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Reserve your seat here; https://3common.com/event/world-music-documentary-night/68e48dc8aadad7d129fca7ed About this event: a tree with roots music presents an evening of world music short film documentaries celebrating music and song from around the globe. Short films include: Born in Nepal Traditions in Nepalese Music Grand Mamou The Cajun Sounds of Louisiana Trip Report Music of the Solomon Islands A Celebration…
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Congratulations to our friends Kaumaakonga as they have reached number #1 on the Pacific Top 20 with their new album TAOBA. https://www.top20pacifique.com/ KMK breathe new life into their Traditional Avaiki chants while combining traditional rhythms and percussion with panpipes, guitar and unique vocal harmonies. They rework and perform the chants and stories of their Polynesian…
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Here’s the 32-minute trip report from the Solomon Islands, a short film that recently made it’s U.S. premiere at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.
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See the Silianifuto String Band perform, “Kadamanga Ba Goro Hafali Ruana” I first heard Swing With the Strings live broadcast on SIBC radio in Honiara while in a taxi heading home for the night.. I loved it so much I recorded what I heard through the radio!(listen below) The next morning I visited the Solomon…
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Stages of Change is a project that aims to use community theatre as a vehicle for reducing violence against women and increasing women’s participation in civil society and peace-making in the Solomon Islands. We caught them in a rehearsal and they sang a beautiful song for us “Tou”, which means “Help”, a song to call…
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Raul Landaeta & his daughter Vanessa performed for us in a quiet dining area at the popular fast food chain in Port-of-Spain! We had arranged for a meeting with cuatro maestro Raul Landaeta at the Venezuelan embassy in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. The plan was to record an interview with him about the cuatro and have him…
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We are thrilled to be presenting our documentary ‘TRIP REPORT SOLOMON ISLANDS’ at the 45th annual Ethnomusicologist conference in Bangkok, Thailand. If you happen to be at the conference this year, we hope to see you! This film will also have its USA premier at the Rhode Island Film Festival this coming August.
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Shooting 16mm film in Kathmandu Simply put, I am never going to travel abroad again without the Canon Scoopic in my bag. Sure, it’s by far the heaviest part of my gear, weighing in around 8 pounds, not including the strange battery charger. But it’s worth it. And with Kodak re-releasing their beautiful Ektachrome stock…
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ATWR visited the cuatro maestro Robert Munro at his home in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad to meet him. While sipping on rum & cokes, his apprentice and friend Dominic Thompson arrived for an impromptu performance of several songs, the last of which Robert showed us the way he originally heard the Venezuelan Joropo “El Gavilan”, and then…
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We were warmly welcomed to stay overnight at the Melanesian Brotherhood in Tabalia, West Guadalcanal, to be sure to be ready to capture the early Sunday morning Mass. Novices spend three years before graduating to Brothers and as part of their daily cycles, rehearse these songs. Hear the Brotherhood singing, “The Creed (We Believe)
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