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John Lewis

John Lewis

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and after his parents’ divorce moved with his mother, a trained singer, to Albuquerque, New Mexico…

James Brown

James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer and musician. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is referred to by various nicknames, among them “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business”, “Godfather of Soul”, “Mr. Dynamite”, and “Soul Brother No. 1”.[1]…

Pete Seeger

Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of The Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly‘s “Goodnight, Irene,” which topped the charts for…

Flamenco Fridays Carlos Montoya

Flamenco Fridays Carlos Montoya

Derived from flamenco’s earliest root forms, the tonás, siguiriyas is one of flamenco’s oldest and deepest forms. Its name is a corruption of the term seguidillas, a group of 18th Century songs and dances. Siguiriyas first emerged in the 18th Century in Cádiz, Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera. Slow, majestic and tragic, Siguiriyas is the most…

Rhythm Roots Workshop Ecumen North Branch Senior Living

Rhythm Roots Workshop Ecumen North Branch Senior Living Thursday May 2nd 2024 sixth Class. Teaching a Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency. At Ecumen North Branch Senior Living twice a week Mondays & Thursdays 1-230pm starting Monday April 15th 2024 thru May 13th. Celebrating world cultures through drumming and chanting. The percussion ensemble is “Baby Boomers” performing…

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