The Ori-Gen Collective, a diverse, New York-based group of Hispanic music makers has been developing platforms to explore and present new combinations of Latin American roots music, jazz, and technology in contemporary pan-Latin music.
This September, the Ori-Gen Collective will celebrate this vision with two nights of music from some of the leading artists from the Pan-Latin Diaspora. The Festival will take place at Drom, 85 Avenue A, New York City
on September 9th – 10th.
Night One features a Brazilian percussion and vocals duo with Rogerio and Anne Boccato; Argentine bassist Pablo Aslan & Piazzollazo’s new tribute to Astor Piazzolla; the tropical soul of Miami-Venezuelan project Bacalao Men; and Argentine singer Sofia Rei will perform her acclaimed mix of folklore and futurism in a duo with multi-instrumentalist JC Maillard.
Night Two includes Argentine-New York City experimental duo Chuño; Latin GRAMMY Award winning percussionist, composer, and arranger Samuel Torres collaborating with pioneering Peruvian jazz guitar fusionist Eric Kurimski; celebrated singer, ethnographer and musical polyglot Kavita Shah with Cape Verdean guest singer Fantcha; and GRAMMY-award winning vocalist and violinist from New Yorl City’s Flor de Toloache, Mireya Ramos.
“This is our response to this crisis. Each one of us tries to do our part, to contribute something positive, and music is what we know and what we do,” said singer-songwriter Sofia Rei, a founding member of the Collective and part of the programming committee. “As a collective, we came together to play a greater role in how our music is presented. We were thinking of changing the future. But now we feel we need to work on the present. That’s what the urgency of the moment requires. We all have this need for community, to feel a sense of belonging, and music helps create that — and we need it now.”
Producer and guitarist Juancho Herrer adds: “The Ori-Gen Collective is aspiring to create a space were traditions, diversity, technology and creativity intersect in order to present a global vision of what artists from our diaspora can bring to audiences in NYC and beyond.”
September 9th:
7:00 pm Rogerio and Anne Boccato
7:30 pm Sofia Rei and JC Maillard
8:00 pm Pablo Aslan & Piazzollazo
9:00 pm Bacalao Men
September 10th:
7:00 pm Duo Chuño
7:30 pm Samuel Torres Duet with Eric Kurimski
8:00 pm Kavita Shah
9:00 pm Mireya Ramos
More details and tickets at Drom: dromnyc.com/#/events
Author: World Music Central News Room
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