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June 5th - 14th
Artist in Residence - Direct from Cuba 
Felix "PUPY"  Insua Obbalubbe
"Dancing With The Spirits"
 Afro Cuban Drumming & Dance classes

Friday 5th
Drum Class   4:00-5:00pm  $15 
Dance Class  5:00-6:00pm $15


Saturday 6th
Drum & dance for kids 
12:00 -1:30pm  $10
Adults:
Drum class  2:00-3:00pm $15                      Sunday 7th 
                                                                         Drum class  2:00-3:00pm $15
                                                                         Dance class 3:00-4:00pm $15

Cuban music/dance known as salsa rumba or mambo has deep  Afro Cuban roots . In this workshop, participants will learn versions of several dance forms: Afro-Cuban folkloric, Spanish and African-derived rumba, and dances such as salsa, merengue and mambo. Fundamental drum rhythms and call-and-response chants to invoke the energies of Yoruban gods and goddesses .

Felix "Pupy" Insua was born in La Habana, Cuba in 1948. Obbalubbe is Pupy's name in the Yoruba-based religion by which he lives his life. Obbalubbe translates to "King of Kings"Insua has been featured in documentaries and films made in both Cuba and the US.  Dame La Mano, an award-winning documentary about Cuban Culture and Rumba in NYC, follows his life from the street, to the classroom to the stage. Insua teaches and performs regularly in the New York City area. He continues to inspire and enlighten us as a phenomenal stage presence and gifted and knowledgeable professor of dance and culture.   
http://orikiomioddara.com/pupybio.htm

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June 5th Friday  6:00-7:30pm  door  $15
Cellojoe - Indie folk, jazzy-beat boxin'     "My name is Joey Chang and I play cello, beatbox and sing in a band called Cellojoe and the Midnight Ramblers. We are a five piece band featuring cello, upright bass, violin, guitar and drums. Our style is funky folk with a mix of old time and old blues thrown in. I fuse improvised cello grooves (you've never heard a cello played so funky) with beatboxing and socially conscious lyrics."
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June 5th Friday  8:00-10:00pm door $15
 Grupo Falso Baiano

A choro group that offers a window into the history and diverse culture of Brazil.
Choro is one of Brazil's earliest popular music dating back to the late 1800s, and similar to jazz, it reflects the melding of African rhythms with a melodic and harmonic structure closely resembling Baroque Classical Music.
G.F.B.'s exploration of choro spans nearly 100 years, including everything from the traditional to more contemporary versions and jazz influenced re-interpretations.
 
June 6th Saturday  4:00-6:00pm   $20
North African  Morocco Music Workshop

This workshop covers a traditional style of North African music. Students will learn rhythms and a traditional song by the end of the workshop with the instrument of their choice (strings, drums, voice and woodwind). Instructor, Fattah Abbou, a native of Morocco, brings 25 years of musical experience. A founding member of the local band AZA, he has toured professionally in the U.S. and abroad.
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June  6th Saturday 8:00-10:00pm  $15
Aza :Moroccan Berber Music of North Africa
Aza  is a musical band that was founded by two members: Fattah Abbou and Mohamed Aoualou who are both from Morocco. They've played and studied music for over twenty years before moving to the USA seven years ago. Fattah and Mohamed are Berbers;  Berbers or Imazighen are the indigenous people of North Africa whose history records date back to 3300 years ago. 
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June 9th Tuesday 8:00-10:00pm $15
In Performance - Robert Greygrass
Walking on Turtle Island
Robert  Greygrass will stimulate your thinking, roller coaster your emotions, expand your spiritual understanding and make you laugh till you cry, bringing his stories from the Lakota and other tribes, including comical personal narratives from his life.
His traditional northern style singing and cedar flute music stirs and guides everyone a little further on lifes journey. You don't want to miss his lighthearted, poignant and inspiring stories, song, and spiritual insight.
A tangential and humorous discourse during the true spiritual growth
of the American Empire and one multi-ethnic man's experience of enlightenment through the Lakota Way of Life and indigenous teachings about living on Mother Earth that have led to Recovery, Peace, Humor and unlearning multi-generational dysfunctions. Living as other, and not being reincarnated as a great Indian chief from a previous lifetime.
www.walkingonturtleislandthemovie.com
RobertGreygrass@midwesttalent.com
robert@greygrass.org

