachers who 
have worked in India, the US, and other  countries and represent a variety of 
generational and geographical backgrounds.

Free and open to the public. More information at 
http://www.ragasamay.org/category/panel-discussion/ 

The Raga Samay Festival has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and 
Heritage.


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[UC-Announce] Sa 3/16: Cajun, Creole Oldtime w/ Dirk Powell Cedric Watson

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 pm

At Calvary Center for Culture  Community

Dirk Powell  Cedric Watson

Two great Louisiana talents join forces to explore three great American musical 
traditions: Cajun, Creole and old-­time Appalachian

Now that’s the kind of fiddlin’ I like, right there... - Loretta Lynn

Fiddle, accordion and banjo player Dirk Powell has expanded on the deeply 
rooted sounds of his Appalachian heritage to become one of the preeminent 
traditional American musicians of his generation. As a founding member of Balfa 
Toujours and long time Louisiana resident Dirk is equally at home playing Cajun 
music.

Cedric Watson is a fiddler, vocalist, accordionist and songwriter of enormous 
talent, exciting an ever-­broadening audience with both traditional Creole 
music and new compositions that expand the genre while still respecting its 
roots. Moving with ease between fiddle and accordion, and adding his strong 
blues-­inflected vocals, Cedric is an engaging and exciting performer.

Tickets and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Sa 3/16: Dirk Powell Cedric Watson - free children's program before the concert

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

March 16 at 6:00 (adult concert is at 7:30)

Free children's program with Dirk Powell  Cedric Watson
Cajun, Creole  Appalachian music

At Calvary Center, 801 S. 48th Street, Philadelphia

www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Crossroads currently offers free pre-concert events for children about once a 
month. Children's programs are free to attend, but continuing them next fall 
depends on your support - our startup grant from Union Benevolent Association 
ends in May. You can donate on our webpage or online at 
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Apr 6-7: Crossroads presents 24-hour Indian classical music festival at Drexel

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents:

The Raga Samay Festival
The first 24-hour Indian classical music concert in the Americas in decades

Saturday, April 6 to Sunday, April 7, 2013
Main Building, Drexel University

www.ragasamay.org

What is the Raga Samay Festival?
 
Ten soloists from India and the US will perform fifteen consecutive concerts, 
each improvised within a raga (melodic system) traditionally reserved for that 
time of day or night. Highlights include:

- sunset performances by top vocalists Arati Ankalikar and Kaivalyakumar Guruv

- a unique sunrise duet dedicated to the memory of Pt. Ravi Shankar, featuring 
santoor maestro Tarun Bhattacharya (his student) and mandolin virtuoso 
Snehasish Mozumder (who performed with his ensemble)

- a midnight sarod solo by Alam Khan, American-born heir to a legendary family 
of Indian musicians

- a noon performance on flute from Steve Gorn, jazz saxophonist turned bansuri 
adept

- Kala Ramnath’s famous singing violin

- the versatile Nayan Ghosh, one of the few masters of both sitar and tabla

- concerts by two world-class Philadelphia-area artists: vocalist Sanhita Nandi 
and sitarist Allyn Miner

- Philadelphia’s first screening of Play Like a Lion: The Legacy of Maestro 
Ali Akbar Khan (at International House on April 3)

- a panel discussion on Keeping Time: Ragas in Contemporary Settings (at the 
University of Pennsylvania on April 8)

See the full schedule, and read about, listen to, and watch videos of the 
soloists at www.ragasamay.org

Why a 24-hour festival? 

Hindustani music is improvised according to more than 150 ragas, each made up 
of a specific set of notes and a set of rules for combining them. Since this 
music developed in royal palaces where a performance might be desired at any 
moment, the Raga Samay Chakra (raga time cycle) includes music for each time of 
the day and night. You don’t have to be royalty to enjoy Indian classical music 
today, but since most concerts take place in the evening, you’ll rarely hear 
late-night and morning ragas at their traditional times. Even in India, 24-hour 
festivals are becoming less common — the Raga Samay Festival is probably the 
only chance most Americans will ever have to attend one. 

What will I hear?

- Vocal performances, accompanied by harmonium (a small reed organ), tabla 
(tuned hand drums), and tanpura (a drone, originally a stringed instrument but 
now usually electronic). There are several types of vocal music in the 
Hindustani tradition, including the khyal which you will hear at the Raga Samay 
Festival.

- Solo instrumental performances, accompanied by tabla and tanpura. Instruments 
represented at the festival include sitar, sarod, santoor, bansuri, tabla, 
violin and mandolin.

- Jugalbandi (duets) with two instrumentalists improvising together on an equal 
footing, accompanied by tabla and tanpura.

- You can find a short guide to listening to Hindustani classical music on the 
festival website.

Who organized this?

The Festival is presented by Crossroads Music in collaboration with the Sangeet 
Society and the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center. Event partners 
include Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts  Design 
and International House.

The Raga Samay Festival has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts and 
Heritage.


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[UC-Announce] Sun 2/17: Celebrate Carnival with Brazilian samba and Trinidad steel drums

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Crossroads Music presents Music for Carnival
A collaboration with Tropicalismo featuring:

Philadelphia Pan Stars
Trinidadian steel drum orchestra
“Philadelphia Pan Stars put on a great performance during the competitive 
portion of the event. Delivered a rousing rendition of the late Maestro's 
'Fiery.'” - panonthenet.com

Unidos da Filadelfia
Pulse-pounding Brazilian samba
Community samba school spreading the joy  excitement of Brazilian percussion 
through music education and performance. 

801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia (in Calvary Center)

Sunday, February 17
Free children's program (with Philly Pan Stars) at 6:00
Concert at 7:30 pm
After party at Dahlak with DJs Juanderful, Gregzhino, Brotha Onaci, and special 
guest El Malito 

Tickets ($5-15), video, and more information:
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Shape note singing workshop Friday

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Shape note workshop with Tim Eriksen
No one has done more to help revive Sacred Harp singing among a younger 
generation. - Josh Jackson, Paste Magazine 

2nd floor, 4522 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia (Studio 34)

Friday, January 25 at 7:30 pm

Registration ($5-15), video and more information

Shape note (sometimes called sacred harp) singing is a tradition of harmony 
singing originally developed to enable people with little formal training to 
quickly learn new songs. Participants divide into four groups and sit in a 
hollow square arrangement, taking turns choosing and leading each song from 
the center. In the sheet music, the head of each note is written with a shape 
corresponding to its place in the scale, and the singers first learn the tune 
by singing it using the names (fa, so, la, mi) of the notes in place of the 
text. While the texts are mostly hymns and form a part of church services in 
some religious traditions, most singings now are community events and many 
non-religious participants come for the intense feeling of community that comes 
from singing in harmony together. The workshop will be followed by a short 
singing session organized by local shape note singers.

Tim Eriksen’s work as an ethnomusicologist and teacher has included extensive 
research on shape-note music in New England and the venerable Sacred Harp 
four-part harmony tradition. He is a founder of what is currently the world’s 
largest Sacred Harp singing convention, in Northampton, MA and has taught 
hundreds of hour- to week-long workshops and seminars in shape-note harmony 
singing, American music history, ballad singing and instrumental accompaniment 
at festivals, universities, museums and arts centers, including the Smithsonian 
Institution, Harvard University, the Society for Ethnomusicology Convention, 
Colours of Ostrava Festival (Czech Republic), Camp Fasola (Anniston, AL) and 
the Early Music Festival in Jaroslaw, Poland. 

