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Author: slb2

Susan Budig draws from music and poetry to create her own poems that she uses to bring healing and recovering from grief to others.
Concert reviews

Les Nubians Accept Who they Are

slb2 January 31, 2012 No Comments

If you want to hide, just cut your hair short, sing Hélène and Célia Faussart, aka Les Nubians, in the funky number, Afrodance, from their…

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Bruce Molsky & Ale Moller Show Review

slb2 May 28, 2010 No Comments

If you’ve ever heard old-time music–not oldie music by the Splatter Sisters–but old Appalachian music, you probably came away from the experience forever marked. That…

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Tinariwen performs at the Cedar in Minneapolis

slb2 January 18, 2008

Their music, played on a handful of electric guitars and one bongo drum, is as arresting as their costume. Saturday evening, shortly after eight o’clock,…

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Correction to Carolina Chocolate Drops article

slb2 December 19, 2007

Recently I reported that the Carolina Chocolate Drops had received a National Endowment of the Arts grant. The article that I read (www.sacksco.com/roster/ccd/ccd_rls.html) stated clearly that…

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Carolina Chocolate Drops: on the rise

slb2 December 11, 2007

Even their name, The Carolina Chocolate Drops, could be seen as a recycled relic of the past. Back in the 1930s there was an African-American…

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Dee Dee Bridgewater Mixes with Mali

slb2 December 10, 2007 Dee Dee BridgewaterMalian music

This article was published first in Mshale newspaper. After the superlative introduction by Dakota Jazz Club’s owner, Lowell Pickett, I expected a rich, preeminent performance…

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Zhalman: African hip hop with an African message

slb2 December 8, 2007

The scars surely run deep into his psyche. As a young child, he watched his homeland of Liberia torn apart by civil war; his mother,…

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Gangbe Brass Band: an Original West African Sound

slb2 November 18, 2007

Jack Brass Band, a seven-piece New Orleans-style crew playing outside in the Cedar’s courtyard could be heard from the parking lot where I’d left my…

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Femi Kuti’s Minnesota show

slb2 October 23, 2007

On stage, Nigerian Femi Kuti plays dual roles of serious artist and demanding coach. His most recent show at the Minnesota Zoo on August 2nd gave…

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Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective in Minneapolis

slb2 October 1, 2007

Parts of this article first appeared in Mshale newspaper . Andy Palacio is on a mission to save himself. Or rather, to save his culture,…

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