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"Soul Salvation" Ruthie Foster (band) Paul Thorn (solo)

Genre: Roots Rock , Singer-songwriter , Soul

1. Saturday, February 04 8:00 PM (All ages)

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One black, one white.  One from Texas, one from Mississippi.  One woman (with her band), and one man (solo).  Both raised in the church.  Both steeped in the tradition of American music, and both putting their own contemporary twists on it – blending blues, rock, gospel, folk, R&B, and country music.  Most importantly, both have a whole lotta soul!

ABOUT RUTHIE:

Those who have followed Ruthie Foster’s eclectic musical history know that she can burn down any stage with her combustible blend of soul, blues, rock, folk and gospel. And when Grammy Award-winning producer John Chelew suggested she record an album in New Orleans — with support handpicked from the Crescent City’s overflowing pool of talent — it was an opportunity for Ruthie to infuse fresh spices into her already rich sonic gumbo. The result is Let It Burn, a recording that smolders, sizzles and ignites with an intensity born from her vibrant voice and indelible presence. www.ruthiefoster.com/

ABOUT PAUL:

Paul Thorn’s “gruff voice has gotten him compared to Springsteen and Tom Waits.  But when he sits down to write, he’s more like John Prine.” –Newark Star Ledger

Born in Tupelo, Mississippi, raised among the same spirits (and some of the actual people) who nurtured the young Elvis generations before, Thorn has rambled down back roads and jumped out of airplanes, worked for years in a furniture factory, battled four-time world champion boxer Roberto Durán on national television, signed with and been dropped by a major label, opened for Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler and John Prine among many other headliners, and made some of the most emotionally restless yet fully accessible music of our time.

 www.paulthorn.com/

4 outta 5

Genre: Classic Rock , Rock

4 outta 5 is your Classic Rock jukebox bringing to life hits from the 60's thru 90's, featuring songs from bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Journey, Tom Petty, AC/DC, Joan Jett and many, many more. 4o5 features the powerful vocals of bassist Susan Hamilton and guitarist David Youngmark, Calen Tackett on lead guitar and Jeff Naranjo laying down the groove on drums. Rockin' the Puget Sound region since 2006, you are always guaranteed a great time at a 4 outta 5 show!

www.4outta5.com

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ AFRICAN ALLSTARS

Genre: Afro-pop

 Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

Red Stripe is $3.5 all night and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food available from 9pm-12am.

Soyaya:

Ghanaian-born Mohammed Shaibu leads his Seattle-based band, Soyaya, with virtuoso acoustic guitar, dynamic talking drum, and endearing vocals. The name "Soyaya" means "affection" in the Hausa language of West Africa.

The music of Soyaya is a combination of Highlife, Palm Wine, and indigenous Rhythm and Blues.Backing Mohammed are Caxambu from Brazil on percussion and vocals, Etienne Cakpo from Benin on percussion and dance, and Thierno Diop from Senegal on percussion and vocals. 

http://www.mrshaibu.com/

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Anokye

Genre: Afro-pop , Percussionist , Tribal , World

Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

New Belgium Beer specials and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food from 9-12



Anokye:

To see Yaw Amponsah play drums is to see a master at work. Coming from a musical family from West Africa he is at home in the world of rhythm. He makes very difficult rhythms seem very easy. A versatile player he can play many styles of music from Ghana including Palmwine, Highlife, Odonson, Dagbani, Agbacha, and Kpanlogo. Also he knows how to play djembe music of Mali and Guinea, and even beats of popular Congolese music.

His speciality is the music of the multi-part percussion ensembles of the Asante (Ashanti) people. These sets of drums and corresponding rhythms can be made up of as many as eight independent percussion parts, sometimes even more. These are the drums and beats known as Kete, Fontonfrom, Adowa, and Akom. Not only does Yaw know the individual parts that make up these powerful grooves, but he is a master drummer and knows the traditional talking drum language and proverbs that accompany each style of drumming.

An incredible traditional African musician, he has also played other styles of music as well and has worked his drumming into Hip Hop, Rock, and Electronic music recordings. One interesting project he was involved in was making innovative sound installation recordings to accompany pieces from the Seattle Art Museum's collection of African art. He translated traditional proverbs from Twi into English and recited them in rhythm over Kete, Akom, Adowa, and Fontonfrom beats. Two selections of this work are presented here at funketabla, "Sankofa," for a sankofa bird, and "Circular Rainbow," for an Asante stool. These pieces not only illustrate something about the cultural depth of those art objects, but help to convey some of the levels and depth of Asante drumming as well.

http://www.funketabla.com/home.php

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Ijo Anyanmo

Genre: Afro-pop , Caribbean , Reggae , Roots Rock , Tribal , World

Seattle's best live World music weekly: AFROCENTRIC

Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

Red Stripe is $3.5 all night and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food available from 9pm-12am.

