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LoCura

Saturday, September 3, 2011
5:30pm
The Arboretum at Flagstaff

CALIFAS MESTIZO MUSIC: Direct from San Francisco’s fertile music scene, LoCura taps into the diverse sounds that have a rich history in the Bay Area, weaving them together in an uncanny way to reveal their common roots. Mixing Flamenco with Reggae and Cumbia with Ska through contagious rhythms and multiple languages, their music takes you on a ride through a day in the emerging globalized experience where the movement of people and ideas are in constant flux.

Reflecting lead vocalist Kata’s own experience of growing up Spanish American in Spain, Italy, and the U.S., LoCura’s music rides the borders of identity and migration piecing together a mosaic of our myriad cultures and experiences. In Spain the expression "Ida y Vuelta" is used to describe certain styles within Flamenco that made a "round-trip" from Spain to Latin America, mixing with music from the African slave and Indigenous populations.

With this idea of music traveling and music as creative resistance, LoCura takes the trip back again mixing it up with their own Califas Flamenkito, Reggae, and Cuban Son styles. Moved by the music that crosses borders and takes root in different lands, LoCura draws from this creative 'rebelde' spirit to cultivate the cures passed on from our ancestors.

LoCura on Myspace

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Kimera

Saturday, June 4, 2011
5:30pm
The Arboretum at Flagstaff

Kimera is a Latin Flamenco band based in Los Angeles, California. The sound of the group is an amazing musical journal with a mix of the finest rhythms of Latin America and Spain. Kimera plays a variety of styles mainly focusing on Rumba, Flamenco, Boleros, Brazilian and Latin Jazz. Their repertory includes both well known music as well as original compositions. Kimera performs live in a variety of settings such as Public Concerts, Restaurants, Private Events, Festivals, Weddings, etc. The Latin background and vast experience of the band members give the music an authentic and unique sound.

Kimera on the web

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The Honey Dewdrops

Saturday, July 2, 2011
5:30pm
The Arboretum at Flagstaff

Singing, Writing, Traveling…

Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish make their home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The couple has been playing music in some capacity for over 15 years, but honed in on their natural duet abilities 7 years ago when they met for the first time in college. It was their love of folk music that brought them together and has since taken them out on the road to tour fulltime as the award-winning duet they are today.

Writing and singing in the veins of folk, old country music, and bluegrass, the Dewdrops entwine harmony singing with tight instrumentation and craft songs that are simple and fine-tuned. Theirs are new songs from the southern mountains that ring with originality.

After their appearance and first place win on a 2008 talent show broadcast of NPR’s “A Prairie Home Companion”, the Dewdrops began their careers as songwriters and have since released two critically acclaimed albums, “If the Sun Will Shine” (2009) and “These Old Roots” (2010) both of which have charted at the #1 and #2 positions on the Folk DJ-L Charts for 2010.

The Honey Dewdrops on the web

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Novo Mundo

Saturday, August 6, 2011
5:30pm
The Arboretum at Flagstaff

Novo Mundo was founded in 1998 by Kay Peper and Beth Lederman, two Arizona natives with a love of Brazilian and Latin music. The group has gone on to become one of the most in-demand bands in Arizona. Composed of full-time professional musicians, they have performed for concerts, schools, and private functions throughout the state. The core group of four musicians expands to the full six-piece ensemble for a musical impact you won't soon forget!

Novo Mundo on the web