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[UC-Announce] Sun 1/27: Chinese music at Crossroads (concert and free kid's program)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Peter Tang Ensemble

Traditional and modern Chinese music

Peter Tang, the erhu (Chinese violin) soloist of the Beijing Central Singing 
and Dancing Ensemble, moved to Philadelphia in 2000 and founding the Peter Tang 
Chinese Ensemble. His acclaimed musical group offers an aural and visual 
performance of classical Chinese music featuring instruments such as the erhu 
and the guzheng (zither).

801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia (in Calvary Center)

Sunday, January 27
Free children's program at 6:00, Concert at 7:30 pm 

Tickets ($10-30), audio and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Wu Peter Tang has been performing a range of Chinese music for more than 28 
years. Born in Liaoning province, Shenyang City, in Northeast China. His first 
teacher was his father, Yubin Tang, director of the Traditional Music 
Department in the Shenyang Music Conservatory. He began playing erhu in solo 
performance at the age of six and later studied traditional music at the 
Conservatory, specializing in erhu and gaohu with Professor Junming Guo and Mr. 
Wenjue Guan. In 1985, Tang was recruited by the Central Singing and Dancing 
Ensemble from Beijing, China, with whom he performed widely before immigrating 
to the United States in 1997 and founding his own Chinese music ensemble to 
continue contributing his musical talents to the greater Philadelphia 
community. In 2004, he was one of 12 recipients of the prestigious Pew 
Fellowship in the Arts.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 1/20: International Guitar Night returns to Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, January 20 at 7:30 pm
801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia (in Calvary Center)

International Guitar Night
Featuring Martin Taylor (Scotland), Solorazaf (Madagascar), Celso
Machado (Brazil) and Brian Gore (California)
“One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar - San Francisco 
Chronicle

Tickets ($10-30), audio and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has 
featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. 
Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to 
join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the 
virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the 
beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the 
performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express 
reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one 
another.

This year's International Guitar Night includes solos, duets, and quartets from 
the acclaimed British jazz guitarist Martin Taylor, Madagascar roots guitarist 
and singer Solorazaf, and guitarist/composer Celso Machado, who blends 
classical and folkloric music from Brazil and beyond, as well as fingerstylist 
and IGN founder Brian Gore.

Please note:
International Guitar Night is one of our most popular programs. While we'll do 
our best to find (or make room) for everyone, we strongly encourage you to buy 
your tickets in advance and/or arrive at 7:00 so you can find a good seat.

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[UC-Announce] Sun. 12/16: high-octane Klezmer (and Turkish music too)

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Shtreiml with İsmail Hakkı Fencioğlu

Sunday, December 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm
at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Center)

Free children's program at 6:00.

Shtreiml just gets better. For an outstanding band, that is no small feat. 
This Montreal-based klezmer band mixes Yiddish song with new and old klezmer 
instrumentals in a way that makes everything feel fresh and wonderful. - Ari 
Davidov, Klezmershack

A high-octane mix of not-so-traditional Eastern-European Jewish and Turkish 
music, featuring innovative harmonica from Montreal's Jason Rosenblatt; 
trombonist Rachel Lemisch of the Lemisch klezmer dynasty of Iasi, Romania and 
Philadelphia; and special guest İsmail Fencioğlu on oud and Turkish vocals.

Listen to music samples at http://www.shtreiml.com/listen.php

Buy tickets ($10-30) at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] upcoming children's programs at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, December 2
Kaïssa - West African music

Sunday, December 16
Shtreiml - Klezmer

Sunday, January 27
Peter Tang Ensemble - Traditional and modern Chinese music

More information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=4064

Children’s programs begin at 6:00, last 30-40 minutes, and are free to children 
under 12 and their parents or other caregivers. Unless otherwise noted, all 
take place at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church). 
Seating is first come, first served. Please, no unaccompanied children.

Startup funding for this project comes from a generous grant from the Union 
Benevolent Association.Keeping children’s programs free depends on continued 
support from individual contributors.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 12/2: Kaïssa, contemporary W. African music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Kaissa
Contemporary West African music 
A startlingly catchy and energetic album. A voice of substance and strength. 
Introspective in theme, majestic in performance. A young musician who has 
served her time under some of the greats and has a considerable future ahead of 
her. Hats off. - Sing Out!

Sunday, December 2 at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Concert  at 7:30 pm
Children's program at 6:00 pm

Tickets ($10-30), audio and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

When an original voice rises up, music lovers are moved to listen. Now Kaissa 
is the one motivating a fast-growing audience, connecting through soaring vocal 
talents and the irresistible African-inspired rhythms of her songs.

Kaissa was born in the culturally rich Republic of Cameroon and her passion for 
music was fueled by the romance of Paris, where her family relocated when she 
was still young. Her vocal ability began to turn heads in studios throughout 
the City of Lights, and when the opportunity to join French multi-media artist 
CharlElie Couture's European tour arose, Kaissa stepped on the bus and never 
looked back.

Kaissa's voice is a unique instrument - an electric mix of character and 
clarity, strength and fragility, total control and unbridled joy. Besides 
captivating audiences, her peers took notice as well, winning her a steady 
stream of work around the world with luminary artists including Manu Dibango, 
Papa Wemba, Salif Keita, Jean-Michel Jarre, Cesaria Evora, Martha Wash, Diana 
Ross, Paul Simon, and David Byrne.

Now New York-based, Kaissa has surrounded herself with a group of world-class 
musicians that are building on her vision. Her debut album Looking There was 
released in March 2004 by Sony Music South Africa and received rave reviews for 
its highly engaging vocals and pulsating African/Western rhythmic backdrops. 
Behind the beauty, however, there is always a message, with Kaissa's poignant 
lyrics talking frankly about the human condition, speaking out against war and 
injustice, and calling gloriously to her native Cameroon for its love of life 
and the human spirit. Other heartfelt topics include the joy of playing music, 
and her connection to relatives both living and passed on, while the album's 
title speaks to Kaissa's own personal way of looking for others, or beyond.



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[UC-Announce] Tim Eriksen is still playing tonight

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

The Sunday concert will happen as planned - the weather shouldn't get really 
bad until long after everyone is home. As of Sunday morning, we have not 
decided about the Monday night workshop - check 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=4231 for updates.

Tim Eriksen  Friends
Hard core Americana
Best known for his haunting music for the film Cold Mountain... helped ignite 
the string band revival with Cordelia's Dad... focused fresh attention on 
19th-century shape note singing with Northampton Harmony. Wild, beautiful, and 
full of unexpected moments; at once sweepingly epic and as intimate as a 
lover's whisper. - Boston Globe

Concert:
Sunday, October 28 at 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Shape note singing workshop:
Monday, October 29 at Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia 

Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his startling 
interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes 
from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines hair-raising vocals with 
inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and bajo sexto - a 
twelve-string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive hardcore Americana 
sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo unaccompanied singing through 
stripped-down voice and bajo sexto to the lush, multi-layered arrangements on 
his new album of northern US roots music.

Tickets ($10-30), audio, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC] Re: [UC-Announce] Su 10/28: Tim Eriksen, shapenote singing hard core Americana

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Both events are at 7:30 - sorry about leaving that out.

On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Daniel Flaumenhaft wrote:

 Tim Eriksen  Friends
 Hard core Americana
 Best known for his haunting music for the film Cold Mountain... helped 
 ignite the string band revival with Cordelia's Dad... focused fresh attention 
 on 19th-century shape note singing with Northampton Harmony. Wild, beautiful, 
 and full of unexpected moments; at once sweepingly epic and as intimate as a 
 lover's whisper. - Boston Globe
 
 Concert:
 Sunday, October 28 at 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia
 
 Shape note singing workshop:
 Monday, October 29 at Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave, Philadelphia 
 
 Tim Eriksen is acclaimed for transforming American tradition with his 
 startling interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and 
 dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. He combines 
 hair-raising vocals with inventive accompaniment on banjo, fiddle, guitar and 
 bajo sexto - a twelve-string Mexican acoustic bass - creating a distinctive 
 hardcore Americana sound that ranges from the bare bones of solo 
 unaccompanied singing through stripped-down voice and bajo sexto to the lush, 
 multi-layered arrangements on his new album of northern US roots music.
 
