This coming weekend will have a lot going on between the Festival of Nations in St. Paul and the May Day Parade and celebration at Powederhorn Park. Due to my newness to the area, I’ll defer to N.S. Gill from About.com for a description of the event:
May Day is celebrated on May 6, 2007.
On May Day (actually, the [...]
Archive for April, 2007
Minneapolis May Day
Posted in May Day, MayDay, Minneapolis on April 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Festival of Nations 2007
Posted in Festival of Nations, Minneapolis, St. Paul, international festival on April 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Travel the World without a passport at the 2007 Festival of Nations held in St. Paul. Given that this is my first full year in the Twin Cities, it’s hard for me to offer up a qualified opinion, except that it looks awesome. At the 2007 Festival of Nations, 97 different ethnic groups from around [...]
Michael Jackson Gone Polka
Posted in German, Music, badesalz, hasselhoff, michael jackson on April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is a lot more to German music than just the jewels of David Hasselhof. Instead I would suggest the sounds of the German group Badesalz performing the Michael Jackson classic “Black or White.”
Badesalz (German for bath salts) is a famous comedy duo of Henni Nachtsheim und Gerd Knebel. From Frankfurt, [...]
The Thrill of Frigg
Posted in Fiddles, Finland, Frigg, Music on April 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Four concerts in five days and I’m feeling pretty good. I’ll delve more into the Congolese and Malian music in the coming days.
Frigg, a Finnish-Norwegian fiddle band, played Thursday at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis. The opening act the Orange Mighty Trio was the perfect complement to Frigg…they were all over the place musically [...]
Tinariwen in Minneapolis
Posted in Mali, Minneapolis Concert, Music, Tinariwen, Uncategorized on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While attending the Vieux Farka Toure concert at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, the MC mentioned that Tinariwen will be playing in concert in November. The group is amazing and has a lot of material on the web. This is definitely one not to miss.
Konono #1 – Congotronic Trance
Posted in congo, konono, trance on April 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sometimes words fail to describe a band or concert experience that was so foreign to my ears. Konono #1 was that type of experience. Sweat-covered, I wasn’t sure what I had experienced, other than I really liked it.
The music had constant meringue-techno trance beat which kept most people in the joint moving, and others standing [...]
Antibalas Online – Free for the Taking
Posted in MP3, Music, afropop, antibalas on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With the music from yesterday’s concert at First Avenue still in my head, I searched online and found several free Antibalas MP3s and streaming sites.
SXSW Performance – Minnesota Public Radio
Contains around 30 minutes of performance from this year’s SXSW Festival in Austin.
Beaten Metal (Read Free MP3)
The first track from their latest album, Security, along with [...]
Antibalas – Sweat-Drenched Humanity
Posted in Music, afropop, antibalas on April 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some how among sweat-drenched, dancing people at the Antibalas concert with their horns playing and a hypnotic, meringue-style beat, I felt very alive, indestructible or as their name means in Spanish – bulletproof. The energy that was transmitted between the bands playing tonight – Antibalas and opening act Krudas – and the audience was amazing [...]
Hibo Mohamed Nuur: A Voice Lost In The Chaos
Posted in Hibo Mohamed Nuur, Hibo Nuura, Music, Somalia on April 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A voice that drew thousands and was called the James Brown of Somali music now lives in relative obscurity in Rochester, Minnesota. I came across this story purely by accident while searching for stories on Somali culture in Minneapolis on Minnesota Public Radio a few weeks ago and was really struck by it.
“Hibo Mohamed Nuur’s [...]
Friggin’ Finnish Music
Posted in Finland, Frigg, Music on April 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
With the Finnish-Norwegian folk band Frigg coming to the Cedar this Thursday, a few friends and I were talking about the number of great Finnish (and Nordic) acts that visit the Twin Cities as well as the support the community shows for these events. Frigg will be no exception, which is quickly apparent when you [...]
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