globalFEST 2023 is a global music conference and showcase during the APAP convention of presenters, artists, and booking agents in January.
Global music used to be called world music. It’s basically the music of Mother Africa and Asia.
globalFEST 2023
globalFESt 2023 brings global classical, cumbia, flamenco, folk, gospel, rock, rhythm & blues, and salsa; to David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023 at 7pm. $60 all-access. lincolncenter.org 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 | 🇭🇹 | 🇨🇴 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇩🇿 🇲🇱 🇲🇦
Latin Artists
The New York Arabic Orchestra plays Arabic Music in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 7-7:45pm.
The Legendary Ingramettes sing African American gospel in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 7:30-8:20pm. 🇺🇸
María José Llergo sings Spanish flamenco from the flamenco heartland in Andalucía, Spain; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 8:10-8:55pm. 🇪🇸
Khadija El Warzazia’s Bnat el Houariyat & Esraa Warda perform women’s song and dance from Marrakech, Morocco; in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 8:15 – 9:05pm. [In Colombia, this would be Bullerengue, drumming, singing and dancing derived from women’s puberty ceremonies.] 🇲🇦
Justin Adams & Mauro Durante mix Southern Italian folk music with North African blues; in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 8:50-9:40pm. [Italy and Africa are about 100 miles apart.] 🇮🇹
Tamikrest plays Malian desert blues, rock; at the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade in David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 9:30-10:20pm. 🇲🇱
Moonlight Benjamin is a mambo, a Haitian vodou priestess. She sings Haitian French rock in the Karen and Richard LeFrak Lobby at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 10:05pm – 10:55pm. 🇭🇹 🇫🇷
Meridian Brothers & El Grupo Renacimiento play Colombian salsa; in the Wu Tsai Theater at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 10:20-11:05pm. 🇨🇴
Son Rompe Pera plays Mexican cumbia, marimba, rock in the Leon and Norma Hess Grand Promenade at David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center; on Sunday, January 15, 2023; from 10:5opm – 11:50pm. 🇲🇽
Wow. We have no idea how Lincoln Center is going to pull this off, because many of these bands are really loud. But how cool is it that Lincoln Center is using their classical music hall for all of this? They reopened the new David Geffen Hall this season with a Brazilian cleansing ceremony by Oyá, the Yoruba orisha of death and rebirth. Lincoln Center gets it.
How is Arab Latin?
We have Arab roots. Many Latin Americans have some direct Arab heritage, often Lebanese, especially in Colombia and Brazil.
Arab traditions came to the Americas through Mother Africa and Spain. Most of Spain was Arab from 711-1492. People and place names that start with “al” have Arabic roots. “Al” means “the” in Arabic.
The blue note and melisma (warbling on one note) are North African traditions from the Arab world.
Melisma is a key characteristic of American gospel. The blues is the root of American popular music.
The pandereta used in Puerto Rican plena is an Arab drum. The diana (E-le-le, le-le-le, A-la-la, le-le-le”), the call that begins a salsa song, is the call to prayer. It can address Yoruba Elegúa, and/or Allah.
Islam is one of the great religions of Mother Africa. In the Caribbean, we have met people who speak Arabic because they were taught to pray at home.
Dutty Boukman, an early leader of the Haitian Revolution was a Senegambian Islamic priest. He was called “Boukman” because he was a man of the book, The Koran.
The Haitian Revolution influenced the entire Caribbean, including New Orleans.
So we are Arab too!
globalFEST is great! Don’t miss it. lincolncenter.org
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