 Tickets ($10-30), audio, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org


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[UC-Announce] Sun. 10/21: Cantrip weaves a Celtic spell

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Cantrip
High-energy Scottish traditional music 
One of the most intriguing sounds in Celtic music today. An instrumental sound 
that travels from the darkness to the light. An unmistakable style and is 
enormously versatile. Cantrip both has its feet solidly in tradition, and sees 
innovation clearly from where it is standing. - Celtic Beat Magazine

Sunday, October 21 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Tickets ($10-30), sounds, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Cantrip is a trio of Scottish traditional musicians that has been stunning 
audiences on several sides of the Atlantic for over a decade with its driving 
blend of fiddle, bagpipes and guitar. The name, an Old Scots word meaning a 
charm, magic spell or piece of mischief, aptly describes both the unexpected 
twists and turns in their musical arrangements and the compelling potency of 
their musicianship. From the strong base of its Celtic roots their music 
branches out into – and takes influences from – the music of other European 
cultures. Originally formed as a quartet in Edinburgh, eleven years of 
evolution has yielded an extensively diverse and still growing catalogue. 
Weaving together songs and tunes, both traditional and contemporary, Cantrip 
takes an audience on a cultural journey, putting their own spin on each style.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 10/14: Sicilian songs of the sea (concert free children's program)

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AcquAria
Sicilian songs of the Sea
A great singer. Sings the songs in true folk style, the melodies swooping 
between the standard scales, finding what sounds like the 'notes between the 
notes' of old songs almost lost to the standardization of modern notation. - 
RootsWorld

Sunday, October 14

Concert at 7:30 pm
Free children's program at 6:00

At Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Tickets ($10-30), sounds, and more info at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

AcquAria performs the traditional songs and music of Sicily. The group's varied 
repertoire is based on the musical traditions of the rich heritage of the 
island and central Mediterranean, including ballitti, tarantella, mazurkas, 
work songs, songs of hope and rage, carnival songs, and serenades. In a single 
performance, themes range from the nature of suffering and the rough sounds of 
work songs to those of joyous and lively festivals. Their performances are 
versatile, suitable for an audience of listeners, but also for those who wish 
to dance and have fun.

This performance's program draws from the rich Sicilian tradition of songs that 
speak of the sea, sing its praises or are sung by those whose work connects 
them to the water. Michela Musolino, a vocalist known for her performances of 
Sicilian roots music, and Vincenzo Castellana, a noted percussionist of the 
Sicilian drumming tradition, have created a work of song, percussion and 
recitations that illustrates the intimate connection of Sicily, its history and 
its culture to the sea which surrounds it. Onstage, they will be joined by 
classical guitar, contrabass, oud, wind, and ethnic percussion. Together, they 
are excited to be working together to bring Sicilian Music and a bit of 
Sicily's sea to Philadelphia.

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[UC-Announce] Sat 10/6: Sorie Kondi from Sierra Leone

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Sorie Kondi
Virtuoso street music from Freetown, Sierra Leone 
Check the sweet lilting grooves of Sorie Kondi, a master of a traditional 
thumb piano-like instrument. - Africa Express

Saturday, October 6 at 7:30 pm

At Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Tickets ($10-30), sounds, and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Sorie Kondi is a virtuosic folk musician from the small West African country of 
Sierra Leone. He plays the Sierra Leonean version of a thumb piano called the 
Kondi, an instrument he has taken as his last name, and sings in four different 
languages (his mother tongue Loko, Temne, Krio, and English). He is also an 
innovator who has developed both a new type of electrified kondi and a unique 
playing style.

Kondi was born blind in the city of Makeni around 1968. He never went to school 
but began to play the kondi, a traditional instrument of Sierra Leone as a 
teenager. It was soon apparent that he had a special talent for music, and by 
1984 he started earning some small money by playing at ceremonies and 
travelling to nearby villages.

In 1996, civil war forced him to leave his home and seek refuge in the capital 
of Freetown. He began recording his first album there in 1998, and finished it 
just before the war reached the city and nearly all the inhabitants fled. 
Abandoned, Kondi hid inside his house for 5 days while much of the city was 
looted and burned down. When the dust settled, the master tapes had been lost 
and his career plans derailed.

Having lost his chance to commercially release a cassette, Sorie Kondi made a 
name for himself as a street musician. His daily busking on the streets of 
Freetown made him familiar to many residents in Sierra Leone’s capital city, 
but Sorie Kondi’s popularity was not enough to bring him out of the grinding 
poverty that many of the country’s citizens experience.

A trip in 2006 to the Lungi region, across the bay from Freetown would provide 
Kondi with a golden opportunity to put his career back on track. By chance, an 
American recording engineer spotted him playing his kondi, and asked to include 
him in the anthology of Sierra Leonean music he was working on. In February 
2007, a prominent local businessman heard this recording and sponsored his 
first album, Without Money, No Family.

While all of these recording opportunities have boosted his morale, he 
continues to live in destitute poverty, struggling to find his daily bread. (In 
2010, his daily struggle for survival, the reality of poverty, and the struggle 
to raise school fees for his children was chronicled in a short BBC 
documentary). In Sierra Leone, artists earn most of their money from album 
launchings and live performances in foreign countries as cassete manufacturers 
and distributors pay very low royalties and Crossroads is very pleased to 
welcome Sorie Kondie on his first American tour.

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[UC-Announce] Sun 9/30: Vocal harmony body percussion w/Moira Smiley VOCO

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Moira Smiley  VOCO

American  Eastern European vocal harmonies and body percussion 

A truly phenomenal act, combining the energy of urban street singing with 
first-rate musicianship, folk roots and traditions from throughout the world. 
Their body percussion sets are a sight to behold - Folkworks Magazine

Sunday, September 30 at 7:30 pm

Singing workshop at 6:00 pm

At Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Tickets $10-30 for concert, $5-15 for workshop.

More information: www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Wed. 9/19: Brazilian experimental jazz at Crossroads

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São Paulo Underground
Cool blue cornet over a spellbinding collage of saturated textures, syncopated 
rhythms  sundry electronics. - Time Out Top 10 jazz albums of 2011

Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30 pm
At Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street

Tickets ($8-24) and more information at
www.crossroadsconcerts.org.

São Paulo Underground embodies a fascinating musical mixture of Sun Ra-esque 
cosmic noise and rhythms and phrasing from samba, maracatu, rock and free jazz 
traditions, launching Brazil’s Tropicalia into a new, heavily electronic 
millennium. The group formed in Brazil around Rob Mazurek (cornet and 
electronics) and Maricio Takara (drums, percussion, cavaquinho, electronics). 
Two other Brazilians, Guilherme Granado (keyboards, electronics, samplers) and 
Richard Ribeiro (drums), subsequently joined the group. 

Part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Tickets are also available from the 
Fringe Festival Box Office at (215) 413-1318 or www.livearts-fringe.org 

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[UC-Announce] This Wednesday and Saturday: Duende Musical at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Duende Musical
The Legend of Nahia
A multi-disciplinary production presenting the healing journey of a woman who 
is a rape survivor, through live music, story telling, performance art, dance, 
and theater. The program includes folk songs in Spanish, Spanish dialects, and 
Basque, and flamenco and Latin American music and draws on folklore and 
mythology.

