The "Around the World" Music Series is a new concert series presenting outstanding musicians from diverse cultures in an intimate setting. Concerts are held approximately every other month in the new theater space of the North Water Street Gallery, conveniently located in downtown Kent, Ohio. The series is an initiative of Standing Rock Cultural Arts, and is curated by ethnomusicologist David Bada
gnani. Standing Rock Cultural Arts page:
https://www.facebook.com/SRCAKent
Standing Rock Cultural Arts official site:
http://www.standingrock.net/
Previous performances in the series:
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● AppalAsia (cross-cultural trio featuring Chinese erhu with lap dulcimer, banjo, and voice)
● Jarrelle Barton and friends (Chinese guzheng)
● Jeremy Bleich and Leland Scott Davis, with special guests (oud and percussion)
● Terry Boyarsky (world music for piano)
● Lori Cahan-Simon Ensemble (Yiddish songs)
● Baba David Coleman and friends (African and Afro-Caribbean music)
● Bill Crouse and Ashlyn Crouse (Seneca songs, stories, and dance)
● Billy Crowbeak (Native American flute)
● Druk Fusion Band (Nepali Bhutanese music)
● Jurij Fedynskyj (Ukrainian kobzar music featuring bandura, kobza, and torban)
● The Five Islands (classic calypso from Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela)
● Mariano Gonzalez Ramirez (Paraguayan harp)
● Journeywork (Irish trio)
● Baba Jubal (music from Africa and the diaspora)
● Kenge Kenge Orutu System (Luo music from western Kenya)
● Oleg Kruglyakov (Russian balalaika)
● Danny Lahood and friends (Arabic oud)
● Los Tres Sonidos ("trio" music of Latin America)
● Alex Lubet (newly composed music for mountain dulcimer by Chinese, South Korean, Japanese, Indonesian, and American composers)
● Oleh Mahlay (Ukrainian bandura, with documentary film)
● Mariachi Santa Cecilia (Mexican mariachi music)
● Lisa Miralia/Paul Stranahan Duo (improvised music for percussion, electronics, and voice)
● Luca Mundaca and Brian Kozak (Brazilian bossa nova)
● Chan E. Park (Korean pansori)
● Hasu Patel (North Indian sitar)
● Kostas Revelas and George Papazekos (Greek rebetika music)
● Patty C & The Guys (Slovenian and Cleveland-style polka)
● Frank "Little Elk" Running (Lakota songs and stories)
● Persian ensemble, featuring vocalist Momtaz Charepoo
● Samuel Salsbury and Josh Sherman (North Indian sarangi and tabla)
● Shiva Sastry and Suraj Srinivasan (South Indian veena and mridangam)
● Yang Jin and friends (Chinese pipa)
