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Come celebrate the opening of the
First Santa Barbara Percussion Festival
with a FREE kick-off party.
Bring the whole family and dance to the rhythms of Homero Chavez and DANCING DRUM.

Casa de la Guerra
15 E. De la Guerra

FREE!

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January 16
10:30am
Eastside Library

January 16
3:30pm
Montecito Library

Bring your kids to experience the rhythms of the world with Dancing Drum!

This high-energy interactive performance provides plenty of opportunities for audience participation through drumming and dancing to the rhythms of West Africa, the Caribbean, and the USA. Most appropriate for ages 4-10.

FREE!

Please contact the libraries for additional information.

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This Brazilian duo brings their special blend of Latin jazz to Santa Barbara

Brazil's legendary songstress Flora Purim has had her music interwoven into the life fabric of Latin and American jazz music for over 25 years. Her six-octave voice has earned her two Grammy nominations and her musical partners have included  Stan Getz, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and Airto Moreira, with whom she has collaborated on over 30 albums.  Airto Moreira, the most high-profile percussionist of the 1970s and still among the most famous,  helped make percussion an essential part of many modern jazz groups. Airto played with Miles Davis and was an original member of Weather Report.

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San Jose Taiko Demonstration

Don't miss this thrilling public demonstration of traditional Japanese drumming!

FREE!

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UCSB Gamelan Ensemble

The word "gamelan" usually refers to an ensemble of a specific set of instruments. A standard ensemble may consist of gongs, kempuls, kenongs, sarons, bonangs, gender, rehbab, kendhung, and sometimes vocals (which are meant to blend with the music.) The UCSB Gamelan Ensemble is part of the UCSB Music Department and gives students the opportunity experience this Javanese Gamelan tradition.

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Don't miss this special 1-hour workshop/clinic with Grammy-winner Luis Conte

All levels of experience are welcome to this special workshop hosted by Dancing Drum. A limited number of drums and percussion instruments will be provided. Space is limited to 30 participants.

FREE!

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San Jose Taiko

Since 1973, San Jose Taiko has been mesmerizing audiences with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of the Taiko drums. The performers express the beauty and harmony of the human spirit through the voice of the Taiko drums as they strive to create new dimensions in Asian American movement and music.

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Don't eat lunch at your desk!  Take a break to explore percussion from around the world

The Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Symphony offer free lunchtime performances on steel drum, vibraphone and more in conjunction with the Museum’s Identities exhibition.  Following the performances, visitors are invited to a 15 minute gallery talk focused on a selected work in the exhibition.

FREE!

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Luis Conte & Friends

Luis Conte’s genius stems from his ability to integrate the powerful rhythms of his native Cuba with the American necessities of American pop music. His long and varied career has included numerous Hollywood film scores and mega-successful albums with Madonna, Ray Charles, Phil Collins, Santana, Shakira, Jackson Browne, Sergio Mendes, Cachao, and a multitude of other artists too numerous to mention.

Dancing Drum’s mission is to provide a forum for people of all ages to participate in the universal language of rhythm through drumming, dancing, geographical and multi-cultural education, and performance. Steve Campbell and Lindsay Rust, professional artists and educators, perform and teach together. The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) was founded in 1997 by Eddie Tuduri and is an educational program for people with disabilities, employing drums and percussion, the program teaches and enhances basic life skills.

This event is supported
in part by the
Marjorie Luke Theatre’s
Dreier Family
Rent Subsidy Fund

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It makes you want to listen, it makes you want to dance and it makes you happy!

Leon Mobley has appeared all over the world with artists as diverse as Michael Jackson, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Ben Harper.  His music encompasses the sounds of traditional African rhythms and songs with a twist of some traditional African American funk, jazz and hip-hop.

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"Rhythm Rainbow"
with Colin Currie

Percussionist Colin Currie has established a unique reputation for his charismatic and virtuosic performances of works by today’s leading composers, and has appeared with many of the world’s most important orchestras – the London Symphony Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra among them. Regularly commissioning and recording new works, he has made an inspirational and innovative contribution to percussion repertoire. He'll also be headlining a percussion Family concert and two concerts with the Santa Barbara Symphony during this Percussion Festival.

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Roy Haynes Quartet

When Roy plays his drums, sixty years of experience informs every authoritative stroke. A working musician since 1942, Haynes' unrelenting swing and sound of surprise has graced the bands of a who's-who list of jazz innovators across a wide spectrum of improvisation

Roy Haynes’ drumming is as dynamic and challenging today as it has ever been. He was awarded the Jazz Journalists prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. This comes on top of countless honors and accolades, including induction into the Downbeat Hall of Fame in 2004, as well as many Grammy nominations.  This percussive powerhouse has played with Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker to name a few. His quartet features Jaleel Shaw on alto sax, Robert Rodriguez on piano and John Sullivan on bass.

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An innovative and fun program of rhythmic splendor that's fun for the whole family!

Onstage participation and audience involvement are major elements of this kid-friendly presentation by Colin Currie, who will have a huge array of drums of every size and type onstage at the Arlington Theatre.  Musical influences from Africa, Brazil, Japan and Indonesia are featured.

 “The festival billed the event as a family concert, put it on in the mid-afternoon, and attracted a huge audience that included family groups (with babies) and youngsters of every age. Was this audience intimidated or put off by the uncompromising music they faced? No way."
  --Family Concert Review, Glasgow Herald, June '02 

Tickets also available at the Lobero Box Office
963-0761

 

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PERCUSSION FESTIVAL
 GRAND FINALE

Santa Barbara Symphony
 with Colin Currie
 


Colin Currie sets the rhythm for the
Percussion Festival's Grand Finale with
the Santa Barbara Symphony 

Thrill in the magic of Dave Maric's Trilogy for solo percussion and the West Coast premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s Percussion Concerto. What can compliment such an energetic program?  None other than Beethoven's majestic Symphony No. 4.

"Ms. Higdon aims to please in her colorful, propulsive
 and unabashedly accessible 25-minute concerto. The performance elicited a cheering ovation for the extraordinary percussion soloist, Colin Currie, and for the composer."
  --Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

TICKETS:
Arlington Box Office
1317 State Street
805-963-4408
or online

Tickets also available Lobero Box Office
33 East Canon Perdido
805-963-0761

(Student Rush: $10
one hour before concert at the Arlington box office.  Subject to availability.)

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