Wednesday, September 12 and Saturday, September 15 at 7:30 pm
At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Center)

Part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival

Tickets ($8-24) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org.



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[UC-Announce] New - free monthly children's programs at Crossroads!

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

New - free monthly children's programs at Crossroads!
(at Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 801 South 48th Street)
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Children’s programs begin at 6:00, last 30-40 minutes, and are free to children 
under 12 and their parents or other caregivers. Seating is first come, first 
served. Please, no unaccompanied children. Startup funding for children's 
programs comes from the Union Benevolent association - if you can, please 
consider making a tax-deductible contribution at 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=2961#ecwid:mode=productproduct=5983575 
so we can keep these events accessible to all children in our community.

September 15 at 6:00 pm
Duende Musical
Music from Spain and Latin America

Sunday, October 14 at 6:00 pm
AquaAria
Folk music from Italy

Sunday, December 2 at 6:00 pm
Kaïssa
West African music

Sunday, December 16 at 6:00 pm
Shtreiml
Klezmer

Sunday, January 27 at 6:00 pm
Peter Tang Ensemble
Music from China

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[UC-Announce] 9/7,8,12,15: Duende Musical's Legend of Nahia at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Duende Musical
The Legend of Nahia
A multi-disciplinary production recounting the healing journey of a woman who 
is a rape survivor through live music, story telling, performance art, dance, 
and theater. The program includes folk songs in Spanish, Spanish dialects, and 
Basque, and flamenco and Latin American music and draws on folklore and 
mythology.

September 7, 8, 12 and 15 at 7:30 pm
At Calvary Center, 801 South 48th Street

Part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 

Tickets ($8-24) and more information at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

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[UC-Announce] Crossroads' fall concerts and pre-season ticket discounts.

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Dear friends,

It's hard to believe that Crossroads is now celebrating its tenth anniversary. 
Our fall 2012 schedule (plus a few events for 2013) is now complete, and I look 
forward to seeing you at the concerts, which include music from every continent 
except Australia. You can find the full schedule at the end of this email as 
well as at www.crossroadsconcerts.org, but there are several things I 
especially want to mention.

First, early ticket sales help us plan ahead and mean we miss fewer 
opportunities to book great concerts for you. Until September 2, we'll 
automatically discount all online purchases over $50 by 5% and all purchases 
over $100 by 10% at checkout.

Second, you may notice that we've expanded our children's programs: there is 
now a free children's concert about once a month through January. We hope to 
continue this schedule in the future, but each event costs about $500 and the 
startup funding for this will not last forever. If your children enjoy these 
events, please consider making a tax deductible donation - you can designate 
all or part of it for this program.

Third, as you may know, Crossroads only gets about 60% of its costs through 
ticket sales. Most of our grant funding comes late in the season, so other 
contributions are especially  important this time of year. Donations are fully 
tax-deductible, while memberships gain you reduced ticket prices, access to 
free member rush tickets to try out new kinds of music, and (at higher levels) 
some advance tickets are free as well.

Thanks again for all your support and encouragement. I look forward to another 
ten years listening to wonderful music with you.

Daniel Flaumenhaft
Director, Crossroads Music

CONCERTS
(at Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 801 South 48th Street)

September 8, 9, 12 and 15 at 7:30 pm
Part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Duende Musical
The Legend of Nahia
A multi-disciplinary production presenting the healing journey of a woman who 
is a rape survivor, through live music, story telling, performance art, dance, 
and theater. The program includes folk songs in Spanish, Spanish dialects, and 
Basque, and flamenco and Latin American music and draws on folklore and 
mythology.

Wednesday, September 19 at 7:30 pm
Part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Sao Paolo Underground
Sunny melodies, beats, noise, sounds  songs from Rob Mazurek (Chicago)  
Mauricio Takara, Guilherme Granado,  Richard Ribeiro (Sao Paulo, Brazil).

Sunday, September 30
Moira Smiley  VOCO
American  Eastern European vocal harmonies and body percussion
A truly phenomenal act, combining the energy of urban street singing with 
first-rate musicianship, folk roots and traditions from throughout the world. 
Their body percussion sets are a sight to behold - Folkworks Magazine

Sunday, October 14 at 7:30 pm
AquaAria
Sicilian songs of the sea
A great singer. Sings the songs in true folk style, the melodies swooping 
between the standard scales, finding what sounds like the 'notes between the 
notes' of old songs almost lost to the standardization of modern notation. - 
RootsWorld

Sunday, October 21 at 7:30 pm
Cantrip
High-energy traditional Scottish music
One of the most intriguing sounds in Celtic music today. An instrumental sound 
that travels from the darkness to the light. An unmistakable style and is 
enormously versatile. Cantrip both has its feet solidly in tradition, and sees 
innovation clearly from where it is standing. - Celtic Beat Magazine

Sunday, October 28 at 7:30 pm
Tim Eriksen  Friends 
Hard-core Americana
Best known for his haunting music for the film Cold Mountain... helped ignite 
the string band revival with Cordelia's Dad... focused fresh attention on 
19th-century shape note singing with Northampton Harmony. Wild, beautiful, and 
full of unexpected moments; at once sweepingly epic and as intimate as a 
lover's whisper. - Boston Globe

Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30 pm
Debashish Bhattacharya
Hindustani Slide Guitar
You will likely never hear better acoustic slide playing than this. Debashish 
Bhattacharya takes the listener to a place of deep emotional experience beyond 
the bounderies of time - Henry Kaiser, Acoustic Guitar Magazine

Sunday, November 18
Stephen Wade
Virtuoso banjo player, folklorist, and historian
Wade is a wonderful emissary, not only in his astounding skill and unflagging 
energy, but through his mesmerizing passion and devotion to the music and to 
its master musicians. He has made himself known to them, and they have given 
him back some secrets in return. - Washington Post

Sunday, December 2 at 7:30 pm
Contemporary West African music
“A startlingly catchy and energetic album. A voice of substance and strength. 
Introspective in theme, majestic in performance. A young musician who has 
served her time under some of the greats and has a considerable future ahead of 
her. Hats off.” Sing Out!

Sunday, December 16 2012
Shtreiml
High-octane klezmer
Shtreiml just gets better

[UC-Announce] Sun 5/20: Chris Acquavella the Phila. Mandolin Ensemble

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 7:30 pm
At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia (in Calvary Church)

Chris Acquavella
Classical mandolin soloist
Technique is breathtaking. Lifting this repertoire to an exciting level. – 
Mandolin Moments
Really something else. Proving once and for all that the mandolin is the equal 
of any member of the string-instrument family. – San Diego Reader 

Philadelphia Mandolin Ensemble
Twelve musicians performing on mandolin, mandola, mandocello, and classical 
guitar. The group’s repertoire includes classical music written or transcribed 
for mandolin, as well as traditional folk music.

With special guests the Silvertones

Tickets ($10-$30), sound samples, and more information:
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org
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[UC-Announce] Sun 5/29: Blues concert + children's program

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, April 22, 2012
at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street, Philadelphia

Concert at 7:30: 

Cobalt Blues Band
Pumped-up Chicago  Delta style blues

Free Children's Program at 6:00

The Evolution of the Blues features Joe Becton, Cobalt Blues’ singer/harmonica 
player, a historian, and former National Park Service educator, demonstrating 
African American musical styles from their origins to the present day. Please - 
no unaccompanied children.

Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information:
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[UC-Announce] Cuban music Wed. and Italian music Sun.

