CROSSROADS MUSIC: CONCERTS IN WEST PHILADELPHIA, MUSIC FROM ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
Crossroads Music is pleased to announce our Fall/Winter 2008 schedule.
While West African music is especially strongly represented this fall,
there are also some wonderful Eastern European, English, Latin
American, and North American artists coming up. Concerts take place at
7:30 pm in the chapel of West Philadelphia's Calvary United Methodist
Church, a beautiful room with excellent acoustics.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
JEZ LOWE & THE BAD PENNIES
Topical folk music from England's post-industrial northeast
Friday, September 26, 2008
JAYME STONE & MANSA SISSOKO
Africa to Appalachia
Saturday, October 4, 2008
BERNARD WOMA
Master of the Gyil (Ghanaian xylophone)
with ALOKLI WEST AFRICAN DANCE and GINA FERRERA'S GYIL FUSION
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
ETRAN FINATAWA
Nomad Blues from Niger's Tuareg and Wodaabe peoples
Saturday, November 8, 2008
VENISSA SANTI
Cuban jazz standards and Afro-Cuban folkloric song
SONIC LIBERATION FRONT
Afro-Cuban Yoruba roots meet free jazz and electronica
Saturday, November 22, 2008
METROFOLK BAND
Traditional Music from Hungary and Romania.
Saturday, December 6, 2008
APRIL VERCH BAND
Ottawa Valley fiddle and stepdance
Saturday, January 17, 2009
PETER OSTROUSHKO
Heartland Americana (with a Ukranian twist)
with SVITANYA EASTERN EUROPEAN WOMEN'S VOCAL ENSEMBLE
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
INTERNATIONAL GUITAR NIGHT, featuring
PIERRE BENSUSAN (France)
BENJAMIN VERDERY (New York)
CECILIA ZABALA (Argentina)
BRIAN GORE (San Francisco)
Crossroads Music is Philadelphia's only organization dedicated to
organizing public performances by accomplished musicians with roots in
cultures from around the world. Our concerts, workshops, master
classes, lectures, and other activities educate the public by
providing a welcoming and affordable environment for music-lovers of
all ages and backgrounds to explore seldom-heard sounds and engage in
intercultural dialogue. We also work closely with other community and
cultural organizations that share our goals. Crossroads is a community-
based not-for-profit organization where musicians retain the freedom
to stay close to their roots and also explore new avenues of
expression. We are inspired by and seek to maintain West
Philadelphia’s historic role as a diverse and inclusive meeting place
for different cultures, social and economic classes, and progressive
social movements.
Most tickets are priced between $10 and $20 and are available both at
the concerts and in advance from Brown Paper tickets (via our website
or at 1-800-838-3006) and at House of Our Own Books (3920 Spruce
Street). More information on the season (including artist bios, sound
clips, press photos, and more) is available at http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org
or 215-729-1028
Crossroads' programming is in part supported by grants from the
Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, the
Samuel S. Fels Fund, and the 5-County Arts Fund (a Pennsylvania
Partners in the Arts program funded by the Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts and administered by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance).