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June 10th Wednesday  8:00-10:00pm  $10
Alison Lewis & Hymn for Her
"She moves you with words and melodies that take you to places you've been and places you dream of going. Her songs are paintings of life etched on rocky mountains, hidden caverns, deep sea corals and the setting sun. She'll take you into a dream and you'll wake up with that beautiful, peaceful feeling that everything is just as it should be". http://alisonlewismusic.net
Hymn for Her
"A duo who takes you over the stars and the sands playing soul-scaping music with voices and hands. A variety of stringed instruments and chords of vocals intertwine in a way that captivates and mesmerizes".
http://hymnforher.com
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      June 11th Thursday  8:00-10:00pm                  In Concert
 Eostar Kamala  
Originally from Hungary, Eostar studied for many years with renowned Hungarian jazz icon Peter Juhasz.
Her songs are influenced by folk traditions such as Celtic, Hungarian, Indian, Reggae as well as various World Music performers.  It is the fusion of these elements with Eostar's instinctive feel for beauty and artful expression that makes her songs appeal to a wide variety of audiences. Her lyrics resonate with great depth of feeling and understanding of the human experience in a unique and characteristically "Eostarian" way. 
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                                       "ASHE"
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June 12th Friday - 5:00-7:00 pm ____________________________________
  June 12th Friday - 8:00-10:00pm $15
Mandjou Kone & Family Renown for their unique ability to record events carefully and accurately, passing history from one generation to the next through song story telling and dance.  Mandjou Kone, an award winning performer, comes from one of the most renownded griot families of the  Bambara tribe of Mali. Her voice is elegant, she dances with  passion and grace. She will be joined by  her group of drummers and dancers.
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           Danjuma & Onola   5:00-7:00 pm  $15 
Five horns, two guitars, one bass, one drummer, one conga master, one keyboard and a dancer.  Danjuma & Onola are
a big showband playing Afro-Beat, Highlife, Sukus and Afro-Funk. Get ready to dance all night long.
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 African fashion show  7:00-8:00pm
with NigeriaTextile artist and designer

   8:00-11:00pm $20
       in concert
        OBA
                Heart & Soul
                 Alafia Music


June 14th Sunday  12:00-2:00pm 

Brian plays over 20 instruments
[w/ looping pedals] orchestrating ORIGINAL music from the heart. His music has been described as an ORGANIC, SOULFUL, FUNK. However, since he plays so many instruments it is so MUCH MORE.
www.myspace.com/brianernstmusic

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June 19th Friday 8:00 10:00 pm  $15 entrance
Diversity is the critical ingredient in the works of classically trained violinist Lucia Comnes. Enchanted by Europe and its diverse musical sounds, the San Francisco native has traveled to and studied the music of Ireland, Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria. After experiencing success with KITKA, an internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble specializing in Balkan/Eastern European folk music, Comnes has concentrated on creating her own style of music, blending the best of everything she uncovered in the travels, all set against a backbone of jazz. What results is her own genre of instrumental mastery.
   www.luciacomnes.com                                 Karamo Susso
 is an international kora star. Growing up in a griot compound in Mali, he started playing kora as a tiny child, and was performing for large crowds before he was even big enough to hold the instrument up by himself. Fully immersed in the tradition, he learned from world-renowned players like his uncle Ballake Sissoko and his neighbor Toumani Diabate, and studied and taught kora at the Institute Nationale des Artes in Bamako, Mali.
www.myspace.com/karamosusso
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"Celia's music is pulsing with freshness and vitality. It is samba,
it is bossa nova, it is nourishing, it is carnaval, it is Brazil"
If you haven't heard her name yet, you will soon. Celia was born in Rio de Janeiro, a place where music and dance are the heart and essence of the culture.

Workshop 2:00-4:00pm
This workshop will focus on exciting Brazilian rhythms and a variety of styles from different areas of Brazil. Working with traditional percussion instruments like: pandeiro (beginning and advance), tamborim, surdo, canza, agogo, berimbau, caixa, also with vocal and body percussion.   

