• That’s a wrap! • Series 1 of the @23artslive concerts is done and dusted but we can’t wait to share what’s in store for the 2nd series coming soon. • Thank you to our incredible supporters and artists, it wouldn’t be possible without you 🧡 • @secsmiles @lingo_lando @horneswag @shenelvox @dominickmusic @chrispattishall @alexatarantino @jacobdilli @vuyosotashe @bensutinmusic @rhythmfactoryaudio @keyonharrold @pianovitor @russellhall_ • • • #23arts #live #collective #livestream #community #onlineconcert #series #jazz #triadtheater #nyc #talent #welovelivemusic
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    That’s a wrap! • Series 1 of the @23artslive concerts is done and dusted but we can’t wait to share what’s in store for the 2nd series coming soon. • Thank you to our incredible supporters and artists, it wouldn’t be possible without you 🧡 • @secsmiles @lingo_lando @horneswag @shenelvox @dominickmusic @chrispattishall @alexatarantino @jacobdilli @vuyosotashe @bensutinmusic @rhythmfactoryaudio @keyonharrold @pianovitor @russellhall_ • • • #23arts #live #collective #livestream #community #onlineconcert #series #jazz #triadtheater #nyc #talent #welovelivemusic
  • This Bitter Earth 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Context is everything in this ingenious album by the singer Veronica Swift. - Chris Pearson, @thetimes We are sending huge congratulations to @veronicaswiftjazz for the release and stellar 5* review of her latest album, This Bitter Earth. Veronica is a valued member of the New Generation Festival family and blew our audiences away in “The Three Divas” jazz night at the ReGeneration Festival 2020. We are so proud of you Veronica! This Bitter Earth is available to stream now on Spotify. You can read the full article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/veronica-swift-this-bitter-earth-review-a-sly-political-commentary-using-the-great-american-songbook-j36ztn32d 📸 @mattbakerphoto • • • #veronicaswift #thisbitterearth #risingstar #talent #jazz #musician #thetimes #5starreview #ReGen #threedivas #mackavenuerecords
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    This Bitter Earth 🌟 🌟🌟🌟🌟 "Context is everything in this ingenious album by the singer Veronica Swift." - Chris Pearson, @thetimes We are sending huge congratulations to @veronicaswiftjazz for the release and stellar 5* review of her latest album, "This Bitter Earth". Veronica is a valued member of the New Generation Festival family and blew our audiences away in “The Three Divas” jazz night at the ReGeneration Festival 2020. We are so proud of you Veronica! "This Bitter Earth" is available to stream now on Spotify. You can read the full article here: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/veronica-swift-this-bitter-earth-review-a-sly-political-commentary-using-the-great-american-songbook-j36ztn32d 📸 @mattbakerphoto • • • #veronicaswift #thisbitterearth #risingstar #talent #jazz #musician #thetimes #5starreview #ReGen #threedivas #mackavenuerecords
  • KABILLA (COMMUNITY) • What a way to end the first series of 23Arts LIVE concerts! • Thank you to the astounding artists of Kabilla: Kora: @jacobdilli Piano: @chrispattishall Drums: @savvyknows Voice: @vuyosotashe • Thank you to all who joined us online, we look forward to seeing you again soon 💜 • • #23arts #live #kabilla #community #collective #kora #triad #online #series #livestream
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    KABILLA (COMMUNITY) • What a way to end the first series of 23Arts LIVE concerts! • Thank you to the astounding artists of Kabilla: Kora: @jacobdilli Piano: @chrispattishall Drums: @savvyknows Voice: @vuyosotashe • Thank you to all who joined us online, we look forward to seeing you again soon 💜 • • #23arts #live #kabilla #community #collective #kora #triad #online #series #livestream
  • VUYO SOTASHE • We are delighted to announce that the sensational @vuyosotashe will be making a special guest appearance for 'Kabilla (Community)' live-streamed from @thetriadnyc this coming Tuesday. • @vuyosotashe is a New York based vocalist, composer, and performer originally from South Africa. Since moving to the United states as a Fulbright Scholar, he has performed with celebrated jazz legends including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jimmy Heath, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Barry Harris, and Winard Harper, to name a few. Recently, he appeared with multi Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as a featured artist on their 2018 Winter Tour across the United States. • Currently he performs as one of the fronting vocalists in the internationally touring, multi-disciplinary band collective Mwenso and the Shakes, while leading his own ensemble appearing on stages across the United States, and around the world. Sotashe continues to create, collaborate, record, and perform as an indelible creative voice both in his home country, New York City, as well as the international scene. • Here Vuyo sings 'When Your Life Was Low', accompanied by @oui_mathispicard, October 2020. • Tickets -> 23Arts.org (@23artslive) • • • #vuyosotashe #23arts #livestream #collective #vocalist #kabilla #community #fulbrightscholarship #kora
