Ithaca College’s first World Music Festival (Sunday, October 23, 2016)

10/18/16

Contributed by Sara Jacobs

Sunday, October 23, 2016

Ithaca College campus

Co-sponsored by the School of Music and Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF)

All day - starting at 11am and finishing with the spectacular concluding concert at 7:30PM.  Exact schedule for the day will be available soon.

Music from around the world:  America, Africa, Trinidad, Japan, India, Brazil and Argentina

Artists from Ithaca and around the country:

         -Gordon Stout (Ithaca College).  Choro music from Argentina on marimba.

         -Baruch Whitehead (Ithaca College).  African Dance and Drumming music.

         -Valerie Naranjo and Barry Olsen (NYC).  African music.  American Indian music.

         -Dane Richeson (Lawrence University).  African and Brazilian music.

         -Yamatai (Cornell University).  Japanese Taiko music.

-Abhik Mukerjee (sitar) and Dibyarka Chatterjee (tabla).  Hindustani music concert, hosted by Denise Nuttall (Chair of Department of Anthropology, Ithaca College).

         -The Howlin’ Brothers (Nashville, TN).  Oletime Bluegrass, Country Blues music.

-The New Roots Charter School Steel Band and David Ferreira (Ithaca, NY).  Trinidadian music.

         -Conrad Alexander (Ithaca College).  Drum circle music.

For more information:  call Gordon Stout at 607-274-3427 or email at gstout@ithaca.edu

All events open to the public and free!

Come for the day.  Come for a particular event of interest. 

Don’t miss the spectacular concluding concert at 7:30pm in Ford Hall in the Whalen Center for Music!!

Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Erik Kibelsbeck at ekibelsbeck or (607) 274-3717. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.

 

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