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Wednesday, April 18 at 7:30 pm

Sierra Maestra
Music doesn’t come more energising than Havana’s glorious Sierra Maestra. — 
The List
If son is indeed the soul of Cuba, then Sierra Maestra are the heartbeat at 
the center of that soul. — World Music Central

--

Sunday, April 22 at 7:30 pm
Khaossia
Traditional music from Salento, Italy including unforgettable lullabies, love 
songs, work songs, and famous dances like the pizzica (a partner dance) and the 
tarantella (said to be a cure for insanity caused by tarantula bites).

--

Both concerts are at Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street at Baltimore Avenue
Music samples, tickets ($10-30), and more information at 
www.crossroadsconcerts.org


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[UC-Announce] Wed 4/18: Cuba's Sierra Maestra live at Crossroads

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Sierra Maestra
Music doesn’t come more energising than Havana’s glorious Sierra Maestra. — 
The List
If son is indeed the soul of Cuba, then Sierra Maestra are the heartbeat at 
the center of that soul. — World Music Central

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street at Baltimore Avenue
Music samples, tickets ($10-30), and more information at 
www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Decades before Juan de Marcos Gonzalez served as music director and guiding 
spirit behind the Buena Vista Social Club, he founded Sierra Maestra, a Cuban 
roots band dedicated to the Afro-Cuban son style that influenced musicians 
around the world. Launched in 1976 by a group of University of Havana students, 
Sierra Maestra took its name from the mountain range in eastern Cuba where the 
genre was born.

Sierra Maestra was the first, and remains the best, of the modern-era groups to 
play in the old-style son line-up: tres, guitar, one trumpet, bongo, güiro and 
vocals — as during the style’s golden age of the 1920s and ’30s. With brisker 
tempos, they add a jolt of new energy to the sensuous guaracha rhythms, a sound 
that has seized the imaginations of a new Cuban generation.

Hugely popular at home, the band has gradually built up an international 
following with a series of celebrated albums, culminating in 2010’s World 
Village release, Sonando Ya. The delicate nature of U.S. and Cuban relations 
has presented few opportunities for stateside performances and this is a rare 
opportunity to see the band live in this country.
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[UC-Announce] Su 3/11: Irish traditional music at Crossroads

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Sunday, March 11, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Free program for children and caregivers at 6:00

Heartstring Quartet
Máire Ní Chathasaigh  Chris Newman + Nollaig Casey  Arty McGlynn
Brilliant, innovative harping  guitar-playing. Astonishing virtuosity  
versatility – Songlines
Beautifully poised and expressive fiddle playing – The Scotsman
Arty invented a role for the guitar in the Irish tradition – Ulster Herald

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street at Baltimore Avenue

Two renowned duos. Two gifted sisters. Two extraordinary guitarists. A 
multi-faceted, unique quartet… Some of the most important names in Irish music, 
legendary guitarist Arty McGlynn, virtuoso fiddler Nollaig Casey and brilliant 
harper Máire Ní Chathasaigh, came together in 2008 to record with Britain's 
finest flat-picking guitarist Chris Newman. The resulting music crosses 
boundaries in a tour-de-force of world-class guitar-playing, sensuous singing, 
fiddle-playing of heart-melting lyricism and powerful, passionate harping.

Music samples, tickets ($10-30), and more information at 
www.crossroadsconcerts.org
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[UC-Announce] Su 3/4: Crossroads presents Arab music at I-House

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, March 4, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, in collaboration with International House, Philadelphia
at I-House's Ibrahim Theater, 3701 Chestnut Street

Al-Bustan Music, Music Director Hanna Khoury

An evening of Arab music featuring Hanna Khoury (violin), Kinan Abou-afach 
(cello), Kinan Idnawi (oud), Hafez El Ali Kotain (percussion), and singer Farah 
Siraj

Tickets ($10-$30), sound samples, and more information
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3462

Al-Bustan Music presents an ensemble of musicians performing Arab classical and 
contemporary instrumental music. Al-Bustan Music is a program of Al-Bustan 
Seeds of Culture, a West Philadelphia-based organization that presents and 
teaches the Arabic language, arts, and culture.
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[UC-Announce] Su 2/19: Archie Fisher at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Archie Fisher

“One of Britain’s finest song interpreters.” – Sing Out

“Quietly poetic ballads haunt like a shadowy specter.” – St. Paul Pioneer-Press

“It just seems like Archie Fisher invented Scottish folk.” – Boston Globe

Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3115

Master guitarist, singer and songwriter Archie Fisher is among Scotland’s 
foremost interpreters of traditional songs and is known throughout the country 
as the host of BBC Radio Scotland’s award-winning “Travelling Folk” show, which 
he has presented for over 25 years. For his contributions to Scottish folk 
music, he has been inducted into the Scots Traditional Music Hall of Fame and 
in 2007 was awarded an MBE by Queen Elizabeth for services to traditional music.

Archie was born in Glasgow into a large singing family. His father’s 
appreciation of many musical styles (opera, vaudeville, traditional ballads) 
and his mother’s Gaelic speaking family from the Outer Hebrides strongly 
influenced his musical development and the lyrical quality of his singing and 
songwriting. He first became interested in the folk revival during the Skiffle 
era of the late 1950s and recordings of the Weavers later profoundly influenced 
his approach to music and political outlook.

During the British TV folk boom of the 1960s and 70s he was part of an 
Edinburgh scene that also included Robin Williamson, Clive Palmer and Mike 
Heron, and the Incredible String Band and was an early guitar colleague of Bert 
Jansch. In addition to his solo work, he played as a duo with Dundee musician 
Allan Barty, worked as a backing musician and arranger/producer for Tommy 
Makem, Liam Clancy, and Silly Wizard.

After spending the 1980s working primarily in documentary radio, he returned to 
the recording studio during what he describes as one of his most creative 
songwriting periods, touring North America with Garnet Rogers, English 
guitarist John Renbourn, and Bert Jansch. With the release of Windward Away, 
which has already achieved widespread acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, he 
returns to the US for the first time in over a decade.


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[UC-Announce] Sunday's Crossroads concert

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Unfortunately, Jon Fromer also had to cancel at the last minute. I apologize 
for the repeated revisions to the event, but both cancellations were beyond the 
artists' control.

Back to the Roots will be the only act. This was actually the original concept 
for the event, and it should still be a great show, but it will be more hip-hop 
and less folk than previously advertised. Full show information, including 
links to sound samples, are at www.crossroadsconcerts.org

Daniel
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[UC-Announce] Sun 2/5 - Jon Fromer will perform in place of Anne Feeney

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Unfortunately, Anne Feeney broke her wrist Monday and had to cancel her 
appearance at Crossroads. Jon Fromer will be performing instead. The rest of 
the program remains the same.

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

John Fromer
The soulful-est man in activist song! - Pat Humphries  Sandy O (Emma’s 
Revolution)
Great record! I hope many people start singing your songs. - Pete Seeger
His gift is to bring ordinary people together and make them move. It starts 
with his right hand, which hammers the guitar strings with ferocious commitment 
and reverberates down to his feet, which tramp in place like an army of one – 
justice bound. - IBEW Local 1245 Reporter

Back to the Roots
Evan Greer  spiritchild
Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come. – Tom Morello.
An eloquent and energetic writer. – Howard Zinn
My current fave hiphop ensemble. – Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club 

Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3443
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[UC-Announce] Sun 2/5: Music for social change with Anne Feeney, Evan Greer, and spiritchild

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Anne Feeney
Unionmaid, hell raiser, labor singer
Congratulations on your fine songwriting!” – Pete Seeger
Anne Feeney is the best labor singer in North America.” – Utah Phillips

Back to the Roots
Evan Greer  spiritchild
Songs [that] will be heard at the barricades for years to come. – Tom Morello.
An eloquent and energetic writer. – Howard Zinn
My current fave hiphop ensemble. – Bob Holman, Bowery Poetry Club 

Tickets ($5-$15), sound samples, and more information
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3443

Hip-Hop has been gentrified. Folk music has been watered down. Punk rock sold 
out. In the face of this mainstream betrayal, some of the movement’s most 
dynamic performers have joined forces to take their respective genres back to 
the roots, celebrating the role of music in people’s resistance to oppression 
around the word. Evan Greer and spiritchild are revolutionary artists from 
radically different musical styles who share a common commitment to using their 
craft as a tool and a weapon in direct support of grassroots struggles for 
change. For this concert only, they are joined by legendary labor singer Anne 
Feeney, who on four previous tours celebrating Generations of Resistance 
through music.

