From a media release:
CBC Radio 2 Canada Live and Batuki Music Society present
Okavango: An African Orchestra
Friday February 25, 2011 at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC in Toronto at 8 pm.
Okavango: An African Orchestra is an ambitious new musical project that could happen only in one of the world’s great multicultural cities: Toronto. Batuki Music Society Artistic Director Nadine McNulty has assembled a cast of seven accomplished African-born musicians who now live in Toronto and Montreal: Daniel Nebiat (Eritrea Krar), Pasipamire Gunguwo (Zimbabwe marimba/mbira), Donne Roberts (Madagascar guitarist), Nuudi Kooshin (Somali kaban), Waleed Abdulhamid (Sudan bass/guembri), Sadio Sissokho (Senegal kora) and Walter Maclean (Ghana percussion).
The orchestra takes its name from the Okavango Delta, a basin in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, where many different animal species come together to feed and find water. Predators and prey are forced to coexist and share the meager resources because of the harsh environment around them. Similarly, Okavango: An African Orchestra brings together the traditional music and instruments of several major African cultures that historically have had little or no interaction. The musicians of Okavango have created a common meeting place for these disparate cultures, and a new musical language that harmonizes their different tuning systems, rhythms, and timbres. The multicultural spirit of modern-day Canada bridges ancient African solitudes.
The concert program will feature 5 traditional songs from the various African musical cultures represented, plus the world premiere of Okavango: A Conversation with the Spirits: a suite of 5 new, CBC Radio-commissioned pieces by members of Okavango: An African Orchestra.
The concert is hosted by Garvia Bailey of Big City Small World on Radio 1 and presented in association with community partner Small World Music.
CBC Radio 2 Canada Live and Batuki Music Society present
Okavango: An African Orchestra
Friday February 25, 2011 at the Glenn Gould Studio, CBC in Toronto at 8 pm.
Okavango: An African Orchestra is an ambitious new musical project that could happen only in one of the world’s great multicultural cities: Toronto. Batuki Music Society Artistic Director Nadine McNulty has assembled a cast of seven accomplished African-born musicians who now live in Toronto and Montreal: Daniel Nebiat (Eritrea Krar), Pasipamire Gunguwo (Zimbabwe marimba/mbira), Donne Roberts (Madagascar guitarist), Nuudi Kooshin (Somali kaban), Waleed Abdulhamid (Sudan bass/guembri), Sadio Sissokho (Senegal kora) and Walter Maclean (Ghana percussion).The orchestra takes its name from the Okavango Delta, a basin in the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, where many different animal species come together to feed and find water. Predators and prey are forced to coexist and share the meager resources because of the harsh environment around them. Similarly, Okavango: An African Orchestra brings together the traditional music and instruments of several major African cultures that historically have had little or no interaction. The musicians of Okavango have created a common meeting place for these disparate cultures, and a new musical language that harmonizes their different tuning systems, rhythms, and timbres. The multicultural spirit of modern-day Canada bridges ancient African solitudes.
The concert program will feature 5 traditional songs from the various African musical cultures represented, plus the world premiere of Okavango: A Conversation with the Spirits: a suite of 5 new, CBC Radio-commissioned pieces by members of Okavango: An African Orchestra.The concert is hosted by Garvia Bailey of Big City Small World on Radio 1 and presented in association with community partner Small World Music.
• Info at: info@batukimusic.com
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• Tickets $25
• On sale at www.cbc.ca/glenngould
• Or by calling 416 872 4255.
The Glenn Gould Studio is located on the main floor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation building (CBC) at 250 Front St. West, Toronto.
this is beautiful, hopefully the momentum continues, because africans indeed have very little interaction with others.
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