CELIA MALHEIROS, Brazilian singer,
multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and educator. composer, singer.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, her performances and works include: recordings with Hermeto Pascoal on her CD Sempre Crescendo, Joćo Bosco on her CD Cenario Brasileiro, performing at jazz festivals, composer of film and video sound tracks, director of the Brazilian All Star big band for 13 years, world tours in 2006 and 2007, new CD release 2009 - After the Carnaval - on Sundance Music.
http://www.celiamalheiros.com
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June 21st & every Sunday

Capoeira &

Afro Brazilian Drumming

12:00-2:00pm

with Robson Oliveira Nascimento

from Bahia Brazil

 
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 Summer Solstice Celebration and Fundraiser for Campamento Rancho Rico. Campamento Rancho Rico is a bilingual summer camp that teaches art, ecology, music and much more for children in the Big Sur community. The event will include a Mexican Family Dinner, Silent Auction and Several Musical Acts. The evening will begin with a performance by Mountain Jam, a young local bluegrass trio. They will be followed by the Esparza Brothers, a dynamic Mariachi group and the night culminates with a grand reunion of The Big Sur Natives. Please Come and Join us June 21st at the Big Sur Spirit Garden 5:30 to 11pm. Adults $10, Children under 12 Free.
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June 23rd  Tuesday  8:00 10:00 pm  $10-15
los de abajo  
Los de Abajo broke onto the international market with the help of David Byrne, who signed them to his Luaka Bop label, and suggested that their music should be called 'punk salsa'. The band preferred the term 'tropipunk'  "because of the fusion of tropical rhythms". 

This surely is one of the more glorious moments in the history of clashes between global music styles. There's a stirring, south-of-the-border brassy mariachi introduction, a grand announcement 'Rude Boy - this is made in Mexico', and then a sudden switch to a Ska beat as Los de Abajo launch into a Spanish-language, Latin-flavoured treatment of that old Fun Boy Three hit from back in 1982, The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum), with one of the original Fun Boys, Neville Staples, joining in. This is the Ska revival as seen from a recording studio in Mexico City, and directed by the production team of Neil Sparkes and Count Dubulah, best known as those exponents of global dance music, Temple Of Sound.

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June 24-25-26th  kids camp   World Music Day Camp for Kids
 
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June 26th   Friday  2:00-4:00pm
Selah Tribal fusion Belly Dance Class
with Vila Donovan
Vila has been dancing for ten years, her dominant influence is in traditional tribal dance, fused now with modern dance techniques and the upcoming of american bellydance.  She has studied both traditional and modern styles with many teachers.
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June 26th  Friday            7:00-8:30pm  $15
       Selah Tribal fusion Belly Dance
                               &
      the Fire Within fire dance troup
                              &
            Dark Chocolate
                    9:00-11:00pm
    World Music Latin Jazz
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June 27th Saturday  7:30-9:00pm $15
Vagabond Opera
Based in the Pacific Northwest, yet encompassing the world, Vagabond Opera delivers passionate offerings of Bohemian cabaret. Paris hot Jazz, gut bucket swing, Tangos, Ukrainian folk-punk ballads, Klezmer and vigorous originals meet a world of riverboat gambling queens, Turkish belly dancers, and the enigmatic Marlene Dietrich.This is not your granny's opera, but a visceral artistic ensemble that features powerful instrumental and vocal performances coupled with a highly eclectic and theatrical experience.
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June 27th Saturday  Gamelan X
Workshop 2-4pm Balinese monkey chant  and percussion $15
Performance    9:00-11:00pm   $15 
Gamelan X world music ensemble presents dynamic, original music for concerts and dance events. Drawing musical inspiration
from Indonesian, Balkan, African, Indian and American traditions, Gamelan X combine complex interlocking rhythms and sinewy melodies into a visceral groove experience that excites and entrances its listeners.
Instruments used include dozens of small and large gongs, wind and stringed instruments, synthesizers, drum set, and percussion from across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. With this sound-palette, injected with engaging group choreography and crowd interaction, Gamelan X takes audiences on a journey through a wide range of exotic musical spaces.
The Gamelan X "Bali-bass" groove ritual: dynamic, mesmerizing, and
highly addictive.

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June 28th Sunday- 4:00-5:00pm  $10-15
Banana Slug string band for  kids      
Blues, gospel, funk, bluegrass, reggae, folk, they all get a sounding in Slugs'
new CD, which features guest players such as Laurie Lewis and Tim O'Brien, both of whom are leading figures in contemporary bluegrass. If there's anything that the Banana Slug String Band knows how to do, it's to communicate sometimes complicated scientific ideas through the medium
of song to school-aged children.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel Awards & Recognition for We All Live Downstream

Slugs and roses   7:00-10:00pm $10-15
SLUGS AND ROSES is a 7 piece Band , with 2 lead guitarists, Keyboards and a dynamic rhythm section. Passionate Vocals lead the way in these life-long DEAD HEADS.... The Music Never Stops!