These inspiring musicians are as likely to be found at an organizing meeting or 
a protest as on the stage at a club or festival. They don’t just sing about the 
struggle, they live it every day through constant work in their communities. 
spiritchild is the founder of Movement in Motion, an international organization 
of artists and activists who work collectively to use their art to educate and 
fight for freedom. Evan is a member of the Riot-Folk! Collective, a group of 9 
singer/songwriters who collectively distribute their political music, raise 
money for various grassroots causes, and create alternatives tothe corporate 
music industry. Anne has worked as a labor activist and community organizer for 
decades, performing at rallies, picket lines and demonstrations around the 
country and abroad.
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[UC-Announce] International Guitar Night concert and workshop this weekend

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm (concert)
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 7:30 pm (workshop/master class)

International Guitar Night

Adrian Legg (UK), Marco Pereira (Brazil), Lulo Reinhardt (Germany), and Brian 
Gore (US)

One of the most important showcases for contemporary guitar - San Francisco 
Chronicle

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church) 
$10-$30

International Guitar Night, North America’s premier mobile guitar festival, has 
featured the best performing guitar composers from around the world since 1995. 
Each tour, IGN founder Brian Gore invites a new cast of guitar luminaries to 
join him for special evenings of solos, duets and quartets that highlight the 
virtuosity and diversity within the world of acoustic guitar. Since the 
beginning, audiences have cherished the friendly informal ambiance of the 
performances. Participants have relished the chance IGN affords to express 
reverence for one another, and to collaborate rather than compete with one 
another.

This year's edition includes British acoustic-electric experimentalist Adrian 
Legg, Marco Peireira, who blends Brazilian folkloric dance and classical music, 
gypsy jazz/flamenco legend Lulo Reinhardt, and IGN founder and California 
guitar poet Brian Gore.

Music samples, tickets, and more information at 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3113
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[UC-Announce] Wed 12/7: Tori Ensemble, Korean traditional and experimental music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Tori Ensemble
Korean classical and experimental music 

“Amid all the painful attempts to modernize traditional music there sometimes 
comes a work that reinvents traditional music with such authenticity, power and 
originality that all you can do is drink it in with grateful ears.” – 
Washington Post 

Crossroads Music at the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street
$8-24

The Tori Ensemble represents a collaboration among some of the most respected 
musicians of the Korean classical tradition and the New York avant-garde scene, 
transcending musical borders in its acclaimed work that mingles jazz, new 
music, and ancient Korean traditions ranging from shamanistic rituals to 
pansori vocals. Composed of Korean masters and leading names from New York,s 
cutting-edge music scene, the group features Yoon Jeong Heo (geomungo-zither), 
Isabel Castellvi (cello), Kang Kwon Soon (vocals), Young Chi Min (daegum-flute, 
changgo-drum), Ned Rothenberg (clarinets, shakuhachi-flute), and Satoshi 
Takeishi (percussion). 

Music samples, tickets, and more information - 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3109

--

Also, don't forget this is a multi-concert week:

Sunday, December 4 at Calvary
The Chornobyl Songs Project: Living culture from a lost world
Village Songs from Ukraine performed by Ensemble Hilka (NYC, part of the Center 
for Traditional Music and Dance’s Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative) 
led by music director and song collector Yevhen Yefremov (Ensemble Drevo, Kyiv)

Sunday, December 11 at Calvary:
Elaine Hoffman Watts  Susan Lankin Watts
Philadelphia’s greatest klezmer dynasty returns to Crossroads
“A 3rd-generation klezmer, the mother of a next generation of klezmorim, and a 
raucous, wonderful storyteller. The Philly sound in full force and 
dance-compelling splendor.” – Ari Davidow
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[UC-Announce] Su 12/4: The Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Ensemble Hilka
The Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World

Village Songs from Ukraine performed by Ensemble Hilka (NYC, part of the Center 
for Traditional Music and Dance’s Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative) 
led by music director and song collector Yevhen Yefremov (Ensemble Drevo, Kyiv) 

At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church) 
$10-$30

Since the 1986 nuclear disaster, the traditional communities near Chornobyl 
have been largely dispersed and very few people remain, but one trace remains: 
songs ethnomusicologist Yevhen Yefremov, collected in the region in the 70s and 
80s. With Ensemble Hilka, a Ukrainian women's chorus based at New York City's 
Center for Traditional Music and Dance, he has prepared a concert program that 
commemorates and helps the audience to imagine how this lost repertoire used to 
define the daily lives of people who lived in the villages of the Chornobyl 
Zone. The concert will be supplemented with archival photographic, audio and 
video footage from Dr. Yefremov's ethnographic expeditions leading up to and 
following the 1986 nuclear disaster and brief commentary that contextualizes 
and helps the audience to imagine how the spiritual, ritual, and aesthetic 
function of this lost repertoire used to define the daily lives of people who 
lived in the villages of the Chornobyl Zone.

Music samples, tickets, and more information at 
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3357


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[UC-Announce] Sun 11/20: International percussion explosion at Crossroads Music

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm 

Kyo Daiko
Japanese taiko drumming
An explosion of sound, matched by uniform choreographed movements, creating an 
avalanche of sight and sound. - Philadelphia Weekly 

Unidos da Filadelfia
Pulse-pounding Brazilian samba
Community samba school spreading the joy and excitement of Brazilian percussion 
through music education and performance 

At 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church). Tickets are on a sliding scale: 
$10 recommended, $20 if you can, $5 if you can't and for children under 12

We expect a large audience for this event. Buying your ticket online and/or 
coming early (box office and doors open at 7:00) means less waiting in line for 
you and less stress for our box office volunteers. 

Kyo Daiko, Philadelphia-s first community Japanese drumming group, began in 
2004 as a collaboration between the West Philadelphia branch of Settlement 
Music school and Shofuso, the Japanese house and garden located in Fairmount 
Park. Originally named Shofuso Taiko after the Japanese House, the group has 
now developed its own identity and renamed itself Kyo Daiko. They combined 
-kyo- from the word -kyouryoku,- meaning cooperation or working together, and 
-diazo,- or taiko, because taiko performers must play together with a unity of 
sound and motion. But the concept of cooperation also comes from this unique 
collaboration between Shofuso and Settlement Music School, and between these 
organizations and the communities they serve. As they celebrate their 5th 
anniversary, Kyo Daiko looks forward to refining and expanding the repertoire 
and bringing taiko to new audiences.

The taiko (literally -fat drum-) drum has been used in Japan for over 1000 
years in religious ceremonies, military exercises, dramatic noh and kabuki 
performances, and in musical performances of the royal court, but Kyo Daiko-s 
kumi daiko, or ensemble style of drumming, that dates back only to the early 
1950-s. Kumi daiko features a group of players, playing different drums and 
blending rhythms into a single ensemble piece. Drummers beat the drums while 
moving their arms and bodies in dancelike motions, creating exciting music and 
a dynamic visual performance. Kumi taiko drumming is now often seen in Japan at 
festivals and other celebrations.