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    VUYO SOTASHE • We are delighted to announce that the sensational @vuyosotashe will be making a special guest appearance for 'Kabilla (Community)' live-streamed from @thetriadnyc this coming Tuesday. • @vuyosotashe is a New York based vocalist, composer, and performer originally from South Africa. Since moving to the United states as a Fulbright Scholar, he has performed with celebrated jazz legends including Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jimmy Heath, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Barry Harris, and Winard Harper, to name a few. Recently, he appeared with multi Grammy Award winner and Pulitzer Prize winner Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra as a featured artist on their 2018 Winter Tour across the United States. • Currently he performs as one of the fronting vocalists in the internationally touring, multi-disciplinary band collective Mwenso and the Shakes, while leading his own ensemble appearing on stages across the United States, and around the world. Sotashe continues to create, collaborate, record, and perform as an indelible creative voice both in his home country, New York City, as well as the international scene. • Here Vuyo sings 'When Your Life Was Low', accompanied by @oui_mathispicard, October 2020. • Tickets -> 23Arts.org (@23artslive) • • • #vuyosotashe #23arts #livestream #collective #vocalist #kabilla #community #fulbrightscholarship #kora
  • THE KORA • A musician...who played the one-string moro, met on the bank of the Gambia river a strange musician who played a twenty-one stringed instrument, and who expressed the wish to exchange it for the one stringed instrument because he liked its sound. As part of the bargain the stranger undertook to teach the Gambian to play the new instrument. It is said that they met daily at midday to practice at the river bank. Later the stranger-musician wanted to take his instrument back, but the Gambian musician refused. He over-powered him and took the Kora, the twenty-one stringed instrument, home. When he told his wife what had happened, she advised him to cover the instrument with his trousers when he went to sleep so that the stranger might not find it if he came 'in spirit' to recover his instrument. -Origin story of the kora, (Aning 1982, 164). • Since its origin, the kora has been constructed out of specific materials, gourds, wood, and sinew. The kora is an instrument tied closely to the cultures of West Africa. Found throughout modern-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea, the kora is deeply imbedded in Griot (Jali) culture and has been for hundreds of years. Harbouring deep roots as an instrument of storytelling and folklore in 16th century West Africa, the kora has been played by the same musical guilds since then; and today, the kora is played by many more diverse groups than in the past, a cultural framework that is quickly changing. • Taught kora by his grandfather, Yacouba Sissoko comes from a family line of Malian musicians dating back centuries. • Yacouba (@jacobdilli) and the magnificent kora will feature in the upcoming show 'Kabilla (Community)' on Tuesday 23 March. • This video is taken from a kora recital by Yacouba Sissoko on SAMA Presents, 2020. • • • #kora #kabilla #yacoubasissoko #samapresents #23arts #live #collective #livestream #musichistory #community
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    THE KORA • "A musician...who played the one-string moro, met on the bank of the Gambia river a strange musician who played a twenty-one stringed instrument, and who expressed the wish to exchange it for the one stringed instrument because he liked its sound. As part of the bargain the stranger undertook to teach the Gambian to play the new instrument. It is said that they met daily at midday to practice at the river bank. Later the stranger-musician wanted to take his instrument back, but the Gambian musician refused. He over-powered him and took the Kora, the twenty-one stringed instrument, home. When he told his wife what had happened, she advised him to cover the instrument with his trousers when he went to sleep so that the stranger might not find it if he came 'in spirit' to recover his instrument." -Origin story of the kora, (Aning 1982, 164). • Since its origin, the kora has been constructed out of specific materials, gourds, wood, and sinew. The kora is an instrument tied closely to the cultures of West Africa. Found throughout modern-day Senegal, Mali, Gambia, and Guinea, the kora is deeply imbedded in Griot (Jali) culture and has been for hundreds of years. Harbouring deep roots as an instrument of storytelling and folklore in 16th century West Africa, the kora has been played by the same musical guilds since then; and today, the kora is played by many more diverse groups than in the past, a cultural framework that is quickly changing. • Taught kora by his grandfather, Yacouba Sissoko comes from a family line of Malian musicians dating back centuries. • Yacouba (@jacobdilli) and the magnificent kora will feature in the upcoming show 'Kabilla (Community)' on Tuesday 23 March. • This video is taken from a kora recital by Yacouba Sissoko on SAMA Presents, 2020. • • • #kora #kabilla #yacoubasissoko #samapresents #23arts #live #collective #livestream #musichistory #community
