Kripalu is a center for yoga practice and study. This is a magical venue within a magical place. A nearly perfect concert hall where all the seats are near the musicians and the sound is incredibly clear.
"An outstanding mix of composed pieces and accessible improvisation. Impulse Ensemble's 'Initiation' is a remarkable album of cross-cultural musical wizardry."(Angel Romero from World Music Central)
It was really bold to buy two buildings in downtown Greenfield, and triple-bold to dedicate them to creating a support system for music, art, and the community.
It's called THE ARTS BLOCK, and it's one of our favorite venues. It's part cool cafe and part small concert hall. It seats well over 200 and the vibe is all about up-close-and-personal.
Ed Wierzbowski is putting his arts-vision to the test, which is what we musicians do every time we perform or make another CD. It's an act of faith..so we hope you'll join us for this concert. For a preview of IMPULSE, just click on the homepage photo at our site: www.impulseensemble.com. PS: TURN IT UP!
If you can't make it to the gig, cool...help us out...buy a ticket anyway, or just pass on this invitation to someone who digs the music.
Kripalu Institute is an amazing center for yoga training and more. The Main Hall, which is where this concert will be, is one of our favorite places to play on Earth... and the vibe is beyond description.
So if you dig music, if you dig our music, and if you can imagine us rocking our World Music adventure in a hall filled with the spirit of the music and with people in pursuit of the deep end of the pool of their spirits, then yeah, you've got to come and check this out.
"An outstanding mix of composed pieces and accessible improvisation. Impulse Ensemble's 'Initiation' is a remarkable album of cross-cultural musical wizardry." (Angel Romero from World Music Central)
with special guest: Brooklyn poet. . . T a n t r a Z a w a d i
It was really bold to buy two buildings in downtown Greenfield, and triple-bold to dedicate them to creating a support system for music, art, and the community.
It's called THE ARTS BLOCK. Ed Wierzbowski is putting his arts-vision to the test, which is what we musicians do every time we perform or make another CD. It's an act of faith..so I hope you'll join us this Saturday. For a preview of IMPULSE, just click on the homepage photo at our site: www.impulseensemble.com. PS: TURN IT UP!
If you can't make it to the gig, cool...help us out...buy a ticket anyway, or just pass on an invitation to someone who digs the music.
Come and see/hear/experience some of the new music and where the band's at now. The Iron Horse is right in the middle of Northampton.
The Black Box Theater at Deerfield Academy seats 175, and is a great venue to hear the band up-close-and-personal.
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The Smith College Music Department presents Fusion Nomads, a free concert of music spanning genres and continents, featuring artists including Hassan Hakmoun, The Impulse Ensemble, and Senegalese hip-hop group Gokh-Bi System. Starts at 4 p.m.
Morocco-born performer Hassan Hakmoun, is a staple of New York’s rock, jazz, and fusion scenes for his “spiritually charged voice and playing.” His driving, rhythmic music and his instrument, the sintir (a long-necked African bass lute) are rooted in Gnawa, a Moroccan ceremony of spiritual release. Hakmoun’s trance-like music is deeply felt, and he brings a tradition of healing to renderings of jazz, pop, and classical Arabic music. Impulse Ensemble features Jim Matus (electric laoutar and vocals), Derrik Jordan (electric violin, vocals, and percussion), and Tony Vacca (balafon, gongs, percussion and Spoken Word). They describe their work as a “red-hot way-cool free-flow fusion of World Music, Jazz and Spoken Word” and “share a special interest in the converging traditions and innovations that are constantly redefining what it is to be an American musician at this point in time.” Members of Gokh-Bi System, a Senegalese hip-hop group, are childhood friends from the Dakar, Senegal hood of Pikine Guinaw Rail–literally “the other side of the tracks.” Gokh-Bi System reunites rap with its ancient West African ancestors in a style dubbed “ancient meets urban.” A distinctive component of GBS’s authentic sound is the ekonting, an ancient instrument once used to calm social unrest played by Sana. Gokh-Bi’s positive message, inspired by rap greats from The Last Poets to Chuck D, transform the group's sound into an uplifting yet hard-hitting African homecoming for hip hop. Fusion Nomads presents an eclectic combination of world music and international artists. The concert is free and open to the public. See More |
The Black Moon Music Lounge is one of those special clubs that musicians tend to love to play at. It's small enough that there is no "bad" seat from which to hear and see the music being made. It has an inviting funkyness about it with colored mini-lights and bold colors. So if you care about the environment in which you listen to music, this would be a good choice.
The EVOLVE Music and Yoga Festival is a 4 day celebration of life and of the creative human spirit.
The mission of EVOLVE is to raise consciousness and bring attention to healthier and smarter ways of living. This transformation can be realized through inspired creative activity (both work and play), the practice of consciousness-expanding disciplines such as Yoga and Meditation and by taking action through locally-based initiatives.
The EVOLVE Festival celebrates the unlimited power we have to initiate positive and enduring change.
