Bethany And Rufus Roots Quartet @ Joe's Pub
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street, NY
between East 4th and Astor Place
http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40...

One reviewer describes "Live A Fip," as "like nothing you've ever
heard before. Styles from everywhere and anywhere come together
seamlessly. One hears distinctly Afro-Cuban rhythms pop under driving
bass lines, folksy lyrics and screaming flute. "Death Don't Have No
Mercy" is particularly characteristic of this mixing and meshing. The
cello is inescapably funky, the bongos complexify the rhythms, the
flute line seethes with fiery reverberance, and Bethany's vocals
lament the world in a way that only American folk music can."

Bethany as the daughter of legendary 60's Folk singer Peter Yarrow
(Peter , Paul & Mary) draws from the many songs that her father
collected as part of the seminal folk movement of the 60s. Yacouba has
dug deeply into the folkloric Hausa, Djerma, Peul and Songhai
traditions of Niger and Bonga is the descendant of a very rich lineage
of Vodou ceremonial drumming and song. Bonga has also traveled
extensively through Haiti collecting and learning the different
manifestations of Haitian song and folklore. Rufus has taken the cello
into previously unknown realms and is noted for his collaborations in
African, Arabic, and American music forms and also has a solo CD Songs
for Cello on the Daqui label. Individually all of the members of the
group have been instrumental in expanding the role of traditional
forms in their respective musics. It is with this background that they
have come together to create a sound that although based around the
song forms of American traditional music reaches back to a common root
that has inspired everyone involved.

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