  • CHRIS PATTISHALL 💥 • “Pattishall seems to have creative energy to burn, plus a desire to push at the harmonic borders” - JazzTimes • If you missed out on @chrispattishall’s astounding “Fictions” on 9 February, you can catch him again on Tuesday 23 March when he will join @jacobdilli, @savvyknows and special guest @vuyosotashe for their show “Kabilla (Community)”. • This clip of “Libra” is taken from the “Zodiac Suite”, composed by Mary Lou Williams. • Tickets ~> 23Arts.org • • • #chrispattishall #libra #kabilla #community #kora #piano #drums #23arts #live #livestream #collective #zodiac
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    CHRIS PATTISHALL 💥 • “Pattishall seems to have creative energy to burn, plus a desire to push at the harmonic borders” - JazzTimes • If you missed out on @chrispattishall’s astounding “Fictions” on 9 February, you can catch him again on Tuesday 23 March when he will join @jacobdilli, @savvyknows and special guest @vuyosotashe for their show “Kabilla (Community)”. • This clip of “Libra” is taken from the “Zodiac Suite”, composed by Mary Lou Williams. • Tickets ~> 23Arts.org • • • #chrispattishall #libra #kabilla #community #kora #piano #drums #23arts #live #livestream #collective #zodiac
  • SAVANNAH HARRIS 🔥 • She’s all over the jazz, avant-garde, and crossover scenes, playing gigs with everyone from stately ambassadors like Kenny Barron to the fierce hip-hop collective Standing on the Corner... Regardless of the genre she’s playing, Savannah Harris is “always going for grease,” as she puts it. It’s the perfect term to capture her aesthetic on the bandstand, because her playing feels slick and angular, with overt nods to bebop. Indeed, Harris’s playing often acts as the grease that helps the musical pieces onstage gel to form one powerful expressive unit. - Modern Drummer • Superstar drummer Savannah will join @jacobdilli , @chrispattishall and special guest, @vuyosotashe live at @thetriadnyc for their show, Kabilla (Community) on Tuesday 23 March. 🥁 • • • #drummer #superstar #23artslive #collective #livestream #savannahharris #community #kabilla #kora
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    SAVANNAH HARRIS 🔥 • "She’s all over the jazz, avant-garde, and crossover scenes, playing gigs with everyone from stately ambassadors like Kenny Barron to the fierce hip-hop collective Standing on the Corner... Regardless of the genre she’s playing, Savannah Harris is “always going for grease,” as she puts it. It’s the perfect term to capture her aesthetic on the bandstand, because her playing feels slick and angular, with overt nods to bebop. Indeed, Harris’s playing often acts as the grease that helps the musical pieces onstage gel to form one powerful expressive unit." - Modern Drummer • Superstar drummer Savannah will join @jacobdilli , @chrispattishall and special guest, @vuyosotashe live at @thetriadnyc for their show, "Kabilla (Community)" on Tuesday 23 March. 🥁 • • • #drummer #superstar #23artslive #collective #livestream #savannahharris #community #kabilla #kora
  • YACOUBA SISSOKO • Yacouba Sissoko (@jacobdilli) was born in Kita, Mali, to a well-known djely family. The kora was the traditional instrument that djelys played. At the age of 9, Yacouba started learning the kora and the oral traditions associated with it from his grandfather until he moved to Bamako, Mali’s capital, to attend the National Institute of the Arts. Based in the capital, he caught the attention of the music world and began touring with noted international artists including Baaba Maal, Sekou (Bambino), Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Lauren Hill. • In the upcoming show, 'Kabilla (Community)' Yacouba looks at the relationship between folk music traditions on the African and North American continents. Kabilla will focus on the textural, rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two practices. • In this clip, Yacouba and his band, SIYA (Boubacar Diabate- djembe and Moussa Malfa Diabate) play Celebrate Brooklyn on 8 December 2017. • 'Kabilla (Community)' featuring @jacobdilli, @savvyknows and @chrispattishall will livestream on 23 March 2021. • Tickets -> 23arts.org • • • #23arts #live #livestream #kora #master #siya #kabilla #community #celebratebrooklyn #collective #welovelivemusic
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    YACOUBA SISSOKO • Yacouba Sissoko (@jacobdilli) was born in Kita, Mali, to a well-known djely family. The kora was the traditional instrument that djelys played. At the age of 9, Yacouba started learning the kora and the oral traditions associated with it from his grandfather until he moved to Bamako, Mali’s capital, to attend the National Institute of the Arts. Based in the capital, he caught the attention of the music world and began touring with noted international artists including Baaba Maal, Sekou (Bambino), Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and Lauren Hill. • In the upcoming show, 'Kabilla (Community)' Yacouba looks at the relationship between folk music traditions on the African and North American continents. Kabilla will focus on the textural, rhythmic and harmonic connections between the two practices. • In this clip, Yacouba and his band, SIYA (Boubacar Diabate- djembe and Moussa "Malfa" Diabate) play Celebrate Brooklyn on 8 December 2017. • 'Kabilla (Community)' featuring @jacobdilli, @savvyknows and @chrispattishall will livestream on 23 March 2021. • Tickets -> 23arts.org • • • #23arts #live #livestream #kora #master #siya #kabilla #community #celebratebrooklyn #collective #welovelivemusic