Posts Tagged ‘artist’

Dave Russell & Friends

JANUARY 24: BENEFIT KIRTAN FOR ARSON SURVIVORS, NORTHAMPTON, MA: Yoga Sanctuary, Thornes Marketplace, 150 Main St. (3rd Floor). Benefit to raise money for the survivors of the recent arsonist fires that left city residents homeless or with great losses. Handicap accessible, easy parking in adjacent Thornes parking garage. 7:00 P.M. $10 – $25+ donations. ALL proceeds go to Northampton Friends Relief Fund. Kids welcome. www.yoga-sanctuary.com

Go if you can make it!

Garden Garlic

Mark your calendars for the phenomenal ‘Festival that Stinks,’ a fabulous celebration for the whole family. Looking for inspiration and practical skills to survive and thrive in tough economic times? At the North Quabbin Garlic and Arts Festival you can:

Support and enjoy the bounty of over 100 amazing artists, farmers and organizations; strengthen communities by purchasing locally grown and crafted. Gain skills for interdependence: learn to grow garlic, press cider, mill lumber, make paper, coil clay, grind grain, do tai chi, go solar. Nourish yourself through chef demos, fantastic food and the wondrous wood fired bread oven. Transform trash into compost (last year only three bags of garbage for 12,000 people)! Celebrate with friends old and new: enjoy rockin’ music and incredible entertainment on two solar powered stages, wonderful workshops and garlic games galore. There’s something for everyone you love, so bring your friends and the entire family.

On October 3 and 4, follow your nose to beautiful, historic Forster’s Farm, 60 Chestnut Hill Road, Orange, MA. Visit www.garlicandarts.org for directions, pet policy, and past years highlights. Inflation buster admission at $5.00 per day for adults, weekend pass $8.00, kids 12 and under free. Bike, hike, parachute or ride the Magic Bus–the free biodiesel shuttle from nearby parking lots. Wheelchair accessible parking and restroom facility provided. The 2009 schedule of vendors, music, entertainment and games, chef demos, renewable energy and healing arts workshops, and all you need to know to have a scent-sational time will be updated by July. Multiply the fun: enjoy CISA’s Eat the View and the Conway Festival of the Hills on this same glorious October weekend.

Inner Visions

Performing at the Iron Horse Music Hall

St. John in the US Virgin Islands is home to this unique sounding band with over twenty-five years experience in the field of reggae music. Their mix of the young and the mature performing together creates a mystical sound that touches people of all ages.

No longer billed as the Virgin Islands best kept secret, they have taken the the world with their brand of Reggae music and have taken their audiences captive through their energetic live performances.

It’s been a journey filled with many changes over the years that has resulted in the strong foundation band you see now. In 1995 they recorded their first album and the rest has been history

Discipline, respect, and a sincere love for humanity in a tight family bond are some of the things that stand out when people first meet this great group of fine young men.

Today Inner Visions is a mystical mix of the young and the mature performing together to form a sound that is sweet, danceable, well arranged yet thought provoking. The band has been joined by “Grasshopper’s” two Sons who by themselves have driven the band to new heights previously unheard of.

The group has now traveled extensively to neighboring sister Islands of the Caribbean including Puerto Rico and St Thomas. Their music has taken them to far away destinations such as Cancun Mexico, the USA and recently even across the Atlantic to Europe.

Performing at prestigious festivals and events such as SXSW Music and Film Interactive (in Austin TX where the BBC News found them so interesting they interviewed the band), Club Marley’s (in Universal Studios Orlando FL, Musikfest (Bethlehem, PA), California World Music Festival (Grass Valley, CA), Sierra World Music Festival (Boonville, CA), Grassroots Festival (Truman, NY), Falcon Ridge Folk Festival (Hillsdale, NY) Hot Tin Roof (Martha’s Vineyard), Antilliaanse Festen ( Hoogstraten Belgium), Reggae Summer Nights (Hamm Germany), Dios Latinos Festen (Amersfoot, Netherlands), Het Park Festen (Rotterdam, Netherlands) has truly introduced a slice of St. John to the world!

The band’s sound today is a cultural journey through the musical influences of yesterday and meshes quite smoothly with the sounds of today!

“Inner Visions” is an Independent organization boasting two strong lead vocalists and a three part harmony that will soothe the savage beast in anyone. They do their own productions and spend quite a bit to ensure that they give fans the best quality recordings possible.

Seems that even as their well produced and strong albums continue to sell out, fans still say their energy and stage performance always seem to outshine their awesome body of work.

See a few live performances at www.myspace.com/innervisionsreggae

If you miss your 70′s Reggae and need a fix, here it is! See them live as soon as you can and be “InnerGised!”

Inner Visions

Raquy

Raquy

and the Cavemen are coming back to Northampton to do another fund raiser for the Vegan Bus! The last sold out Raquy show we put on helped raise over one thousand dollars for the bus. This time we have booked the Northampton Center for the Arts ballroom which can better facilitate the size of a crowd Raquy draws. In addition to the show we will be using the side galleries to sell vegan treats as part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale.

Raquy and the Cavemen from Brooklyn bring traditional Middle Eastern Music and Modern Drumming to a heady peak. Raquy has traveled to and immersed herself in the musical cultures of the Middle East, Egypt and India. Raquy performs with the Dumbek (Arabic hand drum) and the Iranian Kamanche, which is similar to a violin. Link to their site.