About Ijo Anyanmo:

Shawna Hawk and Ijo Ayanmo`s` music is based out of Nigeria, we include Congolese, Bembe, Bata and Makuta rhythms as well.  Shawna Hawk, founder andartistic director, integrates her unique comprehensive background in African, Hawaiian, Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban song and dance in the style of her group.

 

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Kane Mathis & The Sahel Band

Genre: Afro-pop

The Triple Door's world music weekly: AFROCENTRIC.

Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

Red Stripe is $3.5 all night and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food available from 9pm-12am.

About Kane Mathis:

Performing on the 21-string Mandinka Harp and the Turkish Oud, Kane Mathis renders compelling interpretations of these traditional musics.  Years of study with generous masters have given Kane a rare opportunity to share these traditions with other cultures.

Kane began taking trips to The Gambia, West Africa in 1997 and has continued rigorous study of the Mandinka Kora. Over the past ten years his performances have earned him recognition by the Gambian president, The Gambian minister of culture, and both national television and radio of The Gambia.

Kane’s primary kora teachers are Malamini Jobarteh of Brikama, The Gambia and Moriba Kouyate of The Gambia. The Jobarteh family remain one of The Gambia’s most important musical legacies. Tata Din din Jobarteh, Pa Bobo Jobarteh, and Siffai Jobarteh are the families current most visible exponents touring the world.  Kane’s Oud study began with Mutlu Torun of the I.T.U. conservatory in Istanbul and continued with 5 and a half years of courses with Oud virtuoso Münir Nurttin Beken.

For more info: http://www.kanemathis.com/Home.html

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Lagni Sussu

Genre: Afro-pop , Caribbean , Fusion , Percussionist , Reggae , Roots Rock , Tribal , World

Seattle's only World Music Weekly: AFROCENTRICEvery Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

Red Stripe is $3.5 all night and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food available from 9pm-12am.

Schedule:

Sep 2nd: Khaira Arby & Her Band

Sep 9th: Msg From Guinea

Sep 16th: Thione Diop

Sep 23rd: Lagni Sussu

Sep 30th: Kane Mathis



About Lagni Sussu:

Naby Camara, master musician from Guinea, West Africa, leads his group Lagni Sussu with originally composed, dynamic rhythms and songs springing from an artistic tradition over a thousand years old.

He is the Two-Time Recipient of the Juno Award for Best Global Album, in 1995 and 2004. The Juno Award is Canada's equivalent to America's Grammy. It is the highest achievement award given for music in Canada. It is recognition of Naby's outstanding virtuosity in African Music.

Naby's band is called "Lagni Sussu," which in the Sussu Dialect of Guinea, means people of all different races, classes, and background working together. Combining traditional and modern music styles, Naby Camara and Lagni Sussu bring audiences of all ages and cultures to their feet.

Naby Camara Bio:

From the village of Kanteli in the coastal region of Guinea, West Africa, comes the virtuoso and master balafon player Naby Camara. Born into the griot tradition, Naby's musical journey took him into the griot lands of West Africa during his formative years. After studying extensively with his master Amadou Dioubate, Naby journeyed into Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Cote d'Ivoire absorbing musical traditions to broaden and to diversify his musical as well as his personal knowledge.Several years later Naby returned to Guinea as an accomplished and well-traveled musician armed with a wide repertoire of griot music and incomparable experience on intricate complexities of the balafon. Naby soon evolved as one of the most versatile players in Guinea, performing with such groups as Les Merveilles de Guinee, Bala etses Baladins, Les Ballets Africains de Guinee, and Mande Yagha. From traveling the world with Les Ballets Africains de Guineee and Fatala (which was based in Amsterdam and recorded for Peter Gabriel's Real World label) Naby gained international notoriety as a master balafon player.His innovative balafon playing shows a continuous plan the new and old, modern and traditional music. Countless collaborations with great griot musicians such as Prince Diabate and Ousmane Kouyate (an original member of Salif Keita's band), and participation in Le Bicentenaire de la Revolution in France, further demonstrate Naby's great talent as a musician. He is also the two-time winner of Canada's Juno Award for best Global Album of the Year, with the group Takaja in 1995, and for his playing on the top-selling African Guitar Summit album in 2004.Naby currently makes his home in Seattle, Washington, USA, where he performs with his group Lagni Sussu (loosely translated as black and white people living together).

 

 

 

 

 

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Mahonyera Mbira Ensemble

Genre: Afro-pop , Fusion , Percussionist , Tribal , World

Mahonyera Mbira Ensemble

The Seattle-based ensemble Mahonyera* performs traditional mbira music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. Three to four mbira players perform complex interlocking patterns on the 22-24 key mbira dza vadzimu and are accompanied by hosho (gourd shakers) and vocals. Mahonyera members, most of whom have spent time studying in Zimbabwe, are: Claire Jones, Kevin Ugarte, Sheree Seretse, Phillip Page and Sooja Kelsey.

