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JAYME STONE & YACOUBA SISSOKO AFRICA TO APPALACHIA
Sound Culture Presents NOMADIC WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL APRIL 1st through 30th Celebrating 1 year of cultural music programming Happy Birthday Sound Culture!
Saturday, April 10th 2010 JAYME STONE'S AFRICA TO APPALACHIA feat. YACOUBA SISSOKO 10pm | 9pm doors $12 Adv. | $12 Door Morseland 1218 W. Morse Ave. Chicago, IL
Two-time Juno Award winning banjoist Jayme Stone and Malian kora master Yacouba Sissoko build a boundary-crossing musical bridge from Africa to Appalachia in their groundbreaking collaboration.
Jayme Stone keeps an ear to the ground. His curiosity and unlikely set of reference points started early with the quirky physics of the banjo, led to a mysterious librarian who stocked his local public library with a vast trove of banjo recordings, and landed him long-lasting lessons with a series of maestros, from Bla Fleck to Bill Frisell. Influenced by Japanese poetry and Brazilian literature and featuring what he calls a tiny symphony that takes place inside an imaginary light bulb, Stones album, The Utmost, won the 2008 Juno Award for Instrumental Album of the Year.
The most recent chapter in Stones musical travelogue takes place in Africa. He went knowing whats still news to most: that the hide-covered instrument with an extra drone string we call the banjo actually comes from West Africa. He became particularly curious about the music that may not have made it across the ocean on slave ships headed west from Senegal and Mali in the 1700-1800s. An eight-week trip to Mali was supported by a prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship and found Stone sitting in with Toumani Diabate and the Symmetric Orchestra in downtown Bamako, lost in circles of Wassoulou polyrhythms and in a rural Dogon village with no electricity where he inadvertently discovered a banjo predecessor unheard of in the West. The resulting album, Africa to Appalachia, featuring kora player Mansa Sissoko, ngoni master Bassekou Kouyate and fiddle pioneer Casey Driessen, won the 2009 Juno Award for World Music Album of the Year.
Jayme Stone banjo, Yacouba Sissoko kora/vocals, Mike Barnett fiddle, Brandi Disterheft bass, Nick Fraser percussion.
http://www.jaymestone.com
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LocationMorseland
1218 W. Morse. Ave.
Chicago, IL
United States
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Minimum Age: 21 |
Kid Friendly: No |
Dog Friendly: No |
Non-Smoking: No |
Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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