A collective and dynamic fusion of music, art and interactive video.

A totally concept in Urban performance the “RedBlueBrothers” are giving you the ultimate experience, mixing the best music selection with the art digital effects.

Digital Graphic designer (Andres Arriaga) & DJ (Ricardo Bogota) are putting the talent on the table, and you are essential part of the show.
A live mix of Jazz Beat, Funk-Drum and Bass, playing simultaneously with fascinating digital images of the best urban art landscapes. All showing on your outfit wile you are dancing!

Don’t miss the opportunity to be part of this unique performance.

redBlue Brothers @ Terraza 7 train cafe

No Cover

La Cumbiamba eNeYé will performs on Saturday July 31 at 10:00PM

La Cumbiamba eNeYé performs concerts and workshops with traditional instruments from the Indigenous cultures, the European and African Diasporas, as well as the mestizo/criolla cultures of Colombia. All of which are blended together to create the traditional musical styles that developed throughout the colonial era and continue to evolve.

La Cumbiamba eNeYé’s approach to music is investigative. However, from the styles, genres, rhythms, and melodies explored the group is inspired to create new arrangements and entirely new compositions, which although traditionally influenced, have eclectic characteristics in texture, harmony and rhythm. This aspect of La Cumbiamba eNeYé can be seen as the result of being a New York born and based group, where interactions and continuous contact with musicians from different places around the world generate new possibilities. The group takes coastal music as a departing point and source of work not only because of the musical background of some of the members, but because coastal traditions in Colombia, as in other regions of the Caribbean, are inexhaustible fountains of culture and inspiration.

Initially, La Cumbiamba eNeYé’s began performing a repertoire of cumbia related rhythms outdoors in different public areas of New York City. Given these circumstances, “eNeYé” adopted its denomination of ‘cumbiamba’ from the cultural vocabulary of the northwestern Caribbean coast in South America. In Colombia, ‘cumbiamba’ is a familiar word, which carries the meaning of an outdoors celebration with live cumbia music or the bands that perform in such events. La Cumbiamba eNeYé evokes this lively atmosphere with every performance, and has also extended them into different cultural venues throughout the city and beyond
Since its beginnings, La Cumbiamba eNeYé has been working from a handful of traditional styles that are present in Colombia. Some of these musical styles are:

In the Atlantic Coast

Gaitas y Tambores

From the Atlantic coast, this style is performed with pre-Colombian woodwind native indigenous instruments along with the maraca. In this powerful musical style developed and cultivated throughout the colonial and post-colonial eras until present, drums from the African Diaspora blend as two peas in a pod with the gaitas and their unique contour of melodies. A given piece can be instrumental or sung in Spanish. When it is sung, it is said that this style constitutes a perfect artistic expression of the tri-ethnicity that characterizes the general population in the region.

Modern Banda ‘Pelayera’

Also from the Colombian Caribbean region, this style is performed with the same instruments present in any traditional marching band except that the percussion section contains only one of each. However, this style has plenty of freedom in terms of the brass or woodwind instruments that can be used for any given performance. The term “pelayera” alludes to San Pelayo, a small town in the Atlantic coast region, home of a famous and popular annual band festival. ‘Música Pelayera’ denotes the above-mentioned instrumentation along with the body of repertoire, which a band from the region usually plays, or to describe its musical characteristics and nuances.

Terapia or Champeta

From the Caribbean coast, ‘la música champeta’ refers to the most recent wave of popular influence to be embraced by the common folk in the Colombian Caribbean. Even though present in the Caribbean throughout the century, this musical style was propelled to unprecedented heights by popular music movements emanating from Africa in the immediate post revolution/independence years in the 1960’s, particularly from the Congo area. As a result, ‘champeta’ is more easily compared and associated with Congolese ‘zoukous’. However, the term champeta as it is used in Colombia may include or take various characteristics of similar styles such as calypso, socca, samba, bomba, or zoukus from other regions of the Caribbean or even Brazil, which share Congo elements.