Begun in the Spring of 2005, Unidos da Filadelfia is the city of Philadelphia's 
premier Escola De Samba in the tradition of Carnaval parade organizations in 
Brazil like the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro and blocos afros of Salvador da 
Bahia. Founded in 2005, the school-s mission is to spread the joy and 
excitement of Brazilian percussion through music education and performance. 
Members of the school learn to play the traditional percussion instruments and 
learn the rhythmic styles of Brazilian Carnaval, and perform at various 
community events throughout the city. Classes take place most Sunday afternoons 
at Studio 34 on Baltimore Avenue.

Music samples, tickets, and more information:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3317
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[UC-Announce] Sun 10/16: Side Touré, Malian singer and guitarist, at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Sidi Touré
Malian guitarist and singer

Sidi Touré is a worthy successor to Ali Farka Touré. Among Songhaï musicians, 
Sidi is the best. Sidi Toure has all the talent, quality , simplicity, playing 
and singing skills, it's incredible. We need people like Sidi. – Bassekou 
Kouyaté

At 801 South 48th Street (Calvary Church, corner of 48th and Baltimore)

Tickets ($10-30), music samples and more information:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3103

Sidi Touré's Songhaï blues is warm and inviting, with precise acoustic guitar 
picking intricately interwoven with his clear tenor voice and a second guitar 
or a traditional lute like the kurbu and kuntigui (which also provide a kind of 
minimalist percussion through the tapping of the players' fingernails against 
their skin heads).

Touré made his first guitar as a child, constructing it from his wooden writing 
slate in the ancient town of Gao, Mali, once the capital of the Songhaï empire. 
Like another Malian noble turned singer, Salif Keita, he faced a conflict 
between the inexorable pull of music and the expectations of family and 
society. Touré's family, descendants of ancient kings, had been sung about, and 
sung to, by traditional griots for centuries, but until a small boy challenged 
the rules, the Touré's did not sing!

Despite his family's disapproval (Sidi's older brother often broke his homemade 
guitars in protest), Touré became the lead singer of his school's band. In 
1976, Touré became the youngest member of Gao's regional orchestra, the Songhaï 
Stars, who played bi-annual festivals like the Bamako Biennale and toured both 
regionally and nationally. Early on, etiquette and convention demanded that he 
sang in Bambara, the capital's local language, which often found Touré singing 
lyrics in a vernacular he did not understand. This changed in 1984, when he won 
the award for best singer for Manou Tchirey, a song of his own, written in 
the Songhaï language.

After winning the same award an unprecedented second time in 1986, he took the 
band to the northern regions of Mali and to Niger, where Songhaï was spoken 
regularly, and toured much of the western Sahel region. Sidi is widely praised 
for his ability to capture a sense of tradition while also challenging it. Both 
his lyrics and guitar style are full of reflection, hope and promise; even in 
some of his sparsest arrangements he manages to ignite social dialogue.
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[UC-Announce] Sun 9/25: Ritesh Rajnish Mishra, Songs of Benaras

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm
801 South 48th Street (48th and Baltimore in Calvary Church)

RITESH  RAJNISH MISHRA
Songs of Benaras
In the Benaras Gharana, the baton has truly and firmly been passed on. Gave 
the audience the feeling they were about to meet Lord Ram. -- Times of India

Presented in collaboration with the Sangeet Society

Among the many vocal gharanas (musical lineages) of Hindustani (North Indian) 
classical music, that of the holy city of Banaras has been among the jewels of 
India’s musical crown for centuries. Brothers Ritesh and Rajnish Mishra are 
among the foremost inheritors of this tradition performing today. Since 
childhood, they have studied duet singing with their father, Pandit Rajan 
Mishra, and their uncle, Pandit Sajan Mishra, known as the “Sun and Moon of the 
Banaras Gharana.

Duet singing in Indian classical music is a very difficult art that requires 
both great individual skill and perfect self-control to improvise and harmonize 
at the same time. The brothers manage both with ease, touching listeners hearts 
with melodious voice and sensuous application, performing khayal, tappa, tarana 
bhajans and other classical forms with a rich and thorough knowledge of all the 
ragas.

Ritesh and Rajnish are the sixth generation of Mishras to be noted musicians, 
and since their birth, the sounds of tanpura, sarangi, tabla and their 
forefather’s voices vibrated in their home and surroundings. Gifted with 
pleasing voices and an innate sensibility for musical notes, they studied 
intensely for years at home and at Delhi University before beginning to perform 
both in India and abroad. They are now recognized as ‘A’ grade vocalists of All 
India Radio and Television and have received the prestigious Yuva Ratna, 
Bhavishya Jyoti, Sangeet Natak Akademi Ustad Bismillah Khan, and Sangeet 
Samriddhi Samman awards.

Advance tickets at:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=2961#ecwid:category=1467182mode=productproduct=5917624

Music samples and more information:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3101


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[UC-Announce] Sat 9/17: Latin American chamber music at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm
801 South 48th Street (48th and Baltimore in Calvary Church)


THE DALI QUARTET with CHUCK HOLDEMAN
Chamber music from Latin America and beyond.
Performance also features the US premiere of Holdeman's Quintetto for String 
Quartet and Bassoon

Big, lush sound. Handled the Latin American music with authoritative ease. - 
The Morning Call

With an artist's grace and a Caribbean soul, Philadelphia's Dalí Quartet is 
today's freshest voice in Classical and Latin-American music. The members of 
the Quartet include alumni of Venezuela's social and music education movement 
El Sistema and graduates of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Indiana 
University Bloomington and the Simon Bolivar Conservatory in Caracas, 
Venezuela. The Lincoln Journal Star has called the Dali's music stunningly 
played, and the Allentown Morning Call has praised their big lush sound and 
authoritative ease.

Saturday's program includes music by Villa-Lobos, Piazzolla, and Turina, 
tangos, boleros, and canciones by Gardel, Almaran, and G. M. Rodriguez, and the 
North American premiere of Chuck Holdeman's Quintetto for String Quartet and 
Bassoon.

Chuck Holdeman studied bassoon and composition at the Curtis Institute, was 
principal bassonist of the Delaware Symphony for 24 years and is currently a 
member of Philadelphia's new music ensemble Relache.


Advance tickets at:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?page_id=2961#ecwid:category=1467182mode=productproduct=5900453

Music samples and more information:
http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3070


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[UC-Announce] Sat 9/10: Electric Simcha Stinking Lizaveta at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm
801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church, corner of 48th and Baltimore)

ELECTRIC SIMCHA
Punk rock arrangements of Hasidic melodies.

An invigorating, ultimately congruous set. Quickening the already frisky pace 
of klezmer, they blazed through a slew of festive Jewish music, finishing with 
a long, dizzying rave-up of the trad Hanukkah song Yevanim. - Philadelphia 
Inquirer

STINKING LIZAVETA
West Philly underground rock with jazz, Greek, and Balkan influences.

Pile-driven polyrhythms, bottom-feeding bass lines and cluttering guitar 
scrawl. As crazed and complex as the Dostoyevsky character that inspired their 
name. - Philadelphia City Paper

This Saturday, Crossroads Music begins our Fall 2011 season with the first ever 
co-bill of West Philly's legendary instrumental rock trio, Stinking Lizaveta, 
and Electric Simcha, who play with nigunim (Chasidic devotional melodies) and 
traditional klezmer tunes with the volume turned up to eleven. Tickets ($5-15) 
are available at the door or from our website.