*Mahonyera, in the chiShona language, is a style of low-pitched syllabic singing. It also refers to "the sound of distant voices."

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Maya Soleil Traditions

Genre: Afro-pop , Fusion , Percussionist , Tribal , World

Seattle's only World Music Weekly: AFROCENTRIC

Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

New Belgium Beer specials and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food from 9-12



The Triple Door Musicquarium welcomes back Maya Soleil, with their Traditions ensemble presenting the best of African music and dance from Zimbabwe, Ghana, and Guinea. 

These multi-talented performers use mbira, kora, balon, and a variety of African drums to weave complex rhythms and beautiful melodies. Original and traditional songs combine with high-energy dance to thrill audiences wherever this pan-African group performs. Members of Maya Soleil Traditions have toured the world, performing and recording with many of the greats in African music and dance.  This show will feature Lora Chiorah-Dye from Zimbabwe, Karim Koumbassa and Naby Camara from Guinea, and Yaw Amponsah from Ghana.  Come out and dance!!!



Schedule:

August 19th: Ijo Anyanmo

August 26th: Thione Diop

Sep 2nd: Khaira Arby & Her Band

Sep 9th: Msg From Guinea

Sep 16th: TBA

Sep 23rd: TBA

Sep 30th: Kane Mathis



AFROCENTRIC is proud to announce that Rob Pastorok and Maya Soleil will be curating the 4th Thursday of every month, bringing something unique for each performance:

Maya Soleil: an electric Afro-World fusion ensemble with 6-9 performers and:vocals, costumed African dancers, saxophones, flutes, keyboards, balafon, mbira, MIDI wind controller, electric bass, ngoma, congas, djembe, talking drum, shekere, bells, world drum kit....and more

Maya Soleil Afro-World Fusion Music & Dance presents world-class performing artists from Africa, Asia, Jamaica, and the USA in a multi-cultural program featuring African costumed dancers and traditional music blended with contemporary sounds

For more info: http://www.mayasoleil.com/home.html



From our Press Release:

The goal of this weekly is to foster a sense of community in the World music scene here in Seattle and to offer a weekly gathering place for those involved in or fans of World music in the region.  We believe that Seattle has a thriving World community and are excited to bring the Musicquarium into the fold.  The Triple Door itself has long-since been an avid supporter of African music, culminating in King Sunny (& his African Beats) joining with KEXP last June to deliver the very first live-radio broadcast from our stage, a smashing success.

Often AFROCENTRIC will partner up with appropriate Triple Door main stage acts to offer a pre and post lounge component to the evening. The first such event took place on Tuesday, March 16th with Bassekou Kouyate in conjunction with his, and the very first, release on Sub Pop’s new imprint “Next Ambiance,” a world-focused label that takes its name as a transmutation of Jon Kertzer’s pioneering show on KEXP, “Best Ambiance.”

AFROCENTRIC: THE SOUNDS OF AFRICA & BEYOND w/ Msg From Guinea

Genre: Afro-pop , Fusion , Percussionist , Tribal , World

Seattle's only World Music Weekly: AFROCENTRIC

Every Thursday in the Lounge at 9PM...Never a Cover Charge!

Featuring a rotating cast of live musicians and Djs with a focus on the riddims, beats and sonic scapes of Africa and beyond.

Red Stripe is $3.5 all night and $3-$5 Happy Hour Food available from 9pm-12am.

Schedule:

Sep 2nd: Khaira Arby & Her Band

Sep 9th: Msg From Guinea

Sep 16th: Thione Diop

Sep 23rd: Lagni Sussu

Sep 30th: Kane Mathis

About Message From Guinea:

United in their passion for sharing their culture on a global level, Message From Guinea is a group of extraordinary Seattle-based West African artists who have come together to spread a message of joy, unity, and transformation.   Employing powerful rhythms, hi-energy dances, and melodic songs steeped in the rich cultural heritage of their home country of Guinea, West Africa, Message From Guinea opens hearts, ignites passion, and enlivens audiences. These formidable artists grew up living their musical tradition, as Guinea is one of the few places left in Africa where indigenous drumming and dance traditions are still woven into everyday life. 

They began dancing competitively as children, received training from cultural luminaries such as Kemoko Sano, and grew into artists of the highest caliber, touring the world with top companies such as the internationally-renowned Les Ballets Africains, Guinea’s national company.  Their authenticity is evident in their art.

Guinea is the birthplace of many African percussive instruments, including the increasingly popular djembe from the Mande region, and the krin, or “African telephone” from Guinea’s forest region.  These instruments have historically served the role of calling people together for important occasions- births, deaths, planting and harvesting of crops, the arrival of kings, the initiation of battle and the launch of the hunt.  Message From Guinea fuses sacred tradition with modern sensibility; with virtuosity and charisma, they call their audience to join in the essence of Guinea’s cultural legacy.