In the Pacific Coast
Conjunto de marimba
This musical tradition takes its name from one of the rhythms played by this type of traditional ensemble found in numerous small villages and towns along Colombia’s Pacific coast and in Ecuador. This ensemble features the marimba as the main melodic and harmonic foundation, singing and drums called bombos and cununos. Other genres within the traditions of these types of ensembles are currulao, bunde, arrullo, aguabajo, and juga.
Chirimía:
This musical style is from the Pacific coast, and its instrumentation is the same as in the ‘banda Pelayera’. There are, however, great differences between these styles, but they are entirely and strictly musical. The differences are present in nuances, rhythms, melodic contour, and phrasing

RADIO JAROCHO PLAY EVERY FOURTH SATURDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 10PM

Radio Jarocho is a New York City-based group devoted to the son jarocho and fandango traditions from southern Veracruz, Mexico. Formed in 2005 Radio Jarocho has performed in the following music venues and festivals in New York City and Washington D.C.

-La Casita at Lincoln Center
-Celebrate Mexico Now!
-Chase Latino Cultural Festival
-Brooklyn Folk Festival
-Instituto Cultural Mexicano, Washington D.C.
-National Museum of the American Indian
-American Folk Art Museum
-Barbes
-Shrine
-Jalopy Theatre
-Banjo Jim’s
-Terraza Cafe
-Cafe Central, Oaxaca

The Band:
Gabriel Guzman
Carlos Marin
Cecilia Ortega
Julia del Palacio
Carlos Cuestas

MoveOn: The Movie screenings
EVERY SUNDAY AT 6PM

To become a MoveOn.org member, go to http://www.moveon.org and click on the link in the upper right corner that says “Sign Up”. And join us for great FREE films every Sunday at 6pm.

June 20th

HBO feature-length documentary “Run Granny Run.” Doris “Granny D” Haddock is the nation’s oldest political newcomer. A former housewife and office assistant, Doris, at the age of 90, laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections. Her epic journey galvanized popular attention to a political system gone awry. A tale of doggedness versus dollars, grit against greenbacks, RUN GRANNY RUN is an unlikely portrait of a remarkable activist and an exploration of our fragile democracy in the corporate age. To sign up: http://pol.moveon.org/event/standfordemocracy/104285

June 27th
MoveOn Queens big “Summer Launch” event for our campaign “The Other 98%”. This is a MEETING event. Are you sick of how Big Oil, Wall St. and Big Insurance keep pulling the strings of Congress? Then you’re ready to begin challenging corporate influence to take back OUR government. Solo, your voice is lost in the lobbyists’ din, but as a chorus we can get the attention we need for vital reform. Our strategy is to connect to important groups and candidates who are the voices of the 98% of us who aren’t corporate lobbyists, so we can re-build a government that works for people, not profit. Join us for our Summer Launch!

Link to sign up: http://pol.moveon.org/event/other98summerlaunch/104272

July 4th

Oil Spill Movie Night – “Moving Beyond Oil” The Sierra Club and Brave New Films’ short documentary about the true effects that the BP oil disaster is having on the Gulf Coast, and why we need to end our addiction to oil. The week of June 28th, hundreds of houseparties will happen all over the country as people talk with their friends about how we can help the Gulf Coast and move our nation beyond oil.
PLUS – Oil Spill NEWSREEL of the latest events.

You are strongly encouraged to host a screening of MoveOn: The Movie for as many people as you can. Our screening tools at Brave New Theaters makes it easy to setup and announce a screening, and allows guests to RSVP. Use our free screening materials on the right to plaster your neighborhood with posters to help get the word out.

Encuentro Cultural: Conversatorio con Julian Rodriguez, actor, musico y humorista colombiano de gira por Estados Unidos

“Arte y Política “

El intelectual y el compromiso social

“El arte no solo sirve para decir

lo que uno tiene que decir

sirve también para decir

lo que uno tiene que callar”

Enrique Buenaventura

ARTE Y POLITICA

– La creatividad humana es diversa, infinita, no tiene estrato social y no depende de ningún poder o gobierno, ni de ninguna política cultural estatal o privada; se da silvestre y masiva, en todo lugar donde exista un ser humano. La creatividad siempre ha sido la manera cotidiana de hacer de todas las personas, el pan de cada día, su herramienta primordial y está presente en toda clase de actividades humanas.

