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Persian ney (flute) virtuoso and vocalist Hossein Omoumi
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The Cosmos with the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), or Nubecula Minor, is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. It is classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy. It has a diameter of about 7,000 light-years, contains several hundred million stars, and has a total mass of approximately 7 billion times the mass of the Sun. The SMC contains a…
Mickey Tucker Day
Mickey Tucker (born April 28, 1941, Durham, North Carolina) is an American jazz pianist and organist. When he was six, he started on piano, eventually playing in church. He performed in the 1960s with Little Anthony and the Imperials and Damita Jo, and also accompanied comedian Timmy Rogers. He entered the jazz world in 1969,…
John Tchicai Day
John Martin Tchicai (April 28, 1936 – October 8, 2012) was a Danish free jazz saxophonist and composer. After moving to New York City in 1963, Tchicai joined Archie Shepp‘s New York Contemporary Five and the New York Art Quartet. He played on John Coltrane‘s Ascension, and Albert Ayler’s New York Eye and Ear Control, both…
Mario Bauza Day
Mario Bauzá (April 28, 1911 – July 11, 1993) was an Afro-Cuban jazz musician. He was one of the first to introduce Cuban music to the United States by bringing Cuban musical styles to the New York City jazz scene. While Cuban bands had popular jazz tunes in their repertoire for years, Bauzá’s composition “Tangá”…
World Music with Mahmoud Ahmed
Ethiopian Music by Mahmoud Ahmed – Yager Betua Aynama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzJe6dAf5Q
Community Band performance 4-27-18
Performing at MLK park in Minneapolis for Arbor Day 2018 with Steve Sandberg, Jim McCreary, Hilary Johnson, Tom Wells, Ralph Campbell, mick laBriola and many more. https://www.minneapolisparks.org/activities__events/events/arbor_day/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-7W4-DLFEA
The Cosmos with NGC 6946
NGC 6946 is a face-on intermediate spiral galaxy with a small bright nucleus, whose location in the sky straddles the boundary between the northern constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Its distance from Earth is about 22.5 million light-years or 6.8 megaparsecs, similar to the distance of M101 (NGC 5457) in the constellation Ursa Major. Both…
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