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RHYTHM ROOTS WORKSHOP Ebenezer Assisted and Independent Senior Care

Rhythm Roots Workshop Residencies Ebenezer Assisted and Independent Care June 16th, 2023 10-1130pm & 1230-2pm The third Friday in a series Friday drumming workshops 9 & 12 week back to back Rhythm Roots Workshop Residencies at two Ebenezer Care Locations. Ebenezer Loren on Park Assisted Living 10-1130am (https://www.ebenezercares.org/affordable-housing-loren-on…) and Ebenezer Tower Apts 1230-2pm (https://www.ebenezercares.org/affordable-housing-ebenezer…) both…

Cosmos NGC 7000

The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest star). It is named because its shape resembles North America. On October 24, 1786, William Herschel observing from Slough, England, noted a “faint milky nebulosity scattered over…

Gregory Hutchinson

Gregory Hutchinson

Gregory Hutchinson (born June 16, 1970) is an American jazz drummer. Hutchinson’s father was a drummer in a reggae band, and he played with his father while growing up. He studied under Marvin “Smitty” Smith and Kenny Washington in the late 1980s, and began his career playing with Red Rodney in 1989–1990. In the 1990s,…

Femi Kuti

Femi Kuti

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician born in London and raised in Lagos. He is the eldest son of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti and a grandchild of political campaigner, women’s rights activist and traditional aristocrat Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. Femi Kuti began his musical career playing…

Lucky Thompson

Lucky Thompson

Eli “Lucky” Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop. Although John Coltrane usually receives the most credit for bringing the soprano saxophone out of obsolescence in the early 1960s, Thompson (along with Steve Lacy) embraced the instrument earlier…

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