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Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency Ecumen Lakeview Commons Assisted Living and Memory Care in Maplewood PERFORMANCE

June 12TH, 2024 Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency Ecumen Lakeview Commons Assisted Living and Memory Care in Maplewood Wednesday June 12th, 2024 FINAL CLASS & PERFORMANCE “Common Commotion” will be performing this afternoon at 1:45pm presenting rhythms from Egypt, Algeria, Cuba, Spain and Morocco/Turkey and chanting. Community performance inviting family and friends to site.

Cosmos Sh2-132

This powerful feline appearing nebula is powered by two massive stars, each with a mass over 20 times greater than our Sun. Formed from shells of ionized gasthat have expanded, the nebula’s energetic matter not only glows, but is dense enough to contract gravitationally and form stars. The angular size of the Lion Nebula, officially…

David Nelson

David Nelson

David Brian Nelson (born June 12, 1943) is an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He is perhaps best known as a co-founder and longtime member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Nelson started his musical career playing folk and bluegrass music, most notably as a member of The Wildwood Boys with Jerry Garcia….

Geri Allen

Geri Allen

Geri Antoinette Allen (June 12, 1957 – June 27, 2017) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and educator. She taught at the University of Michigan and the University of Pittsburgh. Allen was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on June 12, 1957, and grew up in Detroit. “Her father, Mount Allen Jr, was a school principal, her…

Chick Corea

Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist.His compositions “Spain“, “500 Miles High“, “La Fiesta”, “Armando’s Rhumba” and “Windows” are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis‘s band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz…

Marcus Belgrave

Marcus Belgrave

Marcus Batista Belgrave (June 12, 1936 – May 24, 2015) was an American jazz trumpet player from Detroit, born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He recorded with numerous musicians from the 1950s onwards. Belgrave was inducted into the class of 2017 of the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in Detroit, Michigan. Belgrave was tutored by…

Bernard Purdie

Bernard Purdie

Bernard Lee “Pretty” Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time-keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the “Purdie Shuffle.” He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Purdie recorded…

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