Houston Juneteenth festival: A muticultural celebration – emancipation proclamations in word, song and dance

Houston Juneteenth festival: A muticultural celebration – emancipation proclamations in word, song and dance

Houston Juneteenth Festival Featuring Hip Hop, Ska, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Gospel, World Music, Art, Dance, Spoken Word, Open Mic, including DRUM, The Danielle Reicht Trio, Los Pistoleros de Tejas, The Ton Tons, Oscuridad Social, El Tlazho, The Bummy Teenagers, JJ… Spoken Word by Meta-four, Houston VIP Slam Team, Neoklassic, Steven… Dance by Micah, Kucheza Dance Group…
Please join for A multicultural celebration of Juneteenth in Houston’s historic East End at Bohemeo’s, 3-11pm on June 20 and 21, 2009. Bohemeo’s is located at the Tlaquepaque plaza at Telephone and Lockwood.

Houston Juneteenth festival: A muticultural celebration – emancipation proclamations in word, song and dance

Program on June 6, 2009

Playlist for June 6, 2009

Nanda Banerjee is a local artist, she has an upcoming concert in August, we will keep you posted on the concert. The song played today on the Navrang Show is from the album “Language of Peace” and can be found on the my space website: http://www.myspace.com/thelanguageofpeace
To the listener who was intrigued by this artist, the album on ktru’s playlist is called Nanda Banerjee -classical vocal, she is accompanied by the tabla maestro Zakir Hussain and Ramesh Misra on Sarangi. It is on concord records label. The tracks on this album are raga – anandi, raga – hansdhwani, thumri and bhajan.

Houston Juneteenth festival: A muticultural celebration – emancipation proclamations in word, song and dance

Indian Classical Music Concert with Sitarist Indrajit Banerjee. On Saturday June 6, 8 pm,FREE RANGE STUDIOS 1719 Live Oak Street, Unit E Houston.

Indrajit Bannerjee returns to Free Range Studios to deliver another brilliant performance on Saturday June 6. FREE RANGE STUDIOS, 1719 Live Oak Street Unit E, Houston, TX 77003. 713.228.9110. For more info visit audiotelepathy.com/FRS
On Sunday June 7, 11am:

This well know sitar maestro will be teaching a classical Indian raga and its movements including alap, jod and jhalla; compositions in vilambit and drut. The 3-hour workshop is open to any student on the sitar. The class fee is $40. If you do not have your own sitar and wish to learn, please e-mail to see if arrangements can be made. There is a limited amount of spaces for this workshop, so please contact to reserve a space for you!