Kora Band CD Release Tonight!
The Kora Band’s CD release concert is tonight at 10:30 (doors at 10) at the newly renovated Mississippi Studios, perhaps my new favorite venue in Portland:
We’ll be releasing our debut album “Just 4 U” tonight, and the always exciting and raucous Krebsic Orkestar (in which I play trumpet as well) will be playing second. We’re [...]
Black Star Line
I can’t resist posting this, even though I just put up another post. On a trip over to my favorite world music blog, I found this post featuring a 45-rpm single from Ghana advertising the Black Star Line. If only advertisement jingles were this awesome today, and came in both highlife and calypso versions!!!!!
SOS Recording…
Well the SOS tour has come and gone. We had a great time, albeit not amazing turnouts – par for the course I suppose. At any rate, the new material was amazingly creative and covered an even wider spectrum than our previous record (insert shameless plug for said record, Poem of the Underground, which has [...]
Portland Tonight! / New Pictures
Well we have safely arrived back in Portland (well most of us, those who get up early, that is…)
We had a good show at Cozmic Pizza last night (despite a bad turnout – Eugene turns out to be a hard place to get folks out!). We’re really looking forward to the show tonight at the [...]
SF/Ashland
Sorry for the delay, haven’t had computer access. The San Fran gig was a huge success (at least by our standards), the Climate Theater is a great intimate little room and we filled it up! We played very niceley (especially after my friend Rick let us use his rehearsal space in the afternoon) and everyone [...]