by Frances Phillips | Jul 31, 2015
Women’s Audio Mission is collaborating with musician Nydia Algazzali Gonzalez and the ensemble Mariachi Femenil Orgullo Mexicano to create the first mariachi album ever performed, arranged, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered entirely by women. Mariachi Femenil...
by Frances Phillips | Jul 17, 2015
Azerbaijani pianist Chingiz Sadykhov collaborated with Afghani, Iranian, Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Persian, Chinese, Cretan, and Assyrian master artists and Door Dog Music Productions to create Nowruz: An Evening of Rebirth, a program combining traditional and newly...
by Frances Phillips | May 22, 2015
Capoeira Master Ubirajara Almeida and Ghanaian/Anlo Ewe Master Choreographer, Dancer, and Drummer CK Ladzekpo collaborated with the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts to create Konyifafa. The artists merged the complex rhythmic structure, vocabulary, and grammar...
by Frances Phillips | May 1, 2015
Traditional artists Mellie Lopez, Danongan Kalanduyan, Cota Deles Yabut, and Melinda Lopez collaborated to create a folk musical theatre piece based on a Maguindanao folktale, Sultana and the Pearl King. This story of the tragic love between a mortal woman (the...
by Frances Phillips | Apr 3, 2015
Afro-Peruvian percussionist Lalo Izquierdo and Bolivian musician Oscar Reynolds collaborated with one another, with the ensemble Karumanta, and with the California Academy of Sciences’ Traditional Arts Program to create new compositions that combined Bolivian Indian...