– Da tranquilidad cantarle al mundo, a sus bellezas, a sus miserias, sin afanes de nada, ni de dinero, ni de fama, ni de protagonismo, ni de convencer a nadie, simplemente cantar y que cada canción sea como una flor, como el viento, como un atardecer.

– En el mundo de hoy, globalizado a la fuerza -a través de los medios de comunicación, de la sociedad de consumo, de las armas, de la dictadura del dinero y de la manipulación del pensamiento-, la creatividad está siendo reemplazada por el consumo masivo de las mismas cosas, sin tener en cuenta los diferentes contextos, las distintas culturas, la diversidad que nos habita. El poder mundial llama globalización a la privatización del mundo, donde todos consumiremos lo que ellos nos impongan a través de todos los medios.

Los pensamientos aquí expresados, parten más del artista que del gestor, más del trabajador de la cultura que del empleado cultural, más desde la creatividad que de la academia, más desde el goce del arte y la cultura, más desde la utopía de soñar con un mundo justo y digno, más desde la diversidad cultural, desde el convencimiento de que el pensamiento colectivo no lo puede direccionar la sociedad de consumo y los medios de comunicación; pensamientos que se ubican en la libertad de decir a través del arte y la creatividad lo que se siente y se piensa del mundo de hoy, de nuestra historia, de nuestra relación con la naturaleza, de nuestra realidad social latinoamericana.

Julian Rodriguez

Donde: Terraza 7 train café 40-19 Gleane Street Elmhurst, NY 11373 (Tren 7 parada 82, caminar a la 83 St. entre los bancos Soovereign & Popular)

Hora: 7:00 PM

Donacion: $ 5 dolares

EVERY THIRD TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 9PM
Hiro: Guitar
Moto: Bass
Franco: Percussion

“Interoceanico’s music is earthy, organic and an amalgam of elements imported from diverse genres” -The Groove(USA) “Interoceanico’s music is indispensable for a quiete moment of our life” -Jazz Dimension(Germany) “Interoceanico has pioneered a sub-genre of world music that mirrors the multicultural make up of the ensemble” -The Asashi Newspaper(Japan) “They are fresh, subtle and instantly likable and rotating cast keeps the soundscape from becoming repetitive” -Jazz Review.com(USA)

Interoceaico means inter-oceanic. Interoceaico 3 is a unique blend of three musicians from Japan and Argentina.The group was formed in boston, MA 2002 by a composer and guitarist, Hiroya Tsukamoto.
They have performed many concerts throughout the Boston and New York area including Blue Note(New York).

They are a musical ensemble different than most of their contemporaries. Interoceanico’s music is a cornucopia
of lush harmonies, lyrical melodies, driving rhythms and the first class arrangements that form their
original music. They combine elements of South American folklore, contemporary fusion, jazz and pop music
to create an overall sound that is appealing to both non-musicians and musicians. The architecture of
their music is shaped by the variety of diverse influences and backgrounds that each members have.

Interoceanico’s inmitable sound and inventiveness are evident throughout
the musical journey that The Other Side of the World takes listner on.

EVERY THIRD SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 9:00PM

The Alejandro Flórez Trio is a jazz trio with influences of avant-garde music, and colombian rhythms. Alejandro writes all the music, which is playful and ironic in nature. The players infuse a great deal of unpredictability, virtuosity and a definite “New York” feel that is sure to shake the stage.

EVERY FIRST TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 9:00PM

The Sebastián Cruz-Alejandro Flórez Duo was formed in 2009 by these two versatile guitarists who met in NYC. Both musicians bring a mixed background of jazz, Colombian and Latin American music, rock and funk, classical performance and improvised music. The resulting sound is one of relentless search for common ground between these traditions through the timbres of the acoustic and electric guitars.

EVERY DAY FROM 4PM TO 5PM

Terraza 7 train cafe will project THE DEMOCRACY NOW Daily TV/radio program.