Music samples, tickets, and more information:
http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org
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[UC-Announce] Crossroads Music announces fall season at Calvary Church

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

CROSSROADS'S TENTH SEASON... AND BEYOND?

It's hard to believe, but Crossroads Music is about to start our tenth year of 
bringing world-class music to West Philly. This season's concerts at Calvary 
Church have something for everyone - klezmer and Malian blues, Indian classical 
music and Brazilian samba, Latin American chamber music and West Philly punk, 
Scottish folk and much more. 

However, we need your help in order to continue presenting these great programs 
and performers. Ticket sales cover only 60% of our costs and a decline in grant 
funding has put our future programming in jeopardy, but with your generous 
support, we are confident that Crossroads will not only continue, but thrive. 
Please consider visiting our website at http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org and:

* Becoming a member. Crossroads members receive discounts and free tickets. 
* Making a tax deductible donation. 
* Buying an ad in our program book. 
* Buying your tickets in advance. (Most of the expenses of producing a concert 
are due before we can deposit the cash from door sales).

Thanks in advance for your support. We look forward to seeing you at the 
concerts.

=

UPCOMING EVENTS
(See http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org for music samples, tickets, and more 
information).

-

Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 7:30 pm

ELECTRIC SIMCHA
Punk rock arrangements of Hasidic melodies.

An invigorating, ultimately congruous set. Quickening the already frisky pace 
of klezmer, they blazed through a slew of festive Jewish music, finishing with 
a long, dizzying rave-up of the trad Hanukkah song Yevanim. -- Philadelphia 
Inquirer

STINKING LIZAVETA
West Philly underground rock with jazz, Greek, and Balkan influences.

Pile-driven polyrhythms, bottom-feeding bass lines and cluttering guitar 
scrawl. As crazed and complex as the Dostoyevsky character that inspired their 
name. - Philadelphia City Paper 

-

Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 7:30 pm

DALI QUARTET with CHUCK HOLDEMAN
Chamber music from Latin American and beyond. Concert includes the North 
American premier of Holdeman's Quintetto for Bassoon and String Quartet.

Big, lush sound. Captured the elegance and lightness of the Haydn quartet and 
did not have any difficulty in switching to the dissonant drama of one of 
Beethoven's most stormy chamber music works. Handled the Latin American music 
with authoritative ease. - Allentown Morning Call

-

Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm

RITESH  RAJNISH MISHRA
Songs of Benaras

In the Benaras Gharana household of Pandit Rajan and Pandit Sajan, the baton 
has truly and firmly been passed on. Gave the audience the feeling they were 
about to meet Lord Ram. - Times of India 

Presented in collaboration with the Sangeet Society

-

Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 7:30 pm

SIDI TOURÉ
Malian singer and guitarist

Sidi Touré is a worthy successor to Ali Farka Touré. Among Songhai musicians, 
Sidi is the best. Sidi Touré has all the talent, quality , simplicity, playing 
and singing skills, it's incredible. We need people like Sidi. - Bassekou 
Kouyaté 

-

Sunday, November 20, 2011 at 7:30 pm

KYO DAIKO
Japanese taiko drumming

An explosion of sound, matched by uniform choreographed movements, creating an 
avalanche of sight and sound. - Philadelphia Weekly

UNIDOS DA FILADELFIA
Pulse-pounding Brazilian samba

Community samba school spreading the joy and excitement of Brazilian percussion 
through music education and performance 

-

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm

TORI ENSEMBLE
Korean classical and experimental music

Amid all the painful attempts to modernize traditional music there sometimes 
comes a work that reinvents traditional music with such authenticity, power and 
originality that all you can do is drink it in with grateful ears. - 
Washington Post 

-

Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm

ELAINE HOFFMAN WATTS AND SUSAN LANKIN WATTS
Philadelphia's greatest klezmer dynasty returns to Crossroads

A 3rd-generation klezmer, the mother of a next generation of klezmorim, and a 
raucous, wonderful storyteller. The Philly sound in full force and 
dance-compelling splendor. - Ari Davidow

Presented in collaboration with the Philadelphia Folklore Project

Buy your tickets early - last year's concert sold out! 

-

Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm

INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT
Adrian Legg (UK), Marco Pereira (Brazil), Lulo Reinhardt 

[UC-Announce] Wed 5/11: Petar Ralchev, the Mozart of Bulgarian folk music at Crossroads

[Daniel Flaumenhaft]

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 at 7:30 pm


At Crossroads Music, 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary Church)

Petar Ralchev

The Mozart of Bulgarian folk music

His rich harmonic palette allows him to create dazzling chords, change keys 
seemingly at will, and answer his own improvised phrases with statements that 
push the music inexorably forward. – Chicago Reader

While I have some shows coming up, none of them are more important than this. 
I don't normally send you all a message to go see someone else, but Petar 
Ralchev is quite possibly the best accordion player on the planet. If you 
missed this, it would be a shame. Mark your calendars and change your evening 
plans. This is the only place you need to be Wednesday night! – Dan Blacksberg

Petar Ralchev is one of the brightest stars on the contemporary Bulgarian music 
scene. The founder of a unique performing style characterized by virtuosity, 
melodiousness, rich harmony and improvisation, he is an inspiration for many 
young accordionists around the world today. Having inherited a wealth of tunes, 
rhythms and measures from the folk tradition, he takes them into new realms and 
leads them to new heights. His deep understanding of this tradition, combined 
with rigorous classical training at the National School of Music Art in 
Plovdiv, is the basis for incredible artistic development. During years of 
performing with other musical giants such as Georgi Yanev and Ivo 
Papasov-Ibryam, Ralchev reshaped accordion performance as we know it. Open to 
the subtleties and innovations in the music of other countries, he is one of 
the most sought-after performers in Europe today.

Besides his solo career, Ralchev appears with several multi-ethnic European 
bands such as The Other Europeans Band, No Border Orchestra, Accordionale, 
Danube Ship Orchestra, Arabesque, etc., and is included in many Bulgarian 
projects such as the Zig Zag Trio, Bulgari and the present Petar Ralchev 
Quartet, where he is joined by three young artists, who have brought to the 
“New World” an incredible treasure: knowledge, attitude and skills deeply 
rooted in the old village traditions of their home country, yet polished 
through intensive training in elite professional schools and enriched by the 
musical traditions of other parts of the world. The result is music, which is 
intricate and mesmerizing: solid in its foundation, yet eclectic and versatile.

To read more, listen to sound samples, or buy tickets:

http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=2524

--

Upcoming events

Special extra concert!
Monday, May 9, 2011 at 7:00 pm

The Starry Mountain Singers

Vocal harmonies from New England, Appalachia, Bulgaria, Corsica  the Republic 
of Georgia
Everyone needs to make time to get the hell outta the house and 
hear this rockin' bunch; your molecules WILL be rearranged. - Pete Sutherland

At the Rotunda, 4014 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Pay what you can; suggested 
donation is $10.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011 at 7:30 pm

Taína Asili, Gaetano Vaccaro  April Goltz

Flamenco and Latin American folk

Puerto Rican vocalist Taína Asili and Sicilian guitarist Gaetano Vaccaro are 
joined by Albuquerque based dancer April Goltz for a stunning night of Latin 
American folk and flamenco.

Unless otherwise noted, events take place at 801 S. 48th Street (in Calvary 
Church), Philadelphia.

--
 
Crossroads Music is in part supported by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and the 
Samuel S. Fels Fund and by our members, donors, and program book advertisers.

This project is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state 
agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts 
funding partnership. State government funding for the arts depends upon an 
annual appropriation by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and from the National 
Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administred in this region by 
the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.
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