Somerville Students Rocked
The Somerville News - Jun 29, 2011
There were violins, trumpets, conga drums, and even a ukulele. Renditions of routine songs were performed and the crowd was treated to a few original songs as well. 17 acts performed for an enthusiastic audience that also saw some of Somerville's music
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Soundtrack of the struggle
St. Louis American - Jun 23, 2011
Several innocent men assembled around some conga drums, microphones and other percussive instruments. Dressed in beautiful dashikis, they began their set reciting poetry accompanied by the rhythmical beats of the drums. We were witnessing one of the
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Weekend Adventures in Bradenton: June 24-26
The Bradenton Times - Jun 23, 2011
Grip your conga drum, it's time for a Weekend Adventure in Bradenton! Prepare to kick up some sand and dance to the abscond Friday night as Anna Maria Island's hardest working entertainer Mike Sales, joined by Scott Blum and a fully array of volunteer
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Haywood College takes you around the world for Olympics
Stoke & Staffordshire - Jun 27, 2011
Other attractions will subsume an international sports village, climbing wall, sports activities, fun fair, refreshments, zumba dancing party, live conga drums, market place, dance displays, and stage events. The free event takes vicinity between 11am and 4pm at
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Rachel Maddow Recites Jon Huntsman's New Campaign Ad As Beatnik Poetry
Mediaite.com - Jun 22, 2011
Rachel Maddow Recites Jon Huntsman's New Stand Ad As Beatnik PoetryThat's still most of what is known today, but at least his latest ad makes an attempt of assembling facts, and Rachel Maddow tonight made an endeavour to find poetry in those words, complete with conga drum and oversized shades. Maddow began her segment and more »
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Dance Magic: Ballet Nacional de Cuba Comes to Brooklyn
WNYC - Feb 07, 5837
Starting Wednesday at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Cuban caper will be less about conga drums and hip isolations and more about soaring grand jetés and arabesques. For four nights, the Ballet Nacional de and more »
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McCoy a man on a musical mission
Independent Online - Jun 27, 2011
“Well, I inured to to play conga drums, but had to give it up because when you hit that rim, it can hurt the fingers and hands. I was always into African music. The roots of jazz came to America and, of passage, in jazz we had the blues which came from the and more »
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A celebration of survival
Washington Examiner - Jun 21, 2011
Directly afterward, three musicians play "Contrapunto"("Percussion"), a lively combination of conga drums, bongo drums, and acaj?n, a box on which the musician sits while drumming on one of its sides. This in turn is followed by a celebration of
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Music review: Dawn Upshaw, Peter Sellars and George Crumb in the 2011 Ojai ...
Los Angeles Times - Jun 14, 2011
As part of the third percussionist's setup, for in the event, a conga drum sits next to a large Chinese temple gong, a Cambodian Augklung, Indian ankle bells, a couple of maracas, sleigh bells, an African Udu and a wine bottle. Most of the songs we think we and more »
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Chano Pozo meets Dizzy Gillespie
The Guardian - Jun 17, 2011
By the end of the month, Pozo was adding his conga drum to Gillespie's incendiary big stripe at a Carnegie Hall concert, and a new form of Afro-Cuban jazz was born. The collaboration was short-lived – Pozo was murdered case an uptown bar barely a year
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